Year: 1866

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the Republican caucus. and spoke to that
effect. We did not We told Mr.. Stevens
and others, as soe told the President, in sub
stance what we have said in our Address in
relation to the condition of things in this
State We told them that loyalty in North
Carolina was at the bottom and disloyalty
on top; that our State government was in
the hands of the secessionists that supreme
devotion to the Union was neither passport
to office nor badge of respectability and
that the Unionists of the State were depress-
ed and disheaftened, and the cause of resto
ration obstructed by this condition of things.
We said this then, we set it out in full in our
Address, and we stand to it now.


We differ with Mr.. Stevens not only in re-
gard to negro suffrage, but as to the Howard
amendment. We wish the South to take
that amendment to avoid further and greater
evils; Mr., Stevens does not want the South
to take it, as her refusal to do so will give
him grounds to force upon US confscation,
executions for treason, and negro suffrage.


The Sentinel asks, did Mr. Holden init
mate to Mr.. Stevens that he had been driven
from home, and was afraid to go back, for
fear of being murdered9" We did not. We
are not afraid to live in North Carolina
Whatever may happen, we expect to lay our
bones in the "good old North State" Since
the close of the rebellion, there has been no
time when we have not been treated by all
classes and all parties with personal courtesy
and respect, But we feel we are under the
ban, because of our Union sentiments, and
that, if those who now control the State gov
ernment and control society could have their
way, they would indelibly stamp us and our
posterity with "hideous mark" because
we were not true to the COnfederacy. We
want the word Tory written on the back of
no man. But if the contest be forced upon
us as to who shall be honored now and
hereafter-the traitor to the Confederary or
the traitor to the Union-we wish it distinct
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the former. What we complain of is, that
our opponents do not cultivate as they should,
and as they agreed to do when they surren-
dered, a spirit Of nationality; and that theS
seem to think more of the memories of the
dead Confederacy than of the glories of
the living Union. We shall not be able to
agree with them, or act with them, as long
as they pursue this course.


But we tell the Sentinel that we have eyi-
dence in our possession of the most undoub-
ted character, that it is not safe for Union
men in certain localities west of this. to an
nounce their views from the stump. We
know that one of our worthiest public men
has been driven from the stump and silenced
by armed ex-rebels; and we apprehend that
the election will not be free at some boxes in
that portion of the State We knoso the fact
that the American flag was pulled down by
arMed ex rebels at Jefferson, Ashe County,
a week or two since. And we sincerely be-
lieve, that if the State were now in the
Union under present auspices, and if all the
troops were removed, and there was no fear
of consequences before the eyes of a certain
set in this State, every unconditional Union
man would be either driven from the State,
or compelled, from fear for himself or his
family, to be silent in relation to public af-
fairs That is our belief


But "W. w. Holden's completely with
Thad. Stevens!" Nothing is too bad to be
charged against Holden. Holden was re-
sponsible for the rebellion; he was response
BILE for peace; lie was responsible for every
thing bad and for nothing good under the
provisional government; he was not respon-
sible for negro suffrage under Mr. johnson,
when the latter advised it, but he is response
BILE for it now, by completely with Mr..
Stevens; he is responsible for the Howard
amendment, though he did all he could to
restore the State before this amendment was
adopted and if the people will not take his
advice and accept this amendment, as the
only course left them to escape future and
greater evils, he will then be responsible for
all these evils, including confscation and
negro suffrage! Such is Holden Was there
ever such person before in the tides of time9
Mr. Stevens is traitor, liar, villain,
hideous monster on his own merits, in the
estimation of the Sentinel; but when it is
thought that some chance expression by Mr..
Stevens will injure Holden, why then Mr..
Stevens is gentleman, a scholar, and para
gon of truth and honesty. Anything to de-
stroy Holden All, brother Pell* so-called =
ah Seaton,t lover of the flag, Holden will
not be destroyed. He stands on the rock of
TRUTH, against which the petty whitecaps of
your passions dash in vain,


*Rev. William E. Pell, Senior Editor of the
Sentinel He is Minister of the Gospel He
breaches politics daily in the Sentinel, and the
Gospel when it is convenient to do SO.


fSeatOn Gales, ESQ.,, Junior Editor of the Sen
ti,aa. He is SO loyal to the national government
that on the ed of February last he would not
walk under the flag, but retired to his home by
back street. He spoke of the flag on that oc-
casion as "a rag" He is one of the "recon-
structedn


GONE by THE BoARD.-A man was wash
ed overheard from the schooner Eureka
Saturday morning, during heavy gale on
Lake Ontario. Several thousand feet oflum-
Der with which the schooner was freighted
were carried away at the same time. The man
managed to get three boards together, and