Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-03-29

tried and found wanting
AID VaIorem.
ired OF defeat, anxious for power, and desparing OF
by fair and legitimate discussion of the princ
pies and measures to which they have hitherto proessed
to be the nameess hopeless reckless opposition
of our State seem bent rule if ruin follow in its
wake.
After for years pretending to deplore the sectional
phase assumed by national politics. and deprecae the
dangers and difficulties thus produced after denouncng
the democratic party the sole active of the
tOna divisions in the UniOn-accusiny them of tanning
the flames OF scOrd for the purpose of making for them
selves political capital and then for this uncommitted
crime, exhaustng their whole vocabulary Of vituperaton
and abuse upon them find the opposition attemp
ting to bring about exactly the unhappy condition
OF affairs in State politics. and evidently with the very
same criminal and mercenary motive which they have
heretofore falsely charged upon the only pure and
tlOnal party IN the country.
They have Ill their late convention at Raleigh, put
forth Platform, which however flimsy it may be in
other respects has for its aim, tendency and effect the
enklndlng OF the most cOmbustibe element in midst
and the stirring up of most fearful conflict in our COM
mOnweah. 1t seeks by of slavery question to
array the West against the East and with the delusive
hopes to the poor upon the rich and
him who has no slaves upon the Shareholder And thus
at the expense of the public peace by the hghhanded
violation of vested rights by the utter subverson of
the first prncp pies of the government established by
fathers by appealing to the most sordid and unworthy
feelings OF Western Brethren by breaking the most
important legislative compromises of our history does
this shameless opposition seek to fost itself into public
favor ard overthrow the last and the only efficient friend
of our national Union. Now, no matter what may be
the intrinsic merits OF the proposed change the Con
stutonno matter if the ad Ualorem system of taxa
ton considered as question of abstract policy,
were perfectly just an0 equal the present state of the
public mind IN the South precudes the possibility of its
agitation without engenderng bitter strife between the
different classes and sections OF the State
DOa6p0 nv niuct tO
we'll nigh jealous frenzy for the last thirty years
has had to battle with the anacisin OF the North-it
has been and still being driven from the outposts-the
frontier States-Fay CarOlinlon
Black Republican Leader.
AT the Republican" Convention at Worcester
Mass, on Wednesday, to choose delegates at large to
the Chicago Convention OF that party the whole num-
Der OF votes Was ia necessary to choice $685. John
A, Andrew, of Boston, had 769 votes-all but five
Mr. Andrew presided at the meeting held in the Ire
mont Temple, Sunday evening Nov 20, in aid of the
family OF John Brown" Iu his opening speech he
said:
50 pause not now to consider, because il is wholly
outside OF the duty or the thought of this assembly to-
night whether the enterprise of John Brown and his
associates in Virginia. was wise or foolish right or
wrong. only know that, whether the enterprise itself
was one or the other, John Brown himself is right
(Applausej sympathse with the man, sympathise
with the ldea because sympathise with and believe in
the eternal right Those who are dependent upon him
oIu ooiS Ills associates III OaJLG
Ferry haze right to coll upon u.s. who have proessed
to believe or who have in any matter taught
the doctrine of the rights of as applied to the col
ored slaves OF the South to stand bV them in their be-
reavement whether those husbands and fathers and
brothers, were right wrong"
Such is the recorded opinion of a leader of the Re-
publican party, of John Brown aud his doings He is
the faVorlte candidate of the party Mass as other
person received near such vote in the Convention
According to report be is to be the next Republican
dldate for governor of that State.
Baptist paper publisheda at fredericksburg Va thus
comments on the vote of Henry Winter Davis to make
Mr.. Pennington Speaker.
There is no peaceful locality for traitor Execra-
ted by Heaven scorned by EARTH Kissed by hes deepest
damned with egons of oathng vipers forever knawng
at the fountain of vitality, he is adrift throu Oh
unreasonable space continually lashed with thousand
scorpion thongs, while his awful wangs rend the air
My punishment is greater than l can BEAR
Southern Trade-A list of about one hundred and
eighty failures in the shoe trade within the last six
months Shows the name Of only manufacturer en-
gagged an the southern trade.'
We take the above from the Hartford EVENING Press
dLcs and ALL The legitimate inference from it is that
the Southern trade must have been very good profitable
and sure pay.
Hartford Times.
The PURCHASE OF CUBA-We learn from satisfac-
tory source IN Paris that the French government were
advised that Spain has agreed sell Cuba TO the Uni
TED States Everything arranged except the price
about which there some little difference of opinion
~ Y. Courier.
SPIcY.-The following passage at arms has taken
place between the Petersburg (Va.) Press Dem,) and
IRteHagencer, *. ny:
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