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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Speech of Governor Vance. (search)
Speech of Governor Vance. We publish below a condensation of the speech, we may say without exaggeration the great speech, of Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, delivered at Wilkesboro', N. C., on the 22d ult. It will be well repay reading, and should be circulated throughout the Confederacy. The Foll of Secession from the Confederacy. A who have been afflicted as you have been afflicted; a people who suffer as you suffer; a people whose gallant boys have been slaughtered as your sons have fallen on the battle field; whose darlings now languish in Northern prisons; wives whose husbands are wasting in far distant camps weary months of listless inactivity, while the weeds choke the scanty harvest, and the children pine for the presence and support of their natural protector; old men, who in fever anxiety await intelligence which each succeeding mail may bring of the slaughter of the pride and support of their declining years — all are liable to reach out, with the spirit of a