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: FR1PAY. JULY 83, 1864.
The Election.
Let the soldiers bear in mind that they
rill tote
for Governor, lor ra ' 7 77r .V
Kaic ni inn i .ptir ar.nre. inu
for Sheriffs on 2V.ay u , Z "
ju,T Do not forget tbe day. We appeal to the
J1 , . .1,.- 1..CI, Thin i
snldiers to vote, ana to vo i
all e ask.
Bear in rnin'J also mai iuo peopio w uumo wu
,nte on Thursday, the 4th of August The sus
pension
of the writ of habeas corput will expire on
the fint of August, and the people will, therefore,
be fret Sin on t!,e fmrth August
Election im tue A war. The North-Carolina sol
diers wiil Tote on Tburslay nest, the 28th July,
for Governor, members of the Legislature, and
Sheriffs. We caution our friends to be on the alert
fir fake returns by the Destructive leaders. We
f.el sure that the soldiers' vote will be largely
i raicst Vance, but, in order to influence the elec
tions at h-.'uw, the vote will be misreportcd by the
Vance organs. We atieal to our friends in the
riuj to send u correct returns at the earliest pos
sible moment.
Jo to the Polls and Vote !
Our readers have heard a"gooi deal about the II.
0. As., or ied string party, and the Destructive
j.iers have teemed 'for several weeks past with ar
tie'es on the suSjest, and with threats to arrest
those who are supposed to belong to this party.
"We have paid but little attention to these things,
because we felt sure that the good sense of the
people would lead them to the conclusion that it
was merely an electioneering hobby gotten up by
Vance and his friends; but as some timid persons
may be alarmed and kept from the polls by this ex
citement and these threats, we think it our duty to
inform the people that there is no treason in any
thing thus fir revealed and published on the sub
jid by McEae and others. We learn that the
whole matter has been laid before our Supreme
Ci urt Judges, and that they have sid there ik no
treason in it ; and we know that this is the opinion
of an eminent lawyer of this City, who has been
consulted on the subject We do not belong to this
oider, and we know nothing about it, but we deem
it cur duty to stste the truth on the subject, espe
cially as the noise made about it by McRae and the
dciectires is intended only to get votes.
There is reason to believe that Gov. Vance and
Duncan K. MuRae have employed detectives, who
have inveigled persons into this thing and af
terwards exposed them. We think it mere than
probable that one Oran Churchill and one Marcum,
both of whom are Vance men, and who have been
very active in this business, have been employed
to do just what they have done, in order to pro
mote Vance's election. We now say to the people,
pay no attention to these threats. It you are ar
rested employ counsel, procure your release, and
sue those who arrested you for false imprisonment
If any one dares to impeach your loyalty to your
face, chastise him on the spot Obey the law in all
things, but while ycu do this, insist to tht latt ex
tremity on your rig?Us under the Constitution and
laws. This may be the last time the despots will
allow you to vote. If the Conservatives should
be defeated in this election, the gloom of des
potism will at once settle down upon us all all
hope of peace will depart, and every true Conser
vative will be marked for the army, and his exis
tence at home, if allowed to remain there, will be
intolerable, on account of the persecutions and in
sults of the Destructive leaders. Such Dantons as
licRie will be over us all, and persecutions, arrests,
and imprisonments will be the order of the day.
Go to the polls and vote at all hazards. If any of
the Destructive leaders or their tools should crowd
around the the ballot-boxes and attempt to prevent
the people from voting as they please, mke theu
len-ien and their tools lcnoie their plictt. Your
forefathers fought for seven long years against
King George for the privilege of voting ; do not
throw that privilege away, or allow petty tyrants
to deprive you of it
Be calai, firm, and determined. Commit no
breach of the peace, but defend yourselves if im
posed upon, and insist on all your rights. It will
be the most important election ever held in the
State, on account of the crisis and the results that
must flow from it Bear in mind that if you de
cline to vote you thereby voluntarily give op your
f'ght of self government and consent to have mas
tera to rule over yon and your children. The issue
in the election is PEACE or WAR, and LIBERTY
gainst DESPOTISM.
The people nd soldiers of North-Carolina are not
J0 be tbrelened nor deceived out of their votes.
""language of Mr. Bancroft, "North-Carolina
danu'rfl! by the freest of the free" The dascen
Soldi lh?fe uet,lers M fre" thJ 'm
bodie, Jn the scars of lwentJ b"l n noir
is statin i. T.r . l"""30- Jneerg soiaur wno
.,i..-..lnBj?M I'fe fur his country, will vote an be
"U VOtB .o t'.. l m
pleases.
and
Jlrrairv 4 iui m
oW8t negotiations for an honorable peace.
mcrv Vote far Vm U - r
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We ,earn th Destructive candidates for the 1,.
