Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-07

away with excessive joy, Gas the trophies
of your perseyering fidelity the PAIN. ol
complete victory and the ollve-branch OF
endnring peace. Be not diverted from
the simplicity and singleness of your de-
sign by the pomp and harmony OF inge--
Nous diction, by the grand parade or
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Law Books-many OF
them long since condemn'd for their at
fected homage to the Almighty, Wnlle
ssteaching for commandments lag doc-
trines of men many OF them beng as
their authors were described, like paint
ed sepulchres, which indeed appear beau
tif1I without, but within are full OF rot
~tenness and dead mems bones. Give
not way to the dudacious arrogance OF
temporary power, or the fimsy parapn-
ernalia of place.
You merely 60 with a calm confidence,
manly dignity and christian intrepidity
to demand a bare recognition OF those
rights which are involved In the very
acknowledgement of your Freedom. Apy
opposing e~quivocation about the validity
of Your clnim, or the least delay III grant
ing that claim viii be an open insult to
your common-sense. The great question
of YOUR right to liberty, or otherwise
citizenship has already beenaff1rmatiyely
decided on the congressional forum aud
on the battle field, and been ratified by
the unanimous consent of chFisfeldOm
and as to any procrastination in its be-
st wment being admissible, you Will
bear in mind that ut this identical mo-
ment of time, you alone are regarded as
representing yourselves. You are held
at law no longer as minors &c, are held,
that is under a guardian. Hence what
is yours in part is yours In whole !; and
what you are entitled to at all, you are
entitled to no10. It is 'expected no more
of you than of others to be children ex-
cept (what is sc~ripturally dirested) Sin
malice" But since it is further %enjoin-
ed upon you Sin understanding be We
the event of.your application
being with evident ssmalice atorethought
Indignantly rejected, in case that the
great impartial principles, OF the Moral
Law shall as ,heretotore be contemptuous-
ly ignored, with the civilized world-ap-
proved policy Of the Lincoln Administra-
ton founded or that law, which policy
was professedly to be carried into effect
by the present Executive of the Federal
government say in case of all this,
then you may undoubtedly with the con-
sent, appreciation, advice and assistance
of Congress and tha ennntry, accept the
uevoSsary, the only alternative, and, in
finitely preferring death to slavery under
whatever form or name imposed, assume
those disputed rights; and in the fear of
God only strike in their defence and
m~ainteQance, wherever, whenever and
by whomsoever invaded. Rather than
resign zone jot or title of that Consti-
t%utional independence which has so long
wlthstood the angry storms of ~tyrannic
persecution, been baptised in the raging
fires of deadly strife, and sanctifed by
the truly sFnoble blood" OF Martyrdom.
IN the words OF Poet Leavitt .-"We vet
will spllL'the crimson food -
On goingN North Insisted on the speedy
reduction of Fort Fisher, such being,as /
conceived sometime previously, a KEY to
the pretended Southern Confederacv-l
Possibly there were many others who
contemporaneously thought as / did. but
anyhow the beneficial effects Of it's over
throw soon became apparent. With it
went down that blood thirsty Herod ~
North Carolina-Gen. Whiting-the no.
%torious, epauletted, insurrectionary min
ION VINO presunptuously with s~crupulous
watchfulness and severe penalties, inter
dlcted any approach of our unfetfered
cltlzens to our W ocean-embraced coast.
lest some of us, like the Pilgrim Fathers,
should thereby Committing ourselves to
the tempestuous pillows rather than to
despotism) escape to svme friendly asylum
OF liberty. There tumbled with that
notification and ingloriously stbit the
dust that ungratetul graduate Of West
DIN q think that seeding, wolfsh
renegade of "a Northern State, Col. Lamb
But even anterior to that period who did /
not notice among the H'frst fruits of the
ldolatrous secession-rebeIlion, in it's
ooedient, infatuated victims belonpino
20 TINS very State-who did not mark the
nnger of experimenting destiny and the
scourge of retributrve Justice? What
happened to the r~ecusant Gov. Etlis2
What befell that arttul-m mischief maxine
confederate tool (then u S. Senator elecf4
Winslow, with a host of other Insurgents
OF lesser magnitude, among VIII I'm were
me revolutionary. Huske, the dsf;apt
Meares, the ferocious Lutterloh and the
Mulltn2 | would nor ~ ..
as Withholding from the J,
lead, whatever may have been tba; .
crimes that degree Of respect which nav :
6e Justltiably claimed for them. bnt whsn
refer to historical incidents or Mi :
Ordained solely to bear. upon /
I'm q p 49, L =