Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-28
Correspondence of the q endersonville Times.]
NORTH AND SOUTH. CAROLINA.

CEIckAMAUGA, Ola. Ringgold, Ga, Sept %, go
Dear 7inses:-My last letter was dated at Franz
I'm, N. y. From that point, after spending da
or two in that neat and quiet village went direc.
ly to Walhalla, S. G., through Rayburn count,
Georgia. At Walhalla took the train to ColuIr
bia, s. G., where T arrived at 6 o'clock, p. m.
procured an omnibus to carry me to the Congart
House, on arriving at which I said to the negr
who carried me up from the depot: whats tt
fare, boy?" Zone dola, sah." pulled out a s
N. G. Treasury note and presented it to the negr.
on taking which he exclaimed: "Oh dis no goo,.
no good, sah--dis is North. Caliner money-Nortl
Calner money no good here, sah!" 1 paid IT,
negro in other money.
thought but little of the circumstance until
saw. the. same evening, North Carolina soldier
tempt to purchase some bread with North Carolir
money, which he could not do. This was the fiji
time l learned that North. Carolina soldiers cou
not buy something to eat with North Carolina mo:
ey, however hungry they may be, while passir
through the State Of South Carolina.
do not know whether this disposition to recei>
North Carolina money in this dashing State, is gel
eral or not If it is, it is the duty of the people
North Carolinato refuse South Carolina Treasul
notes-keep their shins out of our State.
WHAT THEY THINK OF U.s.
After spending one night in Columbia, I left f
Augusta. On the way down. three South Carolil
gentlemen occupied the seats Immediately opposi
me. l overheard one of them, whom the 9TH
gentlemen called Major, remark:
III really think North Carolina is the tail end
the Confederacy, and Tennessee is but little behl
her-both these States are rotten to the core
neither Of them is possessed Of any national pride
The other two South Carolina gentlemen concur,
in the opinion.
felt indignant at the remark, and as the gent
men presented the appearance of responsibility,
felt inclined to resent the insult offered to my M
tive State-so, after apologizing to the gentleme
for interrupting their conservation answered the
majesties:
"Sir, what are your reasons for making such
remark ABOUT North. Carolina?"
F. "Well, have a reason for thinking SOL
"Sir, 1 claim at least the privilege of askin
what that reason is.
"Why do you claim such rghtg'
because, Sir, am North Carolnian to II
manor born, and feel insulted at your opprobrior
remark
Tho South Carolina Major coughed, spit, cleare
up his throat and repeated the operation and afte
rather lengthy pause, during which his accomph
ces seemed not little confused, at length said:
"Your State is for re-constructionw
felt still more indignant and rather tartly re
piled: II ask your pardon, Sir, but that is posi-
lively false-there is not one man in North Carroll
ma who is in favor of reconstruction-I feel conf
dent you have greater proportion of reconstruc
tionists in South Carolina than we have"
Ny antagonist seemed little confused, but gath
cred courage and retorted: "North. Carolina ha!
never furnished the proportion of troops nor hav'
her troops won the distinction on the battle felt
that South Carolina troops have"
In reply to this very ungenerous charge, l re
ferred the Palmetto worstippers to the fact that
was North. Carolinian who fired the first gun
the war; that a North Carolina regiment won tn
FIRST victory, lat Bethel y that North Carolin
regiment (Col. Fsher's) captured the first Yankee
battery; that North Carolina troops have won dis
tnguished laurels at Manassas; at the Seven Pines
during the "Seven Days Fight before Richmond
in which they lost half as many troops as all tn
other States together; at the second battle Of Ma
nassas; at Sharpsburg Fredericksburg, Chancel
louisville, Gettysburg indeed, wherever her troop
have been called into action.
This gentleman only replied that he was not ia
miliar with what North Carolina had done. toll
him hoped he would never again be guilty o
making such an ungenerous remark about Stat
and people Of which he was so ignorant.