Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-06-04
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MydeafI Major, have tried in vain to r.s.,:
from Participating in the contemptuous oninion a
tertained by almost every one for the man whn GU
80 eager for war-who denounced the Yanks,s" Vas
towards and declared he could whip bundress az ~
them hilnself-and also for him who would ~ OF
the fighting for dime and wipe up all the ho a.,
split with his pocket. handkerchief &c-a,S S,oo no
then settled quietly down into snug shade ot who
and belied all his pretensions and professions r.,
my opinion Of such man am "irresponsibe s0s
cannot help it; and l greye to tell Won No. so'
that there are many others likewise "irresponshIo
for whose sentiments please do not consider mo y
sponsble. But in order to afford you an onnort'
nHy OF retrieving your character, sencing renal.
about your want of pluck and obliteratins thai con
temPtuous opinion Of you almost universally W.
ou'gee ~, propose that you and enlist as mi.
,tss e. luz repair at once to Richmond and
there tight side by side, as long as we are nesSas
each OF us entering into an obligation to accent ~
once, ana to stand by each other as Comrades ;O
oateie' each shielding and protecting the other rs
lar as ne can; and if it be any inducement To yo'
otter you bounty of $50, and will paw Won in
treasury Confeaerate, or Bank notes, as YOU nav
choose, without the deduction of any percentage
"na1everf 10 you accept the proposition?
Tour Witness dear Major, Capt Foulkes is un.
Ano"n 70 me and you probably know as much as
90 OF his reasons for volunteering his evidence Int
beg, through you, to tender him nv thanks rs
cordially endorse his declaration that 1.-THE man is
traitor who tries to cast shadow" upon the value
OF confederate notes; and with this endorsement of
MS evidence leave the man or men, if any such
there De, who have deprecated them, to YOU and
Capt. Foulkes. Do with them as you like, Bnt
Major, if you consider Confederate notes better than
Treasury notes, as Capt. Foulkes did, were YOU not
deprecating the value of Confederate notes by ex.
changing them ITO large amount" with Can't,
Foulkes for Treasury notes? Sometimes a verv
Wiling witness proves too much ard CAPT. Foulke,
may De reprehensibe for taking advantage of your
simplicity, and getting from you Confederate notes
without paying you any premium in exchange for
Treasury notes, which he says "do not pass out of
the State except alta discount" and he significantly
asks, Are they Confederate notes. not better than
n Carolina treasury notesl" Major, he must have
overreached you in those Exchanges to large
amount, and fear some one will think YOU are in.
competent to the discharge of the duties OF Paw.
master, if you thus permit your witnesses to testify
that you exchanged one kind of money for another
of less value. Perhaps your safest plan would be
to pay the soldiers with the money furnished you
for the purpose, as there would then be no oppor
tunity for any intermediate party to make any per
centage.
might say much more-I might charge that
soldiers are put to Inconvenience by being paid in
bills of large denominations and l might prove
that hundred dollar bill is sometimes paid to two
soldiers for them to get changed and divide between
them, &c. But what avails it? Are there not
men in power who have resolved that the offices
belong to the saints and that they are the saints
Is it not treason to lift the voice against the acts of
such men? Do not they, either to shield themselves
from responsibility, with natural self.conse-
quence, try to identify their own official conduct
with the cause If the South, one and inseparablc,
making it treason to hold them to account equally
with opposition to the cause? If such men would
prosecute the with half the zeal they exhibited
to bring it on, they would be much more useful
than they now are
| remain, Major,
Your ob't ser'vt.
| FRANK. l. WILSON.
Raleigh, June Q, 1862