| From the North Carolina Standard
{Raleigh, N. C.} |
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| July 6, 1864 |
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| Prescription for Opinion Sake |
| In noticing the appointment of
Railroad Directors, yesterday, we overlooked the fact that Gov. Vance
had dropped Albert Johnson, Esq., one of the Directors on the N. C.
Railroad. We have not a word to say against the worthy gentleman that
has been put in Mr. Johnson's place, but as the present incumbent is
known as a true Conservative and a friend of Mr. Holden, Gov. Vance was
urged by the Destructives and secessionists that surround and control
him, to bring his head to the block. And as Mr. Johnson is a mechanic
and working man, he was no doubt considered a little "greasy," or
"nasty," and hardly qualified to hold such appointments as are given to
Council Wooten and W. W. Avery. Mr. Johnson is one of our most worthy
citizens, is one of the most efficient practical railroad men in the
South, and was the only mechanic in the Board of Directors; and as he is
turned out without any reason or other cause than that he is a true
Conservative, and a friend of Mr. Holden, it is an insult to every
mechanic and working-man in the State, and one which most of them will
resent in August. |
| Mr. Johnson has been
Superintendent of the Raleigh & Gaston Machine Shops for a number of
years, and it is well known he is one of the most efficient men that has
ever been connected with the road, but that he may be punished for
opinion's sake, we learn that one of the staff officers of Gov. Vance, a
man who draws provisions from the State store house for his whole
family, including his negroes, and charges the State rent for his own
house and draws forage for the horses that haul his wood, is trying to
have him dismissed from the place he has so acceptably filled. |
| We call upon every mechanic
and workingman in the State to remember these proscriptive oligarchs and
stall-federates, and vote for a man who, having been raised to work and
a mechanic himself, can sympathies with them and appreciate merit,
wherever found. Gov. Vance is surrounded, here, by a set of broken-down
aristocrats and oligarchs -- men who despise honest industry -- and it
is these who have influenced him to turn out of the Board of Directors
of the North-Carolina Railroad one of the best men we have in the
community. |
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