Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-08-27
Away Down South in Dixie.

There is wall of despair on the
the Southern breeze. jeff. Davis be.
gins to realize that his house is built
upon the sand, and totters to its fall
A month ago he was hopeful, exultant,
defiant. Great things were promised
Philadelphia and New York We're to
be captured, and peace dictated and
the terms agreed upon in the no.
ted east room of the White House.
Now, all is gloom and dependency.
JEFF. has issued an appeal for all class,
es to come forward now and aid in
this their darkest hour. He complains
of apathy, indifference, desertion. He
offers to forgive all who will return to
their posts in twenty days. He calls
upon the white population en- mass to
come forth and fight for the "stars and
bars" The rebel papers are frantic
and despairing. The Enquirer, at
Richmond, closes leading article as
follows
"Will not the women help us, then,
to put every man i'll his place? Will
they not refuse so much as to speak to
any one who evades to do his duty
We all know that they, by combining
together, can drive all stragglers at
once to the field /; they can make exis-
tence intolerable to those who stay !;
but to those who go and do their dec0ir
of gallant gentlemen, they can prom
ise paradise, and keep their word
Now, here is what women can do for
us at this moment-for us =? for them
selves and for us all.
Let them but think that everything
we are, or have, or hope to have or to
be, depends upon our glorious army,
and that it Row stands in the gap of
the Confcderacy once more, enormous
masses Of the rufiian foe gathering in
front and flank for another and more
strenuous blow at the heart of the
country If our soldiers do their duty
now, they can save the country and
make it the proudest nation upon earth !:
if not, better for them they had never
been born?"
The Richmond Wing says:
"But the people themselves should
not wait for the War Office nor the
Legislature. They should organize at
once by neighborhoods, in squads of
fifteen or twenty, as may be conven-
ient-two or more squads to consti-
tute company. When the Legisla-
ture meets, these organizations may
be legalized. The parties composing
these squads to consist of over As, and
TO be confined strictly toneighborhood to
defence. Most of them will be able to
furnish their own arms, double bar
relied guns, but we suppose the State
or Confederate Government, in such an
will not stickle at the let
ter of the law, but will supply some
arms, and especially ammunition,
which is more needed even than arms
generally throughout the country"
The Richmond Enquirer of Wednes-
day has this morsel of cold comfort
"The President appeals to the wo-
men of the Confederacy, and with
good reason for not even the men
have so deep and dread an interest in
this affair as they have. Men can at
least fight to the last and die, and have
done with it. Even the towards can
at least fly to the other countries,
change their shameful names, spend
their vile gains, and peep about to
find themselves dishonorablc graves
But the women can neither fight nor
fly. They must follow the fortunes of
the country, and if it be subdued by
that Yankee nation, must only bow
their proud heads to their destiny, and
take the fate to which the men aral
haze left them. Many may be employed
as governesses to teach small Yankees
many, owing to their experience in
ruling negro households, may get
service as housekeepers in their own
houses, to superintend their own
slaves for their new mistresses some
may be fancied as concubines by Yam
kee dry goods merchants who have
turned brigadicrs or quartermasters."