ASHEBORO, May 30th, 1861.
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We are in the midst of war and revolution. N. C. would have stood by the Union but for the conduct of the national administration which for folly and simplicity exceeds anything in modern history, as N. C. is strictly a unit for resistance and everywhere is heard the sound of the drum and fife. Shubal is drilling his company. Several other companies are nearly formed in this County. Whither are we bound?—I feel that we cannot be conquered.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.
SOURCE: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Editor, The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, Volume 1, p. 153
