Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-24
Our Duty-OGr Hopes.

Our Duty-OUr Hopes.
A week to-day the election will be over
The three days allowed for voting In North
Carolina will have expired and the decl
sion. so far as the people are concerned
will have been rendered. Are all prepared
for the issue g.? Does every voter IN tne
State appreciate its great and vital 1mpor-
lance . Are all alive to the real issues IN
yolyed in the contest? If every patr1ouc'
borast man in North Carolina knows the
questions really to be decided and the IN
terests to be affected by the vote, then, IN
deed. are there no fears for the result. lgno-
rance and timidity are the most danger
ous enemies Conservatism has had III 'li1'
canvass. and no who has failed 10 lnioIiu
The IGNORANT. convince the misguided ana
strengthen the weak-hearted, mas neglect
ed his duty to his State and his race. LII
we are defeated, it will be on account OF
the apathy or selfshness Of the more intel
Ggent of our citizens. The forty or forty
five thousand white majority IN North Car
DINA cannot be overcome by the negroes
and adventures, if good men do their
dutv. In Alabama, less than three thous-
and whites voted with the Radicals. About
the same number in Arkansas. Are our
people less intelligent, less patriotic, less
brave. less honorable than in these States.
Can Northern money and hopes OF office
buy North Carolinians Are our people TO
be won with brides which have been scorn-
fully rejected in Alabama and Arkansas !?
No thousand times, no.
Much the larger portion of our people
who have been deluded into the Radical
camps, are basely deceived or fearful OF
that mythical and terrible something
worse" of which Radical orators and pa
per are so eloquent. Men like Rodman,
and Dick, and Pool, and Settle, have sold
themselves cheaply, while Russell, and
Dockery, arj Thomas, ard Jones. and
Hill, have been purchased at prices fear
fully exorbitant, even in the superfluity OF
newly created Offices. The former may In
lure themselves in the estimation of worthy
people. The latter cannot even do SO
much. But the masses are honest and de-
sire to do what is right and best for North
Carolina, and if they can only be made to
know what their duty is-the action dicta-
ted by honor and Interestingly will faith
fully perform it, and that nobly, too.
With us there is no excuse for any white
man in New Hanover outside Of few Of
fice-seekers. and dozen Northern traders
who are here for purposes of gain, and
late us, socially and politically, with the
venom of devils, voting the Radical ticket,
and with these exceptions, there are few
indeed. We do not think there will be a
dozen old settlers who will prove false to
their race and color in this election. The
white men of New Hanover will vote in
solid phalanx, and they will all vote. The
earnest labors Of the Radicals to gain a
foot-hold among tho noble people of this
county have most signally failed and they
are without supporters among the white
citizens of tho county.
The same efforts upon the part of our
people to spread information to the masses;
the samo opportunities to become ac-
quainted with the base purposes of Radi-
calism the same chance to see and esti-
mate the worthlcssness of their leaders,
which our citizens have enjoyed, would
make Il like unanimity throughout the
State.
Our information from every quarter of
t. State leads us to believe that the peo-
pie of North Carolina arc becoming &C
qaainted with the Importance of the issues
see the dangers of Radical success and ne
gro equality-and by tens and hundreds
are abandoning the unholy associations
into which they have been deceived, and
are denouncing q party which uses them
only to rob and degrade their fellowciti-
zens for the benefit of strangers, without
means and without character.
So believing, and knowing that the ster-
ling white population of our middle and
western counties were never so thoroughly
aroused and SO earnest in the political
history of the State, we expect glorious
victory. The almost unanimous voice of
the white people of the east will meet the
noble shouts from our western mountains,
and IN their majesty and might, the people
of this State will proclaim that this is a
eUEite mans gorernnaent, and mast be SO main
tanned.
Z urther Failures of Radicslism to Make
Their Ticket Respectable.
Below we publish a card from Mr.. ELIJAH
HEWLETT, exposing the unwarrantable use
of his name upon the Radical ticket of this
county, and denying that he ever had SYM
pathy with that party. 1t is difficult, in
1land for the 1nnlitinal snecI1latnrss and