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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Manassas, Sept. 5th. (search)
noble Bartow. Remember his parting words, breathed forth while in the agony of death on this blood-stained field. 'They have killed me, boys, but never give it up.' No, never give up the holy cause of Southern independence. If our ancestors, in 1776, considered holy the struggle in which they directed their efforts to throw off the yoke of the British King, how much holier must our present struggle be regarded to throw off a worse than despotism ! The oppression of a single despot being less hen battling with the Northern hordes precipitated on us, raises his arm in a cause far holier than that of our revolutionary sires. Emulate Bartow in daring, in courage, in devotion; but forget not the conduct of the fathers of the Revolution of 1776. "You have announced yourself ready to give up your lives in this cause, and have readily dared all perils and hardship. Our Government is new, and its vast machinery so recently constructed must necessarily work imperfectly; hence your want