The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The South Carolina soldiers.

--The spirit of heroic devotion to the public service manifested by those proceedings of the ‘"Palmetto Guard,"’ which were called forth by a statement that the troops of South Carolina were getting disgusted and that nearly all the twelve months men will go home in the spring, is most honorable to the gallant gentlemen of the Palmetto State and to their heroic Commonwealth. We have often heard the sneering slander of her enemies that South Carolina was the first State to involve the South in the present difficulty and would be the first to forsake it, but we have been content to let her actions answer her detractors, and shall be so to the end. In her own hands is the vindication of her own fame. We predict that, when the soldiers of South Carolina leave their present post of honor and peril, it will be because the sunshine of peace is restored, and not till then. If our army were made up of Yankees, we might expect all the twelve months men to go home when their time is out; but as it is made up of men, the only security of whose homes is their presence on the battle-field, we anticipate no such surrender of the Southern cause.