Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-01
The Peonle and Press o. wilmington.

onr own resources and affords an opportunity, OF
which we avail ourselves, to notice some OF the mis-
annrehensions which have been entertained, or the
which have been circulated with
regard to the feelings or conduct of the people or
nress of Wilmington towards other sections of the
State or towards their felow-ctizens residing
therein.
With some it has become fashionable to represent
the people of Wilmington as grasping or selish-as
to engross everything. and Jealous of the pro-
gress and advancement of any other place in the
State and yet it would puzzle even those who most
loudly proclaim this charge against Wilmington, to
adduce any instance in which this feeling has been
exhibited What really State work has she ever
opposed What jealousy has she ever ex-
hibited of any other seaport in the State 81
What effort has she made to retard in any way the
construction of a Road to Beaufort, or elsewhere
in North Carolina nay, what opposition even has
she made to an extension of the Central Road " est
unless what be founded upon present eonsldera
tions of financial policy? For Plank Roads Fayette
vile Railroad charters and other things of the kind
she has always been willing to go. and to go literally
The people of Wilmington do not dream that they
are the State; but they do think that they have an
interest in the State, and that when the subject OF
Internal improvements is on foot, they have some
right 10 be heard, and to speak their minds without
being considered intrusive. Any project tending to-
the general good of the State, is certain of their
sympathy-can they be blamed it, at times, they
are Jealous of movements tending to convert great
State works into feeders for markets of the State
We would not willingly be invidious but truth COM
pes US to say that those who take the greatest of
fence at Wilmington, are those who. never having
moved an inch made struggle themselves,
totally unable to appreciate or sympathse with her
The press of Wilmington has also been attacked
the Journal having, We think: received more than
It's due share Of that blame to which candidly
believe no paper in town has been justly entitled
In common with other papers, we have deprecated
such arrangements would tend to divert the trade
Of North Cardinals State works out of her own Dor
ders while outlet could be found within them
We have preferred North Carolina to Virginia S.
Carolina and most assuredly have preferred
Wilmington to Norfolk, Or Petersburg, or Richmond
or Charleston But we have never. by the slightest
word, opposed any work for the Amusement
of Beaufort or Newbern, or Washington, or
any where else We knew, when Whining
ton applied for aid to the first session
dollars, that she could have got more had it
not been for much larger appropriation for Nays
Head, contained in the bill yet neither the
Journal nor its Editors made any remarks indicating
opposition, although it must be confessed that We
regard d the project Of opening it rather doubt
full. We might cite other instances, but in conclu-
sion we can safely challenge any one to show when,
at any time, have expressed jealousy of any work
Of North Carolina character, no matter where it
might be located which of our own towns it night
benefit. We have never talked as though we con-
silered Wilmington the whole State, but we haze
talked as though we believed that N. Carolina arns
q State and had State interests we believe still
ard it is certainly neither vanity presumption in
us to suppose that some of these interests con-
npcted with Wilmington, and are deserving off, a
least fair showing with others located beyond ou1
own borders.
But, after ALL we have an abiding confidence in the
good sense and good feelings of the people of every
section Of North Carolina. We have an abidin!
confidence that every temporary prejudice having it
origin in mutual MISUNDERSTANDING, or forced into ex
lstence by designing Misrepresentation, will pas;
away. We know that the people of the State respec
their fellow citizens of Wilmington for the enterprise
and energy they have displayed when they know
them better, they will still more cordially esteem
them for their liberality of feeling and freedom from
local or sectional rreudices
THE NEW York CRYSTAL PALACE.-This erection
which it should be borne in mind is the work of
joint stock company. and not by any State
National affair, will not, it seems. be ready fo
opening on the first of May, as had been promised
but that event will be delayed along into June. i
not still farther. The New York movement differ
from the London in being directly speculative il
its character No doubt the projectors of the latte
had, in great measure, their Interior views.
While no persons living could more deeply regre
the slightest appearance of doing justice thai
the pr"prieors of this paper, still they cannot re
main insensible to the high tributes of abuse whic
some Of their contemporaries have been pleased t
lavish upon them in connection with their short ar
tlco in relation to Messrs. Badger and Alangum.-
No more emphatic testimony could be borne to tn
generally scrupulous accuracy Of the Journals state
ment of facts than the row and excitement create
by the discovery of the startling circumstances tina
that paper had been caught mapping. The same CT,
cumstance might have occurred with nine ont Of an
ten of our revilers, without attracting the slghtes
attention, being passed in the silence of cor
tempt or regared a matter of too common occur
renee to demand receive notice.
RSs~ The Cincinnati Sun says that Lola Mon,
severely beat John Jones, her travelling agent O
the 18th inst. She is described as having sprun
on the unfortunate Jones with the combined fury {
several wild cats, and with that appendage to he
little arm,'' usually styled, in plain English, ifs
she struck the unfortunate and defenceless Jones