Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-04-14


ward. Pope was q man who had previ.
ously figured somewhere out west, ana
boasted that rebel had never seen hin :
| back he was going to eat al up without
salt but Jackson's skirmishers ran him
into the Potion &C river, and father Abrs~
ham sent him as minister plenipstentiary
to the .Pawnee Indiana. Burnside came
next, and on the heights Of Fredericksburg
he was seen afar off, but one foggy MORN
ing he disappeared, and has not been seen
| since he was gathered unto his fathers
In Abraham's bosom, and <tFighting Joe''
surnamed Hooker, was sent to reign in his
stead. He was treated worse than any Of
the rest he was badly thrashed at Chan
| cel]orsville, and afterwardslost on march,
that the yankee army took to Pennsylva-
mia. Meade came next, but did not tarry
long, and they have finally sent Grant to
| complete the Golgotha of heroes. Grant
is man who has won his spurs by fight
! ing with the odds in his favor, at about
| the same ratio that Confederate money
| sells for specie, twenty to one. Now, soi>
diers and fellow tar-heels, said the Cover
nor, whip out this army and hero--and
| ssthe baby is born and his name is Betsy"
Peace will be sure to follow. He exhort-
ed the men to continue steadfast to the
end. Maintain their organizations yet =
little longer, obey their officers, and follow
their glorious and heroic leader and oil
| would he WELL Victory Independence
-weal or woe was with them, and with
them alone. If they gave way all was lost.
He begged them never to desert; he inn
| plored them never to listen to the persua-
sion or influence of bad men who would
persuade them thus to cast.a foul stain Of
dishonor on themselves. and on their pos
terity and depicted the moral suicide Of
| themselves, in glowing aud eloquent terms.
In justification Of the people of North
| Carolina, he told his hearers, they were as
! true to the Confederacy as any people in
| the whole land, although it was intinated
to the contrary tnat there was little or
no disafection, and there was not ono man
in twenty through the State but whose
whole heart was devoted to the cause, and
would do any thing in their power for
their soldiers in the field. 1t is true, he
| said, there was some growing among the
| principals of substitutes, who had laid the
! flattering unction to their souls, that they
could fight this war out by proxy. They
were disappointed, and disappointed folks
| a0ould grumble, but his people were law
| abiding people-In fact they particularly
believed In THE LAw-and he was sure tho
law would be pronounced constitutional
by the Supreme Court when it met, and
that these men would obey lie behests
like good citizens. He said that many of
them would doubtless be sent ont here 20
join us he wanted US to treat them kind
~, not to poke fun at them and call them
1sconscripts," but learn them to be good
| soldiers, aud his word for it they would
acquit themselves with credit when thsy
confronted the enemy. He said there was
another class, who used long ranged guns,
and wanted to fight 1t long taw, shoot
from street corners in North Carolinas at
yankees in Boston, who made a mighty
fuss, kicked up terrible dust and stink,
but were very harmless. He told us, the
people of North Carolina always criticized
their governments and It's acts, and often,
times complained and grumbled at it's laws
when made, and even made threats when
they thought them unjnst, bnt no people
on the face of the earth obeyed its behesfs
with more willingness or alacrity than they
did, when the law was pronounced con-.
stitntional. -
1t was true, much dissatisfaction was
manifested at the suspension of the habsas
corpus aet--many thought it nncalled for
ana extremely unwise and for his part,
he did not see the use of the snspension.
But that dissatisfaction did not indicate
that she was going to do anything desper--
ate and she would not Dernaroonen and