Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-06-26
.Tnn coming EIsotlon--.A Party Contest.

In a few weeks--to wit, on the first Thursday IL
August rez the people of this State, whether at home
or in camp will be called upon to vote for Governor
and Members of the State Legislature also for
tain county officers.
As the time draws near the approaching election
claims some attention from the people and great deal
from certain politicians of the disgruued order Per-
h8ps the people generally think too little about the mat
ter Certainly the politicians aforesaid say too much
IF there be any one thing more than another,
nected with our State politics that The people, so far
we have met them or heard from them, do especially
depecate noW it is heated or the revival Of
party bitterness under whatever form, plea or
excuse 50 we'll are we aware Of this feeling aud 80
fully do ympathise with it aud in it, that Lave
vry seldom touched on controverted matters of
this kind during the present spring and summer, and
then felt il duty to offer apology to readers
for the intrusion although the causes that peled such
irusioaS fully iustidd them, snd their motive was to
aloy rot excite party Or controversial feelings. We
may have to make another for this article, which
may possibly grow upon our hands and become longer
than we had anticipated in its commencement.
We publish to day letter from Col. Z. g. Vance
to the Editor of the Raleigh Standard, in which Col
Vance announces that be Is to be considered can
II IS known to most readers Of papers in this State
that VIM. Johnston, E-q., Of Charlotte, has been
bought forward by frierds papers and public meet
i0gs and that be also has consented to the Of his
name as a candidate for Governor.
So lar good. They are both respectable gentlemen,
and people viii have their preferences and the right
to exercise them, aud they will exert that right. We
have our preference il this have Others and if
the matter could have been left to unbiased choice,
there could have been little harm done no matter upon
which of these gentlemen that choice had fallen.
But an attempt has been and is now making to re-
move the coming election from the of free choice
aud untrammeIed judgment into that of bitter parri
zaoship-to divide the people into hostile camps, stig
mltizug each other by contemptuous epithes and ply
log each other with vibbad abuse. Such abuse and its
authors we hold too lightly to notice at ALL when direct
cd merely against ourselves. We pass by the slang
with which the Raleigh Standard has abounded for
smetme past. It's attempts to excite prejudice by al
l1sons to the place of our BIRTH might be easily met
by quotations from lis own columns, in former days,
when it pitched into the Know Noth0gism " which
it now abets and seeks to avail itself Of with rim and
aypa7cnt sincerity which we could never equal. But
we ioToear quoting authority wholly worthless, since
al that was evidently, like the abuse of Mr. Graham
and othr-like, in fact, all that the Standard ever has
said DONE said and done for party pufp POSES Who
shall guarantee the Standards present friends of its sin
crify longer than they may have avors 10 promise or
prospects Of advancement to hold cut? We assure the
Standard that we feel not the least ashamed Of our
birth or native country and only trust that We
may never 90 anything TO reflect shame upon either
We are not sensitive upon this point as Tie Stand
ard. We would not say that it had dssraced Itself by
this nsiauation" even il supposed it possible for
The Standard to disgrace itself No. let the Standard
print as often it cb0cs.s that the Editor of the Vii
nliagon J0urnGL was born in Ireland and it will not
affect The justice of the Southern cause nor justify party
strife in Nort' Carolina nor DO anything in the world
beyond proving what needed no proof-tla extreme
lirtene8 Of the raleigh Standard. We pity any one
VINO is mean enough 10 be ashamed Of his country o,
his natiyy.
But the Standard charges that at Charleston anj
Baltimore we belonged to some secret organization t.
break up the Democratic Convention. Three word
Of reply to this Gre as good as three hundred "
dd not. 1t talks about Butler IS a coceder at Charles
ton or Baltimore. ESQ we don't know it. We rattle
think be sad in the old Theatre with the Editor of th
Staodad or possibly these two amiable gentlemen en-
acted the part Of the Pennsylvania assemby-man VIII
bot ecuatttd" We thirk it would puzz'e the Edito
Of the Hondagd himself to tell which body he belongo
to at Baltimore. lie sloshed around loose"
We notice these things merely because the effort
the Standard is TO make party issue out of cartaj
former political dement's. We are rot arguing any
The questions i1voved ia the issue Of what is know
generally az tie Know Nothing contests of son
years back nor we going over tie vexed question
Of The political campaign which resulted 10 TIE eiectiC
@; Abraham L1coln as the last President Of the Unite
States, = IL those things are out of place no1o "
depyeoating their revival at this time as also Ii
spirit in which, and the purposes for which they ha,
ben revived It may be proper here to state that Il
charges against the delegates from this State
Charleston and TO Baltimore are urged il vel
nearly the same larguage by the editorials OF Il
Stamford in Raleigh and the speech of MIR. SIAM
IN arlington. We may also add that we notice Il
course Of IL Standard at all, because Of lis CO
n2ction with the movements that brought out NJ
Earc2. FIVE 10 judge tree by its fruits we ms
also make reasonable guess at what the fruit will
when We kn5w the tree from which it is expected
sprilg. The movement resulting in the candidacy
Mr.. Vance, is the fruit OF tree which has lis roo
among disappointed, Dissatisfied ana therefore re7eDg
fal politicians around Raleigh, Of whom the Standard
the mouthpieCe We regret that Mir. Vance (whatev
be tie present result Of the eIection has allowed
name to come before the State under such auspices
is the especial protege Of paper Whic ST time Ill
this, when all good depC5cate everything like CO
test where it can be avoided pours out column aft
column of electioneeTing acknowledgements all wi
did not agree with its watch and wait policy as pr
CpiatOrs aud destrUctiVes" and assumes and arroqa