| Summary: | The proclamation urges Alabamians to grow as much food as possible (for both civilians and soldiers) and to contribute arms to the troops: "Turn your shops into labratories [sic] for the manufacture of arms and munitions of war. Send me thousands of shot guns and rifles, Bowie knives and pikes. Send powder, and lead, and ball. What you cannot afford to give, the State will buy. Let the entire resources and energies of the people be devoted to the one great purpose of war - war stern and unrelenting - such a war, as in the providence of God we may be compelled to wage in order to vindicate the inalienable right of self-government."
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