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their transfer, and not, as heretofore, from their acceptance by the State. This change of the rule will not only be inconsistent, but will work much wrong to our State, and also to the volunteers. All our volunteers in Virginia have been paid from their acceptance by the State. Why should a distinction be made against those serving the Confederacy in North Carolina? I think if you will look into it you will not allow another act of injustice to be done to North Carolina.

We turned over commissary stores to your commissary officer, and I am informed that your officers now make requisition for money on our officers, and have been paid. Besides the arms sent to Virginia in the hands of our volunteers, we have sent to Virginia 13,500 stands of arms, and now we are out of arms, and our soil is invaded, and you refuse our request to send us back some if our own armed regiments to defend us, and we are left to chances of buying a few odd arms which may be gathered up. We have disarmed ourselves to arm you, and now the additional grievance is added that our volunteers in Virginia are paid from the first step in the service, while volunteers who remained in this State are not to be thus paid.

The recent invasion compels us again to buy a navy for our protection, not receiving it from the Confederate States. We are denied powder, on the ground that we received more than any other State, without adverting to the fact that the powder has been made into cartridges and sent back to Virginia with every regiment, and now we are driven to the expense of a powder-will.

These facts are mentioned not as complaints, but as some inducement to continue the order of payment as it has been done heretofore.

The order, I understand, issued from Adjutant-General Cooper, and I trust these matters will be pleaded before him.

Very respectfully,

HENRY T. CLARK.

WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, September 29, 1861.

His Excellency HENRY T. CLARK, Governor of North Carolina:

SIR: Your three communications of 24th, 25th, and 27th instant reached me together yesterday. I find that I have already responded to the principal matters referred to in the letter of the 24th. Instructions have already been sent to the district attorney at Goldsborough to indict for treason the men who brought over the proclamation from the Banks, and there seems to be no ground to doubt their conviction.

Immediate attention will be given to replacing Lieutenant-Colonel Bridges, whose resignation you announce in you letter of 25th, if, indeed, this has not already been done by the general command.

I now proceed to make answer to your excellency's letter of 27th instant, in connection with that portion of the letter of 24th which refers to the military defenses of North Carolina. The order in relation to the payment of the North Carolina troops, to which the letter of the 27th is principally addressed, was given by the Adjutant-General under a misapprehension, and had been reworked some days previously to the receipt of your letter. I cannot, however, refrain from some observation on certain other statements in the letter of the 27th instant, lest the silence of this Department be misconstrued into the admission of the truth of the reproaches it has pleased you to lavish on the executive department