Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-07-10


pers of the South do not agree wholly with Governor
Walkers course in Kansas. What they dislike they
openly condemn In doing so they are right. In do
ing otherwise they would be wrong. An attempt at
censurng prescribing gagging such papers, would
be a ridiculous failure They are the true represen-
tatves of the Southern Democratic feeling, because
they are the independent eXponents of Democratic
principle. They give to Democratic Administration
it's best and most efficient support, because unbought
and free and because given, not merely Of course,
but in testimony of genuine living approval, and
known TO be so given.
The day of mere hacks is over, we trust forever
the day Of this mans organ or that mans organ has
CLOSED, or nearly The day in which Editors worthy
Of their VOCATION would consent to have their course
controlled by this or that influence, or swerved to
conform TO the alterations Of men in out of power
we hope never more 10 see. Any attempt at organic
denunciation or prescription of Democratic papers
because of the expression of true Democratic senti-
ments must result in ridiculous faiiuIt and will be
triei on only by the weak, minded or Inconsistencies
The inteE pendent Democratic papers of the South
give a cordial and hearty support 70 Nh Buchanan's
Administration, because they believe it TO be right in
the main. They would be unfathfui to their trust
if they followed il step farther than they believe
it SO to be- We are sorry to see some of ou1
Democratic contemporaries delivering themselves Of
diatribes against the Georgia Democracy, because
they cannot agree with the right of Gov. Walker tc
constitute himself partizan of Free Soil by arguing
the question Of the institutions of Kansas and de-
gliding against the South so far as his official iudg
mcnt goes. The Georgians are right in disappearing
of Mr.. Walkers course. Whether the mode and man,
ner in which their disapproVa is expressed be tht
hest not, is a matter do not care to discuss
No good is to be done by finding fault with the ma
jority of the Democracy of the South by whom Wal
ker's course is condemned.
The Washington Union of yesterday, has quite q
lengthy article on this subject. 1t acknowledge
that nearly the whole Southern press is opposed tC
certain features in Mr.. Walkers Inaugural address
Does this nothing Are those presses and thei
conductors tacionists or they not-with some
exceptions, we admit-among the truest and mos
conservative papers in the Union. Will it do TO class
Mississippi and Georgia mere tactonists, anC
throw back in their teeth the charge of dsorganiza
ton. Not quite, we think. If the Southern Demo
cratic presses and conventions are mistaken in thei
views, they are open to conviction, but cannot b.
moved by~denuncIaIon. They all gave and still Civ
to the administration cordial suppor-they woult
not Willingly differ from or denounce any of TIT
acts of that administration, of any of it's agents
They are the creators, not the creatures of th
administration. They placed it in power, am
by doing so, pledged themselves to sustain
in every fair and proper manner. They work
ed for it the nearest representative of tbei
views-as the best agency through which to secur
and perpeuate the rights of ALL They did not es
1sb n i;
that Mr. Buchanan ever dreamed of sustaining an,
such relation or occupying any such position a.
some weak and indlscreet followers would wish It
place him IN 1t is those who attempt to place hin
in this false position whose course really tends TO dis
'urb the harmony of the Democratic party, and excite
spirit of hostility between its different portions.