Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-27

and the rules ana recommendations OF the Board OF
Appraisers for North Carolina and report by bill
or otherwise.
The resolution was accompanied by the following
Notices marked A.
GRANVILLE COUNTY, Dec 18th, 1864.
SR:-I desire to purchase for the Government
all your surplus corn oats, fodder, hay, shucks,
straw and bran can offer you the prices set forth
the back of this notice to be paid on the delivery
of said articles at the place we may agree upon
Upon the refusal of this price we must proceed to
settle the value of the article according to the act
of Congress for the regulation of impressments.-
This notification binds the property till our nego-
tiations shall be closed.
Very Respectfully,
JOHN H. ROWLAND,
Agent for j. B. White,
Captain & A O. N.
Forrestville, Dec IA, 1864
SIR-l propose to purchase of you for the use of
the c. s. government your surplus corn, oats, fod-
der and hay, at schedule price, payable on delivery
Of said property at Forestville, N. c., on the
day of--1S65. Should you refuse to sell said
property at said price, the same is hereby impress
ed, and you are hereby notified not to remoue or
transfer the same, and that compensation will be
made to you for said property according the act
of Congress, regulating impressments.
Very Respectfully,
J. W. FORT,
Agent for w. E. Pierce
Captain & A. Q. N.
The prices on the back of the first of these mott
are for corn, shelled and bagged s. per bushel
of Sc pounds Fodder aud Hay So, 80 per hundred !;
| Oats, shelled and bagged, 81 per bushel of 81
pounds; Shucks So, so per hundred Straw 81 Bran
so cts.
On introducing this resolution Mr.. Grssom said:
This oppressive restriction affects only the farm
This class, who of all others, reap the fruits
of the hardest toll, and not only eat the bread of
honest industry by "the sweat of their brow"
but support and maintain all others, is made the
subject by this nqui ous system Of peculiar ami I'm
precedented, hardship.
The capitalist, the manufacturer and the mechanic
all comparatively free from this burther, which
falls like thunderbolt and hangs like an incubus
upon the shoulders of the farmer, paralyzng his Of
forts and waning his patriotism.
He bears his full share Of ad uGlOrem taxes upon
his property for the support of the government he
pays tithes upon his labor and earnings which are
not exacted of the other classes and them if to
add insult to injury, png " Pelion upon Ossa," be
is visited by the Quartermasers agent and served
with notice to sell part of his corn oats fodder
hay shucks straw or bran, except by their permits.
sion, to the government for nominal prices and
worthless scrip Surely he has cause to cry ont in
the bitterness of his SOUL "my punishment is great
er than | can bear"
The government practically says that the capital
is the broker the commission merchant the trades.
men, the heartleSs speculaor may inv est and rein
vest his interest and his earningS at enormous prof
its as often he chooses, without embarrassment
but the farmer must not be permitted, even from
his hard and scanty earnings, to realize suficien.
cy to meet and delray his absolutely necessary ami.
ly expenses.
His salt and iron and other indispensable neces.
sites to be purchased at almost fabulous prices
his enormous taxes are to be paid; his family are
to be cared Tor, and his children educated, but he
must not be permitted to sell grain of corn blade
of fodder, peck of bran, pound of hay, to raise
the means to meet these unavoidable expenses ex-
cept at schedule prices to the government.
If it should be replied that this policy is the re-
suit Of necessity on the part of the government,
then why does it not in its wisdom direct an equal.
ity of its burthens upon all classes and euery species
of property and investment 80 as not to Cypress SO
severely any one?
But unfair and unjust this policy is to the par
ticular class mentioned, depriving them of their
honest earnings and means OF subsistence, without
lust compensation in direct violation of constitu-
tional guarantee of protection in the enjoyment of
I" hfe limb and property, except by due course of
law" its injuries and cruelties not confined to
them alone.
But if continued, train of erils must inevitably
be inaugurated in which classes still more unfor-
tunate will be involved principal sufferers, the
contemplation OF which will awaken emotions more
painful and more horrId than the wounds and blood
and carnage of the battle field
The nor. producers everywhere who are not safely
lodged in Confederate Office, with their hands in
a Confederate crib-the poor Of the land-the wives
and children of gallant soldiers in the field the
wi lows and orphans OF charity at home, the foun.
tains of which will be dried up and exhausted una
BILE to purchase or be supplied on account of this
cruel iron heelcd despotic fiat gone out all tho
land must inevitably perish of suffering and want,
even amidst a land Of plenty.
They must stand and vainly implore assistance IN
til starvation sezes the body and sends the soul to
the God who gave it, or they must combine in law
less resistance to that authority which has with
drawn its protection and left them to share the fate
of the beasts that perish.
These evils cry aloud for eorrection-these wrongs
demand redress. The impulses of humanity, the
good of the country, the safety of the cause re-
quire it.
The fact once remembered, nOU forgotten, once
respected, nOU despised, once acknowledged, nOu
ignored that this is the peoples war, the peoples
country for veal woe, should be kept fresh in the
recollection of rulers. They are the serVants-ths
people the soVereigns.