A Display of Southern Thrift and
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The Saint Simons Post
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Valuable Receipts.--A
correspondent sends the
Lynchburg Republican the
following receipts for dying
purple and for making
Confederate blackings and
ink. We hope our friends in
this quarter will give them a
trial. Our correspondent
writes: "I see you are
publishing many valuable
receipts. We have tried your
pokeberry and vinegar; it is a
beautiful durable scarlet. Let
me give you one or two which
I and many in this
neighborhood have tried. To
die purple--cut a pumpkin so
as to form a lid, take out the
inside and fill with white
yarn hanks or wool and
pokeberry juice, set in a
warm place till fermentation
takes place, wash out in soap,
and you have a beautiful
royal purple indelible. The
fermentation set the die , and
will take place in eight or ten
days by the kitchen fire.
Confederate blacking and
ink--(excellent). Take elder
berries and set them away in
a tub of water in a cool place
till they ferment, strain
through a cloth or squeeze
them out, and boil down to
the consistency of ink, boil
still more and you have a fine
liquid blacking, boil still
longer and you have a paste
with which you may fill your
old blacking boxes. It is then
put on as other blacking and
does no injury to the leather.
A number of my neighbors
are using it.
CHARLESTON January 13, 1865
Lunacy.
The wild talk prevalent in the official and
the semi-official organs at Richmond grates
harshly upon the ear of South Carolina. It is still
more grievous to her to hear the same unmanly
proposition from those in authority in the old State
of Virginia. Side by side Carolina and Virginia
have stood together against all comers for near two
centuries--the exemplars and authors of Southern
civilization. Side by side it is our earnest hope they
will stand to all time against the world. But we
grieve to say there are counsels now brewing there
that South Carolina cannot abet--that she will not
suffer to be consummated, so far as she is
concerned in them. . . .
In 1860 South Carolina seceded along from
the old union of States. Her people, in Convention
assembled, invited the slaveholding States (none
others) of the old Union to join her in erecting a
separate Government of Slave States, for the
protection of their common interests. All of the
slave States, with the exception of Maryland and
Kentucky, responded to her invitation. The
Southern Confederacy of slave States was formed.
It was on account of encroachments upon
the institution of slavery by the sectional majority
of the old Union, that South Carolina seceded from
that Union. It is not at this late day, after the loss
of thirty thousand of her best and bravest men in
battle, that she will suffer it to be bartered away;
or ground between the upper and nether mill
stones, by the madness of Congress, or the counsels
of shallow men elsewhere.
By the compact we made with Virginia and
the other States of this Confederacy, South Carolina
will stand to the bitter end of destruction. By that
compact she intends to stand or to fall. Neither
Congress, nor certain make shift men in Virginia,
can force upon her their mad schemes of weakness
and surrender. She stands upon her
institutions--and there she will fall in their defence.
We want no Confederate Government without our
institutions. And we will have none.--Sink or swim,
live or die, we stand by them, and are fighting for
them this day. That is the ground of our fight--it is
well that all should understand it at once.
Thousands and tens of thousands of the bravest
men, and the best blood of this State, fighting in the
ranks, have left their bones whitening on the bleak
hills of Virginia in this cause. We are fighting for
our system of civilization--not for buncomb, or for
Jeff. Davis. We intend to fight for that, or nothing.
We expect Virginia to stand beside us in that fight,
as of old, as we have stood beside her in this war up
to this time. But such talk coming from such a
source is destructive to the cause. Let it cease at
once, in God's name, and in behalf of our common
cause! It is paralyzing to every man here to hear it.
It throws a pall over the hearts of the soldiers from
this State to hear it. The soldiers of South Carolina
will not fight beside a nigger--to talk of
emancipation is to disband our army. We are free
men, and we chose to fight for ourselves--we want
no slaves to fight for us. Skulkers, money lenders,
money makers, and blood-suckers, alone will
tolerate the idea. It is the man who won't fight
himself, who wants his nigger to fight for him, and
to take his place in the ranks. Put that man in the
ranks. And do it at once. Control your armies--put
men of capacity in command, re-establish
confidence--enforce thorough discipline--and there
will be found men enough, and brave men enough to
defeat a dozen Sherman's. Falter and hack at the
root of the Confederacy--our institutions--our
civilization--and you kill the cause as dead as a
boiled crab.
The straight and narrow path of our
deliverance is in the reform of our government, and
the discipline of our armies. Will Virginia stand by
us as of old in this rugged pathway? We will not
fail her in the shadow of a hair. But South Carolina
will fight upon no other platform, than that she laid
down in 1860.
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Trans-Mississippi.--Col. W. A. Broadwell,
Chief of the Cotton Bureau, Trans-Mississippi
Department, has purchased and introduced into the
Department, pledging payment in cotton, 13,800
pairs of blankets, 60,000 pairs of shoes, 150,000
yards of shirting and towels, 150,000 pounds of
powder, 2000,000 pounds of lead, 5,000,000
percussion caps, and a large quantity of guns,
140,000 yards of grey army cloth, and satinett, and a
large quantity of hardware, copper, saltpetre, and a
great quantity of small stores.
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Editors Note:
In early February the Presses from the Charleston
Mercury were moved to Columbia. They were
destroyed by the great fire as a result of Shermans
actions. Further publication in the South are few
until after the war. Those that are, now fall under
the eyes of Federal reconstructionists. If any other
uncontaminated papers can be found they will be
posted. This is the end of the "Post" and the 145th
series of battles. The only one battle left is the
surrender of General Johnstons forces at
Bentonville.
To all of the men of the Brunswick Riflemen and the
whole of the GVB that participated in the great and
lesser reenactments of the 145th battles and the
living histories I offer a job well done.
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