Year: 1864

remember, sick and wounded soldiers, that Mr..
Holden has not only kept out Of the army him.
sell, but has kept out stout ablebodied son, and
everybody else he could. And yet he has the i'm
JSderGte.


SO far as we are concerned, we have not kept our
self out of the army, but-we are out, in the first
place, because we are over fortyfve years of age
secondly, because we arc an Editor of public
Journal and it is presumed by the Lawmakers that
Editors are doing as much service to the country
as Editors as they could do in the army and third.
ly because we State Printer, and could not we'll
perform our duties as such and at the same time
serve in the army. But if we had been the fire.
eater that Col McRae is, we would have gone to
the army as soon as the war commenced even if
we had been seventy years of age and we would
have remained there, as Col McRae has not, until
the end. He entered the army not as a private,
but after having coaxed threatened Gov Ellis out
of commission he ought never to have had he
fought away whole regiment, luckily escaping
himself without . scratch and then, because the
President declined to promote him, he resigned
his office as Colonel repudiated his own govern
ment in his letter of resignation and retired to his
bombproof quarters as "a detailed man" in the
office of the Confederate And yet he talks about
men keeping out of the armyl


So far as the "stout able-bodied SOM is con-
cerned, he entered the army and served twelve
months as a volunteer before he was eighteen years
of age. He was in the battle of Roanoke Island,
and was captured on that occasion with others
and the Congressional Report relative to that bat.
tie will show, that he and others who fought with
COlonels Jordan and Shaw acquitted themselves
well, Notwithstanding the fact that President Da-
Wis stated soon afterwards to a member of Congress
from this State, street rumor" that the troops
from this State did not behave well on that occa.
sion. The young man referred to is legally ex-
empted as a printer, and as an officer in the Home
Guards. He is very serviceable to US in our Of
fce though he has nothing to do with the politics
of the paper, and we do not see how we could get
along without him. No citizen of Raleigh or of
Wake County, who knows him, will believe that
he has done anything to provoke this ungenerous
allusion to him by Col McRae


And now, Col McRae if you soant any thing out
of any one, zoe are able to fight our own battles-
We do not fear either you or those for whom you
speak. We are ready for you, come when and as
you may. You have pursued US for months with the
grossest and most offensive personalities, and you
have even referred to family and to "our stock
in terms which no honorable, high minded man
would employ. We have borne it all for the sake
of peace, for we are peace man; and we have
borne it because character is so we'll establish
ed that nothing you can say can hurt US; but this
is one thing, and threats to assault US personally
is another You will not be allowed, Sir, to add
insult to injury.


And now, how many able bodied conscripts are
exempted in the Confederate and Conservative
vtices? "Their name is legion" There are
c!erks-detaied and exempted men-for all kinds
of employment in these two ofices-men detailed
by Gov. Vance, at his request, to aid him in his
GIectoneering schemes and it is our opinion that
some of these men are either paying for the priv.
lege or working for nominal wages There are no
such employees in our Office.


And why does not the cypher in the Confederate
Office, Mr.. German, go to the war? He is an able
bodied individual and he slays whole hecatOmbs of
Yankees on paper and by word of mouth; let him
try it for awhile as private, and we will then see
if he does not squaH for peace. Gen. Lee would be
delighted to receive him as q private, and would
give him place near the flashing of the guns.