Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-05-05
Cen. Dockery In Wilmington.

The Candidate of the Wing Convention for Cover
NOR Of North Carolina addressed the people on iaS'
Monday afternoon in the Courthouse IN this place.
The attendance was very large. He was TePhed 10 ny
Col s ]. Person of wilmington. We knew some
ninu and had heard of the Independent style OF
sneak;pp adopted by Gen. Dockery but we are now
onvinced that the half had not been told and GER
tainlv no account from others could have prepared
s for the actual contrast between the COOL courteous
and argumenlative style of Col Personand the scatter
ing and ragged remarks as well as the Tuoe anu ui
coutb manner of Gen. DOckery and when we speak
of this manner, we do not mean the mere DUMMIES
Of plain man but the rudeness OF NATURALLY coarse
one who is incapable of feeling how Tar such conduct
deprades the individual who may resort TO It,
while it falls harmless at the feet of It's object 10
REPRESENT Gen Dockerys conduct on Monday as type
If tho farmers and planters of North Carolina Is SIM
NV libel upon men who if not in all cases enjoying
the advantages OF finished education, arc never for
getful of what is due from one man to another We
say nothing about the purity of the Generals dIchon
Some of It's vulgaritieS must have been assumed tor
effect for we look upon it as next TO impossible that
anv man. possessing common sense, could have seen
as much of the world and Of public life as General
Dockerv has done without the results being in some
wav perceptible This much we have thought ne
cessary TO say by way Of entering protest against
the mode OF electoneerng initiated by the nomna-
ton Of Gen. Dockery, and now being carried out In
it's full length and breadth by that gentleman him
self
We will now turn to the discussion, merely pre-
missing that being unable TO get seat, we took no
notes, and must trust TO memory we cannot, there
fore, pretend to give than the substance.
General Dockery declared himself in favor of Free
Suffrage and also in favor of amending the consti-
tuition by means Of a convention instead of by Legis
ative enactment, contending that the conventional
plan was the quickest and most efectual--that a
body called together, the convention would be- for
the sole purpose of amending the constitution, would
contain ADLER men and be farther removed from par
ty influences than the Legisature--cIting the names
Of CASTOR Macon, Daniel, Owen, Meares and others
who were members of the convention OF 1885. That
bv this convention all matters of constitutional
amendment might be put to resi- for twenty years
He did not think there was any desire in the West to
disturb the basis of representation, and mentioned
some Western Counties that he believed did not, al
though he confessed there were great many that
did. In the West although there were fewer slaves,
sis was in no danger from the West NOTE-The
vote on Federal basis is not personal privilege; it is
a ycciionaI one, and the number Of shareholders has
nothing to do with it He against any change
in the basis Gen. DOckery was in favour OF the
tension of Free Schools and Of the Distribution Of
the School Fund on the Federal basis.
He avowed himself in favor of internal improve
mcuts He was for Beaufort He had always been
for Beaufort He wanted railroad from Beaufort
to the mountains He said there were two ways OF
building this work The Wing method was by get
ting The public lands distributed, and of paying for
the work out of what would fall TO the share of North
Carolina. This plan he was in favor of. The Dem
ocratic plan was by taxation-this he was opposed
to- He said the Western States were getting lands
to build Railroads. and that North Carolina ought to
get lands too. The lands Squandered away to
the West by Congress. He particularly alluded to
the Illinois Central Railroad Bill, granting alternate
sections for a road in Illinois. He charged upon
Democratic Congress for passing this bill and excused
Mr. Fillmore for approving il He said that distri
button Wing measure, but the Wings had al
ways received Democratic aid, and referred Judge
Saunders, Mr.. Leake, and others. He said that the
Democrats in the last Legislature were split into four
parties on this question, and he did not know how to
take them. He hoped the Democrats would all agree
upon what was the Constitution. and not require him
to fight, like porcupinc, all sides. Mr. Bragg had
remarked that he would not see North Carolina in
the position of beggar at the feet of the General
Government. Nor would he he didn't consider il
begging.
The General then referred to General Pierces add
mlnstration which part Of his speech, as atfording
nothing but what any body may any time in any
wing newspaper in the Countrywide Generals being
3 little the worst version of the old story we have
yet read or heard, VIC will forbear reference to-
In conclusion, General Dockery stated that he had
been placed in his present position by the action Of
the Wing Convention, and wthou! any agency OF
desire on his part; but that now, having accepted
the nomination, he would not conceal the fact that
he was DESTROYS of being elected
Perhaps should have stated that General Dock
cry said IN the earlier part of his speech that FREQ
Suffrage was moi Il matter with him. He cited
his course in the convention Of 1885 as having 1occ
for giving to the people the election of Governor
Our review of General Dockcry's remarks though
brief, gives, believe all the points which he seem
ed 10 make and does him, in that respect more thar
full justice. His graceful tcttticisns which set il
motion gold headed canes nnumerabIc, VIC are force,
to omit, from feeling of ourinability do justice Il
them.
Col. Person, in reply to General Dockery upon tn,
subject of Free Suffrage" and of a Convention. re
marked. that such electioneerng came with ba
grace from party, which, two years since, had s.
loudly denounced he intermxture of the subiec
with politics. and quoted from the Wilmington Her
aid to show Wing views two years since upon thi