Year: 1867

The RALEIGH SENTINEL AND THE CHAR
LoTTE DEMOCRAT. The Sentinel has be-
come somewhat excited and seems to have
lost its usual propriety in discussing public
affairs. 1t rails at us in rather bad temper,
and talks about twaddlc" and "whimper-
ings" There is this difference between the
Sentinel and the Democrat: The Sentinel is
the organ of the present State administration,
and is anxious to keep certain set of men
in office-it is working for party purposes
and for party men-while the Democrat be-
longs to no party and is not under the in
fluence or control of any party. but is striv
ing to establish good feeling and peace
among all men.


The Sentinel has favorites to promote to
office, and consequently it considers it duty
to denounce all who come in their way.
We have no particular favorites to promote,
and have never abused Gov Worth or his
friends, but have merely cautioned the SEN
tinel against abusing Gov. Holden and his
friends, believing that such conduct promo
ted contention and strife.


We do not belong to the Republican party,
and have no favors to ask of that or any
other party, but we can tell the Sentinel that
there are as good and as honest men COOP
Grating with the Republican party in North
Carolina as can be found in the Sentinel's
party, and the sooner it acknowledges this
fact, and ceases its "twaddle" and "whim-
perings" about Holden and Holdenites the
better it will be for the welfare of the State


The Sentinel has already caused trouble
enough to the people of the State and it is
time for it to change its course. By advis-
ing and promoting contention for the office
OF Governor in the Fall of 1865, it did a
great deal to prevent the admission of the
State into the Union, and its factiOusness
afforded an excuse, to some extent, for the
passage of the late Reconstruction Acts, by
which man. of our people are disfranchised
and put below the negro. Along with many
of our fellow-citizens we have been deprived
of the right to vote, and we feel that we are
| justified in blaming the Raleigh Sentinel for
assisting in causing the disfranchisement OF
the white people.


We do not approve and endorse every
thing that Mr.. Holden says and does-he
knows that we often differ with him-but 1t
should be remembered that he has been
badly treated and deceived by the Sentinel
and Others who heretofore professed great
friendship for him, but who deserted him
for very slight or no cause at all, and in that
way aggravated and forced him to treat his
opponents with some severity. He is moi
superior to human nature, and those who
assail him may expect to be assailed in re.
turn. After Mr.. Holden's conduct as Pro.
visional Governor was endorsed by unani
nous vote of the State Convention, and
after it was well known that President John
son and the true friends of the South ir
Washington desired his election to the Office
of Governor, if the Sentinel and its advisers
had permitted the election to pass without
opposition and strife, they might feel thai
they are not responsible for the present un
settled and threatening condition of affairs


but as it is, they are justly subject to blam'
and censure.


We never asked Gov. Holden for favor
of any sort, and haze neper receiued any, Cal
the Sentinel say as much 2-Char. Dewocrat