Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-01-22
81 For the Standard.
TUE TEST OATH IN COLUMBUS, AGAIN.
L WHrrEyiLLs, N. G., Jan. 10. 1862.

4 = For the Standard.
(. TUE TEST OATH IN COLUMBUS, AGAIN.
2 = e WalrEy1LE, N. 9, Jan II, 1862.
~. w. Holden. EsQ.:-
i DsAE Sn: % the 6th, 7th and 9Th days Of Nov.
last before the Gonvstion assembled the last time,
while receiving the lists of taxable property from
the citizens within my section Of the county, ten
dercd an cath Of allegiance to the Confederate States
Of America to over three hundred taxpayers, who
apparently received it sth satisfaction, and some Of
them even expressed their delight, while none mf-
INJURED so far as know. Six weeks or more after
wards. your correspondent &C." from this county,
informs you, not me- Of my having committed ian
outrage upon him. 1t seems that &C." and one
more whom I have lately heard Of in this county,
out of at least five hundred men to whom said oath
was administered by me and other Assessors, are
the only persons who are not pleased. Why need
You be displeased and SO 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 was out of said Office over
. month ago. by having fully discharged all the
duties thereof and as the oath Of allegiance was
well administered there will be no necessity of sp-
pointing substitute for that purpose before anoth-
lection district, presume that you would not re-
ceive the appointment provided substitute should
be required for any purpose
have given the dates, to show that the action of
the State Convention had nothing to do with the
subject because it acted after did-and further, l
was not an officer Of this State.
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 better temper than at first,
and are now satisfied that while he committed
error which ought to have been rebuked at the
limo hy. fo urho he odrp mic
that he designed no harm to any one. The error
was not, therefore, of the heart He thinks our cor
respondent "C' ought tc have complaied to him,
and not to US. Perhaps it would have been better;
but the fact stands admitted that he overstepped
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
in the Standard of the LIST and 18TH L 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 af-
forwards, that denounce as cowardly."
We append tho following Card from citizens of
Columbus at the request of our correspondent, &C."
COLUMBUS COUNTY, N. C., JAM ls, 1862.
w. ". Holden, Esq.,
DEAR Sir: We, the undersigned citizens Of Co.
lnmbus County, Go certify the S;iowing extract
from an article which appeared IN the Standard Of
Jan. LIST, to be true. We also certify the "tax COL
lector" therein named, to he Col Alfred Smith, Of
Whteville, and the took the lists to be Jno. A
Maultsby, 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 taxables to a
man appointed to receive the lists Accordingly we
met Tor the purpose of giving in our lists, as we
thought When he swore us to our lists he annex
ell the oath OF allegiance to the Confederate States
of America"
W. HAWKINS,
JAS C. MCEWEN
ALEX. CAMPBELL,
d. NJ. HOBBS,
o. HOBBS,
F. NJ PATE,
wv. w. WAYNE
ELI MEMERY,
A. j. CAMPBELL