Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-07-27

n Tue fOSt JUICE ~ OdTCtAyvHie Of tWO pSSAoo..S
Of IN G. Standard Extra, Raleigh, N G., July
IL, 1864" each package containing five copies
there"f each copy containing an address to MT.
Hoiden's Fellow Citizens" and 40 Tickets fof ".
W. Holden for Governor. The packages we're 40.
dressed in the fair hand writing of one about
the Standard Office. to John Deane Barclayvi!le;
N. c." and DAVID fucker, Barclsyvie, N. o.
that! On the packages the pQstage was paid. 80
that Mr. Holden Is minus 10 Circulars, 400 Holden
Tickets, and 10 cents in cash. Rather an unpront
able investment We have received two letters
from gentlemen at Farcayville, enclosing the Gov
ers of the packages and copies Of the Extra. One
Of these leters says that Mr.. Holden will have to
come and read his Extra to his "colored breth-
rem" as they cannot read But he don't think the
accommodations in that section would be very
agreeable to Mr.. Holden Fayetteville Obserosr.
The above is from the Obseroer of THURSDAY eve
ming last, received here on Friday morning. In
our paper dated Wednesday, but printed and start
ed to Fayetteville on Tuesday, We exposed this
hoax, and the Editors of the O6serser must have
seen our exposure of it before their paper of Thurs
day went to press. Yet they make no allusion to
the exposure but attempt to produce the impress
sion that We are engaged in correspondence with
free negroes.
week or two since we received a letter from
Barclayve containing $s:65, as subscription for
four persons to the Standard. They professed to
be warm friends Of ours. We supposed of course,
that the letter from white persons and genuine
in its character, and accordingly sent them the
Standard with some tickets. We soon learned,
however, that the names Of the four persons sent
were those of free negroes, and that We had been
imposed upon by some mean white person or per-
sons. Fortunately we had preserved the letter.
We have placed it in the hands of friend, and if
the author of it can be traced and discovered by
the handwriting we intend to hold him up in his
true colors to our readers.
friend writing US from Averasborough under
date of July goth, says:
II wish to inform you of some of the tricks Of
the friends of Gov Vance in this quarter. l am
informed there was a gathering on last Friday at
j A. Johnson's, and that John Green, ESQ.,, went
there from Barclayville with two bundles, one
marked to Dave Tucker, free negro, containing
one Of your Standards and some tickets for you
and the other was marked to John Dean another
free boy. I also learned that the reception of
these bundles was to be magniied and sent to the
as to this matter. One J. A. j., who says you are
Lincolnite, went on to Petersburg few days be-
fore these bundles received and it is believed
he caused them to be sent"
So it seems the Editors of the Observer are par
ties to this free negro trick! They are welcome
to all they may gain by this achievement We
have heretofore entertained high respect for the
Senior Editor as gentleman. but we find now that
he is as depraved and INSCRIPTIONS as the meanest
Destructive in the State. There is neither wit nor
humor, nor decency in this trick perpetrated by
Mr.. Hale and his friends. A high toned. honorable
gentleman would have scorned any alluson to such
trick practiced on brother Editor, save to con-
denim it rs low and unworthy in its character
But adversely is the test of character Defeat loss
of influence, and the prospect that the election Of
the peace candidate for Governor will shorten the
war, and thus stop the enormous profits Mr.. Hale
is realizing by his manufacturing establishments,
staring him in the face and like Gov. Vance he
is resorting to every desperate expedient even
using the names of free negroes to injure and de-
feat US. Repeating the language of the poor COW.
ards who wrote him from Bsrclayville, he says il
we should 60 to that place the accommodations
in that section" would not be Every agreeable to
US. First We are tricked, as any one could have
been, by Set of unprncipIed Destruc,ves, and Their
We are threatened that if We should happen to visit
the neighborhood Of these people, we would be in
suited or mobbed. This is not the first time tn.
| Obsercer has justified mob law against US. 1t did
so in September last soon after we we're mobbed BY
! the Georgia troops and our estimate of the heart.
of the Editors of that paper now is, that they
would be pleased to hear o.uorrow that our ofict
had been laid in ashes by a hand of desper ADDE'S
and our life PLACID in peril if not taken. This il
our estimate Of the Editors of that journal. w,
now leave them in the company they have deliber
ately chosen, with the remark that the odor which
surrounds them as the result of their connection
with this free negro hoax, is not more offensive Il
them than their conduct in this business will be t
every decent person who may become fully &C
quanted with it.
the friends he has in Harnstt They are worthy o
him, and he is worthy of them. Two years az
they called him Lincolnite and traitor, but nov
they love him SO well tina: they even use the fire.
negro to promote his election James A. johnson
e. H. Coteld, and T. B. Vance, You are welcom
to them, Governor. We should think we had com
mitted some great crime if they were to vote for Us
We invite the attention of the soldiers from Bun
combe and Wilkes Counties to the announcement
in our paper to day Of Capt Brevard, of the 29tt
as candidate for the Commons in the forme
County, and of Col. A. 5. Galloway as a canddat
for the Commons in the latter County.
Extract from letter to the Editor of the StanG
ard, dated e
AsHEvILLE, Jolly 10, 1884.
Gov. Vance's big talk here effected nothing fo
him. have made diiigent inquiry, and have hear
of no vote that he made by h,s visit friend on
West writes me that Vance stock is at low 6gar
there. Be firm, and vigllant and fear moth