WEST J:.KJSt DEMO CEAT, C HKLOMvl, 1ST . O.
GOV. VANCE'S SPEECH.
The speech of (Jot Vance, delivered ac Wflkes
Horo, N.C., oa'the 22d of February, and repeated
at Tayloraville and StatesviUe on succeeding days
is rmhliahrl i the Raleish DaDers. The Drhole 1
speech oceuoiea more space than we are wiUfn? to
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The Govercor, after alhuhag to : the -sacrifices
ana stmertngs cacsea Dy war, says :
In eonsequence of this continued suffering which
experience bad not prepared the people to endure
with the fortitude possessed by some nations who
have been nurtured to the shock of arms, a certain
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wide .rumor throughout the State, a notion that we
must 'have a.' Convention that we must secede
from the .-Southern Confederacy; that we must re
pudiate the whole thing and go back and do our
first work over again.
Now, permit ,tne to ask you what it was that got
you into this scrape ? Why, you all know it was
the fact of your secession in the first instance.
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.Suppose you were sick of typhoid fever and had
heentcloee to death's door; and becoming convales
cent, the physician should gravely inform you that
the only plan to effect your entire recovery would
:be to take another spell of the infernal fever I
Would you not think he was a foof ? (Laughter )
Or, suppose autgeon should say to a soldier with
- a ball in his leg : "My 4ear fellow, I don't nee how
it is possible for you to obtain relief unless I call
for & musket and put another one in the other leg."
That would be .curious surgery, would it not f
Would a system based on the same principle be
less absurd when applied to the healing of the
body ..politic? ,
.Secession was tried after it had been considered
for a period of forty years, and the whole country
.understood it as completely as an abstraction could
be understood. , , We were promised it should be
peaceable. Wbat is the result? Why, it has been
.everything else,; It bas involved us in a war that
has no parallel upon the pages of history. Do
you expect to find a remedy by a repetition of the
idose that brought you to bed ? You will pardon
me for a funny illustration of so serious a subject,
but I am somewnat like the old lady, who, in com
pany with her "old man" used to visit a country
store kept by one Major Smith (as there are no
Majors t&nd do Smiths in this section, there is no
4angej of identifying him.) Ths Major kept some
tine samples of wet goods in the cellar, to which
he .treated his customers before displaying his dry
goods up stairs i for he knew, as you do, that a man
in & certain state of exhilaration imagines he can
buy .two or three counties, to say nothing of goods
and groceries. (Laughter.) And the aforesaid old
couple were about the best customers he had. On
one .occasion, after repeated going up and down
stairs, they got in such a good humor, that when
they started home the Major could barely lift them
.on the-saddle the old lady behind in the good
old-fashioned style. She was in ecstacics with the
Major. lie was "the finest storekeeper she ever
saw in all her born days' Bless that Major, what
nice samples he does put up to be sure, and how
be sweetens I" Gripping the old man with one
hand and jesticulating with the other, she proceed
ed to expatiate on the Major's charming qualities,
until they came to a branch, up the opposite bank
of which the old man managed to ride, while the
old lady unconsciously slipped off quietly into the
stream. The old fellow rode some distance before
fee discovered . he had lost something, and rode
back to the stream when he ascertained what it
was. There she lay in the branch, fiat on her
back, and had dammed up the water until it had
just began to run into the corners of her mouth.
She imagined she was in the cellar, 'talking to the
Major, and "sampling." Rolling her eyes, pursing
up her mouth, she would say evety now and then,
"not any more I thank you, Major ; not another
drap, Major, unless it is sweetened." (Continued
laughter.) Just so with your humble servant in
regard to secession: Not another drap, Major, if
you please, sweetened or not sweetened. (Laugh
ter and applause.)
Our destinies, my fellow-citizens, have now been
cast in another government ; and although, as you
all know, 1 regretted to go out of, the former gov
ernment, and was one of the last to lay it down,
acid -did la, it down with the same mournful feel
ings with which I followed my dear father to the
grave, I never expected, and do not now expect to
see it resurrected again. ' Our Convention, com
posed xf delegates fresh from the people, by the
most solemn ties that can bind an honorable peo
jJe to a cause, have pledged their all to its sup
port. May God aid us in the fulfillment of this
obligation in the future as in the past, to'the letter.
The act was a deliberate expression of public sen
timent, though it -may have been wrong. The
government we selected is ours, as much so as are
' our children. The spirit of patriotism is akin to
the love of our offspring which God has implanted
in us- the highest, holiest sentiment of humanity.
A man' should love his home if for nothing else
hat because it is hw and shelters him ; he should
Jove his wife it for no other reason than because
she his wife ; he '.should love his State because
it is his, a part a if 'were, of his being ; he should
love his country, - right or wrong, (when in the
midst of clashing events he cannot take time to
examine all aspects of the question,) because in
its destiny are involved the welfare of State, com
munity, home, wile, children, self But if you
iiave no other reason to give for defending it, say
you dq so. because it is your country.
Now, gentlemen, I desire to present to you all
i.he -various aspects of this question. You have
placed xne in a position that enables me to gather
ironi sources of information beyond the reach of
the public generally, facts which are necessary to
a solution of the difficulties and problems which
agitate your minds : and if you will only have
charity enough to believe that I am honest iu i
what I say, possibly you may, on retiring, be able i
to quote the passage of scripture : "It was good
for me to be here."
