Weekly Confederate

We note with pride and satisfaction, the large and enthusiastic war meeting which was held in Fayetteville, on Thursday last, and the patriotic resolutions which were passed.

Fayetteville was entitled to speak among the first. She is intimately associated with the first glory of the war. It was her sons who met Butler at Great Bethel, and contributed to produce in his human bosom the emotions of satisfaction, which have just come to light, that Great Bethel was not Manassas, or the Wilderness or Cold Harbor, or other places where lives were sacrificed.

Fayetteville, too, has done as much as any town of proportionate means in the Confederacy, in men and money; and done it quietly, unostentatiously; but liberally, self-sacrificingly and patriotically. And her sons, in the bloodiest dangers, have faithfully represented the courage, the dignity and the true patriotism of that excellent community.

But, Fayetteville must, by this time, know that a war-meeting and resolutions are but the feathers of the fowl--a small part of the game. They are good and useful in themselves: but, in the great necessities, they are scarcely anything. We must not only pledge life, property, and sacred honor, to our friends; but we must hurl defiance, hate and vengeance at our foes. Fayetteville does that--this we doubt not--but her representatives do not always do this. It is time for them to begin.

When in the last session of the Legislature Mr. Samuel F. Phillips begun to assail the Government, we saw through his movement; and we are no more convinced of his Yankee proclivities now, since he has made a submission peace speech at Chapel Hill, to the disgust of the good citizens of that place, than we were when he opened on the Government in the last Legislature. We thought, then, that he ought to be exposed; and we exposed him; not as bad, it is true, as he afterwards exposed himself, when he undertook to show how he concocted a scheme by which he might fill several places of trust at the same time, receive the profits, and evade the service, and yet how, for one month, he ought to have been at the disposal of the Bureau of Conscription.

After all this, Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Wright undertook to whitewash Mr. Phillips. Mr. Shepherd, in that style which is called dulcissima; and Mr. Wright, in a more broadfooted and practical way. They couldn't heap too much on him.

Now, our opinion is, that if any one of the numerous ladies, who attended the war meeting in Fayetteville, had been representing her sex in the Legislature, she would have had better judgment and better patriotism, than to have fallen into the homage of Mr. Phillips, as Messrs Shepherd and Wright did.

We must learn to hate Yankee enemies, and oppose them as well these who live among us as those in Boston.