Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-03-06
Proclamation By the Governor.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS,
 February 25th, lS61.
) THE PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS

fTo THE PEOPLE. OF ARKANSAS
 Reliable informat.op has been received that the north gStern portion of your State Is invaded and abandon ed to the enemy It is the determined pur- pose of your Military authorities to expe the ene- my at all hazards and at all cost To accomplish this, the entire State must be, at once put upon war footing The hour of trial for us has at length aTliveGi---danger presses us on all sides. We are and will prove ourselves. equal to the emergency The recOning so often repeated, is now mad good t0-wit: That every i'll the State capable of bearing arms must take the field in defence of the State. In tue justice of our cause let us find strength. In the proud position we have assumed asa nation QI fye-meu, let ps he enconrs gea and prove ourselves worthy of enjoying the great boon of republican, liberty. ScOrning all danger, defy ing all consequences, et us strike now, my countrv- nfon, whilst our destiny isin our own hands-whilst limts are unslnekled, aud our hearts are proud and know 10 humiliation! And if fate shall decree tIias ye bc engalphed in common ruin, let the few who escape, or those who live after record. at least, the one fact that. we lived, suffered, fought and Perished a band of Spartan brot!,e.s, -unconquered and uuconquerable.
 Thirty thousand of your sons, brothers husbands friends and neichhols are upon the battle field pouring o..t heir blood like water, for your sakes for your honor aud for your defeneei Shall we them and Ourselve es by going to their rescue? or shall we abandon them to their ttte7 - - Who gave the northern men the right to sav that We eg .ho South shall not be free What page ot Auercaa history has taught the doctrine of CO., ercion3 " hat craven heart is there amongst us that Is iashioned for such pupage?
 Bg your own sovereign act--tluuugh yoer dsle. gates Ill convention assembled, each and every man i'll Arkansas has pledged his lie, his property and his sacred honor to hp ,reei has plighted his faith, the one 70 she other, that Arkansas and the CCntedefate States shall be defended and upheld y that we would form for ourselves and children, after suffering wears of injustice and persecution, new and better government. So did oar fathers of the revolution and did thsy, througb years of adyessity, and cffe wipen the star of hope had fled ,To7l ali save the father of his country" fight and ever until Heaven smiled upon their eflorts, and 2 nation, blessed with ciyi' religious liberty, erected the standard c: free government! .1.
 Are we of the south not the rightful iuheritors' of these great privileges} or are we !" degenerate sons of noble sires?' Are we lacking in manhood tthree millions ot fighting men,l to renal a cow ardiy foe who seek by nnInhcfs to overcome and enssye Ga' | is impossible, if we are true to our selves, rl~
 Though forts may fall, cities be isetl. Sapttols taken. armies driven back and captured, let still other md apGtheg ome, until the last man, itneeds De, shall find an honorable gave beueath the ilag of his country, our rights our independegSs and -~the justice of our cause be ackp9s iedged.
 "What fla E..l gain the whole world and loose ,.is dwn soul,'' says the inspired solumei What, Task. does Ire gain though he savea every thing else, and looses his liberty and his honor. - hat will m0pertY ae worth, citizens of Arr lansas, with a colonial government over you, and d -.andiag army over your heads-the elective franchise denied you, and standing army in your midst to enforce the decrees ot your RoEtaogy masters,
 Then to arms, every man in Arkansas who will p9t-bG slave. Every one who has the heart of q ,vl,r rlitted to him as priceless heritage by his heroic ancestry--who hates tyrants and despises danger-WA Ao is not afraid to meet death to avenge his oountry's wFongs--who will mak e good his faith given and pledged to the Southern Confederacy and to his own gallant State which upon every battle field has won renown and impefishable glory
 An appeal Is unnecessary. 1 make none, You are stimulated by higher impulses It is only important that 1 do my duty in advising you of the p9I iious condition of your State and that 1t behooves yolito render her prompt assistance,
 As your chief magistrate, associated with others in military authority, 1 haye epdeavoFed in the past and shall continue in the future, to leaye nothing undone which may he instrumental Tn working out our deyerance Then aud not til then, shall have done my duty, confidently trust ing to results with clean hands and elear con science. statf 4.
 ~ II. N. RECTOR Gor. and
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