Now," what is it you desire above all other pres
ent earthly good ? (Voices "peace," "peace,"
"we. all want peace.") I know you do Every
body wants peace. Peace, blessed pace ! Why,
he man who does not desire peace is unworthy of j
existence. Peace it is one of the highest and
holiest attributes of Deity, so much so, that our
blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, was called the Prince
of Peace. The creat Apostle Paul said of the
nignest cnaraetejr ot peace, the peace of God, that
"it passeth all understanding." Now, if you real- J
iy want peace, this great blessing to repose upon
our bleeding country, your sons to return from the
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battle field and take 4heir position again in the
iamily cirole, commerce'and agriculture to resume
their beneficent sway, ' the sword beaten into the
.plowshare, and Industry again to stretch her magic
wand over the war-beaten fields till they bloom as i
a garden, i suppose, as reasonaDie men, you are
iwialing to take the best plan to obtain this conrsu-.
saatioo so devoutly wished.
Which is the best
plan I
A Convention is proposed by some, J haw no
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denunciation to make of those who are moving this
question. They are as sound men, no doubt, as I
am 8 you are as anybody; they are mj friends;
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Tention without anv design, it Shalt put the estate
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out of the Confederacy. You merely call it with
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ecutive are unable to bring about buppose you
oall a Conveotioo for thti purpose ; you
deicateS) and the first thing they do
you elect your
on taking
their seats is to swear, on the Holy Evangelists, to
support the Constitution of the Confederacy. Now,
having done that, we take it for granted that they,
as honorable men, will keep that oath. What does
that Constitution say 7 Why, in article 1, section
9. it reads as follows: "tfo State shall enter into
anv treatv. alliance or confederation. And in ar-
anv treatv. a
ticla 2. section 11. it savs: "The President shall
have power by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds
of the Senate concur." Now, you see that the
Constitution your delegates have sworn to support
expressly provides that the power to declare war
and to make peace shall be vested iu the President
and Senate of the Confederacy; and the moment
one of your delegates makes a proposition or prof
fers a treaty of any kind to the enemies of his
country, he is a traitor by tie law and has fore
sworn himself. (Applause.) That is so; not be
cause I say it, but because it is writteu in the Con
stitution we have all agreed tor support If you do
not intend to instruct your, delegates to take your
State out of the Confederacy, ybu see, from this
aspect of the question, your Contention assembled
can do nothing more towaids realizing the eud in
view than your Legislature or your Governor cau
accomplish. It can't turn a wheel.
Well, suppose you go a little further, ana say
you will instruct your delegates to 4ake the State
out of the Confederacy, because when it isTut it
is relieved from the obligation of the Constitution
and rests upon a separate and independent basis.
Supposing also, that it is not your design to join
the United States government again, but only to
go out as an independent sovereignty, for the pur
pose of securing peace to yourself, and possibly
effecting the same desirable eud for all parties.
Well, you pass an ordinance of secession take an
other dose of this political hoarhound tea aud
nothing I know of is more bitter unless it is a
boneset decoction (Laughter) and set up for
yourselves. Is that going to give you peace ? Will
that restore your sons and fathers to their homes ?
Will that hush the cry of. the orphan and dry the
widow's tears? Will that fill your land with plenty
and prosperity ? So far from it, I can assure you,
my fellow-citizens, it will involve you in a new
war, a bloodier conflict than that you now deplore.
"But," you may say, "Mr. Davis and his govern
ment will not dare to make war on a seceding State,
because the right of secession is recognized in the
Constitution of the Confederacy." So it is, my
friends; but you see, by that time you have thrown
off that Constitution, you have" gotten from under
its obligations and sworn you would have nothing
to do with it Do you expect the Confederacy to
be bound by a document you refuse to recognize
as affecting yourselves ? So soon as you announce
to the world you are a sovereign and independent
uation,as a matter of course the Confederacy has
the right of declaring war against you, for suffi
cient cause, equally with the riszht she holds of de
claring war against England, France, or Holland.
This right is inherent in all sovereignties.
But what would Uncle Abraham say to it that
old gentleman' whose personal pulchritude has been
the subject of so much remark, (Laughter) and
who, they say, can tell more bad jokes than I can.
(Laughter.) How would he receive the intelli
gence that North Carolina had seceded from the
Confederacy and set up for herself. He would
put his fhunib up to his nose and make certain
gyrations and evolutions with his fiuger, and say :
"Waul, ole Noith Carolini, I'm tarnation glad ter
see yer come outer Jeff Davis's little consarn, 1
swow; but yer dou't mean to go for to say yer ain't
in the Union agin, and under the pertection of the
best government the world ever saw? Bin fiitin'
yer too long to let you sneak out that way." (Con
tinued laughter and applause.)
