Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-06-17
June LIST, 1868.
For the Standard

Mr. HOLDEN 80 much has been said about the to.
res and traitors of this County and it must be admitted
sion seems to pervade the public mind to who these
tories are must claim enough space in your widely CIR
cuated and influential paper to give the real tories show
will recollect that the first charge of dsloty emanated
from communication signed Traveller" which appeared
of the Richmond papers more than year rms
even soourned awhile place miscal!ed Good Spring
Judging from the venom that is continually
from that fountain upon the people Of this Eeant ana
whilst there to have deeply mbed Of poisonous va,
ters This generally supposed to be NE fountan head
from whence al these SANDERS flow, whom 10 rsay the
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support. Every unprejudiced mind knows that FopSth
has done its whole duty in supporting the present urap
were gultIess Of bringing on The Gnionsts herr as
well every where else went into the war; whilst thu Sc
cessionis with few exceptions skulked at home to scu
late and extoron upon the necessities OF the ana
into service amongst the rank and file; and when cl0ely
examined it will be found that many good commission
secured in advance volunteering in connection With
good pay some safe place clear of danger even an M
poration had to be made all the way fromGeorgia fig
commissary for North Carolina Regiment, thereby dong
great injustice to our brave boys who were volunteers,
saying nothing of the ncompetency of these interOpers
After volunteers left the secessionsts who remainM
at home turned their attention to specializing and sucking
the life blood Of the people by Specializing and monop
not only for the soldiers maintenance but also to keep
alive their helpless families that Shoes clothes and
food could not be bought except at prices far beyond
the reach of the poor soldier at eleven dollars mOrh-
The consequence that whilst they have vay eniched
themselves they have nearly beggred every es and
ruined the Southern cause whilst at the same time pro-
Tossing great loyalty to it, having done to brk it
down than all the armies of enemies They have
gone far as to speculate the crippled soldier
who returns home MANNED of charity for thu rest
Of his life and to illustrate will give you just one in
being in humble circumstances though highly respcled
and esteemed, with dependent family, was induced y 20
substitute into service for of these red mOuhed
dyedinthe. wool secessioniss who drafted but who
had more money than patriotism, and had notion
posing his vile to Yankee bullets This yOungman
had the sad misfortune to lose his left leg below the knee
and left next to the shoulder and surviving this dead
fu mutation, be home aud, 10 make something
tcial to walk WITH two leather straps Necessary to
attach wooden stump TO the remaining part of his
Levin Hne, magistrate of the old stripe and member
of the firm Of Hine Co applied to in charitable
way, by benevolent individual in behalf of the poor Grip
pe and for enough rough unfinished leather 10 ounces
weight hsve extortoner had the face to charge the
cripple S25 dropping five cents from his original price,
Now both these men have refused to list their profits the
last State tax list and question the right Of the Legislature
to tax extortoners thereby refusing to bear their proper
tonate part of the burdens Of the which they were
zealousy active IN bringing upon the country in order t.
get an opportunity Of enrchng themselves upon the mis-
made such protest. these very would have wanted
him hung. These men also indirectly ref1se to take
Confederate money by refusing to sell ef money at adj
any Of "der ledder," demanding tan "park Or other
they have enough already hand to est 1hss
work. or ut least pretend to work under the 70 pc
cent law, and Hne made affidavit tothat eject to get biz
exemption papers but the rates at which they sell the
leather especially to crppes shows clearly that they hay
forfeited them and if Gov Vauce will do them justice be
will certainly have them put into the army.
Another case will briefly mention Of how these staya
home secesonsts take advantage of the msfortunes Of h
poorer classes and deprecate Confederate "A poo
oonscrpt discharged at Raleigh and coming home
He left nothing Of his own except helpless widow ~
humble home he indebted for the greaterpart on
of these ayaricous who love to suck the heblood
the poor and to home, at least voluntary sui
scriptou raised and the money tendefed but
der these circumstances refused because Con
fderate money. This man.has been, perhaps, the
prominent magistrate of the old stripe that has governe
this County for the last ten years. think the last
these vile extorouers ought to be put into the army
they would make but sorry soldiers can't think Of an
better language to apply to them than to the expires
sions of old Destructive in speech recently made
the SERVICE who said That they ought be put into II
front ranks and that by associang with those that wer
patriotic there might be patriotism infused into them bu
there could not be- then they were only tit for food "a
powder and to stop Yankee bullets think by the abo,
instances cited have shown concusvey who the tori
and traitors and if every good paper all the STA
would pass round the of oil the avarcious wretch
who nfest land, who would ruin the whole couarv
enrich themselves rather than be content with CONN
tency and it, it might be productive Of asenino Il
crying evil, by lettering Others and the best interests
the country be served thereby.
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