Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-12-25
Fro., our Correspondents.
RALEIGH, Dec. 21st, 1916.

hk1L1IAOAA1 DSNs s~AD'1 ASNO'
FRIEND FuLToN -
see by an editorial in your paper of Fri
day last, that you are desirous OF knowing IN
what manner the law regulating the licenses
TO retailers of spirtuous liquors in New Han
over county has been changed. The bill
brought before the Legislature, proposes no
change in the law now regulating retailers IL
cense in the county of New Hanover. L Will
be recollected that preceding Legislature
raised the retailers license in New Hanover
and Richmond, up to twenty five dollars. AT
the last session of the Legislature New Han
over succeeded in getting that act modified. SO
far as she was concerned. Mr.. Steele has
brought forward bill 10 reduce it IN Rich
mond county, necessarily mentioning the act
relating TO both counties, and hence has aris-
en- your difficulty to understand it.
You have probably learned before this, that
the bill re-arranging the Congressional DIS
tricts, has passed the House and gone to the
Senate. This bill elected great deal OF ex-
cited discussion. The Democratic speakers
sustained our cause with great power and elo-
ouerce-did Justice 10 the party and them,
selves, and carried the charge Of gerry1na"der'
ing to the teeth of our opponents. The Wing
speakers ridiculed the shape of the districts
formed by the act of '42-'3-exhibited dla
grams, and tortured their brain to discover
their resemblance to the monsters OF the Deep
sc. 1t was supremely ridiculous to see how
they taxed their energies to distort our plar
and praise their oarn-all beauty and symmetry
in their form, and uniting alike similarity O
interest, conapactness of territory and eqAafft.
of numbers But, sir, send you herewith {
correct diagram of one of their districts, more
distorted and illshaped than any formed by
the act of AZ, and presenting at one,view
personifcation of the idea of the borrow STRUCK
poet:
IS That it is a monster of so frightful mien,
AS to be dreaded needs but to be seen p
But as obnoxious as this bill is, and as angry
as is the discussion it has given rise to, ther'
is another measure introduced into the Senat'
more obnoxious, and involving more serious
consequences. A resolution has been in
troduced into the Senate by Mr.. Gillian. o
Granville, proposing to appropriate $1,000
for the equipment and to defray the expen
ses of the Regiment of Volunteers, from
their homes to the Rendezvous at Wilmington
No one can or will object to this just and ne
cessary appropriation of the public moneys
yet the Wing party have thought proper t.
affix preamble to the resolution making tn
appropriation, which no Democrat or patrio
in the State ought to support. This preambl
asserts that the war was brought on the coun
try by the " acts of the Executive" and sane
toned by the subsequent acts of Congress- MI
Wilson, of Edgecombe, moved to strike GU
the Objectionable parts, and on this motion ha
sprung up debate which. to judge from tn
tone of the leading speeches, will consum
weeks of our valuable time, to the great inju
ry of the public interest. This partizan NOV
is but the echo of the reasonable sentiment
lately promulgated by the Greensborough p
} triot, and should meet the universal conteml
: of every true American. Should the measul
lead to long and angry discussion, which
. doubtless will, our party will not be respor
sble We cannot sit quietly in our seats an
see our government and country placed in tn
, wrong, and thus, whilst we are but pretend
ing to give to the war our warm support,
,nuendoes levelled at the head of our govern
ment, we are but giving support and encou
S agement to the enemy Such course involv,
the guilt of moral treason, and should
: frowned upon by every man in whose veir
} runs drop of honest blood.
D Yours respectfully.