Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-02-23
The 22d Of February.

The spirit stirring drum and the ear-pie rcng fife
give dreadful note of preparation. People are mus
terng tn expression upon their faces which says
as plainly as Solomon himself = it is all vanity and
vexation of spirit" Luckily. it is pleasant day,
and little frolic in the mastering line will hurt no.
body who spare the time and it will as certainly
benefit nobody Nevertheless. it is the law, and will
continue to be the law although that would GER
tainly have great confidence in his own powers of
brass or in the guability of his audience, who could
stand up and deliberately assert that the military
knowledge or array of the State is benefited in the
slightest degree. But since we have found ont the
uselessness of casting feathers against the wind or
stopping the tide with ptchfork, we have abandon
ed the equally useless attempt of endeavorng to eff
feet change or reformation in the militia system by
ridieule reason. We give it up as bad job
But all this apart the day in itself can hardly fail
to awaken patriotic emotions, and to be marked by
celebrations and other tokens of the remembrance OF
grateful people, upon the birth day of one who, if
=" the boon of Providence to the human race" was so
in especial manner to the country which he served
so purely and so we'll. The time can hardly ever
arrive when the birthday of Washington come
or go unmarked or unnoticed. Such thing would
portend no good for the country.
Surely politics makes acquainted with strange
bedfellows, in evidence of which we find in the de-
fence by the Wilmington CONNER cial of its Know
Nothing brother, Henry Wilson, Senator elected from
Massachusetts,. Mr. Wilson writes a letter to Yes
pasan Ellis Editor of the American Organ, the Know
Nothing paper at Washington City, in which he says
that he believes that the whole subject of slavery
MT nd bo late L.
ton, and does not entertain the opinion that congress
has any power to interfere with slavery it exists
under the State laws And this gracions condescen-
sion on the part of Wilson, the Commercial says ought
to be received with great satisfaction by the South
ern public
Now every man who knows any and don't pur
posely wish to deceive his readers knows and states
that the attacks of the abolitioniss are not as vet
made directly upon slavery as it exists within the
States The editor OF the Commercial knows that
Wilson, at an anli-sIavery meeting in Boston since
his election as senator openly and unequivocally
dorsed the programme laid down by Buringame a
Know Nothing member elect from the State
which defined the platform to be-the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia-the aboli-
ton of the buying selling of slaves between the
States the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law-the
repeal Of the Kansas and Nebraska Law-tbe admis
sion of slave States--the exclusion of all
slaves from any and all of the territories of the
United States. And vet, knowing all this, the
Commercial graveIy asserts that the declarations
of this man Wilson to be received with " great
satsfaclion' by the Southern public!! What other
things the Southern public will be called upon to
receive with great satisfaction who can tell eve
don't