The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-02
The Rebel press-.... Holdenites.,,. -


example, though not vehemently opposing
and denouncing the Convention, did not
deem it of sufficient Importance to procure
a report of its own of its proceedings, and
the Editors boosted that they were not
prompted either by curiosity or inclination
to be present.
A couple of Raleigh correspondents OF the
Petersburg Inder, in their sketches OF the
proceedings can scarcely conceal their con-
tempt and aversion for the Convention One
of these correspondents speaks of " Ameri-
can citizens of African scent" and adds:
"Isuppose it is not necessary to say that
the sight of forty or fifty gentlemen OF color,
sitting back in the cushioned chairs OF the
Commons Hall, with the galleries and lob,
bies literally crammed with blacks and
whites, with three or four darkey damsels
seated in the lobby and dipping snuff, while
colored men caucused closely with those
who few years ago owned them" &c.
But the little six by nine provincial, rebel
sheets, not having been sufficiently instruc-
ted to dissemble, speak right out, and utter
the real sentiments of the rebel leaders,
That poor little creature, the Weldon State,
is furious over this meeting of Republicans,
and speaks of those present as "cowards
who will go down to posterity with the fin
ger of scorn pointing at them as the wretches
who gave the last stab to the hopes of our
State" This "last stab" means, that
leading white Unionists who were present
were of those who rejoiced at the failure of
"our beloved Confederacy," and had met in
Raleigh, on the 9th, with the colored people
of the State as their equals in all that pertains
to manhood and the rights of selfgovern-
ment. There are some gentlemen and large
landholders in Halifax. 1t would be we'll for
them to bear in mind that if the views of
this little Weldon paper should prevail, and,
as consequence, the effort now making to
restore the State to the Union should fail,
e0ntiscati0n and executions for treason aoiU fol-
lop. In the day of their peril and trlbula-
ton they will be judged, and properly judg-
ed by the sentiments of the paper referred
to, as it is known to be their organ. If it is
not their organ, let them say so publicly,
over their own names.
But the Henderson hader caps the climax
of impudence and insolerce. 1t says the
people of the State will submit" to any
thing that may be imposed" by Congress,
"but they will never voluntarily accept any
measure that may be offered" Who cares
Our Northern friends may read in these few
words from the Iader, the real heart feelings
of the rebels in this State. But the Inde1,
in its notice of the late Convention, says:
1t being the day for the great Mass Meet
ing" of the prosecuted I" and "downtrod
en-" Unionsts of North Carolina and the
time for the delegates to assemble having ar
rived, we sauntered down Fayetteville Street,
to the Capitol, where the Holdenites
Flunkeyites, Ne3roites, and every other
nauseous and contemptableite, that the good
old North State could produce had congre-
gated. And just here, we congratulate our
selves, all North Carolianins, and mankind
in general, that our State could produce no
more in numbers, brains. or even common
decency, than WAS arrayed in the Commons
Hall Wednesday. We present in another
column. the report given Ivy the Standard"
of the thing. Our readers can form q very
concise opinion of its personale. That is
about rs much as any would want to know.
We did ourselves the honor to visit our
much esteemed contemporaries, Messrs. Pell
& Gales, of the " Sentinel and Capt. Orr, of
the - Progress" We were much pleased to
find the above gentlemen in fine spirits.
Both papers, are succeeding we'll, which was
gratifying to us to learn. as we consider them
among our best exchange. May success con-
tinue with them"
The Wilmington Dispatch speaks of the
Convention as the Holden miscegenationists,"
and says " a number of violent speeches were
made" 1t is not true that violent speeche.
were made. The proceedings from first to
last were characterized by moderation and
dignity.
Holdenites, Flunkeyites, and Negroites !"
The Sherman act has cowed these rebels, but
it has not deprived them of any of their
powers of blackguardism and abuse. There
is neither sense nor point in this talk about
Heldenites." If these rebels only knew it,
they are beneftting Holden more by such
course than by any thing they could do
Holden knows that his motives are good
that he is right in his course as public
man, and that he is sustained by thousands
upon thousands of the true and loyal of our
best people. He does not care fig for all
this slang. But it will be continued to the
end, for the reason that these rebel sheets
have no other stock in trade but abuse of
Holden. They could not stop it if they
would, for it is the only way in which they
can please and retain the support of the pre-
JUDGED and narrow-minded class to whose
passions they are pandering.
But, thanks to the Congress, we are once
more free people The people of both
races met in the Capitol of the State sat to-
gether, and transacted public business, no
one daring to modest them. They met I'M
der the banner of "Li5erty, Union and
Equality" cherishing the glorious associa-
tions of " Lincoln and LIBERTY" under the
flag, as free men, to lay the foundations of
Republican institutions destined to exist, we
trust, for all time. They did this, we say,
without molestation; but if there had been
no Sherman act M fear of confeoa+;on M