Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-11-03


are sending their missionaries and stump spea-
kers among YOU. We tell you that they are
working like the mole burroWing, IN the dark
--steaIthiIy, secretly, effectively. Rouse,
rouse from your Iethargy if any patriot at
such moment as this car become the victim
of criminal apathv. Rouse yourselves up,
and rouse up your neighbors. Complete your
organization in all your counties without one
moments delay. Visit your democratic neigh
bors and urge them to the polls Let the fla
ming cross pass through the land. Up and be
doing. Arm, act, and save the country and
your cause
CHARACTER OF THE OPPOSITION.
We stopped in few moments at the wing
meeting last night, and in those lew moments,
the orator, Dr. F. J. Hill, of Brunswick, de-
cIared tina; the people had no idea OF what was
going on at Washington city The office
holders-the men whose daily bread depend
upon the election of Cass and Butler, he said,
had locked the doors OF their offices, and gone
TO Virginia and Maryland to make political
! speeches! No man having business with the
Departments, he said, could have it transac
| ted
Where does Dr. Hill gel his authority for
saying that such practice exists That wing
sentinel, the N Inteigencer, does not say so,
to our knowledge; and we are mortified to
think that any man, pretending to have regard
| for truth, should pronounce such a sweeping
SANDER of the whole range of Departments.
That number of the independent Office
holders do frequent the democratic meetings
and make speeches. is a fact, (and two or
| three of them may have gone into Virginia and
| Mary land); but generally those meetings are
held like our own, after night, and no such
practice as closing their offices, during office
hours, to make speeches, exists and we defy
the orator to the proof. And moreover, these
very men who make the speeches, are the in
dependent spirits that prefer prescription to a
muzze-they are willing to sacrifice them
selves upon the altar of their party principles
and if their party is defeated they expect to
give place to the opposition.
Give me the man that has the frmness and
daring of the noble Roman, when he exclaim-
| ed
q stand a Senator in the Senate Walls.''
Henry Clay--the "great embodiment OF
whiggerv-w he was Secretary of State,
| speeches against Gen. Jackson. Have you
any denunciation for that, DR.. Hill?
n. Carolinian
We give the above merely to shew our rea-
ders, to what recklessness the leaders of the
federal, alias whig party resort, in order to de.
ceive the honest yo;er. We have a great GU.
riosity 10 know how DR.. Hill obtained the
fact that &C the Office holders lin Washington
have locked the doors of their offices and gone
TO Virginia and Maryland to make poltica
speeches."
A VOICE FROM DETROIT.
The Detroit Advertiser Of Sept both, is be
fore US. This paper flies at its masthead thu
names OF Zachary Taylor and Willard Fill
more. Ii is published in the city of Genera
Cass's residence. and ought TO be good ev
dence, at least with the Wings, as TO the DO
sition assigned there to Gen. Cas- on the uues
ton of slavery and the WiImot Proviso |
will show the South, on the testimony of {
witness which the Wings cannot discredit
who are our friends, and who are our oppo
nents in Michigan on this question:
We find IN this paper, also, conclusive evi
dence OF the intimate sympathy between tn,
Wings and Free Sellers of NIichgan-hov
cozily they lean towards each other on III,
slavery question, and how cordially thew unit
in hating, abusing, and revillng Gen. Cass ant
the Democratic party.
The leading editorial of this number Of tht
Advertiser is headed, {" GEN CAxs OPPOSED II
THE WILNoT PRoyIso." 1t declares that sun
til Gen. Cass comes out and gives in his allie
glance, in terms that are susceptible Of deci
ded and single interpretation we shall no
cease to declare that he is most un0uaIjfedh
opposed to the Uilm0t Pr0riso, ami 7,0ar2rtbJ
Of the r0tcs Of Northern fyeemcn. Nor are W.
alone in our opinion. The great mass Of Sopth
ern journals, advocating the Democratic tick
ct, appeal triumphantIy to their candidate'
letter and conduct, in reference 10 this meas
ure, as furnishing the most decided evidenc,
of his attachment to Southern principles ant
Southern instltutlons.'
This editorial proceeds TO set forth that Gen
Cass is the fit and accepted candidate of III,
South, and StigmatIzes him as the plant too
in the hands of the advocates of the =" 2oecu7ia;
institutions" It objects to him as the canIi
date acceptable to John C. Calhoun, " wht
has ever esteemed slavery the great and pre-
cious interest OF this country, and who seem
to have sworn fealty upon its bloody altar tc
support and defend it with his life
The writer then proceeds to portray to it
rabid anti-slavery readers, the grounds Sc
forth by Mr.. Wise, Of Virginia, why the South
ern people should support Gen. Cass for tn,
Presidency, ana concludes his article in Thu
following strain:
d" Here we see how these men of the South
commit him to their interest He has alread,
voted on their side in this matter, and has
therefore, become one of themseves-Iet hin
desert his place in their ranks if he dare
Could anything be more conclusive than th
position of Mr.. Wise's letter in convincing
Southern constituency that, in voting for Gen
Cass they support man who is of the sam
opinion with themselves on this momentum
theme of the Wilmot Proviso, and ll.at durin,
las administration, at least, the shackles of tn
Slave shall not be loosed
, els there any one thing which, if added #
what Mr.. Wise has said, could possibly max
the Generals pro-slavery position any stron
r ger' There may possibly be, but if there j
: our brain cannot find it, and we leave it in al
r its shocking and CHASTITY proportions just a
| Mr.. Wise has written it. Free Soil men, VIII
= expect to vote for Gen. Cass, read it over one