Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-08-07


The Carpet-Baggers after the Treasury
The Democratic Convention, &C., &c.
RALEIGH, July 81, 1868.
Dear Journal:-It may, perhaps, be re-
garded, in some sort, favorable augury,
that, on yesterday, no attempt was made
to call up, in the so-called House of Rep
resentatives, the infamous Police Bill,
which was under heated discussion up to
the hour of adjournment the day before.
Without solitary exception, SO far as
know, the infamous carpet-bag element
favor the diabolical proposition. These
miserable creatures are honing for any pre-
text to light the flames of civil strife in
North Carolina, from the double motive Of
malice and greed. Should collisions &C.
cur. as they must, if any such measure
is consummated, they will take good care
to keep their cowardly carcasses out of
harms way-yf they can. They will resort
to their congenial and experienced occu-
patton of cumming; but an outraged people
will find them out in their craven recesses,
wherever they may be. Welker's bill will
encounter some decided opposition among
the native Radicals in the House, but l
predict that, under the pressure of Hol-
den's dictation and party vindictiveness, it
will pass that body. In the Senate its fate
may be set down as doubtful. It will be
resisted by such Republicans as Lind
say, Winstead, Lassiter, Rich ardson, Will
son and Wynne. The probability is that
some scheme for the organization of the
militia-milder in its provisions, yet suf-
fciently criminal and atrocious in itself
will be substituted.
During the discussion of the bill in the
House, it was amusing to witness the real
and unaffected terror which the Ku-Klux
chimera has inspired among the timid and
brainless scalawags from the d" rural dis
tricts.'' Old Ingram, of Arson, actually
looked frightened, as he spoke, in low, in
coherent and trembling tones, of the
mythic monster that evidently haunts his
Imagination by day and his dreams by
night. He has not recovered from the
alarm into which he was thrown, some
weeks since, in his county. You will re-
member that he and few of his negro
allies were holding Red string conclave,
at night, when the passage of three OF four
horses, dragging their trace-chains, sug
gested Ku-Klux visitation, and Ingram
"dispersed" incontinently. It is said that
you could have played marbles on the
guilty old rascals coat-tail.
[ hear, as yet, of no movement towards
carrying out the suggestion looking to the
casting of the Southern electoral vote by
the Legislatures, instead of by the people,
with view to achieving the "patriotic
necessity" of Grants election. The new
Bill of Rights declares that all political
power is vested in the people, and the new
ought to be, elective by The people !; and yet
the first action of the Radicals, under the
fraudulently assumed warrant of this very
Constitution, was to deprive the people of
all the cities, towns and villages of the
State, of the privilege of choosing their own
municipal officers. It would not, therefore,
surprise me, if this other outrage were
essayed. Let them try it, if they dare. It
will crush the party so effectually at the
/ North, that Grants defeaJ-now already
sufficiently sure-will be the most unques-
tionable certainty of the times.
There appears in the Standard of this
city letter, heralded with a great flour
ish of trumpets, as emanating from one of
the most distinguished men in the State,
advocating the election of Grant and Col
fax, as necessary to Peace 1t is not my
province, in a letter which is intended to
be budget of 7aeUS, to comment upon this
ridiculous plea. Suffice it for me to say,
that the letter in question is known to be
the production of Chief Justice Pearson,
and it is said that he has addressed 1t IN
the form of circular, to most, if not all,
of his old law students-for whom, it would
appear, that he thinks he has bill of sale!
Chief Justice Pearson is the only man like
ly to be injured by this extra. ordinary pro-
ceeding. And why is he not willing to have
the letter published at once, over his pro-
per signature, if he is so strongly impress
ed with the ideas which it advances, in
stead of snedking it through in a quasi
cIandestine manner ? A few weeks ago. it
is asserted, he was as much opposed to
Grant and Colfax, as he is now seemingly
in favor of them. An eLectioe Judiciary
makes political Judges.
have heard it stated here that most of
the subordinate instructors in the Institu-
ton for the Deaf, the Dumb and the Blind
have resigned, on account of the insults
offered by Soulouque Holden in placing
two negroes on the Board of Directors.
By the way, it is said to be the custom of
the Superintendent of the two Asylums to
entertain the respective Boards at dinner,
occasionally. How will they dispose of
the 'friend and brother" on such State
occasions ? Will they send him to the
kitchen to middling and green's, or will
DIR. Grissom and the Canadian negro eat
soup together and clink glasses to the ga
lorious sentiment Liberty, Fraternity,
EquaIity?"
Rumor has it that the new "powers that
be-" including the Head Fumc-tionary, are
very anxious to get rid of young Coleman,
the hopeful sprig of an Attorney General
He has not been himself (bad as that would
beg much more than half his time, it is
said, since his accession to the post of
Privy Counsellor of State and it must
have been under peculiar influences that
he got Holden into that difficulty about
the Municipal authorities of Raleigh.
Holden will never forgive the youth for
placing him in predicament which sub
jected him to almost as much ridicule as
execration, and which greatly mortified his
peculiar friends. Coleman and "Judge I"
Jones Good Lord