Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-04

bonded exsmpts, andqartly of men detail
ed by the Confederate government a. ae--
riculturists, &C., who ARE held by the
Supreme Court of this State, to be subject
to militia duty, and hav\ been ordered by
nae into active service aApart of the mill
tis. Much the larger pat, however. is
composed of boys between Is and II. and
old men between 50 and IS years of ace.
+ who, under the laws Of Congess, are not
subject to Confederate service, An these
must, in your estimate, be set down az ex-
empt by the Governor from service in the
Confederate armies, when they are, in fact.
exempt both by the laws of Congress and
OF the State Legislature. l will remark
further, in this connection, that the State
officers in Georgia are declared exempt
from consumption, not by authority of tho
Governor, but by joint resolution of the
General Assembly of the State. Georgia
seeded from the old Union to protect her
rights and maintain her sovereignty, and
she will, in her new alliance. neither
permit the "entire machinery of her State
government to be stopped" her "Courts
Of Justice closed" the authority of her
Magistrates suspended" nor her estate
lines to be ebliterated."
Nearly fifty regiments of her sons have
spent years under arms in Virginia, and
those OF them who survive are now defend.
ing the Capitol of that glorious old Com
monwealth, whilea powerful army march
es through their own beloved State-occu-
pies and desecrates their own Capitol
burns their cities and villages, destroys
hundreds of miles OF the Railroads Of their
State, and plumbers them of their property,
leaving their wives and children without
bread.
Their Executive asks for aid, and espe-
cially that the sons of Georgia may be
perm tied to return and strike blow in
her defence. 1t is denied, and she is left
without an infantry force, while her Capt.
tol is the headquarters of General Sherman,
to confront his powerful army, except tho
Confederate Reserves in the State, and the
State officers and the Militia Reserves,
amounting in the aggregate to few thou
sand men many Of them with but little
physical strength to endure the hardships
of the camp. Not thousand men Of all
her large number of splendid regiments
and batallions of veteran infantry in Con-
federate service, were left upon her soil,
or permitted, prior to the occupancy other
Capitol by the enemy to return to her, when
her territory was being overrun, her cities,
towns, villages and private dwellings,
sacked and burned.
With these facts before you, I leave it
to your Own judgmentas a man of candor,
which your character as Virginia Repre-
sentative authorizes me to assume, whether
your published remarks do justice to State
whose sons have acted as gallantly, and
made as great sacrifices as any others,
upon the soil of Virginia, and whether my
State should with her late sad experience,
turn over to Confederate control her State
officers, aud her old men and boys, to be
taken from her limits; which would leave
her perfectly powerless even to ward of
the blows from vital points, should the r.
mics Of the enemy again pass over her ttf
ritory.
Had the sons ofGeorgia been permitted
to return to the soil Of Georgia, as asked
by her Executive short time since, he
army of Gen. Sherman would never hsve
passed over it, nor desecrated her Capital.
Very respectfully, &C.,
JOSEPH Z. BROWN.