Confederate currency.
The credit of the Confederate Government is its life blood; its issues are the sinews of war, in the present great struggle.
To impair this credit and depreciate this currency is to injure the
Government and the cause; and no true man who feels a just sense of his obligations to his country will countenance any one who with his knowledge does anything with this object.
One of the most dangerous and insidious forms of treachery is that which attempts to impair the public credit and national responsibility.
The man who rejects the paper of the
Government, or causes others to do so, is one of its worst of enemies, and ought to be promptly arrested and taken into custody by the
Provost Marshal.
He is far worse and much more to be feared than a disloyal citizen, who is given to imprudent conversation in moments of excitement.
There are men in this city who, upon each of the reverses of the past winter, have sought to gratify a previously concealed hostility to the
Government by decrying its credit and refusing its paper, and it is rumored that brokers have bought that paper at a discount.
This, of course, could be nothing less than a fraud upon the holder of notes so discounted, since they are bankable, and, as currency, upon a par with any other kind of currency.
It is the duty of every man to stand by the
Government, and set his face against all attempts of this kind, by fraud and treachery, to inflict injury upon the
Government in a vital point.
None but traitors will seek thus to in pair the credit of the nation, and they ought to be so considered and treated.
