Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-12-13
Party Feeling.


Conservative citizens of North Carolina
have buried all old party feelings and asso
Citations in the sepulchre Of common suf
ferings in the past and common dangers III
the present, and it is q matter of profound
regret that upon questions OF such vital im-
portance that there should be any, the least,
exception to SO commendable q condition
of affairs. The meeting of the citizens of
this county, held on Monday night, gave
the highest and most satisfactory >yjNences
that but one purpose animated the partici-
pants OF controlled their action. Nor is
this the first occasion on which the people
of New Hanover have shown the entire
absence in their action of former political
feelings. During and since the war
there has been no representation OF the
county in Legislatures or Conventions i'll
which the party, formerly i'll the minority,
has not had member of the delegation
several times majority of them
What is true of the county is also true Of
the State. Since the election of Governor
ELLIS, in 1860, no person who was formerly
member of the Democratic party has
been presented Dy public Convention or
by himself as a candidate for Governor,
with the exception of the insignificant and
ridiculous attempts of ex-Provisional Gov
ernor Holden, fer whose silly aspirations
and disgraceful political vagaries no party
can Justly be held responsible. Since the
war all good men united with one accord
in the election and re election of Governor
| WORTH, nine tenths of whose appointments
have been from the political party to which
he formerly belonged, and so far as we
know, there has been no complaint on this
account from those who formerly differed
from him.
This spirit has been universally COM
mended, and no where more than in the
columns of the Journal. When we learned
that able and distinguished citizens of
the State, who were called to Raleigh upon
business, had m ct informally and appoint
ed State Executive Committee looking to
the early organization of the Conservative
party, we in common with eUe1y COnserra-
tie paper in the State, endorsed their ac-
| ton and approved the appointment Of
| the Committee. We did not stop to look
at the former political complexion of the
particular gentlemen who composed it; we
thought only of the important labors they
had to perform. We knew that such
distinguished gentlemen who were the
leading spirits of that meeting, and although
t,rentv-foaw of the thirty. seven who COM
pose that committee were formerly OPP
posed to us in politics, and few Of whom
we have differed from very essentially since
the war, we still warmly endorse the ac-
ton of these gentlemen and feel sure that
it will lead to most beneficial results
! When we denounce such men as Col. ROD.
MAN, for whom we have long felt the warm.
est personal and political admiration, fo1
whose character, talents and services we
have great respect, and whose friendship
we still esteem, and to see whose name as.
ISOLATED with his present disreputable pc.
litical friends is gall aud wormwood tc
our heart, and endorse such politicians as
Mr.. SATEERTawAITE, a leading member oil
the Executive Committee, whose politics be-
fore, during and since the war we have not
admired, is evidence as ''strong as proof oil
Holy Writ" that we have sunk all pas
political preferences and prejudices for the
sake of the true welfare of the country
We have been led very reluctantly to re
fer to this subject because it has been said
that the call for Monday nights meeting
emanating from the three gentlemen who
happened to compose the members of the
State Executive Committee from this i'm
mediate vicinity, did not give entire salts
faction as they did not represent al
the political interests prevailing here pre-
vious to the war. We have already stated
that the particular element OF former poll
tics represented by these gentlemen was il
f minority in the committee. and we will nov
: state that if there is any blame to be at
g tached to the call in question, it lies q
4 the door of the Editor of this paper, an
eI the gentlemen are in no wise blameable.-