| From the American Citizen (Canton,
Miss.) |
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| June 2, 1862 |
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| Mississippi Central Railroad --
"Cotton Money" |
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In justice to the above named Railroad Company, we
publish the following letter of the Secretary to the Mississippian:
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| Office of Mississippi Central R,. R. Co. |
| Holly Springs, May 26, 1862 |
| Ed. Mississippian, |
| In a late number of the Canton
Citizen, appears an article accredited to you, in which it is charged
that the "Railroad companies" of this State persistently
refuse to receive the paper of the State of Mississippi, commonly
known as cotton money. |
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I feel it to be a duty incumbent on me, in the absence of
the President, to deny most positively this charge, so far as this
company is concerned. We have received and disbursed many thousands of
dollars of said currency, and still continue to receive and pay it
out. If, in any single instance, any employee of this company has
declined it, such refusal has not come to the knowledge of this
office, nor was his act authorized by instructions from me. We shall
aid the cause of the South to the utmost of our ability, and be among
the last to cripple our own State and citizens by discrediting the
"Cotton Currency."
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We shall continue to receive it as long as it can be made
available in payment of our liabilities. As an act of justice, I ask a
place for this in your paper. |
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A. J. McConnico, Sec'y |
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