The Greensborough Patriot

July 17, 1862

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            “COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS.”—The Wilmington Journal says that Col. Vance “ought not to be in such a hurry to get out of the army.”  Nor is he.  The only hurry Col. Vance has manifested was to get into the army.  He did not wait to get an office, as many did, and as high position before the public would perhaps have justified, but went in at once as a private.  He has done nothing to get himself out, except reluctantly to give consent to the people running him for Governor a place not sought by him.  And he will not go out but in obedience to the demand of the people.

            But does not the Journal see how it provokes retort upon Col. Johnston?  Even if Col. Vance were in a hurry to get out of the army, nobody can say that Col. Johnston has been in any hurry to get in it, either as a private or officer.  We should not have said this but to expose the ungenerous and unjust allusion of the Journal to Col. Vance.  Col. Johnston may have had very good reasons for not entering the Army.—Fay. Obs.