Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-02-24

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achments. to it They may be absent from I
I many years, separated from it by thous-
lnds Of miles yet, neither time nor space =
ian eradicate the amor patriG-which most
men feel for the spot that gave them bIrth, the
land of their natiyity-the colntry IN wnich /
they were raised and educated -
"a nameless fondness for our native cline,
Triumphs DER change and all devouring time;
Our next regards our friends and kindred cialmi Il
And every bosom feels the sympathetic flame"
That we should love the land of our birth,
of our infancy, of our training, of our hapPi-
ness, of that social and political system under
which our minority has been protected, our
manhood defended and our happiness pro-
NOTED, the land Of our fathers, of all the IL
~lustrious names and heroic deeds recorded on
the pages of its history, and which we have
been taught to yenerate from our infancy, Is
not at all surprising, but in perfect harmony
with the feelings and principles OF our ma
ture. Loving, as we do, the land of our birth,
we love its citizens, the owners anddefenders
Of our land itself, its institutions, freedom
and independence. Do we feel proud of be-
ing a relative, a friend, or o benefactor? We +
feel still prooder Of being a fellow country
man and when we meet with one in for
eign lands, though a stranger in person, who
was born in our country, who has breath ed
the same air, tr0d the same soil and given
support to the same political institutions to
which our own aid has contributed, we feel
towards him like a brother, we make MS az
quaintance and stand by him.
"Breathes there a man, with soul go dead, p
Who never to himself hath said ~ FL 1H
This my own, my native land 4Eant
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand s.ga
II such there breath, go, mark him well;
FOR hin no minstrel raptures swell:f fH1.
High though his title, proud his name, tsfs3Hs
BOundless his wealth as wish can claim,
The wretch, concentrated all in self, @
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, ra
And, doubly dying, shall 60 down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung, ISL
Unwept, unhenored, and unsuRg." 8t ssg
Does this love Of our native land, this love
Of country, animate the hearts of all men in
the Confederacy in this hour OF her psrile
Let facts answer. In Virginia, our mother
State, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and
North Carolina, there are enough tories to
form q legion. The poet, in penning the
lines above, seemed to be impressed with
the conviction that there were some of both
classes those who loved their country, and
would ia its defence do or die and those
who did not, and would not contribute their
personal services or money for any such pur-
pose. We would not compare these men
with soul so dead, who never to themselves
have said, this is oar own, our native land,
for which we will fight and die, with Bene-
dict Arneld. He fought and bled for hi.
native land, his whole country, and ther
turned traitor. These tories in the Confed
erscy, opposed to it's success in the presen
struggle with the north, have done neither
Let them, while living, forfeit the respect G
all honest men and patriots, and when the
die, let them " go down to the vile dust fror
whence they sprung, unwept, unhonorec
and unsung." Let no man attend their fl
neral, no marble slab testify their place {
burial. Let history, however, record the
infamy and the world and its posterity hol
them in contempt
Whilst we deprecate the presence of thes
cowardly miscreants in our midst, yet tn
South is able to defend herself from her en-,
mics at home and abroad, to expel the inv
ding foe from her soil, and ultimately to e
tablish her independence and eternal separ
ton from the north. History, as it has a
ready done in our revolutionary struggle
the war Of 1912, in the Mexican war, nc
withstanding the presence of tories amor
US, will soon record this glorious facs.
SO far, we have encountered but three di
asters of any magnitude, whilst our success
eS nave oeen Inany, great anu gioTlouS.
a few weeks the South will require the 81
vices Of all her available fighting men,
Will those who have not experienced t
tolls of the camp nor risked the dangers
the battlefield, manifest the patriotism
e~nlisting in her service when the twel
months volunteers shall return to their hon
and families for q short respitef We sh
see. Then, the disloyalists viii have an
portunity of retrieving their character.
Will they do it? The disaffection, to
South has been strikingly displayed in V
9inia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri
1t is now being subdued BY the force Of
arms. In North Carolina it is too feeble 8
scattered to make any demonstration.
this respect she stands in the front rank
her sister border States. May her few
the defence of her soil, and proclaim in
language Of her ablest jurist and poet, 4
no more,
"our bosoms with rapture beat high at thy nam
Thy health Is our transport-our triumph thy fam
Like our sires, with our swords we'll support
What they bought with their blood wen defend
our own" e eel sHtH8 @ntszE4
On, on, then, to the just and glorious st
shield your freedom with your arms; re.
if necessary even life itself, but die at
fighting in the battle for your mother 81
Follow the advice of the mother to her
when she pointed to his shield and said
Come with it when the battles done,
Or on 1t, from the field" taAs9ab14 A9
Men Of the South, in the name of
heaven. we call Onrvou To save vonr n