The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-11-25
CONFEDERATE AND CONTINENTAL
MONEY .s.aas iEr.s 3.

1t has been with surprise and regret that we
have heard men who ought TO know better, ex-
press the apprehension that Confederate money
will become worthless as the old Continental
currency. Such an opinion as this amounts to an
admission that the cause Of the Confederate States
is hopeless, and that we shall fail to achieve our
Independence, for just as sure as we succeed in
establishing Cur position free and Independent
nation, just surely will every obligation in
CURED in the attainment Of this great end be re-
deemed. If, on the other hand, we fail, what we
should like to know, will be the value Of any State
Bank money any other description of property
in the States now composing the Confectionery
Not one copper. This continued dsparagement
ct Confederate 'currehcy-this apprehension that
it will become worthless as Continental money
Is calculated to have no other effect than to bring
disaster upon our cause, and the loss of all our
property, if not by confscation outright, by the
somewhat slower, but not less certain process Of
the most grinding taxation Should the South be
conquered, her citizens will be taxed for the pay
mcnt Of the enormous debt incurred by the North
10 the war waged for our subjugation, as we'll as
for the payment Of the large debt incurred by us
in the impotent effort to achieve our indepehd-
These are undeniable facts, and it does
seem to us most extraordinary that men viii. not
see tnat the surest way to hold our property, as
we'll as to secureour liberty, is to maintain in our
dealings the credit of the Confederate Govern
ment, and that the su-est way of bringing about
the loss of both is to disparage that credit
The comparison of the Southern Confederacy,
when it shall have established its Independence
as nation, with the United States when they
emerged from the war of the Revolution, as it re-
CARDS their respective ability to redeem their obli-
cations, ia preposterously absurd. Our fathers
came out of seven years war with sparse pop.
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was to them indefinitely larger to them than any
that we shall incur Since that time the States
of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Missouri, Texas and Florida-States all within
the Confederacy-have been acquired, and since
that time the culture Of the Cotton Plant tho
great lever Of commerce, has commenced in this
country, and We all know to what point the pro-
duction of that article has been carried Can
there be doubt, then, that independent Con-
federacy, containing within it's limits climate and
soil admirably adapted tor the production on an
extensive scale OF cotton sugar, tobacco and grain
crops Of every description, and possessing, too,
mineral resources of incalculabe value, with rail-
roads and large navigable streams in every direc-
tlon to afford access 70 market will possess basis
of credit which will enable it fully to meet every
obligation which it has incurred or may incur!
How worse than idle, then, is the comparison Of
the promises to pay Of such Government with
the Continental money issued during the Reyolu-
tionary war with Great Britain! Let, then, the
croakers, if their disease is not chronic aud in
durable, think of the undenable facts we have
stated, and discontinue course which so directly
tends to cripple the Government, and bring on
the loss of the cause in which is involved property
and liberty, and everything worth living for, or
dying for. The Southern man who now does
everything to hold up and strengthen the hands Of
the Confederate Government, is not only good
aud patriotic citizen, but sensible man, and the
Southern man who does anything to injure its
credit or weaken its hands, is not only miserable
traitor, but consummate fool.-Ratetgh Reg.