Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-01

This notification binds the property till our nego-
tiations shall be closed.
Very Respectfully,
JOHN II. ROWLAND,
Agent for j. B. White,
- Captain & A. O. NJ
Forrestye, Dec. IA, 1864
Mr.
SIR.-I propose to purchase of you for the use of
the G. s. government your surplus corn, oats, fod-
der and hay at schedule price, payable delivery
of said property at Forestville, n c., on the
day of-1se5. Should you refuse to sell said
property at said price, the same is hereby impress
ed, and you are hereby notified not to remoce or
transfer the same, and that compensation will be
made to you for said property according to the act
of Congress, regulating impressments.
Very Respectfully,
j. W. FORT,
Agent for W. E. Pierce,
Captain & A. O. NJ.
The prices on the back of the first of these mott
are for corn, sheled and bagged, S. per bushel
of Sc pounds Fodder aud Hay s. so per hundred ;
Oats, shelled and bagged, 81 per bushel of 81
pounds Shueks So, per hundred Straw 81 Bran
SO cts.
On introducing this resolution Mr.. Grissom said:
This oppressive restriction affects only the farm
er. 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 injurious system of peculiar and I'm
precedented hardship.
The capitalist the manufacturer and the mechanic
are all comparatively free from this burtheE, which
falls like a thunderbolt and hangs like an incubus
upon the shoulders of the farmer parayzing his Of
forts and waning his patriotism.
He bears his full share of ad 0alorena 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 as if to
add insult to injury, piling Pelon upon Ossa, he
is visited by the Quartermaster's agent and served
with notice to sell no part of his corn oats fodder
hay shucks, straw or bran, except by their permis
sion, to the government for nominal prices and
worthless scrip Surely he has cause to cry out in
the bitterness othis 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 speculator may est and rein
vest his interest and his earnings at enormous prof
its as often as he chooses, without embarrassment
but the farmer must not be permitted, even from
his hard and scanty earnings, to realize suficen.
cy to meet and deray his absolutely necessary fami.
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 be
must not be permitted to sell grain of corn blade
of fodder peck of bran or pound of hay. to raise
the means to meet these unavoidable expenses ex.
cept at schedule prices to the government
lift 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
iy of its burthens upon all classes and euerv species
of property and investment so as not to Cypress so
severely any one?
But unfair and unjust as this policy is to the mar
A.
honest earnings and means of subsistence, without
just compensation, in direct violation Of constitu.
tional guarantee of protection in the enjoyment of
"llte, limb and property, except by due course of
law" its injuries and cruelties are not confined to
them alone.
But if con tinued, train of eoils must inevitably
be inaugurated in which classes still more unfor.
tunae will be involved as 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 non producers everywhere who are not safely
lodged in Confederate Office with their hands in
Confederate crib-the poor of the land-the wives
and children of our gallant soldiers in the field the
WI lows and orphans Of charity at home, the foun
tans OF which will be dried up and exhausted. una
BILE to purchase OF be supplied on account Of this
cruel iron heeled despotic fat gone out all over the
land' must inevitably perish Of suffering and want,
even amidst land of plenty,
They must stand and vainly implore assistance un
til starvation sezes the body and sends the soul to
the God who gave ii, 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 correction-these wrongs
demand redress The impulses of humanity, the
good OF the country, the safety of the cause re-
quire il.
The'fact once remembered, no,,s forgotten, once
respected, no', despised once acknowledged, nop
country for veal or woe, should be kept fresh in the
recollection of rulers. They are the servants-the
people the severeigns.