Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-01-28
Great Excitement in North Carolina
about the Rebel Consor1ption-.The
Confederacy Repudiated.


about the Rebel Conscr1ption-.The |
Confederaoy Repudiated.
The Wholesale CONSUMPTION law is creating
great CONSERVATION and excitement in the
Western portion of North Carolina, where
preparations are being made to resist it,
Public meetings are being held, some Of
which openly repudiate the Southern Con-
federacy, and favor return to the Union.
DANCERS TO NORTH CAROLINA.
From the Raleigh s,sndsrdl
We are now reaping the bitter fruits Of
"Pedeeabls Secession" in forcing from their
once happy asd peaceful homes into the
army all from Is to 45 years OF age, to be
driven to the slaughter like oxen to the
shambles. And to gil up the thinned ranks,
the present Congress now has before IT the
INDUSTRIOUS proposition to coDscript all from
fifteen TO- forty five years OF age, and make
them subject to military law, which the
Richmond Examiner boldly denounces as
nothing less than an attempt to make MIR.
Davis Dictator.
Let us examine and see what kind Of o
body it is that is imposing such burdens on
the people Of North Carolina.
We have a Congress, the legislation OF
which IN controlled by members from Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana, and other places, who impose
odious and oppressive laws upon us which
can no more be enforced on the people Of the
States which they profess to represent, than
upon the people OF New York or New Eng
land The chief cause OF the revolutionary
war which sundered the connection of the
colonies from the mother country was that
the English Parliament imposed oppressive
laws on the colonies which did not affect
the people of England themselves. No
conscript law can be enforced upon the peo-
pie Of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Ar
kansas, Louisiana, nor on q large portion OF
Virginia, Florida, Mississippi, or Texas. -
No tax law, nor tithing, nor impressment
law, can be enforced on them, while those
irrespons sible members may force from their
homes every person in North Carolina able
to bear arms regardless OF age or condition,
and place them in the army, as is now urged
by them in Congress, and leave the helpless
women and children to starve. They may
, put us under military despotism, and place
over us Dictator, and impose taxes and
burdens on US which are iusupportable, and
there is no redress, unless North Carolina
: will protect her children.
Is it not an outrage on every principle Of
free government for men Of desperate for
tunes, protesting to represent other States,
on whose soil they dare not set their foot,
s to make and enforce odious and oppressive
laws on our people Are VIC prepared to
submit to this2 If not, then let every man
arouse himself before It is too late, and de-
nounce these attempts to betray our liber.
r ties and place us under military despotism.
n Let every man that can speak or write de-
nounce these outrages on civil liberty unit
their dennucations are heard and Needed
y in Congress.
: But, if Congress, in a spirit of despera
J ton, should act the tyrant, and impose suct
crushing burdens on the people OF Nortt
Carolina as are insupportable, then they
. should demand of the Governor that hi
forthwith convene the Legislature in ordel
j to take into consideration what is best to bt
done to relieve our people from the grievou!
!. burdens imposed upon them.
If the independence of the Confederacy
/ cannot be achieved by the strength OF .oul
Q population up to As years of age il is clea'
to any rejecting mind that it will not be
!. done by placing in the army the few LETT
!. upon whose labor all are dependent for food
4 Without food our present army must dis
a band, and without food our helpless womeI
"a and children must perish. Let the people
n speak out write to their representatives il
Il Congress; yea, hold meetings, and remon
strate against those iniquitous schemes 4
e ensave and starve US. II you do not, silenc
! will be construed into submission and up
n proval of the chains that Congress are forgini
l. for US. We have too long implicitly trustee
n to such architects of ruin as Wigtall & Co.
q who are now for placing every man in th'
army, and all under the controlofa Dictator
o Trust them no longer. Remember thei
>. of Eden, when they listened to the tempting
n promises of Satan, were not worse deceived
r. and ruined than were the people of the faiI
. happy and blooming South when the
,r listened to the fair promises Of these arc
IS deceivers, Yancy, Wise g. Co.
ctI A heretofore contented, prosperous, an
IL happy people were told by them that W
10 must withdraw all connection from on
mi Northern tsskmasters, who wero making u
SO pay our dollar and fifty cents for shoes, te
ID cents per yard for shifting, 81 per sack fo
s- suit, ten cents per pound for sugar, the sam
for coffee. etc. And these same reckles
70 men who are putting all into the army (el
&C cept themselves and few favoritesI the
IN told US that Secession ,oouM be peaceabie
OF and there Would be no ,oar. That we were t
h. have a nation Of our own, free from exto,
to toners a perfect Paradise with the tree G
es life--the cotton plant-in our midst, betor
it which all nations were to bow down an
worship, and from which rivers of free-trad
were to flow on to the ends Of the earth, O
the bosom Of which the rich merchandis
b. from every cline was to be freighted an
II poured down in our laps free Of taxation
!" ~ How have they deceived us The blood {
y hundreds Of thousands Of our poor ohildre
- smoking from the many battle. fields, an
~ ~ the cries Of starving women and children
y Y, tell the tale. Will our people be longs
!, J. deceive by those false prophets and arch
. !. deceiversp Or will they not command tn
" peace and staunch these rivers Of blood ?
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