folder 1250: Correspondence, 1865

Raleigh 1st Sept 1865

Hillsboro, N.C.

Mrs. P C Cameron

Yours is to hand in regard to Butter I did not receive any sent on the 3th of august I have only recvd one tub in august which you sent on the 24th Butter is now very ransad

Very respectfully

Jordan Worth

Alamance Sept 8th, 1865

My dear Sir,

I am so miserable, that I can only write what I consider myself obliged to write, which is to say, that if well enough to leave home, I will be at your house next Wednesday evening, so as to accompany you to M^rs Mordecai's in the next morning's train. M^r Curtis tells me that, agreeably to my request, I was not appointed a delegate to the Council, which, for several obvious reasons, is pleasing to me & very proper, I think. but this speech from serving in the Council, I wish to be at it, and therefore, if I can, I will attend as above mentioned.

I have been generally and much plagued by the state of my stomach about since I was at your house, & for the last two days been more annoyed than usual, with close to Typhoid fever & sore throat. So that I do not know that I can leave but, if possible, I will. The family finally left, except numerous cases/8, now/ & [Jaundice] among the negroes remaining here-- Write Soon to all I remain, awaiting with much intense affectn.

Your friend,

Morris Ruffin

Let M^r Mordecai know.-

Paul C. Cameron Esqr Hillsborough

[8 Sept. 1865] Paul C. Cameron, Esq. Hillsborough, No. Ca.

Cameron Family

I left Haw River this morning. Judge Ruffin told me to tell you that he can not stop here Wednesday night if he goes to Raleigh, because the train leaves at such an unreasonable hour. He is right uneasy and I doubt if he goes. I will be over to see you tomorrow.

With great respect

H. P. Jones

Friday evening

Hillsboro Sept 6^th 65.

My dear Sir,

I acknowledge with much pleasure your kind & friendly letter and thank you for this manifestation of interest in me & mine. I am at all times grateful for the sympathy of friends-- pleased to know that there are many whose good opinion I have I shall seek to continue to merit it--

I should very cheerfully addresst your suggestion did an opportunity offer-- I attach but little importance to my individual opinion-- & whilst I have no wish to obtrude I certainly have no purpose to withhold or conceal my views-- either as to the present or past. In the past I certainly was an earnest & a honest "Confederate"-- as alike from the convictions of duty & interest.

I honestly thought that my first duty & allegiance was to my Native State ... And if in following its fortunes, to which it was pledged by the most solemn act, in a Convention of its ablest jurists, the most Conservative men-- the most trusted & time honored of its Statesmen-- their might & trust long & well known for their deep interest in their country-- I committed an error. I do aver that it proceeded from no love of strife-- or ambition perhaps-- but from convictions of duty to state & nation.

But from the day that that great & good man Genl. Lee announced to the World that he had "yielded to Superior Numbers & resources," I regarded the issue as settled-- the conflict closed-- the struggle for Southern independence a failure.

And no sane man-- here or elsewhere entertains a thought of the renewal of the conflict. Whatever may be our trials-- large or may be our losses-- hard as may be our future--