"ere in Mnnr r . j . ..
n the stnm ,1 . i Zy, B,sewnere' stating
founder ,7i f" the Editor of the ir e
tni. V? le,der of the . H- 0. A's. This is net
cent h. 7 "UI"'"IS uie u. u. A s. ex
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tick J v ' mny took Pride 'n oting w.th an
Pyvnro.:; ,a,! the day has ciue when
(nemBeiv ' obbged, in self-defence, to avail
Peomr'ballot All we ask is that
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Vou',XXX.Nq. 20.
- Tories and D'esertera.'
We invite attention to the communication in our
paper to-day, signed M Wentern North Carolina," in
relation to the correspondence between Gov. Vance
and the Secretary of War on the subject of suspen
ding the execution of the conscript law in our
mountain Counties. Gov. Vance,' judging him by
bia letter to the Secretary, seems to have gone
to work to prevent the suspension of the law, for
he must have anticipated, if be thought at all on
the subject, that the President would not yield any
thing to the "disaffected class" represented by the
Governor' to exist in that part of the State. As an
inducement to the President to suspend the law he
told him that the very region for which he asked this
favor was " filled with tories and deserters 1" If he
had demanded this favor as Gov. Brown demanded
it, and if he bad done this in time and in a manner
not calculated to draw the attention of the President
to the Western part of our State as a hotbed of
" tories and desertera," there is every probability
that the favor would have been granted, and the
people of the West would have been enabled not
only to defend themselves against any raids by re
taining a portion of their fighting men, bnt they
would have had enough labor left to prevent that
state of suffering for the necessaries of life which
now exists among them. But no, one of their own
tone turned State' evidence against them, and adop
ted the very course of all others to injure and de.
grade them. "The mountain Counties infilled
with tories and deserters 1" Was that so 1 Who
believes it 1 But it it was so, was Zebulon B. Vance,
himself a mountain man was he the person to tell
the President of it ? Shame! shame!
Again, it appears from the Card of Joshua Boner,
Esq., which we publish to day, that the letter from
Gov. Brown, portions of which Gov. Vance reads
from the stump, leave the clear inference on the
mind of the hearer that Gov. Vance must have
written to Gov. Brown that there was much disaf
fection in this State. And Gov. Vances letter te
President Davis, dated December SO, 1863, informs
the latter that there is "discontent" in this State,
and that the only way to remove it is to make an
" effort" for peace a mere " effort" peace itself
not being the " principal matter." This letter may
be found on page 124 of the Accompanying Docu
ments referred to. And it is also known that Gov.
Vance affected to be so much alarmed by the tales
about " tories and deserters" in Western Carolina,
shat recently, when at Rulherforton, and having
made an appointment to speak at Ilendersonville,
he ordered CoL Harris of the Home Guard to detail
a guard lor him from Rutherfordion to Ilenderson
ville and back. Col. Harris jjbeyed the order, and
the requital he received for it was a' statement in
the Conservative, by order of Gov. Vance, that he,
the Governor, was lucky in aaving as commander
of the squad on the occasion referred to, so good a
friend to " tories and deserters" as Col. Harris, for
to this circumstance he attributed the fact that be
made the journey to Hendersonville and back with
out molestation. Of course this was a vile slander
on CoL Harris, but it is a part of the policy of Gov.
Vance in treating bis own mountain people as
" tories and deserters."
There can be no doubt that Gov. Vance had
thoroughly possessed President Davis with the idea
that a large portion of our people were disloyal be
fore the President applied to Congress to suspend
the habeas cerput. The suspension was intended
mainly for this State. The object was to silence the
press and to put down " tories and deserters" in
North-Carolina. Gov. Vance went to Wilkesbor
ough and made a speech in which he told tho peo
ple that the suspension was constitutional, and that
they ought to " stand up" to it ; but finding subse
quently that this position was about to injure his
election, he changed his ground and attempted to
produce the impression that he was opposed to the
suspension.
The mountain Counties of Western North-Carolina
have sent more men to the Geld than any other
portion of the Confederate States of the same pop
ulation. They have been literally emptied of their
fighting men. And now it is hard that the remnant j
of the population at home, the relations of these
fighting men, should be spoken of by their own i
i
Governor as an association of " tories and deserters."
Two years ago most of the Virginia papers, and
such degraded sheets in this State as the State Jour
nal, branded the supporters of Col. Vance and CoL
Vance himself as Lincolnites and traitors ; and now
Gov. Vance, who is supported by these same news
papers, himself takes up this cry against his old
friends and against his own State,
Gov. Vance is emphatically the peace candidate.
Contertative. -
Gov. Vance having returned from the West, and
finding by his canvass in that quarter that his
only hope is in changing his tone, he directs Mr.
