Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-06-20
North Carolina Convrntion-Isule In NJ a.
kim ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. &c,


| king Appointments. &c,
! The Wilmington Journal. OF Monday, in a'
editorial c'lnmenting ursn the North Carolina
Contention says:
The Question before the Convention to day
Is 10 a10t:h tie Legislature. The question
for Tomorrow is the election of delegates to
tho Congress Of the Confederate States. to
meet at Richmond in July. The programme
! Of CERTAIN portion Of the delegates is to ar
range tho election for delegates 80 hs 10 snub
every mar ard the friends Of every man who
! advocated sect sSien bei"rc compelled to do so
by LncOlLs proclamation, and 10 elevate none
but watch and wait men. Thus they propose
Tor dcleg,cs at large George f Badger and
Bedford Blown; lst District, John Pool; 81,
JlSSe Spcight. We do not exactly class Mr.
| SPeight wllh the watch and wait men, but he
! Is pr: up ipr tho purpose Of putting dozen Mr..
RLiiin. 81, William j. Houston was talked Of
Mr. Houston we all know and esteem. lie
VAS sought 10 be PUT on The ticket 10 defeat
Mr. Mcdowell, who was found 10 be the choice
Of The original SrcessioniStS. Sir. lJuston has
not cons encd ( b, A. NJ Arlington. We d.
not !hew ,lIir. ArrlIglon'S position. 9TH, John
4 .Gl.mer. Gtb, T. II. Pus5ear. Ith In this
somebody to l,c as,d against Burton Crligc
A,aons uILers, we have heard Of Mr. Lander,
Of Lincur, and Mr. Walker, Of Mecxlenburg,
neither ot shotn can Or so used, We think
We shall tee what W. shall see. This ~e say :
that we link those with WHOM We haze tucre
immediately acted heretofore intend in this
luattcr topursuc perfectly fair course, srtk-
ing no paly or clique advantage. For the Stb,
the %alcl and wait interest vlhrates between
i G4it!ltr and y Mr. Davidson
We de- Ply regret to Sc the manifestations
Of q part,z.n spirit in the councils of or gal.
!lnt s;ale State. ANY attempt to CerVe the
contentious ths; existed PRIOR to tho Lincoln
usurpa!o,, ought to be frosned down by oil
true patrols. Each State in the Southern
Coafede:ry is called upon, by every coo5 de.
ration Of patriotism and duty, tn appoint its
Aulrst ane best men to all Offices, civil aud
military. f.r I'll PLACES the appointing power
should select tho ulen luost likely 10 be .licient
in prricc,i!s the work of Southern !G,depen-
dsnce nowgoing on so braTrly.
Who 0: Elc men prcScntcd 10 Us is capable,
frou pcs;;,n and ilAIcncc, Of accomplishing
the greaies amount VI good 10 the canse to
which wr lave all pledged life, fortune and
honor: Nho can give tie most efficient aid
to the Soua, and strike the harirs; blow at
the Northern ,oeH These arc tie questions 10
be considered and acted upon in the appoint
rner; Of Site an'l Confederate officers, military
and civil. True AID cGcieut men fer these
times ought not to bs prescribed OF account
their antGedcnts rs Seceders oT Constitutional
Un;on nel. 'rae prescription Of original Sc
cessionisl,, on aceOnn: IF taeir antece2ents
would Lc ,ne of those b!unders which, accord.
inS to distinguished authority, is worse than
crime TIE policy is iItvierable and cannot
be carried tut IN any seeded Sttte. II will
no: be a,tcuItLd whcre wise couasels prevail,
auh We ere therefore constrained to uelieVe
that the alprchensiors OF our Wilmington
contemporary viii provo groundless.
We Geen i! proper here to remark that sew
eral Of the g1ml:men nurncd IN the above ex.
,ruc: as former Unionisls have always been
~steeu.rd by US ca rc,aL:s STATE. nish'' "--.
The ours,ion usk4 Is. When will the Con-
ven,ion ndjcn.n: The Wilmington Journal
says:
We understand that the Convcrtionn has 30
'.mended the Constitution aS to remove the
previously existing disability Of members Of
The Jewish persuasion holding cf6:c.
The ordinance Of The Convention providing
for the ruising nrd slationing Of seven rrgi-
| ncnta in tie couD!ios on and East Of the VII.
| mnrtcn & Weldon Rond for the defence Of
| the sc acnast of the State, has been reconsider
I'd and killed II Was objected that it would
be virtual j making the military Of the Sast'
| crn counties in.o ncrruanent homo guard not
liable nor ava:Iable f'r the common offence
:hal it world give ad.ifercnt character and or,
uanz.,cr to he military cf The different sec.
| IONS Of the State, thus creating jealousics-
| hal it would render hopeless tho raising Of
the ten regiments n( State troops, or Of the
other regiments Of volunteers for general ser
VICE tor twtlvr months. Elsttrn men proposed
| the reconsideration. and voted against the bill,
| least 1t might even be supp, sed cnpable Of pro-
dncing the .lfecls above aluibuud tolt
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| Moro Outra.cs Of The Lfncolnites in Iae
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