Show bitter fruits of peaceable secession we alc al c now I 1 leaping the bitter ft fi lit aits nits ts of peaceable secession in voicing fo icing 0 from their once happy and peaceful homes into the army all flom eighteen to forty five years of age to be driven ta the slaughter ZD like oxen to tile tho shambles and to fill up tip the thinned ranks the present congress now has before it tile the monstrous proposition to conscript all aiom sixteen to forty five 8 years of age and make them subject to military law which the richmond examiner boldly denounces as nothing less than an attempt to make inake mr davis dictator Is it not an outrage on every principle of flee fieo government for men bl desperate fortunes professing to rep besent 1 other states on oil whose soil they dare not set their foot to make and enforce odious and oppressive laws on oil our deop people ae I 1 ate aie we prepared to submit to this if not then lot let man arouse himself before it is too late and denounce these attern attempts apts to betray our liberties and place us under a military despotism despotis nii let evely i man thit that can speak or write ol denounce enounce these outrages on civil liberty until their denunciations are heat headd d and heeded in ill dongress congress Z but if congress 0 in in a spirit of desperation pe ration iOD should act the tyrant and irli impose pose such buch crushing ciu citi shing burdens burdena on the people of north cat Caio olina linaas as alq arnin ilsup sup portable then they should demand of al the governor ko governor vernor that li lie forthwith con veneTt vc netlie lic legislature Legisla tuie in aider to call alt a L st state ate con convention mention of the sovereign 0 peo pie pic to take into consideration what is best to be done to ioliene our people horn flom the glie grievous burden imposed upon them if thu the independence of tho the confederacy cannot i be achieved achieve of by th thu 0 strength th of our population up tip to fl f orta ort five years of age age 0 2 it i ia s clear to any reflecting ting 41 mind that it will not be done by placing in the aimy the few left upon whose labor labar all ate aie for food without food our at army my must disband dib band and without food our helpless women and children must pei is h let the people speak out write to their representatives in congress 0 gress yes hold meetings and remon sti ate ag 0 ainest these iniquitous schemes to cabla enclave ve and starve us if you do not silence will be conati tied into submission and approval of tho the chums chains that Con congress giess arc fogging 0 0 for us its we have too 4 long implicitly to such architects of luin as wigfall all co who are now for placing eve every ry man in ill the aimy and all under the control of a dictator fr I 1 I 1 fiust them no longer remember their fair promises pio plo the dwellers dwell eis q in in 1 tile the gaiden of liden eden whon when they listened to tb the tempting promises of satan not boise deceived and mined than were the people of the fair happy and blooming south when they listened to the promises of these aich aiau deceivers yancey wise co A bic contented prosperous and happy people told by them that we must withdraw ill all connection from our Noi thern thorn who were makin making us its pay one bollar and d fifty cents for shoes ten cents per ya baid d for foe shirting two dollars per sack back foi salt ten cents per cr pound for sugar the same for coffee etc and these i eckless kless men who at arenow e now putting all into tile the anny aimy except themselves hems elyes and an a fe w L v dav favorites favorit cs then e 1 a told u us s that f be c it would be pea peaceable i ceable cc able an and d thra would bo be no war that wo we wele to havea have a nation of our own flee filin extortion ers a poi feet pat paradiso paia adise diso with tha tiec tice of life the cotton plant in iii our midst before which all nations were t to 9 bow down and worship and from which livers of fice trade were to flow to the ends of the eaith on the bosom of winch which tile the rich merchandise e from every clime yas vas to be ft ei 0 cited and pouted down in our laps fl diee c c of taxation how have they deceived ns its I 1 the blood of hundreds of thousands of our poor chialdi children chil dien erl joking sn from the mail many y battlefields battle fields and the cries of starving women and children chil dien tell telf the tale will our people be longer deceived by these false prophets and arch deceivers or will they not command the peace and stu staunch linch these i i ivers ve rs of bl blood 0 od raleigh N 6 0 standard |