Year: 1864

ly scattered. The people were whipped but they woud
of blood and suffering, they finally prevailed.


How stands the case with us The enemy has sent on
as host after host and has vel taken Richmond Char
leston Wilmington Mobile; ,ne Of our ssaboard cities
except Norfolk New Orleans aud Galveston and the lat
Ter he was glad enough to leave Instead Of being whip
ped BY an invading army in threefOurtbs Of the battles
Fought as were ancestors have whipped inva-
ding army in four. ffths Of our engag ments-


There rule in military science that requires nva
ding to deposit certain proportion of its strength
in the line of march to protect its Now consider the
fact that they have penetrated hy miles uto the
interior of tertnry, beyond the point where their
gunboats could mass troops and protect their Let
them try to get from Chattanooga to Atlanta By the
time they reach there they will have dropped enough Of
their strength along the line of march to protect their
base OF supplies and being then in unreasonable dis
proportion to General Johnston army he will fall upon
them and thrash them like gs (Applause) IL is true
cannot pretend to cope with them The water. for
we have not yet got navy, but runatey happens
that the most of this country is CONFUSED good dry
ground We have never been much acquainted with
water affairs. Indeed believe most Of our people pre-
Ter whiskey. (Laughter5 =


The trans Mississippi has been separated from Well
the people there lucky, for the supply If bad
on this account than do After three years war and
at expense of four thousand million dollars the enemy
has overrun the greater part Of Tennessee portion Of
Mississippi and of Alabama be mas still five hnnd red
thousand square miles to this side of the Mis-
people have been in similar trials his wirk will have just
begun Why gentlemen in The little country Of Holland,
not much bigger than this county, dug it out o:
the bottom OF the and inhabited by heavy, poddng
population Phillip the second of SPAIN who styled,
in the ordy language Of the aga the domnaor of three
worlds assisted by the finest army Europe ever saw and
commanded by the greatest captain of the age undertook
u impose the Inqusition, and to his great aston
ishment, it resisted him. Their cities were burned
TO ashes their fields laid waste the dikes cut aud the
let in upoa their country, and women and children
drowned in their houses; starvation ed them full in
the face and in instances they boiled and ate
cut from between the tombsOnes of the dead and they
fought and bled-how long do suppose2 Three years
as we have? Seven years AS ancestors dldE They


fought Php the second and his grand armies and those of
his successorsfur eighty gears and their miserable little
country which denomn ted outcast by and
gods finally trumphed preserved ITS liberties and secured
permanent peace despite the efforts Of tyrant who
held millions Of men in subjpctiOn. Shall allow
ourselves be put shane by the vaor of those WIN
s1memss termed. in not very elegant language, the
ID Dutch, when We are possessed Of resources oil
which they dreamed?


English to subugate her for four hundred years, and H.
naly overcame her enemies and forced them accept her
was the little dutchy of Prussia hardly big enough for
Frederick the Great to try of his in
wthnut shooting over into neiShborng territory
WE'LL this little country fought the combined armies of
i've Of the greatest powers in Europe representing pop
ulation of hundred million whilst Prussia had pop
ulat0n of only five Million for the space of seven years.
and finally came with her nationality and liberties
impaired and richer than when she went into The war;
ken and retaken haa dozen times and the Country was
often one scene of the widest desolation.


Shall not persist in struggle fer Independence,
and add another bright page the story of the triumphs
Of q free people against DespDtiSm!


In concluding. fellowcitiz"ns, allow to remind you
OF text OF sacred Scripture which thnK wOtl'd SUIT
your You know when Saint Paul went to the city of
Ephesus and announced the true God he raised quite
row with Demctrus and the rest Of tn. artists in the
place, who had been accustomed 10 make their living
by manufacturing shriBeS Fur the Goddess Diana; and
they about to Saint Paul for his interference
with their profits At the height of the excitement which
about to break actual h0sti!ities there APP
peared among them fellow the town clerk, whose name
is not given land regret the ON sson for think he
the smartest uninsped mentioned in Scripnre who
got upon the court house steps the stump and spoke
to the people What? Do any Of you recollect the pas
said he "you will be held accountable for this upIoar.
If Demetrus and the arzans have anything against this
deputies sworn and shall be inquired of in lawful
assembly" This is the advice l give you to-day: Do
nothing rash


If there is a man in the State Of North Carolina who
had to love her people md who should BE- ready to
make any sacrifice even to the laying down OF e tor their
welfare it is myself You bave heaped honor after honor
upon my bead and at length testfed your great cnu6
dence by bestOwng the highest office IN the State
within your gift 1have presumed on this expressed
fdenee to tell you the truth honestly conceive it 10 be-


some among T1p to beg yoI IN The name OF S
thory to do nothing except in the prescribed by
the Constitution bear the ills you have rather than fly
to evils know not of short like the town clerk of
Ephesus, TO implore you " to do nothing rash
have more doubt about the establishment OF
the independence Of the Southern Conlederacy than
have of my existence. provided true To the
have soemuly taken to support North Carol-
is pledged To it, by her origin act by the resouons
her Legislatures by hundred assurances of the most
solemn character She will dare endure 70 the bitter end
The who suffer the who win. There is NO.


thing exists in the earth in the heavens worth having


that is not the reward Of pltieut endurance To endure


is ha first lesson of life II not bISe metal we will
! stand the fiery test. ...


thank you for the indulgence with which you bave at
tended my rambling remarks; and in retiring allow
to express the hope and trust that many months yu
may rest under the shade of tree of national ind pen
dence which has been freely watered with blood and
tears while within its ieafy branches the whteW nged
dove of peace shall her s't note to the memory o
your loved and los who rel ced ~ lay dIwh their lives
for their affairs and their iresldeS.


May God bless You all