Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-07-14
For the Standard.
Injustice to North. h.CaroIiua-..Our General
AasomhIu

Assembly,
MR EDToR:- in your Semi-weekly OF the 30 INST
a piece headed "Gross Injustice to North Carolina IN
which you say that the chief 7TthinguG" appointed TOR
this State by the administration at Richmond is I!r-
9iRian person Of the name of Bradford" You make
the further statement in substance that gGtGnt cer OF
of our regiments who had been wounded, called ut
Richmond for an office but was refused and that Vir-
gnIans had received appointments &C. AFTER treating OF
those things then gvea warning to the people, telling
and demand the rsnscSaI of this TrgiHaH," &c Your
warning wel-timed and your remedy gooo one pGt,
sir permit to mention another Our Genera assembly
is in session, acting for the good of their
and truly glad TO understand that they nave passed
good law upon the currency. Now SIR Is ~ ho' Equally
incumbent upon the members to ward Oh all ep'S3SoHs
upon our people?
Proof ample that people have been treated worse
than any State in the Confederacy and still continuation
of the same treatment persisted in Such things are to
be stopped if the rights of the people are TO De
Now, sir, one of the citizens of the honeSt OLD;
fashioned debt-paying State of NorthCarohna call
upon the General Assembly in session. to pass reso-
utons condemnatory of such conduct on the part o the
officials at RichmOni especially as to the GHg @Rtng-
man, and all others of like cast and also to keep our own
tronps in own State. The people will sustain them,
and they have sent them there to watch over tneT In
terests DAILY.
Rutherford Co., June 1868:
Our correspondent is informed that on the last
night of the session, Mr.. Afford, of Wake, intro
ducedsresolutons in the House of Commons de-
nouncing the appointment of this Virginian as
Tithingman, and respectfully and earnestly calling
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resolution would have been introduced earlier in the
session but for the pressure of business, and Mr..
Affords resolution would have passed by large
majority if the two houses had had time to vote
upon it. As soon as Mr. Affords resolution was
read, DR.. Saml L. Love, candidate for Congress in
the 10th District, Confederate officer, and member
of the Commonc, rose in his place and opposed It
He thought the officer referred to was obliged to
be of certain grade in the army, leaving the In
ference that there citizen of this State of the
grade referred to. He also said that there was no
room for "grumblng" on the subject for no doubt
there were North Caronians in office in other States;
and generally in his feeble forcible or forcble fee
BILE way, he apoogized for this insult to North Car
olna, and approved the action of the administration
in appointing Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and
Marylanders to such offices in our midst.
Just here Capt Grissom of Granville took the
floor and put the Doctor through course Of sprouts
which he will long remember. The inevitable Mr..
Cobb of Edgecombe, then came to the Doctors res
cue, and elaborated the Doctors idea that Presi-
dent Davis was the second Washington Capt.
GrisSom also took him in hand, and Mr.. Cobb Jared
no better than the Doctor. About five minutes be-
fore the hour fixed for adjournment Mr.. Cobb pro-
pounded a question to Capt. Grissom, which the
latter proceeded to answer. 1t required some. time
to do fully and satisfactorily, but Capt Grssom
had the fOOr-the moments were hying-Mr. Cobb
was distressed at the idea of losing his speech-he
cried out "Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is making
speech the House roared-Mr Cobb laughed and
looked sorry by turns,-Capt GrisSom, having the
floor continued to answer his questionable mo-
ment for adjournment arrived-the Speakers ham,
mer fell, and Mr.. Cobb went over to the 4th Mon
day in November, when it is expected he will re-
sumo his remarks Altogether it was an amusing
scene.
Let it be known to the people of the 10th Con-
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pointment of a citizen of another State to collect
the tithes in North Carolina
In this connection we state that Maj. Smith,
Commissary in this City, was ordered recently to
report for duty at Richmond and that his place has
been filled by Virgnian. And we learn that all
the employees in this office, in this City, are from
other States How long is our State to be treated
in this way?