Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-13
Impressmsnt-.supnlies. &c.

ell, gives notice to the people of the Confederate
States that the time is not distant when they will
have to "eat horse aesh-aye, mule flesh" to avoid
sarvation He says "let take care Of the horses
and mules they may become our Uiande de reserre."
Have we intSed come to this Are our wives and
children to be compelled to live on mule and'horse
flesh Thousands of them we know, have no meat
of any kind, and have had none for weeks but they
will eat corn bread and parehed corn the balance of
their days before they viii touch horse or mule
meat. The Richmond Enquirer circulates freely
beyond the lines, and is extensively read by our
enemies That paper tells them that our people are
on the verge of starvation; that they about to
be reduced the terrible necessity of subsistng
mule and horse flesh. What is this but aid and.
comfort to the enemy? Such information, whether
true or false, bids Lincoln hold on and 60 on with
the war. 1t bids him take courage, for the En9ui-
reT says we are starving Is John Mitchell true to
the Confederate causes .WhoNkHOws that he is p
Who can Vouch for him?
The Richmond and Petersburg papers are greatly
excited by the manner in which Confederate officers
are mpressing private property for the army. The
Rhig says:
eve have some men in Office, who 10 be stricken
extort from the people the means OF subsistence
for to-day they to be perfectly Indifferent what be-
comes of people and army Tomorrow.
The same paper notices the contempt shown for
Congress by officers who Impressng in the alb
sence Of law, while that body is engaged in consid-
ering the subject Of impressment and endeavoring
to establish rules to regulate it and then speaking
of the system generally says:
alt is nothing more than the Turkish system,
which has been going throughout this State for the last
tbs III the rural DISTRICTS but perpetrated here
where many people cUngregated and starvation mm
nrBt it makes more noise.
Nothing has puzzled than to form satisfactory
conjecture of the object ct the authorities IN nSuing
this tyraunca and niqutOus system Was intense hate
of the pe0De of Virginia on whom thus far the burden has
mainly failed: Was intended TO disaect the whole pop
uatiOntO make them deIest the of e CoufederRcy
and those who directing Or it designed to con-
people into Turks who Secree their stores of all
sorts and fly the mountains and the woods ut tue APP
pruach of government agent! Or Is II the purpose Ia
strip Virginia of tine of subsistence preparatory To
the programme last AprilOf a5auduning her To the
mercy of Ghe invader? The iniquy of the proceeding
might be accounted for by the iuslence of upsart officials
Who having had any power before, only might
exercising what they have and making the people
feel they have their backs. But ITS tolly-s
ruinous unspeakabIe E,y-by which production
is be exnSuished, aud government people aud army
reduced to sarvaton-tdt puts at defiance all human con-
lecture.
tiles defeat legislation the subject 10 declare
in advance that they would treat with and contempt
i
Cannot lie and too sternly. The authorities
of Virginia protection her people Let the Legis
aure declare by resolution and request the Governor tn
declare by proclamation tue people, that they under
obligation to respect these proceedngs-tht the whole
Contrary lawthLt IL is their Fight aud prvI-
resist BY force illegal seizure oil their property
or if they prefer 10 for the arrest
vcton and punishment of these ielonious freebnoters
And the militia of the should be ordered TO hold
themselves readiness give assistance 10 a citizens IN
..S!Stng these aggreS-iunS ON their rights
In the face of these Outrages on public and private rights
e fba I.TiSla
deut Davis asking authority of Cong ess to suspend
the great buwark of reedom-he writ Of hdbtds corpus
over COnederacy. Ii Congress should be want
ing spiritSo dereic in duty, let the Virginia Senators
least be commanded to present uncomPrUmsnS resist
/ ance to this surrender OF al our liberties
! The journals referred to are complaining Of what
! has been common thing in this State for months
past Our people have borne it with patience and
ortitude worthy of themselves and of the cause and
that too,while the official organ at Richmond, the
Enquirer has been denouncing three. fourths Of
them re-constructionsts and traitors. We have
heard of forcible impressments in various parts Of
this State Among the numerous letters we receive
is one from "a poor crippled man" in Alamance
County, who says there officers or persons i'm.
pressing corn and bacon IN that County for the
Piedmont Road and for Danville, and. they say they
have authority for doing this. Our reply is they
nave llO SUCH autIlOIlty luSSe Oe Ohy
spectators. Make them show their authority. If
they have none, dive them by force, if necessary
out of the County; if they show authority from the
Secretary of War, let them have what you spare
provided they pay the market price for it; but if
they attempt TO take corn and bacon which are in
dspensable to the poor to sustain life, resist them
There is no law of Congress the subject of i'm
pressmen and the Secretary of War, therefore, has
no authority to take private property by force
But the Enquirer wants the people to live on
horse and mule meat. These useful animals them
must be slaughtered. In that event. how will the
land be poughcd? What shall we have to pull our
wagons? Oxen? They must fall by the butchers
knife before the horse mule is touched. We
suppose the Enquirer means that horses and mules
in good order must be kept for farming purposes
and the poor ones killed for the people to live on
Verify, wisdom will die with the Enquirer
The question of supplies is the most important
one that can be presented to our people. That man
who shall plant cotton tobacco for'proit during
the present year, will not only stab his poor neigh,
bors by aiding to consign them to starvation, but
he will inhict deadly wound, so far as he can do
it, brave soldiers and on the common cause
: CuCh lndh - al eHeulS u MS klhu anu 10 us
country. Plant corn put every that you
can in corn. Plant potatoes also, and everything
else that will sustain life. Plant corn and save your
country; plant cotton and tobacco and destroy It!
Port Hudson.
Prominent in Southern rcgard-ohjectS of un-
ceasng solcitude and interest, stand Vcksburg and
Port Hudson, the sole surviving warders that cha-