Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-04

bond which was Immediately sold for $1,000.
9Th The committee (Mr FoyF excepted,) think
the State has lost because Mr.. Courts refused to
pay out Treasury notes. If he had paid them out,
they would have been scattered over the Confede.
racy to buy meat in Tennessee, saltpetre in Georgia.
salt IN Virginia, mules in the mountains and to pay
soldiers bounty wherever our armies marched. The
brokers could not have gathered them in short
tlme' as Gov. Bragg and Mr.. Foy think, and
brought them to Raleigh to be funded Until
gathered in and funded, the State would have paid
no interest
SOLDIERS BOUNTY.
Hh. Mr. Courts policy injured the soldiers. If
the bounty of $50 had been paid in Treasury notes
in November, 1862, that bounty could have been
sold to the broker for $50. Mr. Courts gave the 50
TO the broker, when the soldier ought to have had it
eth If Mr.. Courts could take the responsibility
to give" per cent bonds for currency at par,
why could he not be bold enough to gve" the bonds
for premium? Would anybody but broker have
blamed him?
Mr. COURTS ON DILEMMA HORN.
9th, and lastly. Granting everything Mr.. Courts
claims in his defence he cannot escape this dilemma:
lie either knew the State was injured by his policy
or be did not. II. he did not know it, he was not
tit to be Treasurer. If he did know it, why did he
not report the fact the Convention, which Vas in
session in May, and get the law SO altered as to
satisfy his scruples? The loss to the State during
the month Of May alone, was s6l,sOO. But still
Mr. Courts continued his policy, with the Conven
ton in session, which could easily have been ap-
pealed to. The horns of this dilemma gore and
bore you, Mr.. Courts. You got the Convention, in
May, to give you authority to issue more Treasury
notes, which you never issued; but not q word did
you say of brokers' pockets bursting with money
which ought to have been saved to the State, or
gone to the soldier or the public creditor. One
law actually required" you to issue the notes,
but you did not obey the law, except in part.
PRACTICAL REFLECTION.
The Conservatives are charged with having in,
jured the State, by oustng Mr. Courts and putting
Mr. Worth in his place. Mr.. Worth is selling sis
to sell eight per cent 6onds at 100. Are the Con-
servatives guilty or not guilty of the charger
Another Libel on the State.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 19th February,
contains another belous attack on this State, from
the pen, We presume, of John Mitchell, the newly
imported Irish editor.
The article referred to is nothing more nr less
than an attempt to produce the impression that the
Conservatives, who have the control at this time Of
our State government are engaged in the work of
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have formed a conspiracy" for that purpose, and
that their object is to re construct the old Union
or form middle Confederacy. The resolutions re-
Gently adopted by few Destructive leaders, who
held their meeting in the COMMONS Hall, are pub
liShed and commented on, and warmly endorsed.
1t is bad enough to have to endure the gross par
tyism of Mr. Davis administration, but it is ntole-
rabe to be thus libeed almost in his very presence
and no doubt with his consent, if not approval, by
this seedy fore,gn adveuturer. North Carolna Is
treated hike province in the appointments which
are made, and on the back of this she is hunted,
and her reputation backened in the eyes of those
who do not know her, by the miserable hounds Of
power. This writer appeals to our soldiers in the
field, and tells them that those who have the man.
agement of our State affairs not true to them
or the Southern cause. lie does not know that
three fourths of these gallant men are themselves
Conservatives and friends of Gov. Vance. They
will scorn his appeals.
This man Mitchell is nothing more nor less than
a monarchist. He was monarchist in Ireland, and
he is one now. He wanted Ireland to have her
Parliament and her King, like England "Tha:
which is bred in the bone is hard to come ont of the
flesh" He broke the laws of England and was ban
ished, because he wanted domestic, and not for
egn King over Ireland. He was transported to
Australia for the ofence,-how did he get back?
The Richmond Enquirer wants an organ for the
President. "On principle" it sees objection to
an organ-that is, paper which will make one
sided showing for those in power. But says that
paper, an official journal like the Moniteur would
give government tho means of putting its own
construction upon its own acts, and of defending
its officers when unjustly assailed" The Emperor
has his organ, and ought the President says the
Enquirer! The people ought to be forestalled in
their construction of the acts of the admnstra ton
by the construction given to them by a white, but
Brown, Of Georgia, ask as he did not long since,
".whither are We driiting?"
Gen. N. G. Evans.
Some weeks ago, it was stated in the papers that
Gen. Evans, then in command Of our forces at Kin
ston, had been charged by one of his officers with
sundry unsoldierly and disreputable crimes. We
observe that cour. martial has maturely consider