Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-10-03

derstand, however, reflects nothing on the
honor of the distinguished writers.
Some of the organs of whiggery have been
so destitute of all the principles of honor, as
to republish parts of this correspondence, thus
showing that the Federal press will pause at
no step, however damningly dishonorable,
when little political capital is likely to be
made. Those Newspapers who republish
these letters, are as bad as the villains who
first stole them. This we say in advance
We will wait and see if any of osr North Ca
rolina presses will descend so low in the
abyss of baseness as TO follow the example of
the New York Tribune and Express.
The Fayetteville Observer of Wednesday
last thinks there is but little in our article Of
Friday last which he thinks it necessary to re-
Ply to. Well, that is matter for himself and
his readers. He does, however, condescend
to devote near about column in reply. We,
too, will dispose Of this, his last effusion. in
of disappearing him. Well. now, as We
have quoted those portions of the Observers
remarks upon which We commented, and as
orr readers conld at glance see both text and
comment, We " i'll leave them to Judge whether
or not we have misrepresented him. The OBJ
server says:
cit is not necessary TO inform our readers,
that what he calls parading the old and hack
neyed crime Of being born in another land,
was nothing more than suggestion to the
Editor of the Journal, that it would seem lit.
tie more modest in foreigner. who had been
but very short time in this country, to re-
fraln from charging want of patriotism upon
those who had so much more reason to enter
tain feeling of that kind than himself"
Now were we disposed to be "harsh,'' we
could with justice say that the above para
graph, from the pen of the Observer, contains a
downright falsehood; but we are not so dispos
ed, and therefore will only style it misrepre
sentation. The Observer. says s. that it would
seem little more modest in foreigner &c.
Now did the Observer not know that he was
stating what was not so, when he called US a
foreigners and was it for the pitiful purpose
of creating prejudice against US, that he did
so! We are not foreigner, but an American
citizen. and this the Editor must know. We
have lived in North Carolina from almost boy
hood-for the last seven years, and we are
as much citizen of the State as the Editor of
the Observer. The Observer exhibits dis
position to be captious, and 10 quarrel with
trifes, which too plainly betrays alike the
weakness of the position he has assumed in
the article of the 18th instant, and the inabii-
ty of all his ingenuity to extricate him from
the awkward predicament in which that arti-
Gle has placed him. For instance, look at this
petty quibbling:
$50 also as to the sneering remark about
the decency Of which the Observer processes
to be the organ Where did the Journal find
such profession in the Observer? We
never made any such. But the Journal does
not scruple to manufacture professions for us,
as it manufactures quotations Of language not
ours. We protest against this kind of war
fare"
Well, now, don't the Wing, alias Federal
party take to itself all the sdecency Z" and is
not the Observer the organ Of that party? Or,
does he repndiate the organship! /" Where
did the Journal find such profession in the
Observer" asks the Editor. Now if we
were in the quibbling mood we might charge
the Observer with misquotingus. We didn't
use the word "profession" in our article, and
yet the Observer manufactures it into quota
ton from the Journal. But this is too pitt
full and therefore we drop it.
"The British hireling press on the other
side of the Atlantic, falsely and foully charges
the United States with fraud and oppression
towards Mexico, in the annexation of Texas.
The Fayetteville Observer, the exponent oil
North Carolina whiggeFy, chimes in with the
charge. In vain we ask, what the nature of
the fraud is, or how the oppression was com.
mitted. "-JournaL.
The readers of the Journal may never
know. but yet it is fact, that the impntation
of frand,' nay the vOrd fraud even, has not
made It's appearance in any thing that we
have ever said on the subject! The idea is
purely imaginary with the Journal" Obs.
What on earth has come over the brain of
the sapient Observers Surely it must have
been foggy day wnen he wrote the "very
few words" in which he proposes to ''dispose''
of US. Did We say, in the paragraph which
he quotes from US, that he charged the United
States with 1" fraud and oppression ?' We
said that " the Observer chimes i'm with the
charge. If the Observer does not chime in
with the charge, what means the following
language which we have quoted in our last,
and which should never be forgotten by the
people sf North Carolina
IS But great as these evils may be,-fatal
as they NAV nrnve To the saEat., &C tho Qonr,L