Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-03-13
STATE POLITICAL NEWS.

ceptance of this admirable Judge and pure
minded Christian gentleman, in reply to
the communication of the Secretary of the
Executive Committee, informing him of
his nomination for the seat on the Supreme
Court bench which he now adorns:
CHAPEL HILL, March 9Th, 1868.
| SIR:-Your letter informing me that had been
unanimously nominated by the State Executive
Committee of the Conservative party for a seat
On the bench OF the Supreme Court has just been
received.
I accept the nomination, and, if elected. shall
IN the future as have donei in the past, endeavor
to discharge the duties of the high office for
which am proposed, honestly, faithfully and inn
partially according to the best of my abilities.
| With my thanks to the Executive Committee for
the honor which they have conferred upon me
and to you for the kind terms in which YOU have
communicated their wishes.
| am very truly yours,
Will. II. BATTLE.
To RICHARD G. BADGER, Esq, Sec'y State Ex
| Com, Raleigh, n. G.
| PROPOSED MASS MEETING IN RALEIGH.
4 correspondent of the New Berene Jour
nal OF Commerce proposes d grand State
mass meeting N this city some time during
the pending canvass. He advises that the
white people shall come up from all sec
| tlons Of the State, with banners and devil
ces, and that the abIest speakers of the
State be invited to be present and address
the people.
| We heartily approve the suggestion
Let the Executive Committee have meet
ing and announce the time and place for
Grand Mass Me citing, and then let the
press of the State urge the attendance of
the people.
Hon. THos. S. AsHE.-We learn that this
distinguished gentleman, one of the can
Vassers ior the State at large, condescend-
ed to reply last week, at Albemarle, Stanly
county, to windy Billy" Jr., and made
one Of the most powerful and splendid eff
forts ever heard in that section of the
State. Our informant writes that ''many
such efforts viii certainly secure us yicto-
ry. ''-Se3atiae!.
WE LEARN that, at the recent meeting at
Lemon, III Caldwell county, the bare and
simple mention OF Holden's name was suf-
hc1ent to bring down Il torrent of hisses.-I
And this IS the man, thus despised and ex-
ecrated by al tchite men, who is seeking to
be Governor Of North Carolina by negro
votes -SentjneI
GooD NEWS FROM PITT.-We learn with
pleasure that there was an enthusiastic rally
OF the White Mans party at GreenvilIe,
Fit county, last week. Able speeches
were made by Hon. Sion II. Rogers, Attor-
ney General, T. d. Satterthwaite, Esq,
and others. The white men Of Pitt are
fully aroused, and will do their whole duty
on the day of eiection.-C m'0linian.
NOTICE EXTRAORDINARY field
hands i'll this city, who have been engaged,
recently, In making ConstitOoshun for
the white people of North Carolina, will
soon be out OF employment Persons de-
string to engage ''servitors " (Pedagogue-
Pilgrim Goldfish Ashley for the approach
ing crop, will please address Cuffee Mayo,
care OF Jecms Ell. Harris, Raleigh. The
last IS an excellent Cr0pper.
1--WE TRIED TO SAVE SLAVERY,
but the secessiOnists wouldn't let us. .
Holden, 1865.
CONSPICUOUS UNION LANDMARKS
g. Unqualified opposition to what is known
as negro Suffrage. "-HoLden, 1865.
GRAND RALLY AT LENOIR.-We are graft
fed to learn that the Conservatives of
Caldwell county had an enthusiastic rally
at LenOir, few nights since. There was
a very large crowd IN attendance, and the
Hons. A. S. Merrimon, John Kerr and
r. Y. AIcAden made able and effective
speeches. The finest spirit prevails i'll
Caldwell, and the Radicals will hardly
make a black mark in that noble little
county.
RANDOLPH AMAZING. Give are in receipt
of private advices from the county of Ran !
deemed a very Gibraltar
Of Radicallsm, which Indicate great re-
vulsion of public sentiment. Men who have |
heretofore acted with the black Republican |
party, have become thoroughly ashamed of
past cooperation with it, and are now de- |
termined to resist for all time to come, and |
with all their might the shameless advo-
Gates Of negro equality and negro suprem |
acy IN North Carolina. They have at last |
the truth that q few bankrupt
political hacks, false alike to their color
and to the State of their nativity, are
leagued with vagabond, carpet-bag adven-
turers from other States, plotting their own /
political advancement, and seeking to re-
build their desperate fortunes, by prOstra-
ting everything that is noble, and blasting
all that is good in North Carolina This
news from RandOl Dh is cheering and I'M
less we are sadly deceived the white men
of that county Will redeem it on the day of
election from the least and last remains of
Negroism !-C(UO}iai04.
RALLY OF WHITE MEN IN NORTHAMPTON.
On Monday last there was large and
meeting of the white men of
Northampton county, at Jackson, the
county seat, to ratify the nominations of
the State Executive committee. That ster-
ling democrat and gallant soldier and pa
triOt, Gen. Matt W. Ransom, presided.
Gen. Ransom, Col. Spruill and W. W.
PEBBLES, Esq, made able and eloquent
speeches. District committees were APP
pointed, and preparations made for a thor
ough canvass of the county.
Gin'ral Dockery-familiarly known as
x Oil Creamy from his somewhat pc
culiar pronunciation of the word Guano-
is intensely disguised by the greed of his
Yankee associates. He-was always in favor
of everybody's having their sheer of the
public lands, but is Mortified by the fact
that fire Yankee interl opers aspire to con
gressional seats from North Carolina-and |
another to the Senatorial Toga. 60 Old |
Gwanny,' will vote the niger ticket, Gov
ernor and all, but it goes terribly against
the grain.-Ral Cdr0ltnian
ATTEMPT TO CREATE A ROw.-Juct Of