Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-05-19

| en- to those precarious rights they enjoyed
before the disruption of the Union, are in
dnlging a vain, dangerous hope.
We have it daily manifested to lis here,
that this party is utterly powerless to pro-
tect sts o,o1s rights and liberties from the
aggressions of the dominant party. Their
danger is more imminent than ours, and
their Only hope Of deliverance is in the
triumph OF our cause they grow weaker
with every defeat of ours; they grow
stronger with every success. At present
ness The one great idea Of the people Of
this country is to subjugate the people eff
the South, and to appropriate our proper
ty to the liquidation of the stupendous
debt; and the dominant party is str onger
or weaker, as the prospect for success is
nearer or moro remote.
Let our people, by any event, either
through su omission or subjugation, be
thrown on the mercy of this nation, and
the great plan will have been consumated,
and their success will have ensured the
perpetuity Of the Republican party. What
policy that party would pursne In the gov
ernment of our country, is but too plainly
manifested already. We gather it daily
from their Congressional action, from their
party conventions, from their leading
journals We hear it from their own lips.
That policy would be so to humiliate the
South, 80 to cripple her resources, so to
disarm her, SO TO crush her spirit, SO to
quench her hopes, that never within her
wide borders shall even whisper be
heard in claim of freedom. They declare
that this war must be waged not only un~
til the rebellion is crushed and the people
subjugated, but that it must be prosecut-
ed until the possibility of it's recurrence is
forever gone. To accomplish this design,
they declare that it is both the right and
the duty of Congress to confiscate the
property OF our people, both real and per-
sonal, and apportion it among their SOL
diers and freedmen-our slaves whom they
have stolen and liberated. They propose
to take the arms from the whites and put
them in the hands of the blacks; they pro-
pose to extend the right OF suffrage to the
blacks, while among the whites it is to be
restricted to those who have been hostile
to their country throughout the war. In
short, in their blind, vindietive rage, they
would make Of our country one vast ruin,
so hideous, that far down into the coming
ages of mankind it may stand as ghastly
warning to deter the rash patriot, that
| would claim freedom as birthright or re-
puOllCdu SOF 40 d llCIlldSC.
War may cover the land With sorrow
and mourning, but peace on the terms Of
su omission, would cover it with the black
ness of the shadow of death. War has
still the blessing Of hope, but in such q
peace there is only the darkness of despair.
| In such state of existence, the order of
nature would be reversed life would be
the king of terrors and death it's only So
lace. In final, eternal separation lies our
only safety. Other terms were dishonor-
able-were dangerous. As soldiers of
North Carolina, as citizens of our young
Confederacv, we can be content with no
peace that does not recognize us as a free
and independent people.
So long as you tread the path of duty,
with the same manly, unfaltering step, as
heretofore, SO long will our hearts go with
you in gratitute SO long we will hail you
as among the great deliverers OF the State
We reverence, from tyranny more re-
voting than the visage of death.
We have the honor to be, sir,
With distinguished esteem,
Your obdient servants,
WHARTON j. GREEN, Warren, Chm'n.s
THOMAS S. KEENAN,, Duplin,
I'LL. G. JONES, Jr., Rowan,
JOSEPH S. DAVIS, Franklin,
HENRY S. JORDAN, Person,
$3.50 ,;...'.,' 1.' s s. Committee.
SAM'L. P. HILL, Caswell, Chm Meet'g
JAMES NJ. MAYo, Edgeconbe, Sec'y.