Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-01-14
/ Another lrisrepr.sen,a,i.p,.

~ Another Misrepreseniatisu.
Z We have seldom seen in 4 South Carolina paper |
since this war began, ungenerous filings at or ia
grant Misrepresentation Of North. Carolina soldiers
or the people Of this State But tie following false
snd illiberal representations Of our soldiers and
people is an exception. 1t FIRST appeared in the
Charleston Courier and is attributed to cores
pondent of that paper, who is in some way con-
nected with Gen. Evans brigade We make q few |
extracts for comment. The writer, anxious to cover
up the profanity attributed to the General on the
occasion Of the demand Of Foster to surrender gives
what he calls true history Of that interview, as
follows: $50
The conversation commenced by Of the officers
In the following words: sat.tt.
0eer 81 understand sir. {bowing) that of your
troops have indicated wish 10 surrender and have been
detached to receive the surrender by General Foster.
presume, Sill, that you are General Eysns?"
Gen. 81 am-whp are you, sr2"
of he LIST North Carolina Volunteers and attached to the
staff of Gen. Foster"
Gen. E. 81 EN- not aware, sir, that any of my troops
desire to surrender do believe there is SouhCaro
nan under command who has any intention of doing
Give my compliments to Gen Foster. and tell him he
knows Gen Evans too well to suppose that he will ever
Col. p. "Then you intend to renew the battle
Gen. eyes sir-to fight non anu here"
wv r. UO you mean 10 DeStn at once, BIT, VI w yo
wish time to remove your wounded?"
Gen: "We, sir, you may say to Gen. Foster that if
be will give me an hour and half to remove the women
and children from the town shall then be ready for him.
The North Carolina Yankee then made wave OF the
hand which he doubles. intended polite mode Of say
Here this fippant writer evidently designs to in.
innate that Gen. Evans would not endorse the
courage Of any Of his command but South Caro-
linians. We do not believe the General made any
such remark. Most of the North Carolina prison.
ers taken at Kinston by the Yankees, were in Col.
Malletts battalion of conscrpts and from all sources,
except from this writer, learn that none OF the
troops did better fighting than the conscrpts. Had
the South Carolina troops remained as long in the
fight as they did, the enemy might have been driven
back, or good portion of the South Carolinians
would have been captured. But Gen. Evans find
ing he was overpowered, ordered retreat, which it
appears Malletts battalion did not hear, until the
bridge was fred, which made the retreat of many
of them impossible. One fact stands out promi-
nently in this war, that while North Carolina has
lost in killed and wounded larger number of men
than most of the States, fewer Of her men have
been made prisoners by the enemy than those Of
any other State in proportion to numbers engaged.
And what does this fellow mean by calling Col.
Potter "North. Carolina Yankeew Col. P. is a
Yankee officer, and nothing else An attempt was
made by the Yankees to raise regiment OF the
rabbe population in those Counties occupied by
them. We are assured that they succeeded in rails
ing only two small companies in ALL out of just such
! population as the "buffaoes about Hilton Head
and other points in South Carolina. Col. Potte,
commands this "1st N. C. Regiment" And vel
this writer tries to asperse North Carolina by calling
Potter " North Carolina Yankee"
This writer further says:
zone of the principal difficulties with which General
Evans has contend in this section is the dsoyalty Of
the people There few remaining here who are true
but they ore ieaven to the mass Que does not know
who trust aud communication with Newborn is so
to those who know the broads and paths that hardly
anght passes when information is not conveyed TO th
| headquarters of Gen. Foster :
We have better right to know the people o
that section than this impertirent South Caronian
.ad sar e ::ts,2rtiss s,i.ssss.-
We consider the above paragraph an unblushint
falsehood, made OF the whole cloth. A more loyal
true hear ed and devoted people to the South do
live in the Southern Confederscy than will be fount
in the Counties of Lenoir. Jones, Wayne, and in
deed, in our entire Eastern Counties. That Their,
few isolated, Ignorant poverty-stricken, or bat
people who, from sheer fear or the hope of gam,
act improperly, and in some cases traitorously, W
have no doubt but the above statement is shame
less libel upon the respectable rich or poor people
of that section.
But need we be surprised at Virginia or Sout
Carolina sensation presses or upstart +. F. VS.. o
the vapd chivalry Of those States, who charge COW
ardce and traitorcus conduct upon our people, whe
here at home renegade Virginsans, South Carol
mans, Englishmen and Irshnen encouraged ii
their vfcation Of them? Is it strange that it
So, when even native North. Caronians falsel
fore the war were known and recognized to be the
equals and betters Frenzied and perverted
their partizan fanaticsm, they condemn every ma
who cannot utter their Shib6oleth. Upstart me
who have been elevated to official positions in tn
army much beyond their merits, are ready on tt
merest suspicion or the whisperings Of political en-
mics, to show their courage and their patraotisn
, not in whipping the Yankees, but in arrcsting vi
armed citizens who do not happen to think or spea
as they do. Verify they are fighting prodigousl
to maintain our liberties!
7 The Conservatives to be IS Punished.,'
, The Charlotte bulletin, echoing the sentimen
Of the Richmond Enquirer in relation to the te
regiment bill before our Legislature, says:
they persist canddy believe the President Dug
to send regiment to Raegh and and punish
man engaged in the damnabe plot"
+. We have no idea the President will do any sue
thing; but if he should, the people of Wake wou
soon dispose Of his regiment and if the Editor
the Bulletin should be able to screw his courage
the point of coming with the repiment xvo uo,