Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-03-03

Alone we would have no troops the held There never
was people in such eommerciaf vassala1e
the people Of the North About every thing We had ex
cent honor. came from the Yankees. you called to
lady, you found her dressed om head tn foot in Yankee
goods; the furniture was of Yankee make the broom
which swept the hearth Yankee the wood the fire
had been cut with Yankee having Yankee haude
But turning attention yourself you would find that
from the hat you bad 10 the shoe pegs your Yankee
shoes made by some "cnte" o-w who calculated" as
he drove the pine pegs through the paper SOLE that he
cnnld fool them Southern chaps you could not touch
garment made IN the south We even had Yankee but
ter tables and verify believe If it had been prac-
tcabe would bays ordered hot backvhsat cakes
~ morning from Yankee land. (LAughter) Web, the
consequences "f all this that when the great
upon us nobody ready. and like great big
terrapn on our back working and unable to turn
manufactured 10 lbe Conftderacy Now we turn out sew
eAa million pounds per annuIn-enough to blow all the
cast in the Coufederacy Now ordnance, from the
mountain howzer to the great Brooke gun that hurs de-
fnce to the iron cads is unsurpassed aud we make
To show You what has been and can be accomplished
provided have faith in ourselves will tell you little
of what this Slate has done her hook When
into the chair occupy and ill with so much
grace and dignity Ia angh) there not five hundred
suits OF clothing be found in the Quariermasers De
partment Now we have sixty thousand suits of ready
made cothng awaiting the needs of our troops
thirty thousand blankets shoes &c 10 ac our boys have
so many good ches that understand they trade them
OF for liquor Sometimes Qsughter) Will You set limit
to our energy after tell among hundred other things
that in the little town of TarbOro this State made
cses of keen gtering, surgical instruments requiring
The highest degree ofmechanica skill in their production
Iney Will compare tavOraOy With the beSt
European mannfactnre Almost see here to-day
is well clothed in the product of own looms and the
ladies' God bless them, look in their homespuns pretter
pendent of the whole world We had originally including
the States We claim, population of eight million white
people and four million blacks Now number not more
than five million white people How many troops do
you suppose Abraham has seat down against us InApr
1851 Lincoln called for seventyeve thousand men, One
month later he called for sixty. four thousadd. From
July to December the old fellow began to get scared
he called for five hundred thousand men In July
hn allaht ht,.lr ~.
1852 for three hundred hOnsand in 1885, he drafted hires
hundred thousand, and has daft- now pending for FIVE
hundred thousand more; making in all about twOmiOn
and thirty nine thousand he has called for to send
down upon us-almost half as many soldiers We have
men, wonderland children in the Unfederacy Their To-
cay IS about questionable, II they have all started
South the passengers at smash up described
by darkey who illustrating the difference between
stagecoach and railway accident; eff de stage turn
dar yon is but if de off whar is you? Laugh
teri Where are those immense masseSf II We have
tually whipped and driven b:ck two mIliun soldiers
there is encouragement to hope drive back all
he possibly send against But if these two mill
lion troops have been raised there is encourage
ment to believe Mr. Lincoln is trying to by
king show of strength that does not exist and that the
North is just about Tired of the So the
view is encouraging from either standpoint.
Bot we know there have been immense Numbers hurled
against Three hundred thousand troops armed equip;
ed and furnished to the highest degree that the skill and
wealth ct the United States cOud suppy-surpassng in
this respect any that took the fed in Europe
and under different commanders have tried 10 march
from Washington City Richmond aud over halt of the
way furnishing water facilities frransportstoD, and they
precisely where reE years N" nearer Rich
mond than thew were start And The bones of the Yam
KEGS that bleach on the plains Northern Virginia psd in
row, would make hcAdAmiEd load from Richmond to
Washington, which the artillery Of the Southern Con.
tpderacy could roll between the two cities (Appanse
We know that notwithstanding all the immense leves
made recently al The North Gen Meade is afraid of Gen.