" Why, of course, if such -a proceeding on the
part of North Carolina would secure her indepen
dence, it would only be necessary for one State to
secede at a time, get herself acknowledged, and,
after all were out, turn round and form such a
Confederacy as best pleased them. Old Abraham
is fighting us not bec'aufb we are a part of the
Southern Confederacy, but because we are in re
bellion to the Old Union; and so long as we re
fused obedience to him he would continue to fight
us. The idea that Lincoln would recognize us ot
abate his claim to allegiance and obedience, is pre
posterous. Well, would the Southern Confederacy
recognize your independence and make a treaty of
peace with you ? This is entirely owing to con
tingencies. If you went out of the Confederacy
and declared yourself independent, you would have
to announce and enforce your position of neutrali
ty with reference to the other belligerents, or there
would be occasion for war. How could you pre
serve your neutrality when once announced ? The
only railroad communication between the armies
of Gen Lee and of Gen Johnston, betweeu Virginia
and the remainder of the Confederacy, is through
North Carolina. You do not suppose we could, as
a neutral State, permit the Government at liich
mond to communicate across our territory with its
Southwestern armies. Gen Lee sends some of his
veterans down here, takes possession of the rail
roads the very arteries of the Confederacy and
flogs anybody who interferes with him and so
you have two wars instead of one ! There is an
other consideration involved : a great portion of
the provisions that feed Gen Lee's army are ob-'
tained in North Carolina. As a neutral State you
could not sell them, and he would be forced to
have them, it is not difficult to foresee how speedi
ly North Carolina would become the seat of war.
Moreover, his troops would say : "These fellows
have basely abandoned us, left us to our fate, and
don't deserve our mercy. Old Abe would send
his troops here also, because we would no longer
be neutral, and so, if you will pardon the express
ion, we would catch the devil on all sides
Suppose your State should . to-morrow secede
from the Confederacy, what would become of your
soldiers in the army ? Some would runaway and
come home, no doubt; but the mass of them who
have followed that old battle flag through smoke
and fire, into the presence of death, and waved its
bloody folds upon the heights of an hundred fields
of triumph, amid the cheers of victory that thrill
' af
an applauding world do you suppose that they
WOuld trample it under foot and crawl upon their
lellies and eat dirt in that sort of style ? ' (Great
applause.) Who then would you have to defend
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North Carolina? A few old men and some militia
officers. '
Suppose, as the last alternative for obtaining
peace, your Convention should take the State out
0f the Confederacy and put it into the ajms of Lin-
coin. Just so soon as you entered into the old
Union and swore to support that government, just
so soon would you have imposed on you your share
of the debt, taxes, burthens of tbe United States.
Instead of the Confederate lax collector coming
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around Jo gather, up Confederate currency, (ot
which it must be confessed there is no great tack
i in the land) the Federal agent comes among you
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carrying on tne war. insieaa oi gemuK juur ouuo
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led and sent into the service of Uncle bam, to ngbt
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white men, women -and children ot the iout&. is
there anything very desirable about such a peace
as that? 'Extend your suppositions into the do
mains of absurdity, and conceive of the North
Carolina soldiers basely deserting their comrades
In arlns, In obedience to the' proclamation of your
Governor. Why, gentlemen, they would not come
home in peace to you. They would have to fight
with their new friends, and would just cross from
the Southern to the Northern side of the Rappa
hannock, and their rifles would be poiuted at the
bo8dms of the brave men who have fought by their
sides through the fierce fire of a three years war.
Would that give you peace ? ,
To think of these glorious North-Carolina regi
Hieuts--you have seen them in the first flush of
martial enthusiasm you know them now unflinch
ing, though sustained but by honor and duty; many
of them filled with your sons these regiments
that have followed the Southern uross over so
many fields already made classic by their prowess,
astonishing the world and raising the nations on
tiptoe iu admiration of their heroic achievements
shall they be asked to fraternize with the misera
ble scoundrels who have slaughtered our people,
devastated our homes, and eveu inflicted the crown
ing outrage which demons from hell pale at, on
our mothers and sisters ; shall they be asked to
join these wretches in desolating the homes of the
very men by whose sides they have so long fought
and suffered? I kuow you would not think of
the proposition. I think I can assure you to-day,
with all candor and all honesty as a dying man to
dying men iu the presence of God that any step
of this kind you take will only involve you in a
deeper and bloodier war. The calamities of war
affect our p'ecple to a terrible degree, streams of
tears are ranuing down the cheeks of many a poor
woman ; cries for' bread come from many a suffer
ing child. But let us trust that the God of bat
tles who gave to our ancestors through seven long
years, a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night,
will yet lead us into the land where grows the
fruitage of liberty, richer than the clusters of Es
chol, and through which flow the milk and honey
of independence and nationality. (Applause.)
' 1 have not, fellow-citizens, enumerated all the
consequences which would follow inconsiderate ac
tion ou your part. What would become of the
currency should yolfc abandon the cause of the
Southern Confederacy ? It is bad enough already,
but every bank in the State is filled with it, and
would be broken and worthless to-morrow, in such
an event. " Widows, soldiers' families and orphan
children have no other kind. Commercial and fi
nancial ruin, compared to which the preseut suf
fering on account of the depreciation of the cur
rency, would be insignificant itself, would over
whelm you. -What would become of the gallant
soldiers who have been maimed aud .mutilated in
the service these one-legged and one-armed bov?,
incapacitated for labor ? Having once submitted
ourselves to the enemy, you might see one of them
come up, his cheeks wan with suffering, his ragS
fluttering in the breeze, his wasted form supported
on crutches, and ask the government for support.
