The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-20

heard from North Mississippi, resounding
from hill to valley, proclaiming every
where in its echoes, \ people determ-
ined TO be free can never be subiusated."
In this, consists the divinity Of our
power. Who will exert ID for the maiu-
taiuanoe of a cause, second to none, for
which people ever before struggled.
! am unimlormed as 10 the number
rendezyoused at Brandon, hear, how
ever, that two companies have been or
gapized in R3ultin county. [ am sure
other COMMITTEES will do likewise, and I'M
der the lead Of j. j. Thornton. am con
iident they will achieve honor for them.
selves and State as did the sixth Missis-
sippi regiment ut Shiloh. When Gov.
Pettus called The people to arms to save
ViclSsburg, and jackson, and protect our
iiresides and homes, they did not 20.
Desolation, insult and outrage, that
respected neither age nor sex. marks
| the result of his UNDECIDED cali
/ Now that he is no longer Gov
ernnr, he molly responds with his
| trustv rife, so the call OF the var-wotn
! patriot and statesman, who 50 woFthily
succeeds him, and who, in the "teated
field" al CORY with the blood Of our
! slaug entered dead, illustrated practically,
all that he asks you 70 do. His example
should emuia,o us to respond at once.
armed with that inviucible power, nil
and 3elcrmmaf n, and rush TO The conflict
to asd in driving from our State that
worse than vandal foe, whose hellish
tread nov marks our soil, and whose very
breath contaminates the ak we breathe,
rand whose Gendish acts, INSPIRED by their
great prototype, tho Price OF Darkness, J
blush 10 mention; which, IN their black
enormiiy, are sufficient to obscure the
brightness Of all earthly glory. save that
Of their utter humiliation. The hour is
pregnant with mighty events to us and
those ~ no are to come after us. Gigantic
armies in Georgia and Virginia are nov
marshalled in fierce array, 10 determine
forever the question, whether CT not, we,
Is free and indeI endent people, are
hereafter TO be represented in the Chan
Gerry OF nations Shall we? Can we
stand idly by, where issues so moplentOrs
are being determined by six hundred
thousand armed men, and that too, when
our own State IS invaded, our homes des-
olated, and our families outraged and in
suited?
Virginia. the cradle Of heroes and
states men, Is maafully breasting the cat
too, stands firmly, poised upon the peals-
tai of Truth, defying the hirelings of OPP
preston Of the venal power now cnthron-
ed and sceptered at Washington. Shall
Mississippi, one of the first TO lead IL
secession, supinely fold her arms? Re
member, while var was only threatened,
you boasttully deiiod She horrors Of inva,
sion-not a man, but would rush to arms
to repel the enemy. The unexpected
crisis is again upon IA, sweeping like g
fierce deluSe over the Northern equities,
moving Southwark, leaving behind j, de-
olation and despair. Already the awful
mutterings Of ;he storm Is heard, and
unresistcG, will sweep ike q bosom Of
destruction over your homes. VIII you
wait to be carried away by lis fury, and
lsuhdued ~ its power? or will you re-
deem your promise, aGd like the ancient
Brltons, who met 10 ropel the Roman in
vaslOn, rise Gu 0oz5Se, from the beardless
boy to the grey-haired gr2nd sire, all who
can fire gun, uSea knife or hold horse,
leave tho plough in the forum, the bride
at the altar, and every tie that is dear to
you, for the defence of a home and 2
country, consecrated to the happiness OF
yourselves and families, and the inalien-
able right OF a people 10 gorern them
selves. Do this, and your names viii de-
; scend through the vista OF time1-aIl ra-
dlaHt with the glory of heroic achieve
ments.
You viii be furnished with transp0rta-
ton on the railroads to Brandon and Ar
tesla, where you will be subsisted and
quartered. a. II. W.