Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-28
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL,
WILMINGTON, N. c., MONDAY, MARCH "a, 1856.

vention which met last month at Philadelphia, and
nominated MilIard Fillmore and A. ]. &C., has been
publishing an address TO the American party IN
North Carolina" We propose, at our leIsure' 10
look at this address, and show up some OF its points
in the order in which they presented For t'e
present we will content ourselves with considering
one charge made against the Democrats IN cohne0'
ton with Kansas. Mr.. Haughton says;
ssHere is the great difference between me platform
of the American party and the position Oh the Demo
cratic The American maintains Inc phncipe vi
citizen sovereignty-the Democratic dddS TO IL 'nd'
of souatter soVereignty-the American party lnslsts
that onlv those who are native born naturalzed
shall take part in framing State Government
Democratic that the alien, the unnaturalzed foreign
En- shall have equal rights with citizens naive Dor'
the American party insists that none out Ctttze"'
permanently residing in any territory whether natVe
born or alien, shall exercise there the elecuVe Id
chlse-the Democratic accOrds 10 the squaC'el Iho
same rights in this respect as to the citizen"
This thing of admitting to the right of suffrage
persons of foreign birth who have taken only the first
step towards naturalization, seems to be the great
engine of attack brought to bear against the Kansas
bill and the Democratic party. Now, would II De
believed that this very clause of the Kansas pill
this thing so much mathematical by Mr.. Haughton
so directly denounced in the so-called platform OF
the order as the reckless and unwise policy OF the
present administration as shown in. granting 10
unnaturazed foreigners the right to suffrage IN Kan
sas and Nebraska "-this very clause in the Kansas
and Nebraska bills is copied word for word letter 1or
letter, comma for comma, from the Act OF Congress
establishing the Territory of Washington, approved
March 3d. 1852 by-DNllard Fillmore! This lden-
tical clause, approved by Willard Fillmore, among
the very last of his official acts the last day OF
his administrations stands in all three of the bills
ferred to, as follows:
Provided, That the right of suffrage and of hold
ing Office shall be exercised only by citizens OF the
United States above the age of twentyone years. and
those above that age who shall have declared on oath
their intention to become such and shall have taken
an oath to support the constitution OF the United
States and the provisions of this act"
What Mr. Haughton thinking about, we are
unable 10 say, and it would certainly be as difficult
to account for the action of the convention upon any
known principles why it should be reckless and I'M
wise and un-Amercan for Franklin Pierce to do pre-
csely the same thing that Mr.. Fillmore had signal
lied the close of his administration by doing, will be
apt to puzzle plain men. Yet, Mr.. Fillmore is i'm
macuate, and Franklin Pierce is, in the opinion Of
Know Nothing orators like Kenneth Rayner & Co.,
all that is improper and ungentlemanly. Does not
the whole thing show for itself. and mark its own
condemnation II is as plain as that two and two
make four
&C. Again we have an arrival from Europe, and no
news of the Pacific. One last, faint hope points to
the Azores. "A word from there, failing to report
her arrival, and all suspense will be at an end and
the Pacific be classed with the President. In the
darkness of night, in the midst Of ice, and perhaps
H. Al.
depths of the ocean, and not even a ripple remains
to mark the spot, which only be revealed when
the last trump shall sound and the sea shall give up
its dead
Death. after all, is strange thing, and it matters
little how or where it is met, whether amid g the
wild winds and the remorseless seas away far from
sight of land, within sight and hearing of the pop
ulation of crowded city. We can only imagine the
crash, the heel over then the eddying plunge of the
Pacific or the President, while we have all the har-
rowing details of the burning of the Inflated g New
jersey with her crowds of passengers almost touch
ing her wharf, and yet borne out into the bosom of
the icy river, there TO meet h0Trd death in the very
midst of life, and within view of home. These
things are horrible to think Of but their very sud-
denness makes half their horror, and we know that,
if it increased the intensity of the painful feelings of
dissolution, it abridged proporionately their duration
There was no dull decay-no longing, lingering look
behind. For good or evil, the inevitable hour was
past. More than this who can tell. Ere the silver
cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken, many
bitter pang must be experienced by the firmest
heart, the last parting be rendered less re-
gretful by Witnessing the tears of those we ovethe
agony of those few-very few, who will remember
us after gone. 1t is wisely ordered that the
human frame can bear but certain amount of pain
before death insenslbiity comes to its relief and
that the mind itself will give way when it's agony
greater than it can bear. The pains Of dissolution
probably greater to any of these lost on e,
than each and every one of must sooner or later
experience, when time comes, when the suprem,
moment shall have arrived, when to us earth shall
be more.
In April, 1849, frost and snow visited our At
lantic coast and cut off nearly all the fruit in South
ATTITUDES, but it also cut off the bug or whatev
er it was that was killing the pines, that out of
temporary evil came permanent good
For years past, the tendency of things has BEEF
towards increase of the area and the Virulence
epidemic diseases. Ports escaping one year wer
pretty certain TO be attacked the next, and New Or
leans, Savannah, and Norfolk and Portsmouth, hav
been turned into houses of mourning while Charles
ton, Augusta, Mobile, Galveston, ard other cite:
have suffered to greater or less exte: and the cpl
demic diseases Of the low countries OF the coast hay
penetrated farther into the interior than ever dreame
of before.
1t may be that the terrible winter, which, we trus
is nearly past, has had its mission like the snow q
April, lS49 Really sevara and cOntinunrv fros+