Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-10

ty, or out of the rebellion, are not worthy
to be cherished. Let us discard such pre-
JUDGES. We are once moro Americans all.
Let us receive with courtesy and kindness
every citizen of the Northern or Eastern
States who may cast his lot among US, and
measure him as we measure others, accord
ing to his personal and moral worth. We
cannot hope to improve our condition If
we repel capital and immigration, either
by so acting as to produce the belief that
it is not safe to settle among us on account
of want of law and order, or unpleasant,
because of rude or uncivil treatment to the
immigrant. It should be remembered that
our ancestors were originally as much cad
venturers as others. Of the three signers
of the Declaration of Independence for this
State neither Was native. Richard Cas-
we'll, one of our greatest Governors, and
sometimes called the Washington of North
Carolina. was not a native; nor was Joseph
Caldwell, who built up our University and
led the way with Murphey, Yancey, Stanly,
Saunders and others in internal improve
,uents and public instruction.
We want the best people from Europe,
and from all parts of the United States to
settle among us. It is men that make
State. Let them come with their enter
prise and money, their muscle and intelli-
gence and when they get here let the
only rivalry be as to who shall do most
for the good and the glory Of our beloved
State.
The government of the United States, in
the prosecution of the war to suppress the
rebellion, and in the measures it has adop-
ted to reconstruct the Union, has exhibited
extraordinary clemency and magnanimity.
1t has taken no vengeance for the past, but
has required only security for the future.
It has deprived no man of his property
save for war purposes during the progress
of the war it has exiled no man it has
punished no man for the crlme OF rebel
lien. It has simply required that those
who have been in rebellion should renew
their allegiance, and that such guards
should be placed in the organic laws of the
States and the nation as to prevent future
rebellion Instead of defining or restrict
ing suffrage permanently it has left it with
the respective States, to be determined and
settled as they may choose and this State,
following in full measure the example of
the national government, has made suf
frage free to all.
But the war to suppress the rebellion has,
in its results, necessarily changed, as it has
settled the theory of construction previous
ly held by large portion of the people
Our liberties have been consolidated, and
the Union can, in no event, Be dissolved.
It is to endure always. 1t must increase,
but never decrease. For all great national
purposes the government of the United
States is over the States, and paramount to
the States. and the allegiance of the citizen
is first due to it. There is no appeal from
the will of the nation, expressed by ma
iority. Armed resistance to the national
authority, whether by individuals of their
own accord, or by individuals acting under
supposed State authority or command, is
treason, and must be so held and treated
The doctrine of States rights, as held by
Mr.. Calhoun and his followers, has ceased
to have validity or vitality and the teach
ings and doctrines of Washington, Hamil-
ton, Webster, Jackson, Clay and Lincoln
now constitute the true, and tho only safe
theory of construction. This has been set
tied under Providence, by the result of a
solemn appeal to arms among brethren
and he who would unsettle this theory,
thereby rendering it possible that secession
should ever again be attempted, is no friend
to his species, to his State, or to the gener-
al government of his country. The gov
eminent of the United States is no longer
feeble luminary, receiving and dispen-
sing light to surrounding planet but it is
full sun, burning with superior splendor,
pervading and holding up to itself the en-
tire system, and kinding new planets into
life and motion. How benetcent, how
glorious. how far reaching will be the light
it will dispense when it reaches its meridi-
an, we shall not live to see but the gener-
atoms TO como after us will walk in that
light, and be contented, prosperous and
happy. In the fnllness of their gratitude
they will thank Goa, as we do, that the
government of the United States, deliver
ed from the periis of rebellion, and recon
structed on the basis Of the equal rights of
all, is as indestructible as tho earth itself,
and as secure in its position and in the ex-
ercise of all its great powers as,
1.-THE Northern star
OF whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the armament.
have thus, fellow-c citizens, stated briefly
and plainly the great principles contained
in our State Constitution, and have frank
ly announced the policy which will charac-
terize my administration. Cherishing