Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-09-21
Georeia-TbS President.

The Atlanta Inteiligeneer Of the 18th, now
printed At Macon, contains a letter or order from
Gen. g. W. Smith to Gov. Brown, in relation to the
manner in which tie Georgia militia under his
mand bore themselves in the late campaign, and
also an order from Gov Brown to the militia grant
ing them furloughs for thirty days. Gen. Smith
and Gov. Brown bear warm testimony to the good
conduct Of the militia during the Atlanta campaign
The Governor thinks, aud SO stk ties in his order,
that the enemy win fortify Atlanta: accumulate sup
plies, and prepare for = winter campaign against
Macon and other interior points.
The Intelligeneer also contains the following
extraordinary article in relation to Georgia and
President Davis. The Inte1ligeacey, it must be
borne in mind. is a Gre eating journal, and sup
posed to Re = trusted organ Of Gov. Brown. The
language Of this article is indignant defiant in
fammstory. We beg the Destructives to bear in
mind that it did not proceed from the pen Of the
Editor Of this paper:-.
: "GEoRaIA AND THE PRrs1DENr.-1t is not with
any object to prejudice the people against our gov
ernment or in fictitious ana contentious spirit of
mere opposition, but that it is demanded OF US as
one Of the representative voices Of the people of
Georgia at home and her soldiers in the field, that
We record protest again the action of President
Davis in his aEtagonistc opposition to the vital ln-
terests Of the State of Georgia. We have net as
su,ned our position as censor Of his action merely
to CRAFTY the spirit Of fault finding which is ram
pant against him, nor do We criticise his course
with view Of creating discomfort or to pander to
public disposition to crafty the popular clanor
that seeks to fasten some victims head the TALL
ure of Our army in the West But we seek q nobler
and loftier am holding in constant view, only the
object Of efecting radical change in the appoint
msnt and conduct Of the army. We do not ask i'm
possibilities but We demand only those effects which
President Davis has it in his power to create.
We ar-aign him as public finctionrry before
the trisun.l Of public opinion in the name and
voice If the Confederacy, for the expression OF
sentiment which, though it is at present only pref
JUDICIAL only to the safety and interests Of .he State
of Georgia but through it the insult is offered to all
the States Of the Oonderscy because in it they have
q promise Of what may be his course toward each
one that may become situated rs this State has
The b.ieful shadow Of its influence hangs over
the land, a colossal shadow whose black wings
SPREAD from the Potomac to the Rio Grsnde. Ia
tne hour Of the Southern Confede:acys greatest
need, and in the moment when Georgia is placed IN
its most sbiect aud distressing condition. the Pres
ident pitlesslv SAYS % its suffering soomen and
children. Georgia must defend herself There are
no men left in the State CT Georgia in the field
Over the broad surfacs of the sorrowing land they
are soldiers and nothing but the disabled, the old
and enfeebed and women and children are left
within its deso]ated boundaries to mourn her noble
dead and sorrow over the weakness that prevents
them from lifting hand to protect themselves
against the assaults aud insults Of q ruthless and
vengeiul foe.
The youth and manhood and power and strength
of Georgia sprung to arms At the first clarion call
that alarmed the land. They offered up their blood
in prodigal ilbations to the god Of war, on every
battle field that has made immortal the sacrifice
which we have paid to Liberty. From the Potomac
to the Pacific, and from the Ohio to the Gulf Of
M.xco, their bodies lie in lcgions where they fell
aattling Cor .o:ir rights. Tho independence OF the
Confeoerscy and the proud name OF Georgia.
This moment, their rauks link the chain that
n.kes the Gordon of safety our border frcin one
end Of the continent to the other They are bat
dug Still, and with as inGincible : spirlt and as
de. ed blows as when the enemy first felt the
t desperate strokes Of the eighth regiment in the
first Manassas
In Virginia, they defend Mr. Davis against the
| vengeance of the remorseless NOrthmea and the
bloody ukass that Lincoln the executinner has pro.
nounced. In Georgia they stai.d defiant and des-
perate, with drawn swords and flashing eyes watch
| ing tile foe eager to rain upon him blows tor the
liberties Of the South.
". It is to the families and the unresisting and
| feeble women and children of these men, that Mr..
Davis has said, "You must defend the State your
selves"
Give back her hosts of brave soldiers who have
bee:, stricken to death On the Thousand battehelds
| of the republic. Give back her thousands in the
field at this hour, and Georgia will defend herself.
| Nearly hundred thousand of its sons have lent
the strength Of their good right arms to hev out
! the independence OF the South and the half have
fallen victims to the insatiate ambition of war and
war makers. Were they now within the limits Of
the State their bavonets giitIerirg in dreadful ar
ray on the border, who would dare tauns them with
| the sneering oomrsand to-protect themselves
What would be the result did Mr. Davis insult
| the irave sons of the Old Dominion vita such 4
petu.ant and gTstuitous order! What would have
been the result, had the President said to Tennessee
| i'll 1861, "Detend ynurse,fY' Who doubts that
her egions OF brave and invncible soldiers and her
uhccnquerabie people would have formed line on
the border whose lmpenetrabe walls would have
kept the enemy at bay, and moro successfully than
the incompetent appoiutess o. the Administration
have ever oeen able to do sinces
Georgi.'s soup of bitterness vas not full, but il
overlooked when the President of the Confederate
Stetes of America tauntingy told her people to de-
fead themselves Georgia has been made the field
on which half fedged generals and ambitious OH
GERS have s.sked the late of the Wes: on the cast
of die, ard Georgia hss suffered the ruin and des
citation consequent the failures of those reckless
men, whose sold!eriy capacities were not equal to
their valor or commensurate with their ambitious
| dreams
But, forgetting all her sorrows and sufferngs the
great State supports tho Confederacy cheerfully and
with profusion Of Iberality tina. gives ]ustre to
it that will shine gc-iousiy in the history of ma
TONS Notwithstanding she is taxed to the Ut
termost to support almost entirely the armies
| Of Tennessee snd Virginia, and besides has with
in its borders tine refugee and surplus ropu
lation of all the other States of the. South, and
bss given her every man to the Confederate
and milisia defence of the Contederacy. not a1on.
to the State, sne still finds material in her great
granary for all the purposes Of sustenance to the
Republic, and reviews with more sorrow than
anger, the hooking and contemptuous thrust tina,
the President has made at her generosity and no.
| bility of heart ).