Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-25

Brethren of the Democratic party-Vo-
tiers of North Carolina-the moment is al
hand when you will be called on 10 exer-
else the highest privilege which is guar
antied to the citizen, under the free and
enlightened Constitution with which Hea-
ven has blessed our Republic. The hour
is but distant a few days, when you will
be called upon to determine, whether the
affairs of this great and happy country will
be administered according to the spirit and
the maxims Of the sages and patriots who
framed that sacred instrument for US; or,
whether those affairs will be administered
by the leaders Of party whose measures
and principles not only have nothing in
common with the interests. the wishes,
and the desires of the great masses OF the
people, but which are at war with every
feature ofthat Constitution, which it should
be the highest pride and the first wish Of
every North Carolnian's heart to see ham
ded down to his children and his chiIdren's
children, in all its pristine length and
breadth, unmutilated and untouched by
the reckless and unholy hand Of ambition.
The hour is now upon you, freemen OF
North Carolina, in all its vastresponsibili-
ties. Can there be doubt how these res
possibilities will be discharged by you?
What are some Of these responsibilities !?
In the first place, you will be called on to
say whether you desire to have sadded
upon this country, for the next thirty years,
a National Bank-a Fifty Million Monster
for which. it is agreed on all hands, we
have no more use, as far as our currency
is concerned, than for The Inquisition of
Spain, but for which the Federal party,
who desire to see the monied interests, the
wealthy, the capitalists, made still more
powerful at the expense of the INTE-
RESTS and the RIGHTS of the great
masses Of the people, are struggling with
a desperation which clearly demonstrates
that tits their last-their dying effort. De-
mocrats of North Carolina! we say TO you,
COME TO THE RESCUE!
and assist your brethren throughout the
Union, in affixlng the seal Of condenana-
ton upon this attempt of the Federal
party to betraY your liberties into the
hands of the money broker and The
money changer. Democrats of North Ca
rOlina, who sustained General Jackson in
contests with the late Bank of the United
States, rise up in your majesty, on the 4th
Of hop cIlcV no hxy
your votes, that now, as then, you repu-
date alike National Bank, alias, Ma
tional incubus on your liberty, and its hired
subsidized minions.
But again: You will be called upon to
say, whether you desire to see the General
Government, which was Instituted for the
common welfare and the common protec-
tion Of all sections Of the Union, and all
classes of its citizens, without any regard
10 birth or occupation, turned permanently
into party engine, the machinery ofwhich
will be constantly employed in abstracting
from the pockets ofthe great working mas
ses Of the people their hard earnings, for
the purpose of enabling a few thousands
of wealthy capitalists 10 rival in, the splen-
dour of their princely mansions and their
costly equipages, the lordly aristocrats of
Great Britain. You will be called upon
TO say, whether you want to see fixed on
this country plundering. protective Ia
riff system. which compeIs the farmers and
mechanics Of our country to pay exorbi-
tant prices for every thing they want TO
buy, and which depreciates the price oa
every thing they have to sell.
Still again; you must now, at the ballot
box, say TO the world, whether or not our
glorious Constitution, the sacred charter OF
our liberties, is to be robbed and despoiled
Of one of its most salutary clauses-whe.
Their or not that feature in it which can a.
lone protect the South from the insane and
fanaticsl attacks ofthe Giddings, the SHADES.
and the Adams's of the North, is to be
swept from its pages, at the bidding of an
ambitious Dictator, merely because it hap
pened TO cross the path of bis unholy am.
bition. In word, you are now called
on TO say, whether you wish that your
general government shall be turned into q
strong and splendid but unequal and op'
pressive one in its Operations; or, whether
you desire 10 see it administered in &C.
coFdance with the spirit and the letter oil