Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-05-30


harvesting Corn-fodder may be found fourth
page. We hope agricultural friends may profit
from perusal of this valuable article from the pen
of the distinguished author Edmun Rufin.
Our Candidate.
We this week place at the head of our paper the
name of the Hon. VS.. AsHE as a candidate for
reelection to Congress in this District We have
waited patiently and observed carefully the signs
of public opinion throughout the District and believe
that this is in accordance with the views and wishes
of the great majority of both parties, We hardly
think that Convention is desired, or could be got
ten up at this season. both on account of the late
of the day, and the pressing business of our far
mers and planters, which requires their presence at
home. We have waited thus long in order to defer
much possible, to the wishes of our friends and
of course we are still open to any suggestions with
which they may be pleased to favor u.s. We notice
that frer BAYNE Of the Carolinan. has hoisted
MIR. ASHES name some months since Our delay in
following his example from motives of delica
cy, this being the place of Mr. Ashes residence
and we thought it proper and becoming in US to wait
for the indications of public sentiment at distance
Of our own feelings in the matter, we need not
speak, neither is it necessary for to add word in
commentator of Mr.. AsuE That gentleman is too
we'll known to require any endorsement of ours.
The National States Rights Democratic Party.
The last Fayetteville Observer asks US where we
are to look for this rarty-to New England, New
York, Or Ohio and we say-to any of them to that
gallant band in New Hampshire who, led by such
men as LEVI WOODBURY. and others, repudiated At
WOOD their candidate for Governor, on the very eve
of an election, because they found that he had been
tampering with the Free Sellers to that gallant
band in Massachusetts, who few but undsmayed
stood out against the two Free Soilers SUMNER and
WINTHROP, and who repudiate RANToUL as
much as they ever honored him to the Democrats
in New York, who betrayed by Van BUREN, chose
rather to fall with CAss and DICKINSON than triumph
their opponents do with SEWARD and FILLMORE
HALE has seen his last term from New Hampshire ::
has SEWARD from New York The Observer knows
that SUMNER never was a Democrat-that RANToUL
has been and is repudated by all the leading Demo-
cratic organs in Massachusetts, among the rest
that able and fearless Journal the Boston Post-that
HALE foised into the u. S. Senate by intrigue
between the Wings and Northumberland that DIX
and the VAN BURENs openly warred against the par
ty at the last election and never talked of as
Democrats at all. Can as much be said for the
Wings? Have the Northern Wings repudiated
SEWARD or WINTHROP Is not JOHNSON the Wing
Free Soil Governor of Pennsylvania, again the party
candidate for reelection
And the Observer can look for it at the South and
find it, He can find it wherever men stand up for
the constitution and the reserved rights of the States
And when he finds these men denouncing any in
fractions of the constitutions and the rights guaran-
teed under it, he may depend upon it they are much
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guse of extra devotion to it, would sanction attacks
the constitution, which alone can give it vitality.
TO war with disease under which man may be
aborng, is not to with him. is it friendship
to the patient to lull him into fatal security. With
very few exceptions, there no public at the
South who are disunoniss per There is not one
who would not be perfectly satisfied with rigid adj
florence to the constitution. Should any be sat
isfied with less We think not. We know that
neither DAVIS, QU1TMAN, TURNEY, SoULE, nor the
really gallant Captain CALDWELL, are disunionsts
in any wrong sense of the word. We know that they
are willing as matters stand, to acquiesce in the
of compromise, if carried out in good faith
yet they by no means pledge themselves to submit
to anything and everything Is there any that does
Or that having done so will before the people
of the Southern States for their support? That
there are some dsunonists who desire separation a
all hazards and under all circumstances, we know
but their number is small and we do not believe
they can command majority even in South Carroll
1t is worthy Of remark, that the most ferociou
Union party were, a very short time ago
the fercest denouncers of the North. No in the
House used to be so incorporate as TooMBs and STE
PIIENs, yet where they now! Preaching ny
Union at all hazards Can any man believe il
the sincerity or depend upon the political honesty
of such people If Union parties to be formed
let them be formed at the North, for the purpose
redressng the grievances Of the South-not here, fo
the purpose of submitting to them. As for RHET-
and such men, they do the South more harm thar
good
The Democrats know that had the doctrines of
rigid Interpretation of the constitution and of States
rights-which form the fundamental principles o
the Republican creed-becn faithfully carried out
the Union would never have been in danger; an,
they show their confidence in such principles b.
clinging to them and the and organization wit
which they have become identified. While on th
other hand the Wings conscious that their cause
in a bad way, seek any port in storm, with sue
fshy Democrats they seduce by plausibl
name. Those who choose the Wing Union party
without principles, are, of at liberty to d
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