, 1864-01-26
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Great Excitement about .ithe Rebel conserlp-
r.: tio1 Law.
The coNFEDERAeY REpup,ATED,

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The coNFEDERkeY REpup,A7ED,
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NEwnERN, N. c., Monday, Jan. is, 1861.
The wholesale conscriptfon law is creating
great CONSERVATION and excitement in tIo
western portion of North Carollna, where
preparations are being made to resist It.: Pub
'lic meetings are being held, some Of which
oIen1y repudiGtc the Southern ConfedcracY,
and favor return to the Union. The North
Carolina P.7gress, ln commenting upon a
speech delivered in the rebel Senate, BY Mr..
I'VE tell Mr. Brown and those who think
With lin, once for all, that if the desperate
revolutionary measures which lie advocates
shall be attempted to be carried outfit the
civil law is to be trampled under foet by the
suspension Of the writ of l,abeas corpus, mud
every ab1e'bodied man placed In the army
from sixteen tosixt1-fve-1f no man is to have
hearing before State Judge, as to the right
Of the enrolling officer to seize him, aBd If
the rights Of the States a1e to be ignored and
swept AWAY By the mere creature of the
sfates, ne eo'inn common OFF g9veEnment the people
into their own hnnds, and will proceed, in
Convention assembled, to yindIcatu their lib
critics and their privileges. They will not
submit to military despotism. They will
not submit to the destruction of their rights,
personal and civil, in this or any other war.
We Eny ri at VIC know to be so. "A. restncd
1ority OF oqCC. nf111Gt nf111G threatened encroachments
orpeir or = their liberties by the Congress ut Rich
monl; and VIC most respectfully and earnest
IL warn the members Of TINT body not to kin
die n flame wlch no effort can cxtinguish-
Pass these measures-suspend the habeas cor
pus in order to silence our courts and force
our whole population into the army-brcak
filth with the principals Of snbstitutes-repu
diate The currency OF the country-levy a tax
in specie to pay the interest OF the funded
ebt-continuc in full operation the tithing
and impressment laws at the same timc-do
these things. Mr. Brown, and the people Of
North Carolina will arise in their majesty md
assert their sovereignty. There is no power
to prevent them fIoHs1olng this :; aud voc to
the official character who shall attempt to
the people Of this Statet North Carolina will
not be The s1nyc of either the Congress ut
Richmond or Washington. She Is this day,
Us she has been from the first, tho keystone
Of the Confederate arch If TINT stone should
fall the urch will tumble.
DANGERS 70 NORTH CAROLINA,
From the Raleigh Standard Jan. 15.1
We arc now rcaping the bitter fruits OF
ssreacenble Secession" in forcing from their
once happy and peaceful homes into the army
ali from Is to IS years Of age. to be driven to
the slaughter like oxen to the 6hamb1es. And
to fill nj, the tllinned ranks, the present Con-
srees now has before It the monstrons prop
five years Of age, and make them subject to
military law. Which the Richmond Ekans-
i er boldly denounecs as nothing less than an
attempt to make Mr: Dasis Dictator.
Let us examine and see what kind OF body
1t is that is imposing such burdens on the peo~
Lle Of North Carolina =
We harca Congress, the legislation Of which
is controlled by members from Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and
other places, who impose odious and oppres-
be enforced on the people ofthe States which
they profess to represent, than upon the peo-
PIE OF New York Or New England. The chief
cause of the revolutionary war which sundcE-
ed the connection of the coloniss from the
mother country was t1aat tho English Parlin-
MES which did not affect the people Of Eng
land themselves. No conscript law can be en-
forced upon the people of Kcltucky, Mis-
eourf, Arkansas, Louisiana, nor on
urge portion Of Virginia, Florida Mfssis-
sippi Or Te1aa. No tax law, nor tithing, nor
impressment law, can be enforced on them,
willie those irresponsible members may
force from their homes every person in
North Carolina able to bear arms, regardless
Of age or condition, and place~fhem in the
and leave the helpless women and children
to starve. They may put us under i military
dcspotism, and place over us Dictator, and
impose taxes and burdens on us which a1a in
supportablc, and there is no redress, unless
North Carolina will protect her children.
Is 1t not an outrage on every principle Of
free government for men Of desperate for
tunes, protesting to represent other States,
on whose soil thcy dare not set their foot, to
make and enforce odious and oppressive
luws on our people2 Are We prepared to
submit to this? II not, then let every man
lin hnff ID md
rounce these attempts to betray our liberties
and place us under military dcspotism. Let
every man that can speak or write. de1onace
these ontrngcs on civil liberty until their de-
nunciations are heard and needed in Con-
gIess. 81.
But, il Congress, in spirit Of desperation;
sI ou1d act the tyTant, and impose such crush
Ing burdens on the people of North Carolina
as are einsupportab1e, then they should demand
Of the Governor that he forthwith convene
vcntio1 Of the sovc: e!gn people to ta' Q into
consideration what Is best to do to relieve
our people from the grleyous burdens impos-
ed upon them.
+ II Tue Independence Of the Confedcracy
cannot he achieved by the strength Of our
any rejecting mind that it will not be done
by placing in the army tho few left upon
whose labor all IRE dependent for food. With
out food our present army must dishand, and
without food our helpless women and chill
dren must perish. Let the people speak out;
Yea, hold meetings, md rcmonstratc against
tho 9 in.quitou. schemes to enslave ind starye
ue. II you do rot, silence will be, construed
into submission and approval Of tue chains
that Congress is forging tor us; We have too
long implicitly trusted to such architects Of
ruin as Wigfall & Co., who arc now for pla-
cling every man in the army, and al under the
ecnf,tl Of a D;cfator.
Trust them no longer; Remember their
fair promises. The dWellers in the garden of
Eden, when they listened to- the tempting
| promises Of Satan, were not worse deceived
ard ruined than were the people of the fair,
happy and blooming South when they listen
ed 10 the fafr promises Of these arch deceiV-
ere, Yancy, Wise j. Co.
| a heretofore contentea, prosperous and
| inppy people were told BY them that we
! must withdraw MI connection from our
| Northern taskMasters, who were making us
| ray our dollar and tlfty cents for shoes, ten
cents. FER yard for shirting, 50 per sack for
| salt, ten cents per pound for sugar, the scme
for coffee, etc. And these same reckless men
(cxcept themselves and i few fayoritcs), then
fold us that secession would be peaceablc,
| and there would be no war. That We were
| to have nation of our OWL, freo from extor-
| tioners; perfect Paradise with the tree Of
| Iifc-the cotton p2ant-in our midst, before
ynh,ch all nations were to bow down and
worship, and from which rivers Of free trade
WEIR to flow to the ends Of the earth, on the
/ ,hneom or which, the rich merchandise from
4 rFrry cline was to be freighted and poured
dnwu In NJ laps free Of taxa lon. How have
thuy deceived Us ! The blood of hundreds Of
j thn1snnds Of our poor children smoking
rom thc many batt1e fields, and the cries oi
storving women and child dten tell the tale,
i WIN our people be longer deceived BY those
t .thsy not cpuamond the peace, and staunct