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Wartime North Carolina
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Learn about the Civil War in North Carolina from the people who witnessed it. This collection contains primary sources, mostly documents and still images, related to the Civil War in North Carolina on topics like occupation, camp life, battles and skirmishes, and the homefront. Historical actors in wartime North Carolina authored these primary sources. Students in history classes at North Carolina State University and other contributors made the primary sources available online.
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Stoneman's Raid Marker at Mt. Airy
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Michael C. Wilcox
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Michael C. Wilcox, "Stoneman’s Raid Marker," April 14, 2012, Historical Marker Database, http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=54461
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2012-04-14
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Jacob Simpson
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Mount Airy, North Carolina
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Wartime North Carolina
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Portrait of Maj. Gen. George Stoneman
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Unknown
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"Portrait of Maj. Gen. George Stoneman," In Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress), http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000390/PP/
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186X-XX-XX
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Jacob Simpson
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Wartime North Carolina
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Cover Image of the <em>Journal of the Surry County Genealogical Association</em>
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E. Hamin
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1992-XX-XX
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Jacob Simpson
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Surry County, North Carolina
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Stoneman's Raid in Surry County, April 1865
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This map depicts the path of Major General George Stoneman's cavalry raid through Surry County, North Carolina. Some of the locations are approximations.
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Jacob Simpson
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1865-04-01
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1865-04-03
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Surry County, North Carolina
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ZBV to Jefferson Davis
State of North Carolina
Executive Department
Raleigh, Dec. 30th. 1863
His Excellency
President Davis
My dear Sir:
After a careful consideration of all the sources of discontent in North Carolina, I have concluded that it will be perhaps impossible to remove it except by making some effort at negotiation with the enemy. The recent action of the Federal House of Representatives, though meaning very little, has greatly excited the public hope that the Northern mind is looking towards peace. I am promised by all men who advocate this course, that if fair terms are rejected it will tend greatly to strengthen and intensify the war feeling and will rally all classes to a more cordial support of the government. And although our position is well known, as demanding only to be let alone yet it seems to me that for the sake of humanity, without having any weak or improper motives attributed to us, we might with property constantly tender negotiations.
In doing so we would keep conspicuously before the world a disclaimer of our responsibility for the great slaughter of our race and convince the humblest of our citizens, who sometimes forget the actual situation, that the government is tender of their lives and happiness and would not prolong their sufferings unnecessarily one moment. Though Statesmen might regard this as useless, the people will not, and I think our cause will be strengthened thereby. I have not suggested the method of these negotiations or their terms, the effort to obtain peace is the principal matter. Allow me to beg your earnest consideration of this suggestion.
Very respectfully Yours
Z. B. Vance
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Zebulon Baird Vance to Jefferson Davis, December 30, 1863
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Zebulon Baird Vance
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<span>Zebulon Baird Vance to Jefferson Davis, December 30, 1863, </span><em>The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance</em><span>, edited by Frontis W. Johnston, Vol. 1, 1843-1862, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1963.</span>
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1863-12-30
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William Crouse
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Wake County, North Carolina
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In this correspondence from North Carolina's Governor Zebulon B. Vance to the Confederacy's President Jefferson Davis, Vance proposes a scheme that ideally would quell the political unrest in North Carolina. At the time of this letter, in late December 1863, North Carolina was experiencing upheavals and riots that were calling to end the incessant bloodshed of the Civil War. These protests led many in the Confederate government, including Vance and Davis, to believe the sovereignty of the government was threatened and, as noted in this correspondence, Vance believed something had to be done to restore the peoples’ confidence in their Confederate leaders.
While Vance knew that the Union would disregard any attempt by the South to engage in peace talks that were centered on Confederate independence, on December 30, 1863, he sent a letter to President Davis proposing that the Confederacy make one more attempt at peace. Vance’s tactic was to propagate the appearance that the Confederate administration did not want the war and was acting in self-defense against an aggressive North; this, he argued, would cause the more “humble†and peace-loving citizens to support the cause of the war and give up their protests for peace.