Hyman in the Conservative of the 18th July to
proclaim him as the " real peace candidate." Too
late, Governor.You denounced the peace meet
ings last sunfraer, and declared that many who
took part in them were disloyal. You wrote to
President Davis last December that peace itself was
not the " principal matter" to be considered, but
only the " effort" for peace, by which you hoped
our people would be deceived. You agreed with
Mr. Davis that there is no hope for peace through
the common government alone, anl you declare, on
the stump, that any intervention of the States in
aid of the government in the effort to obtain peace,
would be revolutionary and treasonable. You went
to the army and told the soldiers they must fight
until a very hot place got very cold, and then fight
upon the ice. We have just conversed with a sol
dier of the 47th regiment, a citizen of Wake Coun
ty, who heard you use the expression, and he in
lTtm us that as soon as you used it hundreds of
the soldiers left the ground, not wishing to bear
you further. You. went to Wilkesborough, justi
fied the destruction of civil freedom by the suspen
sion ef habeas corpus, aod told the people we must
fight it out" that we mast imitate the example
I the Scotek, who fought four hundred years, and
the example of the Hollanders, who fought and
suffered until they were obliged to eat tbe grass
that grew among the tombstones of the dead.
K6, Governor, you are emphatically the war can
didate. All the war men are .for you that is, all
the wan men like Mc-Rae, and A. M. Lewis, and E.
A. Thompson, and Others who will not fight ; but
the-soldier, the real war men are against you.
They know what war is, and they want peace. A
few months ago persons who talked of peace were
regarded by you as disloyal, but. now you are the
peae candidate I" Do you think you can deceive
tbe people ia tbis way,. governor J
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RALEIGH N. 5y WEDNES
The Relga of Terror.
We learn from s friend in Madison County that
the Vance Destructives are resorting to every means
in their power to intimidate the people and prevent
them from voting. Aged, gray-haired men are being
arrested and sent off to Asheville on false charges,
and it is threatened that details of armed men will
be placed at the different ballot-boxes on the day of
lection to overawe the. people and prevent them
from voting against Vance I Our correspondent
adds, " God knows what we mountain people are
going to da Gov. Vance cares nothing about us.
All he wants is our votes. But 1 tell you, Sir, in
candor be not concerned, you will get the votes
here." Persecutions and threats will only serve to
rouse the mountain people to the assertion of their
rights. They' will vote at all hazards.,
Another friend writes us as follows: "A man
applied to an enrolling officer in Surry for a detail
The officer asked him who ha was going to tote for '
for Governor. He said, Holden. " You can get no r
detail here," was the reply. ' Very well," said the '
man, "I will vote as I please or die." We have '
proof that enrolling officers and County examining -boards
are constantly engaged in using their influ
euce against the freedom of suffrage. Special favor? '
are granted to Vance Destructives, while Conserva
tives " after the straitest Beet" are insulted, and ever -their
just rights denied them.
- It is known that at the Congressional election .
last November, in the County of Bertie, a band ol
armed Georgia troops broke Up the election in Wind
sor, and attempted at the point of the bayonet t(
prescribe a test oath to the people. Toe Legislature
assembled soon afterwards, but Gov. Vance mad
no allusion to this outrage in his message. Thest.
troops were allowed to remain, and if their officers
were ever censured for this outrage, the fact is no
known. The right of suffrage is every thing to a free peo" .
pie. It is the fountain of all popular government i
If the people are not to be allowed quietly and with
out threats or molestation to vote for the men o:
their choice, then their liberties are gene, and we
have over us already an imperial despotism. A
true patriot occjpying Gov. Vance's place, wouh.
be startled by the slightest attempt to control the
ballot box by undue mean, and would take prompt
steps to protect the people in their right to vote:
and a high toned, honorable gentleman would scorn
to obtain power by even one vote secured by coer
cion or threats. All we ask is that the people and
the soldiers may be allowed to vote as they please.
Separate State Action.
We understand Gen. Fowle, of this County, and
other Destructive candidates, are in tbe habit o'
stating on the stump that we are in favor of separ
ate State action to obtain peace. This statement S
not well founded. In the Standard of of the 20th
January, 1864 and we have uniformly held the
same language on the subject we said :
" We believe that peace can never be obtained so
long as we contend on the battle-field of course,
for Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Vir
ginia ; and that, in all probability, it can be obtained
only by the sovereign States co operating with the
common government We are, therefore, for a
Convention, and for co operation with our sister
States of the South in obtaining an armistice, so that
negotiations may be commenced."
Is there any separate State action in that ? It
is the very ground occupied by the Georgia resolu
tions, which declare that it is the duty of " both
governments, on all proper occasions, and in all
proper ways thepeople acting through their State
oi ganisations and popular assemblies, and our gov
ernment through its appropriate departments to
use their earnest efforts to put an end to this un
, natural, unchristian and savage work qf carnage
and havoc." This is the position of Vice President
Stephens, of Linton Stephens, and of Gov. Brown.
It is the true position. We have occupied no other.
We invite attention to tbe able, manly, and pa
triotic address of CoL 0. L. Harris to the voters of
Rutherford, Polk, and Cleaveland, in our paper to
day. CoL Harris is a vigilant and faithful guardian
of the rights of bis constituents, and is a true Con
servative. He has been ordered on dutr to Ashe
ville, and will probably not be able to mingle with
and address thepeople, but we have no doubt of
his election.
