Year: 1863

Late Southern papers contain abstract OF an iul-
portant discussion in the North Carolina House of Com
mons on the 9th Of July upon motion 10 print the cor
between Governor Vance and the Confederate
Secretary Of War in relation to tie habeas corpus and
the claim of the Confederate Government to conscrpt
militia officers The extremists opposed the printing, and
the friends of Governor Vance favored it, The Raleigh
Standard publishes synopsis the speech of Mr. Grssom
of Granville county support of the motion, from which
we extract the following significant paragraphs;


Mr. GRIssoM said the correspondence and the history of
several startling events connected with the subjects Of
which it treats admonsh of purpose on the part OF
the Confederate Administration to disregard not only the
decisions of courts but aso to construe for itse all
questions touching the liberty of tho citizens It's the
first in the history Of this any other people where
the great landmarks OF English freedom are regarded that
the great writ of right secured by Magma Cbaa has been
tramped under foot with impunty. Surely no people,
having lost all love Of DOM tamey submit to
such aggression as tins dscieses on Tue
part of high oicia functionay and his subordiDates
Tue bold and unwarranted attempt to strike down our
judiciary, developed by the correspondence indicates
rapid aud gigantic stride toward military despotsm.


But few days since Confederate colonel refused to
allow the sheriff of New Hanover to pass his lines to
cute writ Of habeas corpus Several instances OF the re-
est by subatern officers OF persons discharged under
this writ, and (as inormrd) by the express or
der of the of War himself have recently occur
red. Such arbitrary exercise of power by tho highest
civil military functonary in England wonld not be toe



kingdom to the centre Wellington, flushed with victory
and crowned with aures returning frem the field of i-
umph Napoleon, would not have dared to exercise
power deny this right to the humble soldier that
followed him from the of his glory But are told
this correspondence that the crude opinions OF our
local judges not to be regarded by the military auho
rites of this Government and Gov Vance is by nnuendo
reprmanded for not suppressing the expression OF these
opinions Who these Local judges whose crude opn
thus to be disregarded They constitute the Su
preme Court of North Carolina and have entitled them





in which they have discharged their duties, regardless
Uf powerful adverse influences.


North Carolina has sent seventy four Thousand vOun
teers and fourteen thousand conscrps to the field Has
any State done more Eghtyeght thousand of her sons
barring their breasts to the enemy sleep in the
graves TO which their pa rotsm has consigned them The
bones of her best citizens have beached every battle
field from Big Bethel to Chanceorsve They have every
where broken the ranks of the enemy and snacbed victory


the jaws of defeat They have crowded the road to
death If it the highway to fesvity and mirth.
Yet all this has not saved her from insult and injury
Why it that in the appointment of generals to command
the troops in many instances our own officers were put
aside to give place to those from other States Why s
that in of these appointments general was
appointed who, in official communication to Gen. Lee,
spoke of this Legislature in terms of derison the
memorable" Legislature of North Carolina Why are
the various post appointments among in the quarter
master aud commssary departments filed by ctz ms of
other States to the exclusion of Ours Why the attempt
ia measure successful to force enrolling officers upon
from other States TO the neglect of own Aud why
could there not be found in all North Carolina suitable
person to fill the position Of chief collector OF tthes but
must be sent from another State to unlock
cr bs and smt ke houses


Why is it that North Carolina is swarming with officials
and clerks from other States who ought to be in the army
fighting for the principles they advocate


Why it that of about fifty hospitals 10 the city of Rich
mODd, with than two hundred surgeons there
but three from this state


North Carolina had assigned to her under act of Con-
gress approved October 9th, 1862 eight hospitals
tanning twenty-five hundred and thtyfve beds Only
of these containing not then hundred and sixty
beds is under the charge of NORTH Carolina surgeon
The divisions of Wnder and Chimborazo assigned to this
State contain eight hundred beds, with eight
nine surgeons each every Of whom is from another
State.


aude to these things with pain and sorrow, but do
it as matter of solemn duty, defence of my position
upon this floor.


These statements show how tho Southern people are
ground to powder by the secession demgcgue who have
their heel ON their necks. The bold and manly remon-
STRANGE of the member from Granville however if follow
cd up in North Carolina, must create public opinion
that State which the Richmond despotism will not be able
to Withstand,