Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-03-11
Fossils and other Thin gs.

Noah's ark, the tooth of the guyascutus nor both
put together, constitute all the fossils which may be
found neither are they the most remarkable They
dead turned to stone or lime the may be. They
make no sgn the tooth of the guyascutus harmless
and never ancies that it be neither does the keel
of the ark make insane attempts at crossing the Atlantic
on its own account There are other relics of past
age remains of different state Of existence politically
speaking, much fossils in their way Noahs ark
the tooth of the guyascutus. These political fossils,
worthy gentlemen, many Of them, occasionally fancy
themselves still politically alive and meet together or
write letters providing for the reorganization of the
Wing party for doing something which cannot be done
for which the day is past.
very respectable, but rather cold gentleman Of this
State-to wit, Hon. VIM. A. Graham is very fond of
figuring in this way. He is quite epsotary and rather
dactc extends his studies into the region of political
conchoogy says his say, and subsidies rather rises
into the character of respectable private gentleman
inclining to the fossil character in politics.
Where things may drift, we cannot pretend to know.
The greatest troubles of life are those that never
Our prophets of evil forebode many dire national Attic
ton that never may, and, think, never will befal
But it would be folly to shut our eyes to the fact that the
spirit of disorganizaton must have acquired great force
when Congress of the United States adOurnS without
making any provision to carry of the most impor
tant departments of the that may fairly
be said to occupy nearly the place the political system
that the circulation does in the human. somewhat
similar difficulty occurred during General Pierce's adj
mnisraton but that was at the close of the long ses
ion and the President never let Congress get away be-
fore he called it back again.
But for all that this goodly country of ours is not
ruined spite of all that may be said by the fiery declam
ers who employ strong language with the freedom
because of the influence responsibility attaching tt
anything they may say and in spite too Of the omnou
mods and head shakings of Others who look wise
and nod more impressivey than Burley himself Thanh
heaven, the class of empty spouters and equally cmpt
headshakers is passing away and the sooner the better
Just as soon people generally arrive at the conclusion
that two and two make four and more and no less
then will all these people pass into the fossil state,
wisdom cease to be either enthroned noisy tongue
or its sentence conveyed by the ominous shaking of
empty head
There is class OF people in Pennsylvania who al
apparently preparing to fosszc themselves as rapid
as circumstances will permit These people call then
selves Tariff Democrats-that is to say, these pcopI
with ak on imported iron of some "a per cent, wal
protection by higher rate 1t Is not enough lOr incl
that the Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Roa
should pay twenty-four dollars every hundred doa
worth of iron it contryes to get but they want to mai
it pay thirtyfour, that Pennsy lyana ironmaSters ma
have protection This Union contains thirtythr
States ALL OR nearly all, engaged in building railroads
all, or nearly ALL seeking to develop their " America
industry" by opening up avenues to market, and y
the representatives Of one State says-No! your wor
must all pay toll to Thirty-two States wantir
Railroads, must all pay tribute to few iron-ma
tiers in one. Cool, that-isn it? Quite in t
fossil way, and yet it has hardly passed into t
stoney stage yet 1t is now somewhat on the bro
order The course of these people in the present Go
gress is the most narrow, selfish and short sighted tn
can be imagined They are preparing for themselves
severe retrbution. They have far more protects
than they ought to have By keeping quiet they mig
be allowed to retain it. but they ovW be FOOLS and ho
ever they may succeed in manouvring for time, t
revival of railroad enterprise in the United States
bring about such a reaction against iron masters
nasters indeed they seek to beg as may sweep away
duties on railroad iron, at any rate reduce them
merely nominal rate The sooner these people bcco1
tossilized the better for the country.