Yankee Profession and Yankee Practice

The Yankees, of course, when they enter our country make the loudest professions of kindness and liberality to the inhabitants. It is one of the means by which they hope to lull us while they rivet the chains upon our limbs. What they will do, when they shall have succeeded in completely subduing us, let the world judge from the following well authenticated occurrence.

When the Yankees entered North Carolina, their General issued a proclamation promising security and protection to all the inhabitants and their property. When they entered Pasquotank county, they went to the house of that distinguished patriot, Col. Jas. C. Johnston, rifled it, plundered his cellar of a large stock of wines, brandies, and other liquors, and actually stole and carried off the portrait of his father, Governor Johnston, of Revolutionary memory!

Men of the South! Such is the treatment you may all expect at the hands of these marauding scoundrels. Plundered you must and will be, if you fall in their power. Let no man hope for any better fate, you have no hope but in resistance- resistance to the last- resistance to the death- and in that there is every hope. Let us all join our strength, and we shall become invincible. What motive can man have, that you have not? You fight for your wives, your children, your altars, your firesides, and all your earthly possessions. Who ever had more to fight for?- Richmond Dispatch

[Transcribed by: Sharon Strout]