Even though President Davis shot down Vance’s proposal in the following month, this proposal exemplified Vance’s desire for peace while showing the urgency with which he wanted to unite the people in a common Confederate cause.
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Wartime North Carolina
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ZBV to William A. Graham <br /><br /><em>Confidential</em> <br /><br />State of North-Carolina <br />Executive Department, <br />Raleigh, August 13th. 1863. <br /><br />My Dear Sir: <br /> I beg to call your attention to the proceedings of many meetings in various parts of the state, in favour of <em>peace</em>--Under all the circumstances, I consider them <em>ruinous</em>, in the last degree.<br /> They will cause the army to melt away by desertion, will create, perhaps, dissensions & civil war at home, and will defeat any & all efforts for peace, unless it be on the basis of absolute submission to our enemies--which is all that has ever been offered us--They will in short serve no purpose whatever, except to encourage our enemies, ruin our army, & hasten our subjugation--With these views, which I have not time to elaborate, my administration will take ground against any such unfortunate & premature movements, and I desire, as far as possible, to know how far, I will be sustained by my friends & former supporters--With this view I earnestly invite an expression of your opinion & advice, fully, freely & confidentially given--<br /> I am anxious, at the same time, /not/ to be misunderstood as to this important issue.<br /> No living man is more anxious for peace than I am, whenever it can, by any possibility, be obtained upon the basis of separation & our independence--I shall only oppose those clamours for peace, originating in a desire for reconstruction,<br />or which being raised in the hour of our adversity, & in the absence of any proposition from the North, can only mean submission & a giving up of the contest.<br /> Please, at your early leisure, give me your opinion & the sentiments of your community--<br /><br />Very Truly yours<br />Z. B. Vance
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Zebulon Baird Vance to William A. Graham, August 13, 1863
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<span>Zebulon Baird Vance to William A. Graham, August 13, 1863, </span><em>The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance</em><span>, edited by Frontis W. Johnston, Vol. 1, 1843-1862, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1963.</span>
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1863-08-13
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William Crouse
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Wake County, North Carolina
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<p>In Governor Zebulon B. Vance’s correspondence to Senator William A. Graham, Vance pronounced his disgust with William W. Holden and his peace campaign in North Carolina. In summation, Vance portrayed Holden as a man who represented all that the Confederacy had declared itself against: military desertion, subjugation to the Union, and the instigation of violent conflicts. With these words serving as persuasive evidence, Vance made it clear that the purpose of this letter was to inquire about the loyalty of Graham with respect to the coming gubernatorial election and whether Vance could count on his old friends and supporters to continue backing him as he prepared to contest Holden.</p>
<p>It is also important to recognize Vance’s clarification of a just and honorable peace after he condemns Holden’s argument for a supposed subjugated and disgraceful peace. Vance proclaims “no living man is more anxious for peace” than he was; so long as it was achieved through the Confederacy’s “separation & independence.”</p>
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Wartime North Carolina
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Learn about the Civil War in North Carolina from the people who witnessed it. This collection contains primary sources, mostly documents and still images, related to the Civil War in North Carolina on topics like occupation, camp life, battles and skirmishes, and the homefront. Historical actors in wartime North Carolina authored these primary sources. Students in history classes at North Carolina State University and other contributors made the primary sources available online.
