Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-06

possession of returns, to send them right by horse
power, or steam-power, or telegraph, or whatever
way get them soonest, at our expense, and
will return the compliment, and send to all our
friends all the returns collect, soon We
get at them. Wake up-stir up-tumble up-and
give the returns.
ESE~If political campaigns tend under the most IA
vorabe circumstances to produce PERSONAL feelings
and animosities how much is that tendency ncreas-
cd when direct appeals are made to such personal
feelings for the purpose of subscribing political ends
How carefully them should such a course be guard
cd against-how little aid or comfort should it re-
ceve from liberal, minded community.
We were deeply panied to find in the columns of
the Wilmington Herald of last Saturday, appeal
to the Wings of New Hanover" the staple of which
was deliberate effort to excite prejudice against
two gentlemen of this town, who are guilty of the
crime of being Democrats-we allude to Daniel
Dickson and VIM c. Bettencourt, Esqs., and through
these to make some little party c"pital against
Gov. Reid.
What point there is in the attacks of the Herald
upon Mr. Dickson we cannot see, for no fault seems
to DC found with his course State proxy in the
Cape Fear Bank The affair upon the face of it
bears evidence of nothing but political or personal
rancor which, the writer can best say. One thing
are can say however, and it is thisliberal- minded
and efficient Wing gentlemen connected with the
direction Of the Cape Fear Bank, have expressed to
us their satisfaction at having democratic gentle
men associated with them the part of the State,
who could thus be enabled to bear witness that no
political favoritsm is exercised in dispensing Bank
accommodations. No matter how we'll any institu-
ton is managed if it be exclusively in the hands of
int hnI
minds of the other party,-especaly if portion of
the stock be owned by the State, and therefore, in
rome measure, the property of every tax payer.
The same considerations are fairly applicable to
the Railroad The Herald makes great parade a
bout Mcssrs. Hall and DeRosset being displaced to
make way for Messrs McRae and Bettencourt.-I
Now, this is all fummery If the stockholders set
such high value upon the services of these gentle
men, they could easily find place for them as they
actually did Mr. Bettencourt is attentive bust
ness mana gentleman whose integrity cannot be
uuestoned-and will venture to say, not the
least valuable director of the Road. That he is
democrat, every liberal minded man of any party
will consider advantage his presence and that of
other Democrats in the Board of Directors must have
the effect of doing away with of that prejudice
to which their almost total exclusion has given rise
among people of the district and of the State
The testimony borne to the value of MIR. Betten-
courts services as business man, by the stockhold-
of the Cape Fear Bank, who without any soli-
citation elected him Director of their institution
when comparatively very small stakeholder, we
place against the diatrbcs of the Herald. AS for
the assertion that his whole has been in op-
position to the road, need only state that in the
most critical period of its history, when the bill was
for al inc q new he rel a "
ing of the road to take precedence of that in favor
of the State, MIR. Bettencourt in attendance on
the Legislature using his best efforts for the
of the bill, which finally did succeed and the
road
The Democrats i'll New Hanover county outnum-
Der the Wings three to one perhaps more-near-
ly four to one and yet, when did a Wing Gov.
appoint member of this ma oriy represent
the State on any occasion With what grace or
proprety, then. can the Herald raise the hubbut
which it does. about one two Democrats being
placed in the direction of State work. Strange as
it may seem to the Herald Democrats free white
men-tax- payers-mutual owners with other citi
Eens of the State property, and hare right, and
rcH exercise that right, to share in its manage
ment and disposal
We were happy to see better feeling pervading
the management of our insttutions-thc Railroad a
mong the rest Democrats and Wings have, of late
years, been appointed Unfortunately and this
course of conduct has benefited the Road by helping
do away with the prejudices naturally engendered
by an opposite course. We hope that the current
of good feeling will suffer interruption through
the i'll timed and imprudent electioneering of the
Herald ...'
But let the blame of hostility to road and out
interests lie placed where it really belongs. Let il
not be forgotten that during the session of the Le
gistature before last JOHN KERR of CasueH, the
present Wing candidate for Governor, came to Ra.
leigh in company with Mr.. Tunstal the President
of the Richmond and Danve road, and other Vir.
gnians, to press upon the Legislature the enactment
of q charter for railroad to connect Danville, Va
with Charlotte, North Carolina which would have
cut the State in two, carrying all the produce Of
the centre and West to Richmond or Charleston
which would have established rival line through
the of the State straighter and shorter than
line would be, after the completion of the
Manchester road,-which in fact, would have sacri.
feed all that the State and the town of Wilmington
have already expended for the old road and for the
Manchester road, and which moreover, would have
sealed our commercial bondage to Virginia and
South Carolina. When next the railrsad feelings
of our people appealed to in favor of Mr.. Kerr
and against Mr. Reid let not this brilliant achieve
ment of MIR Kerrs be forgotten If Mr.. Kerr had
succeeded, where would the Wilmington and Ra-
leigh railroad be-where the Manchester We re-
peat the question, where would they be