Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-06-01
The vlrg,nIn EIeetlons.

we would be apt TO confuse than to inform our
readers. We content ourselves with the summing
up The Democrats have carried their whole State
ticket 1t is believed that the Democrats have cleo
ted every member of Congress The Democrats have
an undoubted ajority in the Legislature; IN fact
the Democrats aforesaid have swept the ied-routed
their boastful antagonists horse, foot and dragons
Now, as in the oden tme and many time since
then, glorious old Virginia has rolled back the ad-
vancing tide OF Northern aggression. All honor TO
the noble old mother of States and of Statesmen.
Sam has made his first grand essay at the
South and with all his arts and appliances, with all
the prestige of invncibilty boastingly asserted by
his followers, he has been hurled back from the
Threshold, beaten, discounted and exposed. Henry
A. Wise had to encounter the secret Vaccinations OF
/ q" Sam the open going over of the Wing party to
the said SAM" the truculent opposition of ta'thless
members of his own party, the Misrepresentation OF
the New York press brought to bear upon Virginia,
the influence Of Northern gold and Northern mission
aries in short every adverse circumstance anu YET
he has trumphed over them all.
! They were bound to beat him Their papers, the
veracious Richmond Penny Post and the immaculate
Washington Organ kneav that the secret party had
seventy-tw thousand sworn on lis books, and
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These men in buckram did not quite come up to
! the scratch, did they? Now candid opinion is
that these braggarts knew better, and deliberately
deceived the public-that they playing brag
game, which luckily has been played out at the ex
pense of their party in Virginia, who have been
persuaded by them into stalking thousands, nay hun
leds of thousands upon the ISSUE all of which they
have lost
Messrs, Miller and Rayner might as well staid at
home. All their braggadocio went, as usual, for
nothing - being precisely what it was worth
We will no doubt, hear much of the sort
of BOOSTING in North Carolina, which we trust
will &c i've nobody The " ORDER has started
on t..e back track and will keep going back
w ards A gentleman who had been IN the central
portion of Virginia, wrote to friend here short
time before the election in that State, that members
were leaving the order there by battallions" The
same thing is happening in this State Nearly every
Democrat who had been drawn into the Council in
Fayetteville has already left it, About two weeks
ago over twenty came out in night. The Fay
etteve Carolinian states that twenty left the Coun-
Gil in Clinton within day after the discussion in
that place, between Messrs. Reid and Winsow. The
same will shortly be the case here Virginia killed
Know -Nothingsm in May-North Carolina will bury
it in August. So mote it be.
TlA&ew York Herald, which has been quite vo-
lent in advocacy of the order virtually gives up
the contest. In its last issue, while claiming great
things in Virginia it insists that the ORDER to succeed
must to be what it is. 1t must give up It's pc
cuIia character and principles 1t is right and pro-
per that Americans should rule America and this
nobody Denies but the Herald contends that when a
man becomes an American Citizen he ceases to be a
foreigner, and becomes in law and in fact Ameri-
cam eligible every Office under the government but
two, and that naturaZed citizens have actually held
every office but these two beginning With Hamilton
who was placed in office by Washington down to
the present time This great distinctive feature This
. Know Nothing Organ says must be given up This
indiscrminatIe prescription must be abandoned. -
Next the Herald says that the religious feature is
unconstitutional, and must be abandoned. Now
these are the main planks-they constitute the plat
form and with their abandonment the thing dies as
die it must at any rate
, We publish the much talked of Third Degree and
commend it tn the attention of our readers. 1t is
simply unblushng consolidation: 1t is an oath t.
support the Union under all circumstances withou
one mention of the States or their rights The PEG
pie OF the South are Union men, but they States
Rights men, ard they can take no oath to the Unor
that ignores these rights. They go for the UEor
and the Constitution. They know that without thu
Constitution the Union is not only valueless but
curse. They know that any such unconditional oatl
of Union with AbOIitionsts is and trap
that it is direct blow at the States and consequent
:, ly at the South. The rankest Abotonist at tn
y North will take the pledge of this degree, and thel
brag that the South dare not go out of the Union
der any provocation or injustice That the Southern
Is people cannot he kicked out of the Union, any NOR
II than paupers out of poor-house This then is tn
Sc Third Degree Look at it once The proverb say
n that every dog has his day, and add, has eve
u ism. The day of this Know-Nohng-ism is abou
y out. 1t has had its day.
At meeting of the subscribers to the fund for tn
relief of the suffering poor of Wilmington, held q
o. the Commissioners Hall Friday, May oath, it was
esored That deposits of 800 EACH to be renewed whe
y Geo H. Kelly and A. &. McCaieb. where provisions will
be furnished wholesale prices and that printed orders
OF given to the Ladies' Benevolent Society for distribution
the needy.
Messrs. Jno. AcRae $. ?. Cause, G. R. French
ut D MacRae, g. H. Kelley, J. E. Hall, and L. Collin
u were appointed committee to cooperate with th
Ladies' Benevo client Society, 10 examine into the wor
thness of applicants for assistance to receive frhe
p subscriptions and TO transact such other business
' may be required of them.
s. d. MacRae appointed Treasurer. Those wish
st ing to subscribe will please call on him.
a. JNO MCRAE, Chairman.
w. The MASTER SPIRIT AT SEvAsToPoL.-The hea
iu engineer al Sevastopol is young named To
y; dleben, who at the commencement OF the siege was
captain and almost unknown. When the seige com
DC menced, Prince Menschikof, it is said asked tn