Year: 1863

q Vfrg1n1dn-a person of the name OF braoioTu-
This is very important Office It's duties are both
difficult and delicate. This officer, in person and
through his subordinates will come in contact with
the great mass of our people, and will exert much
power over them. He will be the agent through
whom one tenth Of their substance, rather their
means Of subsistence will be drawn for government
use. lie will pervade every neighborhood in the
State and his subordinateS, imported for the most
part fror: Virginia and Maryland, will swarm like
the locusts Of Egypt Now, We entertain no un-
kind feelings towards Virginia or Virginians, and
it may be that the person appointed will make
good officer; but we do insist that of the one hun
dred and ten thousand voters in this State some
citizen, native or adopted, might have been found
to perform the duties of this office But no, this
did not suit an administration whose views and
action anything but kind, or just, or generous
towards North Carolina. A Virginian must be
appointed to collect the tithes North Cardinal
and Vi1yinidnS must be favored with places under
this officer, to the exclusion of our own peoplel
We have case in point A gallant officer of oneE
of our old State regiments, who has fought in many
a battle in Virginia, and who has been so wounded
as to render him unfit for active service, called to





that he had applied at Richmond in vain for en-
ployment; but that he had just learned that two
Virginians had been appointed to Offices either of
which he would have been glad to have obtained,
and one of these appointees had been ordered to
report for duty to the Tithingman of this State.
What makes the case more pointed is, that this
North Carolina officer is refugee-his home occu-
pied by the enemy, and his means of support cut
of. he must obtain employment as he can, be-
cause he is North Carolinian; he may point to
his wounds in vain, while persons from another
State are provided for and placed in situations to
lord it over our conscrpts and farmers.


People of North. Carolina, "if you have nature in
you, bear it not" You have submitted long enough
to this injustice-these indignities and insults
Even while we write, and for months past officers
from other States having no sympathy with our
people and disposed to hurry the last man from this
State into the army, have been acting as enrolling
officers and examining physicians to the exclusion
of natives, as well, if not better qualified than they
are; and now, under this Tithingman unless the
people rise up and assert their rights every neigh:
borhood will be visited with swarms of tthing.
men from other States We tell you, people of
North Carolina that we still have free forms, and
that your is republican in its character
These men at Richmond who thus insult the State,
and show by their action that they regard US as
only an appendage of Virginia and Maryland, are
your servants. That's the theory Let the theory
be put in practice. The 18th section of your Bill
of Rights declares, that the people have right to
assemble together, to consult for their common
good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply
to the Legislature for redress of grievances" If
you true to yourselves and to the character OF
your State, you OiH exercise that right. "Assem-
bic together" In your Captains districts, and de-
msnd the removal of this Virginian; and you can
go beyond this, If you choose, and express your
views freely and fesrlessy on the condition of the
country. If this is your government, say so; if
not, say so. If you have the right to rule in this
State, say so; if not say so. Sit down supinely
and hope for better treatment and better times and
if the treatment or the times improve. You
must take your own affairs into your own hands,
If public men, who are disposed to submit to this
injustice and these indignities stand in your way,
pass by or walk over them. Tell the administra-
ton at Richmond that you will not submit to such
treatment and that these swarms of "foreign mer-
cenaries" must be withdrawn from this State. No
other State is treated in this way. The people of
Virginia, or South Carolina or Georgia would not
submit for one moment to such injustice In the
language OF cotemporary off we are not fit to
enrol our own conscripts, collect our own taxes
and have not men of sufficient honesty and integ-
rity to hold the Offices necessary to the performance
of these duties then we are not worthy place in
the Confederacy."