Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-11-30
No. II seems 10 be the idea with some members o

inp in them 10 indulge in the most unmltgated ana
con+amntrouS ohnse and make the most barefaced
.nd rocloss assertions and that il is something par.
tcularlv wrong in the anti-Know Nothings 10 repel
with scorn the contumely of their abusers, and ex
nose the total emptiness of their assertions and the
groundessness of their charges. When for insta nee
Mr.. Meares stood up in the Courthouse on Thurs.
day night to assert that all that any of foreign
birth had ever sought in fighting for the country was
gold did he not know that he exposing his total
ignorance of the subject of which be was talking !!
In the dark days of the Revolutionary, it's very
darkest, when the soldiers OF Washington crlmsoned
the snow from their naked and bleeding feet-ln the
terrible and dreary winter at Valley Forge who got
who expected gold, when even food and rament
could not be had Yet, in that terrible day, and IN
that dreary encampment, full one half OF his men
his frmest and most abiding ones were lrlshmen-
men of that race whom Mr.. Meares very compacently
pronounces only fit to drag poaloe out OF the fire and
eat it, No doubt they would have been glad then OF the
chance Oh, those were days when hunger, prIVa'
ton, cold, and poverty the rewards OF those who
fought for the liberty of the countryttese seem TO
be days when every fippant declamer can get up
and impugn the motives and the conduct of the suf-
ferers. And where was the gold that lured DeKalb
and La Fayette and Pulaski? Was 1t in the Golfers
of the feeble and struggling colonies Let history
saw. Of future ,imes-in second war of lnde-
pendence and in our more recent struggle with Mex
co, let General Scott speak and put to flight the
frowsy clap trap oil Mr. Meares. Could that gentle.
man really have meant all he said 10 be taken seri.
ously or was he merely trying his hand at saying as
many ridiculous things as he could When talking
about those opposed to Know Nothingism being COM
posed of aboonists, disunionsts and corrupt poltI-
cians with no bond but the cohesive power of public
plumber, did he happen to know that he included
every Southern State but Mary and and Kentucky
every strong Southern Rights State in the Union
Did he know that he was denOuncing Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mssouri--the united South with two
exceptions' Did he know what he praising al
their expense? Massachusetts, whose last K. N
Legislature was disgrace to the Countrywide whole
Northern section of his order which has seeded from
even the show of nationality in the Philadelphia
platform Could Mr.. Meares really have meant to
include these twelve Southern States as antiAmeri-
can and only the anti Southern portions of the North
as American Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and to some extent Maine, known TO be
among the least fanatical of the Northern States,
have come straight for Democracy and the Consttu-
ton Are these liberal States anti. American and
only the dark array of opposition truly American j?
Whether, as a matter of governmental policy,
it may may not lie expedent to reform or modify
the laws for the naturalization of foreigners ques
ton for the calm and candid consideration of the
American people. But whether this question should
be approached in a spirit and manner worthy OF the
people who are decide It, its solution be made TO
depend upon passions excited by infammaory ap-
peals, can hardly admit of any debate. Generosity,
gratitude, and historical truth alike opposed to
adopted by Mr.. Meares alike at variance with his
assertions and his deductions.
Were not Democrats drawn into the order by the
assurances that it was M Wing affair, and forth
What was Mr. Meares' speech but a raking up of all
the old bitterness of party contests for years gone
by-of Wing party contests to which he evidently
considered the Know Nothing party committed. Are
the Democrats, who may have been drawn in there,
committed 10 all Mr.. Meares quarrels and diSappoint
ments from the og-cabin era Let them think of it,
We did not hear MIR. Bakers speech, but learn
that he was down the foreigners, with his bes
ability, " be the same more or less" 1t is little
strange that MIR. Baker should have deemed it neces
sary to the requirement of the last finishing touch
to take grand voyage" to foreign ports, to acquire
the " last agony" of Partisan polish DE gusibus,
and so on. Practice and precept anil sometimes vary
| &C From Mr.. Whitaker we have Household World
for December; price 25 cents, and well worth TIL
money We know of no more readable book-for
book each number makes. About its articles there
is cheerful, healthy tone, free from sms, afeca,ion
and namby -pamby-isms of all sorts. Dix & Ed
wards n Park Place New York