The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-07-26
ISLANDER ON THE SIA|t
PEAL FACTS TOUCHING NORTH
CAROLINA'S TROOPS.
THE MATTER SHOULD BE lNVfS1l6AIlD
And Cerbin Kicked Out Of Office if he Author
led the Statemert'-A Series Of Lies
Circulated. Concerning State,
All from Washington.

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Washinton. ID. c.. July 19.-In order
to show the progress Of recruiting under
| the second call 4 statement has been
prepared in the office of the adjutaEt
general Of the army based on the latest
returns. 1t shows the following enlist
ments:
North Carolina number required ISi:
number enlisted %.
Virginia number required 900; number
enlisted 294.
Georgia number required 1O1; number
enlisted 30.
Indiana. Minnesota. Missouri. New
Jersey. Rhode Island, West Virginia and
Wisconsin nave exceeded their quota,
but all the others are behind in the sup
ply of troops. The worst delinquent IS
! North Carolina which has furnished only
- soldiers to meet its quota Of 1S3.
\ more wilful. malicious and uncalled
for falsehOod thar the above has never
been circulated concerning 4 brave and
chivalrouS people. 1t is Il lie out of the
whole cloth, nothing less. If AdJt. Gen.
Corbin. 70 whose office the report is ac-
credited. is really responsible for it, he
! should be dismissed from office III dis
grace. The publication of such stuff all
over the country does the State IN
! calculable harm.
This veracious report says:
North Carolina. number required 7S4;
number enlisted % As a matter Of fact
under the apportionment Of the second
call Of President Mckinley the number of
troops required of this State was 1,351.
OF this 1.:301 men 1873 were TO be used
in raising the companies of the first and
second regiments enlisted under the first
call from so men up to the maximum of
JOG men each.
The Second regiment, as is well known
here and equally we'll known. or should
be. to Corbin. has been recruited W to
its full strength. This alone means tina,
$50 men have been enlisted under the
second call. The First regiment which
also needed $50 men has secured $50. or
Whereabouts. Therefore, into these two
regiments alone have gone. under the sec
Ond call. 600 men. The numbe is slight
ly larger. but that is sufficient to expose
the falsellOod that but % men have
been furnished.
Beside the men enlisted in the First
and Second regiments North Carolina
was ordered to raise seven companies Of
negro troops each having 4 maximum
strength Of 10G men and add them to the
three negro companies already at Fort
Macon. This has been done and the
regiment mustered into service.
Thus. instead Of 1S4 men being called
for from North Carolina and the State
having furnished -. in reality 1,55l
men have been called for and all but
100 have been furnished.
The trouble has not been in getting
men, not with the people of North Caro-
lima. but in getting something Wherewith
to feed and clothe and shelter the men
who volunteered: the trouble was with
the departments ut Washington. honey
combed with favoritism and filled with
scented and gilded n~incompoops.
This is by no means the first false
statement that has been circulated. 1t
was plastered on Washington bulletin
boards in letters Il foot high. and in the
Washington newspapers was dignitied
with job type. that North Carolina
troops were deserving by companies. The
Washington newspapers made a cOrrec-
ton in a dozen lines bidder among the
advertisements and the bullentin boards
remained blank. AS Il result Of this mis-
cradle falSehoOd. and the Washington
papers knew it was n falsehood when
published. Adjutant General Cowles re
celyed Il flood Of letters from other States
offering companies to take the place of
those supposed to have deserted. That
the Islander has not been exposed is
shown by the fact that these letters still
i come.
General Covles is authority for the
statement that over 100 companies We're
offered where only twenty could be ac-
copied; that 10000 men could nave been
raised without difficulty.
After the deSertion lie had been nailed
and a retraction forced from the publish
erS of it the next statement sent our
was q reputed interview with COrhin in
which he declared that he could GET no
information whatever concerning the
Second regiment or only information that
was vague and useless. Whether General
Corbln ever made such a statement is
not known TO this day, though il is Of
course improbable.
=. Lastly comes a supposed statement
from Corbins office charging that North
carolina has raised but - men under
the second call when as n matter Of
fact she has raised over 400.
1t IS about time that this sort of thine
I, ceased. 7
II newspaper men are responsible for
it they should be exposed. if Canorol
torbln has made such statements no l.
unit to be adjutant general or even cor-
pOral.
North Carolina has gotten her share If
glory out Of this war. if Justice he done
ler- She would have gotten. as she IN.
ai"a!S done in every war. more note
worthy achievements to her credit tban
an! otler State had she not been dis
c~rlillfhated against from the beginning.
IT IS the old case of the lion and the
jackal.
Jar HEELS EVERYWHERE p MnIcMANr