Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-11
The Register and NJ. Worth.

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The last Reaiater says il has learned "npon in-
dubitable authority, that Jonathan Worth, Tressu-
rer Of the State ia dseredting in his Office Conisd
crate money" And that paper adds: rag ~,
On Wednesday last gentleman presented one Or more
Confederate n"ssy.s This 6s dssssd 70 take, the
ground that he State oeox and entitled to State
W95a yss n;{ in Treasury notes. snd tho
The gentleman feferred tots, We understand, John
q: Kirklsnd Of Hillsborough. Now, who has dis
credited Confederate money! Mr.. Worth has in
hand large amount of Confederate money, which
be is paying out to stats creditors as they present
their claims He makes NO distinction between
them, but pays them all in this currency. If the
currency good and II IL ought not to be discred-
ited, sohy did Ar. Kirkland refuse to taEsity Why
did he demand Treasury nosssa - Tho plea which
he puts in that he is - State CREDITOR" will not
avail him. Is he any better, as "a State creditor"
than the soldiers, whom Mr.. Paymaster Lewis, with
Mr. Courts sanction paid off in Confederate curren-
cyl TWAS sn right then, because the soldier was
the party who was paid but it is all wrong now,
when Mr.. Kirkland, an original secessionist and a
destroyer Of Yankees by the gross on paper, pre-
sents his claims to be cashedf He demands State
money he does not want Confederate money; he
REFUSES Confederats 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 dscrediting Confederate money. Why, Mr..
Kirkland is the man; it is Mr.. kirkland who has
discredited this money by refusing to take It,. Is
not that Certainly Il is. Everybody whoreads
the Registers article will say it is for that article
expressly admits that Mr. Kirkland rsfussd Confed
crate currency and every one who can count two
knows that to refuse currency is to discredt it
Mr.. Kirkland did that very thing. H. did nothing
else; and the attempt to fasten 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 is shaving the creditors Of the
State" All! the Register then declares that Con.
federate notes are not good any other curren.
cy. But what is Mr.. Worth to do? Is not every
one who has q claim against the State "a State
creditor" And must Mr. Worth keep these notes
in his safe till they advance in valuei Or must he
pay them out to the soldiers, as was done under his
predecessor, and reserve the State money for such
gentlemen as Mr. Kirkland2 Would that please
the Registers 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, il is perfectly apparent that ifthe example o
Worth followed by all the of the States COM
posing the Confederacy the credit of the Common Agent
Of the States must be utterly destroyed, and
ruined"
We can readily perceive that if the example o.
lAr. Kirkland. is generally followed, our cause
will be ruined but the idea that the Confederate
Government can be injured by State Treasure,
using and paying out its currency, is ridiculous AND
stupid nonsense