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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], A patriotic Appeal. (search)
A patriotic Appeal.
A writer in the Raleigh State Journal makes an appeal to the people of North Carolina, from which we extract the following:
My countrymen, is there one amongst us so dead to every noble impulse, so debased by fear, so degraded by sloth, as to refuse, in this hour of our country's peril, in this moment of danger and threatened dishonor to rush to the rescue?
The time for argument has long past.
Fighting--hard, constant, daring, desperate, hand to hand Fighting, with the accursed foe who have been sent to murder or enslave our people, can alone rescue and save us!
We must fight as the Greeks fought at Marathon, where they drove back the Persian hosts that invaded them.
We must fight as the brave men of Martel fought on the bloody field of Tours, where they rescued Christian Europe from the grasp of the Mussulman.
We must fight as the invincible Hollander fought when he met the steel clad legions of Philip of Spain.
We must fight as the brave Polanders