Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-05-16

medium of print of the opposite party. The Gene
rails associations must be exclusively among the
Federalist party else be could easily have found
the original in the Journal the extract in the Com
merciaI It is true the circulation of the Journal is
limited, averaging only about fourteen hundred
weekly, still we should think that the General might
have borrowed one somewhere especially since he
has condescended to notice it at all. The Generals
long experience office should have taught him that
what is worth doing at all is worth doing we'll.
He expects shortly to have opportunity of re-
peating in substance what he did say" "When
next he mounts may We be there to see." The vim
dictiYe and illiberal attack of the Journal" Good
again Vindictive means revengeful, what have
we to revenge on the General He never injured
us--he never in ure us--athough he does not
appear to be wanting in the inclination. AS to
the Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad, inform
ant is a gentzeman-a native of this county-and his
information was and is believed to be substantially
correct. But the General pleads benefit of cier-
gy, will not urge this matter against him. further
than to remark that, although in Office at that time
his oiciousness in the matter notorious. Of his
connection with Mr.. MEMMENGER we will not speak
"Had the Editors turned to the records of 1888,
they might have found true report of Gen. SIS
views in regard the improvement of the State by
Railroad from Fayetteville to the Yadkin, and Of
Wilmington as port" We have not the records
before u.s. nor is a reference to them necessary
We remember having been personally present in
the Masonic Hall in this place, Saturday the
5th of January, 1850, when the General made a
Railroad speech--a very good speech, too-so good
that he has repeated it of times since
merely changing portions to suit the lati-
tude and longitude-as for instance, substituting
Petersburg for Wilmington, Or the like. The Gen
eral follows the Scripture maxim of being all things
to all men AS for the little matter Of consistency,
of course that is beneath his notice. It is not the
fashion in - unhappy Spain.''
When, after having made such speech here, Gen
5. went to Newbern, and fattered the people there
in some measure at the expense of this place, we
made no objection. Newbern is in our own State
and we are above little sectional local jeaouses
Nav, more than this-much as we have no doubt our
position towards the people of Raleigh has been mis-
represented we can turn to the columns of the Jour-
nal and assert without fear of contradiction, that
we have never been guilty of sectional opposition to
Raleigh its interests; and had General SAUNDERS
labored as became citizen of North Carolina, and
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North Carolina towns, we would have bade him God
speed, even had Raleigh been the principal or TIE
only gamer by the operation. But when We found
him talking he did at Petersburg, felt it ou1
duty to cry aloud and spare not; and for this we
have been pounced upon, and an attempt made t,
crush US We are known to be quiet. reserved arc
unobtrusve in all the relations of life but still it
part of nature to submit tamey to aggression
or insult in any way. We trust that this will BE-
better understood in future. 1t may save from
the trouble and vexation of such miserable contro
| versies hereafter.