Conf Pam 12mo #68 
 
[House.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 6, 1865.— Ordered 
 to be laid on the table and printed. 
 
 [Presented by Mr. Simpson.] 
 
 RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Adopted by Mc Grow an s . Brigade, South Carolina Volunteers. 
 
 The soldiers and officers of McGowan's Brigade do 
 
 Resolve, 1st. That the war in which we are engaged is a war of 
 self-defence; that in the beginning, nearly four years ago, we took 
 up arms in defence of the right to govern ourselves, and to protect 
 our country from invasion, our homes from desolation, arid our wives 
 and children from insult and outrage. 
 
 2d. That the reasons which induced us to take up arms at the be- 
 ginning, have not been impaired, but, on the contrary, infinitely 
 strengthened by the progress of the war. Outrage and cruelty 
 have not made us love the perpetrators. If we then judged that 
 the enemy intended to impoverish and oppress us, we now knoiv 
 that they propose to subjugate, enslave, disgrace and destroy us. 
 
 3d. As we were actuated by principle when we entered the ser- 
 vice of the Confederate States, we are of the same opinion still. 
 We have had our share of victories, and we must expect some de- 
 feats. Our cause is righteous and must prevail. In the language 
 of General Greene, during the darkest hours of the Revolution, 
 when he was struggling to recover South Carolina, then entirely 
 overrun and suffering under the scourge of Tarlton, " Independence 
 is certain, if the people have the fortitude to bear and the courage 
 to persevere." 
 
 4th. To submit to our enemies now, would be more infamous than 
 it would have been in the beginning. It would be cowardly yield- 
 ing to power what was denied upon principle. It would be to yield 
 the cherished right of self-government, and to acknowledge our- 
 selves wrong in the assertion of it; to brand the names of our 
 slaughtered companions as traitors; to forfeit the glory already 
 won ; to lose the fruits of all the sacrifices made and the privations 
 endured ; to give up independence now nearly gained, and bring 
 certain ruin, disgrace and eternal slavery upon our country. 
 Therefore, unsubdued by past reverses, and unawed by future dan- 
 gers, we declare our determination to battle to the end, and not to 
 lay down our arms until independence is secured. Is life so dear, 
 or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and 
 slavery ? Forbid it Heaven ! 
 

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