Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
Number, B.

of freemen can thus be chained? I have a bright, promising boy of three summers and as kneel with him in supplication to the Father of Merces, and endeavor to teach him the duty of love to that Creator do not fail to learn him to hate, with all his heart, the perpetration of such an enormity; and, as Hamilcar swore Han nbal to eternal enmity to Rome, so will l obi gate him to avenge, with lite's service, the wrongs of our country. But, sir, a better time is coming. Missouri will yet be free. Her op- pressors will yet, however nnwillingy, be com pelled to " retire in good order from our soil. The ensign of COLUMBIA will yet wave where the prosttuted stars and stripes. that we once loved so well, now swing in insolent triumph God wills it, Joel chap. ii, 20th ver.) and the great Price and his cohorts are coming
 The ball is in motion
 Resistless and free as the waves of the ocean,"
 The name of that little band already fills the earth with its glory. They are the elect and annointed heralds of hbertys new evangel to man. The flame they are kindling now in exile will soon reach and illuminate the dear native homes from which they have been driven with such violence and take terrible revenge on the oppressors of their friends and their families. The highest motives that move men to action impel our gallant soldiers on to new theaters of fame, " not motives of gold or of fortune, but uipHeT duu UOHeI ludu lueSe. lt IS uO Wtdh, impotent voice that speaks to them of freedom, The voice of the eternal is summoning them op Angels are beckoning them. The battlements of heaven are crowded with martyrs" gone be- fore, who, bending down from their eminenc ces, are pointing to the victors crown in the sun light of immortality" and urging them on to victory and to glory.
 What though the fortunes of war seem tenn. porarily adverse to our arms and every plain from Arlington to Sierra Nevada be burthened with the tread of flegions marshalling for the on slaught and the plunder, still will we despair not, for as Israel had Moses and the colonies a Washington, so have we our own chosen chieftain, who will leave us not on the borders of Dixie Land, but, like Joshua of old, will establish us there in freedom and independence. History has given his name to immortality, 1t can never die. He holds his patent of nobility from no earthly monarch it bears the seal of natures God. His reputation
 " Has passed through glory's IT orning gate.
 And stands erect in paradise
 His memory will be cherished m millions of grateful hearts when selfconstituted autocrats, whose steps are now counted by army contrac- tors and timed by sycophantic huzzas, shall have long since mouldered and been forgotten.
 Defame him and malign him as you wi yet when you, sir, and the master who sent you, shall have passed away to d grave where no one will eveEpause to shed 8 tear or speak of a virtue; when this modern Tamerlane shall have gone from his palace of skulls with fear and trem, bling to answer for the hundred thousand hu- man souls which his unholy ambition have hur. ried up to the supernal throne, and when all shall behold in the fearful retributions of his doom another fulfllment of that immutable decree, " They who do not rule in righteousness shall perish from the earth then, sir, the proud dominion of Sterling Price will be the fond af lection of a great nation of freemen. His name will live glory and benison forever.
 Permit me to state, in conclusion, that the ruin you have made and are likely to make in our vicinity, will disengage citizens from any necessary attention to home and it's concerns. They will therefore be enabled to devote their whole time and best energies to the service of their country, With due consideration,
 MARY c. NORTON.