The reply would be : "You infamous rebel, have
you the impudence to ask support from a govern
ment you have been fighting to destroy ? No; you
will get no pension ; but we will tax as heavily as
we can your little potatoe patch to pension. the
man who maimed you for life, desolated your home,
burned your house, insulted your mother " Could
you endure such a spectacle ?
Let us not cease to remember that we all con
sented to this war, Old Line Whigs as well as Se
cessionists. We consented after it appeared in
evitable, and we must all stand up to it every
man, woman and child throughout the length and
breadth of the Southern Confederacy. We must
forget, if possible, for awhile, the causes that led
originally to this rupture, and each man lake upon
his shoulder the full measure of burden and re
sponsibility, regardless of consequeuce. (Applause.)
But suppose, fellow-citizens, we could forget all
these considerations of honor, glory, decency, and
resolve that we would see what terms we could get
from the United States. What does the enemy
offer you ? You are well aware that when a man
ts out to make a bargain-, he makes everything
just as alluring as he possibly cau; he presents ni&
goods in the best possible light, and says the most
flatrering things to induce you to accept his offer.
Well, the same policy pertains to diplomacy.
When an ambassador or diplomatist is trying to
get another to acquiesce in certain measures, he
clothes his proposition in the most plausible lan
guage he can, aud presents the most advantageous
terms he cau possibly offer to induce negotiations.
Possibly some of you know men who woulddo bet
ter by a friend than they promised to do, but I
do not think the majority of you-ever beard of
them. Can any of you put your finger on a man
who has done more for you than he bargained ?
If it is so hard to find one in the circle of your ac
quaintance, who in the name of Heaven, can tell
me- of a Yankee who ever gave you more than he
agreed to ? (Applause.) The difficulty is to make
bim stand up to his bargain. (Voices "that's so.")
Now what does Mr. Lincoln promise the State
of North Carolina? In what language does he
clothe his gracious termS of pardon and amnesty ?
He says, if one-tenth of the people of any State
will take an oath to support what ? The Consti
tution ? ' Nay; take an oath to -support his pro
clamation abolishing slavery, his proclamation in
citing the slaves of your State to burn your home
and murder you and your families ! If you swore
to support this proclamation, you would perjure
yourself, for it is in direct violation of the Consti
tution, as you would know. Old Abe has perjured
himself and he wishes to put you in the same cate
gory of villainy. Not only-must you swear to en
dorse bis infamous document so pronounced by
the eivilized world but you must also take an
oath to support' all the acts of Congress which
have been passed, abolishing slavery, confiscating
your property, placing you in subjection to one
tenth of the community and publicly executing
your glorious Chieftains, and every officer from a
Colonel up to Gen Lee. j
When the United States Congress last met, Lin
coin was called upoj, by the pressure of public
sentiment, to propose some terms of peace to the j
" rebels' of the South to advance tbe greatest induce
ments that could be possibly proffered to secure their
return to the Union ; and after long consideration.
j amid all tbe pressure ofihe peace element in the North,
J in and oat of Congress, the best proposition that could
', be offered, was to support one-tenth of the Southern
: community who would swear to assist "in the eonfisca
! tion of the property of the remaining nine- entbs, jet
i free their negroes, and hang every man whose bravery
bas elevated him above a certain rank, every man
whom you have seen fit to place in civil office. VVhai!
Deliver up to the malignity of an unrestrained foe at '
whose deeds now, in the faee of our immense armies, bring on this war, and are now trying to get them
and checked by fear of retaliation, humanity is livid ; selves out of it by hook or crook. (Applause.)
with horror, the glorious heroes whom our sons have i Tf ;f js nof a lecal outrage, let tho men whn nnf
followed through so niauy trying sceies, and who have !
made for us a record of glory, as resplendent as histo
ry sample page "ricn with sports of time" has ever en
rolled I (Prolonged applause.)
I - Let no man say this is a fancy sketch. Do irot say
j .g joking fae Wm rrtain,y do better tha
i tfaat j piedge yoa my existence he would not do half
80 wen. Do you not see howartfulhe is even while
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wants to set op a jrovenrment within the government
of North Carolina, composed ofone-tenth of herpopn-
, -tion. our vdtiug population is aboat one hundred
thou9Hd. They want to set np a government of ten
thousand perjured scoundrels who are unworthy to
lick the dust off the feet of the poorest , soldier in our
army and to support it with the bayonet, and to set
the people to slaughtering eacji other. You are not
fools enough to fall into that trap. You do not need
anv warning upon that subject, although I have given it.
Aer protraying the evils that would befall the
Southern people if the war is stopped short of se
paration, the Governor says :
"I tell you now candidly, there is no more pos
sibility of reconstructing tbe old Union and re
instating things as they were four years ago, than
there is for you to gather up the scattered bones of
your sons who have fallen in this struggle from
one end of the country to the other, reclothing
them with flesh, filling l heir veins with blood they
have so generously shed, and their lungs with the
same breath with which they breathed out their
last prayer for their country's triumph and inde
pendence. (Immense applause.)
