Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-06-05


eig State Journal are abundanty able to take IF
themselves, and had the Standard not grauousy drag
Ged forwsrd the name OF the Wilmington Journal into
connection with totally irrelevant matter, for tie
qualification of its own spleen, we would not have cared
to take unour time occupy our space With thing
dsaseful to ourselves anything like controversy
at this time, and especially with paper which, after
boasting its power to kill and make alive, and trying
to exercise this power upon all who would not bend to
its bebests puts On the injured airs of the martyr
and PIRATES about prescription :"
From the Raleigh Standard. 2Sth inst.
| Injustice TO the Convention.
correspondent writes follows to the Mountain Eagle
1.-THE Conventien-the immaculate of the state-became
alarmed at he large number of soldiers collected at RAJ
The above is from soldier, who has been imposed upon
and mised by unscrupulous paTtizans in this city, We
The truth H. the Convention has BEEN from the st the
fest friend of The soldier That body passed the law to al
low TIE soldiers vote in camp. also passed the law to
provide for the Ct sodiers-food and lodging
Temporarily detained in the various towns near Railroad
depots. 1t also passed the law giving fifty dollars bounty
to all volunteers ard conscrips. Is all this nothing
We know where the above charge aganstthe Convention
originated. Ii is the result OF started IN this City by
the and publishers of the State organ And these
persons doubt started the report among the SOL
diers Carp Mangum that the Convention about TO
pass ordinance to take North back into the old
Union IAN infamous e of course and thing not at all
and the Wilmington Journal the Winston Sentinel and
other papers Of the stripe have labored
y for months to render the Convention odious and they
have done simply and solely because majority of the
Convention conservative in its character opposed to
their selfish and runOus party schemes The papers refer
to- those for whom thev speak, instrumental
in secondary in breaking up the cd government,
because they aboat to lore he offices end spos and
they would Destroy any thing which might stand in
their in their nsatae greed for place and power
These destructves If they had lived in France
the days Of the French revolution they would have been
Dantons and RObesperres, or the mnions Of such men,
abuse better than themselves, AID mislead
and deceive the honest and worthy who bave but little tire
to inform themselves in politics. but they take to HE
ceved to battle while they keep their precious
cassesin the shade of peace, far from bullets, SHE'LL
ard round shot. They are like jobs horse 10
spect-tAey " 81 III the battle from dtdr."
Tie circumstances uudr which we read this precious
composition on Thursday last afforded rather i'm
pressive and yet somewhat udcrous commentary upon
the closing sentences thereof What had been penned
in the safe distance of interior town. among the quiet
shades Of the City of Oaks, was read by US IN our
Office, within the sound of the enemys guns, then
plainly heard in Streets with the consciousness
that the building in which sat, and the materials
in it, with all little property, the result of years
of earnest exertion not Of Accommodations from party
pap official patronage then had long been and
would continue to be in imminent danger whlever
an attack was threatened and would be total loss
should such attack prove successful. And yet paper
away in safety at Raleigh, built up to vast wealth by
party support and official patronage talks of others
whose little all is daily at stake as avoiding risk and
keeping away from danger That paper, which turned
with the utmost bitterness against the party which fos
tered it into being and built it up into wealth by sup
port and patronage greater than any party had ever
before extended to any paper in North Carolina immc
medatey upon that patronage being given to another
that paper talks about spos That paper which IN
bushingy proclaims that it abused Mr.. Graham for
party purposes in times gone by, and now adulates
and awns upon him for the purposes that paper
talks about selfish and nous party schemes in connec
tiCn With others. The paper which few years ago
denounced bitterly the treason of Ed. Stany" and
found such serious fault with those who did not Ge-
nounce him as traitors deserved to be denounced
now finds fault with the Journal for stating simple
rumour which, we greet to say, turns out to be
ablished fact 10 regard to that individual It then
said:
The Wilmington Herald is at present disposed to
denim him. but wants to hear fnrheris ready for any Tex
pla7atons" that may be made. With equal propriety
might judgment have been suspended in the of Arnold
OF stany, admits OF no explanation and paiation.'
now wants all sorts of suspensions Of opinion and
awaits ell sorts Of explanations, where the proof is
stronger, and the treason Of deeper dye. It insults
the former Union men of North Carolina by identifying
with them the Black Republican candidate for Cover
nor of California, whom it had itself denounced as
traitor years ago Was sincere then? or it sincere
now?
Il talks o. Office and place and power while the evil
dence meets every turn that its own notorious as
nrafOrs Influence eli lis movements and afford tho kew
to all its marouvres and machnations while it has its
o1triders and under strappers busy in trying to manu-
facuve fictitious public opinion by meetings said to
have been held in obscure places and paradd ostenta
tous'y in its columns It parades, and has paraded the
Of Mr Graham as candidate for Governor
knowing that gentleman is not has NOT been and will
not be candidate its object being to slip forward the
person controlling the columns of the Standard, and
represent him the proper person fer Governor after
MIR. Graham.
1t talks about Dantcn, Robespierre, and the French
Revolution although it has cone more than all the
other papers in the State to draw distinctions and ar
fam cheer the spirits of brave men, with heng others
on to battle, while its has tended to pro-
duce depression ard discomfort.
For ourselves. We have never given way to the fear,
of the respondent, nor sympathised with the halfcon
cead satisfaction Of those who any disaster to cur
cause or reverse to cur arms, ready to look WISE
and calculate d" told you so!' We are pleased to
know that cur paper welcome vsitan to the camps
and that its general course meets the appreciation of our
people, and that it does more good than thousands of
GROWERS Or legions of mareuverng asprants.
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