Lee aud Skuiks within his Notifications If he makes
more prog eSs towards R chmond than he has for
time past he will reach that goal of Yankee hopes be-
fore twelve o'clock on poomsdsy Why fellow
as badly as they Voice "go il Vance Well
1 going it old fellow Nnd hope will all Ego it"
until the war Is over Applause When l was in the
army. aud would Yankee regiment approaching in
The distance would estimate the force at about ten thou
sand daughter and when took prisoner he would
laugh st insignificant little squad and say be
der the impression about million strong Re
newed lagh'er) Thew gnod deal like the WAGNER,
cart Turn out. turn onr!" The bow kept on bis SIDE
of the rad IL yoI don't turn out I'll like
said boy ruiFrd up hs ecevN= and prepared
| get down how did him ?" "Be wouldn't
turn out d-n him, so turned out myself" daughter
Old Abe thinks he fEhten with his big team but
il we only stand uF for our rights, be will "turn out
himself Laughter and applause
Solomon there is nothing under the Sun-of
which the modern saying that history repeats ITSELF but
paphrse The records Of na'ions are full Just such
trials passing through and combined. present
of Gods dealings with communities and
We understand the deep significance of the Pre-
sent When il Becomes the Past will comprehend it,
and plainly read the workings Of Providence in
ona affairs the captive prophet Ezekiel saw by the river
Chebar the appearance OF the likeness o the glory IN
the whirlwind which from the North hive faith to
believe that He does not intend The blood gallant boys
shall be shed in vain. It is mpety to suppose He will LET
us be conquered bv sch cruel and wicked the
Yankee il we only psve ourselves Our
filled with martial enthus they have made piece OF
thai other strip Of CLOTH prominent among the worlds
standards abage with glory. and classic the history OF
chrarc deeds They led bv the creates: general Of
all that is noble and true and whom is bestowed uni.
versally the well earned title of the Christian Warrior
| (Great applause)
Do YOU think God will forsake snch Chienman if the
people true IN him? With such prospects before
such assistance to surP" u.s. let us not oasey conque
ourselves Above all things do not discourage the men
who enlisted for the warthose great and gallant
veterans God bless them, heart at their plir
otism Thev first volunteered for twelve months; then
were conscribed for three years promised uoughs
they got; have had to quietly witness Mismanage
ers 1.-THE greatest trial Of all and ye: when the hour de
mands it, up and again present their lives voinn
Offering upon the atar of their country (ApPanse
have read heard Of nothing in this war that has given
me So much encouragement this evidence OF the spirit
of our soldiers and here friends to-day to beg
YOU not to dscourl &c them. If out Of spirits
don't trv 10 dishearteu the men who bearing the bur
dens of the war; who plod their wearv rounds on picket
under the silent away from wife. and child, and
bed under your and in the boso of your fami
y who amid the red lash Of artillery and the kissing
death shot, charge the farfn heights whilst you drive
youT team aeld listpun the melody of the birds in
stead Of the shrek of the demon shell winged with death
and destruction What ate your suferings aud sacrhces
conirasted with theirs? tell you my friends. when saw
these glorious ensting for the in Virginia and
the South, nv heart jumped for JOY as heard Of great
victory And so it of the greatest ever achieved
II the best peace meeting held vet and did
to incline the hearts of enemies to negotiations
forgot my fhrebodngs fand felt ashamed that had oTe
doubted OF prunbled nj ha-d ot-for us1st koo
thMt 7 prum6fe ana rrowl Ike the rest Of you.
Ynu do not my fel Eow citizen end your duty when
YOU reluctantly let youi 60 the war ou mus
Sustain them there hen you write to YOUR boy, my
friend do tell him how badly you suffer or that his
wife and children c'ying fr bread Do not write tha
the war is all wrong; ahat the original secessioniss go
us into this scrape and that all his sacrifices and suffer
nqs are for nothing. Keep these opinions for day
Wheuhe called up1r charge that deadly battery an
storm those heights gt rriug with bayonets do not e
bis steps aer because Of the suggestions you have mad
that is all for naugh+ Rather let him be inspired o.