The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-17
Sfnn Thief!

Tho zoaI and the labors of the Sentinel for
some weeks past have greatly contributed
to fix the attention of sensational readers
upon its singular lucubrations. 1t is the old
dodoe of the fellow running away with the
silver spoons and crying stop thief" The
editor of the Sentinel for some time has been
sbrieking into the ears of its readers thieves,
robbers, scoundrels, carpet baggels and seal
avars. These epithets have been applied
70 every pr.,minent member of the Republi-
g. can party in the State. The brighter and
more illustrious the reputation, the more
bitter and malignant the insinuations and
attacks of the Sentinel. The amount OF
calumny, Misrepresentation, slang and Vltu-
peration heaped upon the honest and patrl-
otto Republicans of North Carolina by the
Sentinel is only equaled by the gross and
obscene assertions of Pomeroy's Oena0erot.
Were we believers in the doctrine of trans
migration, we would suppose that the spirit
of Nero had taken possession of the present
editor of the so-called democratic organ OF
North Carolina.
In its Yesterdays issue there is what pur-
ports to be the proceedings of public meet
inc in Chatham county. 1t is long since our
eve lighted on anything so indecent, so bare
faced. and so unblushing as the infamous
insinuations contained in the resolutions
alleged to have been passed by this meeting
0lr,fio du
in condensed form, recapitulation of all
the slanders and falsehoods which for months
have been published in the Sentinel news
= paper. There were no epithets too villain
Gus, no Misrepresentation too wicked, and
there was no slang too contemplate which
this Ku Klux band of conspirators did not
fling out against the honored Chief Magis-
trate of our State and other distinguished
gentlemen of the Republican party. The
assertion that Mr.. Bulla, the Solicitor of that
district, was guilty of violation of the law
in accepting extravagant fees for his services
bears on its face its own refutatlon. The
fact is that these fees are fixed by the laws
of the State and Mr.. Bulla can no more alter
the arrangement than he can stem the torrent
with a threat. das. itgs9
The stale and abominable assertion against
Governor Holden has been refuted thou
sand times. This gentleman's offence, and
one for which he can never be forgiven,
has been his unfaltering support OF the gov
ernment and his keen and powerful
castigation of the rebel leaders through
out the State Governor Holden's de-
votion to the Union and his gallant
support of the reconstruction measures are
known and appreciated to the remotest cor
ners of the great republic. Josiah Turner
and his co-conspirators might as well try to
stop the sun in his circuit around the globe,
as to imagine that Holden's fame will suffer
in the estimation of loyal men by the con-
temptuous attacks of the Sentinel But with
him all means justify the end. The evident
object of Turner and his accomplices is to
crush out the spirit of enterprise from the
State, and the only weapons they can use
are scandalous attacks on the character of
patriotic and accomplished gentlemen.
These they have used as numerically as the
blood hound who tracks his victim. as