Spirit of the age., 1863-07-27
Another Call for Conscripts

We copy the Presidents Proclamation calling eut
all men, not exempted by law, between the ages of
!S and 40 ibis call is rendered proper and indeed
indispensable, by Lncons call for 300 900 conscripts
to swell his forces to be employed for our subugation
his armies whatever force they may amount to- must
oe met II 1t should require every and boy in the
Contederacy. 1t is a hard duty, but it is q duty,
winch cannot be avoided but with the loss of every
1hlng that as individuals and as communitv the
people of the Confederacy hold dear. The yankee
congress has already passed laws to confscate the
property OF the people of the Confederacy, and to
emancpate their slaves and the savage malignity of
their conduct wherever they have secured foothold
an the South shows beyond peradventure that those
laws will be enforced if they get the power to
enforce ther..
farms in the South as the reward of their service in
conquering US and they must be willfuy blind who
imagine that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers
who have had taste of blood and ample liberty to
rob and outrage will ever be permitted to return to
the North in of the conquest of the South. The
only hope of preserving the lives and property of nom
combatantsn the large Northern cities would lie in
the quarterng ofthose blood-thrsty Williams at the
South. In addition to all that, none but yankee,
or vile could live terms of perfect equality
in community one half white and the the other half
African. Equality, did we say? 1t would be worse
than that, we have abundant evidence from Nor
folk, New Orleans, and other places where white
men and women have been ncarcerated for resenting
insults encouraged by the yankee officers and SOL
diers. One race or the other would necessarily
be exterminated We will not dwell on the hor-
rors of the scenes that would precede the extermna-
ton or the exodus of the feebler race but of one
thing we may be assured, that the African would
have the active sympathy and aid of our Northern
conquerors, who have already put arms in their
hands whilst taking every offensive or defensive wea-
pom out of the hands of white men in towns of which
they have obtained possession.
Uuder such circumstances, and our readers know
that we have stated them correctly, it is idle to talk
of peace, until the North shows willingness to have
peace or at least to enter upon negotiations That
they not prepared for this is manifest from then
refusal even to listen to so distinguished commits
sioner as Vice President Stephens upon secondary
point .. .....
We repeat it is idle to talk of peace We mus
talk of war, and wage war, until the enemy tires
war. History is full of examples, for encourage
ment, of more unequal and even more bloody wars
that finally resulted in the triumph of the peopl
lighting for ther rights, their homes, and their lives
1t is the will of God that suffer occasional disas
ters Let us not, by will permit comb
nation of all the worst disasters that can befal pei
ple-immeditate loss of property, liberty, honor an
eventual loss oflife also. Courage, then, Southrons
Brave and true men seize the moment of adversit
not to indulge despair but nerve themselves again
disaster. and to compel victory. Assured that a
battling for the right, nothing but the will of Gt
should conquer us, and that will has been, so ia
more manifested in our favor than against
Fayetteville Observer.