Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-01-12
Inauguration of Gov. Bragg.


On Monday last, the irst day of January, Thomas
Bragg, OF the County of Northampton, was inaugur.
ated as Governor of North Carolina in the Commons
Hall, in the presence of the members of two Houses
OF the General Assembly and alarge concurse of spec
tators. At the hour of twelve the members of the
Senate, proceeded by their Speaker, the Hon. War.
rem Wnslow, late Acting Governor entered the Com
mons Hail. and took seats to the right of the Speaker
the Speaker of the Senate taking the seat assigned
him on the right of the Hon Samuel P Hill, Speaker
OF the Commons Soon after, Gov, Bragg entered the
Hall, attended By Messrs. Faison Davis, Yancy, Pat
terson, Martin, and Ship, the committee of arrange
ments on the part of the two Houses and also by
Chief Justice Nash, and the Hon. R. M. Pearson
Judges of the Supreme Court.
The oaths OF office were administered by the Chief
Justice with much solemnty and impres3iveness af-
ter which Gov Bragg arose and delivered his inaug-
ural Address, which will be found below Il is in
every respect, admirable document document
worthy of the man, of the OCCASION and Of the State
over whose destinies he has been called to preside
Upon the three great questions of the day-Free
Suffrage Internal Improvement, and the Rights of
the saveholding States-it is clear and emphatic and
fully up with the of the time and the expecta.
tons the people.-RGteigh Standard.
Where the "LOst Tribes of AboIItIonIsm
Learned and nquisitVe minds have exercised them
selves IN ingenious specuations to the ost tribes
and many very plausible theories have been given 10
he world with the view of calculating the mystery
connected with them. The lost Peiad has perplexed
sage astronomers. Stricken from its high place in the
| heavens, heaven on y knows where it has gone. A
grave question raised some few years back as to
the whereabouts of one 'Milly Mcpherson" to which
up to this very hour, nothing but hollow and unsub.
stantial echo has responded.
But, in the last few weeks, graver question than
that referred to the mysterious Mlly has arisen to
perplex the curious and confound the inquistive--
1t ls-what has become of the Abolitionists But a
few short months ago they were bowling like an ar
| ToV IF orlo1
with their clamors. They were as thick in the free
States as the ocusts of Egypt. But they have sud-
denly ceased their horrd uproar and become as scarce
as Indians in the white settlements. They have
gone like the mist from mountain, and melted like
the SHOWS IN the ocean. Where are they? The men
that composed them have not died out; for nation
as they claimed TO be- does not disappear in the
! of a few months. The answer we think is easy.
They are not in the Democratic party for that par
ty has no place for such people. But having failed
in their crusade against Nebraska, they have hid
i themselves in the Wing and Know Nothing organiza-
ti0ns of the North 1t is unnecessary to discuss this
question at length and in detail. 1t may be satisfac
torily solved by referring TO State illustra
i ton Every body knows that Massachusetts was as
thoroughly aboltionized as any State in the Union
Yet, at the last election in that State the new secret
political society swept over like wild fire 1t tr-
umphed over all opposition. Scarcely man of any
other party SO fortunate to succeed. 1t is in
vain to say that the Aboitionst and Free sellers had
absurd to say that these Aboltoniss and Freesoers
had changed their opinions, given up their fanat,
cisms and renounced heresies. They still in
Massachusetts; they still Abolitonsts and Free
sollers, let them with whichever party they may
Like the leopard, Abolitionst cannot change his
spots like the Ethiopian, he cannot change his skin
They have but skulked They have hid them
selves in the new and secret order, that they may
deceive the South and seduce the unwary Southern
men into alliance with them They have long
en- trInd aria how aUa lOOr OIIn
tried clamor. Nor is it surprising that they should
now avail themselves of secesy and reserve. But it
may be said that they have not hid themselves in
the secret order. If so, we would respectfully in
! quire-Where, then, are they?
! We aware that some of the furious and
unthinking Abolitioniss have made on the new
order, and they would make any thing in
their blind and headong fury. But these miserable
remnants of the anti-Nabraska fanatics can easily be
pointed out Where are the rest of them, if they
have not hid themselves behind the masked batteries
of the secret foe. That is the question - Wishing
ton Sentinel.