Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-04-28

their honest condemnation of these principles 9th
erwise, instead of that prosperity which now glad
dens our country everywhere and rewards industry
and enterprise. we should have been borne down by
them, and these Wing measures would have hung
like an incubus upon the onward and glorious march
OF our model republic. Democratic principles and
democratic measures have rescued US from such
fate.
And what let me ask has become of these great
Wing principles which to be a great panacea
for all our ills They have all been repudiated but
not until they had first been rcpudiated by the peo-
pie In their late Platform adopted in this place,
not one of them is TO be found even the dslrbu-
ton OF the proceeds of the public lands They sim
ply declare that they in favor of North Carolina
getting her share of the public lands-well, who is
against 1t The Democrats contend, and Justly con-
tend that n. Carolina gets her share effectuay
when the public lands applied as we are bound
by law to apply them, first In the payment of the
public debt, and then in the payment of the expenses
OF the federal government. In this way North Car
DINA gets her just and equal share and it is the on
y way she ever will do it. But did the wings, when
IN power, ever propose to give North Carolina her
Just and equal share of the public lands? Nothing
like 1.-THE very reverse-they offered her a step
sons portion. By the Bill of 1871 they gave to
each OF the new States 500 900 acres of the public
domain and Il per cent. and above what was
TO be given to North Carolina, and that insult
ing portion was Snatched from her by these same
wings, that they might lay upon her greater and
additional burthens. provision was inserted in the
law to accommodate the views of the then President
of the United States that distribution should take
place II the compromise of the Tariff should be viola
/ ted, and the duties raised above 90 per cent The
compromise was vloated-the tariff was raised above
20 per cent, and distribution was scattered to the
four winds but not until the States had received
each their 100000 of the public lands, and this
too was done by this whig party who now pro-
TESS so much zeal for the ust and equal share of
North Carolina in the public domain. The people
asked for bread and they gave them stOne--they
asked for fish and they gave them scorpion
The Wings, in their eXtrava CANT promises and small
performances, remind me of anecdote which I
I once read in Es0ps Fables book full Of practical
wisdom. poor Catholic overtaken in a storm
at sea. Alarmed at the sudden approach of death
he betook himself to his guardian saint-he prayed
earnestly-he promised extravaganty, if the saint
would only conduct him 10 the haven of safety, he
would dedicate to him waxen candles of great size
and value. friend who overheard his promises re-
minded him of his total inability to do any such
thing Be easy, replied the poor Catholic Lei me
once get 10 land and won't give him tallow can
die as large as your finger. So it is with the wings
when the elections hand and the political cam
paign RACES, they promise every thing-the election
over or in power they perform notbing-large waxen
candles before the eecton-not the smallest talow
candle after.
They complain loudly of unjust and unequal APP
preparations of the public lands for the benefit of the
new States. SO do we, but whose fault is it +? |
| challenge contradiction when say the Journals of
generally supported by Wings than by Democrats,
and all of them received the approval and signature
of their model Wing President! They produce an
evil and then assign hat evil for break
ing up that land system which adopted by
Washington and matured and approved by every
succeeding President.
But must come to a close. 1t will thus be seen
that the Wing party have from time to time repudia-
ted their principles, and when in power falsifed their
profession while the Democratic platform stands
firm tower of strength 1t has withstood the
battle and breeze and time and experience have only
shown its truth and wisdom. The people have at
all times approved and endorsed it, and doubt not
stand ready to do so again.
The following officers, also reported by the Com
mittee, were unanimously appointed. Vice Pres-
dents: Col. CASTOR Meares of Brunswick; Col. John
B. Jones, of Currtuck F. P. Glass, of Burke S.
Williams, of Caswell; Thomas |. Fason, of Samp-
son. Gen Joseph Allison, of Orange. Secretaries
w w. Holden, of Wake; Thomas H. Holiness Of
Sampson; D. W. C. Stone, of Franklin Doorkeeper:
James w. Chadwick, of Wake.
On motion of Col. Biggs, of Martin, it was Resolv-
ed, that Committee consisting of two from each
Congressional District be appointed to report Reso-
lutions for the action of the Convention The Presi
dent appointed the Committee follows:
q District Rops William Hill.