| From the Raleigh Register |
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| October 4, 1862 |
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| Outrage by a Railroad Company |
| We understand that the Ticket Agents of
the North Carolina Railroad Company have been instructed not to take
Confederate notes of the denominations of twenty, fifty and a hundred
dollars. Such a course as this is a gross outrage, as it not only puts
the traveling community to great inconvenience, but tends to destroy
the credit of the Confederate Government. The maintenance of this
credit is essential to a successful prosecution of this war. The
destruction of this credit amounts to the disbandment of our armies
and the loss of our cause, and, therefore, he who discredits a note
which is the genuine issue of the Confederate Government, is guilty of
a treasonable act. Corporations may not be liable to the pains and
penalties of the crime of treason, but they should be made the objects
of public indignation in some form or other, when they are guilty of
acts which, if generally imitated, would destroy the Government to
which they owe their existence. The N. C. R. R. Co. is the creation of
the Government of North Carolina. What will this Government be worth
when the credit of the Confederate Government is destroyed? |
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