The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-09-16

the citizen in the enjoyment of all his rights and
liberties.
Most assuredly nothing can be done by our ru
lers unless we give them cordial and hearty sup
port beg it at your hands, fellow citizens, in
the great task which you have set before me, as ]
shall render it most cheerfully to those by whom
it is expected of me. Without it, shall be ut
terly DOW eress. Yet that slavish subserviency to
those in power, which Injuries both giver and re-
cipient, is to be avoided and despised | shall
need true friends manly friends who will both
warn and censure, as well as praise when it is due
and with such shall find my labors lghtened and
the path of duty less difficult.
We have every reason to believe that the great
heart of the people of North Carolina is deeply
devoted to this struggle. None in the Confeder-
acy have made greater sacrifices to maintain it,
and, am convinced their patriotism will not fai l.
| Our intrepid and heroic soldiers in our sister
States, though praised with a grudging spirit and
often overlooked quite slandered, have yet
borne our Standards with undying glory in the
front of every charge, and death has spread no
| feast to which they have not sat down by hun
dreds. The spirit of our glorious women has ex-
ceeded, if possible, the gallantry of our soldiers in
the field. Gag laws, test oaths, and sedition ord-
nances, have, thank God, been uncalled for and
mob violence, that dangerous offspring of revolu-
ton, has been equally repressed by the conserva-
/
commemorate state of things let all good citizens
exert themselves
Fellow-citizens the future depends on ourselves
The skies are radiant with the gns of PROMISE if
we do but hold faithful 20 the great work we have
undertaken. Our victorious Generals are every
where driving our enemies before them, and the
vast armies which invaded US at the beginning of
the year, have melted away like frost before the
steady Valor OF our troops, until six hundred thou
~ jn6 ton a.
them come too, and fear them not-with shot.
shell and oayonet, free people will welcome them
to the bloody graves Of their predecessors. The
womb OF the future, am confident holds for US
bright and glorious destiny. The boundaries of
our young Republic, as we hope to see them es
tablished, embrace the airest and nobles portions
OF the temperate zone. Innumerable miles of
great inland navigable waters; mighty sweep of
sea coast lndeRted with magnificent bays and har-
bors; the unrivalled production Of the leading
commercial staple Of the earth as basis of public
credit; soil adapted to the successful cultivation
OF almost every article necessary to the comfort
and convenience OF man, embraced in area Of
SoO,OOU square miles Astounding with materials
for great navy, commercial and warlike mex
haustlble mines of iron, copper, COAL and all the
valuable metals unbounded facilities for building
up great manufactures on the streams of our
mountains; brave, intelligent and virtuous pop
uiat!oh hu"oeIlhS elShG millions, Win near Tour
million slaves, a source of wealth incalculable
these constitute the unmisakable elements of
great nation. Beholding them, to what splendid
VISIONS DO they not give rise, when peace, blessed
peace and independence, shall have been won
Oh, my countrymen, let us resolve this day that
they shall be won; that North Carolina, at least
shall not fail in the performance OF her part that
the streams of precious blood with which our glo-
rlous~ sons have consecrated their names to nmor-
taity, shall not be vain and unaccepted sacrifice
but through the valor and determination OF those
who survive, they shall be rendered eficacious to
the salvation OF the nation and with hearts strong
tor the mighty task, and purposes united, We will
toll and struggle, we will suffer and endure,
through all the dreary watches of the night, until
the day star of independence, flashing through the
darkness in the east, shall fill the whole earth with
hic baame