The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-05
Edgecombe; |, Captain John Cameron, Orange X, Cap
tain Geo Williamson, Caswell

From the Mecklenburg Jefersonian, Jan. p, 1871,
The NORTH CARoLNA VoLuNrEERs.--It is a very re-
markable fact, that Governor Graham could not find
among all the volunteers nor in the counties from
which the volunteers came fit to fill the Offices of coone
and heuenent colonel of the regiment OF volunteers He
had to take men for these Offices who not only not
volunteers themselves but whose counties had refused
furnish single volunteer. f .iaf tus
We venture to say, that set of men, under similar
circumstances We're ever treated so shameuly and out
ageously have been our brave men who are now as
sembed and are to assemble at Charlotte and Whining
ton to march as volunteers to Mexico First the egsa
ure tells them they are going to fight in unjust
that Their own government is in the wrong and Mexico
IN the right They are next told by the same wise and
patriotic bodyYou are not capable of choosing proper
officers tocommand you in the field of bale--the gov
enor shall appoint them; he knows better than you dc
what sort OF officers you should have And how has the
governor discharged this duty for the vounteers By the
appointment OF men OF military skill and knowledge
teered at the call of their country to fight her battles
All will admit this is what he should have done But he
has as we learn bypryate letters from Raleigh appointed
Robert I: Payne of Chowan county, colonel; John A
Fagg, OF Buncombe lieutenant colonel, and M s. Stokes
OF Wilkesborough, major.
These appointments cap the climax of insults heaped
upon our brave volunteers by the legislature and gov
ernor No objection is made to the appointment of Mr.
Stokes He is military man by profession and educa-
ton; and if the appointment was TO be given to any one
out of the ranks of volunteers, his selection was
good one. But who Is Robert L. Payne? lawyer
and member of the Legislature, who knows about
as much OF the duties of colonel in all probability
volunteering at the call of his country in the legis
ature denouncing the unjust and unconstitutional
and helped to take away from the volunteers the right
elect their own commanders Lieut. Col Fagg is less
qualified for his post than is Col Payne.
These are the commanders Gov Graham has put over
men who leaving their homes to peril their lives in
battles in foreign land 1t not enough to tell these
brave men--you are going TO fight people who never
wronged youyou are not capable of selecting suitable
field officers to command you this arduous field, but
the governor Of the State add the further insult of
telling them by his acon-among all the gallant spirits
in your ranksthough you all volunteered, and have
among You such men Wilson, and CALDWELL and Long,
and Ellis and many others like them, be found
capable of filling the field Offices OF the regiment-you
must under two of my favortes Could grosser
insult be offered to the volunteers
1t lspossibe these appointments have not been made
hope they have not, and that the governor will yet
appoint the field officers from among the volunteers But,
the on Tuesday night here, that such had
been his action created feeling of the deepest ndgna
ton not only among the volunteers but among ct-
generally of both parties. We believe the voIun-
teers here will submit TO such an outrage but will
dsband and 60 home first They are no mental herd,
dragged up here to be driven TO the field of battle by
whomsoeyer a partisan governor may see fit TO put
them; they intelligent reemen. who fight for
their country for the love they bear her. and they have
right to be treated with respect and consideratonhGt
right MeV acW boldly assert.