Year: 1864

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struct your subordipatss TO treat Col Russ politely
but at the same time to'afOrd him no informationf


Come, Governor, abolish this system You know
there is no law for il. You know it is against the
Constitution, for it establishes privileged order
Let these necessares and these luxures be sent to
the hospitals for the benefit of the sick and wodn-
ded soldiers and to it after they are sent that
the sugar and coffee, and tea, and rice, and wines
and brandies are given to those who need them,
md not consumed by the officers in Charge
Break up this Stallfsderate system. If the shade
officers around you are not able to live without
these thingsif their salaries are not high enough,
let them resign and employ others in their places.
You are involving the State in debt millions of dol
lars by your large establishment and this debt
must be paid at tine in gold or its equivalent
or repudated. Your shade officers are enjoying
special privileges aud above the people, taking
the bread and the meat out of the mouths Of the
poor, and out of the mouths Of the soldiers fami-
lies, and eating out the substance of the land,
while at the same time they are doing but little
good either to the State or the Confederacy. In
stead of enconOmizing you are wasting. Iustead of
diminishing the public debt, you are adding to it
Instead Of keeping your promises in regard to this
Stallfederate system, and in regard to other mat.
ters, you are breaking them. Re man, Governor.
Require Col George Little to resign his place. You
know he begged it Of you, and that you appointed
him with much reluctance. Reduce your shade
officers to the level of the people by requiring
them to attend market and purchase their supplies
as others do. They are no better than other peo
ple Send John d. Hyman back to Buncombe.-
Tell Col. Duncan K. McRse to take your name out
of his paper, and not to praise you any more and
make him settle his accounts Do these things.
and show some little resentment when Mr.. Davis
again offers you troops to coerce your own State,
and the Conservatives, though they will not vote
for you, will begin to entertain for you something
of their former respect .-,4r-7e


You will please answer these and other ques-
tions We have propounded to you, on the stump,
Governor. The people expect an answer.


We beg leave to conclude, Governor, with. the
following extract from LacOn, to which we re-
spectfully invite your attention: .


Liberty will not descend to people, people
must raise themselves to liberty; it is blessing
that must be earned before it can be enjoyed
That nation cannot be free, Uhere reform is CON-
mon hack, that is dismissed Uih kick the mo
meRt 1t hGs brought the rider TO h1S place That
nation cannot be free, where parties are but differ
ent roads, leading to one common destination, plum
DER That nation cannot be free, where the rulers
will not feel for the people, until they are obliged
TO feel tcih the people, and then it is too late
That nation cannot be free, that is bought by its
own consent and sold against it; where the rogue
that IS in rags is kept in countenance by the rogue
that is in rutfles, and where from high to low, from
the lord to the lackey, there is nothing radical but
corruption, and nothing contemplate but poverty
when both patriot and placeman, perceiYing that


money can do every thing, are prepared to do every
thing for money That nation cannot be free,
where religion is, with the higher ORDERS matter
Of indifference; with the middle, of acquieScence
and with the lower, Of fanaticism. That nation
cannot be free, where the leprosy of selfshness
sticks to it close as the curse OF Elisha to his
servant Gehiza: where the rulers ask not what
recommends q man, but who; aLd where those
who want rogue, have no occasion to make, but
TO choose. l hope there is nation like this
under heaven but if there were these are the
things that, however great she might be, would
! keep such nation from liberty, aud liberty froT
her. These are tie things that would force upoI
such uation-frsL government Of expedents
secondly, of difficulties; and lastly, of danger
Such nation could begin to feel only by fearing
all that she deserved, and finish by suffering al
that she feared