VOL. VIII. NO 12.
WINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1863.
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From the New York Times, Aug. 12th.
The Rebels and their Loader.
The popularity of Jiff. Davis is just now at a
very low ebb in Dixie. The rebels generally
bare a notion that he is somehow responsible
for the great reverses that hare overtaken
them and, wrthout scruple, they are casting at
hitn the sharpen reproaches. He is stigmatiz
ed both for incapacity and for neglest for lack
of brain and for lack of heart. The prevailing
criticism upon him is all adverse; and his for
mer iieges cow make him out a man very much
to be despised.
Now, we don't feel ourselves called upon to
say on word in behalf cf Jeff. Davis. There
is not a man on the foot ttool whom we so ut
terly abhor. In our deliberate judgement, there
Jus never lived a human being certain iy not
in modern -civilization who attempted so ehor
nious a crime, or wrought such terrible calam
ity. Nothing is mora certain than that one r
two centuries hence, when the last remnant of
slavery has died out of the world, and history
makes up its calm, irreversible verdict upon
these times, the name of .TrT, Dr.vis, the slavery
champiou, the empirator, the traitor, will be
put on the scroll as, beyond all comparison, in
famous.
We sav we have no plea to make for Jeff.
Davis. Yet we protest that it does not look
well for his fallows in guilt to turn ubou him
beet use "he it not successful, lnere is iome-
thiKg in this act exquisiiely paltry. We were
going to say devilisn, but about this we ae
not sure. If Milton is any authority, the devils
don't do such things; for among all the speeches
he reports from the terrors of Paudemonmm,
not ore of them whether from Moloch or
Mammon, Beiial or Beelzebub cont .lined a
svlabie of reproach gaint the rebel leader for
the "sad overthrow a n'J Aul defeat." The whole
crew recvrgniZcd that there had been equal hope
and hazzard in the glorious enterprise, and
were content to tak without complaint the
lul ruin." The disposition of our American
rtbeis to mke their chief responsible for their
hard fate b)ngs only to the meanest elements
of the human soul, ft is very like the blind
spite of the baffl d reptile.
Bd as Jen Dtvis is, ha hss served the reb
els weii, nd they have no right to c mi plain of
him. He was made their r resident by a unan
imous vote. They had known hiife- long and
thoroughly, and. could not be mistaken either
abou: his faculties, or his devotion to their
principles. It is the judgement of the whole
world that they were not mistaken. They could
have fiuud no man within their borler to con
eumately qualified for their leadership. Cold,
reserved, imperious, be could be the tool of no
man. Ever audacious, yet never rash : inflexi
ble ia his DUi Dose. vet versatile in the use of
means ; of every elesr comprehension in gener
al rt'atters, and yet of the roost bigoted attach
ment of the great reoel ida ; of a temper of
soul incapable alike of undue elation or despon
dey ; of tireless industry, and of first rate
executive ability ; he was precisely fitted to be
the chief of th tremendous enterprise. The
wonder ever will be not that he at last sink
exhaated, but that he wa ever able to stand
against our Government at all; History ! niay
be searched in vain for another instance, of. so
prodigious a 'power organized from such limited
materials and ho'ding out so loug against such
tbar, therefore, be eannot justly be reproached
in any measure, for the failure of the rebel en
terprise. He has surpassed all the expectation
his Confederates in treason could have reason
ably formed ; and he is just as much entitled
to the confidence of his fellow traitors now, in
this their day of disaster, as he it as a year ago,
when in the flush of victory, they, shouted, hia
niton e to the stars. .
The simple truth Is, that this rebellion falls,
because it was not possible for it to cope sue
cetsfully for any long piiod, with the migh
tier power arrayed 'gainst : it, es'prcially when
that power had right on its sidn. It was cer
tain, from the outset, that if the North should
ouce really gather and put f rth its vastly su
perior strength, the Canfederaey would have u
yield sooner or later, unless it should receive
hIp from abroad. The desperate efforts wich
have been made by Us envoys to secure such
help have all the whil betokened a itirkiag eon
sciousness that this was its only chance In the
earlier stage of the rebellion, Uefore the first
great upiising of the North, th Southern peo
pie would have sooner brooked the infernal dev
il to have set up a coterminous empire, than
have endured Napoleon III. in Mexico. But,
ever since, they have hailed every step of the
French Emperor there, aed at the present time
would even be glad to accept not only hiseluse
neighborhood but his direct protection.
