Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-03
Z. X. ". MCINTYRE,
Secretary.
Meeting and Nominations la Sampson
CLINTON, SAMPSON COUNTY,
March 26th, 1868. {

Meeting and Nominations In Sampson.
CLINTON, SAMPSON COUNTY,
March 26th, 1868
TO tie Editors IF The Journal Sampson
county has awakened from her apparent
slumber. Some time after the surrender a
correspondent of the " New York Tribune .
wrote to that paper stating that the people
of Sampson county were IN All uncivjhzeG
condition. They were semi arbarians,
and, in fact, were in such a benighted con-
dltion and so far out of the pale of civil
cation that even then we We're not aware Of
the fact that the war lad closed, and STA
very, as an institution, no longer existed.
If that correspondent was ever engaged i'll
even q few of the many battles on Virginia s
bloody fields, he doubtless knows that
more than once he ungallantly fled the
field of battle, hotly pressed by some bold
Sampsonian.
Since the close of the war orr people
have been very quiet We Were promised
peace, and calmly have We awaited it
Treachery, as is practiced in everything
the Radicals do, was their intention for us,
and most wofully have we been deceived.
Now, after three years spent in fanclcd
dreams over the promised peace they SO
loudly proclaimed, we are awakened only
to SEQ the delusion SO artfulIy practiced
upon US, and just in time to make the at
tempt to wrest ourselves from condition o.
humiliation and slavery, such as the world
has never known.
For some time there have been those
among lis who, foreseeing the point to
which the Radicals were Intending to force
us, have been trying with their utmost
effort to avert so dreadful a calamity. Pre-
eminent among these were Col. A. 4. Ic-
Koy and II. L. Holmes, Esq.
To-day there was grand mass meeting
of the white people of this good old county,
and the misty cloud which has hung SC
drearily and threatninglY around US has
been penetrated and its hidden wlckedness
laid open to our view. Col E. d. Hall, III
one of his most happy and telling speeches,
to-day struck blow in the enemy's camp
from which they can never recover. Would
that it was in my power to picture to you
and every aChite man in North Carolina
the effect his address had on our people,
No word of mine can add anything to his
already well-earned fame.
Alter Col. Hall had concluded his speech
Col. A. A. Mckoy called on the audience
to know how many there were present who
was in favor of and wanted white mans
government. Those in favor of 1t we're re-
quested to hold up the right hand. All the
whites and some fifteen or twenty negroes
responded to this appeal by raising theil
right hands.
After which, came Col. Th0s. S. kenan,
of Duplin, who was present by special in
vitation, although out of his DISTRICT, and
desiring to add to the cause, whether i'll
his own cause or out of it,, and was intro
duced by our highly honored countyman,
Col. McKOy, and amid the cheers Of the
vast audience, proceeded to address the
meeting in a speech replete with sound al
gument and directed with well-aimed pre-
'clslon to both white and colored.
Then came Capt. Robinson, OF Fayette-
vile, and although it was his first speech
In Sampson, and he almost an entire
stranger, yet he found hearty response to
his own feelings IN the bosom of every
true and honest white man in SAMPSON
county, and it is the wish of the good peo-
pie here, that Capt. Ben may long live to
deal such blows to the enemy as he
did here to-day
The last speech WAS made by our friend
j. c. Dobbin, from Fayetteville, and if the
Others had left any part of the work untin'
shed, he finished it. He acted we'll his
p. Nrt. as he always does, and you may be
ass ured that Sampson is now awake-her
eyes have been opened. We see the abyss
into which the Radicals would drive, and
with determined spirit the people OF
Sampson intend to go with all their might
against the new Constitution
The speaking being over, and everybody
THAT is the white folks pleased at the re-
The Executive Committee, with Col, L.