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Charlotte (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 2
n a captaincy has been because my early training, habits of thought, and pursuits in life have not been such as to qualify me for such command. Unskilled as I am in the arts of war, I have felt at liberty to do no more than risk my own life in the pending conflict. I shrank instinctively at the beginning, and ever since, from the responsibility of risking the lives of others." How truly noble is this, how worthy of honor, of veneration, of universal imitation! Here we have, as our Charlotte contemporary well observes, an experienced statesman, possessed of a high order of intellect, and well acquainted with men and things, modestly declining any military office which would place the lives of others at his disposal, on the ground that he has not been trained to arms, and that he ought, therefore, to do no more than risk his own life in the pending conflict. How does this contrast with those possessed of not one-tenth the knowledge and qualifications of Gov. Brown, who seek fi
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An Honest man. --The course of Governor Brown, of Mississippi, affords one of the most striking examples of public virtue which has occurred in this self-seeking age. He has been, says the Charlotte Whig, Governor of Mississippi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator. For many years Mississippi has conferred to do no more than risk his own life in the pending conflict. How does this contrast with those possessed of not one-tenth the knowledge and qualifications of Gov. Brown, who seek field offices, and obtain them too, in many instances not on the score of merit, but on account of party services. Equally worthy of admiration are the following sentiments contained in the same letter of Gov. Brown. All honor to the man. The heart of a true patriot heats in his generous and noble breast: "Opponents before the war in a peaceful strife for ascendancy in politics, the war has forced arms into all their hands, thrown one flag over their heads, and marke