Year: 1864

! ~ as any man QoeS nlS-WlCa HDerty, tnan


with wealth and subjugation. I have never


trampled upon the rights of fellow citizen.


What will your rights be worth, when the


enemy comes and places seutinels over you?


Do you expect to lie quietly at home and


protect these rights, ,gor rather by becoming


soldiers :? u " -s.--r


We have plenty of men to defeat all the


hosts of Lincoln. When the President


calls, 60. Let not your names be on the


roll of sk1lkers. Many went two years


ago who should not have gone, many did


not 60 then who ought to go now. Georgia


is in danger. The enemy is preparing to


invade and desolate her plantations and her


cities. The government will lend you eve.


ry assistance within its power to resist


Georgians |! it is your State that is now i'm


periledI Who now stands upon your nor
thern border shielding you9 Tennesseeans
and Kentuckians. Don't you know that


they have not seen their homes and wives
and children for two years, and that many


of them have not even heard from them ?
yet there they are eucamped to do your du-
ty. Then are you willing to sit here? If
so, tell me that you are not Georgians to
the manor born standing here while others
are doing your duty who have lost their
homes in the enemy's hands,: Tell me not
then that such men are Georgians. Talk
not of your constitutional rights-talk not
of personal liberty-but fly to the rescue,
and assist those who day by day and night
by night walk their sentinel rounds in de.
fence Of you. -. ..


We have the men, but tie government
not only wants men, but they must be1fed.
That can be done. But it can't be done if
you withhold your supplies. And here I
come to address a: portion of our people
with freedom. If talk to planter / am
one of them. I will advise no one that /
am not willing to do the same. Twill not
ask any man to go without being willing to ,
go myself. The country is full Of trouble
and difficulty. Men are getting up meet
ings to devise the best mode of relief. This
is right. The army must be fed cost what
it may. They must have it right or wrong.
If you do not feed your army, the Yankees
will soon deprive you Of provisions. Are
there any provisions here? ca voice
plenty.) Letus settle the matter upon this
principle Say to the government, here is
corn, wheat, peas, potatoes, pork, and what.
ever you want, take it and pay what you
can. The soldier needs it and that will
satisfy me. You have plenty, then see that
he gets enough. @ 80 -


And if any man comes to you (turnipg
to and addressing several lawyers on the
stage) to seek legal redress for provisions
taken to supply the'army, open the door
and show him out. ~


Don't hide the key of your smokehouse.
What do you want for your provisions ?
How much gold extorted from suffering
country will satisfy you? Go home and
ask if you have given up every thing tha
can be spared. Have you given any orders
to hide provisions until other prices can be
had? If SO, repent and do better. The
army must be fed. Call it anarchy, revo
luton, lust, or whatever you please, but l
tell you my command must and shall have J
food, law or no Jaw. I speak frankly. Do
you prefer greeubacks 10 Confederate mo-
ney? I trust if there is such a man here
the Yankees will burn every thing he has
and him with it. Talk not of'Jews, you
are speculator pourself when you with
hold from the soldier your proyisions.--
There is one truth, and that is, that many
a Yankee was born here in the South, and
many Southern man has been born North.
In the business of extortion there are many
uncircumcised Jews Can more hunili-
ating spectacle be seen than a man who has
sent his son to army-the boy wounded and
dying of hunger-yet the father resorting
to every means to hide his bread and meat
from him? Shall it be written that the
son suffered from hunger while the father
boarded provisions, that they gave their
sons but refused their meat? Not a tear
was shed when the boy went off, but every
energy is displayed to protect their proper
ty. My friends, you are fighting q nation
of people who are unworthy to associate
with you. But how much meaner are they
than those just spoken Of? Give us free:
dom and poverty rather than subiugation.
Initiate your wives and sisters. With
what alacrity and energy do our women al
ways respond to the demands of patriotism.
IN the first year of the war they sent enough
clothing to the army to last two years.
They are working day and night for our
soldiers. Talk not of Roman matrons,
Spartan mothers, or tbe women of our first
Revolution. The world has never seen
such women as are now in the South
Should all other means fail to win our in
ependence-should the men refuse to fight
longer our battles-I will, as last resort,
assemble the women of our land and march
them forth for duty in the field. I love
my home, my wife, my children and ease,
but would rather be buried in one com.
MOI. grave with them than submit to Yam
kee rule.


There are others to be fed besides our
soldiers in the field. The wives and the
children of the soldiers must be supported.
Let it not be written that his family suffer-
ed while you had abundance. See brave
soldiar-he can meat the enemy without