Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-24

mob or mob spirit. It never has been question
with the people of Wilmington, matter what their
abstract ideas may any time have been, and it is
proud fact that disturbance has disgraced her
polls, and no ever forcbly riotously prevented
from exercising the elective franchise With regard
to the Louisville riots we most freely admit that muir.
derous and disgraceful acts were done by men born
abroad and we sincerely trust that they may be pun
ished individuals. These individual men are NAL
efactors Their deeds, however, are their own, for
which they are accountable TO outraged law they
simply incidents in the progress of fearful and dis
graceful transaction-they come under the head of
effects md not Of canses-they lie upon the surface
while other and deeper things lie at the foundation
What these things hardly be doubtful
The spirit of personal dislike, fomented by unscru-
pulous prints and LEADERSHIP spirit OF violence
which overawed hundreds, and we might say thou
sands from going TO the polls, and thus IN effect IN
defiance of law, deprived them of their legal rights
These things take rank among the causes the mme-
diate and irresistible causes which produced the Ia
menable state of things which has added 10 the
stain which several recent lawless transactions had
affixed to the name of the great and growing city of
! Louisville.
Deeds of violence are always calculated to stir the
blood and awaken feelings of indignation, not SO
much because of any personal knowledge of or care
for the individuals who may have become the victims
Of such yioence-or in nine cases out of ten we do
not even know the of the parties, ahd have no
nersonal interest in them-as because of their def
ance of law and the shock which they give to our
feelings of ustice-of right and of public morals.
chi we know
that there were six or native and ten or twelve
foreign born individuals; but we do know that the
proceedings during which these men, women or chill
drencame to their death, had their origin in spirit
of terrorism and of aggression tending to prevent GER
tain classes from exercising certain legal nights, ana
that this spirit of terrorism and aggression was main
ly the result of incendiary appeals from those who
ought to have known better and who did know bet
ter In spite of all efforts to the contrary this must
eventually become the verdict of the country and OF
it's most rejecting men, matter to what party they
may belong or what may be their views with respect
to legal action, looking to change in existing laws
The talk about Dutch and Irish foreigners may for
time be used to excite passion and prevent the action
of calm Judgment but the real point at issue will as
sert itself The real question will be the sanctity OF
american law, the inyolabty of the rights OF An'er1-
CON citizenship held in pursuance OF such law these
rights which the American people themselves have
conferred they TOO proud, too seltrespectng 10
see violated in the person of the humblest German or
Irishman, whom the broad shield OF American cItl-
zenship held him by great people, protects as
fully and freely the proudest and richest capitalist
Or CoUKsr-The /" Wilmrs,on Jour- al edited by an
1r1shan attributes the recent rot in Louisville to the
Americans, calls Prentice hoary headed 5couodre and
says that at his door that of leading men OF the Amer
lean organization must the guilt of murder lie -Rdeagh
Register.
This is precisely what might have been expected
! from the Register Let US ask question or two. 1t
is beyond doubt that the place of our birth is mat
ter with which we had nothing to do. If we had
nothing 10 do with it, what can the Register have
What right has the Register to bear false witness
against it's neighbor, by misquohng our article, and
mi representing meaning? What lnducement
could it have but it's own petty malignity Don't
the editor of the Register know that his own rela-
tive the editor of the National lnelllgencer, who
stands as far above said editor OF the Register
wise man does above fool, is foreigner by birth
Has not the Standard sufficiently showed up, brand
ed and exposed his misrepresentation, without his
turning round to misrepresent and demand SINH
lar excoriation at our hands? Would it not be as
we'll for the Register Soberly to digest the following
article from the Standard, before again attacking us
The Star Register greatly exercised about the law
prohibiting the circulation of matter calculated to produce
instruction among slaves &c The Editors of those
pes have just cause to congratulate themselves that the
statutes relating perjury not so pointed and partcu
lar as those relating to lnsurrectlonary matter
This same Raleigh Register, now sunk SO low in
the hands Of a degenerate scion of worthy stock
" vas established by the elder Joseph Gales who lef
England to escape political oppression, and to enjoy
in this new world-n this land Of liberty-the free
1 dom Of opinion and of expression and now we fine
t the columns of this paper, built up by the ener
ges and talents of this same foreignerJoseph Gales
: under the nominal guidance of his grandson, de-
= voted to the unworthy task of taunting men witt
o their foreign birth. Oh shame where is thy blush
1t cannot flush the brow of the editor of the Register
d ttat at least, is certain.
J. 1t is dirty bird that fouls its nest. 1t is
It dirty paper that tu,ns with contumey upon that elias
y from which it sprung, by one of whom it esab
1t lished and edited.
e But go ill., if you think you can make anything
1t You can't hurt us. You can only expose yourself
yourselves, might say, for the Register is no
alone in this style of attack upon
IF "MARY LYNDoN-AN AUToB1oGRAPHY.-A neat
,e bound copy of sort of novel, by the above nam
Of has been laid on table by Mr.. Whitaker. 1t
=. published by Stringer and Townsend, N. York
n A more distorted, i'll conditoned mind than tina
" of the writer of said autobiography, it would be i'm
k possible TO conceive. She, if it be she, cannot
D. good woman, and see things she them. Tn
n abomnable tnge which scklies everything
Sc comes from herself According to the ''autobogrs