Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-11-25
IFrom the Spirit of the Aged
Who Mobbed the standard Office

Mr.. EDITOR: 2ir-Ih late issue of Your paper,
you, through Gen. Renning and Others very unjust.
" give me the credit of mobhng the Standard Of
flee. do not clsim the honor Of doing the SO much
gagged in it The propriety of mobbing 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.
ning's command and Lieutenant who accompanied
me to Union and Stanly counties. who know took
no part in the mobbing; it vas done in jest: as
thought, and the parties who were talking did not
come to any conclusion about the matter, that l
heard Of, nor did know that the office had been
mobbed until o'clock next morning (as Lay down
early that night and went to SLEEPY heard some
Georgians asking bystanders when they thought
old Holden would issue his next sheet? then re;
membered what had been talked Of the day before,
aud after enquirng into the matter found that the
Office had been mobbed I consider Gen. Benn'ng.
from what could learn of him while travelling to-
gether, much ola gentleman, but he. is quite mis-
taken in supposing it was done by my detachment,
or with my ledge. He said had 40 men. l
only had %. can prove by the Lieutenant who
accompanied me to Union, that lay down on pile
of wagon spokes that were lying on the platform,
ard slept until 10 o'clock, then arose and got my
detachment in readiness to go of on the first tram
which they did Though did not go until next day
Afterwards / lay down near Gen. Renning and heard
him order some tar heel to move himself on a ns.e
further from him; he (Gen. Benning) will remem,
Der Why he ordered him eff; if he does not, and
wishes to know, I will tell him.
think what have salt, is sufficient to prove to
Gen. Bsnning and others thai am not guilty;
it does not Ihape will have tie pleasure OF gong
to Raleigh soon, to stand trial, d.
w. D. HOW ARD, 1t.
who commanded detachment to Union and Staniy
counties. a...-.
We cheerfully comply with the request OF 1t.
Howard, to publish the above Gard. Some nse'
cal!ei at our Office who represented themselves as
belonging to detachment sent to Union and Staniy
to arrest deserters and stated hatthis detachment
accompanied by some Georgians) were the ones
who mobbed the Standard Office, and that they be-
longed to the 4sth N. G. Regiment. Whether they
made false statement to us, whether the attack
was made by Lieut. Towards detachment without
mis- knowledge, We are unable to say.-ED. AGE
. So the statement made by the Age some weeks
ago, that our Office was mobbed by North Carolina
troops is exploded by the Age ITSELF The Fay
ettevie Obsereer and other Destructive papers ca
gerly caught at the statement, with the view Of
predicting 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
North Carolinians referred to by Gen. Benning,
states emphaticaly that I" 1t seas not done by m1y
detachment" We repeat that it wasdone by Geoi.
ga soldiers, commanded by Georgia officers and
we believe Gen. Benning was either party I'd it or
that he knew it would be done. We know that
Lieut. Colonel Seago, of the Goth Georgia regiment,
approved and spologised for the mob, for We have
letter from him to that effect. Has he been ar
ekod nd yoorfiolod for tho Offence IF he
has We have not heard of it. There were Georgia
Captains and Lieutenants in the crowd that mobbed
the ofice Have they been ARRESTED and court
martiaed If they have We have not heard of it: -
And Lieut. Howard, of North Oarolina-he says
the mobbing of our Office was "much needed
work." He says SO publicly over his own name.
Is be to be arrested and court maraled for advising
and approving mob lawf We shall sce
One of our subscribers in Western Georgia writes
US as follows, under date November 10. 1868
81 am Georgian by BIRTH and Conservatv We
to the bone, and withal 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 We're
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
DINA, called the Raleigh Standard. These were
members of the Goth Georgia regiment and sons of
some OF my old sscssh neighbors They said some
of the 18th Georgia regiment were with them in
the mob A few days after this friend of mine a
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. ~ I am truly grati6ed to
know that there is one press in the South that will
no: suffer itself to be gagged but will print the
truth OF oil hazards. Gould we have had such q
press in Georgia we 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 of friends
in our State"