Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-03-10

tssn1g to the melody Of the birds instead
What are your suferngs and sacrifices conrassd wit
theirs tell you my friends, when saw these gloou
men re ensng for the in Virginia and ths South
heart jumped for joy Is heard Of great victory.
so it was one OF the greatest ever achieved. 1t
best peace meeting held yet and did more TO ncn
me hear'7 OF our enemies to REGULATIONS. forgot
forebedinss and felt ashamed that had doubled.
grumbed at my bnrd ot-for you know that trem
Bile and growf like til Of you.
gu 40 NOT: my fellow cizens end your duty when yo
.seucAntiy let your soos to the war You rust sustain
them there When you Trie to your boy my friend dc
chi den cryin broad Do mt write that thu
is all wrong that the original secessonsts 90: mo hi
scrape, and that all his sacrifices AID suivrnts
notleg Keep III. Sc opinions or payday. When he "
called to charge that deadly battery and storm these
heights gerinR with bayonets, do not let hs steps ltel
because of the suggestions you have tde that is a
nauTh Rather let him BIS inspired by the reflection thai
bright eyes are ready at home to reward his ya0r IN II
LOVING hearts beat with pride the his gallant
n ns Of the sna h ms w
forward to the heights "f vctcrS aud if be falls his last
he ill calmly watch his life bt away, atd with bis
last breath tank God 10 has friends, home, country
worth f2htiGg for, worth dietng for. (Appause.)
Aslong aswe dc fight let ns light very best and when
We quit fghtiLg, let us quit short c. A. loGg DO
~hs you'd be OF less ervice home and Ell courage HIM
divide tLe last ushel OF corn with hs wife and children
none, sal elduFe hang on naifaly and II the worst
comes 20 The worst perish we must poor old North Ca
70 na whore muster 10 will be cr enogy Will 60 dow
as she went Gt tremendously, with dignity and decency,
heroism. tCheers.)
when history Is full, would sustain With the assurance
that determined people fighting their liberties,
ton had greater difficulties encounter than no be-
ret rs 1t is notable fact that whipped three
the Of Char on. marched through sonth Ca1 olina
Irving Marion and Sumter Into the sWamps, came into
OF Virginia and then returned to Wilmington, having
er7f we States %h the sir OF Conqueror. bow tar
,ncy unneed condition at twenty tor one bur
mat OF our Voutlonery oretahers eight hundred
almost every city in the interior. Qua repeat
ei!y scattered The people we're whipped, but they would
OF bio, d snd suffering, they finally prevailed
How stands the case with U.s. The enemy hes .
ht st after host and has not yet taken Richmond Chas
on Wilmington, Mobile, of our seaboard cities ex-
cept No tos New 0rhars and GALVESTON, tie
al invading army i'll tn eulths of the battls fought
were orr ancestors We have whipped invading my IN
tour ftths OF our eng agements.
There rule i'll military science That requires
ding my to deposit aeersin prot orion of strength in
fact that they have penetrated fifty miles into
tenor o. G9r territory beyond the point whsie their Eur
Try to get from Chattanooga Atlanta BY t tine they
leach there they viii have dropped enough their strength
and being then in no to Gener
like dogs. Applause is true cannot pretend to
cope with them on the water for have not yet got
navy but fortunately happens thatthe of this
Try Is composed of good dry ground We have been
mach acquainted with water affairs. Indeed believe most
OF our people prefer whiskey. U.adghter.(
The trans Mississippi has been separated from us-
Well, the people there lucky, the supply of
bad generals has been cut o and they flourish little
better this than d., After years
and at expense OF fou thousand million dollars the
ey has over run the greater part of Tennessee portion
of mississippi and Of Alabama but he has still five hundred
thou sand square miles this side OF the Mis-
have Teen similar trials, his work will have just began
Why, gentlemen in the little country OF Holland not
bottom of the sea- and inhabited by heavy, poddiGg
poRn @ton Phillip the second OF Spain who was styled
worlds assisted by the finest Europe aud
commanded By the greatest captain of the age undertook
to impose the lnqusion and to his great establishment
resisted lin. Their oes burned to ashes their
theis country and women and children drowned in tner
houses starvation stared them full in the face and 10
tie COMMISSIONERS If tie dead; and they fought and bed
how long do you sappese Three years, as we have =
Second and his grand armies ami those of his successors
for eighty gears and their mis- cradle little country which
trunphed, preserved its liberties and secured perma
nent peace, despite the efforts OF yrant who held mil
to be put to shame by the vlor of those who
times termed, in not very elegant language the id
Dutch, when we are possessed Of resources OF which
There Scotland who resisted the attempt OF the
finally overcame her enemies and forced to accept
her king, James the VI James ths OF England There
Frederick the Great try of his guns ill.,
without shooting into neighboring territory
Of the greatest powers in Europe representing popu!a
ton of hundred million, whilst Prussia ha1 popuEa
finally out with her nationality and liberties
paired and richer than when she went into the though
during the bloody strife her Capitol had been taken and
taken half dozen times and the country was often one
OF The widest desolation.
Shall not persist in st ugCle for n6epe ieuce,
and add another bright gsse to the history OF the iumph
of a tree people against Daspotism?
In concluding, fellow Citizens, allow remind you
of text of Sacred Scripture, which think wouId
your You know when Saint Paul the city
Ephesps and announced the true God he raised
with Oemerius and the res OF the artists place
had been accustomed to their living by manufac,ur
irOS fhA
Saint Paul tor his Interference with their ros
At the height OF the excitement VIII ch about
fellow tie town clerk whose name not given. Gard
gre the omission, for think he the uins p
G Sose sn sens o. the and to M S
What 10 any OF you recolect the passage HI advised
the P be- P S 90 for , 1ad hs
the artizans have thing against this the law
it shall be 5quiSed ofih lawful ASSEMBLY" rns is the
advics~l give you to-day: Do nothing rash.
had people and who should be rondy
IKE any sacrifice to the hy!g down OF life r ia IL
upon my head, and at length testified your great "'f
by bessowiug the highest office iii the
sL.1 our gut have pFesuInSd on inns eA cta
have come among yoI To beg you ID tie L'1e q cbon
tluri:y do nothing except III tho maune Prescribed by
Hiou To tne lis you hAve r.th1G tlin fly
yuu kn9w not OF IN thor iike the tnwn cs OF
Epheseus, to imrlOre you Ito do nothing rash
i have DOUBT abou tie establishment u
the independence OF the Southern CUniedetAcy than
have of my existence provided we remain true 70 the
ma is to it, By her original hs the resolutions
of her Legislatures by hundred of the most
solemn character she will dare endure the bitter end
The men who suffer the men who win There is no
tn ing exists the earth in the heavens worth having
that The reward Of patient endurance. To endure
lesson of lie II not base metal we viii
stand The Eary test.
thank you for indulgence With which you have at
tended my rambling remarks, ana IL retiring allow
to express the hope and tiat many yo
nj est