Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-09-26
FIN ANCIAL CONDITION OF
NORTH CARDINALS THERE
ANY OBE.IG ALTON ON THE
STATE TO FAY THE ESPECIAL

NO1kTH CAROLlNA..lS THERE
ANY TON ON THE
STATE TO FAY THE ESPECIAL
TAX BONDs.'' sO-CALLED?
We surrender our columns this
morning to the publication of second
letter from the Editors of the JOURNAL
to their London correspondent, in re-
lation to the financial affairs of North
Carolina.
The vital Importance of the question
and the impossibility of presenting it
fairly in fewer words render unneces-
sary any apology for the exclusion of
other matter.
DAILY JOURNAL OFFICE,
WILMINGTON, n. G. Oath Sept, 1873.
Sir: Both of your letters have been
received, and would have been an
swered sooner but for our absence
from town.
AS you seem not to understand the
position in which North Carolina
stands in relation to the socalIed
Special Tax Bonds, we propose, III this
letter, to trace their pedigree, III order
that you may see how little justice they
nave their S1U6 WHO OeInduu LHCII
payment of our people.
THE OBLIGATION OF NORTH CAROLINA
TO PAY HER sO-CALLED STATE DEBT.
OF the Special Tax bonds, 81 ,5G5, 900
were issued by the Convention OF
1863 ans. the remainder by the Icgls-
lature which met in that year.
THE CONVENTION OF 1863.
From the official record of the pro
ceedings had on the first day of its
session, it appears that the Convention,
sO-called. assembled 'under and by the
following authority" to wit:
Headquarters Second Military District,
Charleston, $. O., Dec, 81, 1"CI
GENERAL OEDERs}
At the election held in the State of North
Der, 1861 pursuant to General orders 10. 1"l,
from these headquarters, dated October IS, 1861:
a majority OF the registered voters OF the sand
State having voted on the question of holding
Convention, a majority of the votes cast
being in favor OF hodng such Convehtios,, me
delegates elected thereto and hereafter named
hereby notified, in conformity with the
provisions of the fourth section of the Act Of
Congress OF March %, 1861, to assemble in Con-
yention, in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina,
at on Tuesday, the 18th day of january,
1863 for the purpose OF framing Constitution
and Civil Government according to thu pro
visions of the aforesaid act of the G'd day CT
March, 1867 and of the act OF the : day Of
March, 1867 to VIII ich it is supplementary A
copy of this order will be forwarded TO each Of
the persons hereafter named, and shall be evil
.ence of his having been elected as a delegate
to the aforesaid Convention.
(Iere follows list of delegates
BY command OF Brevet M ajOr- General
K. K. 8. CANDY,
TOfiicial.1 Louis V. CAzIARC.
Abide Camp, Actg Asst Adj-t Genl.
JACOB +. CHURR,
Act'g Asst Adj't GenI.
From the same record it appears
also that the following communication
was received from Post Headquarters
and read by the Secretary of the Con-
vention:
Headquarters Military Post Of Ra'cigh.
To the President of the Convention, Raleigh.
n C.:-Sir: 1 have the honor to transmit
herewith the enclosed dispatch from Head
quarters Second Military District for the i'll
formation of the State Convention.
am your obedient servant.
LIST Lieut.. Sth U. s. Infantry, Post Adj't
Charles on, s. c., January 1871, 1863.
To Commanding OFFICER Post OF kaeieh =
,naa1, IL NcCnhtius in Mace Of Isaac NJ,
Shaver, delegate from Davie and Rowan
counties. and John G; Marier in place Of dwin
p Bartlett from, Ashe. Alleghany, Watauga,
Surry and Yadkin counties. Order by mail il
forms all parties.
TSignedI Louis v CAzIAEc.>
A. ID. e. and A a. \ q
Shortly after it assembled the Con
vention passed an ordinance directing
the Treasurer of the State, Hon. Kemp
=. Battle, who went into office before
the negroes were allowed to vote, to
furnish the money for its expenses
Mr.. Battle addressed written com
munication to the Convention, refusing
toohoy tLa order for tho reason IL ii
W o noi VIZ 49, ",,'a. 49,,
da,ive its eri.tence in anv manner tom tb'
present State government or under its Consti.
MOI a
nection with it."
AS appears from its proceedings on
the 9th of January, 1868. the COnven-
ton then raised committee to forward
the report to General Candy and re-
quest him to order the Treasurer to
comply with the ordinance. There
upon the following order was pub
lished:
Hsgdq"arters Second M1itary Disi'in. }
,r. VI nrnu D. February ~ 1900
No. 90
1t is IS ordered red. cha ,..osso-. ., r :, ,,a
State of North Carolina shall add to the Asses
ments already made. or about to be made, for
th thf nn%er bc OF ordna"
before cited and hereafter published, and the
collectors OF taxes WI proceed to collect The
by the laws of the State for State taxes. and
paw tue same into the Treasury of the state.
S.1"m"' Imai me 3 OF ,ns a,tte Is
diem and mileage of the delegates, the compe,. :
saton of the officers. and the contingent cx-
n the usual form upon warrants Oh '
by command OF Brevet MaiGr-Gener*i
isignedl Ior1s Y ~ c,xt,nr.
Ai,l-'e-Camp and Act'g Asst AJJ't GenI
In obedience to this order the PEG
pies money was taken, If not to feed
the dogs, at least to pay the members
of the Convention.
That the Convention thus called
into being and organized by Federal
military orders and sustained by
Federal bayonets represented the will
of the Federal Government, and not
that of the people of North Carolina,
1T requires no argument to show.
But even if there be no objection to
the mode of electing and converting
the Convention, the bonds issued by it
are nevertheless illegal.
The Convention was convened, as