Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-03-27
From the Raleigh Sentinel.
The Closing SceneS

At II o'clock on yesterday the animals
were turned loose and dispersed to theil
native jun gles-except the imported beasts
which were sent to the temporary coverts
which they have selected. All the white
women and children in this city were kept
in doors on yesterday, for fear of the con
sequences involved by unmuzzling such a
motley horde. They can venture out this
morning, as, perhaps, the last of the mon
grels has either disappeared from our midst
or is only skulking around in the purlieus,
harmless and contemplate. The asinine
Tourgee, the greasy Watts, the lantern
jawed Ashley, the well-fed Welker, the
ravishing May, the nondescript Rodman-
all are gone; the air is purer the streets are
cleaner, and the community is happier.
We learn that the closing proceedings of
this infamous assembiage were even more
discreditable, if that were possible, than
any of those which preceded it and which
have brought disgrace upon the Hall of
the House of Commons, that will render it
an unfit place for decent men to assemble
in for some time to come. Let all the dis
infeetants known to the Pharmacopeia be
brought into requisition at once, to purify
and to cleanse the infected room. Let the
windows be kept open, SO that the Spring
breezes can have free and gentle play
through the polluted arches.
In the barbarous regions of Africa. it is
the custom, when human sacrifices are to
be made and bloody rites celebrated
beastial appetites are to be gorged and bru-
tai lusts gratifed--for the savages to form
a ring and dance lii demoniac glee around
the intended victims. Ills African assem-
blage closed its session in the genuine and
appropriate African style. One looking
into their Hall at midnight of Monday,
and beholding the scene then and there
transpiring, might we'll have imagined that
he had been suddenly transported into the
regions of which Livingstone gives us an
account. The uictina acaS Tea2y--the SACRED
OLD CONSTITUTION of our fathers, under
which we have lived and prospered- and
the savages gathered around it, negroes
and scalawags, hand in hand, and danced
and sung boisteroug and ridiculous inelo-
dies. This is no metaphor. It is literal
fact, and will bring blush of shame to the
cheek of every true North Carolinian, that
the good and honest old State has come to
such q pa6s-that a set of apes and hybrids
should be holding brutal carnival in her
halls of legislation and shocking decency,
propriety and civilization by their imrious
and drunken orgies.
Pretty much the same scenes were re-
enacted, just before the final adjournment,
on yesterday. We learn that, after the
business of the body Was finished, speeches
we're called for from outsiders. A Gen.
Littlefeld, IA New York Broker or Agent
of Wall Street, and, perhaps, others, re-
sponded in strains of glorification. over the
murdered remains Of civil liberty in North
Carolina. and the excessive taxation of all
Impoverished people. This Gen. Little
field sang, we understand, from near the
Speakers Chair-the seat of Macon and
staply-from book of odes, the disgust
ing melody g Old John Browns soul is
maching on, or something of that sort,
lining it out to the Convention and the ne
gro auditors, who joined in the refrain with
boisterous ululation. Great Heaven =
Hare IRE come to this? What words are
adequate to express the horror and shame
of good men at such Infamous exhibition
! What words can paint the evils, the deprav
ity, the ignominy that must result from The
rule of such men
It is needless to add that the Conserva
| tive members all left in disgust before these
shameful scenes. 1t has given us deer
pain, for the sake of old North Carolina, tC
record these things but it is due to histo
ry that we should mention them-due te
the people in all parts Of the State, to tel
them what sort of men they allowed
through their Indifference, to come up here
to make a Constitution for them-due tt
all that we consider dear to denounce thes'
things, that all lovers of the State may b.
aroused to effort to put down a '' Constitu
ton " conceived in such a spirit and framed
by such travesties upon Legislators an(
men With this view we shall give to-mor
row, if possible, a graphic resume of tn
details of these disgraceful occurrences.