Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-28
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
N. c, FRIDAY MARCH. rs. Is5e
MIR. Haughton's Address.

maxim which teaches us 10 beware OF rdsn PROMISES
few DAYS since promised to refer, at our lesure'
to the points presented in the powerful address :"
of Mr. Haughton to his party in this State slightly
touching al the time upon one point "eH' no"
that we turn 10 redeem promise in good taltn'
we find ourselves unable to do so, for the simple rea
son that the powerul address " has no points, 1t
did appear to have one that about Admitting ~ 'n0
rights of suffrage in Kansas men OF loreiSn ol''n
,h boo only taken the ipjtiatory step towards nat
,,rol1at;on Wedont ike to maui anything after it
is dead and really il does seem 10 US that Inc STATE
mont Of simple fact two, then made by us IN con-
nection with this matter depnves 1t OF every
remnant of vitality. Not alone was MIR. Fillmore
MIR tIaughon own candidate committed TO the same
principe against which he envegbs but, still more
receprly upon the very matter al issue, MT. Badger
the great G.hr of the opposition IN North Carolina,
stands REGARDED IN favor of the Kansas bill Nor Will
i ohviate the matter to contend, the Herald does
IN ia Yesterdays issue that he difference in the latl-
tpdo and positon of Washington Territory alters the
case If phy steal caoses The geographical situation
and the character of tie country precluded al hope
Of the Introduction Of slavery within the borders OF
thai territory, it aid be borne IN mind that the
nroblbuion of positive kept it out Of all terrific
ries north Of lhirtysX thirty, and that, without Inc
legislation in connection with Kansas and Nebraska
slavery could not 90, matter how well adapted Inc
soil and climate might be for the profitable employ"
ment of that species of labor, and, for the removal
of this interdct we indebted to this very leglsIa-
ton which is so assaed. AS for the Emlgrant AID
Society, which MIR. Haughton calls 'your foreign
Emigrant Society sending foreigners IN hot haste to
Kansas it is sufficient state, that that society re-
ceived its act of incorporation from the Know Nolh-
ing legislature of Massachusetts,, in which act 1t was
provded in the first section, that twenty persons
therein named and their associates, successors, and
assigns, are hereby made corporation, by the name
of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, for
the purpose of assisting emigrants to settle IN the
West" &c. and the history of the operations of this
company, and It's agents in Kansas shows that these
emigrants were by no means foreigners exclusively,
nor TO any great extent. They were Northern Abe
litionists under the auspices of company chartered
by Know Nothing Legislature.
Again, compare the new States of the West, as
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and others, which re-
ceive a large proportion of foreign emigration and
where the vote of naturaized citizens is an impor-
tant item, with the States of New England, where
Know Nothing-ism is dominant, and see how the
facts of the case contradict the charge of aboonism
against the naturalized citizens. Know Nothing
Vermont goes dead against the South-Illinois with
a heavy naturalized vote, sends four Democrats 10
the House of Representatives who vote with the
South. The K. N. Representatives from that State
all go against the South
We may, in future, take up the platform, and the
convention, although think Albert Pike has rath-
er done them up in q style that neither Mr.. Haugh
ton nor anybody else can answer.
AS for the lapse of time between Mr.. Fillmores
assent to the principle of the much condemned fea-
ture of the Kansas BILL and the passage of that BILL
we need only remark that Mr.. Donelson, Mr.. Fill
more's present associate, then editor of the Union
had considerable squabhIn with tho Ro2n1!so, Mr..
Fillmores organ as to which party was most entitled
to the credit of the increased emigration, which
both seemed to regard capital anxiously 10 be
seized upon The emigl alton was then greater than
it is now
The RESERVED LIsT.-We must confess that We are
unable 10 perceive the use of half the fuss made
officers of the navy placed the reserved list. 1t
is an honorable retirement on full pay-a relief from
duties for which advanced age certainly makes men
less fitted 1t would seem to be rather compliment
than an afron, and, surely, officer worn down by
the services of half century, and the weight of
three-score years and ten, would be more in place
at home, enjoying the honorable retirement and dig
niied leisure to which he is justly entitled, and
which is in accordance with his growing infrmities,
than he could at the head Of feet on a bosterous
element, where the promptitu G and vgor of man.
hood in its prime is often taxed to It's utmost capac
ty Take the instance of Commodore Conner, re-
Gently deceased The Commodore was an old man,
WIN had bpan + Goa Sinca he Mayican war and
whom Secretary of the Navy would have been ex-
peced ever to send to sea again. He had fulfilled
his mission. He had earned his reward. He was
entitled TO his discharge from the obligation to per-
form onerous duties no longer compatible with his
failing health and growing nirmities, but he was al
so entitled to all the honors and emoluments of the
position to which he had worked his way, and in
which he had won laures and achieved distinction
and he obtained them. The rewards at the disposal
Of grateful country should be cheerfulIy bestowed
upon those who have earned them but not so as 10
interfere with the energetic discharge of the public
service, BY retaining in posts calling for unmpairei
strength and activity, the valeudnaran or the super
ANIMATED Judge Rufn, of this State, set the proper
example. He did not wat for others TO suggest tc
him the propriety of retirement because delicacy
would prevent others from so doing-he did not even
wait for time TO arrive when suspicion of failing
faculties might Justify such suggestion. He retired
before one jot or one title of his energy had been
abated He did not wait for his own infrmitics OF
the suggestions of Others to call for the act but he
did it freely and fairly, and avoided all such msfor.
tunes by dgnifed retirement ere the evil days had
come. How few are there like Judge Ruffn
hJ~ The armistiCe agreed unOn between the bel