Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-02-21
acknowledgements!

We desire to ask, what Is being done Dy
the Conservatives in this portion of the
State towards organizing for the approach
ing election? In less than a month the
white men of North Carolina, not disfran-
chised by Congress, will be called upon to
decide the most important issues ever
placed before a people. And to do SO sue
cessfully and safely, they must overcome
the votes of seventy thousand ignorant ana
preiudiced negroes, led on by the most
worthless and abandoned political Tree
hooters end adventurers with which COM
munity was ever cursed. 1t may be thought
that the work before Us is lnsurmountapIe.
IT is difficult, and therefore calls Tor the
most strenuous efforts. Organization and
tion-determination and courage can, ana
will. accomplish it. hewhites have already
unwards of thirty thousand majority, which
another registration, required under the
acts of Congress, will increase to forty or
fifty thousand, if we but dc our duty. In
Alabama, where the negroes have majority
of upwards of ttcenty thousand, and acted
as unitedly under as disreputable and dis
graceful leaders as with us, and where
money was used without stint to carry the
election, the Radicals have been largely
defeated by the thorough and complete OF
caniZation of the whites. It will be SO
with us. 1t requires but the arousing Of our
people to the real merits and dangers OF the
issues in order to secure full and united
bn evil
Vaccinations of the men who are desiring
to upturn and ruin the political and social
welfare of the State.
But to accomplish this desirable end it is
necessary for rs to work, erorh, WORK, and
our Iabors, as is our aims, must be in
unison. The Conservative Convention,
which Was recently in session in
Raleigh, adopted q Plan of Organi-
zation which gives lis common
and efficient system for our adoption, and
we now entreat our friends everywhere to
perfect their county organizations under
it, and thus secure success. 1t is to this
plan of county organization to which we
desire to call particular attention. The
plan adopted by the Convention is as fol-
lows
1t is recommended that each County, by popu-
lar meetings or through the medium OF existing
organizations, appoint County Committee, to
consist of at least two persons from each Cap
tain's District within its limits.
The County Committee shall take charge OF sill
matters of registration, local organization, &c
within the County, and is requested to make
monthly reports to the Chairman OF the District
Committee, and, when necessary, to inform him
a
ton OF the District Committee
It is further recommended that each County
Committee cause to be enrolled the names OF all
the registered voters of their county, who are
willing to act and vote with this organization
no man to be thus enrolled without his express
consent and, Also that they cause to be enrolled
a separate list the rames Of all those who are
entitled to register but who have not done co. and
that they use every eXertlon to secure their regis
tratiCn and active cooperation.
EeSOtCed That the President OF the Convention
appoint five more persons, in each County, to
make thorough canvass of the same and dis
seminate proper political information.
This Convention met to little purpose if
its wise recommendations are not followed.
Even five do not entirely approve Of them,
it will be fatal to us to divide upon minor
issues. We must make q long pull, a
strong pull, and pull aAQqetbey, if
our labors are to have practical force
Let US, therefore, Immediately perfect our
county organizations under this plan. Let |
us at once appoint our County Committees, |
and take action to cause all the white regis
tered voters within our respective counties, |
who arc not ashamed Of their color and not !
afraid to acknowledge it, to be enrolled, |
and TO collect the names of those entitled |
to register but who have not done so, in
order to prevails upon them to do so when
the opportunity is afforded, which will be
before they are called upon to vote. If
this organization is perfected, and the peo-
pie aroused by thorough canvass, North
Carolina tciU be Sared from Il fttte ac0rSe than
that qUhich crer JgfeH a S2ate But unless
we do organize and work we will drift into |
the slough Of Radicalism and be lost in the
filth and corruption of that political cess
pool. If We are awed by the fear of contis-
cation, military tribunals aud military
prisons, where haJeaS corpus never enters,
we will hug to our embrace fate far worse.
Our property will be taxed by negro Iegis-
lators to educate negro children and to pay
negro ofice-holders, and the title to it will
be adJudicated by negro juries. Negro
policemen and civil officers will arrest, and
negro magistrates will try, us. The sacred
ness of life and liberty will be tried before
Judges and juries compared to which the |
military tribunals will indeed be the abodes
of Justice and equity.
Again VIC urge our people to organize
with determination to succeed We can
not Cford dgtea. Let us but get to work
and are 1cH, ere a1uSt, be rict0rious.
admission of Alabama.