Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-09-24

SlCy remedy Tor any wrong amounting to negaOn OF
that right. Wrongs the infringement denial OF
rights and common law and common sense alike agree
that for every wrong there is remedy Well now, the
Supreme Court has decided that the right to hold slaves
Constitutional right, that be prohibited or
devesed by less power than that of State sovereign
ty in the formation Amendment of State COnsttu-
tons That it is right with which Congress cannot
interre-that it cannot prohibit interfere with this
right any of the territories and if Congress cannot
do this ortiori territorial government which is the
creature of Congress- cannot do it.
But the new doctrine is that territorial governments
can do what they have no right to do and what Con-
gress has no right to do That they can nullify any
right by deprvng those possessed of it of any remedy
in case of its violation Thus it is conended by Judge
Douglas, that although the right to hold property in
slaves within the territories is guaranteed by the Con
stitution, interpreted by the highest tribunal in the
land yet that the territorial legislatures can do that
by nonaction, which neither they nor Congress do
by action that they say the Constitution recog
nzes this right of property which you claim, Congress
cannot dVest you Of tive cannot, but outlaw
it, by refusing to take cognizance Of it in courts by
refusing to recognise the existence of any right to
Dress or remedy for any wrong against any nracon
upon the right" We ask any honest man, any honest
lawyer if such doctrine this be either common homes
ty good law We neither for hairspltting cas-
usts, nor wireworking politicians nor high "auhori
ties" North South, especially such know to be
provided with to grind" legal right to hold
property of any kind implies legal right to legal pro-
lection in the holding and enjoyment of that property
and power do that indirectly which it cannot do
directly 1t cannot do that by omission which cannot
do
usurpation.
Our SOUTHERN PoRTs.-The sanitary condition of
many of the leading scaports Of the South is deeply to
be regretted affecting it does not simply the health
and comfort of the inhabitants of the cities lying on
these ports but also tending materially to reard the in
dependent commercial and manufacturing development
of the South
It matters little whether yellow fever and it's kindred
diseases be naturazed to- and selfoducing n the cit
les the coast of the Gulf and the Southern Atlantic
seaboard whether they be the result of imported con-
tagon the fact of their existence and the constant ex
posure to their visits cannot be denied From Charles
ton to the mouth of the Rio Grande it too apparent
that none of the important seaboard cities can
claim exemption from the constantly recurring visits
of epidemic diseases of malignant character This
may be due to beyond human CONTROL or it may
be that the adoption of proper precauton tend to
change the order OF things, and perhaps insure
parative, if not total immunity from disease.
The two leading Southern ports Charleston and n.
Orleans the last named city possessing facilities for trade
unsurpassed by any other in the world Other Southern
cities possess considerable trade and Importance and
some of them exceed Charleston in respects still
must be conceded that Charleston and New Orleans are
to great degree the representative cities of the South
and regret to say that must also be conceded that
they becoming and more the homes of yellow
fever That New Orleans is never wholly exempt from
it's presence and Charleston but seldom escapes is only
| too true.
That this should tend to retard their growth in
population and manufacturing, might readily be sup
posed, and that it does do so, is apparent. New
Orleans ought to be a great manufacturing
as well great commercial city. 1t ought to have
population scarcely second to any other city on the
American continent. With its unrivaed facilities of
internal communication the depot for the provisions of
the most productive region in the world it could provide
cheap living for large number of persons It has the
raw staples of several important branches of Industry at
hand and yet its manufacturing capital and population
is very small, indeed hardly worth naming. We fear
that sister city of Charleston must find her progress
arrested by similar causes.
i The strangest and most discouragng circumstance
connected with the visits to- outbreaks of yellow fever
in the cities referred to- that instead of recedng before
the march of settlement and population it rather ncrea-
ses in the frequency and fatality of its visations
Whether it is that drainage sewerage the supply of good
water and other Of cleanliness have not kept
with the advance of population is question that may
we'll be asked Certain it is that questions of this char,
acter beginning to be Importance espe-
cialy to the people of Charleston, Mobile Savan-
nah, New Orleans and Galveston far exceeding that
which attaches to questions of railroads OR steam
ships The question of the public health of the seaport
cities of the South is rapidly becoming matter
of life and death to them. 1t is one that we are anx-
ious to receive favorable solution for, apart
from the fact of the presence Of yellow fever in neigh
boring cities being constant menace to us, we are
not without hopes, in this period of depression in
our town. of seeing and feeling that fresh impulse that
shall bear until acquire that siz, and i'm
portance of which at present the occasional visits
yellow fever seem to be among the conditions.
D~pIIn County--Judge Heath.
The Associate Editor of the Journal visited Kenans-
vile this week, it being that set apart for holding spe
cial term of the Superior Court for Dupln County
Judge Heath recently appointed to fill one of the two
vacancies created by the resignation of Judges Ellis and
Person, present and presided so far as we could
judge, ably and satisfactorily. Judge Heath has the
reputation of being sound lawyer he is gentleman
pleasing manners and of fine personal appearance His
purity and integrity have never been called in question
: We think the appointment most excellent one. The
regular term of Dupn Superior Court will be held nex