The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-13
Attention, Battalion.
TO the Manned, Disabled Veterans of
the Stata.

executive committee to advise you at
any time in regard to pensions. the
time has arrived. In reply to the
numerous inquiries from ali parts of
the State asking why YOU do not re
| ceive the full pension TO which YOU
are entitled, | would say from infor-
nation received from your State eX-
ecutive committee that quite a, num-
Der of persons are drawing pensions
| to which they are not entitled. Wild
ows of veterans so long as they re-
| main widows are entitled to pension
| When they enter the marriage state
| they are excluded. A large number of
| persons from time to time have been
placed on the pension roll by mem
bers of the Legislature without MAX
ing any appropriation wherewith to
pay them. One hundred were placed
| on the roll in this way by the last
General Assembly. No person can
| legally draw pension without pass
| ing the pension board. The advisory
board is composed of veterans, three
in number, in each county, and APP
| pointed by the State Auditor and rep
| resenting the State. 1t is their duty to
insist on medical examination. Your
| committee respectfully ask the pen
| sion board in each county to issue an
order for all persons who are drawing
pensions without passing the board
| to appear before them on certain
| daY. and if not entitled to a pension
| to please forward their names to Hon.
Hal. w. Aver. State Auditor. Raleigh.
| Your committee respectfully ask the
commands of camps in counties where
there is no advisory board TO forward
ha Of tn IA
| State Auditor for appointment to
represent the State. 1t affords me
| pleasure to say that Gen. Carr, Gen.
| Commanding United Confederate Vet
| Grams of North Carolina requests re-
| port from the advisory board of every
county in the State. He respectfully
asks that these reports be forwarded
| to him at Durham, on OK before Dc
| tobert LIST. giving the names of the
| pensioners and the amount received.
marking with a cross the names of
| those persons who are drawing pen
| sions to which they are not entitled.
| These reports will be read before the
| veterans in reunion assembled at the
| Fair Grounds on Wednesday of Fair
week. and at night in the Senate
| Chamber for the transaction of bust
| ness. If found necessary the legisa-
| tive committee will be instructed to
prepare a bill levying Il special tax
and ask its passage by the General
| Assembly. which will give the full
pension to which you are entitled.
| North Carolina has done less for her
| Confederate veterans than any other
| State. The State of Georgia gives her
| totally disabled thirty dollars a year
more than North Carolina. Under the
| general pension law the worst dis
| abled were to receive one hundred
| dollars. We have received scarce two
| thirds of this amount other classes
| pro rata. The verbal contract made
and entered into between the. citizen
| soldiery and Governor Ellis is as bind
ing on the State today as the hour
| it was made. Here's the contract:
! When the question was asked by the
! soldiers of Governor Ellis in the event
of hostilities and our being disabled
for life, what then? Replied that no.
ble patriot: "The State will take care
of you: you shall never suffer; go for
ward. my fellow citizens You ac-
cepted the terms; your being wound
ed is proof you complied with your
part of the contract; the State has
not complied with hers. Fellow com
radeS, remember the Democratic par
! ty is the only one that has ever aided
| you in any way / am instructed by
| your committee to call upon captains
| and officers to use their utmost eX-
! ertion to inform their fellow com
| rades of the movement on hand by
which they will receive their full pen
sion. Call upon your fellow com
rades, sons, relatives and acquaint
ances; attend your primaries in full
force: do not support any man for
seat in the General Assembly who
does not recognize the contract herein
| stated as binding on the par of the
! State. General j. S. Carr is your true
| and tried friend: he will do all in his
| power to aid you, as will every veteran
who meets in reunion in October next.
| The mystic tie that spell which binds
us each to the other unfelt and un-
| known to any other class, is the guar
antee that the boys" will stand by
each other i'm distress so long as life
lasts, as they stood by each other on
the battlefield and hurled back
! the onset of the native
| born us we'll as the foreign soldier
thousands of whom could not speak
a word of English. In Zeigle's Corps
! the commands were given in German.
! SO. fellow comrades, God forbid YOU
should be compelled to become the
| inmates of the poor-house of your
county because you faithfully dis
charged your duty, and fought for
| principles known to be right If a
| special tax be levied it will not long
be needed. large number have
reached the age of three score and
ten years, each one will soon receive
his furlough signed by the Great Com
mander with order TO report for duty
in the great reunion on the other
| shore.
w. Ii. HAMILTON.
+. Co.. 18th y. c., Ramseur's Brigade
Chm. State EX. Com. Pension Asso.
All State paper friendly to the Con-
| federate Veterans please COPY.