Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-12-21
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Mr.. EDITOR ALLOW me, if you please. small
space in your paper 10 express my views and opin.
ions on matters and movements temporal and politi-
cal and for the improvement and well being of the
town of Wilmington.
They say we used to have clique, and that the
town and country were under the control of this
clique Well, think we had this clique; and you
know, think we hadn't; so we needn't squabble
about the matter now. One thing is certain, the
Wings were powerless And who were the Wings I?
The laboring portion of our community? No
EVERYBODY knows better than that. They were more
like aspiring to be sort of aristocracy in our town
some of them, at least !; with control of the Banks,
and great deal of the business of town in their
hands, ready to 60 one man for any person OF
hat some folks call the g short-horned Durhams,'
TO rule the roast great matter what his other
claims were, whether he had thimble full of
brains in his skull. But not being in majority, al
though, must confess, their name was Legion, or
less for they claim 10 have all the talent, and pay
almost all the taxes it would not do. shrewd
Yankee, my informant says, devised the Amerl-
Order and it stirred up the country like the
sound Of a trumpet American liberties were in dan
ger from foreign and papal power-that was the toe
sin, the rallyng cry, and it took at with the
people, who did stop to examine the motives see
into the sincerity Of the prime movers The Wing
party and embraced the last chance to reestab-
lisf their power To prove this let us look for the
great old Wing party that elected Harrison and Tay
Tor and followed the teachings of the immortal
Hamilton W it'll few noble exceptions, that party
is sunk in the Know Nothing or, it calls itself,
the " American" order.
| But it is not with the Wings and Democrats, ma
tionalIy, that have now to do 1t is with the par
ties at this time dividing the citizens of our town
KnoW-N othings and antKnow-N othings, or if you
will, Democrats.
too, Mr. Editor fell into the snare of the insidi-
GUS foe 10 freemens rights | too have visited and
participated in the councils of the order. Yes, fell
citizens, too confess that with many others,
was most wretchedly duped.
That each and every purpose acted in the coun-
Gil was apparently the most liberal Democratic
principle, none can deny. That it well planaed
10 deceive, none can deny, and | here assert, and
challenge contradiction, that in this place, in the
whole Southern portion of the Union, it gotten
up to break down the Democracy of the South and
at the North 10 possess itself of the government and
ruin the South that, instead OF slavery, they might
pour out their surplus population fair fields,
and turn the negro adrt from his master to shift tor
himself as best he could
But to return to own immediate interests-to
| our own Gresides. We are now on the eve of an
election tor CommIssoners-men to whom we, the
people, are TO delegate agents servants
years brief authority aid-yes, how In a coin
more valuable than gosd-honor. The end and aim
of life is that. | ask equivalent. The mineral
has not yet been discovered this earth that can
honestly purchase it.
betrayed your trust, you lay claim to the pre-.
clous boon. But stop, sir; did you honestly tell me
that your sole purpose was to break down the Dem
ocratc party-to get control of the government--es-
abllsh United States Bank-a high Tariff, and make
the rich richer and the poor poorer until you could
buy up the town and country divide it into lordships
and live you could wish
Such, in my opinion, is the aim of some, at least,
that are now seeking power the hands of their fell
low citizens, and have only now to- say 10 nv fel.
low Democrats--fellow- working men of all shades of
op'nion-~pause and consider Takethe sober, second
thought, ere it be too late. CITIZEN