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<p>ZBV to Edward J. Hale <br /> <br /> State of North-Carolina <br /> Executive Department, <br /> Raleigh, Augst. 11, 1863 <br /> <br /> E J Hale Esq <br /> <br /> My dear Sir, <br /> <br /> I returned from Richmond on Saturday--was much gratified with my visit indeed--I plainly told the President of the cause of his [<em>illegible] </em>popularity in this State and the injustice done us by his appointments and gave him a fair and unvarnished statement of affairs here--He promised to remove all objectionable [men] and almost gave me a <em>carte blanche</em> for the redress of grievances here—I trust things will be better now that we are understood at Richmond.<br /> I believe however the split with Holden is decreed of the gods--I have made up my mind to it and am prepared for it any day--tho' I dont intend to "precipitate" it. He is infatuat[<em>torn</em>] concerted and determine[d] [<em>burned</em>] his course th[at] [<em>torn</em>] war should [ensue]. He is for submission, reconstruction or any thing else that will put him back under Lincoln & stop the war--and I might add--punish his [old] friends & [co labororers] the Secessionists--<br /> Pitch into them--Cry aloud and spare not--My life popularity and everything shall go into this contest.<br /> <br /> Yours most truly<br /> Z. B. Vance<br /> <br /> Confidential<br /> <br /> 1. The letter has been torn, burned, and faded by water.</p>
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Zebulon Baird Vance to Edward J. Hale, August 11, 1863.
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Zebulon Baird Vance to Edward J. Hale, August 11, 1863, <em>The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance</em>, edited by Frontis W. Johnston, Vol. 1, 1843-1862, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1963.
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1863-08-11
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William Crouse
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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<p>In this correspondence to Edwards Jones Hale, who was the editor of the <em>Fayetteville Observer</em> and a close friend of Governor Zebulon Baird Vance, Vance related the outcome of his visit to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond. Vance claimed that he spoke plainly to the President about the frustrations which he first brought to the President's attention in his July 6th letter, which focused on the appointment of a Virginian to the position of Chief Collectorship of the tax in kind for North Carolina. To this issue, Vance stated, the President had given Governor Vance a <em>carte blanche</em>, or a blank check of power to revise and potentially remove any appointments which were objectionable to Vance or the North Carolina people. These powers would undoubtedly restore confidence of North Carolinians in their State and Confederate government.<br /> <br /> Following the address of his victory in Richmond, Vance turned his attention back to the prevailing issues in North Carolina. William Woods Holden, Governor Vance's political opponent in the upcoming gubernatorial election, was clearly becoming a problem for the sovereignty of the Confederacy in the state as he was leading peace rallies to end the exhaustive civil war in favor of rejoining the Union. According to Vance's writing, Holden was willing to surrender to to the will of the Union and even submit to the punishment of his old friends. Finally, Vance declared in this document that he would campaign against his old friend as he persuaded E. J. Hale to “pitch into them – Cry aloud and spare not – My life, popularity, and everything shall go into this contest!”</p>
<p>Then, on a final note, Vance included that this letter would be confidential. This one word is very influential in understanding the intent of this correspondence. Primarily, the fact that this information would be held confidential meant that the opinions Vance wrote in regard to his feelings on Holden were more than likely genuine, although they were also most definitely influenced by his recent visit to Confederate nationalists in Richmond. Furthermore, Hale would not be able to quote Vance’s words on his trip to Richmond or his opinions on Holden, which could have been perceived as propaganda; instead this letter directed Hale to propagate a sense of confidence in Vance’s relations with the Confederate Executive branch while orchestrating a preliminary attack on Holden.</p>
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Wartime North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Executive Department
Raleigh July 6th. 1863.
His Excellency
President Davis
Dear Sir
A great deal of harm has been done and much dissatisfaction excited by the appointment of citizens of other states to offices and positions her that should of right be filled by our own people
The last appointment by the Q. Master General, of a Col. Bradford of Norfolk Va to the Chief Collectorship of the tax in kind for this State, has given almost universal offence, and I may be excused for, very justly. No objection that I am aware of is made to him except that he is a citizen of another State, and we all feel that the Offices so purely local as this, we have a right to demand that they be bestowed upon our own people.
I feel it my duty, out of respect to my State and people as well as to remove any cause so far as may be, for dissatisfaction, to bring this matter to your attention and ask that you make a different appointment
Very respectfully
Yr. obt. Servt.
