The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-01

THE RALEIGH SENTINEL AND THE r
LoTTE DEMOCRAT Sentinel has max
come somewhat excited and seems t~ pe-
lost its usual propriety in discussinr nn nave
affairs. 1t rails at us in rather bad td p""e
and talks about twaddlc" and /" wL imlper'
ings." There is this difference betwanD p g
Sentinel and the Democrat: The Seminal Jus is
the organ OF the present State administrat;lonr'
and is anxious to keep certain set of mnn
in office-it is working for party nnr r ,nen
and for party men-while the Democratf T Ia
longs to no party and is not under tbo ~
fiuence or control of any party but is str;,,
ing to establish good feeling and na a
among allmen. F''0
The Sentinel has favorites to promote ;,
office, and consequently it considers it a Jmv
to denOunce all who come in their way
We have no particular favortes to promote
and have never abused Gov. Worth Or HE
friends, but have merely cautioned the Sen.
tincl against abusing Gov. Holden and bis
friends, believing that such conduct promo.
ted contention and strife.
We do not belong to the Republican party
and have no favors to ask of that or anv
other party, but we can tell the Sentinel that
there are as good and as honest men Coon
Grating with the Republican party in North
Carolina as can be found in the Sentiners
party, and the sooner it acknowledges this
fact, and ceases its "twaddlen and "whm-
perings" about Holden and Holdenites the
better it will be for the welfare of the State
The Sentinel has already caused trouble
enough to the people of the State, and it is
time for it to change its course BY advis-
ing and promoting contention for the office
of Governor in the Fall of 1865, it did
great deal to prevent the admission of the
State into the Union, and its factiousness
afforded an excuse, to some extent, for the
passage of the late Reconstruction Acts, by
which man. of our people are disfranchised
and put below the negro. Along with many
of our ow-citizens we have been deprived
of the right to vote, and We feel that we are
justified in blaming the Raleigh Sentinel for
assisting in causing the Acknowledgement of
the white people.
We do not approve and endorse every
thing that Mr.. Holden says and does-he
knows that we often differ with him-butlt
should be remembered that he has been
badly treated and deceived by the Sentinel
and Others who heretofore professed great
friendship for him, but who deserted him
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way aggravated and forced him to treat his
opponents with some severity. He is not
superior to human nature, and those who
assail him may expect to be assailed in re
turn. After Mr.. Holden's conduct as Pro
visional Governor was endorsed by a unani,
nous vote of the State Convention, and
after it was we'll known that President John
son and the true friends of the South in
Washington desired his election to the office
of Governor, if the Sentinel and its advisers
had permitted the election to pass without
opposition and strife, they might feel that
they are not responsible for the present I'M
settled and threatening condition of affairs;
but as it is, they are justly subject to blame
and censure.
We never asked Gov. Holden for fayors
of any sort, and hare necer receiced any. Can
the Sentinel say as much Char. Democrat