Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-07-19

Recently a nomination of Gen. Ransom for Governor
ana Wha Ssnre Ioh in the wilmington
would not afraid to risk wager ON it. we %e5e
,hn1oh n,erhaps. communicated in such q way as to
misiead our friend of the .JowTaL-i'dt Sentinel
It is probably well for our friends of the Senti-
,.eZ, in this instance, that they are not betting
men. The nomination of Gen. Ransom, for Gov
crnor, and Gen R. B. Vance, for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, was received in a letter from an esteemed
personal friend, whose adoption has been trled py
a close companionship in the trying scenes OF the
past few years sufficiently to warrant us to CRAP
nile him TO our soul with hooks of steel" He has
as little affection for the Holdentes" as the ed
itors of the Sentinel and, We were about to add,
as far from any attempt to misead us; but neither
orr friend in Johnston or friends of the Sea-
tinel need any endorsement in this regard.
The nomination was made in good faith as the
individual preference of the writer. He belongs
to that class of our citizens of whom, the sentinel
truly SAYS there thousands, who Will hail with
pleasure the arrival of the day, when they can
with propriety and without injury to the gallant
officers. who led them in the late war, give the
substantial evidences of their esteem. thousands
of our people, not only soldiers, but Others desire
TO give palpable evidence at the ballot box OF their
high appreciation of the gallant men, officers
and privates, who for years voluntarily did Dattle
for them-to return in some degree the undylng
honor with which they have illustrated the history
of the State.
The position of this paper is well known. We
depricate at this time any canvass of the State
We would regard any and all attempts to draw the
attention of our people away from the great work
of rebuilding their private fortunes and the pros
perity of the State, by useless, and, possibly,
hurtful political excitement, as much to be de-
plored. Whatever be the result of such
canvass, it will certainly aleniate the friends
of the President. The South in her pre-
sent PROSTATE condition requires a hearty
and cordial union in support of President john
son, without local iealousies and divisions. E1-
cept the few craven spirits who have been pur-
chased by the tempting alurements the strength
Of the Radicals holds out, the people OF the South,
are unit i'll their support of the RECONSTRUCT
lion plan of the President and opposed to that of
Congress We should not waste what influence
our unanimity may have by unnecessary dissen-
tions among ourselves. There is a moral force in
the political unanimity of our people 10 less than
in their utter prostration which must appeal to
the conservative of the North, as it certainly
is an evidence of our earnestness and honesty.
We believe that Governor Worth has done, and
is doing, much for North Carolina, and as far as
could be expected OF is natural, has ignored old
party distinctions. We have, before and during
the war, differed with him in party matters widely
hu this does not blind us to the fact that his adj
mnistration has met the just expectations of our
people, and while he has done and said some
things which we would have preferred he would
have left undone and unsaid, it not reasona-
able that We or others who like u.s. have so widely
differed from him, would have expected him to
have complied entirely with our political Wishes
He has done the State good service, and while we
feel grateful to him for what he has accomplished,
are are more so for arhot he has saued as FROM