Z. B. Vance
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Zebulon Baird Vance to Jefferson Davis, July 06, 1863
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<span>Zebulon Baird Vance to Jefferson Davis, July 06, 1863, </span><em>The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance</em><span>, edited by Frontis W. Johnston, Vol. 1, 1843-1862, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1963.</span>
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1863-07-06
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William Crouse
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Wake County, North Carolina
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This letter from the Confederate North Carolina Governor, Zebulon Baird Vance, to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, briefly outlined one of the pressing issues that the North Carolina people were protesting in the summer of 1863. It is apparent throughout this epistle that Vance is attempting to politely inform President Davis of the frustrations that he holds in the fact that Davis had appointed a Virginian to be the Colonel in charge of collecting the tax in kind for the state. It is important to understand that the tax-in-kind laws were creating a great amount of distaste for the Confederacy within the state. Vance believed that some of the protest would be regulated if the person collecting the tax were a native, especially if they were someone who was well known.
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Wartime North Carolina
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Learn about the Civil War in North Carolina from the people who witnessed it. This collection contains primary sources, mostly documents and still images, related to the Civil War in North Carolina on topics like occupation, camp life, battles and skirmishes, and the homefront. Historical actors in wartime North Carolina authored these primary sources. Students in history classes at North Carolina State University and other contributors made the primary sources available online.
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<p>To Edward Stanly<br /> <br /> STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA<br /> EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT<br /> Raleigh- Oct. 29th, 1862<br /> <br /> Your communication of the 21st. inst. has been recd, to which I proceed to reply-<br /> It is "incompatible with my views of duty" to grant you a personal interview for the purposes mentioned for the following reasons<br /> First. If the measures which you propose to discuss relate to a general peace between the Confederate States, and the United States, then it is needless for me to inform you that I have not the power to confer with you authoritatively. By the Constitution of the Confederate States to which the State of North Carolina has unanimously acceded, the power to make war & conclude peace has been delegated to the President & Senate- To their hands I am content to leave it.<br /> Secondly--If your proposition (as it evidently does) has relation to a separate peace between the State of North Carolina & the United States, then it is still more inadmissible. North Carolina with great unanimity dissolved her connection with the old government and entered into a solemn compact with the new government of the Confederate States. Her obligations in this new relation are obvious & her honor is pledged to redeem all these obligations faithfully with the last dollar & the last drop of blood, for the general good.<br /> Your proposition is based upon the supposition that there is baseness in North Carolina sufficient to induce her people to abandon their confederates & leave them to suffer alone all the horrors of this unnatural war, for the sake fo securing terms for themselves -- a mistake which I could scarcely have supposed any one so well acquainted with the character of our people as yourself could have committed.<br /> North Carolina having committed the questions of war & peace to the authorities of the Confederate Government has now no cause to distrust their ability or their patriotism, or to withhold that generous support to their measures which has hus far characterized her.<br /> The same remarks are applicable in reference to the negotiating for the exchange of political prisoners of whom North Carolina has none in custody.<br /> Your proposition that I should send Commissioners to hold an interview with you is equally beyond my province to treat with you in regard to doing anything to "alleviate the inevitable sufferings that attend the war," and assuring you that any proposition you may feel authorized to make for that humane purpose <em>will</em> be promptly forwarded to the proper authorities if entrusted to me,<br /> <br /> New Berne<br /> [Vance Letter Book, 1862-1863,<br /> State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh]</p>
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Zebulon Baird Vance to Edward Stanly, October 29, 1862
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Zebulon Vance
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Zebulon Baird Vance to Edward Stanly, October 29, 1862, <em>The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance</em>, edited by Frontis W. Johnston, Vol. 1, 1843-1862, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1963.
