Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-03-23

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Dg- We publish the following card from MI Lee
may, as we find it in the Raleigh Standard
The Arator.
To the Editor of the ~ C. Standard:
GENTLEMEN: request a small space in your col
umns. to to the public, that in consequence
of unexpected delay in the arrival of materials, and
subsequent ndispostion the publication of the first
number of The North Carolina Arator" is necessa-
riIy deferred until the end of this months, and that
the paper will thereafter appear regularly on the first
of every month. ! was induced to procure new ma
teas at heavy cost, and to undertake its publication
al the urgent solicitation of number of the most in
tell gent and influential members of the State Agri
cultural Society. with the that it would be
adopted and supported by the friends of improvement
rs the organ of that Society; and relying upon the
fulflment of that pledge shall prosecute the work
with the hope of success.
The instrument, signed by only four of the Exc
cutive Committee land presented to the public by Mr.
Cooke, an Sc endorsement" of the 6 Carolina Guilt
vator, certainly cannot be intended to be received
an Official endorsements" coming it does from
so small a minority of the Committee. To offer it
| such would be gross insult to the members of
the State Society, and 10 the intelligence and com
mon of the public generay-and yet it comes
out in that imposing form, placing the four signers
in the false and unenviable attitude of usurpng
thority, and undertaking 10 do what neither the So
ciety nor the Committee had authorised them Ca
meagre minorlty) to do-a thing of which believe
those gentleman incapable; whereas they had sign
| ed it, probably. upon the application of Mr.. Cooke.
with the understanding that it could not, of course
appear official document, without the concur
renee of maj ority; Or they may have signed with
out examining critically the language prepared for
their signatures, with the intention, simply of Civ
ing MIR Cooke nothing more than friendly certif-
cate lis publication therefore, as an official L" en-
dorsement is clearly unjust to the four signers it
is deceptive to those who are ignorant of the number
OF members composing that large Committee. TO a
plain mind it will appear strange how any one, who
did not design TO forestall public sentiment, could
thus thrust out with hot haste document unsuppor-
ted by sufficient number of names to give it either
J validity or weight
! The Executive Committee numbering fourteen OF
fifteen members, to whom the matter has been refer
red by resolution of the Society," will no doubt in due
time announce their determination. Whatever that
may be, my purpose is fixed TO proceed with the pub
LEGATION and, after all. shall be for it TO be
Judged by its merits, rather than by endorsements"
Those who may be pleased 10 exert themselves in pro-
curing subscribers are requested to forward their
names within the month, that they may receive the
first number.
Thanking you for the kind and complimentary
terms in which you were pleased TO notice my pros
pectus,
remain, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant, &C.,
THOS. ]. LEMAY
Editors in the State friendly to my enterprise viii
pleas copy. T. L.
March 10, 1855
P. S. | have received letter since the above wa
wriies, from prominent member of the State Ag
rcultural Society, who participated actively in tn
proceedings of the late special meeting of that body
embracing list of twenty.six names procured b,
his personal efforts, with the cash, who says in allu
a sion to report which had reached him, that tn
" Carolina Cultivator" had received the sanction
the Society, or the Executive Committee "afte
traat passed at the special meeting in January it
incredible that such statement can be true
| T. ]. L.