There is another aspect of the question to which
I wish to call your attention, and one which de
serves much consideration. I desire you to mark
aiy prediction. There never can be peace on the
Co u tin en t of North America until the North and
South are independent aud distinct nations.
There might be a temporary peace, such a peace
as you have seen effected by overpowering a gal
lant man, putting manacles-upon hi3 limbs aud
throwing him into a dungeon. Such a peace as
exiss until be wrenches the bars, scales the walls
aud 'strikes terror into the hearts of his enemies
wheu'hey dreamed they were most secure. You
wouldave such a peace as Poland has to-day. She
has obtained peace again and again, but so clearly
has Goa drawn a distinction between the Poles
and ihe conquerors, that they refuse to mix, aud
have retailed their inherent nationality, though
every quarter of a century demands for it a sacri
fice of bloody. For a while peace would reign in
Warsaw, butsome act of oppression the whipping
of delicate ladies on the bare back in the public
streets, for instance, would cause the people to boil
over in a fresh ebulition of indignation, and a tor
rent of blood to flow uutil "peace" was again re
stored. Just so with Ireland. It did not, like 1
Scotland, hold out to the bitter end, but obtained
"peace," aud ever sicce, one of the noblest races
on the "face, of the -earth has been engaged, except
when fighting their oppressors, in fattening suck
ling pigs for the delicate palate of their foreign
masters, while their children cried for bread; and
at length their magnificent country is being de
populated by the policy of the enlightened con
querors who find that sheep are more valuable
than men. Like the Yankees, they propose to
supply a "better race." Do you suppose the chiv
alrous people of the South whose distinct moral
nationality has long since been recognized, would
submit to see all their proud cities garrisoned with
nearo soldiers : to see the lauds of their friends
divided up aud parcelled out among the foreign
mercenaries? Do you suppose the blood of the
Southern youth would run quietly in his veins
when he saw a negro officer walking the streets
and making his sister give way for him, or insult-'
ing her by bis very presence? Do you suppose
this kind of peace would long endure? No, insur
rection ffer insurrection, revolution upon revolu
tion, war after war would burst upon the country,,
nd for year after year, century after century, as
in European States, victims would be demanded
and blood flow in torrents, compared to which a
drop-'would have at first won independence and
permanent peace. The only way to obtain con
tinued peace and I want no other is to fight it
out noib (applause) to fight it out now, whilst
we have a government, and great and glorious ar
mies in the fifld. If we do not, we will leave war
as an inheritence to our children's children. We
will leave this terrible question for our little boys
to settle wtlen we have passed away, and under
circumstances far different and advantages far less
than we now possess for asserting their rights,
their race and nationality.
In regard to the law of Congress requiring ser
vice of those who had hired substitutes, the Gov
ernor says : .
You hear a great deal said about the tendency
of the military authorities to overslaugh the civil;
about the flagrant violations of faith on the part of
the Confederate Government in conscribing the
principals of substitutes, &c. Could you answer
to God for the peace you had broken on this
ground? You say it is a great outrage. It may
be so. But who pronounces upon a 'violation of
law? Your judges. It is not for you to say, it is
not for me to say, it is not for the legislature to
say, a Convention cannot determine; it is for the
Courts to decide. There being no Supreme Court
of the Confederacy, (so much the better for you)
the interpretation of the laws of Congress is left J
to your own judges, menof your own choice. If
it is a violation of your lights let your judges say
so, and not a single solitary man who has put in a
substitute shall be carried from the State of North
Carolina if your Governor can "help it. (Ap
plause.) But If it is decided according to law, be
Shall go if I can compel hiou But let us see how
much consistency there would be in the proposed
action on this substitute question. Why, gentle
men, as early as two years ago tbe conscript law
came, along and seized the poor fellow -who had
nine children tbe eldest hardly able to pull the
youngest out of the fiie living on rented land in
a leaky cabin. He had no money and was forced
to go. Did any body propose to raise a revolution
for bim ? Not a single solitary man thought of
such a thiug. But his neighbor, on whose land
this poor conscript was living, had his pockets
stuffed with money, bought his carcass out of dan
ger and put in a substitute. Two years bad rolled
around, meanwhile the poor conscript worn down
with anxiety, thinking about his wife and helpless
little ones, has nevertheless fought, and bled aud
suffered to ptotect, among others at home, his rich
neighbor, who, in the interim, has dressed in pur
ple and fine linen, fared sumptuously every day,
and made so much money by - speculating that he
don't know what to do with it. Congress says the
exigencies of the hour demands more men, and it
is about time for this man to take hisplace along
side of his poor tenant and help drive back the
foe. But, say some, it is a violation of law. we
will kick-up a fuss and plunge ourselves into dan- '
rr-r li.r t t hAntfir n f ihp man rH KtiTra M't'solf I
out of danger. (Laughter.) My remarks are not
; intended to apply to all principals of substitutes,
for many of them have been compelled, one tenth j
perhaps, to act by force of eireumstancps. But
you know that nine-tenths of them are either spec- !
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utors or original secessionists who helped to
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nave uui utcu uuot uunug tuc last two
"Good; hit 'em again."
years.
COMMON SCHOOL FUND.