We have bo belief that Jeff. Davit himself,
with all his traitorous spirit, would have ever
entered into open rebellion had he not counted
upon either a divided and paraljrzed North, or
speedy foreign intervention against the Nation
al Government. Bold as he is, be otherwise
never would have committed himself to an en
terprise with suoh terrible odds against it.
Once in, of course he could not go back; and it is
marvellous with what potent and dauntless en
ergy he has ever since been fighting bis fate.
Accursed as he ia for all the ruin he has plotted
and the sea of blood he has caused to be shed.
we do not hesitate to testify that he has been as
true to his work as his fellow traitors have to
theirs. Having together sown the wind, they
must together reap the whirlwind. They de
liberately challenged their fate. Though 4t
comes in a different ahape than they expected,
let them meet it like men. This cursing of
their leader is pitiful.
From the Fayetteville Observer.!
Yankee Response to the Peace Propotitiont
and meetings. The last mail has brought ex
tracts from the NewvYork World of the 18th
inst, received by the Petersbug Express, from
which we copy the following most important
paragraphs :
Washington, August 17. According to a
private letter reeeived here, the article in the
Raleigh Standard of the 3lst of July, throwing
the entire responsibility of the present war
upon the secessionists, denouncing the treachery
of te Confe derate government, and asking for
peace, etc., was written by the speaker of the
North Carolina House of Commons and the
President of the Governor's Council. It is fur
ther stated by the same correspondent that
Governer Var.ce approved of the publication
of the article, copies of which have been furnish
j . i . - j j : . u . V. : . . .
ea tne irresiornt. nu meuiwrs - w iviucit
We top here to sav, that ail this about
the Speaker of the House of Ootnmo&s (Mr
Donnell.) and the Presid ent of the Governor's
council ( Mr SatUrlhwaite.l and Gov. Vance
n1mtdf. is notoriously false. A citizen of Da
vidson county isthe writer fur the Standard.
But the next extract is the one ta which we par
ticularly call the attention of our readers :
"Great Union Meeting in N, C, Newbjcrn,
N. C, Aug. , 13. A meeting of citizens of
North Carolina, representing every county is
the First and Second congressional districts,
and a portion of the Third, was held at Wash
ington, N. C, on the 11th inst. The first
North Carolina Union Regiment, stationed at
that point, participated in the meeting.
Addressee were made resolutions adopted
expressing sympathy with iie great conserva
live party of North Carolina, declaring an n
ergetio prosecution of the war in this depart
ment to be the only tneana by which the Unien
ventiment in the interior of the Slate can .be
made particular useful .in restoring her to the
terrible triaU The, abilitv and energy witU national jurisdiction, asking the Government
tor reinforcements iur bui , tv "8
the Confederate Government of perfidy and
cruelty toward North Carolins, declaring that
her people are therefore absolved from any fur
ther obligation to utain it, placing the re
sponsihility ior the destruction of slavery upon
Jeff Davis and his conspirators against the Un
ion, expressing the belief that Ntyfth Carolina
will notwithstanding, .find arapIejepeDsation
in the bless ings of free labor for the. prsent
inconvenience of emancipation rj i ctng .in the
recent Union victory at the Keniticky. election
which be has consolidated and sustained the re
beilion have extorted the admiration not ou'y
of Europe,, but of even the , loyal r. North ; for
the qualities are in themselves none the less
admirable; though employ ebt in ho most wick
ed cause. ' ""';
Of course it cannot be bretended that Jeff.
Davis has made no mistakes. - Were this so, it
would prove him more than human. There nev?
r Was human energy -yet which did not some
times miscatSulaie. Our point is not that the,
abei liadi was perfect his maaageriefit,
but thatJka tiasjBi, nearly cWe aaany living snan
w similar circa m stances could have been and
administration in tbe conduot of the war,espeei
ally the toubd national currency orikinated by
the Secretary pf the Treasury."
