Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-01-22
81 81 For the Standard.
TIE TEST OATH IN COLUMBUS. AGAIN.

s TIE TEST OATH III COLUMBUS, AGAIN
g. y WHrrEvILLE, N c., Jan. Is, 1862.
w. W. HOLDEN, ESQ. - ts
DEAR SIR: On the 9th, 9TH and 9Th days OF Nov
last before the Convention assembled the last time
l. while receiving the lists Of taxable property rom
the citizens within my section Of the county, ten
dcred oath of allegiance to the Confederate oaes
of America to over three hlndred taxpayers, VINO
apparently received it with satisfaction and some Oh
them even expressed their delight, while none muir
INJURED so far as know. Six weeks or more AFTER
wards your correspondent &C, y from this county,
informs YOU not me of my having committed ian
outrage" upon him.. 1t seems that :" G" and one
more whom I have lately heard OF in this county,
out of at least five hundred to whom said oath
was administered by and other Assessors, are
the only persons who are not pleased. Why need
you he displeased and sc anxious FOR my removal
from so humble an Office as Assessor? Twill, or at
least, wish to relieve your anxiety in that regard,
by informing you that Tas out OF said otflce over
a month ago by having fully discharged all the
duties thereof, and as the oath Of allegiance was
we'll administered there will be necessity OF ap
pointing a substitute for that purpose before anoth
er revolution. As you are not citizen OF this COL
lection district, presume that you would not re-
ceve the appointment, provided substitute should
be required for any purpose.
have gwen the dates, to show that the action OF
the State Convention had nothing to do with the
subject, because it acted after dd-and further, l
was not an 0nicer OF TINS state. o..
Yours, &c, j. a. MAULTSBY.
We very readily publish the above Card" from
Mr. Maultsby. From his private note to us, we are
glad to find Mr. NJ in a better temper than at first
and We are now satisfied that while he committed
All error which ought to have been rebuked at the
time by those to whom the oath was administered,
that he designed no harm to any one. The error
not therefore, of the heart. He thinks our cor
respondent "C' ought TO have complaied to him,
and not TO us. Perhaps it would have been BETTER
but the fact stands admitted that he oEerstepped
the line of duty and Of this the citizens had right
to complain in their own way. In his note to US,
Mr. NJ. says:
"Your correspondents letter told the truth, and
Of the letters contents and your remarks that have
seen in the Stanltdrd of the LIST and 18TH do not
complain 1t is "Cs" conduct in not complaining
to me, instead of to you, at the time the outrage
was committed upon him, instead Of six weeks al
forwards, that dcnounce as cowardly."
We append the following Card from citizens of
Columbus, at the request of our correspondent &C."
CoLrNBrs COUNTY, ~ G., JAN 1s, 1862.
". ~ Holden, ESq.:-
DEAR SIE: We, the undersigned citizens of Co
umbuS County, do certify the following extract
from an article which appeared IN the Standard Of
Jan. lSt, to be true. We also certify the "tax col
lcctor" therein named, TO lie Col Alfred Smith, of
Whltevl!c, and the man took the lists to bc Jno. A
MautSby, Esq, Of the same place. The following
is the extract:
Our tax collector advertised for us all to attend
on certain day to give in lists of taXablcs to
appointed 10 receive the lists. Accordingly we
met Tor the purpose of giving in our lists,
thought When he swore us to our lists he annex
ed the oath Of allegiance to the Confederate States
OF America
W. HAWKINS,
JAS. C. McEWEN.
ALIEN CAMPBELL,
ID. N. HOBBS,
U. HOBBS
f. NJ. PATE
WV. w. WAYNE,
ELI MEMERY,
a. j. CAMPBELL