Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-07-28

Extra Standard.

a friend writing from Camp Wyatt on business says
incidentally:
II " also enclose copy of " Extra Standard" largs
number Of which have been sent privately for distribution
seUd it. thinking perhaps you not have seen it. It
calculated do ham, and should receive the hearty dis
res are receiving ogara" reception at the hands OF
taatT tEans11ttal 10 the flames
Respectfully, SO.
T'1a extra Standard is dated Raleigh, n. c., July
lOh, 1864 and is nc of newspaper, anything
like newspaper than the circular Of any candidate for
any ctlice in the State.
The document before US consists of three broad and
short columns, occupying about half the leaf upon
which ii is printed. The bottom we suppose was filed
with HoL.DsH tickets
lie first Of these columns is taken up with expo
soa Of the right Of any voter to vote ticket folded
Ter rolled up. This right has never been denied 1t is
10, question: Nobody thinks of questioning it. and
the ccQCse OF Mir HOLDEN il insisting upon it, and
pressing it upon the attention OF the people in camp,
at home, is nothing short Of ins1lt. Why must the
who have laced the cann0ns, ard the rifles and the
Jay0ne Of The eueny, and are ready to do it again,
be aeute by appeals them to vote secretly frtvey
with ricea rolled no. ioT 20 that DOES this exposition
amount Are such men GtrGid to vote Just they
p.y.i56 DCe. Mr.. UCLDEN feel that men will be
a5hancd 70 be knon to haye voted Tor him. that he is
ou1.9us .fy sl tud know thy roll him up and no
uuo can open him? I. looks mat way,-don'G IT,
Fer our part - would say to in camp, out OF
it-Vote Just IS your conscience and your Judgment
do1:,s g7,ut regard oitbtc 10 outside dication or to
C,L.s3o1u9.-c3. D'I'J b To- led into imagining that
that Ge1Gi3te is necessarily your friend,
9. - Do5y friead out ha own, who advises you to be
sly ,li su.e.- yo! o. oid up your tickets-to hide
/ YuQss-f from your comrades aud companions in
arms, Oh zGuc icow citizans. There is certainly
a4tu. IL yo,iag & c'oscd ticket Il is right legally
.laI led anG should DC rePreached for
c.s.D it. W luiy object 10 the prominence given to
il ID bis eztsa," ami the very transparent motives
w1ioa prompt IL.
Tie 0aiooca q ha extra, eectioneerng circular,
g taEel ~ with aa al2mpt to SHOW that the issue Of
the elcc1ior--0f the contest between Governor VANCE
ana hLr. HOLDEN Is JVcr or Peace and Liberty
aims: De5P0tisn," concluding with attack upon
the "De8ttu2tive5" aud attempt to show that "Gov
etnGr VANCE is tie Destructive candidate for Cover
nor," "Goy5rnor VANCE and his supporters" the Sex
ira says, arc not only Ia favour OF the war going on
ana OF, ard only opposed TO negotiations for peace
unless they be brought about in their way, which is
the way pointed cut by President DAVIS, but they are
DlUlS nlan-euGUrstEs Of his administration, and ach
him il every essential particular" Now, what is Pre-
! siGeGt DAVIS wy 20 pace what sort of peace
! does President DAVIS consider tie only one
a22isS4b,e Does 1t imply conquest of them orth
No Does il imply Anything more han peace found
e6 up0a the recognition by TIE United States Of in.
| d. pen+encC and Eg1t 20 s=ltgovernment? No! Has
not Congress pul forth s0l2un aresto setting forth
tic CbucS and wishes ut the Confederate States, and
Their anxiety for peace upon honorable terms? Yes
Has President DAVIS in his messages and public docu-
ens ever emitted opportunity 10 set this forth p
Nc! What other peace can Mr. HOLDEN mean p
What obeT peace ia open Tor our acceptance? Can it
b that AR HOLDEN anybody else advocates "peace"
upon lho basis ii submission to the LINCOLN despotsm
ally ether basis than the independence of the Con-
tCCrnG States? We hope not ard yet that is the onlv
alternative, # We make upon Mr.. DAVIS and his
basis! AL e!7a is vcEtiage deception.
Again, is it cot strange, end to this fact we invite
tie attention Of all parties to whom the IN c. Stand
Ex.sa, Raleigh, \. G., july 10, 1864" may come,
woo may tho dCcUmsnt, that although despotism
Is ios5nua'ed agan3 authoFt e. and opposi-
ticn IS eyokd against Governor VANCE and President
DAVIS The whole affair." tsom beginning to end contains
not one word OF ceaure against LINCOLN and his afro
cous toclshs robbers, murdeters vioators and op-
ngessors O sud 2hidrennot word of cheer
cur gaalt AID struggling sol6ers not one word of
elcoUIa9yDer! or suffering but unsubjugated peo-
ole We'9sa tie soldier OTHER citizen into whose
hands This extra" may come, to read it over, and see,
ifL5 discover word &c show that the writer de-
precates Yankee aggression sympathisas with South
eIn patriotism. not there! ard yet this extra
is deliberate and studied uttarance and its author,
Mr. W. W. HOLDEN is candidate for Governor of the
State Of North CaroIinaa State second to none in its
sacrifices or Southern irdepapdence-n its resistance
to Northern aggression! Evidently the writer of the tex
ira" CT eccticneetipg circrlar-Ar. ". w. HOLDEN
candidate for Governor Of North Carolina, prefer
ABRAHAM LIECoLS TO JEFFERaoN DAVIS, if We are to
JuG5a by TIE extra eitctioneering circular in
question, since the document has not word to say
against Mr. LINCOLN but nucIi of denunciaon to hurl
against ali vino are friends OF Mr. DAVIS All this we
tepeas, is strange-~Pas5Og strange-s it not Look
at it.
No wo2der that q gentleman occupying ground like
this is anxious that all who vote for him should avail
themselves of the right of having their tickets "roed
up" Ii is record of which few will be proud in tu
tura years.
Would it not strike even the least rejecting that this