Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-30
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year without the necessity Of reSOrng to loan, fuonc
Lands or no Public Lands. The question is not
what shall we deposit but how shall we meet our obi
gations-not how shall we depete the Public Treasury
but how shall we keep it properly supplied.
We are glad that such is the case-gad that no sur
plus in the Treasury invites speculation Or furnishes the
plea of necessity in exenuaton of measures doubtful In
nolicv and more than doubtful in principle. Of course
we regret the existence Of the immediate causes which
have lead to the exceedingly rapid depletion OF the
Treasury although always anxious for the adoption OF
such measures as would lead to the result by means
of the Government ceasing to collect more than nece
sary allowance being made for the sums already IN the
Treasury Again and again do we wish to call the
public attentonthe attention Of the Democracy to the
propriety and expedency Of allowing no speclous plea
of necessity to form neither excuse nor precedent for any
alteration from the strict line of Democratic principle
Solitary and alone in this State raised the voice OF
dissent the measure Of deposit not as attacking our
but as in vindcation and defence OF
Democratic principles and policy Not anxious to ere
ate divisions or disrusts but determined sduousy to
avoid everything having tendency in that direction
we rested contcnted with such an avowa sustained by
such arguments as appeared essential to the proper 0s
Now that the political contest is oVer-now that
events have 80 signay marked the wisdom and proprety
of the position assumed and the course pursued by the
opponents of deposit distribution we feel at full lib
erty to refer again to the matter in proper spirit we
trust-in spirit of kindness, yet with no abatement OF
the nness and resolute adherence to principle which
ought to characterize the language of Democratic
press
If the lessons of 1887 and subsequent years were rem
dered less impressive through the lapse of tme the
events of the present day before us and papabe to
our own eyes and observation If we pointed in vain
to the fact that in 1884, there really surplus Ell
ther to deposit or distrbute- references to the
embarra5sens of the treasury arising out of the at
tempt to carry out that measure UNDECIDED surely
the fact cannot be denied that the success of such
measure in passing through the last Congress- must have
eventuated either in miserable failure or in national
bankruptcy.
It is lesson which ought to be improved and rene-
bered It is conveyed in the stubborn language of facts
it rises into the gravity Of impressive experience.
Those who ignore it again, will do so with their eyes
opcn 1t will be a wful blindness rather then al III"
voluntary error.
When we said that solitary and alone, in this State,
We raised the voice Of opposition to the measure of de-
post we ought to have qualified the expression by con-
6unc it to the press of the State In two districts at
least the old unfacring banner was borne aoft-ln one
to victory in the other to issue which, considering
the strength of the opposition, hardly less glorious
than victory in the first district, DR.. Shaw fought
glorious fight and gained the dayin the Guiford dis
trct Mr. Williams did WELL very well, and if he did not
nj nv ia he
deserve the ungraciouS attack made upon him by some
correspondent Of the Washington Union, purportng to
write from North Carolina. When the Washington
Union nterfcre in North Carolina politics. it ought to
know What ii ia dnngperhaps its interference of all
could be adyantagrously dispensed with.
Tux SOUTHERN C1r1zES." We have before uS the
first number of the Southern Citizen, new weekly pa
per, lust started at Knoxville Tennessee, by John
Mitchell and VIM, G. Swami, price 50 year invariably
in advance
II is q large, handsome and wellprinted paper and
bids fair to he an interesting and valuable one. AS
writer Mr. Mitchell is well known, and enjoys reputa
ton second to no man in the land while his partner
Mr.. Swami native-bon Of the South, is avorably
known throughout the Southwest but especially in his
native State of Tennessee.
1t is no part Of the design of the editors to make the
Southern Citizen in any sense, what is known as al
Irish paper 1T is to be what its name indicates,
Southern newspaper devoted to the interests of th
South The editors say in their prospectus that one
Southern man by birth-the other by preference, ant
that both shall therefore feel themselves at full liberty t.
discuss all questions worthy the attention of the citizens
of that section and of the whole country The question
of re-openng the slave trade will he prominently dis
cussed
| We do not know whether we shall be able to approve
of all the views that may be advanced by the Chse
but we feel certain that such views as may be advanced
will be presented boldly and sustained ably. JOIN
Mitchell Yields powerful pen and stops not halfway
We shall watch his course with interest the so
he has already awakened the ire and carried the abuse
Greey and his coadutors among the aboonists Of tn
North, as we'll as that Of Prentice and the notoriou
Brownlow at the South.
Excitement is the great demand of the age, ane
one excitement gives place to another with ane
rapidity that is perfectly charming.
| The Central America kept possession Of the public
mind for some time. Much was said and many sugges
tions offered having for their object the prevention
such things in future. But and terrible ex
element arose-nstead of the wall for the dead panic
for the living obtained precedence. 1t was no longe
asked how the victims Of the Central America BY
their DEATH but how shall we and all of us come by tb
means of living?
The Central America is forgotten, and a the precau
tionary and preventive measures suggested have beer
forgotten too and will be no more heard of until the oc
currcncc of some similar catastrophe again results il
their temporary resurrection to be followed by CORES
ponding oblivion.
The colored man., Dred Scott, is at discount ever
in abolition Vermont; and Kansas may " bleed" jus
rs much as she nIeaSes but no dunes will bleed the