Year: 1864

Remember sick ana wounded s0ldlerS, tnat MT
Holden has not only kept out Of the army him
everybody else he could. And yet he has the i'm
pudence TO call himself the soldiers friend d-Con
teaerats. r ,.. ~ -.
So far as We are concerned, we have net kept our
self out of the army, but we ont, in the first
place, because we over forty five years'of age;
secondly because we are 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 well
perform eur duties as such and at the same time
serve in the army. But if VIC had been the fire.
eater that Col. McRae is we would lave 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 or threatened Gov Ellis out
of commission he ought never to have had he
fought away a whole regiment luckily escaping
himself without a 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
bomb proof quarters as "a detailed man. in the
Office of the C0ntsaerate. And yet he talks about
men keeping out of the armyl


$50 far as the "stout, able bodied son" is con.
cerned, he entered the army and served twelve
months as 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
we'll, notwithstanding the fact that President Da-
Wis stated soon afterwards to member of Congress
from this State, on street rumor" that the troops
from this State did not behave we'll on that occa.
sion The young man referred to is legally ex-
empted as a printer, and as officer in the Home
Guards. HE is very serviceable to US in our Of
fee, 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
ne has done anything to provoke this ungenerous
alusion to him by Col McRae.


And now, Col. McRae, if you soant any thing out


Of any one, we are able to fight our own oattles.-
We do not fear either you or those for whom you


sl,eak. We are ready for you, come when and as
you may. You have pursued US for months with the


grcssest and most offensive personalities and you


have even referred to our 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 our character is we'll establish
ed that nothing you can say can hurt US; bnt this


is one thing, and threats to assault 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
ofices9 "Ther name. is legion" There are
clerks-detailed and exempted men-for all kinds


of employment in these two ofices-men detailed


by Gov Vance, or at his request to aid him in his


electioneering schemes; and it is our opinion that


some of these men are either paying for the privi-


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, 60 to the WARP 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 squaU for peace Gen. Lee would be


delighted to receive him q private, and would


give him place near the flashing of the guns.