The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-05-02
AN OLD NEWSPAPER.
North Carolina Journalism Fifty
f-t>fl Years Ago.
I From, the Wilmington Star. ]

Oar friend Mr.. French Mcqueen
handed us yesterday ii copy Of the
North Carolina Standard of the date
Of July %, 1886, and published at
Raleigh by Thomas Loring, proprie
tor, aud edited by PhiIo White, State
| Printer 1t contains six small columns
to the page 1t was sceekly, was the
organ u the Jackson party and had
no reading on the first and fourth
pages but Ivy small paragraphs Ten
ami half short Co u,nns are all that
the subscribers g It each week for three
dolItrs year Andrew jackson, a
native Of North Car lima was Pr, sident.
The Presidential campaign wa pend
ing. Martin Van Buren, ut New
York, was the Republican (sp was the
jackson party then calle,D candidate
FIR the Presidency; Richard VI. j. hn-
son, of kentucky. was the cqndidale
ior The Vice Presidency. Richard d.
Spaight was the candidate for Gov
ernor. Here are the names OF the
Electors. 1t will be seen that several
eminent I,en were among them, nota-
bly, Henderson, Macon, Veaable and
Holmes.
list district, Robert Love, of Hay
woodi 2nd district. George Bowers, of
Ash; Sd district, john Wilf3ng, of
LineoIin; .4th district, Archibald
Henderson, of Rowan; 9TH district,
John Hii, Of Stokes; 9th district,
Jonathan Parker, of Guilford; tt,
district, William A Morris, of Ansou;
9Th district, Abram w. Yenahle, cf
Granville; 9th district, Josiah o.
Watson, of johnston; 10th district,
Nathaniel Macon, of Warren; 18th
district, William B. >Lockhart, of
Northampton; 18th district, Henry
Skinner, Of Herquimans, 1dth district,
Louis d. Wilson, Of Edgecomb; 18th
district, William P Ferrand, of Ons-
low; 10Th district, Owen Holmes, of
New Hanover"
Mr.. White was New York man
of ability and character The edito-
rials are good and make for the week
about as much as the Star contains
every day. One OF the editorials
iongest-is on the Wilmington Junto."
Here is the way the subject was hand
led by an editor fifty three years
/ since:
@It is for the people Of the District
to say whether they shall worship at
this shrine of haughtiness and inso-
hence; whether they will submit to
The dictum Of a would be nobility, and
place on their own necks the feet of
aristopratlG masters whether they
will bow to
Those baleful nnclean birds thos e
lazy Owls:
who perched on fortunes top,
Sit ever watching, with their heavy
wings,
J To cuff down new fedged virtue, that
would rise
To nobler heights, and make the
grove harmonious
1.-The contest in this country Is be-
tween the people and the aristocracy
r. between those who contend for the
right Of sntferage as extended to all
classes, and those who would have the
government managed by an order OF
patricians, independent of and unac-
countable to the people, The mass
of mankind are looked upon by these
aspirants as vulgar aai corrupt, and
it is their policy to keep them in igno-
rance, and to found colleges that ben
eft the few, in preference to free
/ schools that may enlightep the many;
/ to establish banks and monopolies of
extended spheres Of action that will
support host of satellites, control
. elections and contribute to degrade
and i'm poverish the people. Although
the Wilmington Junto is but a small
affair in connection with the party
engaged in this wpfk of despotism. it
affords q speci.aen that cannot be
mistaken. But we trust that all who
are devoted to such unhallowed designs
are designed, in the providence of God,
to disaster and defeat-that the intel.
ligence of the people will discern the
danger and assert their rights. until
4 the afistocratic -chaff of our land shall
be burned up with the fire of truth. .