Tbe Conservative candidates in Rutherford and
Polk for the Commons are J. B. Carpenter, Esq.,
present member, and Capt J. B. Eaves and J. W.
Adams, -Esq. Mr. Carpenter has made a faithful
member .of the Commons, and deserves the confi
dence of his constituents. Mr. Bryan, the other
Commoner, renegaded some time since to the De
Bti uctives. He.-will be defeated by a large majority.
Vituperation. Some of our public men and
some of our people are concerned at the bitter feel
ing and violent personal abuse by whioh the con
test for Governor is characterized. We regret it
as much as they do, but we are not responsible for
it We -have defended 6urself when assailed, but
in as mild a manner as was proper under the cir
cumstances. Gov. Vance.commenced bt3 personal
vituperation at Fayetteville, and has kept it.up ever
since, and his followers have imitated, but hardly
surpassed him in this respect For example, the
Fayetteville OUerver calls us a "former," the Con
servative calls us a uLincolnile,n the Confederate
calls us a " traitor," the Salisbury Watchman calls
us a "fiend," and Gov. Vance,' in his speech in
Rutherfordton, pronounced us for telling the truth,
"an infernal, fiat footed liar." We might well
exclaim with one of Shakespeare's characters,
" what man of good temper could bear bis tempest
of exclamation?". But we Jutve borne it, and in
tend to. If others lose their temper and act inde
cently, there is no reason why we should follow
their example. Let the people, judge between us
and our assailants.
The Observer, Watchman, and .Patriot were De
structive in their proclivities in -1862, and would
not have supported CoL Vance for Governor but
for the course pursued by us. They had Commit
,ted themselves to Mr. Johnson for Governor, and
we brought forward the name of Mr. Graham to
detach them from Mr. Johnson.. The movement
succeeded. .. They dropped Mr.. Johnson and declar
ed for Gov. Graham, and it was then an easy mat
ter to tole them into the support of CoL Van sc.
We wish now they had opposed him. The Con
servatives could have succeeded without their, aid,
and tbey would not have had it in their power in
this campaign to act the part xf wolves in sheep's
clothing. . " ' :
Secretary Memminger has resigned bis position
in the Cabinet and G. A. Trenholm, Esq., of Char
leston, has been appointed to. fill the vacancy. -
0AY, JULY 27, 1834.
" - . r Col. J. P. H. Buss. . .
The Conservative, of this City, by order of Gov.
Vance, has made a most bitter and unprovoked
attack on CoL Rum, tbe Conservative candidate for
Sheriff in this County, from which we make the
following extract:
"He then stalked around, privately, to the clerics
of the departments, studiously avoiding the officers
in charge and tried to worm out of them such
information as would answer his purposes, know
ing, in advance, that he could obtain, nothing re
liable, in that, way, and that he was acting, to Bay
the least, -very improperly, in approaching them.
And now, to consummate bis treacherous plot be
proclaims from tbe stump, that Gov. Vance and his
officers have been guilty of practices that they de
sire to conceal from the public have committed
frauds, that they tear to bring to the light when
his only charge consists in the fact that the sub
ordinates, who were, tempted to turn spies and in.
formers, treated his inquiries with merited con
ut,: and referred him -to their superiors to
those who had the right to answer his questions,
but whom he dared not approach on the subject"
The above is wilfully untrue,'- Col. Russ, in his
efforts to ferret out the corruptions of the Stallfed
erate system, applied, first, to the military store
keeper, Mr. Thompson ; then he applied to Maj.
Hogg ; and then to Gen. Gatlin himself. He was
treated politely, of course, for neither of these per
sons, if disposed, would have dared to treat him
otherwise ; but as the result of orders from Gov.
Vance, no information on the subject was furnish
ed to him. He made no attempt to " worm out"
any thing, but he asked for facts which were de
nied him. The secrets of the Augean stable were
too offensive to be allowed to see the light
CoL, Russ has charged no crimes or frauds on
Gov. Vance and Jus minions, but heknows, as
we do, that they are " guilty of practices" of the
most selfish and heartless character, in drawing
their supplies from the State while tbe great body
of our people are paying high prices for their sup
plies, and while many of our people are suffering
for the necessaries of life " practices" which Gov.
Vance solemnly promised the people he would have
stopped, and which he did stop for a time after he
. came into office.
Theso Stallfederate pets have their lips on the
public teat, and when an effort is made to pull them
away they squeal and attempt to bite.
Col. Russ has commenced the work of exposing
tl.e corruptions of the Stallfederate Bystem, and Le
will continue it He opposed it two years ago un
der Governors Ellis and Clark, and he opposes it
now. We learn that be is electrifying the, people
on this and other subjects, by his sarcasm, humor,
and eloquence. And the people are with him, as
the vote will show. He has a right, as a candidate
for Sheriff, to discus this question, for it touches
the pockets of the people in the way of taxes, and
it will be his business to collect the taxes. The
- people of the State, as well as of the County of
Wake, will be benefited by his exposure of this cor
! rupt system.
