Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-05-07
Oar rr,o to onsIow.

The associate Editor Of the Journal paid yiss to
Onsow county this week it being the Spring Term of
the Superior Court for that county His Honor Judge
caldwell. presided. His Honor has been on the Cir
cult for several weeks, and although apparently well
in health when we saw him at Duplin at the COM
mencement OF his Circuit he still seemed to be suffering
under considerable fatigue There of much
public Importance on the docket. On Monday evening,
owing to some manifestations of the spirits group
of jolly souls got into slight muss to the damage of
their several ontispieces and subsequently had an
teryiew with his Honor on the bench, who imposed
small ne and they were told to depart in peace and to
treat each other more kindly in future.
With the above accidental exception found the
people of Onslow in very good humor and large
Der ready and anxious to their subscriptions to
the Journal to say nothing of several Others who had
not previously been on our list but who forward
to take the paper and pay for it. The cash system
works velour people, to man, we think approve OF
it, at least they manifested that disposition at Onslow
court We thank them for their kind estimate of our
efforts to render them satisfaction.
The crops have been somewhat injured by the late
cold spel-the cotton especially. We hope however
that the damage will be less than had been feared.
Hs5 ne Ealelgn heStSeT uOtS HoC SotH W ike the
Internal Improvement portion of the Democratic plat
form in this State not, so far see because
the Register any body else find fault with it on
the ground of State policy, for it arms distinctly the
principle contended for, subordinate only to the higher
obligations imposed by regard for the credit of the
State and the of her citizens. Stripped of all
verbiage and conceament the opposition avow their
dislike of State works of Internal Improvement and 60
for Internal Improvements by the General Government
by the funds of the General Government at any rate
To this the talk of the disribuonists amounts. They
say in effect, Men of North Carolina why seek to de
veope the of your State by the of your
own means and your own credit-why pay taxes in
your treasury for this purpose. Go to the Federal
Treasury and ask for portions of the general fund.- Get
out of that fund many thousands hundreds of thou
sands Or millions of dollars, as the case may be, and
build your public works with the money so obtaned'-
Quite nice arrangement but for the little fact which
these disrbuonists these friends of Internal Improve
ment by the General Government, have forgotten to
state and that little fact is that you can't get dollar
out Of the federal treasury without having first put it
there If you distribute in any year ten millions Of
dollars among the States, there will be just that amount
more to be collected out of the people of those States
increased by the cost of collection and disbursement
for the General Government has private purse-not
cent that does not out of the people of the States
For part believe in collecting and disburs
ing money in our way, rather than having
the Federal Government to do so for us by means of
high tariff that must lead to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
hostile section at expense.