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Raleigh Nov 4th 1864 |
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| Jno D Whitford Esqr |
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My dear Sir, |
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I duly recd the car load of corn. Matters have reached such
a crisis that I have felt real solicitude as to the obtaining the
supplies of subsistence absolutely indispensable. I feel truly grateful
to you for your cheerful and efficient aid in getting forward this
important supply, as well as for your kind offer of future aid. |
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I feel with you that the re-capture of Plymouth is a great
calamity -- State and National. The general aspect of affairs, State and
National, financial & military is truly alarming to me. |
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The State has gradually abandoned the statesman-like policy
of the Convention, turning over to the Confederacy the conduct of the
war. She has some 3000 regular troops in her pay -- keeps up all the
regular was services -- executes, at he own expense, the conscript act,
and sends her home guards to the field, clothed, fed & paid by the
State. Our Reserves will produce only the amt required to meet the
ordinary civil expenses of the State. Our military expenditures, which
exceeded $5,000,000 the last fiscal year & which are rapidly increasing,
are an addition to the debt of the State, now exceeding $31,000,000,
besides the enormous country debt. Whither are we drifting. |
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Yours very truly |
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Jonathan Worth |
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