CoL Russ is a gentleman, a patriot, and an honest
i man, and nothing the imported Editor from Bun
combe can say of him can injure him with the peo
ple of Wake County.
Resolution. Supporting; the Government.
On Tuesday the 27th day of January, 1863, the
following resolutions, introduced in the Senate by
Dr. Arendell, and in the House of Commons by Dr.
Grissoin, passed these bodies by a largo majority :
"Whereas, Various slanderous reports have
been circulated both in the State and out of it re
flecting on the loyalty of the members of this Leg
islature and the people of the State, and ascribing
to them hostility to the Confederate government
and a desire to re-construct the Union ; therefoie
be it unanimously
Resolved, That'as the representatives of the peo
ple, and in our own behalf as individual citizens of
the State, we protest against and denounce the
accusations rs entirely false in letter and in spirit
as calculated to misrepresent the sentiraenU of
those who have never faltered in tbe support of ail
constitutional measures for the prosecution if tbe
war, and as tending to produce jealousies and
heart-burnings among a people who bave sealed
their devotion to the cause of Southern Independ
ence with their blood, upon the proudest battle
fields of this revolution. That the charge, of a
desire on tho part of this Legislature or auy por
tion of it, to conflict with the Confederate govern
ment, or to embarrass the President in the prosecu
tion of the war, is grossly untrue, illiberal and
slanderous. That we hereby pledge ourselves most
heartily and emphatically to the most vigorous con
stitutional war policy, promising in the name of
North-Carolina, tbe most liberal contribution of
men and money to the support of it, and protesting
against any settlement of the struggle which $Joes
not secure the independence of the Confederate
States of America."
These resolutions were opposed and voted
against in the Senate by Mr. Carraway of Martin,
Mr. Oopeland of Northampton, Mr. Drake of War
ren, Mr. Murrill of Onslow, Mr. White of Gaston,
and Mr. Young of Mecklenburg ; and in the House
by Mr. Brown, of Mecklenburg, Mr. Cobb of Edge
combe, Mr. Costner of Lincoln, Mr. Crawford of
Wayne, Mr. Gilliam of Rockingham, Mr. Hodges
of Duplin, Mr. Letnmonds of Union, Mr. Love of
Haywood, and Mr. Rives of Wayne. For proof of
this see Senate and House proceedings of that day
in the Journals of the two houses.
SToaffs and Forsyth Extract from a letter from
a well-informed friend, dated Salem, July 13, 1864:
"All is right hero. Gov. Vance spoke here last
' Friday, but lost totes. You have been gain'ng ever
since. Joshua Boner, Esq., candidate lof the Sen
ate, is out for you in a decided manner. The Con-"
servative candidates for the Commons, Col. Wheeler
and Maj Stipe, are strong advocates of your elec
tion. Tbey will be elected by three to one over
their Destructive competitors Cole and Hester,
who are hot Vance men. Dr. Kerner has with
drawn. Gov. Vance spoke in Stokes yesterday, but I
hear that he is desponding, and that you will carry
that County." '
We take pleasure in adding tbat CoL Joe Has
ten, Jesse A. Waugb, Wesley Allspaugb of the Sen
tinel, and Bill Reed, of Forsyth, are for Gov. Vance.
He is good enough Destructive for thorn. Tbey
want the warto go on, but they are not going to
fight in it They " sUnd afar off " and admire and
encourage it They may go during tbe seventh
year of the war, but that it doubtful At present
they are going for Vance; and all their large infia
ence w?ll go in that direction. It is stiange ibat
Got. Vance should despond when , such men is
WeBley Allpaugh arid Bill Reed fling his Iruner
to the breeze and pledge him their support
". Read tbe eloquent appeal to the soldiers in our
paper to-day, over the signature of The
writer is a atatesman and a patriot, who. 'sat shown
by his acts the deep interest be takes, in, the welfare
of tbe soldiers and their-fkmiliei. - --!.-
Whole Number 1523.
The Latest News.
Tbe monotony in the ODeratinna rnnivl P.tm.
burg remains unbroken. The enemy are chiefly
engaged in mortar shelling and picket firing. They
.cirpiicu wj in me Fame manner. The damage
thus done is considerable, but nothing decisive ia
accomplished. ' - .
1 be Yankee steamers were reported as flymc;
their flags at half mast on Monday. A scout re
ported the death of Gen. Grant from the effects ol
tbe amputation of arm shattered bv a shell. De
serters who entered our lines on Tuesday contra
dict the rumor. There had been a heavy tall of ruin
at Petersburg the first for weeks.
Richmond, July SO. Official dispatch, received
at the War Department states that a force of the
enemy crossed the Shennandoah at Snickers on the
IStn. At 8 p. m. they were attacked and driven
across the river in confusion. Our loss stated at
between 200 and 800, that of the enemy much
greater.' '
Our armji under Gen. Ewell fe crossed tbe Po
tomac river on the 14th inst At the battle of Mon
ocacy .they lost 400 or 500 men, and inflicted a lof
of 1,100 killed and wounded and 700 prisoners.
