Newbern progress., 1863-01-24
The virginia Dictatorship.

We are not surprised to find the Raleigh Regis
ter following the lead of the Richmond Enquire,
in its attempt to dictate to the people of this
State. The instincts of the Register are all tha
way.
The Register characterizes the ten regiment bill
1ts;-ss-.-ssetAe Stale. n says # is puzzled
which most to wonder at its ,oickedness or IFS con
sammate folly" The Register. it will be seen
is an apt scholar of the Enquirer. The latter pa
per charges treason on portion of the member,
of our Legislature. and says there is plot +" il
Raleigh to "break the unity of the common
government. The Register says amen to this
and declares to the world that the State has beer
"dIsgraced." "Disgraced" by WHAT Why, by
simple effort to raise troops to repel the invad
err! Virginia, Georgia. and South Carolina have
done this very thing. and yet the Enquirer and
Register have not even noticed their action
Why this hectoring. this abuse towards North
Carolina, and this silence in regard to other
States, who have done what she attempted to do
The reason is obvious,-North Carolina is Con
servative State, and the papers referred to are
seeking to make party capital out of her conduct
as sovereign State. These papers, and those
who control them, live, move, and have their
being in party. They never draw breath out
side of or above party.
We deny that North Carolina has "disgracsd''
herself or broken faith with her CO States that
the ten regiment bill, charged by the Enquirer,
is an outrage North Carolina has never yet
"disgraced" herself, or broken faith, or plotted
against her allies; and they who say that she
has, are her enemies, and cslumniators of her
char acter.
The following extract from General Order No.
So. of the Adjutant General of South Carolina,
will show that that State has eight regiments of
reserves in the field on her own coast:
..The Second. Third, Fifth. Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth Ninth and Eleventh Regiments of the
st Corps of Reserves ha1ing been accepted for Con-
ederate service. and reported for duty, and suff
cient time having elapsed to afford all persons,
desiring exemptions for their overseers, an oppGr
tunity to present their applications to this Office,
after this date no application will be considered
or acted on for the exemption of persons
seers " no liable to duty in either of said
Regiments
And the following extract from the Savannah
Republican, of the proceedings of the House Of
of Georgia, on the 18th of last
month, will show that the two regiments recently
authorized by the Georgia Legislature, are to be
raised directly out Of those subject to conscription.
The Republicans correspondent says:
In the House, this morning, motion was
made to reconsider the bill to organize two regis
nents of State troops Mr. Lee favored the mo"
ion, on the ground that State troops will effect
an unnecessary and ruinous expense upon the
Capt. Burke opposed the notion
Judge Love favored the motion, for the purpose
Of adopting the original bill. which would take
he troops from those not subject to conscri pton.
Mr.. Stephens opposed the motion to reconsider,
and took occasion 10 dsclaim all hostility to the
President or the execution of the Conscript law.
The motion to reconsider was lost" Raleigh
Standard.