Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-05-13
WEDNESDAY. MAY 13, 1857

cleanliness and scrupnlous order and neatness for
their extent and beauty. After partakng plenti-
fully OF ice-water the companies e-formed, and pro-
ceeded to visit few prominent citizens
On the arrival Of the military at the mansion of
Ex-Gov. Manly, he said:
thank you cordially for the honor Of this call
Do not suppose that am about to detain You at
my threshold to hear speech. There has been.
think, speaking enough. Indeed, there is nothing
left to speak about. If were to attempt to welcome
our Q! ngniShed euesis-that has already been done
better than can do it. If were say farewell,
and pronounce vaedic'ory, it would be premature
for we have not had half enough out of you-"v .
wish you to stay at least sixteen seventeen days.
If were to say anything I would say every thing
in favor of this magnificent Brass Band Of music who
deserve all praise. But as do not intend to say
anything, will only say that when a certain oc-
casion the sorrowing friends of wounded soldier
were lowering around his dying couch, the question
was asked If he ever said his prayers. What, said
my uncle Toby, q think read the story when
! boy, in Tristram Shandy) soldier say his pray
ers? tell you that poor soldier who is fighting
all day, and standing up to his knees in mud and
water in the trenches all night; one hour exposed to
the scorchng sun. and the next to the pitess rain
marching here and counter marching there, has no
time to say his prayers" So on this very account
of these heavy trials and trbulations, would say
that If the soldier cannot find time to pray he can
| at all times find time to drink And now, as have
| nothing more to say, will only say, please walk
into my house and make yourselves at home.
| And if they did not make themselves at home
or more properly speaking, if they were not made
| to do so,--we should like to sec them at home.
The next point visited the neat residence
Of Hon. S. ii. Rogers. Mr.. Rogers politely received
them, and remarked that If they would just step in
he thought he could more agreeably entertain them
than by listening to any thing he could say. After
a very agreeable time spent here, the Band and the
| Harnctt Glee Club honored the ladies of Mr.. Rog
! cr's household with some excellent music, and then
the companies marched to pay their respects to May
or Haywood, by whom they were well received ard
! treated in his usually polite manner
The residence of W. W. Holden, ESQ, was the
next p"int visited Addressing the Wilmington
Company. the Oak-Cty Guards, and the citizens
present, he sad he was glad to see them. lie was
grateful for the honor of this visit his residence
and would be happy t" meet them all under his
roof lie would be almost vexcd with himself were he
to max" prrmcdtated speech at such a time: but
he would be pardoned for one or two illusions sug
gested by the occasion He saw before him the vii.
mington and Raleigh companies blended--thcr
banners floating side by side and the blue uniform
touching The "Oak-Cty" green. Chees This
emblematca of the kindly and fraternal feelings
exstin, between the two sister towns and he hoped
it would lie perpetual. Much cheering1 He saw
also IA flag bearing the motto, "Mecklen5urg, Goth
day If May. 1775," and another f1ag-that of the
stars and stripes-the same CALAMITY and heroi-
cally carried and planted by Edward Cantwell, now
in this City, the rugged heights Of the National
Bridge. [Cheers These banners this martial
ray, the indomitable spirit Of people, gave as
surance that liberty, first born among the fnrests of
Mecklenburg, though it might perish elsewhere from
the earth, would never die within the confines of
North Carolina: Much applausel ..
Hs5 sk hsn are is sss~S hills her h0e
She still shall see her children DER them roam,
And up the rolling clouds her eagle
. Strong Oympian Jove's, whose thunder bore
The old Titanic gods to earili shall rest
Her feet upon these mountains evermore!"
The country was now apparently tranquil; but
the Southern people should fall into lethargc
s'umbcr. The black cloud of geograp phica discrmi-
nation and sectional aggression still hung along the
Northern sky, tipped with the lightnngs of malice
and fanaticism. Let watch those lurking, but
yet undeveloped fires. They threaten, but if we
were true TO ourselves, they could not destroy,
though they might harm But above all this in
the serene atmosphere Of the upper heavens, there
still shone with undiminshed splendor the great
star of the Federal Constitution, cheers1 which,
like the Northern star" in its "true, fixed, and
resting quality, could have fellow in the frma.
memt." Let us, said he, whatever may happen
look to this great light of the constulon-let US
walk by it and Insist that others shall walk by it also
and let us pray God that it may 60 out
[Great appiause.]
Mr.. Holden repeated his qualification at seeing
his military frielIds-congratulated them upon the
manner in which they had marched thus far " in.
to the bowels of the land, and upon the firmness
and gaantry with which they had charged the bat.
te.ies of "grarc" which had assailed them on every
hand. [Cheers.1 He had great confidence in their
and in their ability to "carry" whatever they
might be =" charged" with; and if they fell, they
would fall with their backs on the ground and
their face to the foe" lLaughterl But ho had nc
fears of that; yet if any one should fall he might
be assured that many comrades would be left tt
bury him in some quiet shady spot with the honors
of war [Cheers He trusted the Wilmington
Light Infantry would bear away with them pleasan
recollections Of their VISIT and daguerreotyped upor
each heart of theirs the bright impressions of th
beautiful and vrtuous women who adorned ant
gladdened this little "City of Oaks" [Proonget
cheering
Mr.. Holden then led them into his house wher
they vigorously attacked and carried another bat
tery." - s.. .......-. s... So. s.,r
The last place visited was the residence of Col W
II. and r. S. Tucker, Esq. Lieut. Tucker let of anoth
of his rollicking speeches, and the house bein
thrown open to the corps he and the Col took ther
in hand. By the time these gentlemen gave ther
up (and this between you and me, dear reader the
somewhat worsted. ..--.s
. All returned to the Armory about o'clock afte
somewhat eventful morning; and the Light II
fanry bent upon returning home, despite the effort
to detain them, escorted to the Central D,
pot at about o'clock by the Oak City Guards an
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