CAPT. LONGS DEFENCE.
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We have read attcntiveIy the Defence Of Capt
K w. Long of the Rowan Company, against
the charges of the Mexican Whig Press in this
State, and it affords us pleasure to state it as our
belief, that he stands before the public fully vim
dcated by the facts which he has presented We
regret that we have not room this week 10 lay this
Defence before our readers, but we shall endcavor
to find place for it in our next. II is due TO Il
much slandered aud persecuted man that his own
statement of facts should 90 before the public at
length, and the people of the State owe it to the
cause of truth and justice 10 give him fair and
impartial hearing.


Even the Fayetteville Observer, the most recl1-
less and unscrupulous Federal print in the State,
is forced 10 confess that Capt Long has publish.
a complete cindication Of himself and even oi
his men, for diSbanding." This, coming as ii
does from Federal print, carries with it more
force in favor of Capt Longs reputation than any
thing which any Democratic paper might saw
Let the " GufoId Whig" who published in the
Register those atrocious caumnies against Capt
Long, now hide his head for shame.


The truth is, Gov. Graham and the Mexican
Preamble Legislature are to blame not only fol-
the great delay, in getting up the Regiment, bu,
for the loss to the service of this noble Company
After Capt. Long had made up and reported his
Company, he was ordered to Wilmington and
then, upon the back of this he was ordered tc
Charlotte: some forty miles beyond Salisbury and
we learn that he subsequently, received anothe,
order from Gov. Graham to march to Whining
ton Well, he went TO Charlotte, and all this
time The discussion upon that Mexican Preamble
was going on in theFI,ogislatnre or the Wings
who had the power, were refusing to appropriate
the ten thousand dollars to the Regiment, unless,
to use their own elegant language, they could
succeed in physicking the Democrats with the pill
which they had prepared If he had been per-
mitted TO march his Company, as he desired to
do at onse to Wilmington, the Regiment would
have been completed long SINCE and our brave
soldiers would now have been foremost in the glo-
rious race for The field Of conflict, with the Regi-
ments from South Carolina and Virginia but base
partizan purposes had to be advanced, and it was
important, in order to defeat an election of the
Field Officers by the rank and file, that too pIa
ces of rendezvous should be established. Two
places acere established at the request of Gov.
Graham and what prores the wicked intent is,
that rs soon the rank and file had been Caucus
ed and cheated out of their right to elect their
Field Officers, the Companies that rendczvoused
at Charlotte were ordered to the rendezvous at
Wilmington. Let party hacks open their mouths
against these facts, if they darel