Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-07-17
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We do not care how earnestly the trends OF ar
Vance may attempt to free him from the odlrm OF nelng
la nominee The pouthpece the tool of certain clique
about Raleigh; hey may deny ths-they may per-
shade Others that It is not sothey may even go 80 lar
s to think themselves that il is not So LII this they
NAV do, and NAV thus succeed in freeing Mr.. Vance
from, the evil eff CTS of Modernism the oanUnss,
hut suppose that they do so-that they elect MIR.
Vance, biea comes the time Of trial Does any
reasonable man suppose for moment that Gouef-
no, Vance couIo free himself rom-th control the in-
huenee of the Clique at Raleigh which has moved heaven
aud earth 10 gtt Up partisan contest in this State
which is DOW working the wires to add bitterness TO
this contest which, part of the machinery, has
brotght orwerl Zob. B. Vance, Of Buucombe that he
may be The screen for the powers behind the throne,
greater than the tbr itself? If any thinks So
&c s destined to awful disappointment, should Mr.
Vance be clc;cI,
And Mr., Ymcy may be excited. He ia a gentleman
Of popular monnare very popular in crowd" lie
is in the army, and lis army position will be used by
experienced masters in the arts of eectoneering TIE
corks have set and the wires worked good way ahead
IS to stock lie cards in bis favour. While the mild
g c0useI Yatvcs have thus been working Ike beavers
to egec; their ends the terrible destructives have
thought any Fnch movements at this time u0pariotic
aud mpr0per-haYc avoided elactioueering-have call
ed 70 meetDGs-have deprecated oil excitement di-
vision among ourselves, They have thought the war
going, afforded sufficient occupation for the thoughts
aud energies Of OIL without port;z1n Qnarreils
go4necoj appeal.
Unier these circumstances Mr.. Vance may he elect
1 L l.
give him. Hut we warn those about to vo:e for Mr..
Vance to panan and think whether, upon the Whole
DIZZY approve ,H course of the Raleigh Standard aDd
s Inflated pohcan; for although by voting for Mr..
Vance they may not TO endorse the course OF this
clique they viii fed after it is doue that they have in
effect d,ne 3d. heir woes for Nauce will be referred
to az so many endorsements OF HodeDisn. ard more
than thot4hcy viii find that substantially, by eeciog
Af. Vance they have placed in power the clique which
r0taes and gyrates somewhere in and around Raleigh
and dc lis p4DIish;ng through The Standard. MIR.
Vance If elected cannot and will not free himself from
that influence Ii is right that the ctiz and soldiers
alike should know this.
WE ARG INDEBTED to the courtesy Of /, II. DER
set, Esq, for copy OF harper's weekly OF tie 5tb
instant Harper used sometimes to have some toeraby
fair comic pictures is last page for the simple
son that it stole the designs bodily from Punch, it
did most of its otbc; sketches from the Londoa and
Paris pictorias. 1t is now thrown upon its own re-
sources for illustrations and comic cuts dpyopos
the present struggle, and it shows awful falling off
It's largest wouId-becomfc cut is entitled The Last
Ditch at Last-Scene near CCriuth and represents a
gaunt Don QIixotte sort of looking person lying in
ditch with his heels cooked up the breast work IN
der him dernij0hu marked Whskey" at bis mouth
bottle marked Rye :; uDder his head another demi-
john, and over his head black flag Two Yankee
soldiers bns!y engaged in punching holes in this
fortunate man. queer coincidence wasn't Il: that
while this picture in preparation Mcclellan should
have been engaged driving the enemy to the wall ,"
at Richmond? We would suggest this feat " hIc-
Cleian's companion piece.
Among the illustrations is a bird s-sye view Of the
City Of Charleston, s C., showing the approaches of
the Yankee gun boats ard army i shows the Yanket
boats in Stone river also the troops James Island.
We should think this view olerably accurate,
Judging by tie little that DO know of it. The other
pictures ere mainly fancy sketches aud not much At
that The etterpress is intensely abolition AID bitter
against the rebels"