The news & observer., 1905-10-19

from another State. Thereupon Gov
2rnor Vance wrote to the Secretary
IF War, Mr.. Seldom, a letter in which
ne alluded Ito the obvious impropriety
ana bad policy of Wounding the sen
sibilities of our people by the appoint
nent of citizen of another State to
execute a law both harsh and odious;
md wrote further The people of this
state have felt justly mortified in see
ing our troops, commanded by citizens
1f other States to the exclusion of the
claims of their own. This feeling is
increased into a very general indigna-
ion when il is thus officially announc-
ed that North Carolina has no man
IN her borders fit to command her
own conscripts, though scores of her
noblest sons and best officers are now
at home with mutlateG limbs and
shattered constitutions Having sub
mitted in silence TO the many, very
many, acts Of the administration,
heretofore, SO calculated TO wound
that pride, which North Carolina is
SO pardonable for entertaining, it is
my duty to inform you that if persist
I'd in, the appointment of strangers to
I'll the positions in this State and over
Ter troops, viii cause j feeling within
Ter whole borders which it is my great
lesire to avoid.
After an opinion OF our Supreme
court had been delivered to the eff
ect that the officers of the State Of
North Carolina, (their militia ohicers)
could not be conscripted subsequent
arrests We're made by the conscription
officers, Whereupon the Governor, in
iefiance of military power, issued an
order that officers should not arrest
my man as a conscript or deSerter
VII had sol n roc IH
bearing of writs of habeas corpus.
The order further instructed militia
Ulcers "to resist any such arrest upon
he part of any person not authorized
oy the legal process of court having
Jurisdiction in such cases"
In reference to the illegal seizure of
property Governor Vance wrote to the
Secretary OF War making complaint
md said to him: 81 give you my word
hat in North Carolina it has become
/ grievance intolerable, damnable, and
lot to be borne If God Almighty had
yet in store another plague-WOrSe
han all others which He intended to
rave let loose on the Egyptians in
:ase Pharoah still hardened his heart
{ am sure it must have been reg1-
nent or so Of half armed half dis
;iplned Confederate Cavalry
Cannot officers be reduced TO the
ranks Tor pGrnllJllhS lHI9s CStIlIloC
few men BE shot for the preparations
If these outrages, as an example?
Unless something can be done, shall
oe compelled in some sections to call
tut my militia and levy actual war
tSainst them.
Chatting, and indignant as every
nigh minded North Carolinian was at
the time. and now is, at the injustice
worked by the Richmond government
in the appointment Of military officers
ior North Carolina service, including
army, conscript and impresament, the
Governor promptly made resentful
complaint TO the President in a letter
If date July, 1868. lie wrote: "A
great deal of harm has been done and
much dissa tisfactloa excited by the
appointment of citizens of other States
70 offices and positions here that of
right should be filled by our own peo-
pie. Upon the occasion of an
insult offered to the Governor by an
officer from Virginia in command Of
North Carolina troops at Wilmington,
when the Governor was returning to
:he shore from a visit to the Ad-
vance. he wrote to the PRESIDENT de-
nanding the officers removal from
the state; and further. "if it be deem