Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-10-12
North Carolina and Her Soldiers.

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We publish to-day two or three &C
counts of the part enacted by the few
North Carolina Regiments engaged in
the fearful contest and glorious victory
won over. the willy Rosencrans, in the
late battle of C9ickamauga. 1t will be
seen by the testimonials of-writers frem
other States, who were witnesses to the
struggle, that no troops acquitted them
selves with greater g~allantry than did
those from North Carolina, while two or
three acts of daring heroism struck the
behoiders with inexpressible admiration,
and won for those engaged in them lau-
rels Of, which the troops of Napoleon
Bonaparte himself would have been proud.
And thus it has ever been, from the
first battle, at Bethel, down to the last,
at Chiskamauga, North Carolina has
dlstood by the proudest, the bravest and
most invincible of her sister States, ri
valing them in deeds of daring, of cool,
determined courage, and of unfinching,
undated devotion to the Southern cause
and the Confederacy, to whose destiny,
she, in common with her sister States, is
indissolubly connected.
And the people of North Carolina, at
home, have not been excelled by those Of
or charge, hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, to clethe their nearly one hundred
thousand brave sons in the army and
in providing lavishly, in every way, fer
their comfort in the camp and on the field.
No State has outstripped her in physical
and moral power, in carrying forward this
great struggle for liberty and indepen-
dence and the people of no State, are
mole determined not to accept anything
less, than are the people of North Caro-
lima.
With such q glorious record since the
commencement of this war, and with
such a spirit sfpatriotic endurance point
ing to the future, is it possible that any
North Carolinian can admit the possibili-
ty Of her being disparaged or deprscia-
ted by any man or combination of msn 7
The idea is supremely ridiculous and alb
surd; and we are SICK and Disguised
with the defence" which some newspa
per writers are continually making, tc
preserve, as they say, her fair fame from
being furnished by unprincipled scribblers
from other States. No such defence i
needed. With as much appropriateness
might the friends of the great and gooc
Washington have attempted to defend
him from the wicked ISLANDERS and asper
sions of Benedict Arnold and others {
his enemies, as for the good name &
. North Carolina to require J" defence
against the assaults of a few Malicious an
corrupt men. He needed no defence b,
fore the world. The calumnies and d.
fractions OF has enemies, like shafts dri,
en- against the impervious granite, r,
bounded and slew the archers that SCI
them. So of those who would impug
the loyalty, patriotism and courage
the people of North Carolina-their slar
ders and falsehoods recoil upon the
own heads, and sink them into pits
loathing and scorn which should nev
be noticed by a North Carolinian exec
by the most inefable contempt.
We know there gre a few bad men
the State, who, either from crav,
cowardice, or base corruption, wou
dishonor the fsir name of North Carroll
by accepting base propositions Of S,
mission to the cruel foe that has ravag
eur coasts, plundered our towns, la
waste our farms, insulted our daught'
and murdered our sons. But there