Statistics for occurrence #1 of “North Carolina” in article pos=62 of The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...the question — what residents of the South are aliens liable to be treated as such under the statute in question?--we publish to day an opinion of Judge Pearson, who is the Confederate Judge in North Carolina , whose reputation as a jurist gives his letter on the subject of alienage especial value and importance at the present juncture of affairs.
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