The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16
More DEVELOPMENTS.

More Developments. ii ~
We alluded, a few days since, to the fact
that Memorials, under the auspices of Hol-
den, were in circulation among the negroes
of the State, praying Congress to enfranchise
them and to disfranchise fye-sixths of the
aohite voters of the State of North Carolina.
So far from this most atrocious proceeding
being concealed, Holden, himself, in person,
outrages public sentiment by appearing in a
negro, meeting and offering a resolution look!
ing to the same infamous design. There has
been nothing, heretofore, in the history of
North Carolina, equalto this, spectacle. We
referred at the same time, to one of the expe-
dients that are being resorted to by the
pimps of treason in the State, to inveigle
the uniformed among the whites into signing
the Memorial and invoked our friends in va
rious portions Of rhe State to communicate
to us any facts that might come to their
knowledge in connection with this general
movement. A. correspondent, accordingly,
writes as follows from Lexington, David
SON Co.: s7ta ssF
I'll LEXINGTON, N. c., Jan. 2nd 1867.
/ Editors of Raleigh Sentinel In response
to your editorial on Memorials to Con-
gress, in which you beg your friends
throughout the State to watch for these in
| cendiary papers, and communicate any facts
concerning them which may come to their
knowledge, have to reply that, while Hol
den was in Washington, a petition
was drawn up by VIM. F. Henderson, Geo.
RILEY and Henderson Adams, of this town,
asking. at the hands of Congress. I" the sub
version of the present State government, and
the confscation OF the property of those IN this
State who had borne arms against the Uni
ted States in the late war. This petition
was handed tn the writer of this, for his
signature. when there were about thirty names
already attached to it, the first of which were
the names of the gentlemen (l) above named,
of three of the aoorst negroes to be found in
this County! The petition scas sent to Holden,
at Washington, and was no doubt presented
as the petition of the loyal men God save
the mark y ofDavidson Co. N. c. r. B.,
Hoping that you will give this an inser-
tion aud thus show up these fellows to the
deserved sc0rn of all honest decent men,
as- S 1 am, very truly, yours. i7
j. II. f
Comment is unnecessary. AT least we
confess our utter inability to do justice to
the subject.-Seatinet.
We have imputed into the above charge,
and we hereby pronounce it false. We call
upon the Sentinel to give the name of its cor
respondent who has thus lied against Messrs.
Adams, Henderson and Riley. Let us have
the name of this mischief maker and liar
Who is he9 In what den of treason does he
skulk 2 Let him be pulled out and held up
to the contemptous gaze of all honest men.
We admit that while we were in Washing
ton memorial was sent to us by the gentle
men above named, to be laid before Con-
gress. This memorial was signed by 80 of
the best citizens of Davidson, freeholders and
taxpayers. All the signers were white per-
sons. We handed it to Mr.. Stevens to be
presented to the House, which was no doubt
done. The memorial prayed the Congress
to reorganize the government of North Caro-
lima, and to place it on such basis as would
make treason odious and loyalty respectable.
1t also asked, not that thu" property of those
who had borne arms against the United
States be confiscated, but, on the other hand,
that the property of leading rebels should be
contiscated, for the benefit, among Others, of
the impoverished families of those soldiers
who were dragged offbyt the horrible conscrip-
ton to be slain in battle, or to perish by was
ting diseases in hospital or camp. That was
what the memorial asked-nOthing more
and nothing less. All the signers were white
persons, and the prayer of the petition was
as above stated. The Setiners correspondent
says he saw the paper. This being the case,
he has given the contents of it incorrectly
from the stupidity ofa mind not able to COM
prehend it, or he has stated them falsely,
knowing the statement to be false. We do
not care which horn of the dilemma he hangs
himself on.
The gentlemen above named who origina-
ted the memorial, are among the foremost
patriots of Davidson County. They have
the political confidence of large majority
Of the people of the County That people,
together with the people of Forsyth, Stokes,
Randolph, Guilford, and other Counties, are
still petitioning the Congress to give us a
loyal State government, and they aoiy continue
to do 50. No human power can prevent them
from doing so. They are in favor of Mr.
Stevens bill, which confcrs suffrage solely on
the loyal without regard to color; and many
of them are going further, and urging the
Congress to con6scate helands of all the
leading unrepentant rebels in the South
They are determined that the Union shall be
restored on loyal basis; that treason shall
be made odinus; and, as Col. Henderson
told the people in his recent speech at Thorn
asville, that those who wrecked our School
Fund, and our University Fund, and who,
by their cruel persistency in wicked rebell-
ion, imposed upon us the enormous taxes we
are now paying, shall be made to replace
those Funds and to ease us of these taxes,
out Of their estates. Our loyal people have at
last determined, and Congress has determin-
ed, that traitors and treason have trifled long
enongh with the dearest interests of the
Those wAo ruined us shall not rule
US. Such miserable "pimps" of the infa-
nous Richmond despotism as the Editors of
the Sentinel may croak. and declaim, and
SANDER, and torture the truth into all kinds
Of falsehoods to suit their selfish purposes,
or to please those masters of theirs who own