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1862-10-29
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William Crouse
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Wake County, North Carolina
New Bern, North Carolina
Craven County, North Carolina
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This is the first response that Confederate Governor Zebulon B. Vance sent to the Union Military Governor Edward Stanly regarding Stanly's call for peace negotiations. The overwhelming message that Vance delivers to Stanly focuses on his inability to conduct any sort of peace negotiations on behalf of the Confederate Government. Furthermore, Vance enlightens Stanly of the fact that North Carolina and her people had completely dissolved their ties with the Union and therefore would fight for it "with the last dollar & the last drop of blood." Vance argues that North Carolina's honor is bound to the Confederacy and because of this bond, her people would never abandon their brothers in order to gain the Union's vision of reunification.
It should, however, be noted that North Carolina was the leading Confederate state in the number of combat deserters; so with this in mind, Stanly's remarks were not necessarily absolutely incorrect.
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Edward Stanly
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Zebulon B. Vance
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Postwar North Carolina
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Explore the controversies over reunification in the aftermath of a divisive civil war. This collection contains primary sources, mostly documents and still images, related to post-civil War North Carolina, including topics such as the Lowry War, the Ku Klux Klan, and partisan politics. Historical actors in North Carolina authored these primary sources. Students in history classes at North Carolina State University and other contributors added the primary sources to this collection.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, RALEIGH,
December 16, 1869.
To the Honorable, the General Assembly of North Carolina.
Gentlemen: - Allow me respectfully and earnestly to call your attention to the necessity which exists for such amendments to the militia law as will enable the executive to suppress violence and disorder in certain localities of this State, and to protect the persons of citizens, their lives and their property.
Since my last annual message, dated Nov. 16th, 1869, numerous outrages of the most flagrant character have been committed upon peaceable and law-abiding citizens, by persons masked and armed, who rode at night, and who have thus far escaped the civil law. I have adopted such measures as were in my power to ferret out and bring to justice all breakers of the law, without reference to their color or to the political party or parties to which they belong, and I am satisfied that Judge and solicitors in the various circuits have been prompt, energetic and impartial in the discharge of their duties. Notwithstanding this, Gentlemen, the outrages referred to seem to be rather on the increase in certain localities in so much that many good citizens are in a constant
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state of terror and society in said localities is in a deplorable condition. It is for your honorable body to apply the remedy by so strengthening the arm of the executive as to enable him to repress these outrages and restore peace and order. I have confidence in your wisdom, in your regard for law, and in the disposition which I feel sure exists in every member of your honorable body to adopt such measures as will speedily put an end to the evils complained of.
I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
W. W. HOLDEN, Governor.
This message of the Governor, of the 16th of December, 1869, led to the enactment of what is called the Shoffner law. This law authorized the Governor to declare certain counties in insurrection. That is, it suspended civil law and authorized the arrest of suspected persons. The reader will perceive that at last my duty required me to do this, as this message states. The violation of law and the outrages referred to, seemed to be rather on the increase in certain localities, and left me therefore no alternative, but to proclaim Alamance and Caswell in a state of insurrection. The gist or substance of the Shoffner act was to authorize me to suspend the civil law when in my judgment it was necessary to do so. I was fully aware of the great responsibility, but human life was above all price. As I said to Mr. Albright of Alamance, I did not care how the elections of 1870 went if by what I did I saved one
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human life. The civil and military are alike constitutional powers; the civil to protect life and property when it can, and the military only when the former has failed.
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Message from Governor Holden to the General Assembly, December 16, 1869
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William Woods Holden
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"Memoirs of W.W. Holden," Documenting the American South, accessed November 4, 2014, <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/holden/holden.html">http://www.docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/holden/holden.html</a><br /><br />
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1869-12-16
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Jessie Byrd
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North Carolina
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This message delivered by Governor Holden to the General Assembly spoke of violence (presumably by the Ku Klux Klan) taking place in certain counties. Governor Holden asked for executive power, by use of the militia, to stop the increasing violence and restore order. He claimed that the citizens of these counties were living in a state of terror. This message is important because it led to the passage of the Shoffner Act. This act gave the governor power to declare counties in a state of insurrection, which led to Holden declaring Alamance and Caswell counties in a state of insurrection. After this act passed, Holden sent in militia units to restore order in these counties.