The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-26
A Flash in the Pan!

The Sentinel is disposed to make light of
the recent Union meeting in Raleigh which
recommended Gen. Dockery for Governor.
We admit the meeting was small in numbers.
We have attempted to deceive no one in this
respect. Those who were present honestly
determined not to attempt to speak for the
State through Convention, but simply and
modestly to hold meeting, as they had
right to do. They held a meeting and laid
down principles which will prevail. Small
as the meeting was, it uttered the voice of
thousands upon thousands of our worthiest
citizens, including many of our ablest and
most sagacious public men.
But what have the Seetinel and its friends
been doing in the way of meetings9 1t is
notorious that the great Convention held here
in the Senate Chamber, to send State dele
gates to the Philadelphia Convention, was
composed of the chairman, the Junior editor
of the Sentinel, as Secretary, and one more to
make the motions And on Saturday last,
the pan by the Sentinel and its friends, in
their effort to get up meeting The bell
was rung time and again, yet no one appeared.
The Junior Editor himself was among the
anxious two or three who labored in vain to
make demonstration. And here is the ex-
cuse, good readers, which the Sentinel offers
for this failure
!" 1t had previously been determined, in view
of the conflicting partialties of our friends for
different persons, not to make any formal noml-
nations and it was therefore concluded that it
would be best, under all the circumstances, not
to hold the meeting, but to leave every man to
the decision of his own judgment in selecting
persons for whom to vote. Out of the many can
didates in the field, the friends OF President John
son and Gov. Worth will be able to make the
proper selection. No man who does not endorse
BOTH and who does not commit himself une-
quivocally against the Howard amendment, can
be elected in this County. That, we regard, as
certain"
Now, every one knows it was not conclu-
ded that it would be best not to hold the
meeting, for the bell was rung several times,
and every possible effort was made to get
meeting. The Sentinel also endeavors to
produce the impression that the candidates
already in the field are Worth men. We
now state that there is thus far no Worth can
didate in tile field, and the Editors knew this
to be so when they penned the above We 60
further and say, that we know the people of
Wake County we'll enough to feel perfectly
certain that no Worth man can begin to be
elected in the County.
The Editors of the Sentinel, as the results
of achose policy our people oers sulJugated,
5ummered and ruined, have the impudence to
speak for Wake County. But our people
know all these things already, and they are
able to take care of themselves without the
advice or dictation of any one. WAKE
COUNTY IS FOR THE UNION. HER PEOPLE
ARE FOR THE SHORTEST ROAD RIGHT BACK
TO THE UNION. They have suffered too
much already by the wicked, ambitious, and
selfish conduct of such as the Editors of the
Sentinel.
The issue is, shall we go back to the Uni
on and be prosperous and happy once more;
or shall we stay out and incur the dangers of
negro suffrage and civil war, solely for the
benefit of few office-holders and Office
seekers, who involved US in onr troubles