Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-07-13
unfaundeel statements.

1t informs US OF style ana system OF eIectloneerlng
TO which we had supposed it impossible that any
party in North Carolina would stoop for moment
informs us of assertions being made SO totally and
hagrantly at war with truth. and even common sense
that we cannot see how any sensible not To saw anv
honest man. could make them, they carry their own
refutation upon their face
l. !" MIR. Winslow is Roman Catholic !n-why
everybody who knows anything about Mr. Winslow
knows that this is not so. That on the contrary he
is Protestant by membership, association and des
cent sprung from the early pilgrim fathers; yea,
from the emigrants who landed from the Mayfower
upon Plymouth Rock Those who have heard Mr.
Wlnslow, know, from his own lips, that he is not
Roman Catholic 1t is simply fiat untruth. 1t may
be innocenty repeated by some who know no better,
but must have been started in the first instance for
political effect, by designing parties who did know
better and were therefore guilty of deliberate false
hood. Mr.. Winslow IS the advocate of that freedom
OF opinion which is the very feblood of Protestant.
ism. He IS the unyielding opponent of every form
OF religious intolerance and prescription and is the
better and purer Protestant for so being.
| 2. " Mr.. Reid is not the nominee of Conyen-
ton" Perhaps there may be ga kink in this, like
that taken advantage of by the boy who denied posi-
lively that he attended school, although he had just
come from there. They didn't call it school" any
more. twas the Academy" They may not have
called the pow-wow held in the old brick house in
| Elizabethtown, d" Convention perhaps it was q
Council that we believe is the Know Nothing
name for it-but it amounted TO the same thing, and
Mr.. Reid is now in the field in pursuance of the &C
ton Of that same pow-wow
3. q" MIR. Reid is Democrat" Well, perhaps so,
he haS q of He ric
up at every meeting, and announces himself the
champion of the great American Party" (the name
by which the Know Nothings now call themselves)
and takes pride in presenting to his readers what he
calls the platform of that party, one article of
which platform commences with the assertion that
it has "arsen upon the ruins and in spite of the
opposition of the whig and democratic pares"-
Now, how man that advocates a party
| protesting to lave arisen upon the ruins of the
democratic PARTY be democrat? How can Mr.
Reid endorse and stand upon the assertions of
this platform and be a democrat? Again, how can
man who pledges himself, in the language of
the Third article of the same platform to "The
maintenance of the Union of the United States as
the paramount political good or be friend of the
rights of the States, of the South. The Union is
| the paramount political good. The maintenance of
| the Constitution, and the rights guaranteed under
that instrument is the paramount political good. Un-
less these can be secured the Union is worth hav
ing 1t is curse rather than blessing.
4th. MIR. Reid is not q Know-Nothing. There is
another {" knk -" here. Mr.. Reid is and has for
length of time been member of the secret political
organization known TO the public ' Know Moth.
l1gs,' of which Sam is the prophet He defended
himself during the first meeting at Clinton between
Mr. Winslow and himself, in rather a strange way.
Mr.. Winslow spoke of the letter written to Mr..
Houston by Mr.. Reid during the late session of the
Legislature, in which Mr.. Reid emphatically denied
being a 'KnowN Nothing" upon the strength of which
denial Mr.. Reds friends had eectioneered for him
as good democrat, while, in fact Mr.. Reid
member of the political organization to which
the press and the public refer, when they speak of
Know .Nothings Mr. Reid said that he was not
bound to recognise cant names--that such not
the name of the society, etc, and, said Mr. Reid
forgetting himself. 81 appeal TO every Know Nothing
within the sound Of my voice, if that is the name by
! which they know themselves When Mr. Reid I'M
consciously appealed TO the brethren OF the secret
der, by their common designation, there was gene
raj laugh. He had fairly caught himself and admit
ted the whole question. Admitted that whatever
twistings turnings mental reservations the order
might allow or sanction, he and they did in truth and
in fact recognise the name of KnowNothings as ap-
piled 10 themselves and their order Perhaps the
rules of the said order may justify all this we leave
to the people of Duplin evince their opinion of it
at the ballot-box.
s." Mr.. Reid did not allow his name to go be-
fore the Clinton Conventon."-Mr. Winsow asser-
ted at Long Creek, on the authority of VIM. j. Hous-
ton Esq, of DupIin County that Mr.. Reid did do so.
Mr. Reid denied it; MI. Winslow remarked that
since Mr. Reid had denied it, he would postpone the
matter until they could both get where Mr. Houston
would be present. andiif he, Mr. Houston, reasserted
it. he, Mr. Winslow certainly would. We learn that
Mr.. Houston present at the discussion held a
short time since at Warsaw, and did reassert it. The
people of Duplin know VIM. ]. Houston, and they
and all others who do know him, know that no man
} stands higher-that no man would be less apt 10
make an erroneous statement to back out from
tween Mr. Reid and anybody else, we have nothing
to do. Against Mr. Reid personally We say nothing
we simply state the facts as they exist
O." MIR. Reid is simply an anti-convcntion Can.
didate."-We think that this is already disposed OF
Under the End head have shown the state of the
case with reference to the Elizabethtown K N. gath
erng. Under the 3D., that MIR. Reid cannot be Dem
ocrat, since he avows himself the advocate of a par
ty that boasts of having arisen on the ruins Of the
Democratic party. Under the 4th that Mr.. Reid is
member of that secret political society known tt
and by the public as Know Nothings" Under the
9 5th, we have pointed TO the testimony of Mr. Hous