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North Carolina. A Call to
Arms!:
Electronic Edition.
Anonymous.
Funding from the Institute of
Museum and Library
Services
supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text scanned (OCR) by
Elizabeth Wright
Text encoded by
Patricia L. Walker and Natalia Smith
First edition, 1999
ca. 15K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1999.
Call number Cb811 N87c 1861 (North Carolina Collection, UNC-CH)
The electronic edition
is a part of the UNC-CH
digitization project, Documenting the American
South.
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em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as
entity references.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998
LC Subject Headings:
- Patriotism -- North Carolina -- Poetry.
- American poetry -- North Carolina.
- American poetry -- 19th century.
- North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
- Southern States -- Poetry.
- Confederate States of America -- Poetry.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
- 1999-07-20,
Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther
revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.
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1999-06-14,
Natalia Smith, project manager,
finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.
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1999-06-09,
Patricia L. Walker
finished TEI/SGML encoding
- 1999-06-01,
Elizabeth Wright
finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.
Page 1
NORTH CAROLINA.
A CALL TO ARMS!!!
Ye sons of Carolina! awake from your dreaming!
The minions of Lincoln upon us are streaming!
Oh! wait not for argument, call, or persuasion,
To meet at the onset this treach'rous invasion!
Oh! think of the maidens, the wives, and the mothers,
Fly ye to the rescue, sons, husbands and brothers,
And sink in oblivion all party and section,
Your hearthstones are looking to you for protection!
"Her name stands the foremost in Liberty's story,"
Oh! tarnish not now her fame and her glory!
Your fathers to save her their swords bravely yielded,
And she never yet has to tyranny yielded.
The babe in its sweetness--the child in its beauty,
Unconsciously urge you to action and duty!
By all that is sacred, by all to you tender,
Your country adjures, arise and defend her!
"The Star Spangled Banner," dishonored is streaming
O'er bands of fanatics; their swords are now gleaming;
They thirst for the life-blood of those you most cherish;
With brave hearts and true, then, arouse! or they perish!
Round the flag of the South, oh! in thousands now rally,
For the hour's departed when freemen may dally;
Your all is at stake, then go forth, and God speed you!
And onward to glory and victory lead you!