Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-26
The Difference.


clad test-oath, which is supposed may be
applied to members of the Legislature
Whatever is necessary to be done, or omit
ted. will be done or omitted, as far as prac-
ticable. to enable the Legislatures to meet
and ratify the amendment.
Per contra, an item of State news informs
rs that Gen. CANBY has decided the con-
tested election cases for the Legislature III
CasweIl county, in favor Of the C0nSerr'''e
candidates. who will be commissioned
mon their filing with him "what is known
as the iron clad test OATH
This is in keeping with what we have
,ra5;cte5 Hon. BEDFORD BROWN, con-
sistent Unionist, is to be kept out OF the
Senate. while emo trouble is to be ant1cl-
pated" in the case of Brogden, who has
been all things in turn and nothing long.
Hon. JOSIAH Turner will not be permitted
to confront Winstead, as he did in the Sen
ate of 1861, when the latter was trying to
effect the secession of North Carolina,
upon the ground, we suppose, that as WIN
stead was paid for his efforts in dissolvlng
the Union, he should be also remunera-
lively employed in restoring it.
What ridiculous shame is this white
reconstruction scheme-how disgracetni
will be the faithless record which hands 1t
down to posterity. Dishonor and vice in
the most fimsy DISCUSSES are rewarded III
every conceivable way, and the Govern
ment of the United States throws out the
most fascinating brides to promote cupldlty
ption-its pardon purchased tthe
expense of personal honor, and its emolu-
ments dispensed as the reward of perjury.
Under such patronage the Southern States
must pass into the hands OF the worst
classes of its citizens, and men of honest
impulses and noble purposes must grow
sick under this poiluting infnnnoA-
Whittier such supremacy Will lead, unless
checked by the saving hand of the North
ern people, is not difficult to divine. Its
continuance will involve the entire South
in destructive anarchy, if not bloody revo-
luton, dragging into its political maelstrom
the prosperity of the whole country. Such
partisan wickedness and personal charlatan-
ry as now rides upon the waves of civil COM
motion in these Southern States, must soon
subside, or State pride, social well-being
and personal honor will receive blow
from which it will take years to recover.
We cannot believe that this condition of
things can long continue. Providence
surely could not have intended this fair
land for the paradise of adventurous and
the pandem onium Of criminals. We look
to see our rights indicated, and our peo-
pie, tempered and chastened by the trials
through which they have passed, stand up
before God and man, in all the pride of an
honorable manhood.
Emigration CaIIfornia-Letter from Al
Respectable Resident OF High Position
For the information of our readers and
as matter of much general interest, we
publish below, in place of other matter, a
letter from gentleman in California, to
Bishop ATKINSON, who has kindly furnish
ed us q copy for publication. The Bish-
ops letter Of endorsement of the character
of the writer accompanies it. It is but
Just that our people should hear both sides
of question in which many of them have
peculiar situation in which their misfor-
tunes have placed them. We have from
time to time received many accounts from
that country favorable to emigration, some
of which we have published; but if Califor-
mia be not the FL Dorado 80 strongly rep
resented, and which representations have
induced thousands to journey thither, it is
time the people should know it. This let
ter is entirely worthy of credence in view
of the very strong endorsement given the
character of the writer by one SO high in
position and so universally esteemed and
respected as Bishop ATKINSON. The ad-
vice is substantially for our people to stay
at home, endeavor to better their condi-
ton here, and ignore all thought of emil
grafton to California, unless they go pro-
vided with the capital declared to be ne
cessary to success in this letter:
WILMINGTON, June 10, 1868.
MEssIEURs EDIToRs:-I take the responsibility
of sending you fol publication in your widely cir
culated paper, letter from friend OF mine in
California not intended for publication, but which
I have thought ought not to withhold from the
public, as it bears on question that now occu-
pies the minds of many persons in whose welfare
am interested. The letter itself furnishes suf1i-
cient proof of the int gence of the writer. and
can vouch for bis narrative, having known him in
his boyhood, and hearing occasionally Of his high
position and success in life. His business, too,
which is that of an Aseayer, proves the confidence
reposed in him by those among whom he now
ives-the merchants and miners of California.
THOMAS ATKINSON.
CALIFORNIA, -, -, 1868.
A very persistent effort is being made to
induce immigration to this country-greatly
exaggerated accounts of the advantages it
offers have been widely disseminated, and
I regret to see that they are inducing many
Southern men to leave their homes, (such