Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-12-18
RALEIGH, Il. G. Dec. II, 1868.

appropriations have passed the Senate to
the amount of over 100000, and the
"daughters of the horse-leach " are still
crying, Give giver It is perhaps safe
| to assert that all Of these schemes will pass
the House. also, where the Ring" is
equally as compact as in the other branch.
And thus goes the old coach, with venality
and profigacy in the lead, corruption and
extravaganza as wheel-horses, and carpet
baggers driving, on--on-on to bankrupt
CIV, ruin and REPUTATION Il is melan-
choly, indeed, for any man who loves his
STATE, to como to the conclusion that the
sooner that las5 precipice Is reached the
better; and yes the minds of the people are
rapidly settling in that direction.
! A startling commentary upon this crazy
| crusade of reckless extravaganza was pre-
sentod on Saturday, when communica-
ton from the Public Treasurer, endorsed
| by Holden, was received, announcing, in
substance, that the Treasury was empty.
! Or nearly SO that it was absolutely essential
to the preservation of the already impair
ed credit of the State, that authority should
be given the Treasurer to borrow money
to meet the accruipg January, April and
July interests On the public debt and expen-
SEES Of thegovernment, With additionalpo
| to pledge, as collateral security for the pay
nent of the borrowed sum, the stocks and
bonds of the State and that, unless this
extra ordinary and unheard Of one-man-
power was legitimized, there must ensue o
great depreciation of our bonds The
House promptly mascuated the PROPOSE
ton by striking out all except the naked
| warrant to borrow-jfMe Treasurer can
without providing the means of meeting
the obligation. So that Davy Jenkins
Power of Attorney is worth about as much
| as a sight draft ca the " Mountain Bank -
in the Moon! And yet, with this startling
disclosure staring it IN the face, the Legis-
lature will continue the gaue of folly,
plumber and swindling. What words can
l, or any man, employ, fifty to character
iZe such fabulous and criminal conduct
Of piece with the class of legislation
making to divide the Wilmington, Char
otte aad Rutherford Railroad into distinct
divisions, under separate organizations,
with, Of course, another heavy appropria-
ton attached. / regret to say that this
nefarious project was also hurried through
the Senate, on Saturday, though there is
some reason to doubt its success in the
House. It should be perfectly evident to
the manipulators of this scheme that the
project is impractcable, and that resort
to the Courts must Q lash the whole affair;
but there are motives and interests at work
in the matter that cannot, and will not, lock
an Inch beyond the nose" and which
are partly marcCnacy nd partly vindic-
tive It is affirmed b. some that the bill
was introduced by Wynne. of Franklin, for
60 1 ~,
by his confession. not five white men in
his county wilt recognize him, he is to be
given iii the thing carries) the Presidency
of the Western Division, whereby his
social Surroundings may be improved but
this is hardly SO. The railroad would be-
come sorry Windmill affair, if it were,
in very truth. The real secret of this
whole movement is that 'Gen. Judge"
gas-bag Logan wants a fat "posish," and
certain Radicals. from sheer cowardly ma
lignlty, wish to strike a blow at that gallant
gentleman and true patriot, ROBERT q.
CowAN. because, forsooth, in the late cam
paign, he dared to lift his eloquent voice
in behalf of the Constitution and the
Right
It is understood that leading Radicals
set up the high handed claim that, under
the so-called Constitution, the pressn
Legislature was elected for four years. No
pretensiOn was ever more usurpatory and
monstrons, as u reading of the Constitu-
ton will SHOW to any honest man of ordi-
nary comprehension. But there are no
limits to Radical rascality, and you need
not be surprised to see the four years ten
ure asserted by formal enactment The
result of the late election in the State,
though SO humiliating to all decent white
men, was far from being satisfactory even
to the Radicals, when looked at by coun-
ties. So viewed, it demonstrates incontes-
tibly that the Legislature would be car
ried against them at the next biennial
election, and hence their approximations
and alleged purpose. Like biood-suckers |
that have taken q greedy hold, nothing
will pull them off from their gorging but |
hot water.
"His Excellency" (oh ye gods and lit !
tie fishes J has announced to his obedi- |
ent subjects that he prefers to remain in |
his own residence, and will not move to
the Executive Mansion. Wicked "rebels "
uM talk, you know, and various specula-
lions arc INDUCED as to the reasons of the |
resolve. 1t was generally sup
posed that his'inordinate vanity would lead
him to hang up his gubernatorial hat in
house that had been graced by the resi-
denoy of Dudley, Morehead, Graham.
DraBS, &C. OOuo MALICIOUS people 1nS1nu-
ate that fear of the Ku Klux restraineth
the valiant man others, that he was ap-
prehensive that the somewhat crazy walls
would topple about his head in re-
venge for the intrusion of such man
The more popular impression, however,
seems to be that he is afraid that the ghost
Of his murdered promise to Vance would
haunt him there, by day and by night, and
that one room especially would recall, with
singing and humiliating recollection, that
night when he crawled through
a back window and supplicated protection
from the man for whose arrest he after
wards advised the Federal authorities to
offer [reward The very sight of that
house is suggestive of modification and
Of Benning's Brigade to W. w Holden
No wonder that he hates it and will not
i've there. 1t is said that Legislative
opinion is divided as to whether it shall be
made q place Of meeting for Tie Supreme
Court or a Niger school! The mere enter
,ainment of such an alternative is more
insulting to "their Honors" than being
slowed away in the garnet of the Capitol,
snt it But who cares =?
L find that the municipal election, which