Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-10
The Register and Mr.. Worth.

The last Register says it has learned "upon in
dubiable authority, that Jonathan Worth, Treasu-
rer of the State is discredting in his Office Conied
crate money" And that paper adds: ... ...
On Wednesday last gentleman presented one or more
ate coupons at The Treasury Department and
Confederate This he declined Ia take, ON the
ground that he State creditor and entitled to State
money Worth would not pay in Treasury notes, ana the
creditor left the Office unpaid"
The gentleman referred tots, we understand, John
u Kirkland, of Hillsborough. Now, who has dis
credited Confederate money? Mr.. Worth has in
hand large amount of Confederate money, which
he is paying out to State creditors as they present
their claims. He makes no distinction between
them, but pays them all in this currency. If the
currency be good and if it ought not to be discred
ited aOhy did Mr.. Kirkland refuse to take it? Why
did he demand Treasury notesP The plea which
he puts in that he is "a State creditor" will not
avail him. Is he any better ga State creditor"
than the soldiers, whom Mr.. Paymaster Lewis, with
Mr. Courts sanction, paid off in Confederate curren
cy? 1t was oil right then because the soldier was
the party who was paid but it is all wrong now,
when Mr.. kirkland, an original secessionst and
destroyer of Yankees by the gross on paper, pre-
Sents lis claims to be cashed. He demands State
money he does not want Confederate money he
REFUeES Confederate money, and then runs to Mr..
Syme or gets some one else to for him, and the
impression is sought to be produced that Mr.. Worth
is discrediting Confederate money. Why, Mr..
Kirkland is the man; it is Mr.. Kirkland who has
discredited this money by refusing to take ID. Is
not that so? Certainly it is. Everybody who reads
the Registers article will say it is, for that article
expressly admits that Mr. Kirkland refused Confed.
o,,lo H.
knows that to refuse a currency is to dscredit it
Mr.. Kirkland did that very thing. He did nothing
else and the attempt to fdsten the charge on Mr..
Worth is both absurd and wicked-absurd, because
the fact is the other way and wicked because of the
purpose evnced to shield the guilty party by char
ging the offence upon the innocent.
The Register says that Mr.. Worth, in paying out
Confederate notes. "s shaving the creditors of the
State" All the Register then declares that Con-
fedcrate notes are not good any other curren-
cy. But what is Mr.. Worth to do q? Is not every
one who has a claim against the State "a State
CREDITOR" And must Mr.. Worth keep these notes
in his safe till they advance in value Or must he
pay them ont to the soldiers as was done under his
predecessor, and reserve the State money for such
gentlemen as Mr. Kirkland? Would that please
the Register' No doubt it would-but it will not
be done. Mr.. kirkland must learn to be fed out of
the same spoon with other people.
The Register concludes its article with the follow
ing very ridiculous remarks:
"Now, it is perfectly apparent that if the example Of
Worth followed by all the of the States
passing the C"qederacy, the credit of the Common Agent
Of the States must be utterly destroyed, and
ruined"
We can readily perceive that if the example of
Mr.. Kirkland is generally followed, our cause
will be ruined; hut the idea that the Confederate
Government can be injured by State Treasurer
using and paying out its currency is ridiculous and
stupid nonsense