Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-07-22

the day designated by their meetings for the assembling
of Convention He spoke of his competitors having
been member of the Know-Nothing party.
His competitor had charged that he stood in every
bodys way from North Carolina and that his constant
applications for Office shut all others out His cOmpeti
tor had also charged that he unpopular with his
colleagues that they would not recommend him also
that he did not believe that Mr. Winsow had ever de-
clned the Sandman mission or that it had been
offered to him-aleging that if had been offered he
would not have declined it. In answer to all this, he
(Mr. Winslow) read letter from Gen. Glass; Secretary
of State rendering the Sandman Mission and his Mr
Winslow's) reply declining it.
Mr. Winslow also read letter from the Secretary Of
State, in which Gen. Cass says that Mr.. Winsow had
never fled application for any diplomatic position
whatever So far his unpopularty with his colleagues
goes he could only say that if he and his colleagues
not friends he was much mistaken. He held in his
hand recommendation for the mission to Naples,
signed by the whole Democratic delegation with the
exception of DR.. Shaw who was not in the city So
much for his eagerness for Office and his unpopularty
with his colleagues. This recommendation he had
neither sought nor used
So far as appointing his own friends to Office was
concerned he could show that this charge was ground
less. His competitor had referred to the fact that
government cerkship had been given to his son. John
Toomer Winslow. lie (Mr. Winslow) had not pro-
cured that appointment for his son. Mr.. Dobbin had
done so against Mr. Wnslow's DESIRE and he did not
know of it until after it was DONE
Bart. Fuller, the only appointment he had made Or
procured to be made from his own immediate neghbor-
hood, was man everyway qualified to discharge the
duties of the office to which he appointed-Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury-he was a good man and
good Democrat and even that appointment had not
been decided until aferhe had learned the disposition
of prominent gentleman in eowerpa part ofthe district
whose services could not be spared from his present
post All the other appointments had been from the
lower part of the district-two Messrs. Price and
Brown from Wilmington.
His competitor had charged him with turning out
Josiah E. Bryan to make room for James G. Cook, as
Postmaster at Fayetteville because the latter had gone
for him (Winslow) in the Fayetteville meeting. He
(AIr. Wnslow) then read letter from Josiah Bryan,
totally repudiang this charge and thanking him for his
friendship. Cookies appointment had been made at the
request of leading and reliable Democratic friends.
Mr.. Winslow then referred to the three set efforts
which his competitor said he had made in Congress-
and in which said competitor charged that he had failed
to wit his speech on the Bill constituting Naval
Court of Inquiry to revise the action Of the Retiring
Board His Speech against the expulsion Of Brooks
for attacking Sumner, and finally his speech in oppos
ton to the proposed vote of thanks to CON- Pauding
for illegally capturing Walker. He said that so far
from falling his views in each case had been sustained
by large majority of the House. He had always
believed that Southern men ought to assert their
rights with frmness and dignity, without bully.
| ing or bravado, and in this he pleased to be
borne out by MIR. Fulton, by whose permission he would
read small extract from private letter touching upon
this matter and upon the matter Of the Navy Bill.
He thought he was right in voting for Oregon both
on principle and on policy-it was no Black Republ
can State, but the reverse Old Joe Lane-a native OIL
North Carona-the Marion of the Mexican war, was
no Black Republican.
Mr. sWinslow referred to his vote on the Deposit
Bill He did not regard it unconstitutional although
he had voted for it reluctantly, and was free to admit
that it was bad voe-one that he would not now give
We find that there are some matters that our time
will not allow to touch upon, and also feel that
our report, made from memory without any chance O
taking notes, must be defective.
By the way Mr. McDufie explained his having op
posed nominee of the Democratic party in Cumber
land last year, by saying he did oppose Mr.. w. Mel
Mckay, because Mckay acting in bad faith to hi
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