4tl7sh!ngton New Era, of the 10th inst., re
publishes frorw the Raleigh Standard ot July
31 an able article, four columns in length, de
nouncing tbe treachery of the Confederate lead
ers, showing the falsity of their efforts, stating
that portions only of but 6ve of the original
thirttea States remain irj the bands of the Con.
federaey, end proposing that North Carolina,
in her Sovereign capacity , make immediate
overtures to the North for psace.
f 'Tlhfs; fa the spirit of remonstrance" and en
treaty ia which we appealed to the Standard a
week ago, we would now call the attention of
that paper, and of those who have participated
in the so-called 'peacn meetings.' Supposing
tbera to have betu influenced by ever proper
motive, of lovalty to the Confederacy, and of a
deal re to secure our Independence as wail as to
bring this war to a close, we ask them to look
at the effect of their movement. It is previse
ly what we told them nrould occur. They pro
posed negotiations for peace. The yankees in
Newbern respond by a meeting evidently
composed of Yankee soldiera and negroes, (the
First N. p. Union Regt.) 'representing that
is, stolen irornj every county in the 1st and 2l
and part of the 3d Congressional districts," and
welcome their proposition tor negotiation by a
call for mote trvops to overran the State ot
North Carolina! That is the sort of mgotia
tion for peace, aad the only sou that they re
cognize. Instead of turning their thoughts to
peace, the Yankees have only been encouraged
to wage war with more energy. And under
the peisutsion false though it be that they
will meet with Union friends by penetrating to
the interior of the State, we shall no doubt soon
find them advancing with the reinforcements
they call for, towards Welden, or Raleigh, or
Fayetteville, one or all, burning and laying
waste and robbing wherever they, go. uAa
energetic prosecution of the war" that is, ac
cording to the invariable Yankee fashion, lay
ing waste as they go, and killing and maimiug
our sons and brothers is the only means by
which the Union sentiment can be made practi
cally useful." Useful to whom ? to Lincoln
and his plans of subjugation and spoliation !
Separate yourselves we beg of you we brg of
the Standard and of the participants in the so
called peace meetings -from tne remotest idea
of being willing to have any association or
sympathy with the blaek and white soouadrels
who meet your propositions for pace with
propositions to lay waste your ptoperty and
that of your neighbors and friends and kindred,
aud who denounce copperhead ism at the North,
that is, denounce the peace men at the North
to whom you look for assistance ia. securing
peace, but whose political destruction at home
you ensure by the peace meetings here.
Is any true man of North Carolina willing de
liberately to contiuu a course which thus en
courages tbe malignant enemy to make more
energetic war' upou our Slate ? God forbid!
Then let every patriotic citizeu who has been
for a moment misled by the natural aad aniver
ssi desire for peace, curat forward and repudi
ate this most unfortunate movement, that has
so encouraged the euemy. If any man shall re
fuse thus to repudiate it, now that its fatal ten-
tfenoy is exposed by t Yankees themselves,
Norm Carolina will assuredly repudiate him.
Upcn the occasion of the expulsion of General
Banks from the Valley by Jaekion, in 'the Sum
mer of 1862, and the capture of Wincheiter, a
frightened Dutchman ran -all the distance from
Winchester to Martinsburg. twenty two miles.
Tbe following is the Dutchman V description of the
capture of the town, and his flight; 1
"1 hear von. great noise,, and somebody say,
Stone wat Shackoa's come to town. I looks oat
de door, and I see von great big rebel, mit a born
coming down de bike, and he blay, Vhose been
here since 1 been gone? Sheneral Banks, mit a
blue coat on.' Thea I rushes back into mine
house, Mr. Daily, and I grabs my. monish -I have
mine monish here. Mr. Daily, (slaps bis pocket)
and I shainps over the stockade fence, aed I ran,
till I -can't run any more: , Bat I got my monish
Asxi xauj) lava x aui taut j
Pay your Tax in Kind Promptly. It is well
known to ait that our Congress, at its last ses
sion, levied a tax in kind on the products of the
earth. It is the duty , of ou rs plan ter to pay
this tithe, upon euoh crops as have been gather-;
ed in, at the very earliest opportunity. fOar
armies are cow needing the provisions which
these liihei will furnish, aed ought not to b
deprived. of them a moment longer than- is suf
ficient to get them to -some, depot where they
can ; be shipped to the arder pfhe government.
Brides', a prompt oropiitnce, with tlie prpvis
io rs of the law will save tfce Government much
expense end trouble , - Wesay 4tf, all wh faye
a "tax m ktod to bavi iio voer dutv 7 eatirioti-
cailj. at iMiee," with the li$!i possible , delay.e
j d4nouacii copperhead ism, at the -North, wd Jc Bf wait to betlksaoB 'kit ifarcJ dd
'commending the aoility ana pttnotiso oi tne
Tun Tax ih Kind. The Hon. James L.
