Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-08-09
From the Daily Journal of the I'd ms!
MIR. Aahe,s SneeCh on Tuesday Night.

We most honestly and sincerely desire to avoid any
thing and everything in this canvass that might appear
like personality, personal allusion 10 any way We
knew the former editors of the Herald-the Messrs.
Burr-to be much opposed to this thing ourselves
We did think that the editor, Mr.. Waddell was
equally So We say that we did think so until yester
day. From the tone of the leading editorial article in
Yesterdays Herald we reluctantly forced to differ
ent conclusion. We cannot regard that article any
thing than attempt to array every little party
prejudice against party and business he thing
has been tried before It is small affair." any way it
be fixed and we estimate it at all it IS worth Weexpect
have and to keep the business of the business of
Wilmington, simply because they business men, and
know where their interests carry them Ii regarded
them as fools, might entertain different notion
Possibly the Herald has different notion, and simply
because entertans such dsparagng idea in regard
to our business men.
The Herald yesterday, after having INDUCED itself in
over column of miscellaneous baer contains the fol-
lowing beautiful alusion to the Journal:
The Journal too raises howl the prescription pro
scrption doubt meant which is desired to be
csed by the Opposition party in regard to that Road We
are surprised this for understand that the printing
of the Road has been svhly bestowed the Journal and
hardly 2aural to suppose that that would be read
~ reinqulshed
the President and management OF the Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad Company contemporary of the
Herald makes at least one mistake and that is in assign
ing party and peeuniary grounds for our position upon
that question. The printing of the several roads here
has to like that of the majority of merchants
and that has been simply because they have found that
they could have their work done well and promptly by
us. Whether they could have had it done equally well
better elsewhere, do not know and is not for
to say We do know that have solicited that
or any other business public private. Possibly,
might suggest reason why are able to do large
proportion of the Railroad printing in the State 1t
may arise from the tact that the editors and propretos
of the Journal practical printers, Or the cant ap
pears to be now the editors of the journal king
men. They know how to do their work. The Journal
Office did important portion of the work for the Will
mington Weldon Railroad before MIR. Ashe was Pres
ident. The other roads are not controlled by Demo
cratic presidents that know Of hey are the other
way we think and yet, from business consdera-
tons we have done the greater portion of the printing
for these roads In these matters ask favors and
make no distinctions We have never asked for cents
worth of printing from any road any than we have
done from any individual In business matters we ask
no odds. In such matters, in all Others we are will
ling that everything should go for what it is WORTH and
to that it is bound to finally
In reporting, trying to report, Mr. Ashes speech
made on Tuesday night the Herald attributes to him
these remarks:
"That appeals had been made to stockholders against
President mse and money squeezed out of their peck
for political purposes to be used in this and other
testhat the mechanics of the Road had been appealed
vote for Pool in order to have the President turned
and they had been told their would be rased-a
all this akin to oboEonism and he had put his foot
it.''
Now, in this, the Herald misrepresents Mr. Ashe
unintentionally no doubt. We heard ALL nearly all
his speech made Saturday night at the upper Rail-
road Bridge, which was about the same in substance
with that of last Tuesday night. He said that out
cry had been made against the employment of slave la
Dor by the w. & W. Railroad Company, and that thi:
outcry against the employment of kind class of la
Dor belonging and peculiar to the South, akin tc
abolitionism, and upon this Mr.. Ashe put his foot.
will be at how far this differs from the account
as it appears in the Herald of yesterday. Mr. Ashes
own assertion and statement will be sustained by every
man in the community.