Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-11-24
From the Spirit of the Age,l
Who Mobbed the standard Ofiee3

[from the Spirit OF the Age
Who MObbed the Standard OReea
Mr.. EDITOR: Sir-In late issue of your paper,
you, through Gen. Benning and Others very unjust
ly give me the credit of mobbing the Standard of,
hce do not claim the honor of doing the so much
needed work, as neither nor my party were
gagged in it The propriety ofmobbing the Office of
w: W. Holden, and taking him OH to Chattanooga
and putting him through the lines, had been dis
cussed that day on the train, by some of Gen. Ben
nlng's command and Lieutenant who accompanied
me to Union and Stanly counties, who know took
no part in the mobbing it was done in jest, as l
thought and the parties who were talking did not
come to any conclusion about the matter, that
heard Of nor did know that the Office had been
moooed until o'clock next morning (as lay down
early that night and went to sleep.) heard some
Georgans asking some bystanders when they thought
old Holden would issue his next sheet? then re.
membered what had been talked OF the day before,
aud after enqulring into the matter found that the
Office had been mobbed / consider Gen. Benning,
from what could learn of him while travelling to-
gether much of a gentleman, but he IS s7quite mis-.
taken in suPposing it was done by my detachment,
or with my knowledge. He said had 40 men. 1
only had %. l can prove by the Lieutenant who
accompanied me to Union, that lay down on pile
OF wagon spokes that were lying on the platform,
and slept until II o'clock, then arose and got my
detachment in readiness to go off the first train,
which they did (though did not go until next day.
him order some tar heel to move himself off little
further from him; he (Gen. Benning) will remem-
Der why he ordered him off; if he does not and
wishes to know, will tell him.
| think what have said is sufficient to prove to
Gen. Benning and others that am not guilty; if
it does not, hape will have the pleas ure of going
to Raleigh soon to stand a trial, &C.
W. D. HOWARD, Lit.
who commanded detachment to Union and Stanly
counties.
We cheerfully comply with the request of 1t.
Howard, to publish the above Card Some men
called at our office who represented themselves as
belonging to detachment sent to Union and Stany
10 arrest deserters and stated that this detachment
. accompanied by some Georgians) were the ones
who poobed the Standard office, and that they be-
longed to the 4Sth N. @. Regiment. Whether they
tnade alse statement to us, whether the attack
was made by Lieut. Howard's detachment without
MS knowledge, we are unable to say:-ED. AGE.
80 the statement made by the Age some weeks
ago, that our office mobbed by North Carolina
troops, is exploded by the Age itself The Fay
etteVie Observer and other Destructive papers ca
gerly caught at the statement with the view of
producing the impression that the Standard was so
unpopular among the North Carolina troops that
portion of those troops mobbed the Office but
Lieut.. Howard, who commanded the detachment of
states emphatically that it soas not done By my
detachment" Werepeat that it was done by Geor-
gia soldiers, commanded by Georgia officers; and
we believe Gen. Benning was either party to it or
that he knew it would be done. We know that
Lieut. Colonel Seago, of the Goth Georgia regiment
approved and spologized for the mob, for we have
letter from him to that effect Has he been ar
rested and court martiaed for the offence If he
has We have not heard of it. There were Georgia
Captains and Leutenants in the crowd that mobbed
the Office. Have they been ARRESTED and court
martaled? If they have we have notheard of it.
And Lieut. Howard of North Carolina-he says
the mobbing of our Office was much needed
work" He says so publicly over his own name.
Is he be arrested and martiaed for advising
and approving mob law? We shall see.
One of our subscribers in. Western Georgia writes
us as follows, under date November 10, 1868:
liam Georgian by birth, and Conservative
to the bone and withal a true Southern man, but
not hearty in my support of the administration at
Richmond About the 10Th of September last, when
several furloughed soldiers came home and were
talking over the various incidents of the war; they
spoke rather boastingly of having mobbed and tore
up Yankee or Union printing Office in North-Car-
olina called the Raleigh Standard. These were
members of the Goth Georgia regiment and sons of
some OF my old secesh neighbors They said some
of the 18th Georgia regiment were with them in
the mob A few days after this friend of mine,
paroled prisoner, paid me visit and spoke very
indignantly of the Raleigh mob He said he looked
upon it as great outrage, such as the government
should not tolerate. am truly gratiied to
know that there is press in the South that will
not suffer itself to be gagged, but will print the
truth at oil hazards. Could we have had such a
press in Georgia should have elected Joshua Hill
Governor instead of Joseph E. Brown, / am sorry
that Georgia soldiers committed such an act, but
am happy to inform you that all Georgians are not
of that stripe and that you have thousands offriends
in our State"