New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-31
MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 81, 1862.

herited from their noble sres, were never yet en-
slaved, and never will be while grass grows and
water runs The illustrious Lafayette, when a
prisoner in the dungeons of Oimutz said For a
nation to love liberty its sufficient that she knows
it. and to be free its sufficient that she wills it,"
The same conviction of the invincibility of a na-
ton resolved to be free was strongly impressed by
Lord Chatham during the Revolutionary war, when
he said: No man more highly esteems or honors
the British troops than do know their virtues
and their yalor. I know they can achieve any
thing but impossibiiites; and know that the con-
quest or British America is an impossibility. You
cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America.
I ou may swell every expense, accumulate every
assistance, and extend your traffic to the shambles
OF every German despot; your attempts will be
forever mpotent: douby so, indeed, from this
mercenary aid on which you rely for it irritates,
to an incurable resentment, the minds of your ad-
versaries, to oyerrun them with the mercenary
sons of rapine and plunder, deVoting them and
their possessions to the rapacty Of hireling cruel
ty. II ! were an American, asI am an Englishman,
while foreign troop was landed in my country, /
never would Lay down my arms, neTer-never-
never ~
The noble speech of the ilustrous Chatham was
made in indignant denunciation of the infamous
proposition Of Lord Suffolk to employ the tona
hawk and scapng- knife of the wild Indian savages
to aid in the suppression OF the war in America
preserving the perishable infamy of his name, and
making it immortal. All the barbarities SO vivdly
depicted by Chatham have found their perfect
pdfaeL IN CDlB lnOSt WICKED war now Waged against
us. Our enemies have infamed our minds to an
incurable resentment, by overrunning US with the
mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting
US and our possessions 10 the rapacity Of hireng
cruelty. Is there a man in this audience whose
heart does not echo back the thrilling words of
Chatham? "whe foreign troop ia landed in my
country, ! never will lay down my arms-never! |!
never! neVer!"
Judge B. closed his address with the following
eloquent appeal:
Young men of Rockbridge let me address you
word of parting COUNSEL Your country needs
your services in the tented field. Your own Yir-
ginia calls, and you have your election either to
spring forward voluntarily, eagerly, to obey her
maternal summons, or be dragged to the field
where an empire is to be won or Iost-under COM
pulsion! oh! do not wait till the hated conscrp-
ton tears you away from the dear ones at home
Are you husbands? Then you cannot SO well
attest your devotion to your wives, as by rushing
to arms to defend them from pollution and dis
honor! Are you lovers? Your. sveethearts will
buckle on your armor, and bid you go whore
glory awaits you, and spurn yen if you hesitate.
Are you sons? heard noble woman say the
other day 81 have four sons In the service and
if one of them were to hesitate to reGnlist for the
war, would disown him, dsinherit him, he should
be son of mine neYermore, ne7ermore :" Oh how
loved that Spartan mother, for that nsble sent-
emulate her example. Then, my young friends,
wait not for the draft but volunteer! Oh! how 7
love our noble volunteers With 100000 volun-
teers in the field, we can defy the world in arms !!
Go forth, then, noble champions of freedom, and
sheathe not your ayenging swords till the hated
foe is driven back from the sacred soil his presence
Pollutes!