FROM THE SOUTH: North Carolina and the Rebel Government; A Remarkable Speech by Governor Vance (3/19/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 3/19/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

GOV. VANCE'S SPEECH.

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE CONFEDERACY.

We have already referred to a great speech delivered at Wilkesbore, N.C., on Feb. 22, by Gov. VANACE. The peculiar position of the speaker, and the significance of this utterance, make the appended extracts from this speech of great interest. After alluding to the suffering the people had endured in consequence of the war, Gov. VANCE said:

In consequence of this continued suffering, which experience had not prepared the people to endure with the fortitude possessed by some nations who have been nurtured to the shock of arms, a certain discontent has pervaded, and a funeral gloom hung over the community, engendering, if we credit a wide rumor throughout the State, a notion that we must have a convention -- that we must secede from the Southern Confederacy; that we must repudiate the whole thing, and go back to our first work over again.

Our destinies, fellow-citizens, have now been cast in another Government; and although, as you all know, I regretted to go out of the former Governments, and was one of the last to lay it down, and did lay it down with the same mournful feelings with which I followed my dear father to the grave, I never expected, and do not now expect, to see it resurrected again. Our convention, composed of delegates fresh from the people, by the most solemn ties that can bind an honorable people to a cause, have pledged their all to its support. May God aid us in the fulfillment of this obligation in the future as in the past, to the letter. The act was a deliberate expression of public sentiment -- though it may have been wrong.

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The Transfer of Seamen: Important Regulations of the War Department – 4-5
Department of the Gulf: The Cane – 5
Western Emigration – 5
Mr. Chase and the Presidency – 5
From Washington: Consideration of the Bill to Promote Enlistments – 7
Proceedings of Congress – 7-8
Our Washington Correspondence: Threatened Raids by the Enemy – 8-9
Army of the Potomac: Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day – 9
The War in Kentucky: Recruiting for the Rebel Service – 9
Editorial: The McClellan Meeting – 9-10
Judge Lynch – 10
Happy Accord – 10
The Danish Blockade – 10
Election in Arkansas – 10
The Arkansas Election – 10