The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-03-18
For the Standard.
Gov. Holden ut G0ldsborO'.

MEssRs EDITORS AS per announcement
in your columns, Gov. Holden addressed the
citizens of Wayne on the 18th inst. Your
readers will be gratified to learn that very
large concourse assembled to cheer the heart
and brighten the prospects OF our patriotic
standard-Lea It is estimated that over
thousand persons turned out to give him
greeting. While the people were thronging
into town it was gratifying TO see the friend
ly conversations kept up between the Gov
ernor and his old political co'yferes; and
this with familiarity unalloyed with that
bitterness which emanates from political
rancor.
At half past eleven o'clock, Mr.. John Rob-
inson introduced Gov. Holden to the assem-
bly,, who, though densely packed together,
extended much beyond the reach of his
voice, as he was labOTing under the effects of
severe cold. Yet he was listened to with
marked attention. It is to be observed,
however, (and put it down here and stick
pin in it) that an engineer very politelyD
brought down his train to the verge OF the
. crowd, and blew off little harmless steam.
This will certainly put q feather in his cap
with the Goldsboro' quttles, but the cap and
bells may deck his sconce bye-and-bye.
Suffice it that every Republican in the
county is Holden man. 1t is true, that
Wayne county is a hard nut to crack, but
then we use brawny arm and good ham,
mer.
After Gov. Holden left on the cars going
West, the irrepressible G. V. Strong amused
a crowd of darkies by telling them things
they already knew-that he despised Hoi-
den, Radicals, negroes and meanCD whites;
and That he was of the great Anglo Saxon
race, (half coley, half other dog and went
in for white mans government. Aye, for
this he went in so STRONGLY, and so elo-
loque-garru-(wh word will express it p
metaphysically, CHATS the word y that he
had we'll nigh convinced himself of the GER
tainty, when miserable dictu! dehisceat in
.ternus! up starts live Republican in the
shape of Col. Carrow, and consigned his
phite mans g0oernasent, not to the tomb of
the Capulets, but to the Southern COnfed-
eracy.
We also learn that Hon. VIM. Morri ssey-2
-(well if he and ue think so, est suf,.)
straddled the Conservative hobby, and am
bled about in a sort of hop and goeasy
style, so that his colored audience who were
eager for amusement, but being afoot, could
keep pace with him; but some one winked
at him cocktail ically, and throwing the
reins to Maj. Dick Bryan, Gan old colored
drum major of 1922 he made his exit, and
Dick made his debut.
The Major who, sometimes, i.e. whenever
he can, becomes little tipsy, has pecu-
liar hallucination of fancying that he has
been initiatedinto the arcana of the U. L. A.
plays off his fantastic tricks in manner on
ly amusing to the guttles in this here town.
And if the wise and discreet men of Colds
boro' were but to take a serious look at that
crowd of wide-mouthed guf fawers, the adj
vocates and architects of "a white mans
government" seriously believe there would
be change in sentiments as regards supe-
riority of race, but
''When self the wav'r ring balance shake
IT'S rarely right adjusted"