Office or the Theas. of Literary Fund, )
Kaleiuh, Feb. 29, 1864. J
To the Chairmen of Boards of Superintendent
of Common Schools, and all other, concerned.
At a meeting of the Literary Board this day '
neld, the following resolution was adopted :
Resolved hy the Board, That the Treasurer of
the Literary Fund issue a letter, directed to the
Chairmen of Boards of Superintendents of Com-
mon fcchools and all others concerned, notifvincr
them of the existence of a law authorizing the
Treasurer to pay drafts upon the Fund in Confcd-
erate notes, and advising the holders of such
drafts or checks given in payment of such drafts,
to present them before tire 1st day of April next;
and also of the act of Assembly giving tho Board
power to call Upon those holding drafts upon the
Literary Fund for common School pumoses. to
present them for payment within six months, and
of the exercise of this power at the present meet-
- r r
ins.
Resoliwd further, That he call the attention of
Chairmen having monies on hand, to the recent
act of Congress entitled, "an act to fund, tax and
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wuwcuw,, -uu , ' lu ,U.U'J l"c
school purposes as soon as practicable.
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I would respectfully ask the particular attention
of those to whom this letter is addressed, to the
importance of the above resolution, and I would
urge upon the holds of drafts upon the fund, or
checks issued by the present or former Treasurer,
to
cable
bef
per cent, on all Confederate Treasury notes of a
denomination above five dollars, makes the neces
sity of funding such botes in four per cent, bonds
before that date, apparent to all, and Chairmen of
Superintendents of Common Schools having such
notes on hand tiiould lose no time in investing
them so as to avoid this tax. By funding in sev
eral bonds of 100, or 200 each, they will be able
to suit tbe convenience of teachers in some instan
ces, while some of these bonds they may exchange
hereafter for their amount ih the new issue of
notes, with those who would use them in payment
of taxes. But these considerations are too appa
rent to need elaborating.
The income of the Literary Fund is entirely in
Confederate Treasury notes, and the increased dis
tributions recently made were owing, in part, to
the depreciated currency to be paid over to the
Common Schools. The passage of the bill at the
la,st session of the Legislature, authorizing the
Treasurer to pay the drafts in Confederate notes,
was, under these circumstances, au act of simple
justice.
The Board, to obviate the danger of drafts, to a
large amount, being kept back for presentation :'at
a future day, in hopes of payment in a better cur
rency from the fund, has to-day exercised the pow
er of requiring all drafts to be presented within
six months from this time, it having been clothed
with such power by another act of the late session.
The holders will, therefore, see that they are pre
sented within the time limited.
Very respectfully, It. II. BATTLE,
Treasurer of Literary Fund.
Taxes Due 011 Lands.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA UNION COUNTY.
Court 0 1'leas and Quarter Sessions, Jan. Term, 1864.
C. Austin, Sheriff, returned to this term the follow
ing Tracts of Land for an order of sale for arrearages
of Taxes for tbe years 185ti, '57, '58, '50, '60 and '02,
viz :
One Tract belonging to James J Orr, lying on Duck
Creek, containing 175 acres, for 1836 tax due $1 40.
One tract belonging to Joel Home, on Gourd Vine
Creek, containing 50 acres, for lt57 tax due $1 65.
One tract belonging to Jonathan Ross, on Richard
son Creek, containing 98 acres, for 1S58 tax due $4 00.
One tract belonging to B T Davis, on Brown Creek,
containing 357 acres, for 185'J tax due $4 50.
One tract belonging to W T Gulledge, on Brow
Creek, containing 80 acres, for 1859 tax due $4 50.
One tract belonging to James Plunket, on Lane's
Creek, containing po acres, for 1859 tax due $1 80.
One tract OTlonging to Thos Smith, on Laue's Creek,
containing 200 acres, for 1859, '60 & '62 tax due $5 14.
One tract Iftlonging to F li Burino, on Negrohead
Creek, containing l59acres, for 1860 '02 tax due $5 45.
One tract belonging to Wm Head, on Grassy creek,
containing 102 acres, for I860 and '62 tax due 8 06.
One tract belonging to J J Colson, on Grassy creek,
containing 250 acres, for 1862 tax due $8 95.
One tract belonging to James P Ilineon, on. Grassy
creek, containing 71 acres, for 1862 tax due $3 62.
One tract belonging to the heirs of Wm Ilinson on
Grassy creek, containing 421 acres, for the year 1859
tax due $5 78. &
. One tract belonging to E'hnond Green, on Lane's
creek containing 49 acres, for the year 1 860 aud '62
tax due $2 08.
One tract belonging to John A Green, on Beaver Dam
creek, containing 87 acres, lor 1862 tax due $2 17.
One tract belonging to the estate of Thos Cureton
on Waxaw creek, containing 377 acre3, for 1860 tax
due $30 80. -
Notice is hereby given that application will be made
at the next term of this Court for an order to sell the
above lands for the above arrearages of taxes.
Witness, J E Irby, Clerk of our said Court at office,
in Monroe, the 1st Monday in January, A D, 1864.
Feb 23 J. E. IRBY, Clerk.
TAX NOTICE.
