Year: 1864

Gen. Holmes has ordered portion Of the reserve
forces between 40 and 80 to Goldsborough for SER
vice says report is in circulation that Gov. Vance
caused these men to be called out and states that
he, the Governor, advised Gen. Holmes to permit
them to remain at home If Gov. Vance had main Il
tained his militia system, and the rights of his
State, as Gov Brown has done no such call could |
have been made, but these reserves would have
been subject to his command, to be summoned to |
points of danger when he chose to call them out
If he had pressed the ten regiment bill the Leg
islatare at its second session, as he promised but
failed to do, the State would now have had ten thou
sand veteran troops, who could have guarded and
defended the Wilmington and Weldon Road along |
its entire line. But he refused to do this, as we
knOY, because the impression had been created by
the Destructive leaders that the ten regiment bill
was ain conflict with the Confederate government"
and he feared if he endorsed his own measure a
second time in his message, it would inure his
prospects outside the State for future national pro-
motion. So he was silent in his second message
and the bill failed second time. North. Carolina
as sovereign State, had right under the Const
tuition to the services at home of such persons as
she. had not placed among her militia; but this
right was not claimed by Gov. Vance in time to
shape the action of Congress on Che subject 1t is
now too late. The law has been passed, and must
be submitted to. The bill sweeping away these re- |
serves from the State was pending in Congress \
when Gov. Vance made his Wkesborough speech,
but he entered no protest against it: On the con-
trary he told the people that they must fight and
light it out THAT they must fight seven years
as the Prussians did, eighty years the Hoanders
did, and four hundred years as the Scotch die, -
and he encouraged us all by pointing to the exam
pie of the Hollanders, who he said fought until
starvation stared them full in the face" and until
some of them were reduced to such state Of suf


ering that they boiled and ate grass cut from be-
tween the tomb stones of the dead" Not word
against putting in the reserves, though the bill
was then pending in Congress not u word against
the system Of details, which places the farms and
workshops under the absolute control of the militia
ry-not word against any measure no matter
how mopstrous, which savoured of 0dr, and not a
word in favor of peace. The truth is, he wanted.
these reserves put in. His whole conduct proves
it He is, therefore, responsible to LTge erent for
these calls nOw being made on both young and old,
whatever request he may have made of Ger. Holmes
on the"Subect.


The Conservative concludes its article with the
following grand flourish:


ave understand that some Of the fighting pa
triots, vino are busily engaged in making this
false impression on the minds of the people arc
themselves exempted from prescription through the
favor and kindness of Gov. Vance. This is the
method they have adopted to show their gratitude
u manufacturing willful and deliberate lies to in
j ire the man who through his abundant kindness,
;ss preserved their miserable carcascs from danger!
AID yet Gov Vance still allows them retain their
hJHte guard commissions.


Would the Christian gentleman" who is Gov.
Vances competitor, nlutdtis mUtandiS, exercise the
Same degree of forbearance?"


Why this empty threat against the officers of the
Home Guards? If Gov. Vance thinks they ought
to be in service in the field, why did he not adyse
the Legislature to give them up as eonscrpts? He
has no right to deprive them of their commissions
We know that in October last he authorized Gen.
Hoke to arrest q number Of militia officers and JUS
tices of the Peace in Wilkes County, on the vague
charge of disloyalty, ahd that these officers were
brought to Raleigh, put in the guard house, AMI
kept for weeks without trial. At last under the
gathering indignation of the people of that County,
and having seen, from the advice of counsel, that
he had no right thus to deal with State officers, be
set them at liberty. He may threaten now, bat he
will not repeat this outrsge on the liberty of the
citizen and the vested rights of State officers The
militia and Home Guard officers have a right to
talk and vote as they please, so long as they obey
orders in their official capacity and submit to the
laws.


The sneer at US as a q" Christian gentleman" by
the Governors mercenary organ may pass for what
il is worth. If src had been in his place, while we
would have yielded every proper and just support
and that cheerfully and promptly to the Confeder-
ate government we would have seen to it at the
same time that our State was respected, as it has
not been under his administration; and we would
have made every effort an time, to retain our re-
serves as State troops, subject to State command.
Would that we were Christian" But the
subject is too serious to be tried with in the col
umns of a newspaper We fear that vital piety has
decreased among US during the war; Sinner as we
are, we would hail with joy any indication that the
Governor of this State, and those who travel with
him, and bask in his smiles, and join him in his
fun and jollity at the State Grogshop or elsewhere
were thoughtuy dependent o. Divine aid in this
awful war, and were looking prayerfully to God to
save US from the great calamites present and to
come, which have cast gloom on every face and
round every freside. "When the wicked rule the
people mourn"


The Confederate says it is "galled and annoyed"
by the action of the Legislature at its recent session.
but that it is still true to Gov Vance 1t considers
him "a patriot who will faithfully stand by the
country" and therefore it will continue to support
him. Of course it will. 1t is an essential part OF
| the bargain to support him. Vance and Davis and
an indefinite prolongatiOn of the war, is the motto