For the North Carolina Standard.

Wzig Mass Meeting IN Nep5erm.
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Wig Mass Meeting iae Newbern.


MR. HOLDEN: II was my good fortune and my
satisfaction to be present at the late Whig Mass
Meeting in Newbern, on the 22d instant ! say
satisfaction because it is always pleasure to see
the opponents of democracy render themselves ri
ciculous after their own fashion. If the wings of
Newbern and elsewhere are not sick Of their mass
meeting, they must have stomachs strong enough
TO discuss the virtue " Of something alttle worse
than rotten beef. The fact is, their display was a
complete failure; every whig in the town feels
and knows it and it is all stuff and nonsense for
the "Newbern to attempt TO plaster over such
miserable affair. That paper gives the number
present, in the following words "At II o'cloek-a
very respectable cro0d had convened, numbering
perhaps 1900 or 1000 persons" What does the
Editor mean by using the word cro1cd? Does he
wish to include the women brought out on the oc-
casion for eFect2 Does he include the negroes
and boys, perhaps the most numerous portion of
the croard? If he does not include women who
ought TO have been home nursing their children,
boys who ought to have been at school, and ne
groes who ought to have been at work, then be has
overrated the number by 1000 or 1900; for there
could not have been present more than 500 wings
and democrats. If their numbers were "respeci-
able," why did they not form in procession The
incemency of the weather, spoken Of by the Edi-
tor, is all moonshine and but miserable come-of
If tladies' could sit two or three hours without
umbrellas in the open air. listening to the slang of
whig orators, certainly men could have formed in,
procession and marched through the town, as was
announced by a programme posted over the town
the day before. The truth is, the wings were not
there they had been called, but did not come SO
those present were afaid to show themselves in
procession, for fear Of Count Even their orators
failed them; they had to rely principally upon the