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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 32 (search)
Notes of the War,an Eloquent appeal — the disaster at Newborn, &c., &c. We have received a copy of a speech delivered by Judge John W. Brockenbrough, at the Court- House of Rockbridge county, March 3d, on the state of the country, which is calculated to wake up the spirit of patriotism in all who pursue it. We make an extract from the concluding portion: Young men of Rockbridge let me address you a word of parting counsel. Your country needs your services in the tenet field.--Your own Virginia calls, and you have your election, either to spring forward voluntarily, eagerly to obey her maternal summons, or be dragged to the field where an empire is to be won or lost--under compulsion! Oh ! do not wait till the hated conscription tears you away from the dear ones at home. Are you husbands! Then you cannot so well attest your devotion to your wives, as by rushing to arms to defend them from pollution and dishonor! Are you lovers? Your sweethearts will buckle on your armo