Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-10-25
The know Nothing Circus at sal.sbu.y.

The great ground swell is OVer-the Is now n Otn-
ing Circus concluding with grand display OF fire.
works., has fretted its hour and is no more.
With all the advantages of weeks of pulling, 4.
organization and fine weather. the State Mass Meeting
OF the National Union party mustered at the utmost
hundred people outside OF Rowan and altogether
at their meeting some twenty-five hundred They had
professions with torches and transparences banners
&C., and they had Messrs. Vance, Badger, Graham,
Gov. Morehead and Smith orators assisted in the
street corner business by the small fry of the party.
They had fireworks and bells and all imaginary kind Of
foOlery-enough to disgust the most ardent lover of
captrap and more than enough to outrage the feelings
of sober-mLded right-thnking men. What party is
dis making all dis fuss p? asked niger of another in
the hearing of a friend "Tis de position party" was
the response. Den said the first, Use dimocrat."
And no wonder the niger should say so. On Friday
they had dinner-an excellent dinner, we are told
got up by private families in style which ladies only
reach 1t for the friends of Bell and Everett
we not of that number and therefore absent
from the table.
But our readers are mainly interested in what was
SAID We heard several of the speeches and
zed at them We have no hesitation in declaring that
better Black Republican doctrine could not be desired
by Lincoln himself than heard preached here during
Thursday and Friday last. The tone of the speeches
was that of utter unqualified unmtgated submission
ITO Black Republican rule. The niger question was
hooted at as a of dissolution. Mr.. Boyden de-
cared and he desired it to be proclaimed from the house
tops and through the newspapers that he would accept
the humbest Office under Lincoln. and he also declared
that it folly to talk of dissolvng the Union to pro-
tect the niger Gov. Morehead of the opinion
that because had negroes off down South we had
no right to complain of Northern negro thieves. Joe
Turner proclaimed himself submssOnist and said any
man who could stand Buchanan's administration could
stand thai of Lincons whilst MIR. Badger Governc~
Graham we forget which, denounced the administrators
of Fra 1klin Pierce as the worst ever did or cou
have, not excepting that of Lincoln. Loud threats of
hanging Southern traitors heard all sides, but
not word OF menace to northern traitors. Breckin
ridge most violently assaled and Douglas ap
plauded, whilst Lincoln was not even alluded to in dis
paraging terms The secession OF Alabama and South
Carolina the chief topics Of denuncation while the
notification of the fugitive slave law by northern States
not once alluded to. The spirit of the speakers
pervaded the crowd of their followers. A prominent
wreworker of this county declared on the street reply
question, that he would give up the institution OF
slavery rather than the Union! Another of the same
Glass; member elect to the Legislature from neigh
boring county, when asked if be really thought Bell had
any chance answered no. Then why your party press
him? The answer was To prepare the State for the
election Of Lincoln!
10 those who denOunce the miscreant Helper and
who appauded the running of of Prot Hedrck, it must
have been apparent that great change has taken place
in the Opposition branch of public sentiment during the
last two years We witnessed the poor drunken fool
Sandy Tate covered with tar and feathers and astrde
rail, last winter, for using language little if any
than proclaimed from the public stand and applaud
ed here during the past week. 1t is time these things
should be known and pondered and it is time the press
of the State should do its full duty in denouncing such
things. We say, and know the truth of what we say
will be recognized by all unpreudced men, that the last
State campaign and the present campaign far have
done to abolitionize North Carolina than could
have been effected by Black Repu bicanism in twenty
years We do not charge this design upon the Oppo
sition, but we do distinctly charge this effect When
John Fool during the late campaign, reoiced that the
negro had begun to stink in the white mans nOstrs he
did not weigh his words. When proclaim that they
will give up the sole dependence for life and happiness of
the South rather than the Union they little think what
they say. When others candidate to prepare the
South Tor the rule OF its deadest foes they rivet chain
they again break. When Southern men de-
sire it to be proclaimed that they will take Office under
an antSOutheru administration they ought to know
they invite Northern aggression.
OF course the Union was the battle cry Of the ora
tors and disunion the weapon used Breckinridge-
Mr. Badger did not believe Breckenridge to be dsun-
onst, did Mr.. Vance, but they contended he was
the tool OF dsuniOnistsin this chasing dsuniOnss
all the eminent and distinguished democrats North or
South Mr. anee was anxious to know where the Black
Republican party came from, and without once think
ing where the Wing party of the North had gone to- he
was satisfied the Democracy had given birth to Black
Repubcanism. MIR. Vance also defended Douglas
squatter sovereignty doctrine or at least he condemned
that OF the Breckenridge party and before he concluded
he took special pains to prove that Bell and Brecn-
ridge occuI precisely similar grounds on that cues
ton, Gov. Morehead ridcued the idea OF the South
kicking up row about slave territory seeing, as be
said, that they have more territory within their
States than they know what to do with. He charged
that the design of the supporters of Breckenridge South
was to reopen the slave trade in face of all the evidence
to the contrary These and such others were the topics
urged to the crowd How fair they were our readers
can see.
On the whole the meeting was an extraordinary one
in its tone and sentment-in its foolery and ridicu-
lousness. AS State Mass Meeting, in point of num-
bers, it dead without regard to numbers
or any good practical effect it eminenty successful
So far affected the prospects of the democracy we
have every reason to be satisfied 1t has thoroughly
aroused our peope-made OF the three Douglas men
we have strong Breckenridge man, and has inspired
the entire democracy of Rowan with fixed determine
ton to show the State that captrap assertions music
from bells other BELLS fireworks cannot divert
them from their purpose to stand by the great States
Rights champions, Brecknride and Lane. We pledge
Rowan for one OF the Democratic banner counties on
the 9th of November.-Sa Salisbury Banner.