Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-11-06
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. /, 1860
The Fires Hsurning-Waa i'm the
Camp.


Our placid cotemporary of the Rough Notes
being ertensirely riIed because he has been
overlooked in the distribution of State patron
age, to soften the bitterness of his own Clisap-
pointment we suppose, pretendS to insinuatc
that we are gr0aoliag, as the elder Docllery
would say for our sheer. The fact is we did
not want it nor did we expect it, and hence we
were not disappointed, but the venom which
runs through the following is unmistakable.-
We confess we are rejoiced at the prospects of
in this happy family" Recollcct ye
honest masses, the following is from pro
vincial organ" and is directed at the Court
and Crown:
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE-ADV
SING OF THE FALL DISTRIBUTION OF
THE SCHOOL LFUND-GROW OVER
THE BONE.
The advertisement of the Fall Distribution
Of the Common School Fund has been ordered
into and appeared IN the columns of several of
our contemporaries and tie balance of them,
qoho expected 1t, are growing like bears with
sore heads. Pennington Of the Progress
charges boldly and unequiyOcally that the Gee
Hr7lor had promised it to him, even without So
lictation Well, Pennington and the Govern
ernor may settle that between them; but if it
is so, and, until contradcted, we are bound to
believe it; it places Governor Ellis in no very
enviable position. Indeed if his ExceIlency
went half as far in his sycophantc promises,
as the editor of the Progress represents him to
have gone, he was evidently not simply stoop-
ing beneath, but actually stepping entirely be-
yond his official dignity, Let that pass
Then Holden, of the Standard is ignoyc7 in
this matter, and the advertisement given to the
Press That's not our business. Holden can
i. l.,{4 i e /
v e incurred the dspleasrc of the "t'ourt
for our unfaultcring adherence to the cause of
Holden, in 1888, when he was trickcd and
cheated ont Of the Office which Governor Ellis
ROW fills, by men whom, it appears, even Mir
Holden, is now willing to promote to Office :;
and for some cause, unknown to us we have
since fallen under IEolden's displeasurc, and SO
the world wa@s. We are perfectly willing that
the Press and every other paper in the State
Douglas, Bell and Brcckinridge-sh have
the advertisement, but we heartily condemn
the petty yindictivcness, by whatever motives
prompted which Withheld it from the Standard
or the .State policy which refused It to our CO.
temporary of the Tribune, or the contemplate
churlishncss which. first hesitateli to bcstow it
on o"rsGi t and-then didn't do it. But neith-
CT the Governor nor the Literary Board, had
promised it 10 us and though We have 6Ied
pretty freely for the Democracy, and even for
Governor Ellis, We had sinned in $50, and cx-
pcctcd to be punished.
But now the Governor, the " Court, ard all
the distributors OF St0le pap may learn, now
and forever, that rs zee depend solely on the
the Democratic masses, for our support. and
publish Il paper to sustain pur" Democratic
principles, We can live without them. and are
resolved not to gr,umb!e, We will only re-
mark that the cause for passing by tho Gri|~-
b"jo papers is patent, and ii is leo petty to
obtain an abiding place, in the heart of tilr
weakest nag1anlmitv, even for moment. .---
Thurs orr sentiments