Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-11-30
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
yILmINcToN. N. c., MONDAY. NOV. &c, 1855.
The Mee1ing Last night In the Court House

The Meeting Last Night In the Court House
There was quite gathering last night IN the Couf'
House, called by the Know Nothing party Tor the
purpose of asking the concurrence OF the OUTSIDE
public in the dongs of the ORDER IN connection win
our town government. ltremaIns TO DE seen no"
fer these imperial behests will be obeyed. When
we got down, we found Mr.. John A. Parker in the
Chair, and Messrs. X. M. Murchison and +. o. SIN
gIetarv secretaries, and MIR. Thos. d. Meares on the
floor
"Mav YOUR fathers grave be de6led," is the deep
oct oxscrat;on that the excited oriental utter
against lis enemy. To his unsophsticated feelings
i expresses the very heigth and depth of outrage
against the hottest sentiments, the most reverential
emotions of the heart. We found Mr.. Meares bust
lyengaged in defng the graves of his hearers faith
ers in casting dust and ashes upon the people OF those
IandsNfrom whom, with shorter longer interval
every man present had sprung. In one man VEINS
ran the blood of that DETAINED Irish race winch Mr.
Meares 40 much execrated. In aDothers that OF the
German, the Scotchman the Swiss or the Englishman.
Reneab the green sod of Irelend-in the quiet church
Yards of England-in the bosom of the German Fa-
tberlandsleep the forefathers of the American peo
pie. In heaping measureless and groundleSS con-
VA
the nations fathers-sought to muddy the fountains
from which the great national stream took It's rise.
We deeply regret for the sake OF good feelng-tor
the sake of that peace and harmony that should ex
list in every community, and especially in this, that
Mr.. Meares should have INDUCED in such heated de-
nunciaons of opponents. or characterised that majo
rty of the people of North Carolina who carried the
State in August last everything vile and evil 1t
was not right to abuse the Magistrates of the COun-
~ like pick pockets. 1t not right-it was not
worthy 10 refer to the dead-to haul up the memory
of deceased Solicitor Of the County, point to the
Bench and accuse it of corruption To rake up every
personal feeling and political animosity against the
Democratic party, while standing up the spokes-
man of an order pretending to have no such animOsl-
ties If anything had been wanting to exhibit in its
naked colors the anamouS of the whole affair-its
biiterness-its Observation-Disclosures, the speech of Mr..
Meares would have supplied that want.
The exhibition made by Mr. Meares was painful
enough in all conscience but still he must yield the
palm 10 DR.. F. j. Hill. In the of editorial
experience extending two presidential terms anu
embracing many heated contests, we do not recolect
having read or heard anything so unJust-so
uncbristian-as the remarks of this gentleman.
but from a gentleman Standing the verge of the
grave-arrived at that advanced period of life when
passion and bitterness might be supposed 10 have
given way 10 feelings appropriate 10 his sit
uaton-they awaken feelings of regret for which ii IS
impossible TO find expression.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Herald, over the signature
of "a Citizen" harped upon the word destroy J"
as having been used by The Journal the same word
had been harped on in the streets. We replied calm
ly and moderately to that communication. We sta
ted distinctly that there was no such word or express
sion in any article of the Journal, with reference TO
this town election That reply has been before the
nublic for days. and yet DR. Hill rises up to harp up
on the very same thing. There as no such 1Oord IN
the Journal The fees of our paper, from the COM
menoement of this controversy. are at the service OF
Citizen" Dr. Hill, anybody else, 10 find any
ground for their assertions We take it for granted
that they have been mistaken, and we afford them
every opportunity to set themselves right They
owe il TO themselves to acknowledge that they have
done us injustice, an I'M Justice the less because
we are stranger in strange land, though Dr. Hill! is
mistaken in saying that not an American citi-
Zen We give our first notice of this matter-that to
which the Dr. referred to as insulting and offensive
his remarks:
The Meeting Tonight.
A writer in the Herald of yesterday, the sig
nature of A Citizen" regrets the call for meeting
which appeared originally in the Journal of Friday
last We think we know the feelings of the citizens
at whose request that notice was inserted, and we
believe that neither the correspondent of the Herald
nor any other person more sincerely regret the
ueceSsitu which is believed TO exist for such
ment-a movem ent started in all honesty and SINGER
itv for the express purpose of putting end to a
strict party government of town. Had the former
system been adhered to-had the tickets been formed
Of recent times as they had been for years previous
w. no such movement would have been necessary
nor would have been resored to. But it requires nc
argument to prove that such has not been the case
that since the advent of the Order all outside
of its precincts have also been outsiders in regard tt
the town-without voice or weight or power say
The movement which the meeting at the Court Hous,
is called to initiate, is not proscriptl movement
1t aims simply TO prescribe prescription. To put al
end, il poss be to the organized interference Of al
''order.' of an exclusive character, with town mat
tiers. 1t is not for us to say how recent munich
pal elections have been proclaimed as K. N trumph
the fact is notorious. Nor it be forgotten how
recently the Herald, in which this communication
appeared, reioced over what Sans bows =" had dom
on such occasions.
Those citizens outside of the order simply want t
break down the exclusion which the temporary as
cendancy OF K. N.-sm has brought about. The
seek to neither personal bitterness faction
division. Among them will be found gentlemen VIII
have heavy interests at stake-tOo heavy TO be trie
with or sacrificed at the dctation of passion, or i
obedience to the behests of faction. They seek,
possible, to put end 10 both by putting end t
hat ,OFa HUhjo bIv