Holden, William Woods (1818-1892) Semi-weekly standard.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.23 Author/Creator: Holden, William Woods (1818-1892) Place Written: Raleigh, North Carolina Type: Newspaper Date: 1861-1864 Pagination: 14 issues : 4 p. ; 63.5 x 46.5 cm. Order a Copy
This selection focuses on congressional reports and state records and minutes, with repetitive lists of state governors, and political parties. Articles, editorials, and letters focus on the impending issue of secession and legislative action. Advertisements include a large number of business ads, including professional services and retail goods, and as secession and impending war progress, focus turns to war.
Other versions include the North Carolina Standard, North Carolina Standard Weekly, Weekly North Carolina Standard, Weekly Standard, Semi-Weekly North Carolina Standard, Weekly, Standard, Tri-weekly Standard, Daily North Carolina Standard, and Daily Standard. (1861/3/2, 1861/3/16, 1861/3/20, 1861/4/3, 1861/5/1, 1861/5/4, 1861/10/2, 1861/10/5, 1861/10/26; 1862/12/19, 1862/12/23; 1863/2/17; 1864/4/20, 1862/8/19.) 1862/10/26 contains a fugitive slave ad on the back page. 1863/2/17 has one on the front page.
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The Standard was established in 1834 by Philo White, a New Yorker who had come to North Carolina in 1820 and first worked as editor of the Western Carolinian, a strong Jacksonian paper. His political friends later urged him to start another newspaper, the Standard, which became an important Democratic paper. In November 1835 White employed Nathaniel O. Blake as a printer. In 1836 White sold the paper to Thomas Loring, of Massachusetts, a Democrat unsatisfactory for local Democratic leaders. In 1842 William Woods Holden (1818-1892) purchased the paper from Loring.
Holden, a native of Hillsborough, North Carolina, had learned the trade of the press when he worked as an apprentice at the offices of the Hillsborough Recorder. He attempted unsuccessfully to start the Oxford Kaleidoscope and Southern Republican in 1837, and later moved to Raleigh to work for the Raleigh Star. The Standard quickly became a popular, successful paper under Holden's leadership as a reform-minded, becoming the Democratic voice in North Carolina. Holden employed John Spellman, a renowned writer and printer. In 1850 the Standard announced a semi-weekly edition of its paper.
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