Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-28
The once OF SURGEON General.

Dr. Edward Warren as Surgeon General of the State,
an attempt has been made by the Register and 9TH
er enemies of Gov. Vance, to produce the impress
sion that such an officer is not needed at this par
ticular time. The act authorizing the appointment
of Surgeon General makes the Executive alone the
judge of the necessity for such officer; and upon
the installation of Gov. Vance, it became his duty
to examine for hinsse into the propriety of contin-
uing the Office without being biased by the opin-
ions and conduct of any one After thorough in
vestgation of the subject the Governor has thought
proper to continue the Office, and has appointed a
gentleman every way eminently qualified to fill it
1t will be admitted, even by the most inveterate
partizans, that the gallant men who have volun-
teered to fight our battles deserve at the hands of
the State, all possible consideration and kindness
especially when Frustrated by disease or wounds
1t is also notorious that though the Confederacy may
be disposed to do all in its power for the comfort of
the sick and wounded yet there is much left to be
done, and which the States can and should do, for
the relief OF their afflicted sons For these
nearly every State has preserved some special medi
cal organization, having for its object the care of
their sick and wounded Thus South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana have established
large and wellregulated hospitals, in which their
oWn soldiers are principally received and supplied
with multitude OF comforts by friends and rela-
tives which otherwise would be denied them. Thus
depots have been established to which the volunta
ry contributions of the philanthropic can be for
warded for distribution according to the wishes of
the charitable donors Thus the battlefield has
been visited by the skilful and the humane acting
under the authority of their respective States, and
the wounded cared for amid the bursting of shells
and the whistling of bullets In this way the bed
of the sick and mutated soldier has been visited
alike in the humble cottage, and stately mansion,
and crowded hospital, and soothed by the kindly
minstrations of those who feel personal interest
in his welfare.
North-Carolna, we are proud to say, has not
been backward in this noble work. She, too has
her hospitals and her depots and has sent her best
talent to the field to aid in the preservation of her
bleeding and gallant sons. In a word, she has re-
membered that her soldiers her children, bound
to her by the most tender and sacred ties and de-
serving of all the liberalty and kindness she can
bcstow upon them. Gov. Vance was called upon
number oe soldiers in the field, should abandon her
medical organization, surrender her hospitals, and
desert her sick and mutilated children when their
necessities were greatest and their appeal for aid
most urgent. He had to determine whether he
would trucke to certain politicians in the State, by
abandoning our hospitals and medical organization,
or boldly stand by and serve in their great necessities
of wounds and Sickness the true and brave men who
are stalking their lives in our defence. The
Governor has wisely and humanely determined that
North Carolina shall not prove faithless to those
whose blood has been shed in her behalf, but that
the best medical SKILL the warmest sympathy, and
the most abundant means at his command shall be
devoted to the relief of her sick and wounded SOL
diers He has, therefore, commissioned DR.. War
rem as Surgeon General-has again secured for the
State the hospitals which his predecessor had turned
over to the Confederate Government and mace ar
rangemerts for another in the city of Richmond
has constituted of first citizens his general
agent to look after the interests Of our suffering
soldiers in Virginia has set himself diligently tc
work to collect hospital supplies throughout tn,
State, and to have them promptly forwarded to the
army-has made personal inspection of some of tn,
hospitals, and labored to ascertain the condition
and wants of their inmates-has opened depot o
supplies in Raleigh to which all contributions car
| be sent without risk or expense-and has sent the
| Surgeon General to the army in Virginia, literally
supplied with means and clothing and with in
structions to give his personal attention, far a
practicable, to every sick and wounded man from
! North Carolina.
In view of these facts, and in the name Of tn
brave but unfortunate who have illustrated
their patriotism by the exposure of their lives anc
expenditure of their blood, appeal to every loya
citizen of the State to know if Gov. Vance has no
acted wisely and well in all he has done for ou
suffering soldiers.