Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-04-29

We must sustain the currency or the cause of the
South is lost. This is fact palpable to every
sible man. The funding Of Treasury notes has
withdrawn largely from the volume Of the currency
and it only remains for Congress to pass judiceus
tax bill and put down speculation and extortion to
give full confidence to Confederate scrip. The
masses of the people take Confederate money and
are willing ard anxious to sustain the government
and protect its currency but the Shylocks who feel
no other interest in the impending struggle than
the enhancement Of their own individual wealth,
doing all they to depreciatc and destroy it.
If leading men who have cotton and provisions to
sell refuse to take Confederate money, how can it
be sustained: The thing Is impossible. The men
OF wealth, influence and position in the different
States, counties aud ncighborhoods have it in their
poser to exercise powerful influence on the cur
rency, and unless they sustain it the currency is
gone and with it the cause Of the South. There IS
great deal SAID about traitors treason disoyal
men and all that but We have no hesitation in saying
that the worst lneu We have in the Confederacy are
those miserable creatures vino deprecile and refuse
to receive Confederate money That there are such,
and many such, there can be no doubt, and we ask
all patriotic men to mark them and give their names
to the world for they by far the worst enemies
VIC have. Just think o. it: A soldier who is paid
IN Confederate money sends it to his family: the
family wants provisions and calls on q wealthy
nelghbor for meal or mest and on presenting Con-
iederate notes is told they not taken. The poor
starving heartbroken wife sets down and writes to
her husband that the money he sends will not buy
provisions and that she and her children must starye
unless he comes to their assistance The soldier
deserts, Is captured court-martlalcd and shot, lie
u shot upon the finding of court martial sitting
under the authority of the government that issues
the notes rithzwhich the poor victims wifi. could
not bug bread to keep herself and children from
starving Now who is the guilty party, in the sight
u heaven the soldier who deserts or the miserable
scoundrel who refuses to sell his surplus meat or
corn Tor Confederate notes? The answer is nlain.
but 1t amounts to nothing. The soldier is shot for
trying to keep his family from starving. while the
wealthy farmer or Spectator who refuses the cur
rency OF the government, for the Independence of
> "M Mn !ne soldier has fought goes unhung.
lures that will say that such talk as this is calculated
TO render the soldier dissatisfied. We know Il as
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hypocrisy, deception, villainy and treason and We
mean to do IT. Whose fault is it that the currency
OF the Government will not buy meat and bread IN
sectons OF the Consederacy It is not the fault of
tne soldier, nor of the family of the soldier nor NJ
the poor masses at home but of the lords-nrour;e
tors the rich and opu!ent the large contractors
and others who, while they helped to rasa ths
whlrfwind, have taken good care to save their o,.n
precious carcasses from the fury of the storm, 49,
VINO IL it in this county and in the adjoining conn
Ties, ana throughout the Stale that refuse Ionf,i.
crate money? Wao.! Not the poor, for thew are
gao to get anything in the shape of money. Not
tne soldier o. his family, for they get nothing else
VINO then? The answer has already been EVEN
ana unless there shall be speedy change in the
cono9ct OF the unpatyiotic men who hay. been on.
saseo IN the depreciation Of the currencv . stor,n
- inevitable whose fury they will not be able tn
escape; The name and location of those who rsfs ~
U ela money will be carefully noted. and
%nen 'oroearanoe ceases to lie virtue and tho fnrv
I'll sne mob PASSES the control Of the civil autbor
un eSs sasy with reap their reward. And mark #
distant mere mere Is speedy change the day is not fur
Dzily pr uen a., these things will COME to