Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-06-20
AZ Ru all the gods of high Olympus, who sat cross

AZ Rv all the gods of high Olympus, who sat cross
orasd on the clouds and drank nectar, vulgary sup
nosed to be mint juleps! By all these respectable
but used up people, we repeat, the thing Is done'
and Kenneth Rayner, Of North Carolina mas go'
nomination. The seceders from the seceders' the DOL
ters from the boilers, the immortal State OF Camoen
and Amboy, which Commodore Stockton once salo
he carried in his breeches pocket, has nominated
Stockton and Rayner for President and VcePresldent
Sonnd the hew-gag and strike the tonjon and go 1t
generally.
Marvellous and much to be admired is the economy
Of the solar SYSTEM composed of respectable and tul
GROWN planets several satellites, and lnnumerable
fraomentarv affairs, known as asteroids, some OF
which are gravely supposed to be as large as piece
If chalk Serious sober and most learned star-ga-
assure us hat these asteroids the result OF the
EXPLOSION of former worlds, the several portions OF
which have set up on their own hook, and keep 60
ing around in the most extensive orbits with as much
planetary compacency as though they really possess
ed the standing of sovereign and integral members Oh
the solar confederacy.
Marvellous Also is the system OF little parues anu
fragments of parties political asteroids, which, since
the dssolulon--he grand explosion OF the ola wing
marty, have set up on their own account and keep
wheeling around trying to convey The impression tha'
they really constitute regular members OF the pot
cal system Divided and sub.divlded--boNeo anu
reboted-ground down and broken up, each little
fellow is down Oh his neghbourng little 1el4o"' ou'
all are alike animated with an insane desire 10
knock their atenuated noses against the great Dody
of Democracy. And each little fragment TldeS
little clique of very great men, who are 0ouno 10
achieve Immortality. Verify it is an extensive WORLD
First. there are some portions OF the OLD wing
known and incomprehansible way there still IS an
old Wing party, whose strength is latent, like the
fire in gun flint, and which portions of said party,
through the National IntelIigencer and other organs,
talk OF unity and nationality, On small scale,
which, VIGOROUSLY that party had long since ceased to
possess and the want Of which led 10 It's dissolution.
The object Of some of these leaders, in trying to keep
this idea up at the South, is to get the old line
Wings who cannot go the now-Nothng stripe as
such, into Wing Convention, the action OF which
will turn them over to Fillmore and DOnelson. This
move will be very partially successful. great
many old line Wings at the South will reason in
common sense way, that if they wanted to go over
The Know -Nothngs, they could have done SO with
out this machinery to transfer them, and besides
that when so transferred they could really exert
influence as against the real enemy, the Northern
Free Soil coalition, who can only be efectualy put
down by means of the National Democracy.
Then comes the know nothing movement oflastyear
at Philadelphia, which split into Fragments virtually
Northern and Southern, twefh-section and anti
twelfth section then again this year, after yielding
the twelfth section it still keeps split and is now dis
tnctly divided into North Americans " and " South
Americans" And now we find the North Ameri-
IL po,1 nj
ton and Rayner.
Again there the Republicans, who arc in
sion at Philadelphia who will probably go for Banks
and Johnson, although some, perhaps, won't, but will
start another fragment along with the Know Some
things" or Seward men proper.
The whole thing is grand muss, but amid all
the noise and confusion rises up one cry, down
with the Democracy"
Now, the question for Southern men really seems
to narrow itself down to choice between the Demo-
cratic party on its hnown grounds, distinctly laid
down platform, national and unbroken organization,
unobjectonable and able candidates, or union with
some one fragment of the opposition the main object
all forms Of opposition being opposition to the Demo
cratic party because of its strong and unequvocal
commttal to the rights and interests of the South.
There are cid line wings left high and dry by the
deSerlion of their party. who may not like the idea
fjoining with their old opponents; but then, after
these gentlemen have fully surveyed the field think
that national men and as Southern men, they will
that cooperation with the Democrats is not simply
the BEST but Tie only left them to pursue with
any prospect of safety to the South. At the North
every body that anti. Nebaskasm and every 9TH
er form Of ant-SouthernSm has swallowed up know
nothingsm. The border rufians the " slave .dri-
vers," the prQslavery Democracy, and all that sort
of thing come in for the great volume of denuncia-
tion and the paramount obligations" the Green's
bOrO convention elegantly called the know-nothing
principles are no where except where they can be
used as a sham or humbug
Ns-The advices by the Emu from Havre represent
the excitement at Paris as very great on account of
the reception of Will Nicaraguan Minister nvol-
wing it does the recognition of the RYas- Walker
Government European intervention is talked Of
These good people who change their own govern
ment SO often take heap of unnecessary trouble
with other peoples business. They say that Wal
ker's success in Nicaragua is another " triumph of
Democracy" Suppose it is. What is that to them ?
Have they any more right 10 find fault with a tri-
umph of Democracy, than the United States Govern
ment would have had to interfere with the establish
ment of Louis Napoean's empire, which is a stand
ing triumph of absolutesm and bad faith combined.
A structure of despotic authority built upon the
ruins OF repubhcanism, and in spite of the most
solemn oaths to maintain republican constitution
IN France. Verify, now is the rampant time of the