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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
elodies, with variations to suit the peculiar phases of South Carolina Jacobinism. More temperate counsels prevailed in Georgia, and the Savannah Republican, after commending the action of the Southern Confederacy in reviving the government and constitution of the fathers, calls upon the Congress to re-erect the stars and stripes as their national flag, and resume upon the Southern lyre those glorious old tunes, Hail Columbia, and The Star-spangled Banner. Yesterday this question came up in the Congress. Mr. Brooke, of Mississippi, protested that the stars and stripes were the idol of his heart, when Mr. Miles of South Carolina, who has been drawing his salary pretty regularly for several years from the federal government, said that he had always, even from the cradle, looked upon that flag as the emblem of tyranny and oppression. We sincerely trust that these fugitive States, after having stolen our constitution, will not claim also our flag.--Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 14.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 104 (search)
Colonel Donald, of Leake county, Mississippi, recently gave a novel party to the young people of his neighborhood. The ticket sent to each young lady, required that she should come dressed in Mississippi manufactured apparel, in the manufacture of which she must in some way assist. The young gentlemen were also required to dress in the manufacture of Mississippi, made in Leake and Attala. There were nearly one hundred persons of both sexes in attendance, all attired as directed. The sceneyoung people of his neighborhood. The ticket sent to each young lady, required that she should come dressed in Mississippi manufactured apparel, in the manufacture of which she must in some way assist. The young gentlemen were also required to dress in the manufacture of Mississippi, made in Leake and Attala. There were nearly one hundred persons of both sexes in attendance, all attired as directed. The scene was not brilliant, but the papers say it was patriotic.--Evening Post, March 29.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 304 (search)
s audacious movement has had good effect in developing the purpose of our enemies to prosecute the war in earnest, and in its inspiring influence upon the Tennessee and Kentucky mind. It conveys a threat which the people of those States will join their brethren of the Confederate States in resenting with promptitude. Geography has made Cairo a strategetical position of the utmost consequence. It is the key to the upper, as New Orleans and the Lake and the Balize are the key to the lower Mississippi. It can blockade St. Louis on the one hand, and Louisville on the other; while, if in possession of a considerable force, possessing heavy ordnance, and commanding the railroad leading south of that point, it would menace the city of Memphis, and open the way for an invading army to make that an advanced post of occupation. It is not pleasant to contemplate such a possibility. But it is good policy to face it fairly, if we would defeat it effectually.--Jackson Mississippian, April 2
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 330 (search)
The editor of the Brookchaven (Miss.) Advertiser offers the following argument in favor of raising more corn than cotton:-- We have always been persistently in favor of planting a large crop of corn, even if cotton has to be a little neglected, particularly in times like these, when communication with the Ohio may be cut off at any moment. Corn is a necessity, but cotton is only a convenience. A man can live very well without a shirt, but what can he do without whiskey?--Charleston Evening News, May 9.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 439 (search)
A correspondent of the Memphis Argus, writing from Lynchburg, Va., says:--We have two regiments from Mississippi and one from Tennessee with us, numbering one thousand each. All are well quartered, and in fine spirits--and they shall not want for the latter so long as our mountain dew holds out. You could not find a more cheerful set of fellows in a week's travel; they play the fiddle, banjo, dance, and sing Dixie. One fellow told me his old mammy cried the glasses clean out of her spectacles the morning he left, but on giving her two bits to buy another pair, she bid him go, and return to her covered all over with glory. Another said he didn't like these breeches with a stripe down the leg, they pinched him; but just give him his old copperas-colored trowsers, and his own rifle, and he'd bore a hole thru Linkin's nose, through which to put a ring, and lead him about for a show. --N. Y. Tribune, May 20.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 494 (search)
Area of the Confederate States.--We publish the following table in a corrected form:--   Total Population. States.Area, in sqr. miles.Whites.Slaves.Total. Virginia,61,3521,097,373495,8261,593,199 North Carolina,50,704679,965328,3771,008,342 South Carolina,29,385308,186447,185755,371 Georgia,58,000615,386467,5611,082,847 Florida,59,26881,88563,809145,694 Alabama,50,722520,444435,473955,917 Mississippi,47,156407,551479,607887,158 Louisiana,41,255354,245312,186666,431 Texas,237,504415,999181,956606,955 Arkansas,52,198331,710109,065440,775 Tennese,45,600859,528287,1121,146,640    733,1445,672,2723,607,0579,279,320 --N. O. Picayune, May
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 496 (search)
our case. Mr. Bates--What States did you say composed your Confederacy? Commissioners--Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana. Mr. Bates--And Mr. Jeffeman who stumped his State for two years in favor of repudiation, and justified the conduct of Mississippi in the United States Senate. We know the gentleman; and although we have no reason to be prorincipal and interest, the repudiated millions owing to our people by your States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, there is a reasonable prospect of your raising a small amount in this market! nn waited upon our countryman Peabody, who holds three hundred thousand dollars of repudiated Mississippi bonds, on which there is due more than six hundred thousand dollars of interest. Mr. Mann wa very magnificent and grandiloquent, but, withal, prosy; and Peabody, suffering from gout and Mississippi repudiation, lost his temper; and, shaking his clenched fist at the rebel, emphatically said:
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 519 (search)
ready rhino; Look away! look away I look away I Dixie Land! They've the men to do the fighting-- There's no use in scratchina and bitina; Hooray! hooray! hooray! Dixie Land! chorus. Oh, I'm glad I am in Dixie! Hooray! hooray! In Dixie Land I take my stand, To live and die in Dixie! Away! away! away down South in Dixie! Away! away! away down South in Dixie! The sovereign State of Alabama Will try her hand before they lam her; Look away! look away! look away! Dixie Land! So will our Mississippi brother, And Georgia, too, our mortal mother; Hooray! hooray! hooray! Dixie land! And Louisiana then will come, And Texas, too, will help us some; Look away! look away! look away! Dixie Land! And Arkansaw, with her tooth-picker, Will help us out a little quicker; Get away I get away! get away! Dixie Land! And next, Old North Carolina State, And, after that, what's good and great; Hooray! hooray! hooray! Dixie Land! When Lincoln gets on a Southern brake, We'll give him a touch of th