Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-11-08
For the Journal.
Barbecue & Mass Meeting i'm Column

bus County.
MESsRs EDIToRs have to report to you barpecue ana
very large Mass Meeting Peacocks Store in Columbus
couny-a meeting of the Breckenridge and Lane men ana
Early On the morning of the 1st inst, large flag
at said place. inscribed with the OF our cano
the rank file of party were seen hronng
the prepared for the speakers AFTER some very
by john W. Ellis ESQ. the Hon. Warren Winslow
forward to address the meeting And well and any dd ne
sustain his reputation orator. and in mastery man
vndcate party from the asperons of the Opposl
ton 1t struck peculiarly fercibe Illustration OF
the position of the parties among that of ntrodu
cling Demetrus and those craft at Ephesus who at
tempted put down ST. Paul while he was the
Great il Diana Of the Ephesians That is to say when
Southern argue earnestly about cur constitutional
rights compact of fathers they not contin
uay interrupted by the cry of the Opposition, The
Union the Union, gen Lenen the Glorious Union " He
would go far for the Union any one while was
Union based regard for the constitutional rights of
section but who that had the heart of freeman and e
pecaly of North Carolinan who remembered that his
had sanctioned that immortal insrument-the
Meckenburg Declaration,-who he asked, would go one
allow me space to follow Winsows patriotic remarks
this subject of the Unon the and the Equal
try dispensing with many of Northern lux
to put old looms to work. and buy none OF their
stufs.
How long before these apostles of negro freedom
would realize by scarcity of bread at home and by much
reduced wages their factories that there such
thing carrying zeal for Africa and enmy to their best
customers too far? How long before the merchant ships
that bring us their manufactures and mporations would
lie rong their wharves and grass grow in the streets
those vast commercial centres which are now alive with
the hum prosperous trade and But enough
do pretend give the glowing words of eloquent
Representative. Nor follow him through the whole OF
his address Doubtless his points made and defended
ably other of his District they with
and trust they will strengthen those of the household
of faith elsewhere they have the Democrats of Co.
umbus.
Mr. John D. Taylor our Senator elect called up,
and directed his remarks principally to the position
alas openly urged by diUS of the Opposition viz
Talk of such thing as State sovereignty as that exist
ed And he showed by tracing the history OF the forma-
that
ereignty-ever defended by statesmen OF the Democratic
school, and renowned denied by but Federasts.
who heard his argument will soon surren
der that point, especially at time when 1t be-
| come necessary to assert it.
The audience then invited parake of the
freshments provided for the occasion And most boun
u truly, these Not less than orytwo shoats and
beef BESIDES all done up in the finest barbecue STYLE
ved hungry. The abundance and excellence of the
provision department. the general prevalence of the
best Of hnor, and, finally, the usual effects OF good
above, an occasion not soon to be forgotten by
staunch old Columbus After justice had been done
to solids and Iuxuries spread upon the tables J..
W. Ellis Esq took the speakers stand and with the same
and stirring eoquence which heretofore have
cheered the suuadrons and called them on to
victory impressed upon brother Democrats go the
posto be certain they went and suffer nothing to detan
and when they cast their votes to be they
no Others than such as read Breckenridge and Lane
be was followed by Forney George Esq, who took up
the subject Of the Equality of the States their equal rights
in the public territories both North and South. His posi-
ton most ably sustained and after resumng his seat
tie Hon. Warren Winsow again called up. few hui
most ELOQUENT appeal to his Democratic friends to all pa
trios to the 9th of this month, and their
surages for Breckenridge and Lane with full assurance that
they were dong SO for the Constitution the Union and the
Equality Of the States.
Messrs. Editors: am perhaps becoming tedious and
re enthusiastic of twelve hundred Mass
Meeting-so will conclude. But if confidence our cause
may almost say confidence in success, Democrats
OF our County fully alive to the momentous questions before
Them and as fully determined to perform their whole duty
is any omen of victory predict very fine majority in Co
ing Tor our opponents. so mote 1t be. B.