Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-01-24

of the craft. Being Of opinion that bicker-
ings of this kind, between the members OF
the CORDS editorial, were neither calculated
to further the principles which we advo-
cate, nor to subserve the cause ofgood NOR
ais and it being. at the same time, repug-
nant to our own feelings, we have, for the
short period. during which we have had
the pleasure of communing with our friends
through the columns of the "Journal, en-
tirely abstained from any participation in
such course. But the editor Of the Raj
elgh INDEPENDENT, IN the last number of
his paper, in which he attempts reply to
our article, published in the " Journal of
the 10Th inst, having seen fit to make
personal attack upon US. we are compelled,
however reluctantly, to deviate for once,
from the course We had prescribed for our
self. We hope our readers will bear with
US while we quote paragraph from the
Independent:
cit is pleasant to hear the editor say he will
not disgrace his columns with certain language
AS he is of fresh and green importation OF Patrl-
otism and manners we dare say the natives about
the Cape-F Fear region will be much edited by his
exposition of republican doctrines and courtly de-
meanor, imbbed under the shadow Of the British
Throne. graced by lady, too. An Irishman of2l |
wears of age, or Whereabouts, who has been, proba.
BLY, two or three years the country & in that time
had great experience in political life, having be-
longed to both parties, must be first rate exponent
of Polkite notions and very competent judge for
his party ofthe proprety of language among the
untutored and unpublished natives ofthis republic"
Here the Editor oflhe Independent. our
readers will perceive, has made very
personal attack upon US. He has thought
proper to commence the war, and he must
bde the consequences. The first charge
which the Editor Ct the Independent makes
is, that we are not native Of America. He
says we are "of fresh and green impor-
tation of patriotism and manners,-''that
we have been but two or three years in
this country" That we were not born
on the shores of America, is fact which
we neither desire TO conceal nor deny
But that we are at present citizen of the
u. States in the fullest and broadest sense
of that term, is actequally certain. Hav-
ing come 10 the shores Of America at an
early period in life, on the implied
invitation Of the whole People ofthis coun-
try, and having religiously complied with
all the legal solemni,ies prescribed by the
Constitution and laws of our adopted coun-
try, and having been declared by the high
est Judicial tribunal in our own State, to
be citizen de .jure ct de facto. the at
tempt of the mercenary hireling Editor of
the Independent to injure us by dragging
e before the public, through the medium of
his filthy sheet, our un-.'native'' birth, is
specimen of gratuitous meanness, which,
although it cannot effect us, still serves to
exhibit, in bold relief, the base and malig-
nant spirit of its author. If it be crime
to be born in Ireland, as the Independent
insnuates, it was one which we could not
avoid. But is il a crime! We wiIlleave
the names of those Irishmen, who, in the
: darkest hour that ever frowned on human
: hopes, "pedged their lives and fortunes:
with their illustrious compatriots, when
d nearly century ago, they set their hands
e and seals to that immortal instrument
which made US what we are-we will
>. leave to the venerated shades Of those Irish.
X men, who rallied around the standard O.
J. Washington, and poured out their life
blood in the struggle which gave US aname
and place among the nations ofthe earth
to answer this question:. But again the E.
u ditor Of the Independent says we are only
re I" 81 years old, or Whereabouts" True
J. we are young man, and doubtless mex
/ perienced: but we hope, that as years Greer
II upon us, we may not be numbered among
those, who like the Editor of the Hadepea
- dent. despite the mOnitions Of experience
ID and without the excuse which may always
re be pleaded in palIia,ion oft indscretion
a, OF youth, continue to grow more and mor'
n, reckless and unprincipled. as time decor
= ates their heads with the grey hairs of ad
lp vancing old age. Again, the Editor of tn,
&c Independent says that we have belonge,
+ to both parties. This comes with goo,
grace indeed, from man whose venal pen
i. the intelligent portion of both parties il
in this State we'll know, will always be wiel
Id ded in favor OF that cause.-The advocacy q
e. which will bring in the greatest quantity o
,. dollars and cents. But since the Editor @
III the Independent has been pleased to tel
OF the world who and what we are, perhaps
OF he would permit US, in a modest way
u to ask who and what he is! Is the g Fla
g. Friar' ofthe Independent the same Thorn
n, as Lcring whom the Democratic party il
es the county OF New-Hanover took by tn
u hand some years since, rather as an act O
he charity than otherwise. and for whom the,
purchased Press2 Ts bo tho e,,no ;nA;