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Southern Volunteering

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Soulh don't seem to enter inio ihe war with much spirit at the prpsent lime. The requisit;on of the President, upon the Governor óf Alabnmn, for volunteers, was very coldly responded to by the people of that Sla!e. They have neither a taste or desire for the conflict, and altempts to raise recruits tbere have so far been rather unsuccessful. So nlso, in Georgia, but two companies have as yet been raised. They seem dfitermined to keep away f rom the iminei'.iate influences of gunpowder, nnd let oihprs do the butchery for ihetn. The Southern chnps understand t'nis rtiatter well. They will bluster and blow as though the whole nation was depending upon their chivalry, and they alone were íke héroes, the defenders of American lAberly. But when they come to the reaüties, where ihonsands fall, and cieath triumphant reLns, they are very willing, yea, nnxioui, to siand aside and let thcir brethren of the

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News