Pagh, of Alabama, has recently - written a cob.
cise elucidation of the tax lw of the last Con-
picfl. jjxr, xuen is one of tne aoiest men m
the Confederate K u of Representatives, and
his views will be read with pecaliar interisl
throughout the country at this time :
Bkundidgx, July 11, 1863r
Mr. Editor '.You will please publish the
followipg propositions on taxation and subsis
tence : . .
1 No direst tax on Had and slaves esn be
laid by, Omgress .without f an apportionrasat.
Representation and direct taxes are insepsra
bie. No direct tax can be laid constitutionally
without a census do census can be taken dur
ing the war. Hence, those who favor a tax oa
property, and not on prodaotions, iccomes and
profits, are for violating tbe Constitution.
2. A tax on property instead of productions
would necessarily oppress the citizen and soU
dier, becsu.se the tax, in order to be u&iforra
must be laid on tbe land of tbe soldier as well
as the citizen who has been driven fro in his
home by th enemy aud making nothing ; then
property nwjt ssll under the hammer to pay
taxes.
3. The prevision tax, or ia kind, can opprsgs
so one; as no person pays anyth ag if be
makes nothing ; wherean, the tax on property
must be the same oa every one, and paid-in
money, whether the land makes provisions or.
grass and weeds. The provision tax will stop
the increase of the war debt and the 'fin ther' is
sue of Confederate money sustain oredit abroad
aad confidence at home, and above all feed the
army abundantly. A tax on property willae.
com p lis h neither of these results. Hence, I ia
in favor of the tax ia kind, aud the mouey tar
on incomes and profits, instead of a money
tax on property.
4. Whether you lay a tax on property or A
tax in kind, it must be the same on every body,
because if the property or crops of any one,
whether citizen or soldier, is exempted, uniforaa.
ity is destroyed and the tax is unconttitution
al.
5. The provision tax of one tenth Is all the
planter pays while incomes from speculation
dec, are tsxed as high as fifteen per cent.
6. Potatoes, peas aad ground peas, left in
tbe field for stork, are not counted, because the
tax law requires an account only of such por
tions of the crop usually gathered as ''have
been sold or com-utned prior to making the
estimate. This was inteeded to guard agsimt
frsud and evasion of the tax law, but eannot
embrace potatoes, peas, &., usually left in the,
field as these have not been aold or consumed
prior to efctimV.e, whieh will be made as soon
as the crop is gathered. The Government will
need grain, dee., at once, to supply the Confed
era te army. Your obsdieat servant.
J. L. PUG II.
The Fighting Strength of the Con federacy.-
Mr. DeBow, Editor of DeBow's Re view, baa
made a calculation of the fighting p.u'mioo of
our country. He makes a very fair deduction
for our losses in consequence of the position of
Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and portions of
Virginia, Tennessee, Louiiana and Arkansas.
He then shows that our male population ' be
tween tbe ages of 17 and 45 amounts to 1-131.
500. Deducting orie fourth for exempts (a very
Urge allowance,) we have 830. 000 ' men, Wa
have lost many men in the war; but the natur
a! flow of our population has gone far- to re.
place them. -During the two years of hostili
ties not less than 120.000 males have pasted
from under to over 18 years of age. Mr. De
Bow estimates from these figures, that in no
e ve&t during a long war can the Confederate)
strength be reduoed under 700.000 if the po
pie are in earnest. This is an army ample for
ail our possible necessities.
Conditio &FjfK& Post Office Department!
A correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer
givs the following account of the thrifty condi
tion of the Post Office Department, under the
management of Postmaster General Reagan.
The intention of the Government in making the
department self-sustaining will ultimately b
realized: ' ' . . r
Revenue for the quarter ending September
30, 1862, $717,274,99. For the quarter end.
ina December 31st; 1862. $772,820 88: For
the quarter ending ifarch 31st, 1863, 907-
808,63. Totdl, 2,89704,39. , . . f . t:
' It is estimatsd that the nhmbef of 'soldisra
how in the Con fed erate army an d fa pi d I y 1 o rta '
invfo-th6fieldia'519,QOO.pis'bardly:me " ;;;;
e one-half of' our fi igb ting popnlaf ion. ;If poor 7 k ' !.
toong a who will tay that with su& m t?'
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