The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-09
A Great Farce.

The new government OF North Carollha,
erected on the ruins of the vlrtuous Ola
one, as we'll as the ruins of public honor
and public and private rights, was cele-
brated after novel manner on the 4th OF
July. HOLDEN, the inconsistent knaVe ana
partisan hack, selected that day to deliver
his inaugural as Governor, and arranged a
platform in the open air for that purpose.
To give it great appearance OF clrcum-
stance and pomp, it was arranged that he
sbould stand forth as the Executive and
sbop,d sneak then should come new
made Judge, of the carpet-bag judiciary
and lastly, a legislator, of the negro stra-
tum of law-makers-each personifying q
department, and each solemnly speaking as
a part of the State. The crowd was motley,
the actors were scurvy and third-rate low
comedians-very awkward fellows--and,
like NICK BoTToM's company, made what
was designed to be very solemn and
stately affair very ludicrous farce.
HOLDEN was the "lion"; but he took &C.
casion to assure all that although he bore
that name he was very gentle beast, and
would hurt nobody. The novelty of the
situation gave him occasion to comment.
He seemed to say as Prologue
| .Gep,,cs, oerchance YOU wonder at this show
But wonder on Ill truth make all Things plain.
[As it WILL And then reverting to the
grand position he had at last reached, ne
assured the poor, constituent body, mostly
black, that he was kindly disposed;
| ..For II | should as lion come in strife 49,
| Into this place 1t were u pity, on my llfc.
Upon which some tawny THEsEUs of At
| RIGA commented
| "A very gentle beast, and Of a good conscience"
The retiring lion is followed BY
"WALL" lin BoTToM's play WALL comes
first but in HoLDEN's this order is re-
versed] as the judiciary. That accommo-
dating WALL, through whose open seams
the rogues and rings will find escape, very
probably, as easily as did THlsBE and Ply
RAMUs correspond through that devised by
| BoTToM.
One Judge READE, Of the Ne,o Issue,
represented the judicial wall. 1t was
"witty partition" You would not desire
judicial wall of lime and hair " to "speak
| BETTER" nor could you be better satisfied
that in it were the crannies fright and SIN
lister" "through which fearful" criminals
| are to find egress.
Finally, came "MooNsHINE"-one CALD-
WELL (Lieutenant-Governor)-who repre-
sented the legislative department; very
dim, dull lantern, indeed! His speech Eas
very much after that Of MooNsHISE " in
the play, IS follows:
IAN that have to say is to tell you that the lam
tern 1.-THE Legislature Is the moon, ant AIN the
man In the moon.h
And SO MooNsHlNE vanished.
The people of North Carolina may we'll
take up the words of the spectator:
liam aweary OF this moon,
Would he would change"
After all this, yet came another comedian,
as sort of "Epilogue," who "celeorated
4th of July" with an amount Of comical ba-
thos and pathetic burlesque not often
achieved by the greatest artists in travestie.
He concluded with WORKOUT poetic quota
ton about i" Ringing in" and Ringing
OUT" which, strange to say, was quoted on
the same day by FoRSEY, and, we believe,
the Radical MCKAY, Of Charleston, and
half dozen other Radical BoMBAsrEs."
There is such proclivity for the "rings :"
of all sort amongst the rapacious Radicals
that this poem is admirably suited to their
orations
Thus ended the farce played in dear old
Raleigh (sooth to say on the 18th Of July.
We may in truth say that if he who was the
author of this farce had hanged himself it
would have been delightful tragedy