Year: 1862

dependent famlg Nehspapm:


Y0RKVILLE,


to crush our liberties aud reduce US to a


state of servile vassalage. Will you be


found wanting in this great, this final strug-
gle? The signs of the times porteud a


rapidly approaching crisis, upon the issues


of which depend our veal or woe, for un-
told ages to come. Let the patriot sous Of
Virginia throw themselves into the deadly


breach, and stand as wall of fire upon our


oouutrY's ramparts to hurl back the North


ern hordes If we can hold our own for


three months more, our freedom is secured


If, by supineness, we suffer our arms to be


taken in that time with serious disaster,


the struggle may not close in twenty years.


When such momentous issues hang upon
$50 brief period of time, let no true son of
Virginia be wanting for moment. With
those who refuse to volunteer in this crisis,


without reason patent to all mankind, l


have nothing to do. They deserve not to


be couutenanced by free people, and


whether we triumph or fall, their fate will


be the same-'unwept, unhonored and un-
sung" they shall 20 down to the grave,
esteemed by every patriot the fees of free


dom and disgrace to mankind! But to
the true and loyal sons of the Old Domin.
ion We would say, a0hat you do, do quickly,
for all our hopes depend upon few brief
hours of time" ...


These living voices, pregnant with truth
and warniug-tbis precious life of master
spirits bottled for Alabamiaus and Virgin
ians-should be as strong wine, yes! as
liquid fire, to the blood of us Carolinians.
Every word they utter is applicable to US
symphouizers with our hopes, fears and
loves-buries itself deep down in all our
convictions of safety, honor and duty
And there are appeals to be made to South
Caroliuians, which cannot be made to the
volunteers from any other State. They led
the van of this glorious revolution; they led
the van in the formation of this noble ar
my; they have held the post of honor and
danger during the last campaign; and shall
they now retire from the contest, when it
is too late to properly supply their place
with others, at the very hour too, when the
struggle begins in earnest, when the alter
native liberty or vassalage, when the foe is
not only that of the whole South but pecu =
liarly their own, when hope deferred for
many long, dreary, heart-sickening years is
within their reach, and when the veal or
woe of unborn millions lies in few, per.
haps ouly one, speedy, ard.fought, death


grappIe with the huge Pendragon that OBJ
structs our path to peace, independence,
liberty and national glory? The vile in
vader threatens our Queen city with utter
extinction; would blockade her harbor with
sunken granite forever; would build up a
Yankee colony on Edisto island, and found
there a new and great commercial city
How futile these boastings But they H.
lustrate the loathsome malice which open
dragon" bears against our mIher-State.-
IF their success could only equal this NAL
ice, we should be the greatest sufferers !;
the scourge would be applied to our backs
with a remorselessness scarcely known in
the annals of savage history. The heaviest
battalious Of their regular army would be
quartered upon our soil and the faintest
whisper of disloyalty, or the slightest look
Of arrogance or contempt, would be safe
passport to some hideous Bastile Poor
MARYLAND has suffered an earthly purgatory
from rape, rapine, tyrannous surveillance
and terrorism; but this, compared to the
military despotism under which we would
groan if overruu, is an earthly paradise
For not one single drop Of sympathy would
mingle with the chalice of gall and worm
wood which not even Indifferent but ha.
ting officials would relentlessly proffer to
our lips Are we prepared to abandon the
post of peculiar honor which we occupy
to yield up the hopes which our own CAL
houn bequeathed to US, and the cause which
we have cherished for years with sensi-
tiveness and zeal that excluded almost
every other political topic-and to hazard
for few weeks, at best few months of
ease, the perils of so cruel and so disas-
trous a fate? 1t there be those who cannot
stand the service on account of sickness or
frail constitutions, or those whose duty to
their families is imperative and invincible
to these we do not speak; let them be
discharged at once, 60 home, and there
stay. These are their misfortunes, and
they should be pitied; for we deem it mis-
fortune to be lamented for whole life.
time, for patriot in the flush and vigor of
manhood to be so circumstanced in his
family, or a patriot to be 50 frail of body,