We, the Assessors for Union county, hereby gijre no
tice that for tbe purpose of taking the Returns of all
Pork slaughtered from the 24lh day of April, 1863, to
the 1st day of March, 1864; and also for afsessing the
value of all neat cattle, horses, jacks, and jennies, not
used in cultivation, together with the amount of beeves
sold from the 24th of April, 1863, to the 1st of Nov ,
1863; we will attend at
Ashcraft's, Monday & Tuesday, March 14th & 1,5th.
Rogers's, Wednesday,
leth.
17th.
18th & 19th
21st k 22 d.
2:sd.
24th & 25th
2Hh.
28th &29th.
Capt- Broom's, Thursday,
Mrs II Wilson's, Friday and Satarday,
G D Broom's Mondajr and Tueodaj',
James Richey's Wednesday,
Cro well's,- Thursday aud Friday,
Col Trull s, Saturday,
Baucom's, . Monday'and Tuesday,
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Grassy Creek, Wedn'sdav Thursday tr
30th ii 31ft.
Monroe, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4tb,
5th and 6th.
At one of which places the returns must be made, or
the penalties of the law will be enforced.
. R. ROGERS,
V; T. CHKARS,
Feb 23, 1863 . . Assessors.
I will attend with the Assessors for the pur
pose of collecting the cattle tax, &c, when all are re
quired to come prepared "to pay, as further indul
gence cannot be given. J. McLAUGHLIN,
Feb 23d. 5t-pd. Collector for 46tb District.
ft OTIC 12. ,
Whereas, my wife,. Mary Ann, has left my bed and
j board without my consent; I therefore notify all per
i song who may trade with ber that I will net par ant
debts she may contract from this date, May 21st, 1863.
Feb 23 5t-pd J. A. JETTON.
$100 REWARD.
Runaway about the 1st May last, a negro girl named
JANE, belonging Jo the estate of A. A. Coffey, dee'd.
?.a negro ! 5 orJb feftr3 01 7 about 5 feet 6 ,n c IU
11 1 li ) J t ' J 'jcrij iw .
out raucn more tnan common, it is supposea iua our
is iu the neighborhood of Charlotte, N. C, d is Ps-
ing herself as free. I will pay one hundred dollar? for
the apprehension and delivery of said negro to me, or
if lodged in anv Jail so that I can get her
R. C. POTTS, Admr.
Pleasant Valley, Lancaster Uist.
Feb 2, 1864 3mpd
s. c.
present them lor payment at the earliest praeti- cash to pay costs, tne iraci or uana n iue pieam.
moment, that thev mav have time to fund i mentioned, eituated on trie waters or rour 3 tie trtek,
.re. the 1st day of April. The tax of 33 1-8 ?.,n!n?.! or W r H0U3l0n, "0Ui,0D' 1
I substitute vjASKs. v e learn Hint thero ui
j some complaint in the counties above, and som
j little excitement, growing out of the arraoeemi.r,!
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7-
entered into before J udge Pearson at Salisbury ia
take one case to the next Term of the Supreme
Court, by Certiorari, the other cases to abide de.
cision in the case ;arricd up; and that it U Sa;j
each an agreement was made by Gov. Brat?, u
counsel for Government, and that the Govern meat
has violated it, and is going on to enroll the men
and send them to camp. The latter, we bclipv.
' is true: but that there was any positive arm no.
, mcnt, as stated, is not true. The Government hug
: not violated any agreement of its own', or one made
j by Gov. Bragg. We are authorized by that gen.
tleman to say, that when an arrangement was pro.
posed, as above stated, he said distinctly to the
j Judge on the bench, and in the hearing of all the
j parties, that he had no authority to bind the Gov.
' ernment. but that he would accent it with the rin.
' .
derstanding that it was to be submitted to tbe au.
thoritics in Richmond, and to be subject to their
approval or disapproval and this was dono
Raleigh Confederate.
LAM) SALE IS EQUITY.
I In conformitv to a decree of the Court of Equity 0f
, jj CCklenUu tg tou n ty , made at tail Term, 18W, iu the
matter or Hugh M Houston anU wile, end utbwi, for
the purpose of making- partition of tbe proceeds of
sale between tbe petitioners, I will expose to public
sale to the highest bidder, executing1 bond with ap.
proved security, at the public square to Charlotte, on
the 2d Monday in April. 1864, ou a rrrdit of iwUe
months, with interest from sale, except fire per cent.
March 1, 1864
C. WILLIAMSON, C.M.E.
STRAYED
From my Pasture near Wilson Wallace's, about tbe
1st of 'Nov, last, a red COW which 1 bought at auc
tion, formerly owned by Wm.Tus3y Alexander. Abo,
at the same time and place, a spotted 11KI1LR, of the
brindle order. She was sold at auction by Mr Morri
son of Pioneer Mills. I will pay a liberal-reward fur
tbeir delivery to me or for iuforiuation so that 1 tie
get them. W. A. L'UOK.
Fih 18, 1864 tf ;
KEMOBOTU tFUKIYACE.
LINCOLN COUNTV, N. C,
THREE MILES EAST OF IRON P. O.
The proprietors announce to the public that tbli
Furnace is in full blast, and will make castings of 11
kinds to order. Also, Pig Iron is made and oflVred for
Pale. SHII'P It RE1MIARDT.
