Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-05-25
Gev. Vance,, speech.

9ue0 III uAo cPcecn Ou MVnuAy last, out IN u0nS
50 we shall endeavor to be entirely respectful to
that gentleman.
Since the commencement Of tho publication of the
Progress in this city our support Of Gov. Vance's
administration has been frank cordial and unsolict
ed, and If We have enjoyed any favor, not common
to other members54 the press, we are not aware Of
# We were one of the first public men in the
early as last July Urged negotiations lookingto that
end. We never attempted to justify the policy Of !
the so called peace meetings" held in many of the
counties, but when those who participated them !
were assafied dsloyal we defended them, bellev-
ing then IS We do now, that they were as sincerely
devoted to the cause of the South asany one Gov.
Vance differed somewhat at that time, with the |
views OF the Progress and Standard, and when he
mate his Wikesborough speech he took decided !,
grounds against /. Convention or other active mea-
sures looking to speedy peace; and thinking that
his position was different from and would not be
satisfactory to the great of the Conservatives
OF the State that elected him.. frankly gave him
our views, both before and after he made his speech
at Wilkeshorough. We never dreamed of any CD
position to Coy. Vance until after that speech was
made, and then We were anxious to have him SO
conform his views to those Of his political friends as
to prevent any such contest. But soon Mr. Holden,
urged hy friends from different parts of the State,
announced himself candidate, and as his views
and our own harmonizsd on the great issue before
the country, the war, We felt that Is between him
aud any other man, We should BE bound to vote for
MIR. Holden. Gov. Vance now asked US if we could
support him against Mr.. Holden, and We frankly
told him we could not; but that as We admired
both, we should make no war on either. Nor have
We. We have criticised Gov. Vance's public record
to which neither he his friends can object, but
IN all We have.sad We have treated him with the
greatest respect, personally. We thought this due
to his own good qualities well to the exalted
position he occupies.
But all the Destructive papers came at once to
the support OF Gov. Vance, as well their leaders
throughout the State, some of whom have been con-
stantiy doing all they could to poison his mind
against rs and others who supported and defended
him against their abuse two years ago. Gov Vance
tol that neither the Consaerate or the Observer
reflected his views, and that he must have an organ
aud after We had sold one fourth OF our establish
ment to Mr.. Richardson, the Governor approached
him on the subject OF buying the balance, as some
OF his staff officers did u.s. and promised that 10 the
event seld we should DC retained as foreman and
thus saved from Consumption. In compliance with
the request Ct Gov Vance, Mr. Richerdson approach
ed US on the subject, when We told him that there
was not money enough in the Gonfederacy to buy
the Progress for the purposeof turning it against
Mr.. HOLDEN. Here the matter ended, and We see
nothing very reprehensible in the course of Gov.
Vance, but We only mention these things to show
that he then thought sufficiently respectable to
conduct his ergza, in case could support him
against Mr.. Holden, or to be foreman of the office
and his favor in saving from the enrolling
officer in should agree to SELL God knows
We have never tsken airy pleasure in criticlsing
/ the Governors political record, while person
ally we have not only not assailed him, but defend
! ed him on all occasions Mr.. Holden has right
to run for Governor, and We in common With other
freemen Of the State have the right to vote for him
and We shall be content whatever the resul. MAJ,
| be, that the people have done right
But this brings US to the unprovoked personal
assault of the Governor. In his speech here Oh
Monday, within few miles Of our birth place and
the resting place of the bones of our ancestors for
| half dozen generations, and in presence of many
who have known US from childhood his Excellency
! tried to degrade Us by representing US as pedler
oil lemonade in circus. We acknowledge our hum
bic origin and our poverty, and are not ashamed Of
our early struggles against adversely and rude for
tune but we have never appeared in the character
which he represented, and the sneer is only repe-
tition of the SANDER of John Spelman, creature
| whose brutal attacks upon Gov Vance are remem.
refined sensbilitieS. But if we had been the lem.
onade pedler the. Governor represeptaDnS and had
l. spent part of our younger days ling OFT
"'ere's yer lemonade, only i've Cd glass and
two sticks Of candy thrown in," as was given with
all necessary stage effect by the distinguished gen
tle,nen, the ausion would have been only the
worse; for it is sheer upon and fling at every aged
man or ragged boy in the country v no is peddiins
cakes, beer pies any thing Of the kind 10 prevent
wife, mother or sister from starving. We think
that we have never spent a. dollar that We had no,
acquired by our own exer1 pns, and had the toy.
hood of the Governor bsen as dark gloomy and ad.
verse as ours was, we think it very possible he
would never have obtained his present exalted posi-
ton The first money We ever made was at pillow
$50 ~
day; and the gentleman who thus employed us
heard the Governors speech on Monday, and called
to tell us Of his supreme disgust for the allusi,n
u.s. He says he voted for him before, but would
Eot now even we're there no other candidate in thu
field. We have number Of relatives in this coun
| ty-pecpie who are accounted respectahie-ano
most Of them voted for Gov. Vsese two years ago
but we hardly think their admiration for him viii
be enhanced uy his aliusons to the poverty ant
early struggles of one ofnber ksh and kin. W,
have seen no one who lies the attack the Gov
error made u.s. and when the matter mention
ed in the presence Of bis best friends they only
hang their heads. Some Il those who surrounds
him a2plauded the exhibition, but they were per
SONS who only Use him for the place he holds ant
the patronage be has to brstow, and who have dom
more than everybody else to withdraw the sffec
know that cotton is king" because they have tn
evidence in their larders and store rooms which ar
we'll filed with the luxuries Of the European an,
Yankee markets. We could unfrock many OF Ties
and lay bare some horrible alterations, but such i
no. the legitimate mission Of the press and for
bear, though Oar wrongs would at least plead 70
such a course
/ One other point and we have done. The aliusion
made by the Governor to our behavior At the fall o
| Nevbern we're incorrect We do not know VIII
mi,led him. but his statement does US gross injus
tice and when our friends and ourself were defend
ing MIN against the malicious ISLANDERS Of hrs enc
mics in reference to the same occasion, we lttl
dreamed be would ever be guilty Of the same injus
tics to u.s. The Governors bearing on that occa
sion, as on all other occasions while he in tn
field heroic and gallant and it is strange tina
he should now embrace SO fondy those who hav
tried to oiast his reputation by stating otherwis.
When the enemy appeared at Newbern We wer
prostrated on a bed of sickness with prctrscte
lever, contracted on Neuse river, and had oeen un