Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-09
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY. SEPT. o, 1854.
M NV sUBsCRIBERs AND FRIENDS

have made arrangements, by which have Sc
cured the services of FRANK /. WnsoN, Esq, late
Editor of the Salisbury Banner as Associate Editor
Of the Standard and the business partners of the
establishment. Mr.. Wilson will have charge, after
the 1st of November next of the printing and pub
fishing department. and will also write for the paper
os occasion may require. This will leave with me
the principal Editorship; and being thus exempt
from the heavy labors incident to the printing and
publishing department, will have more time to de-
vote to study and will be thereby enabled perhaps,
TO render the Standard useful to its friends and
more acceptable to its readers generally This is
arrangement which have desired for some time to
effect; and indeed it had become almost indspensa-
ble owing to the increased subscriptions and bust
ness of the establishment.
Mr. Wilson is well known to the Democracy of
the State as a consistent and unf1inching Democrat
and as orcibe and effective writer. esteem myself
fortunate in having secured his services. He joins
to fine abilities a writer, habits of industry and
labor and of attention to business seldom found in
the same individual. My friends, doubt not, when
they shall come to know him well as do, will cor
dially concur in the estimate have formed of his
character and services.
have been engaged for more than eleven years
in publishing the Standard. took charge of it at
a period when the signs were not favorable to Dem
ocratic success but have had the qualification of
recording in these columns, since then, many glor
Gus Democratic triumphs, and of rejoicing with
friends the useful and benecent results ofthese
triumphs to North Carolina and the Union.
trust that, in my sphere of labor, have done my
duty. That have made mistakes and committed
errors, am free to confess; but have constantly
striven to do what believed to be right and have,
at any rate, adhered to principles without regard
to men. have uniformly regarded it as my first
duty, as Democratic Editor, to adhere under all
circumstances, to the great principles of the Demo
cratic party to the rights of the States, and to
strict construction of the federal Constitution as the
only for preserving the Union of the States
itself it established, and as its founders in
tended it should be administered and secondly, to
insist upon organization in the party ndispensa-
BILE and as the only means of carrying out its prin
ciples. Nor have been Indifferent to the prosper
ity of North Carolina have the qualification of
knowing that the Standard has been the decided adj
vocate of Common Schools, Of internal improve
ments and of all measures calculated to advance
mining, agricultural, and commercial interests; and
that it was among the first if not the very first,
next to Gov. Reid to take ground for the great prn
cple of equality between free white at the bal
lot-box. The course of the paper, scarcely need
say, will not be changed. 1t will continue to be
defender and exponent of Democratic principles
the unwavering advocate of organization in the
Democratic party and devoted to such measures
shall give promise of bringing out the resources and
of adding to the prosperity and glory ofour beloved
State.
To the friends who have stood by me through the
labors and stres of eleven years. and who have sus
tanned me and honored me with their confidence far
beyond my merits, take this occasion to return the
homage of my most hearty thanks and gratitude.
My highest ambition shall be to retain such friends
to make more friends of the same genuine stamp,
and to prove myself worthy of their support and
confidence.
1t will be necessary, in pursuance of the arrange
ment have made with Mr.. Wilson, to close all the
accounts of the establishment, and commence anew
the LIST of November Subscribers to both the Week
ly and Semi Weekly Standard, will have oppor-
tunty of paying up to that date, and of paying in
advance, 50 or 81 as the may be. The amounts
due are in many instances, small but in the aggre
gate they make up large sum, and these constitute
much of the profits of my labors for years past.
trust shall not look in vain for prompt payments
of these amounts Remittances can be made by
mail at my risk and receipts will be sent in the pa
per showing the amount paid and the time paid to.
W. w. HOLDEN.