Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-18
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Conservatives in Raleigh on the 10th of
this month, or at any later period during
October, it is time that there was general
action throughout the State Wcbelieve that
the Conservatives Of the State should meet
for organization and consultation, and to
mako known to the world the principles
which actuate them in the contest before
them. We thought at the time the Raleigh
meeting recommended q day for the assem-
blace Of the Convention, and we still be-
leve that the time was too short to enable
the different portions Of the State to be
heard from, or for all to agree upon a day.
In many counties, however, primary meet
ings have been held, and the 10th instant
has generally been agreed upon Yet in
many counties no action has been had,
while in others meetings are called for days
subsequent to the proposed time OF hold
ing the general meeting in Raleigh.
In New Hanover the week of Superior
Court would afford a good opportunity for
a general meeting of the citizens, but that
is after the 18th, and other counties have
no Courts for some time yet, and during
this very busy season it is announcement,
and frequently impossible, for our farmers to
leave home for distant county seats to a.
tend primary meetings.
We think that under the circumstances
it would be better if the Mass Meeting
could be postponed for few weeks. No
election has been ordered yet, and when it
is tie notice will be sufficiently long for
the proposed Convention to assemble. Ii
! it is not put off, We fear that there Will not
be such a representation Of the people as
is desired, while we are satisfied that the
apathy which has long had possession of
our citizens will give way before the cxhiI-
irating Influences Of the recent elections.
It is right that the Conservatives of the
South should make some proper response
to those Of the North. The people Of
Ohio, in voting down negro suffrage, have
condemned the revolutionary action of
Congress. The insignificant number of
negroes who could have voted in that State,
had the amendment been adopted, could
not have influenced the terrible rcbukc
which has been administered TO Radical
ism, but they have declared that Congress
shall not Africanize the South for party
purposes, and that the right of suffrage
must be left to the people OF the States.
The gross Misrepresentation under
which the Southern people have laboreC
have been the fruitful source of much O.
the injustice and persecution which they
have suffered. To meet in Convention
and properly denounce the ISLANDERS ant
adopt q platform of principles is not only
proper but duty. We cannot afford t.
, permit ignorant negroes and willy white
} to get control of our State by want Of or
/ ganization and effort. Let us endeavor tt
, defeat them at the first election, and if WI
fail we will at least have the benefit of
/ more thorough organization in our secont
: trial We hope the Conservatives of Ney
- Hanover will take these matters into con
D sideration, and, ii the Convention is post
pOned, prepare to meet during SuperlO
Court week to secure proper represents
: ton at Raleigh. What say the people -?
The Columbia IS. c. Chronicle says tha
South Carolina has been bankrupted b.
G the bayonet-not dollar in the Treasury
and General CANDY has ordered the collec
f ton of all taxes to be stopped, except S
far as relates to taxes due to the Fedora
Government.
e The following is the official order:
e HEADQ'Rs ID MIL. DIS,
O CHARLESTON, s. c., Oct 2, 1857
= Special orders No. 168.
% VIII. The Treasurer of the State of South Cal
- oil is hereby directed to pay ali amounts az
q proved at these Headquarters, for salaries an
7 expenditures incurred in maintaining the quarar
" tine on the coast of South Carolina, establIshe
J. by General orders No. 3, Headquarters Second Mi
itary District current series, out of any funds
naming unexpended in the treasury at the tin,
# of the presentation thereof and If there be nc
sufficient funds at that time for that purpose, tn
ID payment shall be made out of the first funds tina
,e shall be received IN the treasury thereafter
The amounts so expended will be charge
% against the appropriation made by the Legisls
# ture of South Carolina In December 1865 for th
Military Academy at Charleston, and the aprIC
1t pratiOn made by the Legislature aforesaid in d.
cember Is 6, for testing the constitutionality an
validity of the Acts of Congress, by which tn
80 lands in Saint Helena and part of st. Luke's Pal
u lsh have been eold, as Tected in Special Order
No, 135, paragraph IL, current series, from thes
7r Headquarters.
h By command of Byt. Maj Gen. ED. R. s. CANB
LOUIS Y. CAzIARo,
D. Ade-de-C Camp, A, A, A. G,