Wilmington journal., 1868-10-16

|usurpation and violation Of the Constitu-
tion in the so-called reconstruction acts of
Congress, but did not dare to take up the
real points at issue, or attempt to meet
Col. Kenan's and Maj. Hughs' argument,
but jumped here and there like sheep
getting over the fence, or steamboat
humping on ground. No one paid any
attention to what he said scarcely but the
negroes, and he could not look them
straight in the face, for he stood sideways
to them, but insisted that it was right for
them to vote and give in evidence, &c,
&C., in North Carolina; but standing on
his platform, it was all wrong in New York
and Pennsylvania. and Ohio, unless the
Constitutional making power-the white
male citizens there-saw proper to allow
It, Justlfylng an unconstitutional act OF
Congress in North Carolina, and DENYING
the operation of the same law North, he
has had a vision or dream. He saw on one
side rocks imperishable and fields of never
fading flowers; on the other dilapidation,
milldew and decay, slaughter-pens, raw
heads and bloody bones-blood and war.
So he went over to the taggy-tail, snotty-
nose and scabby sheep. So mote it
be. But if I were to interpret his
dream Or vision, I would use little charity
and say he awoke from his vision and found
himself like most of us, poor and penny
less. He saw no fat office near on the
side Of virtue, patriotism and constitutional
law and truth, while on the other hand he
saw there was a chance of good office
among the scapegoats, SO, like old mother
Goose, "ipS0-fdctO, into 1t he went.
AS soon as COL Clark got through speak
ing he left the speakers stand in great
haste, which was in the piazza Of one OF
Court House, and never stopped until he
put the walls of that building between
him and his antagonist, under pretense that
he was wanting as Acting Solicitor for the
Court, and never heard or replied to Col.
Kenan's remarks in answer to him or Maj
Hughes either and you better believe it,
the hide was torn off him by his able and
gallant antagonist. Wo be to white ne
groessshould there come another war, and
wo be to those who are traitors to their
race, country, soil and place of nativity
Both Col. Kenan and Maj. Hughes are for
peace and the peaceful mode of the ballot
box, but the jackobinic black party are for
war, as they ask Congress for guns, to be
sent down here to arm neighbOr against
neighbor, and plunge us into war, anarchy
and confusion F.; by the by, who will the
man who writes himself Gov. Holden and
his neighbors fight ? He had chance to
fight once, and then he ran under Governor
Vance's bed. [ heard speaker say a
short time since that he would not touch
his fingers for fifty dollars, and that if he
touched the hem of his garment and he
was travelling on the road, he would stop
at the first house and get soap and wash
the polluted garment. Have we not O
bogus State government with a---- at
the head of it? One of the old thirteen
States, been living for over ninety years
with Constitution not republican in form,
and Congress assumes to itself to double
refine us, new dress us, reconstruct US and
give us Constitution that is Republican
in form, sends us home after being three
years in the wilderness. Gov. II. put US
back; had forty y-eight white men and
several thousand negroes to hear his inau-
gural address and send us home. If this
government is home and we are safe in the
old mansion, God deliver me
Messrs Editors, I have spun this COM
munication out to too great length, but
when [ write of such men as Col Kenan
and Maj. Hughes, and the principles and
party they espouse, and contemplate
the danger of losing free institutions and
free government. and the glorious old
Constitution bequeathed to us by the
founders of this Government, viz Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison and others,
allow me to conclude in reference to the
Constitution by saying to those "esto per-
petua." "ANGo1A"