The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-07-28
From the Fayetteville Observer
CALL FOR CONscRIPFs.

We conv The Presidents Proclamation calling
ont all men. not exempted by law, between the
.oas of "a and As This call is rendered proper,
and indeed indispensable, by Lincoln's call for
2Oo 400 conscripts to swell his forces to be en-
nloyed for our subjugation. His armies, whatever
force they may amount to- must be met, If 1T should
require every man and boy in the Confederacy.
IL is hard duty, but it is duty, which cannot
be avoided but with the loss of every thing that
as individuals and as community the people of
.the Confederacy hold dear. The yankee Congress
has already passed laws to con6scate the property
of the people of the Confederacy, and to emancl-
pate their slaves, and the savage magnlty OF their
conduct wherever they have secured foothold
in the South shows beyond peradventure that
those laws will be enforced if they ever get the
power to enforce them. Their soldiers have been
promised farms in the South the reward of their
service in conquering u.s. and they must be will
fully blind who imagine that the hundreds of thou
sands of soldiers who have had taste Of blood and
ample liberty to rob and outrage, will ever be per-
mitted to return to the North in of the con-
= quest of the South. The only hope of preserving
the lives and property Of on-combatants In the
large Northern cities would lie in the quartering
of those blood-th villains at the South In
addition to all that, none but yankee, one as
vile, could live on terms of perfect equality in
community one half white and the other half Afrl-
can. Equality, did we say? 1t would be worse
than that, as we have abundant evidence from
Norfolk, New Orleans, and other places where
white men and women have been incarcerated for
resenting insults encouraged by the yankee officers
and soldiers. One race or the other would neces-
.sarily be externinated We will not dwell on the
horrors of the that would precede the exter
mination or the exodus of the teeber 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 weapon out Of the hands of white men
in towns of which they have obtained possession.
Under such circumstances, and our readers
know that we have stated them correctly, 1T IS idle
to talk Of peace, until the North shows willing
ness to have peace, at least to enter upon nego
tiations That they not prepared for this is
manifest from their refusal even to listen to so
distinguished a commissioner Vice President
Stephens upon secondary point.
We repeat it IS idle to talk Of peace. We
must talk OF wa2, and wage war, until the enemy
tires of war. History is full of examples, for our
encouragement, Of more unequal and even more
bloody wars, that finally resulted in the triumph
of the people lighting for their rights their homes
and their lives 1t is the will of God that We suf-
fer occasional disasters Let us not by our own
will permit combination of all the worst disasters
that befall people-immediate loss of proper
ty liberty honor, and eventual loss Of life also.
Courage, then, Southrons Brave and true men
seize the moment Of adversely, not to indulge des-
pair, but to nerve themselves against disaster, and
to compel victory. Assured that we are battling
for the right nothing but the will of God should
conquer US, and that will has been, so far, more
manifested in our favor than against us.