The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-12
More DEVELOPMENTS.

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 entranchise
them and to distranchise tive-sixths of the
ochite 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 q resolution look
| ing to the same infamous desi gn. There has
| been nothing, heretofore, in the history OF
North Carolina, equal to 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 the 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.:
LEXINGTON, n. c., Jan. 2nd, 1867.
Editors Of Ilz!ei;gyt 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, petition
was drawn up by Vim. F. Henderson, Geo.
RILEY and Henderson Adams of this town,
asking, at the hands of Congress, the sub
version of the present State government, and
tile cOntfscntion Of the property of those IN this
iStnte who had borne arms against the Uni
ted States in the late war" This petition
was handed to the writer of this, for his
signature. when there were about thirty names
already attached to it, the first of which were
Of
of three Of the aoOrst a1egraes to be .t0und IN
this County! The petition 7oas 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. G.
Hoping that you will give this an inser-
ton and thus show up these fellows to the
deserved scorn of all honest. d ecent men,
am, very truly, yours:
Comment is unnecessary. At least we
confess our utter inability to do justice to
the subject.-SentineI.
We have inquired into the abo We charge,
and we hereby pronounce it false. We call
upon the Sentinel to give the name o its cor
who has thus lied against Messrs.
Adams, Henderson and Riley. Let us: have
the name of this mischief-maker and Jar
Who is he? In what den of treason do es he
skulk ? Let him be pulled out and hel. I Up
to the contemptous gaze of all honest m. n
We admit that while we were in Washil lg
ton memorial was sent to us by the gentl G.
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-
ina, and to place it on such a basis as would
make treason odious and loyalty respectable.
It also asked, not that the property of those
who had borne arms against the United
States" be confscated, but, on the other hand,
hat the property of leading rebels should be
,onfscated, for the benefit, among others, of
The Impoverished families of those soldiers