Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-22

J get to the polls.
} There must then be fully 100, 900 person
entitled TO vote under the operation of tn
| Constitution of the State, OF whom no
: more than 10, 900 are DISTINGUISHED llnde
the Act of Congress, which number will b.
greatly diminished if General Sickles' in
terpetation of the Act is as has been relia
bly, reported TO us. There certainly mus
, be 80, 900 white voters under the Act
! Allowing the same proportion OF voters tt
the total population among tie blacks a
the whites, there were about IS, 900 previou
to the war who, under the provisions Of thu
Act of Congress. would have been entitled
to vote Added to the ordinary casualties
during the war, there has been an alarming
fatality among that class during the frs
twelve months after the cessation Of hos
tilities and considerable emigration north
ward, and also a very large exodus to the
more Southern States during the past Fal
and Winter. We are satisfied that this
voting population will not therefore exceed
80, 900 or 35 900 making the total present
voting strength of the State 120,0Gn OF
125, 900.
The number Ct anti-Jo hnson white men,
III we know not how otherwise to classify
the North Carolina Radicals, in the State,
can only be a matter Of conjecture; but we
are confident they are very limited, say
10, 900 or Ii, 900 in all. With whom the
colored vote will be cast is matter also of
| l,n
as a whole to either of the parties which
will exist in the State-the more intelligent
and respectable will go with the Conserva-
tives, while the ignorant will be governed
by the views of their employers or led off
by the false hopes and promises of dema-
gouges.
We are satisfied that if our people will
only unite, without respect to former par
ties or present names, that the great con-
servative element can and will control the
State-we can by this course shun the dan
gers which have destroyed the last vestige
of Justice and law in Tennessee and Mis-
souri ; from the fate ofthose people at least
may be saved.
The Late Professor Phillips. ID. ID.
friend, the following particulars in refer
ence to the death of Dr. Phillips, and facts
in relation to his long and valuable services
at the University of the State.
"The death of DR.. Phillips was no less
remarkable in all the incidents connected
with the final scene. than that Of Dr. Mitch
ell, and the friends Of neither, if permitted
to select time, place and manner would
have chosen one different from that as
signed by Providence to each. Dr. Mitchell
passed III an instant from time to eternity,
in one of the widest and most inaccessible
gorges CT the Alleghanics, and has, for his
burial place the Hottest eminence on the
Continent, east of the Rocky Mountains,
which bears and immortalizes his name
DR.. Phillips dropped down ut the base of
the pulpit in which he had ninistered for
thirty years, and expired in the presence of
the fond classes for whom he had so often
prayed with earncstness tenderness and
pathos, peculiarly his own, to each member
of whom, in addition to religious teachings,
he had given instruction III his favorite
science.
DR. Caldwell, the first President of the
University, began his career as professor Of
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy on the
LIST of November, 1916. DR.. Mitchell sue
ceeded him on the 1st Of February, 1917,
and DR.. Phillips succeeded Dr.. Mitchell in
July, 1926, when the latter passed from the
Mathematical to the Chemical Chair, as the
successor of Dr.. Olmsted, who had accepted
the Professorship of Natural Philosophy
III Yale College. DR.. Caldwell died in the
seth, Dr. Mitchell in the 10th, and Dr.
Phillips in the list year of his services, and
the three discharged the duties of the
Mathematical Chair during IL period of
seventy years. The counties of Caldwell
and Mitchell are enduring monuments
which our Legislative councils have CRATE
fully and gracefully erected to the memory
of the two former. The last is no less wor-
thy of similar memorial At present
&c His pupils hearts his funeral urn,
And should soul ptured stone be denied him,
There will his name be found when in turn
We lay our heads beside him.