It is said there is more concern manifested in the
government here on the indications that the States mean to organize armies of non-conscripts
for their own defense, than for any demonstration of the enemy. The election of
Graham Confederate States Senator in North Carolina, and of H. V. Johnson in
Georgia, causes some uneasiness. These men were not original secessionists, and
have been the objects of aversion, if not of proscription, by the men who
secured position in the Confederate States Government. Nevertheless, they are
able men, and as true to Southern independence as any. But they are opposed to
despotic usurpation — and their election seems like a rebuke and condemnation of
military usurpation.
From all sections of the Confederacy complaints are coming
in that the military agents of the bureaus are oppressing the people; and the
belief is expressed by many, that a sentiment is prevailing inimical to the
government itself.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 199
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