Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-07-27
Extract from letter from member of company
D, 3lst N. q. regiment dated
PETERSBURG, July 90, 1864.
NV. W. Holden will get all the votes in this com.
pany, and two-thirds of Ciingman's brigade"


Nv. ". Holden will get all the votes in this com.
panv, and twothirds of Ciingman's brigade"
From the Progress.] :.
Mr. EDIroR:-I enclose you communication
sent to the Editors of the Confederate, together
with their note declining its publication. 1t will
be seen that after having done me very gross in
justice-after mi representing me and placing mt
Ill false position, they refuse me hearing, Suc.
is the depravity of some hearts that when they
injure man, they hate him with ten-fold malice
leave the public to decide the matter, and to say
whether or not the talsehoods Of tho editors were
wllful ard malicious. l have no paper daily or
weekly, to combat them, but l once tried Bulletih
Board with very good effect. / can have another
erected on Market Square where can post sheet
daily that will have as many readers in Raleigh a.
the Com ederate has.
have never shot like rocket into the vortex OF
war and returned to "bomb proof position"
because was not promoted Cor having regiment
slaughtered; neither have l been generally con
sdered u cipher, in my Office, or abroad. If the
Senior and Junior of the Confederate see them
selves this glass, they should ba thankful to thu
mirror for possessing quality they do not-hones'
reflection
But dislike to trespass further upon your space
If the Confed editors prolong the war, look to my
Bulletin Board. FRANK l. WILSON.
Mr. FRANK l. WILSON We return the enclosed
communication at your request We have twice
published articles Of yours, accompanying then.
with such comments MS we saw proper to make
We cannot consent that our columns should be
further numbered with keeping up this controversy.
If you desire its continuance you must employ
some other medium, and we shall notice, or not,
as We choose. EDITORS CONFEDERATE.
For the Confederate
EDITORS CONFEDERATE: Gentlemen In your
issue of the l4th is an article at the head of which
my name stands prominent This article is unjust
| to me and unworthy Of you, as 1t abounds in
truths. You assert that left here 10 visit the
Army Of Northern Virginia, "loaded down" with
Standards, circulars, tickets and the Progress.
did not carry single copy of either tine Stan
dard OF tue Progress. l carried but four news
papers, all told, two copies of the coatoerate aud
Two Of the Conservative though did not know
what they were until arrived in Petersburg and
examined my packages. should have taken others
had they been furnished | carried ti:kets for
several candidates, and would have carried for all,
| had they been furnished Your assertions as 10
what articles the Standard and Progress which
carried, contained, needs no notice. as carried no
copy Of either paper.
| You know as we'll as I do, that 1 gave notice
through the three Dailies published in this City OF
the 9th that would leave for the army the 1lth
left . carpet bag at the auction store of Messrs
Tucker, Andrews, & Co., in which were deposited
letters, packages, &c, for me to carry. On the
morning of the 18th got the carpet.bag, selected
the letters and put them in my haversack, reser-
wing the carpet-bag for packages and provisions
These are truths, plain and paipabe, and cannot be
refuted
As to your opinions about what ought OF ought
not to be "permitted to circulate in the army"
Tc:; s7e entitled to them and others equally
entitled to differ with you. Your Righteousness
about /" the 5oys' putting me in light" in +" a
pitt" &C., can pass for what it is worth. If SO
situated hope should stick.
But did it never occur to you that such articles rs
the one in your paper of the 18th, are calculated to
excite tie passions of thoughtless youths, to en-
courage the wicked and malicious, to ipstigate to
deeds of violence the reckless and deprayed-in a
word to inaugurate reign Of terror in the form OF
mob law, with al! the fury Of unbridled passions
in their most revolving forms? You must have had
some idea mot to say intention) why, after ex-
pressing your opposition to "practical jokes" do
| YOU add, "but we never could help laughing at
them" Should one innocent man fall by violence
nstigated by such articles, would you be gutless
Could you "laugh" at such "practicsl joke y!
Surely you would not apply such Jokes TO all
who differ with you in opinion.
repeat that the object OF my visit to the army
was not p0l1UC2I. VlSitcu Uut One lux
army, and that was Capt Mahy's, IN which have
a son whom have not seen for about a year.
was received by the whole company with joy, for
carried them the first news they had heard from
home, friends and State for many anxions weeks
and also had the pleasure Of bringing from then
letters to relatives and friends WIN had not heare
from them for q long time.
And has i: come to this that father cannot WIS.,!
son or brother in the army, without having nh
motives aspersed and being subj ct to false ACCUSE
tons, and at the same time having the soldiers ad
vlsed to put him in "pit" or plsy some ''pracsi
Cal i,kc" on him-the little ''joks' Of hanging, fo
/ instance.
lam willing to compare my record as southern
man with that Of any man. Since the gar com
mencsd have known no political party, but hav
always favored energetic prosecution Of the war
As private citizen have not felt it to be lGy dnty
and it has not been my inclination, to be blatan
about men. have my choice, and shall vote a
please, and trust all Others will do the same.
regret the necessity Of thus coming before tn
public, but cannot tamely submit to misrepresen
ton and such Misrepresentation as might endange
my life among the thoughtless or the vicious.
I hope you will give this place In your pape
to morrow. II you decline Its publication, pleas
| FRANK l. WILSON.
| Raleigh, July 20, 1884