Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-04-08
Col. Afspaugh, Of the Sentinel.


We stated some weeks since that Col. j. w.
Alspaugh, of the Winston Sentinel, had refused
Confederate money on contract We did this
from wish to injure the Colonel, but because he
had been charging others with refusing Confederate
currency, and because Of his bitter and uncharitabe
course towards the Conservatives The Colonel
denied the charge, and we told him we would prove
it We now come forward to do So The letter OF
Mr.. Masten, the Sheriff of Forsyth, and Mr. Cook,
which We give below, are conclusive:-
WINSTON, N c., March q. 1862
Mr. HoLDEN-Being called upon to make a state.
ment of what heard of the conversation between
Capt P. A. Wilson and COL j. W. Alspaugh, Edi.
tor Of the Winston Sentinel, in regard to a wood
contract-the facts are as follows: was passing
through the Court Hcuse-Col Alspaugh called to
me and requested me to take notice that he (Al-
spaugh) now demanded of P. A. Wilson some as
surance that he would pay him spesie its equiv
aleDt before he would deliver the said Wilson lot of
wood Wilson asked him what was an equiv ient.
Alspaugh replied spun yarn, at the prices it was
selling for at the time he engaged the WOOD Will
of the country. Alspaugh said he would not de.
liver the wood at two dollars per cord, and take
pay in paper money, for paper money was not now
worth more than onefourth what it was at the time
he contracted with R. L. Patterson to deliver the
wood, in consequence Of its depreciation Wilson
told him that he (Alspaugh) was denouncing others
for refusing to take Confederate money, and now
he (Alspaugh) was refusing to take Confederate
money Alspaugh said he didn't refuse to take
Confederate money, but that he would not deliver
the wood at the price be had engaged to deliver it
to Mr.. Patterson, and take pay in Confederate or
any other paper money, and that Wilson must give
him assurance that he would pay him in specie or
its cqdvassht before he would deliver the wood
And he (Aispaugh) requested me to take notice of
the demand he now made of Mr.. Wilson.
Yours respectfully, e.
II. MAsTEN.
N1Ssros, March 80, 1868.
Mr. HOLDEN Having been called on to make
statement OF what Col. J. W. Alspaugh said in re-
gard to demand for specie, made b! him on Robt
Gray, Will give you the substance of what was
said about said demand.
COL }. W. fAlspaugh cane to my shop in Wins
ton' and requested me to go with him to see Mr..
Gray at the cotton factory to be witness to de-
sane o. spseie Which he was going to make Of said
tray d W ilson foy wood which he was to deliver
them. l went with him to the factory and he
(Aispangh( said to- M Gray that he Gray was
putting himself on his legal rights and insisting on
the fulhlnent of his contract to deliver the wood
that ne (Alspaugh) should put himself on HE legal
rights, aad that he now demanded the specie Of
Gray for the wood already delivered He tAlspaugh)
also demanded Of Gray an assurance that he (GrayJ
would pay him the specie before he would deliver
s'm any more wood on the contract Gray replied
70 him. II suppose you have come to get out Of an
honest contract which you have made, because you
colo not forsses the changes in tie times y that he
lGray) hsd got into the same misfortune-he had
himself made contract with Mr. Fries, to deliver
Quantity Of wood at rs per cord and although
wood has since risen in price, yet he expected 10
fulfill hlssecntract and take pay in the currency of
the country that he iAlspaughl was to have 50 90
per cord, and ought to fulfill his contract in the
same way. Alspahgh in his rsply said tina: the
paper c0rTs1cy of the country had become SO depre
ciated that would not Justify kt, to take the pa,
per currency at the pries in she-censraet.
- Respectfully yopFs -
n g. COO <.