Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-02-28
Tie Nominations, Etc.


Our readers are already aware that on Wednesday, the
goth instant Hon. VIM. S. Ashe and r. H. Cowan,
ESQ., were nominated by the States Rights Convention
Of New Hanover candnates to represent the county,
in the approaching Convention
No nomination could possibly please everybody, and
we do not expect that these nominations will do what
experience has shown to be impossible Some would
no doubt have been pleased, had their individual
preferences been consulted to have had different nom
nations made s we know that several gentlemen were
talked Of for any Of whom ii nominated we shodd have
voted with pleasure, certainly shall do Tor Messrs
Ashe and Cowan, and we feel certain all the
gentlemen who had been talked Of in connection 18th
the nomination will do.
There is no use in mincing the matter-Messrs. Ashe
and Cowan are Secession Candidates. They are con-
WINGED that the time has come when North Carolina
must either go with the North the South and they
think that she ought to 60 with the South.
No one doubts their fidelity to the they en-
gagged in nor their ability to do good service 1t is
therefore due to them that they should receive the vote
of every man in the county whose views are represented
by the resolutions of the Convention by which they
were nominated. This is no time for the indul-
gence of personal pques or jealouses, or i-teengs
But is a time-yea, the time for rising above such
things standing upon principle, and acting in accord
ance with it.
In connection with the nominations, we may here re-
mark that Mr.. Rankin chairman of the Convention,
stated that he had letter from Mr.. Ashe, declining to
be considered candidate for the nomination. He was,
however, nominated by accamation and, nominated,
he could not resist the wish of lis fellowcitzens.
The ratification meeting at the ITALIAN Hall large
and enthusiastic. Messrs Cowan and Ashe made stir
ring addresses The resolutions and nominations Of the
Convention were ratified amid much applause.
NATHANIEL G. RAND, CASTOR II. WILDER and A.
NJ. LEWIS Esq5., were, Monday last, nominated by
reclamation as the States Rights candidates for Con-
vention in Wake county. They will enter Immediately
on the canvass and we have been pleased to learn with
excellent prospects OF success. From information re-
Gently received, we feel better hopes for Wake county
than we had formerly DONE We now think that States
Rights candidates be elected there, and A be, if
the States Rights will only drop all former feuds,
distinctions and party lines and do their BEST bring out
the votes and that they are poled On the ticket
nominated on Monday we find blending of Breckln-
ridge and Douglas men, which encourages to think
that differences and divisions haze been dropped.
Speaking about parties 1t is evident that parties
always have existed, and always will exist, in free
country and if founded upon principle it is proper that
they should exist There times and there are issues
to which the usual of politics and the understood
policy Of political parties do not apply and we are now
in the midst of such time, and in the presence Of such
issues. We are therefore, willing tognore former par
ty distinctions, ard to vote for the man, men, who
will best represent views in the present emergency,
without regard to their political antecedents except in
so far they relate to the distinctive issue before
us. But do we thus cease to be Democrats? We
think not We suppose nobody thinks that less
Democrats now than formerly, nor are we inclined to
stuly ourselves by disavowng principles for which we
have previously contended. The present issues arising
out OF the state of our Federal relations WHILE
think they involve the assertion of the great Democrat
ic principle Of State Rights, do so in manner which
demands the attention of all of all parties at the
South and forces them to consider the matter on its own
merits.
CRAVEN CoUNTY.-We learn from the Newbern Pro-