The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-11-17
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from every battle field attested her devotion and
bore witness to her sacrifices. North Carolins
might well be proud of her soldiers in the armies
of the Confederacy
We are all engaged in the same cause. We
must all make sacrifices. We must use forbear
ance with each other. We are all liable to err
! Your Generals may commit mistakes; your Presi
deHt may commit mistakes; you yourselves may
commit mistakes. This is human and for this
! proper allowance must be made. We must cult
Vate harmony, unanimity, concert of action. We
! must, said the President, beware Of oakers-be
ware Of the man who would instil the poison of
division and disafectiou because this section or
thas section had not got its full share of the spos
and the piunder, the honors and the emoluments
OF office. Did we go into this war for offices or
! ior punder did we expect to make money by
IL! 1t SO, then he and Others, who, hkeshim, had
lost ai-had seen the product of years swept away
had oeen woefully mistaken. But we had not
gone into TINS war FROM any such ignoble motives,
ana no such narrow considerations ought to con-
troll appointments. Merit and merit alone should
be the criterion. And merit had been found and
North Carolinians had received aud now held
full proportion of the high positions in the army.
He here alluded to General Bragg, native son Of
North Carolina.
If there were those who yielded to dependency,
who despaired of the Republic, who were willing
to submit to degredation they were not to be found
10 the ranks of the army, where all was confidence
and determination. Those who complained most,
were those who bad made the fewest sacrifices, not
The soldiers who had made the most
In the changing fortunes of war, we may for
time be driven back, but with a resolute purpose
and united effort would regain all that we had
lost and accomplish all that we had proposed
Freed from the shackles imposed upon us by our
uncongenal association with a people who had
proved themselves to be ten times worse than even
he had supposed them to be, the Confederate
States would spring forward in career of happi-
ness and prosperity surprising the dreams of the
most sanguine
The President again returned thanks for his
kiLd and enthusiastic reception, and withdrew
A loud call was made upon Major-Gen Whiting,
who returned thanks for this evidence of regard,
but remarked that he could not presume to ad.
dress the audience after the able and eloquent
speech Of his Commander-ib-chief, President Davis
He could only pledge himself to d. all in his pow
for the defence of Wilmington.
The President is evidently in better health than
he has been for long time. His voice was full,
round and sonorous-its slightest accents being
distinctly audible at the utmost verge Of the very
large crowd assembled. OF course our report,
made from memory, without any opportunity even
OF taking notes. is necessarily imperfect. We be-
ieve, however, that it pretty correctly represents
the spirit of the remarks made, though not, per.
haps, in the precise language, nor in the regular
sequence In which they were delivered.