Iron.
To the Editors of the Dispatch.
Once upon a time all the birds of the collected together for the purpose of elected a king.
After a long debate, it was amongst them that the bird which could highest should be proclaimed.
About the of the passage of this resolve, a small bird diminutive as not to be observed, crawled the feathers of the eagle's back, and what experiment was tested which was to give monarch to the feathered tribe, the soon finding himself far above all of visible competitors, exclaimed, ‘"I am king when the small bird, darting up from back, a few feet above him, exclaimed, "’ are not; I am king."
In our Confederacy, cotton has by gained with consent, been proclaimed king; but, if not he can claim this title, he has procured, honors in the same manner as the little bird for he has scared to them on the back of iron has transported him over the land from point to point and across the seas, and him all that he can boast of, and, in fact, think, when we investigate the matter, that he is rather a usurper than a monarch, iron is really king; iron makes the grains and converts it to meal, and bakes it into iron even gives life to cotton, glue it from seed, cards into rolls, spins into thread, and weaves it into cloth.
Without iron we cannot tend our farms, or fell the forests, or build houses to shelter us from the storm; that maintains us in peace and protects from war; from iron we make our guns, our laser our swords, and our missiles, and with it we may plate our vessels and our forts, with abundance of iron properly no can be conquered.
Yet iron, our great friend in war, has been overlooked, and in our day of trial we feel the necessity this invaluable article, and the demand for it is so pressing as to render dangerous in awaiting the manufacture.
How shall we supply the immediate pressing demand, is a question for immediate consideration.
Nothing talk, people who are united and determined.
were necessary that we should have pieces of brace cannon, pins enough could collected in the Confederate States to them, and small particles of the scarcest articles in the land make bulk when collected together; and there are now enough brake pots, ketties, andiron, shovels and worn-out plows, and axes and mattocks, horse shoes, &c., in the Confederate State make coast of mail for twenty Virginia.
Let them at once be collected.
Then the question, through what instrumental can they be collected?
Our men are bravest of the brave.
They will fight, fight gallantly; but they have no parties love for labor, and are in no wise disguised for great activity and enterprise.
There is a source to which you may appear where the country never appealed in and that is to the high-souled women of Confederacy, who, from the beginning of struggle have, with their own fair has labored with alacrity and delight.
When the Government asked their services, whenever their own judgment thought that they were needed, there is no enterprise they are unwilling to undertake None they have undertaken has failed, or can be Let, therefore, the Government ask for fair countrywomen that they will force National Scrap-iron Association, its Press at the Capital, with power to appoint ants in every county and in every help lood, whose business it shall be to see their sections are thoroughly search these articles.
Let them be gathered ther, in different localities, and transport to prominent points along our roads they may receive the direction which Government may dictate.
Let the Government pay for all communications and portation.
Let this organization once ten up, and we may go at once to building councils, with most confident assurance than for plating them will be ready by the day, they can be constructed.
In the meaning let the Government select some secure that can be easily defended against the assaults of the enemy, and set at once to a sufficient number of slaves (10,000 or 20,000 in the manufacture of this article.
Who have plenty of iron-bound vessels and clad forts for our protection along them board and rivers.
the regular army centre, and a well-arranged guerilla for along the western border, the Yankee find it no small matter to crush out they are pleased to term the rebellion.
therefore earnestly ask that the Government will make this demand of our fair country women, and feel assured that it will not made in vain. Tucks
