Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-31
From the National Intelligencor.
u SfEunnAnal State

who dlSOWn the doctrines of feudallSm, OF
villeinage, and of slavery and who deny
that the civil liberty Of ourselves and our
| forefathers was pageant and name, look
for yourselves at the State of North Caro-
lima, as sketched by the hand of murder in
her Legislative halls. Read in another col
umn bill which is pending now in the
convocation of negroes and Migrants who,
under the patronage of the Congress of the
! United States, call themselves the Legisla-
ture of that State. This preci pc of bond
age provides :
That the Governor shall appoint, Or
ganize, and equip force in each county
equal to fifty men for each State repre- sen
tative, each twenty of whom to have SER
geant, aud each hundred captain, and the
whole to be under the management of a
war department. consisting of chief and
two assistants. This army is to be under
the exclusive and plenary control of the
Governor, who may order any part of it at
his pleasure to any part of the State. The
| force is to be armed aud uniformed, and
each man shall have badge of authority.
He shall have two dollars per day and
| found the chiefs to have annual salaries
and travelling expenses and the subordin-
ate officers an indefinite sum- All expenses
incident to the calling out of the force are
to be leoied on and collected from tie conanlu-
Mtg IN aohich tie disturbance arises. Any ten
electors have the power to Call out this
force, as well as any justice of the peace,
sheriff. deputy sheriff, etc. This body OF
| armed and licensed minions are expressly
empowered to use all " necessary fnrc6 > to
preserve their authority. mo man shall
be an officer or private IN this organization
unless he be an elector of the State, and
first take and subscribe the constitutional
oath of Office Each member of the force
in addition to all ordinary police powers,
may, a. his sole discretion, arrest and hold
for twenty -four hours any person whatever
" for breach Of the peace. 1t shall be
the duty of the chief to prepare and for
ward to each man appointed a member of
this force printed copy of the rules pre-
is called "police. Their badges are
called "police powers" etc. Are no brass
collars to be provided for these policemen
to weld around the necks of subject citi-
zens inscribed with a masters name p
May the people still have fire in their dwell
llngs after designated hour at night Is
there no curfew bell to mark in mercy the
N 'ment for silence and darkness Who
is the Saxon Harold, where is the Hastings,
and whence comes the Norman Conqueror,
that men whose fathers from the rocks of
Mecklenburg first proclaimed indepen-
dence for America shall go down to the
gloomy and merciless bondage of eight
hundred years ago in England?
Rules are to be prescribed to govern
the conduct of the soldiers to be thus Sc
lected by the Governor. Those rules must
suppIant the common law, the statutes of
the State, its constitution, old and new,
no low 0f hn TI,,it to&o klox
Constitution of the nation, in the State of
North Carolina. How else could it be p
That code would reflect and embody the
system thus created, in which there is not q
right IN the State which the Governor, his
officers of this force, or The men them
selves can be compelled by any citizen to
respect. It is new government for the
State OF North Carolina. It is potentially
organic, fundamental, and paramount
The sovereignty of the people would be
vested in this select body. If they should
crown their Governor with crown, clothe
him IN purple, put sceptre in his hand,
grant titles of nobility to the chiefs and
captains, they would change the substance
of their sovereign powers no more than
clothing changes the tissues of the body.
Ii it were according to the manners of the
age, the outward insignia and titular dis
undoubtedly soon follow the actual inaugu-
ration of such system. May North Caro-
lima invite Prince Alfred to reign king
over her From the clutches of barba-
rism thus vested with her sovereignty,
more revolving than to be conquest of
horde of cannlbals, may she take refuge
under the mercy, the tolerance, and the
self-respect of, at least, gentlemen Must
she prefer, to a control of Christianizei
beings. the unrestrained violence of bar
barrie negroes ? Shall State of this Union
stand between alternatives so disgusting
Has she no right to a republican form of
government Have we no right to require
its restoration ? Shall We tolerate in our
bosom system of government that affronts
the nineteenth century and proscribes all
civilization ? Shall the King of Dahomey
seize and govern one of the United
States This is what that would be
figure of.
And this is a reconstructed State ! The
iniquitous and unconscionable demagog les
who govern the Houses of Congress have
finished the work of restoring this State to
its practical relations to the Union, and
such is the estate from which they receive
so-called Representatives. They say that
North Carolina now is the same to the
Union that Ohio or New York is.
People of the United States, is any one
of you still in doubt =? These shameless
imposters told you they were securing,
through three long and distressing years
of Southern misrule, republican govern.
ments for those States and this is the
work they have done They bring into
membership of the Union, instead of re-
publican State government, an organized
conspiracy against civil order combi-
nation of arms againstiberty and property;
an association Of abandoned OUTLAWS and negro
saUages, for Mepurpose Of Furnishing ciciliza-
tion as a crime i1a North Carolina. Behold
their work Mark it for destruction, and
vote for your age, your country, and your
common human nature.
Eugenie's waist measures just seventeen
inches.
An italian inventor makes gas from Pc
troleum.
The place for red currants-the Red
Sea. ...
The PAGER " Fearless " has been sold for
$4,000
An Ohio sexton dug his own grave the
other day. . -.srs.