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‘"Up, Guards, and at Them."’

--This was a favorite expression of one of the famous old warriors who graced a former era, and who never uttered it unless a bold charge was necessary to decide the fortunes of the day. If there ever was a time when ‘"a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull altogether"’ was demanded on the part of all the people capable of bearing arms in defence of the menaced liberties of our country, that time is now. There is a call for volunteers; then ‘"Up Guards, and at them."’ The vandal-like invaders of our soil must be driven back. Under the cry of protection, they would bombard our cities, destroy our towns, burn up our fields, and incite our slave population to rise in insurrection and cut the throats of our wives and children. It is a sacred duty which we owe, alike to God and ourselves, to drive them forth. To do this and punish the base hirelings who seek our political, social and pecuniary destruction, requires men.

Thus far our fortune keeps an onward course, and we are graced with wreaths of victory.-- Let us still have them. But, as we have before said, it requires men to gather them.

The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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