Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-11-22
From the n. Y. Evening Mirror, Nov. 6.
The Town.
The day after the Ballot.

The day after the Ballot.
The contention for the favors of Mrs. Vox
Populi is over. The difficnlt dame has made
her election. The future President is in the
sballot-box, and that womb of authority is now
silently waited upon by the paternal majority.
God bless whatever is to be brought forth I!
Thank Heaven, the Town is stiler! There
is more noise upon the Blacksmith's anvil
and the Shoemaker's lapstone-more clatter
upon the Tinman's vice and the Oppersmith's
riyet; but the Towns heart beats less audibly,
to-day, and the Towns pulse less feverishly
and wildly. The political bully is looking
round unwillingly but peacefully for work
The club-w rangler's vocation is gone. The
nottingham will give less of his evening 10
the bar-room and caucus. Wives rejoice
Children are glad. 4 1-." a..
Considering only individuals, the immedi-
ate tumult and recoil of politics seem only e.
vii and violence. The pore and the pediculus
will complain of blood-letting and blister
We believe the country at large is benefited
by the bringing of these bad humors to the
surface, however. We are sure, atleast. that
we see all there IS, in our body popular, that is
| dangerous. There is evil disposition, antag-
onlsm, discomfort, craving for excitement, love
OF combination, dormant energy and ambition
qualities everywhere distributed, and hun
gering, every one, for field ofacton. Where
better would they break out, than in politics?
How, easier, should we know our neighbor's
length of conscience-string and proneness to
trick and unfairness, than by watching him
when his passions are reused and his cautious
ness forgottena What man in political
committee knows too little of his fellows for
future living with them? .
But, thank God, the tumult once over, the
city returns to peace, industry and prosperity.
Injury and calumny stand no more behind the
Editors chair-Literature and commerce, in
stead, look promptingly over his shoulder
The merchant is relieved from anxiety, and
knows how to shape his venture. The me-
chanic ''hangs" politics for a plague and a
bother. The Republic has set up its master,
and is content to be governed while it tolls
and prospers. - ~. .........
There is one feature of the late contest,
however, for which we can find no philosoph-
ical Offset. We refer to the unparalleled and
insane extent to which betting has been CARR
ed. Ofany good this practice does, we do
not see even a shadow. Of its intolerable
evils we hear mournful accounts at every turn
1t seems to have infected, with gambling
mania, those who never before hazarded mo-
ney on question of chance or uncertainty
! We have heard several really most lamenta
BILE instances of faulty and disaster in thi:
new demon-shape of party spirit. Famile:
are ruined, creditors robbed, children deprived
of education and bread, by men who would a:
soon cut off their hands as throw stake at ;
gaming table! Is there no power in the law
to put stop to this new evil of politics!-
We ask this question to provoke, if possible
an answer.
= And now-as politics waM out from the
= public mind, and there is room for something
else to wak Inlet US mention great evil il
, this country of ours, and tell some news tina
has an example by which to mend it.
> WE TOLL TOO MUCH
Without enlarging at all on this thought
breeding text, we forthwith show our drift b,
giving paragraph from late London pa
- per:
"Early hours aUiM shopkeepers.-A meetin!
. of the members and friends of the Metropoli
! tan Diapers Association was held at Excite
- - Hall on Wednesday evening. The whole O
y that spacious building was crowded to excess
:, = it being computed that there were not les
than 5000 persons present. Sheriff Sydne,
:, took the Chair, the Lord Mayor being unabl
:. to attend. The object of the Association is
= to obtain an abridgement of the hours of bus
~ ~ ness in the drapery and other trades of tn
metropolis, with view to the physical, MOI
=, - al, and intellectual improvement of the assls
i tants'. The plan adopted to accomplish thl
- object is not in the first instance. to appeal t
" employers to close their establishments at q
ny specific hour; but to persuade the public
abstain from making purchases in the evening
:. and so, by removing all inducement, to max
it unnecessary for shops to be kept open be
You'd reasonable time; thus rendering
|. practicable for all employers, who are favors
:. BILE to the change, to close their establishment
- without loss, and without fear, from the CON
petition of others. In the language of tn
> President, This is no association for the pu
:; pose of coercing or constraining the employ
ers of London. The object is not to restral
:, the incinations of employers, but to persuad
=. the inclinations of their customers and tn
= public, because with the one body, with tn
employers alone. there does not exist the ez
- elusive means of removing the evil we con
ts plain of, but with the other, there is the pr
tential and undeniable power of providing tn;
simple and effectuai remedy which we desll
=. to see applied This principle was unive
:. sally approved, and resolutions embodying
= were adopted. Several influential drape
- bore testimony to the great advantage alread
. not only by the masters, but by their assistant
u who thus had better opportunities for impr
wing their minds, and participating in nece
sary relaxation"
.4bout Carriage.-f our recolIections ser
Us, there was an enthusiastic carriage max