Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-24
Union Feeling ia North Carolina

Ex-Governor Holden OF North Oaroli'
ma, in the Raleigh STANDARD, of which ne
is editor and proprietor, of the lZth
inst, bears the following testimony as
to the progress or growth of dlsloyaI ln-
f,uepces in his native State. It's barely
nossible that his defeat at the popular
election, last fall, for Governor, may
have added some bitterness to the eX-
preston of his present feelings ana SEN
timents; but we have great confidence
in the sincerity and integrity Of the man,
nevertheless. He says;
"Twelve months ago yesterday, We
| .he Senior Editor-were summoned 10
Washington by President johnson, 10
| consult on the state OF affairs IN NorUu
| Carolina. Almost at the same moment
the dispatch from President Johnson
was received, we received letter from
the Hon. Edward Stanley, urging us to
repair to Washington to see what couIo
be done for the good of North CaroIiha'
We went. We saw the President ire
quently, had full and free conversation
with him. and returned with our com
mission as Provisional Governor We
did not seek the place. 1t sought us.
Bnt behold the change Then the
State was submissive, and ready for any
terms the government might impose
Now. a majority of the people seem &c
he defiant and unwilling to return &c
the Union save on their own terms
Then The test oath, hard as it is on ever
the great body of the Union men, was
resnected as the law of the land; now
it is regarded as disreputable to be aol'
to take it. Then the prime authors o
. all our woes, the secessionists and lat
a ter-day war men, were, to all appear
, ances unconditional Unionists; nov
9 thew are impudent and arrogant, an
q the true Unionists are detected, coWeI
g prescribed, under the ban socially, PIT
4 cuniarily, and politically. Inc sece'
=. sionists of and by themselves were con
v paratively powerless; but as soon
= Gov. Worth and the latter day war me
4 Joined them, governed as the latter wei
p bv vanity and the lust for office, the
% became the ruling power, in the stat
~ What is to be the end of all this we al
+. unable to roresee. We only know th'
IF those public men who now control a
70 fairs in this State are among the Wor
ne enemies the President has; and tn
10 they are augmenting the general dlstre
I'd and ruin by keeping the State out OF /
". Union. Our hope is in the President,
,rt | the Congress, and in the approach
IT'S State Convention.
y, We referred lust now to letter
M ceived from that pure patriot ana q
wv tinguished statesman, Edward otah
As The occasion is a suitable one for S;
ia ing that, soon after Gov. Vance W.
he | into office in 1862, he received let
The from Mr.. Stanley, then Military G'
not ernor of this State, urging him TO N
Cd him at Kingston under a flag OF tru
at- to talk about the best means OF rell
rk ING North Carolina from her then uni
icn ! tunate situation. In other words,
WIN was a peace letter from devoted soL
If the State, who would freely have 81
his life to save his old friends ana
cd low. citizens from the calamlCles L
ms were in reserve for them. Gov. va
not did us the honor to consult US on
ina subiect. We have the qualification
18th remembering that we ADVISED ann
GER meet Gov. Stanly and see what CO
ace be done to relieve and save our peo
aac But other counseIs prevailed, as
hu. prevailed afterward. The lnnue
,ior which asserted its control at that
is Rod continued to the last, and the
Ohio sult is before the world. Ruin ri
mis-, ruin We drop the curtain on
ons | scene.
rers shake not thy CORY locks at me!
80 Thou can'st not say did it