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Let it be borne in mind that the above only shows
mainly what has been contributed to the army of
the Potomac Were the amount fully ascertained
which has been sent to the army of Western Vir-
ginia, the army on the Peninsula, the army around
States it would no doubt run up to four or five
millions. Virginia must have contributed a very
large amount, of which no account has been taken.
The contributions of North Carolina have been half
Million at least, if not double the above amount;
and no doubt other States have doubled If not
trebicd the amount set down to them above.
But there is another thought Should the war
last more must be done the present year. The
current of benevoence must not be damned up
But how it be kept open if war prices are de-
,manded for every thing? Yet it must be done, 9th
erwise our armies must be destroyed by disease,
and rendered inefficient by the discomfort our men
must suffer. Let our people begin now to take
time by the forelock, and cast about themselves TO
provide for the present years needs of the army.
Economist, economist. Learn to live on less, and
let every thing count. make all you cam" by
honest efort-not by cxtortion and oppression, but
by hard knocks. "save all you q taking
care of the cents "Give all you S1l III order
that you may have something to give and to spare.
Mr. EDIToR:-I will not forbear to offer you my
thanks for the opportunity of reading the speech of
Hon. William A. Graham, against the "test oath
bill of Judge Biggs. Such bill, proposed by a
Judge of the Confederate Court, does seem to me,
ought 70 be offence for which the Judge ought to
be deprived of his commission. But the little
quantance had with that Judge relieved my mind
some time ago, when read the bill and the report,
of the shock it would have received if the bill had
proceeded from some other man. 1t was very we'll,
though that it introduced, it made the Occa-
sion for the mastery argument of MIR. Graham,
which it is refreshing read in these times of depar
ture from the landmarks of civil liberty, which
| fathers erected. l thank Mr.. Graham. c.
January ., 1862.
The foregoing which is from highly intelligent
source is but one of the many evidences We have
received of the high estimate placed on Gov.
Graham's speech. 1t is. indeed great effort. We
expect in the course of few weeks to issue large
edition of this speech in pamphlet FORM
Our correspondent is little severe upon Judge
Biggs; but Mr.. Woodfn, of Buncombe is equally
responsible with him for this attempt to sDsar the
whole people Of the State to be true to themselves
Indeed Mr.. Woodtin went far as to propose that
| no one should be allowed to vote hereafter, who
would not take oath of allegiance to the Confed-
! crate government This would have been a new
test of State suffrage bottomed on the assumed par
amount power of the Confederate government; and
this too, from brand-new States rights man
Many of the Western Counties have sent so many
men to the war that in some localities only the
women, and old men, and boys of sixteen have been
left to house the crops; and yet Judge Biggs and
Mr.. Wood6n would have required these aged pa
trsrchs and beardless boys to 60 up and swear to
be true to the for which their sons and broth
ers have pledged themselves to die, and to purge
themselves by this process, from the general and in
discriminate charge of disloyaty and treason How
fortunate it is for the character of the State and for
the repose Of the State, and for the Strengthening
Of just in the eyes of the world that this
pernicious "test oath" proposition was voted down
| by the Convention! s.'