Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-07-27
For the Journal.
THE REID CONVENTION.


the people upon the positions of the two can
didates for Congress in this District
Mr.. Ashe has been regularly nominated by
a Democratic Convention, called and organi-
zed regularly and in obedience to Democratic
precedent. Mr.. Reid, unsolicited and undesi-
red, we believe, by large majority of the
people, has nominated himself. Which should
have most authority with the people, the Gin
ton or Reid Convention Even granting that
all is true which MIR. Reid has said against
the one and in favor of the other, no sane man
can doubt, who acknowledges any claims of
party, 10 which, independently of other con.
siderations, he ought TO look for guidance
Mr.. Reid called. presided over, adopted all the
rules. resolutions and proceedings of his Con-
ventiom and while he, in his own undivided
self, represented every County in the District,
and voted himself the candidate, how can he
dare before you TO denounce a Convention
acting upon the authority of primary assem-
blies held in every County in the District.
But. says Mr.. Reid, am opposed 10 all
Conventions ! And yet he has accepted the
nomination of Convention. ] have myself
seen and heard him participate in the proceed
ings of Convention and who can doubt that
if he had received the nomination at Clinton.
composed though the, Convention had been of
{" Village Politicians" as he charged, be
would have accepted it, and been found among
the rest of his party Convention man.
But strangest of all, Mr. Reid attacks Mr..
AISLE upon the subject of Internal Improve
ments, when his whole life has been charac-
terized by his zeal in the same cause. He
complains that Mr.. AShe voted for Railroad
running from the West TO the Wilmington &
Raleigh Road al Goldsboro' while he voted fol-
Railroad running TO Fayetteville from the
West; requiring an appropriation but little
smaller in amount than that required on the
Central Road. No man is more uncompromi-
singly committed by his acts and words TO a
system of Internal Improvements by the State
government. He has, time and again, been
the President of Internal Improvement meet
ings. He has been lobby member of the
Legislature, Urging taxation for Internal I'm.
provement. He was nominated to the last
Legislature as an Internal Improvement candi.
date, and as man ready 10 double the tax oil
his fellow citizens of the town of Whining
ton, 10 assist the Manchester Road, and was
force to withdraw from the nomination be.
cause he was too high tax man. ] venture
TO say not one man can be found who heard
Mr. Reid say one word against Internal I'm.
provements before he became the nomiEee Of
the Reid Convention.
| The conclusion is irresistible then, that Mr.
Reid has thought and acted one thing and pro-
fesscs now another Al the cost of bis hon
esty, he practices and believes, reprobates ant
denounces, the same thing with the sans
breath. Like the bastard in King John, be
| eXclams-
Well, while am hrggar, will rail
| And say. there is sin but to be rich;
| And being rich my virtue then shall be
! TO say there is no vice but beggary."
Can the voters of The 7lh District place thei
confidence in man who can thus, for sue
cess, belle his whole past life blow hot ant
cold with the same breath, or change his opin
ion with the same facility and nonchalanct
with which he endangers the harmony OF thu
party
A man who is truly and honestly ethe
Wing or Democrat, loves and sustains bis par
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servation that those principles, which he be
lieves essential 10 the prosperity OF the coun
try, can be made TO triumph. lie avoids, TO
this reason, any action which may tend TO d.
vide his party Or create bad feeling between
different portions of it-regarding party tri
umph and the welfare Of the country as on,
and the same. The honest politician readily
sacrifices himself for the integrity of b.
party; but the selfish and ambitious aspi an
for office and political distinction, consider
parties and their organization as Instituted 70
his own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and, consequently
when not assisting him forward, as departin.
from their intent, and demanding opposition.
Ii will not require The wisdom Of Solomon
to discover which of these characters Mr.
Reid has won for himself; and in the sam
view, it need not puzzle any good soldier 0
the Democracy to decide under whose banne
he will fight
could say much more 10 our fellow
citizens as brother Democrat, Jealous in hi
regard and earnest in his zeal for the triumph
and stability of the Democracy, and conse
quently for its harmony but to voters wht
love consistency and reprobate reckless am
bition-who have the interest OF their coun
try, and, consequently. of their party, a
heart-who are not disposed to break up par
ty organization for any personal considera
ton, or upon light and trivial grounds-it i
unnecessary to urge the matter-I feel con
ident; and let US all determine that it shall
be so-that majority will be given for Ash
which will teach TO Mr.. Reid, and all VII,
hereafter may feel disposed 10 follow in hi
footsteps, that
We may outrun
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose Ivy overrunning."
"Vauting ambition oereaps ITSELF"
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