The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-04

/ eminent and control society could have their
way. they would indelibly stamp us and our
posterity with, - hieleous mark becauso
we were not true to the Confederacy. We
| want the word Tory written on the back of
no man. But if the contest be forced upor
us as to who shall be honored now and
hereafter--the traitor to the Confederacv ar
the traitor to the Union-we wish it distinct
ly understood that our lot has been cast with
the former. What we complain of is, that
our opponents do not cultivate as they should
and as they agreed to do when they surrer
dered, q spirit Of nationality and that tbo,
seem to think more of the memories Of tbn
dead Confederacy than of the glories ri.
the living Union. We shall not be able to
agree with them, or act with them. rs lonc,
as they pursue this course
| But we tell the Sentinel that we hove o,,i
dence in our possession of the most undopb.
ted character, that it is not safe for ITpio,
men in certain localities west of this to IN
nounce their views from the stump We
| k1a0D that one of our worthiest public p,er
has been driven from the stump and silcnce5
by armed ex-rebels; and we apprehend that
the election will not be free at some boxes in
that portion of the State. We knooO the fact
that the American flag was pulled down bv
AIMED ex rebels at Jefferson, Ashe Countr
week or two since. And we sincerely he,
lieve, that if the State were now in tha
Union under present auspices, and if all the
troops were removed, and there was no fear
of hQfn ha c.,fo
set in this State, every unconditional Union
man would be either driven from the State.
or compelled, from fear for himself or his
family, to be silent in relation to public af.
fairs. That is our belief
But "W. W. Holden's completely with
Thad. Stevens!" Nothing is too bad to be
charged against Holden. Holden was re-
sponsible for the rebellion; he was response
BILE for peace; he was responsible for every
thing bad and for nothing good under the
provisional! government; he was not respon-
sible for negro suffrage under Mr.. johnson,
when the latter advised it, but he Is response
BILE for it now, by completely with Mr.
Stevens; he is responsible for the Howard
amendment, though he did all he could to
restore the State before this amendment was
adopted; and if the people will not take his
advice and accept this amendment, as the
only course left them to escape future and
greater evils, he will then be responsible for
all these evils, including confscation and
negro suffrage! Such is Holden. Was there
ever such person before in the tides of time!
Mr.. Stevens is traitor, a liar villain,
hidcous monster on his own merits in the
of the. Sentinel but when it is
thought that some chance expression by Mr.
Stevens will injure Holden, why then Mr.
Stevens is a gentleman a scholar, and para
gon of truth and honesty. Anything to de-
stroy Holden |! All, brother Pell* SO called
all Seaton,+ lover of the flag, Holden will
not be destroyed. He stands on the rock of
Truth, against which the petty whitecaps of
your passions dash in vain.
*Rev. William E. Pell, Senior Editor of the
Sentinel. He is Minister of the Gospel. He
breaches politics daily in the Sentinel, and the
Gospel when it is convenient to do so.
+Seaton Gales, Esq, Junior Editor of the Sen
ti1tel He is so loyal to the national government
that the 22d of February last he would not
walk under the flag, but retired to his home by
casion as "a rag" He is one of the "rccon-
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