| From the Raleigh Standard |
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| December 17, 1862 |
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| Despotic Acts |
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| We learn also that an agent of the
Confederate government has seized a quantity of iron belonging
to the Wilmington and Rutherford Railroad {Wilmington,
Charlotte & Rutherford RR}, to be appropriated to the use
of the government, probably to be used in finishing the Piedmont
Railroad. The fact of the seizure has been communicated to the
Legislature by Mr. Guion, the President of the Road. Under a recent
mortgage the State is deeply interested in this property, and it may
be said to be State property. If the Confederate government can seize
and convert to its own use the property of the Sate, then it can seize
the State Treasury with its contents. If it can do these things, or if
it is allowed to do them, then we have a government without limitation
of powers, or, in other words, a despotism. |
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