Year: 1862

I
painting that shall portray in eoors sufficient
! iy black the hofrid deeds of blood and carnage
which the Lincoln dynasty have perpetrated
| since this war commenced.


What portrayor can pencil out the awful
drama? WHAT linguist command Ian
guage, or what rhetorician construct sentences
that shall convey adequate ideas of its magni
tude to generations yet unborn? The mind
staggers and falters at the thought of so mag
nitudious work. Such deeds of murder and
rapne have hitherto been unknown to history
The martyrdofn of the dark ages would blush
2, in comparison. From the fall of the brave
Jackson at Alexandria to the present time, no
similar period Of the worlds, history has
crowded together such host of incidents ei
blackness and crime. Just think of the hun
dreds Of our best citizens, including number
of ladies, who are shut up in the dungeons oil
the North and being murdered by degrees for
no other crime than simply believing that the
South is right and the North wrong. Just
think of the hundreds of homes made desolate
and the thousands of helpless wives and child
ren that are freezing in the cold and starving
for bread because the husband and father has
been dragged from his home for the faith that
was in him and his substance divided among a
band of thieves! The head grows dizzy and
| the heart scllens at beholding the picture,
while the blood of patriotism and philanthro-
ny rushes to the brain of every sincere lover
him to repel the invader at the point of the
dagger. We have not fully realized the hor-
rors Of war in this locality yet and God grant
that we never may; but should the invader
come let every man, old and young, who is able
fly to his knife and gun and dispute every
inch of his onward march, and those who are
too cowardly to do this, let them be banished
from our midst forever and let their names
rot in the earth. And should they die upon
some dreary isle Of the sea, let no green thing
grow by their grave, that coming posterity may
know that SO vile wretches ever lived


The above thoughts have been suggested by
reading the following:


Correspondence of the Macon, Ga, Telegraph I


FAYETvtLLE, ARK, Dec. 4th 1861.


Dear Bro. John: In the providence of God
myseli and family are safe at this place. | left
Fort Scott, Kansas on the 14th ult., and have
thus far on my fight from band of robbers,
been wonderfully preserved It is a wonder
to me that are all alive, and in land of free
dom; but the Lord has done it. In June last
son Joe left Us, declaring that he could no lon
ger resist his sense of duty, and in August
Montgomery and Lane encamped upon our
place at Fort Scott, burnt up our place and des
troyed our crop-declaring that such men
should support their army in the war. They
took our beef cattle, burnt 1000 rails and des-
troyed thirty acres of corn and eight acres of
sugar cane, took fine mare, saddle and bride.
and left US destitute every earthly article Of
sustenance Son Joe had gone from us in J une
and We never heard distinctly from him, till
about the l st of November.


To get away from Fort Scott, I sold nv
place to an officer in the Federal army for
$500 it had been valued at sixteen thousand
dollars. The day after 1 left, Jayhawk-
ing Company overlook Inc, took away
three double -barreled shot guns, and de
clared that that night they would take all
had, and leave me destitute on the prairie We
passed horrible night II cried unto the
Lord, and He heard me-" Next day about ten
O'Clock, the children commenced voluntarily
singing, ''There is a happy land" and light ap-
peared unto me. l am now about $50 miles
Fl ON Fort Scott, we breathe easy, and believe
that the Lord is with me, and that am deliv-
cred from the hands of the Phiistines. 10 a
day or two | shall move further South, and
when I get to good point / will write to you,
and stop for the winter.


My whole property has been taken from me,
but am not yet dispirited. | lack but twenty
one days of being three score years and ten !;
but the Lord is withe u.s. l want to hear from
you, and when | get to place where [ can
winter, will let you know, and shall expect
to hear from you and all my faiends. ] believe
the South will succeed and the cause of truth
triumph I have not good chance to write,
and you will make allowances.


You brother,


BENZ. BRANTLY.


P. S-My dear son Joe got to me from
Prices army two nights ago. He had been
field, and is anxious to join a Georgia regiment.
The South is right and will succeed. The
Lord be with you.


TRuE.-The Charleston correspondent of
the Richmond Examiner says. A fine bat
terry Of flying Artillery (Moore's) from VIII
mngton, n. c., has had the honor Of dealing
the first serious blow which the Yankees
have received upon the South Caroline
coast"


The foregoing is from an exchange and we
publish it because we like it. We like North
Carolina because of the proud position she
has taken in the young and vigorous confed-
eracy. We like North Carolinians because
they are cool and dispassionate, Intelligent
and brave. They are none of your excitable
spasmodic, off and on, and on and off sort Of
people 1t is true, they are little slow and
hard to move but when they do act they do
something.


The citizens of no State have excelled them