The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04

war The sum of sI.5Oo,0o0 was 70 "a
raised annually n the proportion for
edch state was determined in the
4he way as the quotas for reauisi-
500 .>ortn Carolina was TO pay
@1eS,o0t every Year.
y was proposed by Morris when II
was apparent that hostilities would
soon cease, that there should he a ~
uehchment IN the expenditures. Ho
proposed that the army be dfshapdad
ana mat the civil list be reduced2 In
June directed that a part of
the troops was TO be allowed 10 70
turn To their homes on furloughs. The
burning question which Morris had
10 race was, where was the money 70
COME from 70 pay the troops? This
was poth an extremely delicate and
dangerous situation. The means which
the superintendent of Finance adopt
eu was the issuing of notes in anicl-
pation OF money which was to Be
raised by taxes. He wrote a circular
letter TO the governors of the States
urglng them to see to il that these
notes We're paid promptly when pre-
scented as this was the only method of
giving them utility and value In or
der TO pay to the soldiers at least a
part or Ia was due them and 20
prevent disorder, Morris was COM
PEELED to exceed the receipts OF the
treasury department by over a mil
lion ollar In a communication to
Governor Martin he makes the state
ment that since 1871 the money paid
into the reasury by all the States Was
less than s750,0OO.
Regarding the ~disbanding of the
army n the financial conditions of
the Continental Congress at this time,
the delegates of North Carolina wrote
Governor Martin to the following eff
feet: More than half the Empires
now on the face Of h Earth have
been formed, not like ours, by the
choice Of the people, but by the swords
Of a mutinous or a victorious army.
We had nothing to fear from the
disposition of u army, provided
they could ave been paid; but We
believe there never was an instance Of
an army being kept together who
were SO ill-paid as ours, much less
Of their being disbanded without pay.
Congress have long viewed the pres
ent as q dreadful crisis which must
prove truly alarming to the peace and
liberties of our Country, unless af-
fectual payment could be made to the
troops.
1T will certainly be admitted that
the situation of Congress is not a very
desirable one. They are sent from
home to seek for lodging in a place
where they ave neither control nor
Jurisdiction, in a place to where they
are hourly exposed to the importuni-
ties or insults of Creditors whom they
cannot pay and to the ~bayonets of a
mutinous Soldiery whom they cannot
After all we shall count
ourselves happy if by any measures,
we can prevent the evils always eN-
pected and attendent on the discharge
of armies till our Constituents can
feel their own Independence and i'm
p%ortance, their own national honor
an safety, and adopt any means for
supplying the public treasury, the only
measure by which disorders of this
nature can be effectually p~revented.'
For h satisfaction of the soldiers
of the continental line of North Caro-
lima. the State was forced to resort
again to the old ~expedient Of issuing
paper money and 800, geo was accord
ingiy emitted for this purpose. All
sums paid to the soldiers by eacn
State were to be credited to the sans
in the settlement of accounts with the
United Staes.
gress in April of 1888, the total debt
of the United States was S42, 000, 375;
of which s34.615,340 was domestic
debt and s7,3S5,o3 was foreign. But
the war had not yet been brought
to a conclusion, these figures were
augmented somewhat DGbOIe IHc SlSD-
of the definite treaty Of a IN
OF 1888.
At the beginning Of 1884 there were
three acquisitions which had not been
met by the States up to that time:
the requisitian of 100000
the year 1871, that of 1920 600
1892, and the one Of 100000
1888. OF these, North Carolina
was unable to advance any part Of
her onotas. In March, of 1884, Con
gress was compelled to send out an
other urgent call to the States to sup
port the public credit as the time
which had elapsed since September OF
preceding year was insufficient for
anv observable advance or improve
nent to be made in matters Of II
nance. The demands Of public credi-
tors were as insistent as they had
ever been. and it was very essential
that the notes issued to the soldiers
when they were d~isbanded, should be
A reoui.ition of 1926 600 was
rdin apportioned among the