Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-28

We must sustain the currency or the cause Of the
South Is lost. This is a fact palpabe to every
sible man. The funding of Treasury notes has
Withdrawn largely from the volume OF the currency
aud tended to a partial restoration Of confidence;
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
willing and enxious 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,
are doing all ihcy to deprecste and destroy it.
Ii leading Men who have cotton aud provisions to
sell refuse 10 take Confederate money, how can it
be sustained? The thing is impossible. The men
of wealth, Influence and position in the different
States counties and ReShbOrhCOdS have it in their
power to exercise powerful influence on the
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, di>loya
men and all that, but We have hesitation in saying
that the worst men we have in the COnfederacy
those miserable creatures who depreciate and refuse
to receive Confederate money. That thcreare such,
and many such, there can be no doubt and we ask
all patriotic men to mark then and give their names
TO the world, for they are by far the worst enemies
we have. Just think o. IL: A soldier who is paid
in Confederate money sends it to his family; the
family wants provisions and calls on a wealthy
neghbor for meal meat, and on presenting Con-
starving, heart-broS wife sets down and writes to
her husband that the money he sends will not buy
provisions and that she and her children must Sarve
unless he comes to their assistance. The soldier
deserts, is captured court Inartlaled and shot He
is shot upon the finding of a courtmartal sitting
under the authority of the government that issues
the notes with which the poor victims wife could
not buy bread to keep herself and children from
starving. Now who is the guilty party in the sight
of Heaven, the soldier who deserts or the miserable
scoundIel who refuses to sell his surplus meat or
corn for Confederate notes? The answer is plain
but it 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
which the soldier has fought, goes unhung.
We know that there are selfish, squeamish crea-
lures that will say that such talk as this is calculated
to render the soldier dissatisfied. We know it as
we'll as they do. But IL is our business to expose
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
sections of the COnederacy? 1t is not the fault Of
the soldier, FOR of the family of the soldier Of
the poor masses at home, but of the lords roprie
tors, the rich and opulent the large contractors,
and others who, wSile they helped to raise the
whirlwind have taken good care To save their own
precious carcasses from tIIa fury of the Storm
Who is it in this county and;n the adjoining coun-
ties, and throughout the State tL2t refuse Confed-
crate money! WAC? Not the poor, Tor they are
glad to get anything in the shape Of money. Not
the soldier o. his family Scr they get nothing else.
Who then? The answer has already bean given,
and unless there shall be speedy >change IN the
conduct Of the unpRtriotic men who have been en-
gagged in the depreciation of the currency, storm
is inevitable whose fuzzy they will not be able to
escape. The name and LOCATION of those who refuse
Confederate money will DO carefully noted, and
when forbearance ceases to he virtue, and the fury
of the mob passes the control of the civil author
ties, they will reap their reward. And mark it,
unless there is speedy change the day is not far
distant when all these things will come to pass
Daily Progress.