Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-08

: Groat Injustice to Norsh.caroina.

Grost Injustice to NQrth. h.Caroiina.
We learn that the chief 7ytAingman appointed
tor this State by the administration at Richmond is
Hs-yinian-a apsrson of the nameof Bradford.
This is very important office Its duties are both
dhheult and delicate. This officer, in person and
through his subordinates win come in contact With
the great mass Of our people and will exert much
ePe~er ozr tlem. Hs VII - tho oagsas. thrs1gh
whom onetaath uf slssr ssaussncs, or rather their
means of subsistence will be drawn for government
use. He will pervade every neighborhood in the
State, and his subordinates, imported for the most
part from Virginia and Maryland, will swarm like
the locusts Of Egypt Now, we entertain no nm.
kind feelings towards Virginia or Virginipns, and
it may be that the person appointed will make a
good olicer but we do insist that of the one hun
dred and ten thousand voters in this State some
citizen, native or adopted, might have been found
to perform the duties of this Office. But no, this
did not suit an. administration whose views and
action are anything but kind, or just or generous
towards North Carolina. A Nrginian must be
appointed to collect the tithes IN North. Carolina
and Nrginians must be favored with places under
this officer, to the exclusion Of our own peoplel
We have case in point A gallant officer Of one
of our old State regiments who has fought in many
battle in Virginia and who has been SO wounded
as to render him unfit for active service called to
see US on. Wednesday morning and informed US
that he had applied at Richmond in vain for en-
ployment; but that he had just learned that two
Virginians had been appointed to cfices either Of
which he would have been glad to have obtained;
and one of these ap2ointees had been ordered to
report for duty to the Tithingman of this State.
What makes the case more pointed is, that this
North Carolina officer is refugee-his home oocu-
pied by the enemy, and his means of support cut
of. He must obtain employment as he can, be.
cause he is q North Carolnan; he lnay point to
his wounds in vain, while persons from another
State are provided for and placed situations to
lord it over our conscripts and farmers.
{ People Of North Carolina, "if you have nature in
you, bear it not" You have submitted long enough
to this injustice-these indignites and insults
Even while we write, and for months past, officers
from other States, having no sympathy with our
people and disposed to hurry the last man from this
State into the army have been acting as enrolling
officers and examining physicians to the exclusion
of natives, WELL if not better qualified than they
are; and now, under this Tithingman, unless the
people rise up and assert their rights every neigh
borhood will be visited with new swarms of tithing
men from other States. We tell you, people of
North Carolina, that We still have free forms, and
that your government is republican in its character.
These men at Richmond who thus insult the State,
and show by their action that they regard US as
only an appendage Of Virginia and Maryland, are
your servants. That's the theory. Let the theory
be put in practice The 18th section of your Bill
of Rights declares "that the people have right to
assemble together, to consult for their common
good to instruct their representatives and to apply
to the Legislature for redress of grievances" II
you are true to yourselves and to the character ol
your State, you s0iU erercise that right "Assem-
BILE together" in your Captains districts, and de-
mand the removal Of this Virginian; and you can
go beyond this, If you choose, and express your
views freely and fearlessly the condit6a of the
country. If this is your government, say SO, il
not, say If you have the right to rule in this
State, say so; if not say 80. Sit down supinely
and hope for better treatment and better times and
see if the treatment or the times improve. You
must take your own affairs into your own hands
If public men, who are disposed to submit to this
injustice and these indignities stand in your way
pass by or walk over them. Tell the administra
| ton at Richmond that you will not submit to such
treatment and that these swarms of "foreign mer
cenaries" must be withdrawq from this State. NJ
other State is treated in this way. The people o
Virginia, or South Carolina, or Georgia would moi
submit for one moment to such injustice, In tht
language Of a cotemporary "if we are not fit to
enrol our own. conscripts collect our own taxes
and have not men of sufficient honesty and integ
rity to hold the Offices necessary to the performance
Of these duties then we are not worthy place 'ir
the Confederacy."
| We learn that about one hundred negroes belong
| ing to the people Of Rockingham County are still
detained at Wilmington, having been there since
April last The impression is that some Of thess
paoroea ara emnloved otherwisa than IN fortiGca