The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-01-07
4 WAR RLMINISCENUE.
VANCE WAS FIRST IN WAR AND
ISsTiLL FIRST TIN THEHEARTS
OF THE PEOPLE.

pose OF the Governor. I
j. ). MILITARY Prison, TOHNSTaN'S
ISLAND, NEAR SANDJSKY CRY, @.
llarc4 both, 1861.
Hon. 2 B. Vance, Governor Of North
Carolina:
sIR:-A5 3 meeting Of the officers
from North Carolina coufned il this
prison, on yesterday, we, the under
signed, were appointed a committee to
express to you the intense satisfaction
with which we have watched the dis
tinguished ability and lofty patriotism
which have characterized your admin
istration. It has been with peculiar
pride, during this our long and tedi-
Gus Imprisonment, that IN every wind
that has brought to our ears a whisper
from the land Of our birth and Of our
Interchangeable love, we have heard the
utterances of cur own prayers, of our
highest hopes and purest aspirations, in
the manly and patriotic language Of the
Governor of our State. Exiles from our
homes and country, captives in the land
Of those who hate and would destroy US,
we watch with anxious concern the prog
ress Of events and the course CT the war,
and note with unmingl3d pleasure the
manifestations Of ardent patriotism and
unyielding firmne5s among the masses
of the people Of our State. But, sir, it is
with peculiar pleasure that we advert to
your late noble effort at Wilkesboro-so
genuine IL its eloQnence, so exalted in
| It's patriotism, so t0rcible in its argu-
ments and witbal SO hopeful and conf
| dent of success, that every son Of the
old State felt glow of pride N the re
| Election that these grand u5tera1ces en-
anated from his own hOnored Chief-4ag
| lStrate.
Sir, your exposition Of the policy o.
the Federal Government, your startling
| DOrtraitura Oh the MlserieS that woull
be endured by our unhappy country an(
the expressions and lpCigDities tha
would be heaped upon her, IN case 0
submission, are 50 forcibly verified b,
ne acTioLs Of The dominant party IN thI
country that 40 reasoning Ian, enjoy
iog, as we DO, an unlimited access to IL
leading sgrla.5 OF a political pa1tie
here, can all TO reallz4 the fact tina
even the most appalling apprehension
of misery that have presented themselve
to the minds OF our most sagaclou
statesmen, even the NEST hideous pic
lures Of ruin that have been painted
our most eloquent countrymen, woul
tail far short Of the realities of tie door
hat would await US, should We be S
demeu1ed as to lay down those arm
J | and disbdnI those armies that La7
. hitherto protected US from th
fury Of our enemies. Those VIII
,3eiude themselves with the hoL
that there is still a conservative part
here, sufficiently strong to restOl
them again even TO those pr8carioJ
: rights Chey enjoyed before the disrul
ten Of th5 Union, ia case they retul
tha1 Union, are ipdulg.ng 10 var
dang rous nope. "a nave il dal
manifested to us here that this party
utterly powerless to protect even
{ own rights and Liberties from the q
e gressions Of the administration; the
3 hanger IS even more imminent than o.
own, and their only hope of deliveran
is in the triumph of our cause; th,
II grow stronger with every success
r present they are writhing In helple
g Wretchedness. The one great idea
er the people of this country is the subj
r cation of the South, and so to apprOp
k ate its property to the liquidation
their stupendous debt; and the don
nant party is stronger or weaker in pl
,e portion as the prospect OF success
re- nearer or more remote.
,e Let our people by any event, eth
through submission or subjugation,
in thrown on the mercy of this nation, a
ad the great plans will have been consu
mated, and this success will have ins
ed the perpetuity Of the Republic
-, party. What policy this party wol
pursue in the Government OF our col
try is but too plainly manifes, ed alreaC
we gather it daily from tneir congf
9 sional actions, from their party cow
y tions, from their leading journals.
ay hear it even from their own lips 50
ed humiliate the South, SO to crush
IS, spirit, so to cripple her resources, 50
eo dlsarm her, 50 to quench her hopes, t
III never again within her wide bord
shall even whisper be heard 10 cIs
of freedom. They declare that this !
ls. must be waged, not only u1til the rel
lion is crushed and the people subjue
ed, but that ii must be prosecuted u
ol the p08sibi,ir y 0 It's recurrence i gone
ing accomplish tuis design, they declare
ION it is both right aud the duty ofC0ng
on to conhscate the property of our peo
ub- both real and personal, aud to appro
j1b ate it among their soldiers and freedI
ary Slaves they have llDerated); they
GA pose to take the arms from the va
eli AID put them in the hands Of the ne
j 10 they propose to extend the right OF
yil frage to the blacks, While among
the VIII. es it is to be restricted to those
or have been hostile II their coul
throughout toe war. In short, Ia t
blind, vindictive rage, tney would q
of our country one vast Euln 50 hld'
that TAR down inJo the coming age
mank nd, it may stand as gna
en- warning to deter the rash patriot
the would claim freedom as blrthrlgt
and Republican Government as herlt
q to War may cover the land with so
roll and mourning, but peace on the I
;ing of submission would cover It with
blackness Of the shadow OF dt
War has still the blessing CT hope, b