Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-22
Extracts from Letters. t
Extracts from letters received at the Staadord

SVhANHEON, QlCuuODU w., Ouly, 4oVos +
"The people dread the present cali for troops be-
cause they seem to have lost confidence in their
rulers They appear to dread that when they serve
the war don't know how the cities and towns
viii make out in sparing more men, but if all the
soie-oodled men are taken from the farms the hard
work will fall on the sick, the lame, and the blind
LoNe's MILLS, Randolph, July, 1868. :
"Our wheat crop has been materially injured by
the wet weather. + = find the people through
out my travels almost unit for peace. The oppo-
st'on to propositions for peace find mostly in the
towns and villages"
SALISBURY, July, 1868. .
The Standard grows daily in favor in this sec.
ton. Many who formerly took the Register and
State Journal have dropped them, and now read
your paper altogether"
. BLouNTvnLE Tenn, July, 1868. =
"lregard yours as truthful and impartial paper.
1t maintains the true ground in relation to this cruel
and fratricdal war in which we have been plunged,
as believe, by the fanatics of the North and the
tre-eaters of the South and for which they should
be held equally responsible" So
SuRRY County, Juue, 1868.
"Your paper is one for the times fully believe
that twenty to one in this neighborhood approve
your course"
.HENDERsoNvILLE, June, 1863
"1eur course is approved b. our people. We
want the laws administered in their purity-we
want freedom Of speech and of the press, and this
Dreadful war closed as soon as possible" :.
ROCKY MOUNT, June, 1863
-FOUR course in indicating the honor Of North.
carolina, and repelling the vile ISLANDERS heaped up
on ner' thoroughly endorse and know it will be
where"
., WHKEsBoRoUaH June, 1868.
"All your readers in this County. as far as I can
hear. are well pleased with your paper It is the
friend OF the soldier and of his family at home. I
friend" F~'
~. RANDOLPH County, June, 1868.
:, Weadmlre the firm stand which you take against
the Destructves. We want you to cry nightly
ior peace. 1t must come at some time on some
terms. and the sooner the better. Stand firm, re-
careless OF consequences for the supremacy of the
law and the welfare of the common people. and Won
will be sustained"
SAMPSON County, June, 1868.
expect to take your paper as long rs you
speak out as you now do, and tell the people the
whole truth about their affairs"
BUNcoMRE County, June, 1862
The Lower Swannanoa company lOSth repi-
ment N. G. militia of Buncombe, numbered
before the war one hundred and forty between
the ages of IL and 40. Now there are but twenty
SUBJECT to the militia counting exempts from con-
scription ana ALL Not man of this company has
at any time been conscripted, neither has single
deserter returned back to it. Soldiers from this
company have been in every great battle since the
war began, and in every one some have fallen:-
Every family mQurns loss. Last August in the
Governors election every in the bounds of Lower
Swannanoa company, as we'll as their sons in the
army, voted for Gov Vance.
RANDOLPH County, June, 1853.
,"My God! look around-mure than half the men
that left Randolph two years ago are dead lam told
this state Of things exists nearly every where
Something should be done to arrest this state of
things. You have influence and nerve-can't you
propose something that will least some of the
sons of our State? The man or the men who
could put stop tho ..sci of our pao-
pie, and bring peace fair terms, would be regard
ed as benefactois of their kind.
YApKIN County, June, 1868.
Hurrah for the STANDARD and our noble Gov.
vance, May God grant hin I.ie wisdom of Solo
mon, the strength of Samson, and the piety and
father Of the Jews"
WINDSOR Bertie, June, 1862
"S:an3 firm in your position. Advocate the
IiSutS Vi INC pSupiS Tic VI GiAe
State. Our people IN this County are with YOU"
ELEVATION, Johnston, July, 1863.
81 like your article about the Tthingman. Our
administration seems determined to suhjugate u.s.
How much worse subject Can man be than to be
ordered by an officer from another State to haul OF
his scanty supply of provisions to certain place
I dislike the law, and dislike the idea of our pe0
pie being placed under an officer from another
State"
MEcKLENBuRa County, July, 1868.
"The Conservatives of Mecklenburg endorse wha
you say in your paper. They want to rid the Statt
Of Virginia officers, rid the State of the Confed
eracy. We think if our people will submit to the
tithe5ll and then to Virginia officer to collect thu
tithes, they will be unworthy Of freedom"
GRANVILLE County, July, 1863.
II purchased some time ago from neighbor, ter
barrels of corn for my own use, but before hauled
who had sold it to me and told him not to deliver
it. as he had authority to annul all contracts Of tn
kind = am told, on good authority, that tn
Confederate tax collector for this County, an origi
nal secessionist has for some time refused to tax,
Confederate money on debts due him. also learn
tnat one of the originals" claims exemption fron
militia duty ON the ground that he is physician
/; when it is known he has not been considered ,
practitioner for twelve years." #
ROxBoR0UGH, Person, July, 1858.
ave are very much grati6ed at the manner il
which, in your last weeks issue, you handle th
authorities for appointing Virginia Yankee ia,
collector for North Carolina The appointment can
not be justified upon any pretext whatever. North
Carolina has submitted to insults of this characte
long enough aud think it high time that she taxi
measures to preserve her own dignity and HONOR
Commanders from other States over her soldier
and camps-tax collectors controlling her property
and the rights Of her citizens, hailing from th'
North How long is she to be degraded and spi
upon by her servantsp
however expected things Of this kind to follow
when it was sought to deprive her citizens Of thei
arms which am informed have been stacked away
and not'one of them used in the public defence b.
| the Confederate government. am told that n
other State but North Carolina has been INSULTS
by similar attempt either to deprive the people 9
+ their Constitutional right to bear arms or to in
pose unsympathizng onresident tithing men upo
| them. Whilst the blood of our noble-hearted sol
ders rises in smoky clouds from every battle fell
in the country-w.hilst every officer and almos
every citizen in the good old unpretending State,
using his utmost endeavors to keep an army in th
field and to support the soldiers there and their fam
lilies at home, her government and her people ar