The latter were brought off safely, also 5,000 hors
ea and 2,500 beeves. Some of our wounded have
arrived in Richmond, and among them Frig. Gen.
O. A. Evans, Lt Gordon, Gen. Ewell's staff, and
Capt Pearce, 26th Ga. Among the killed are Col.
Lamar, 61st Ga., Col. Vanvalkenburg and Capt
Louther, 24th Ga., and Maj. Hawley, 12th Ga Bar
Georgia.
Gen. Johnston has been releaved from the com
mand of this army by order of the .President, ano
Gen. Hood has taken command.
The following is Gen. J ohnston's farewell addres.
to the troops.
.' Headquarters Amir or Tennessee, )
T " , " . July 17, 1864.
In obedience to the orders of the War Depart
ment, I turn over to Gen. Hood tbe command of thi
army of the Department of Tennessee. I caiinm
leave this noble army without expressing my d
miration of the high military qualities it has di
played so conspicuously in every soldierly virtue,
endurance of toil, obedience to orders and brilhan
course. The enemy has never attacked but to bt
severely repulsed and punished. You, soldiers
have never argued but from your courage and neve:
uuuiiieu your leara. no longer ycur coinraande
I will still watch your career and will rejoice n
your victories. To one and all I offer assurances o
my friendship. I bid you an affectionate farewell
(Signed) JOS. E. JOHNSTON.
Gen. Hood, on assuming command, issued tLi
following address :
Hsadqcarters Army op Tessesskf, J
July 18, 1864. (
Soldiers, in obedience to orders from tho War ;
Department, I assume command of this army and
Department I feel the weight of tbe responsibility
co suddenly and unexpectedly devolved upon meby
this position, and shall bend all my energies and
employ all my skill to meet its requirements. 1
look with confidence to your patriotism to stand by
me, ana rely upon your prowess to wrest yourcoun
try from the grasp of the invader, entitling your
selves to the proud distinction of being called the
deliverers of an oppressed people.
(Signed) J. B. HOOD, Gen'l.
Telegraph communication with Montgomery was
suspended last night near Notasa, Ga, It. is sop
posed to be a portion of the partv of the enemv
reported at Talladega Saturday. No train arriv; il
to day from West Point The main force of tbe
enemy crossed the Chattahoochee between Isham's
Ford and Roswell, and slowly pushing forward.
Cavalry skirmishing took place this morning at
Brick Head, six miles from this place,
Gkifwn, July 20. Four miles below Jonesboro
the engine " Sunshine" was blown up. The enu i-
neer, Joseph Hoskey, Dr. Dennis, Dr. Harris and a ;
negro wood passer were killed, al;o Tanner of i
the 85th Tennessee, of tbe tram guard. The engine I
and five cars are a total wreck. The track mil be j
clear before morning. ;
second dispatch:. !
Atlanta, July 20. Reynold's brigade' attacked j
the enemy's line of skirmishers last evening at Peich i
Tree Creek and took possession of his bre&twoikj.
He then charged the reserve pickets, supportid i
by Dal worth's corps, and captured one huadndanJ ;
fifty prisoners. j
The Augusta Chronicle of Tuesday, says that a !
gentlemen just from Atlanta,repo.-ts that Gen. John-
ston burned the Chattahoochee bridge on Saturday.
Our baggage wagons, pontoon bridges, &c , have
pa-'sed through Aalaota, and are now between that j
city and Decatur.
From the North.
Dates of the 15th and 16th have been received at '
Petersburg. They contain but little of interest
Telegrams from Nashville say, since Gen. Johnston's '
retreat from Kennesaw Mountain, Sherman has '
picked up three thousand prisoners. - :
Richmond,. July 20. The New York Herald of j
the ISth has been received. Wr new. unimpor- i
tent Regular communication between Baltimore
and Washington has been restored. "
Banks made a speech at New Orleans in which he
declared that the settlement of our difficulties niut '
proceed from the moral power of tbe country, which 5
is more efficacious than the military power. Gold i
157. j
Extract from a letter to the Editor of the Stand
ard, dated
Leaksvillr, July 15, 1 804.
" Gov. Vance spoke at Weutworth yesterday. He
did not touch on the main issue, to wit, tbe en
croachments of the Confederate government on civil
liberty ; nor did I hear him even allude to tho sus
pension of the writ of habeas corpus n
At a meeting of the Council of State in this City,
on the 19th instant, R. H. Battle, Jr. Eq., Priva;o
Secretary of the Governor, was, on the recommen
dation of the Governor, appointed Auditor of Pub
lic Accounts, in place of Mr. Phillips, resigned.
Rockingham County. We publish today tbe
sensible and patriotic Card of Jones W. Burton,
Ei-q., to the people of Rockingham, announcing
himself a candidate for the Senate in that County.
