Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-12-21
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,


Surprise, modification and even indignati".o arc
freely expressed here by the friends of ~ D.
the turn things are taking in MI ~""A' al
ship. In their opin~- ,ngress On the s.. Leak err
place, he hss ...on, if ever polite an earned
serv:"o earned the speakers ct,air and his |
rs ought 10 have promptly placed him in it
: The feeling is growing, too tha' If Messrs Summer
and Wilson, say nothing of others had discharged
a 1.-THE of the debt of gratitude they owe to Mr.
Banks he would have occupied, with his accustomed
grace, the high position and be now packing up his
sixteen dollars day 49,
Wen NAV Mr. Banks friends remember the obi
cations of The Massachusetts senators TO the eloquent
champion of the coalition. How could Wilson IN
1851 have gone up the presidency OF the Massa
chusets senate, and Sumner have gone to the United
States sense, if Banks had not urged 1t might and
s main Are these the 10 be cold, indifferent, OF
f inefficient now TIE eyes of Mr.. Banks friends
here are turned these senators, to say nothing OF
the other roesoil representatives IN congress, ana
expect to see them their abors with success.
They look also at his efforts in the freeso cause
Did he not stand up square in congress against the
!. Nebraska Bill =! Did he not follow up the matter At
IL home? Has he lot struck blows for freedom ras
It he not lately been fusion meetings. led in tie van
of the republican hosts, and been acknowledged as
true and faithful worker against the aggressions of
re the slave power? Gould anybody do taller bust
N ness in this line than he has done Ought not Chs
consideration, they ask, the freesol support
w They next put in the know nothing claim. Who
it has done work for this than has MIR.
as Banks ? Did he not take the oaths ? Did not the
m order find in him ustiier the floor of congress
Who, better than he, they say, portrayed to the
whole country. the danger 10 it of the pa
~ pacy Who better than he defended the wisdom
he and rights of the builders of that secret, suberane
A. an s. low browed cavernous avenue" his words
ia through which in three months eighty Thousand
a. men went to vote for Gardner? Has any speech
,st exceeded this speech Was it not perfect
Did not the secret councils hail it with glory shout
Did it not make it out that their secresy hgl
m toned republicansm Ought not such able and ex
no traordnary service to the know .nothings
IS Once more, Mr.. Banks's friends say take the tw
he elements of know nothngism and sectonallsm an
- who personify them better? Can anybody pu
pc a foot further into sectonasm than Mr.. Banks ha
re- put his from the time of his first pronunciament
in against " the black hearse,' down the crownin
ac glory of the let the Union slide Maine speech g?
till Can know nothingsm go deeper than to defend h
no. policy of secresy of political action Is all this
utv be like water split upon the sand If such fdelt
ted 10 party and princ pie does not command success
di- the of all that constitutes fidelity, what will
fl We repeat Mr. Banks's friends do not hesitate
the express their feelings. They deeply and Just
CHI. moved. They say that he has done all that M
nav ought in conscience, to be asked to do and great
me their modification and poignant is their grief at
t be non-election. What way they will take to mantle
their feelings, time only can show. They are unar
/. nous in the opinion that something must be dor
that aboitionsm and know nothingsm must ari
and protect their children or they will be lost fc
atts, ever.-BoSton Post.