March 1, 1864 3ni-pd.
State of i. Carolina Cabarrus County.
Superior Court of Law, Fall Term, 1863.
William A. Smith vs. William Furr.
Original Attachment Levied on one Horc aud one
two-horse Wagon.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court tint
William Furr, the defendant in this case, has abscond
ed and so conceals himself that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served on him, it is therefore ordered
by the court that publication be made for six weeks
succesfively in the Western Democrat, notifying tbe
said Wm Furr to be and appear at the Court House in
Concord, on the 1 Hh Monday after tho 4th Monday la
February, 1864, when and where he can plead, replevy
or demur, or jfldgment pro confesso will he taken
against bim
Witness, J O Wallace, Clerk of our Superior Court,
a', office in Concord, the 11th Motiday alter the 4th
Monday in August, 1863.
pradv$15 10-6t J. O. WALLACE, Clk.
State offl. Carolina Cuburru Count).
Superior Court 0 Law, Fall Term, 1 863.
William R. Corbet vs. William Furr.
Original Attachment Levied on one Hore and one
two-horse WHgon.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court thai
William Furr, the defendant in this case, has aluond
ed and so conceals himself that the ordinary yroces? of
law cannot be scrved-on him, it is therefore ordered
by the court that publication be made for six weeks
successively in the Western Democrat, notifying the
aid Wm Furr to Le and appear at the Court Houee in
Concord, on the 11th Monday after tbe 4th Monday la
February, 1864, when and Vhere he can plead, replevy
or dem'ir, or judgment pro confesso will be taken
against him.
Witness, J O Wallace, Clerk of our Superior Court,
at office in Concord, thellth Monday alter lie lib
Monday in August, 1863.
J. O WALLACE, Clk.
pradv$15 10-6t
Stafc of If. Carolina ITIcckli'iibiirg Co.
Court 0 Fie and Qu'artrr Sessions, Jan Term, 1864.
II D Stowe, adm'r of Harbert Stowe, dee'd, vs. Win II
Nicholson and wife M. II., and others.
Petition for Settlement of the Estate of Harbert Stowe,
deceased.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court thatW
II Nicholson and wife M. H., defendants in this m(
reside beyond the limits of this Slate : It is ordered by
the Court that publication be made in tbe Western
Democrat, a newspaper published in the tow n of Char,
lotte, notifying said defeudant to be and appear at tb
next term of this Court, to be held for t aid county at
the Court House in Charlotte, on the 2d Monday in
April next, and plead, answer or demur to tbit peti
tion, or judgment pro confe-bso will be taken and lbs
same heard exnarte as to him.
Witness, Wm. Maxwell, Clerk of our said Court at
office, in Charlotte, tbe 2d Monday in January, 1864.
Feb 23 WM. MAXWELL, Clerk.
State of 3. Carolina Catawba Count).
' In Equity to Spring Term, 14.
Imjunctiom.
Electius Connor vs. Wm. Long and Columbus Connor.
In this case it appearing from the oath of Electius
Connor that Columbus Connor is not an inhabitant of
this State, publication is therefore made (in accordance
with an act of the Legislature) in the Weniern Demo
crat, published at Charlotte, for six weeks, for tb said
Colutnbu Connor to appear at lb uexl term ot tn
Superior Conrt of Law and Equity to be held at lb
ciurt house in New too, on the 4th Monday after tha
4th Monday in March oex, - then and there to plead,
answer or demur, or judgment pro cotifco will bm
taken as to him.
Witness, O. Campbell. Clerk and Master at ilice, the
4th Monday after tbe 4th Motiday 7n October, Ib63.
pr adv $15. O. CAMPBELL, C. M. E.
Slate ofMTorfh Carolina-Union Countr.
Court of Fleas and Quarter Sessions Jan. Term, 1864.
Cullen Curlee, Ex'r of Obediab Curlee, vs. Thomas O.
Curlee and others. .
Petition for Settlement.
It appearing to the satisfaction of tho Court that tbe
defendants, Obediah Baacom, Josiab Baucni, Elisba
Vullis, and Herron Williams, are beyond the limits of
this Stale: It is therefore ordered by the Court that
publication be made for six ticceiire wetks in the
Western Democrat, n paper published iu tbe town of
Charlotte, notifying said defendant to be and appear
at tbe next term of this Court to be held Cor tbe Coun
ty of Union, at the Court Ifoueui Monroe, 00 the 1st
Monday in April next, then aud there to plead. uswer
or demur to the petition, or judgment pro o,.fVso will
he taken and the .anie heard ex par e as to hn.
Witness, J E Irby, Clerk of our said touM . office,
in Monroe 00 the 11 Monday m January, A I) 18C4.
Feb 5 6 J E IRBV, Clerk.
Announcement. '
We, as soldiers, respectfully announce THOMAS
R. MAGILL as a candidate for the House of Commons
for Union couuty, at our next regular election io Aug.
next, aud as such will be voted for by
Mary Soldieks ix tbk Abmy.
December 22, 1863 . tepd
Salt! Salt! Salt!
We will exchange Virginia Salt for Pork, on as good
terms as any body.
. YOUNG, WRIST0X 4 ORIL
December 1, Ita3 tf
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