We learn that Miles D. King and J. A. Ragland,
tannine i th. Pnniurvni i v candidates for the
Commons. These gentlemen would make excellent
representatives ot me interest oi uie uoumy in
tbe Legislature, and we hope te have th pie .sure
of i ecording their election.
itl. vn.i. .,n riti. 'miMiwiiM 'i nrTVnu
day is unusually bitter and abusive. Nearly ali
the articles are lroin tne pen oi uov. nce. i nc
bear the "ear marks." Too late. Governor. The
minds of the people and of the f -tidier are uado up.
Your array of great names wiil do you no good.
The people will do tbeir oa votirg.
Slasdkrinu Tnc Dead.' Wo.hav ju'.t been told .
bj a wound J soldier of Sttiarl's bri ade, that Gov.
Vance, in his speech before Daniel's, brigade in Vtr
gima, congratulated the Fo'dirrs bat all'thereW ;
or trashy portion of the army aid died of variou
disease or been killed, and that t.ose who had been
h-ft, wore baVily veterans who coald stand almost
anything. This was all foe ssid, about tbe dead.
He bestowed no praise upon. them. The soldier
from whom we get this inlornjation is a young man -of-excellent
character. H also wiid, " Boys, j'.wt
whip the sweh out of Grs'.t'B sbt anl I'll tbt-n
send yon all bottle ol wlike and I know yoa
won't b mad to see hat" S4wt eheering and con
soling language to addre. fi UW'.ets.on tbe eve. of
battle I
To tbe Voters of the 48th Seaatnrtai District
of Nor tbCarolioa, composed of tho Cmtki
of Katfcerford, Ifvlk auid Cleaveltaatd.
Fellow Crracxs anb-Soldiiis is tbi Sbkvics
At the earnest solicitations of numerous -friend.-, L.
am a candidate for re election to represent you in
the Senate of the next General Assembly of said
State. It was my intention to canvass the district,
and by speeches, make the people acquainted with
my v:cws on the most important questions before
nera, om i suau now be denied that pleasure, .
having been ordered with a portion of my com
mand to Asheville. Therefore it bus become ne- .
ceswry that I should appear before you iu a card, "
giving you my views in a condensed form. I am
not only well known "persotally tofac4l,prs'OnB !u "
the district, but I am also politically known aa a
Conservative -" after the atraitest sectf . by which
you will- understand me to be a champion of the
rights,' liberties and freedom of tbe people, and to
o;ipicsMon, tyranny, or despotism in any form, a
"fell opposer." I am in favor of using all legal .
and honorable means to maintain the former and
prevent ibe Ir.tter, I am opposed to everything
foreshadowing a Iir.ta4Jrthip. In the langneje of
Hon. A. H. Stephens, " I would not turn upon my
heel to choose between masters. I was not born to
havo a rooster from either the Torth or the Snut'n,"
We are n"w waging a war agtinht a powerful and
rejeiuless foe, and in which it is mwwary that all
our means and energies should be steadily and prop
erly uwd ; but I um sorry to believe. that military
neccity has been made an excuse to Oppress our
own people, by the passaco of unconstitutional
laws, among which are the Conscript law,-the
Tithe law, the Impressment laws and others,' inclu
ding the act to suspend the privilege of the writ
of htileas corpus, which last, in its general features, ,.
has been pronounced unconstitutional bv the ablest
lawyers in the Confederacy. I voted in the Gen
eral Assembly condemning this act, and asked its
repeaL By this law the rights of freemen are not
only wrested from them and trampled under foot,
but it was passed for the express purpose of pre
venting the freemen of North Carolina from ex
ercising their privilege at the ballot-box, rnvstting
the press, stopping public discussion, in short to
break down the Conservative party in this State,
and cripple it elsewhere. Remember this North
Carolinians I
The policy of the administration in the repnflia
tion of its own currency, is another measure which
shows the want of foresight aod capacity to adtuin
ter the gcveinment in that s'atef manlike manner,
which tbe the exigency of the tin.es requires. It
secies to me an ordinary foresight could bave pre
vented these evils, and kept inviolable the tight,
liberties and freedom of the people, and the sover-,
eignty of the Sutes; but they are upon us, and
what is the remedy to remove the evils, and aave
mui selves? The answer u easy and simple rn
inove the men from office who have assisted in the
passage of these laws, as fast as the power of the
people can get at them, and prevent those from get
ting into powtT who have advocated tlcse measures.
This being done, it is to be hoped our country will
be free from opress'.on. I have ever been opposod
to the pr.nciples in each of these measures. The
policy of the Confederate government in these
measures, has had a powerful influence upon our
State government, and forced upon it heavy and
unnecessary buitliens. Again, the tendency of
somo of these measures has made th3 civil subser
vient to the military law, thereby weakening the
sovereignty of the States, and tending to a consoli
dated government, to which I am bitterly opwestd.
