Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-24
CIR DiLEIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

Lands of the State-SWinGles upon the
state Treasury-Pickings and stealings.
Fat Jobs for the Faithfnl-TRe Negroes
and the Captsol-Seymour and Blair
ton Orators, Sc, sc
Dear Journal The diabolical schemes
Of the carpet-baggers, and the atrocious
aod' programme of the individual who calls
himself Governor of North Carolina, are
rapidly developing themselves in al their
internal hideousness. You will have been,
ere this reaches you, Soulouque Holden's
communication to the Legislature, asking
for the prompt enrolment and equipment
Of a BroWnlow militia !; and cid Welker of
the Senate-one of those foreign aboli-
ton preachers, who, before the war, were
continually sowing the seeds Of servile in
cendiarism-has introduced q bill, which
looks, III addition, to the organization Of
al armed police force ID each county in
the State. This latter project is, proba-
bly,, lot the suggestion Of Welker's own
brain, though his vindictive heart is fully
capable of its conception, but II emanates,
doubtless, from the joint counsels OF Hol-
den and his yankee co-adjutOrs IN lnfamy.
In all the minuti8 Of its provisions, and
in the abuses to which it would give rise,
if attempted to be carried into practical
operation, it will he found to be an exact
counterpart Of those systems OF military
espionage, which have prevailed in the
most despotic countries OF the Old World.
We should have at every street crossing,
in every assemblage of citizens, haunting
private residences, intruding into the pri-
vacies of the domestic circle, negro JAM
zary or white mercenary scoundrel, III
uniform, ready, SO far as his debased spirit
and dastardly mission would allow him to
do it, to obey the devilish behests Of his
masters and nstigators-Holden and the
yankee Adventures. There is some
ground, l am informed, to hope that the
Joint Vaccinations of these traitors and
conspirators may be foiled. It is conf
IDENTITY expected that, even in this hour Of
political malevoleuce and prohigacy, and
craven subservience to the Executive
edicts, there will be found number Of the
native Radicals who shrink with horror
from such bloody propositions, while there
will be yet others, who, although p1ssessed
of all the cowardly hate of the assassin,
yet recoil OF the enormous expense which
this plot of terror WI involve. A few
i days will determine the result. All the
various propositions are now in the hands
of the Military Committee. II they are
attempted to be carried into execution, the
consequences will be fearful to contem-
plate. Peaceable, laW-abiding-Su
ted, if you please-as the masses of our
people are. they will not tamely submit to
| I nd t0 hn
opinion aud feeling, that the first overt act
of outrage, the first collision, will be the
signal of woe to the guilty authors and in
stigators of such unnecessary, inhuman
and wicked inventions.
In view of the unhallowed and barbarous
} devices Of these men-iu view of even the
possibility. of their accomplishment--in
view of the horrors which threaten unof-
Tending, virtuous, refined communities at
the hands of such bad men, one almost
loses hold upon that Divine Faith which
is alone sufficient to bear one up under the
visitatiOns of fortune. What have we done
that we should be thus put in jeopardy by
as base and abandoned set of miscreants
as ever cursed our common humanity ?
: A bill was introduced in the Senate, a
day or two since. which develops another
cherished design of the carpet-baggers
design which is the combined offspring of
: their hatred of our people, and of their sor-
did greed of gain. I refer to PROPOSE
ton by one Colgrove, of Carteret (who,
it is stated, in a communication to
some paper, is delinquent on
} the Sheriffs books,) to sell the
property of debtors on short notice, and
by a summary process. The purpose is
palpable. It is the intention of these ad-
venturers, if they can effect it, to bring the
: lands and effects Of the people under the
Sherif9s hammer by forced sales, in order
that they may come into possession for a
| trife. Their malignity is as astounding as
r their shifting impertlnence and assurance
! are intolerable. They will be-they must
be-frustrated in their infamous designs,
| and the day will come when all history will
write that the meanest set of reptiles who
! ever sIinned their way over Gods HERITAGE
, were the Yankee carpet baggers who infes-
ted the South after the great revolution.
The most gigantic swindles upon the
State Treasury and the pockets of the peo-
pie. are contemplated by the new 1eginaists
| make the prediction that such fat salaries
f Ito say nothing Of opportunities for picking
and stealing.) will be voted for the new
, officials, from the lowest scullion up to the
1surped Governor himself, as will make the
expenses of the State government perfectly
uncomfortable. Every fellow of them, white,
a Olack ana mnlaCtO, elJief mas, or IS seeking,
to put his finger in the grab-game of fraud.
The thing commenced with job probably
to negro and scalawag workmen) for build
, ding platform for negro celebration,
which was paid for out Of the public mon
r. les. I am told that even every little pimp,
who, within the last six mouths, N Raj
eigh, has shown any zeal for Radicalism, is
clamoring for, and receiving something
out of, the grand lottery of Corruption
) For instance, in order to give employment
to some two score or more of importunate
mendicants, the newly appointed Keeper
of the Capitol grounds has actually had the
old Belfry moved from one end of the
square to the other. If the Capitol were
not made of stone, they would move it up
and down the streets once week, for the
, sake of furnishing ''job " to some of the
shirtless "patriots."
By the way, since Holden took posses
sion, the Capitol has become perfect
rendezvous fo1 idle, filthy negroes. They
swarm all over it, from the dome to the
f porticoes, like hungry flies around mo-
lasses barreI. At every step and turn you
are jostled by them. They crowd the
rotunda and fill the avenues. occupy the
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