Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-07-05

erty Of the PeOple-ds Eneets upon So |
ciety-New Men. New Names, New Fam |
iIies-Tvo Glasses of 'sImmortals ''--Shod- |
dy VS.. Honor-COI. Wadden-Republi- |
canism-The Rights and the Legal Status |
of the Colored People-North c arOlina Re- |
publican Leaders-ss Moral Poudrette."
June "a, 1867.
Nh dear Journal The correspondent
of the Norfolk Journal seems to have been
making quite a tour in North Carolina, and
Judging from his account of the condition
of affairs generally, and of the crops IN par
ticular, to say nothing of the bright and
brilliant future and present prosperity OF
that other getty Of magnificent distances"
to wit GAINESVILLE, Scotland Neck, Green
wood or whatever other name it may bear,
he was doubtless most Hospitality enter
tanned during his sojourn. 1t is evident,
if he used "glasses at all, and we pre-
sumo he did, as almost everybody in this
country needs them, that he did not see
through them "darkly." His views were
all c0ule0' de rose. / assure you that an old
fashioned person unacquainted with the
area, population, progress, improvements,
transportation facilities, capacity and I'M
portance of this last headcentre of civil
zation, on paper, would not recognise the
strip of land lying between Greenwood at
one end and GAINESVILLE at the other, as these
points were called i'll old times. l sincere
Iy trust that all the anticipations of the
most sanguine friends of the city may be
more than realized, although my conf
dence in their realization is very much
weakened by the glowing account the cor
respondent gives of the crops. If he thinks
the season has been propitious or that the
prospect is one to cause anything save the
deepest anxiety, he must be man whose
equanimity it is indeed difficult to disturb.
If to be compelled to plant and replant and
pillow up and plant over, the second and
third time, with rains so continuous as to
occasion loss of from fifteen to twenty per
cent. of o king time, in coniunc lion with
weather so cold as to dwarf and stunt a
| large portion of what was not killed, par
ticularly when it is remembered how short
| is the time for growing, maturing and
gathering crops in this State, especially the
cotton crop-if this state of things doe 8
not Justify gloomy forebodings, then can
imagine nothing short of total annihila-
ton, that will. Persons who could procure
extra labor, have by this means, at a not
inconsider able additional cost of produc-
ton, been able to a great extent to make
up for lost time and to keep down the
grass To do this, however, it was neces-
sary to have an extra supply of money and
to be near enough to some town to draw
labor therefrom. These two conditions,
you will readily perceive, could be COM
piled with by only a very small proportion
of the whole number of people engaged in
agricultural pursuits. 1t is due to the Ia
borers generally, so far as my observation
\ has extended, to say that in the most try
ing time they have worked most freely,
carefully and willingly-the most ausp1-
cions sign in these days SO full of trouble.
I fear our people have learned to depend
! too much upon some lucky venturelp the fu-
ture to reimburse them for the extravagant
expenditures of the present. Frearing this,
and knowing how uncertain are the returns
to be realized from any growing clop, es-
pecially from this one, cannot help re-
GREETING the publication of such accounts
as that given by the Norfolk correspondent.
7 very much fear many of us do not real
ize orr poverty, do not aalize that we are
penniless instead of being only temporarily
embarrassed. The sooner we bring this
distinction home to ourselves, the sooner
will we conform our expectations and our
expenditures to the actual condition Of our
finances, and the better it will be for us
and for the State This must, of course, to
some extent, necessitate changes in the re-
lative status of people in so-called fashion,
able life. Wealth and vulgarity, and syco-
, phancy and baseness will go together here
after, as they have often done before, and
once again, as oftentimes heretofore has
happened, the best people will not be found
; in the most expensive society Poor as
am, [ envy not the man nor his money
| who fattened upon the misfortunes of his
country. In all great revolutions, where
much resort is had to arms, the rise of new
men and new names, and the establishment
, of new families, is more marked and more
$ frequent than in the ordinary sc dull piping
times of peace" During the recent con
WILSON'S, two classes of people have come
to the top, whose names bid fair to be ad
ded to the list of them whom our &c world
, will not willingly let die. " One class con
sists of that noble army of martyrs and he
roes, whose chivalric performance of duty
has SO splendidly illustrated the soldier
the citizen, the patriot and the Christian O.
) the South. The other class, a vulture- like
race, vomited up from the lowest depths o.
nausea in those terrible heavings scarcely
yet quieted, consists of men who, traitors
alike to Federal and Confederate govern
ments, saw in the death-pangs of theil
country nothing save the near and certain
qualification of their own greed. Eacl
class will doubtless found new aristocracy
whose origin will be forgotten only with it
! existence--Shoddy Us honor and integrit,
! but had no intention of depressing so far
: saw, in your paper, that my old friend
. Col. Alfred Moore Waddell had recently
publicly protested allegiance to the Repub
lican party. AS I write his name the char
acter of ALFRED MOORE, his revered ances
tor, comes fresh upon me and with the full
conviction that he would never have sane
toned such step, unless the direst a
we'll as clearest necessity existed therefor
AS believe no such necessity exists, sin
cerely regret that my friend Waddell ha