; My competitor. Dr. W. J. T. Milter, of Cleare
' lai'd, I may almost Oi quite say, is a life long poli
tician, and has represented the people of this dis
trict in both branches of the General Assembly;
hence bis political acts are public property, and it
is certainly right that the people should know
l wnat nis political career has been,
i The first I knew of mv competitor he was an
I dd line Whij, the next I beaid cf him he was a
i Buchanan Democrat, tbe next he was a Bell and
' Everett Union man, and I understand be used tbe
t expression that he "gloried in havir.g an opportu-
: nity to vote fr Beil and Everett tbe Union candi-
i dites .for the Presidency, in order to break down
Breckinridge and Lane, who were the secea&iun
. ivtiididales (to use his own language,) to d;s.-iolve
; our glorious old Union." Next he was making
j stump speeches in favor of secession to dissolve
that "glorious old Union." Lto( aid like, he has
many tpots, or like the Iriihman's fhn, put your
finger on him and he's not there. Secession took
place, tho "glorious old Union" was diKBolvediand
1 suppose since that lime be has kept the faith tol
erably well, having voted for Johnston against Gov.
Vance; be also voted for Lander against Hon. J. O.
Ramsay, assigning for a reason that the latter was
a Lincoln abolitionist. I do not know Whether the
Ditotor intended to brand the men of his own cun
ty who supported tbe Hon. J. O. Ramsay as Lin
cvln abolitionists or not, this be can chrwer bettor
himself B-.-ing an original secessionist, I presume
he bis been a vurm supporter of tbe policy of the
administration of Mr. Davis ; if this be so, be was
in favor of tbe conscript lew, which never existed
before in a republican government, and by whrch
the military power of thi fcovereign States was
trampled under foot I also suppose he lavored
the passage ol the titbfi law, by which a portion of
the hard earnings of tbe wives of soldiers in the
field has been taken from them and their suffering
children and wasted at almost every depot in tbe
State. I suppose likewise he is in favor of the im
pressment law, which lias given rise to a species of '
highway robbery all over the country. I guess,
too, he favors what is known as the currency act
of the firt permanent Congress, by which the gov
ernment was authorized to repudiate one third of
the money in circulation, and whi ;h no dubt has
prevented many a poor woman from buying a bush
el of corn to hush the cries of hungry children.- -Last,
though not least, he favored toe act suspend
ing the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, which
deprives every freeman in the Confederate States of
his rights and liberties, some of whom have been
arrested, plunged into prison, there to languish, ig
norant of the charges against them and denied the
right of 'rial and tbey may have been arrested .by
the mere declaration ot a kidney footed negro to
make negro evidence valid being one of the reasons
assigned for the suspension of the privilege of -the - -writ.
I have brought theso things before the peo
ple not for tbe purpose of doing my competitor any
injustice, hut for the purpose of giving him an op.
portunity of showing how he has stood, and bow
he now stand upon these various and grave ques
tions. In conclusion there is another subject, respecting
our difficulties with our enemies of which I would
speak. To use the language of Gov. Brown of
Georgia, " In view of these difficulties it may be
saked when, and how is this war to be settled 1 It is
impossible to say when it may terminate, but it is
easy to say how it will end. We do not seek to
conquer tue Northern people and if we are trua
to ourselves tbey can never conquer us, and we do
not seek to wrest from them the right of self
government and they have not force enough to
govern uh without our consent, or to deprive us of
tiie right to govern ourselves ; the blood of hun
dreds of thousands may yei oe split, anu u wr
' may not fctill be ended by force of arms.
negoti
ations will finally terminate it the pen of the -statesman,
more potent than the sword of tbe war-
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riir mum m in ina lacier uas uuicu uuv :
In my opinion ii is onr duty to keep it before th ;
t, . i . ,! .. a nairiM lain tsir nMM
n ria that, we are veauv to negotiate wr peacw,
:- whenever the people and government of the Nprtb-
si t. SmtM am uronared to meet us
In the settlemi nt of our difficulties by negotia
tion, 1 am rasphatieaVy in favor of the co operation,
of the people, tbe sovereign States, and the govern
ments, and am opposed to any settlement without
the consent of the people. I am aware that
ihrca r bave ben nd are made to keep the pec
pie from the poll, but L: bave evev confidence
in tiitir independence and patriotism, and that they
will maintain their rights by a free exetciso of tbeir,
privilege at tbe ballot box, without regard to threats,
from '-nob litieite or others. ' " ' "' .' . .
Therp are other qnesitAWi 1 'might cliBcnss, bul
suffice it tossy, I wand fairly and i-o-iarejy apoi ;
the principles enunciated by Gov. Brows, ,;'.
President Stephens and W. W. Hb'den, ; ' '
If 1 phoubl n.turn home before the W etwa I will
try and see as many or vo.i as I ea hopwg re- '
cwvc s .'at Wnt number ol vOea to entHW ate to a
ea'. in the Senate of the xi Uewral Assembly of.
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