Speech #530188333

I invoke from you a purer. better. holier example of Christian charity in war! Third. During his administration as governor in North Carolina. although war was flagrant. though camps covered the fields. though soldiers were conscripted by thousands. though coldhearted men of ample means refused supplies to soldiers with bleeding feet. though the whole militia was armed. though thousands of deserters. refugees from duty. were arrested. though the war depaurtment daiy called for more men. though every art and artifice and device was practiced to keep the soldiers from the field. though spies and traitors were detected and seized. though traders in contraband of war were constantly caught flagrante delieto and captured. though in all countries in time of war civil authority has been compelled to submit to military necessity and power. yet in North Carolina during the war the writ of habeas corpus. the great writ of liberty. was never for one moment suspended. Immortal history! Worthy of Mecklenburg and the 20th of May. 1775.