Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-12-14

good citizens sinee the war began. Your corfes-
pendent talks Of moving from amongst us but
vnen he does, no alteration need be made in the
Above phraseology, even though . new date might
be given. But | will make no play on words;
only assert again. that no men Of means have moved
from this county since the war began.
But let Us present another extract !" Re-
spectacle Citizen cries out in agony Of despair,
can't you suggest some plan by which this can he
broken upy Why, certainly. Send troops here
oy the hundreds--yes, by the thousands. and quar-
Ter them in our little town. This will afford prote
non to your correspondent in his humane efforts to
exchange cotton yarns for brandy Troops are what
ne would have. even though it impoverish the coun
ties whence they were drawn, and consumed all we
have here in feeding them. What cares tie who
suffers and as to grain, he knows how to get that
by threatening his neighbcrs with visitation Of
cavalry il they do not promptly divide with him.
The Editors Of the Conservative in their prefato-
~ remarks, misrepresented the character Of the
meeting that was held here in September They
attempt to make it . gathering Of "the opposers Of
dov Vance in the late election" whereas eight out
OF eleven Of the committee were Vance men, and
Sergeant Gnnings, as ardent a friend as you have,
Governor, was one of them, and volunteered to car
~ the proceedings to you. No, it was not your
opposers who held the meeting but good substan.
c'al citizens of the county, amongst them many Of
your old friends and what they put on record was
treated as false, even though respectable citizen
misrepresented it as such. 1 hope, Governor, you
did not endorse for him against that meeting;
bat Neathery & Co. know none of US, some of our
people insist that he borrowed his views on that
subject from you, and that none of our public meet
ings here can speak so loud but that its voice may
be drowned by groan from one Of your pets.
How unjust in the Conservative to say that our
meeting asserted there were no deserters in the
county. 1t admitted there were deserters, but
thought that We could put them down ourselves if
your Excellency would furnish "fue for the guns.
See proceedings of meeting in the Conservative OF
September lst
Governor, it has become the fashion to abuse
Wilkes county, and caution you not to believe
one half of what you see or hear in regard to U.S.
A dozen "old sogs I" around about here have be-
come nervous, excited and alarmed, and they would
move the bowels of the State for their own comfort
And the Iredeii Express wouldn't have an item Of
news, lift didn't occasionally meet with i" an officer
from Wilkes, who inform us that McMillan's men.
&c." or as in this weeks paper, where he leads of
with Atrocities in Wilkes county J. sud tells Of
ar affair at Russelrs 10 Alexander county far over
the line, and the burning of Laws house, which ID
as erect to day as the Executive Mansion.
And now, Governor, I must close. If have
succeeded in wiping one foul stain from the es-
cucheon ofthis once glorious old county. and in any
degree silenced those of her sons who would ira
dc. and malign her for their own base ends, my
task Is accomplished.
With the highest regard,
Your obedient servant
WllkesborO' Nov Is 1894