Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-10-01
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
The Legislature.

the State to nleet, Cue press NATURALLY CoutH0 olNO
tions upon its probable course,
There will be several Offices to FILL and, OF course there
will be considerable eectoneerng among the friends OF
aspirants or candidates. Comptroller, Secretary OF
State Treasurer several Solicitors, two Judges, two
Senators in Congress- besides the officers OF the two
Houses-all together make quite budget
Then will come up various matters relating to the
pnbc works the finances and the taxation of the State
We nut the offices first because we want to see them
filed and disposed of that they may be out OF the way
OF real business
Both houses are Overwhelmingly Democratic, and
therefore may expect the different Offices IN their gilt
to he filed by Democrats For President OF the Senate
we have heard only Hon. Bedford Brown of Caswell,
and Z. ID. Mcdowell Esq, OF Baden, spoken OF 50 far
For Mr. Brown, entertain the highest reSpect-tor
Mr.. Mcdowell we confess to an additional feeling OF
warm personal friendship. With disparagement to
Mr. Brown we should be much gratfed by the election
of Mr.. Mcdowell.
For the Speakership Of the House three names are
mentoncd-to wit Thomas Settle Jr., of Rocking
ham, VIM Hill, of Halifax, and John c. Badham Of
Chowan, all comparatively young men, but possessing
considerable legislative experience and familiarity with
parliamentary rules and usAges. Mr.. Hill is native
lmDSUOnld, anu dI OnG LlLnC ICpIlctHtCu 4NCW lII
over County in the House of Commons He is gen.
tlernan of decided talent Mr.. Badham is about Mr..
Hills age has served several sessions is prompt and
ready and man of ability. Mr. Settle is the youngest
of the three. He frequently called to preside dur
ing the last session, and did so with credit to himself
Now, in regard to Senator'S we the advocates Of
no particular men us SUCH If good and true and able
men and sound Democrats be elected we shall be salts
fed in that respect But especially must we insist up
on the last qualification The Senators must he sound
to the core-we want no tinkering around.
So much for individual qualification. There is another
thing to which, without wishing to be sectional, feel
bound to refer in this connection. The oca-
ton of the Senators. Why should the South
side be a prescribed region in all State ap-
pointments. Four-ffths of all our State Senators,
Governors Treasurers etc. etc, for the last twenty
years have come from the Virginia line OF from few
counties near the centre of the State Why is this?
Is the sense, the patriotism, the Democracy Or the
Whggery of the State confined to certain number OF
counties? Are we sure enough under Virginia infu-
ence Must all our State officers bring with them a
certain odor of the Old Dominion Must our roads 60
to Virginia and bring us back Virginia influences in
exchange for produce? Really reason for it.
We have Governor elect, who is not SO stuatcd-why
can't we 90 farther and complete our emancipation by
giving other sections of the State chance at the Sen
atorships, and State Offices:
The State owes money aud must provide means to1
its ultimate payment, well for the prompt settle
ment of the annually accruing interest We go most
emphatically for rcdccmng every pledge that North
Carolina has made. Far distant indeed be the day
when reputation will be even dreamed Of among us
We can only meet all engagements 10y imposing tax
sufficient to provide adequate revenue Debt means
taxation. Assistance to public works is but another
phrase for debt and its necessary concomitant at eas
until such works begin topay if they ever do. We owt
some six to seven millions of dollars. We pledged
to more How came we owe So much? What werC
the arguments usCd-What the feeling appealed to =
Was it not done to deveope North Carolina-to aord
markets for her products and products for her markets
to bring the East aud the West together, and all that
Were these aud such these not the arguments used
and was not State pride the feeling appealed to? How
otherwise could the various grants Of assistance to West
ern Railroads have been passed with the er Of Faster
votes? or vice versa?
The question arises and will come up at the mex
session, as to whether these arguments were urged il
good faith by some who employed them Whether tn
implied promise which their involved is to be kept sd
cred or whether it is to be volatcdWhether the Stat
works are be bond of union to bind together her differ
cnt parts, or middle wall OF partition to divide then
and keep them assunder It will remain to be see
whether indeed we have been building North CAROLYN
works. or simply constructing extensions Of feeders tt
the works of neighbours, intended to carry our Pre-
ducts to their ports on rails paid for out of the take
raised from the people of seaboard, for to tb
latter alternative does the tapping principle now adyt
Gated by many, amount
Are we to have Danville Connection? If we az,
west of Greensboro become de facto Vrgnian, W
would 60 against the expenditure of another cent
North Carolina money upon them Let those tha
dance pay the piper. Why should the East be squeeze
for what could be none of their business? The san
sort of reasoning will apply to all these tapping project
But the Western North Carolina Railroad has
charter-a liberal one still it will come toward with
application for an amendment That amendment wi
amount to an abrogation of the section feature-to
permission to work simultaneously both sides of II
Ridge at once and finally to getting the State to be;
the whole the most of the expense of the mounta
section. Now, not liberal in notions "
take it that soon or later road will cross Il
Blue Ridge in our State and but one and that this roo
must be largely assisted by the State, We have o,
doubts about its paying, but we haVe none about
being made. 1t is to be done whether We want it
not. The sooner it is done, consistent with the mea
and credit of the State, the better.
Well it seems to be conceded that but one cross
of the Blue Ridge can Or will be made, it becomes
more essential to have that crossing together with
road west OF it, arranged to most easily come
with the different public works East of the mountain