Year: 1866

Inc Senysnet lntlmates that Gov. Holden Is
opposed to the restoration of this State to the
Union, in order that he may remain in Of
flee. We venture to- say that SO ignoble a
thought has never found moments lodg-
ment in the Governors mind. The Sentinel
knows, and we believe itreally feels at heart,
that Gov. Holden's chief wish is for the good
and the glory of North Carolina. No man.
can say, with truth, that he has been gov
erned in his administration BY selfish or un-
worthy motives.


Gov. Holden has done all that any one
man could have done to restore the State to
the Union; and we repeat what we said not
long since, that if GOV. Holden had been
elected without opposition, ana if all the
members of Congress from this State had
been such as could have taken the oath,
the State would have been back in the Union
by the first day of January, 1866. If the
State is not restored during the year 1865, no
man can say that Gov H., is to blame for it.
He has passed many weary days and sleep
less nights laboring for the restoration of the
State; and meanwhile he has done all in his
power to render the condition of our people
agreeable, and to protect them in their rights
and interests. This being so-and the Sen
tina will not deny it-why these incessant
attacks on Gov. Holden Has he ever harm
ed any of these Editors that so bitterly and
unjustly assail him Has he refused hear
ing or denied justice to any man or woman
in North Carolina9 No one will say that he
has. Has he not carried out, in letter and
spirit, the wishes of the President? The
President himself says he has, and has thank
ed him in the warmest terms for his "noble
and efficient services" Strange, therefore,
passing strange, that he should first be de-
feated by certain politicians, and afterwards
pursued so systematically and so bitterly by
those who speak for those politicians


But Gov. Holden can speak for himself =
The following extract from his late message
will show his feelings and wishes in relation
to reconstruction


We can entertain no hope that confidence
and activity in business will be revived, or
that our people can even begin to renew the r
former prosperity until the State shall have
been fully restored to her place in the Union.
The greatest good of the present and of all
coming generations, will be embodied in the
practical fact that we are once more part of
the freest, proudest and most prosperous gov
ernment in the world As long as this fact
is unrealized, the State must necessarily Ian
guish in all herinterests, and instead of avail
ing herself of her great natural advantages,
and springing forward in competition with
other States in the career of wealth and pros
perity, she will become more and more i'm
poverished.


Let us, then, omit nothing which may be
deemed necessary, or even expedient, to at
tain the great end we have in view, to wit,
the complete restoration of the State to all
its Constitutional relations to the common
government. Let the divisions and differ
ences which exist among us. and which are
calculated to Obstruct the work of restora-
ton, disappear under the influence of more
intense and more devoted patriotism. He
WIZ uocs any luiuS HOW, Wnetner Oy WOru
or act, calculated or intended to embarrass
the national administration, or to obstruct
the work of restoration, incurs grave re-
sponsibility, and can be no friend either to
the Fe leral Union or to North Carolina"


=


In colclusion, permit me to assure you,
gentlemen, of my readiness and anxiety to
cooperate with you cordially and zealously
in every thing which may be calculated to
relieve our unfortunate and beloved State
from her present depressed and unhappy
condition"