Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-07-17

viii certainly be usef and c9nvenient 10 readers n
view Of the approaching election -
| General Election
/ koTTcE.--The following should be borne in mind.
Citizens vote for Governor, Members of Assembly &C ,
on the First Thursday in August 9th day of the monb)
Soldiers IN c-mp, whereser they may be- il or out of
the eate vote the Thursday before the Fst thursday
| in August, (beDg the 3ist and last day Of July)
respective counties Of which the voters ara residents
within twenty days after the day Of election.
Three ireehoIee OF the respective companies under
elections accordrg TO the aSs OF tie state make
turDs Of the same within the twenty days aieIesst
bold;ers absent from their counties companies, and
passing through this State, may wherever they may
hnd themse YES on the day election
Citizens Of county in the STATE vote for Governor
of election.
We regret the existence Of any canvass the occur
renee tsny contest for the eoes of Governor Or
bers Of the Legislature Still more do we regret such
contest when il party aspect It is true that
tbis is denied nat told that those who segre
gate Themselves uuder the distinctive title Of coner
tives while deucuocirg the balance OF the ct5ers Of
the State as destIuctvcs' do not constitute par
ty" OF the correctness of this SO far the leaders
aud wire workers are concerned We freely admit They
constitute not party, but faction. But they may
be able, by awakening prejadices, by appealing to
former anmostes by soctations Of ultra zeal for the
people aud the soldiers under which is c'esked bitter
meas and towards those whom the people have
placed ia power,~~by these and by such like means,
these actionis may succeed in getting up something
like party 10 rally around them, especially as the
great majority OF the people of the State, in and out OF
the army are evidently thinking of other things and
very few organized and ambitious factonsts, eager
for place and power, eager for triumph and revenge
might be allowed to carry cut their purposes the more
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lie good permitting the thing to go by default and
ly awaking to their error TO GDd themselves taken 10
and then awaking too late
We would beg OF our readers 10 think closely about
it, boore at this time, they allow themselves to vote for
any candidates who come out now under distinctive
name as opposed TO other cpss caasea Of their
fellow citizens, or who deuouuce Others as destruc.
tves by any other epitbet intended reflect upon
and cast odum aud dseredit and excite rarcou. and
prejudice, for party purposes, against their ieIiowcit
zens SO denounced reflected upon st natised and at
tempted to be rendered Cdous, TIE Whoe o8tensibIe
cause OF the Tancour displayed agaLs the persons
styled destructiges being that they somewhat
earlier prepared to do what all fuay agreed in doing
I-soceding from the Lincoln government. Those who,
like the Raleigh Standard and such like organs, re-
uctanty yielded to necessity the possibility OF which
they had violently Denied and the existence OF which
they never frankly admitted, have since turned
with yruence and hatred upon the earlier advocates Of
the movement so unanimously consumated on the Goth
May 1861 and have sought persuade the people of the
State to prescribe every who either believed in,
oresaw the approach Of secession before Lncolo had
made actual war upon the SOath.
This is the secret Of the party movement originated
hx,. In bu 4bo ~
Patriot Fayetteville OLserver and some other papers,
and which fluids its Standard bearer in Hon Z B.
Vance.
We make no charges agaiLs. any one tnst sc can
avoid. We charge with treason to the State
to tbs C0nederacy but d. say that the attempt to
array the people OF North Carolina at this time in hos
tile camps and on such issuee, strikes being any
thing but patriotic, deserving of anything but public
approval Just look at it and think over It, 1t is an
attempt to undo what has been done. To revive the
old secession and antaeces8ion feud, after al have Sc
ceded and when all should be united.
We want to support no one simply as original Sc
eessonist. early secessonist. We should
go against any who came ont disnctively as such,
| because should think any thing wrong that might
be calculated either to start to keep up divisions
distinctions at q time when unity and harmony are so
much needed We would go for no distinctions in "a
your Of original secesoDiss and for against them
We would go for uniting all as We would
not have the people divided asthe sefsyled "conserva
! tives" are trying to divide them,
| Let man be good Southern Rights ulan, deter
mined to see the thing cut fair ard honorable terms
no factioDist mere bunter Tor place nr power no
disalected croakeruo ambitious politician entering the
service for political advancement, and willing 10 leave
the service in the very midst of the struggle il order
to secure the political prz3, and We will Cara nothing
about his anteeedeuts they be honest and honorable
! Vote for good men, not Sei-syled c0nserva.
ves" or seltstyled any thing else. Watch your men
coee and beware Of those who cultivate that slang that
throws d8crcdit upon every thing connected with the
ConGedescy, and only recognizes conservatism con-
neCted with tenacity in holding OF to the Lincoln Gov
ernment.
Ga the 2Oth Of May, 1861, the State of North Car
DINA seeded unanimously through her delegates and
all her citizens went with her. apparently heart aud
hand. Those who show that they were sincere and
hearty in their action then by ignoring all party dis
tinctiOns and sacrificing all party prejudces upon the
altar OF their country have established claim
the confidence of their fellow citizens Those who have
pursued different course who Lave shown since by
their growing, grumbing and faetiOnism, that they
were not sincere cannot deserve any Of c9lf
dence from their fellow citizens.
We speak plainly, but tor no selfish partisan end
In pecuniary point of view it would not make one
dollar of difference to US more than to any other cit-
zens of the State whether VIM. Johnston, Of Mecken-
burg, or T. B. Vance. OF Buncombe, should be elected
Governor. So far as party is concerned, neither oil
them, hennned tn marty with which times