Showing posts with label James Thomas Leach. Show all posts
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Friday, July 4, 2008

From North Carolina

If the war should continue twelve months longer, with no greater success to our arms, there is great danger that the institution of slavery will be hopelessly destroyed.

Gov. Vance of North Carolina, comes out in a card in the Raleigh Standard against the taxation of State property for the Confederacy.

Dr. J. G. Leach [sic], the Conservation Member elected to the new Confederate Congress, which meets in February, says in the Raleigh Standard of the 16th inst. North Carolina now claims the fulfillment of the compact, or the right to depart from the Confederacy in peace.

The Raleigh State Journal says: The proposition for a State Convention, so close on the heels of Mr. Lincoln’s Proclamation to let one tenth of the people form a State Government, has a very strong odor of distrust and treason about it.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, February 6, 1864