Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-23

ever. with the exciting (alas not pleas
; antly SOY returns of the Northern election,
with which your paper was filed, could
better endure to read and ponder, than
venture to write and con- ecture.
But although the most sanguine must
confess that the news from Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana is ga hit, a palpable
HIT" it is no death blow to the liberties of
the American people ; behave that the
exaltation now apparent on Radical faces
and animating Radical ranks. has reached
its highest pitch. November 3rd will be
the anti-climax, the more disastrous and
unbearable, because final and irrevocable.
Yes, truly; now that these revolutionists,
no less destructive, no less bloody than
the worst of the followers of ST. Just, so
arrogantiy utter their war note as if it
were paan of victory across the borders
of these great Republican States, the great
mass of the people, awaking to the sound
that would be the precursor of the obliter~
alton of national freedom and prosperity,
will throw back their indifference and
apathy and Samson shall have but to hear
the cry, 1.-the Philistines be upon thee. %
to start up and sleep no more in the very
lap of ruin and degradation. What if, to
assert bis strength and manhood. his bonds
are shivered asunder and he breaks forever
the chains of CALLING servitude The
glittering fabric of corrupt oligarchy, the
stupendous frauds Of a tyrannous and OPP
pressive centralized government, will fall
into the dust and bury some, it may be,
with their hard bought wealth and ag-
grandizement OF party rule and patronage;
but those whom, to construct this ediice of
, the greed of faction and the temple for the
imperial people, treacherous legislators
and dishonest Office holders wronged and
oppressed and trampled upon, will hold up
their heads and be freemen. I shall be no
pedant if give the following utterance of
IL great and liberal mind to apply exactly
to the present condition of our govern
ment LIE plus fort ~ est fanaais Qsez fort
pour entre tOuj0MrS le naditre, slime trans for
ma So force en- d1'0it CT J. 06eisS0nce en- de-
! uoir.''
The people, oh the people, sooner or
| later, are wiser, more farseeing than those
WHO rule only to ruin and Stay them they
are, sooner Or later, more powerful, and
! those who grind them. down to build upon
their fall monuments of their own wicked
ness, must go to the wall. Woe to those
in high places who are filled only with the
lust of place and the love of power who
outrage. again and again, by the merest
formalities of law and enactment, the fun
damental principles of truth and justice
| They shall at length see the handwriting
on the wall, ," but it will be the first which
| hurls them from their lofty seats it will
be tho warrant of death But I did not
sit down to launch "Phillipics " against
| the people of Ohio and other States be-
cause they are about to vote for military
dictatorship they may never repeat it, but
it will not be on account Of my indigna-
| ton and. all that you or l may write or
say will not render the Browniows and
Holdens less knaves and traitors, and their
deluded followers less fools and victims.
| see in recent number of the Journal
that u communication signed 'Seymour-
| ite," charges a correspondent (plainly
mihD with I'M ustice to Judge Buxton
| by animadversions on his management of
the Coilahan bond, which has been so all
absorbing a topic here. In my last [ ex-
pressed tho resolution to bid farewell to
Mr.. Collahan and his fortunes-they are
in different bark. Let me suggest that
you let it be known that it is "thought
needful to explain Jadge Buxton's po-
sition (Which Seymourite agrees to do)
and also allow me to call attention to Fay
etteville Eagle of yesterday. I 10y no means
deem 1t necessary to add anything.
"Don't disturb Camarina,"
L can't help thinking that Fayetteville
| has been looking little blue for the past
few days However, we are u :nercurial
people here, and if Thursday mornings in
telligence gave us long visages, yesterdays
Geographic drops Of comfort, like electric
pearls Of hope without threatening sky,
have been the riffs of genial light piercing
through to herald coming future of
brightness. But we have something still
to depress the spirits and cause despon-
dency ana even foreboding. It appears
to be now pretty well ascertained that Fay
ettevile is to have negro garrison. They
are "spoke " off Goldsboro', to arrive in a
few days. Poor, devoted town "She
seems to carry her heart Oh her sleeve for
DAVIS to peck att Tried by fire and sword,
trampled over by an invading army, ruined
in purse and fortune, she is terrible to her
enemles-the traitors of the land-even
though she is but skeleton. They hate
her and fear her, even for her sons who
rest on the rent aud bleeding bosom of
Virginia. They know her proud and in
domitable spirit by her past Spokesman in
the halls of Congress and the General AS
sembly by her defender who indicated
female chastity on her streets by her
true citizens, who, in the front Of Democ-
racy, are doing battle for her and the
whole country. And even now she'll not
sell her birthright for the last mess of pot
tage-safety of life and property. If bru-
tai soldiery are to be needlessly forced upon
her simply to crafty Radical spleen, and
advance the base designs of a few treach-
erous, dishonest Yankee importations in
our midst, why let them come they will
find Southern citizens law-abiding and
peaceable, forbearing and patient. But
they will find them no towards and syco-
plants, but firm and resolute men. This
scheme by "Gov." Holden to intimidate
voters and stife freedom of thought and
opinion and action at the ballot box will
utterly fail of it's object
Let me give you what is to me very alb
surd and laughable incident, although its
cool impudence and effrontery greatly ex-
asperated some of our old citizens stand
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