Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-10

who proved for 524 miles, and others like
him, they satisfied by filing their pockets
with fat slicas of mileage and such trifles.
SMITH-Well, [ have always been OPP
posed to repudiation and am yet. [ think
all our debt ought to be paid as soon We
recover from the losses of the war enough
to enable us to do so. But I do think it
hard the Convention should repudiate my
bonds, simply because Northern men don't
own any like mine. Many Of my poor
neighbors hold bonds, &c, issued during
the war, and not for war purposes either.
1t was in bad spirit for the Radicals to be-
gin the game of Reputation. Some of our
folks favor that doctrine how, and they
have given them great encouragement by
this business. If we do have reputation
hereafter, I shall lay it on this Convention,
because they started it. But read on. l
want to hear it all, though you have told
enough to break me already.
JONES reads on notice here many Of
fees we never had before. Here are 1t.
Governor, Superintendent of Public Works,
Superintendent of Public Instruction, At
torney General, (who is to be a salaried Of
| ticer,) additional Supreme Court judges,
Superior Court Judges, 8 Commissioners
to revise the laws, Boards of Public Char
ities, and Solicitors. Here are 20 new
officers. OF course they will have $4,000
or So, 900 apiece on an average. Then IN the
counties We are to have. besides Com
missioners for the county at large, and also
one Clerk and Justices of the Peace for
each District or Township, they are to be
called Yankee fashion. By sec. %, art. ",
these officers, Justices and all, are to have
salaries.
SAuTH.-You take away my breath. What
do they change the names of Districts"
tN ECu 1chi fCa II &lnr
Branch District How will it sound to say
'Panter Branch Township @ And then
all these new offices will break us down.
[ always thought we had too many already.
70 be sure they wanted to give every Yam
kee salary. I suppose they come down
here to make money and being officers is
easier than work.
JoNEs.-Yes, it looks SO, especially when
we find the Radical ticket full Of them.-
They have a raw Cape Cod Puritan put up
to take care OF our schools and the Univer-
sity-and man ,9ho has no law license as
candidate for Judge, and many Others
But to proceed with our examination of the
Constitution Here in sec. 3, art. AI, the
General Assembly is required at their
first session to build a Penitentiary. 1t will
have to be a large one TO hold all the ras-
calls turned aloose on us of late To buy
IuS S5IOuuu dII DliIu tilo CllIteuLIHIy Will
cost at least $3.50, ,00O,-say 500, 900 the
first year. Besides the Penitentia1y,
Houses Of Refuge. also Asylums for drunk
ards, &C., &C., TO be built as soon as prac-
ticable. Smith, old fellow, beware how
you peep into bottles hereafter ; they are
going to put drunkards into Asylums for
"inebriates and idiots"
SMITH.-There isn't much danger of
their getting me. Good liquor Is too high.
and rOt-gut makes my head ache, but /
hate these puritanical institutions. Go on.
Tell me if there is any other extravaganza
in the Constitution.
JoNEs.-Wo have just commenced, man.
The Common Schools, which the Constitu-
ton provides for the white and black chill
dren, will cost $500, 900 annually. They
cost $3.50, 600 before the war, white chill
dren alone. The schools are TO be managed
by School Committees elected by the peo
pie in each ''Township," and of course,
where negroes have a majority, they will
elect negro School Committees And then
the University is 10 be free College for
white and black. This will cost $3.50
at least. Look for yourself here lii Article
TX.
SMITH. (Reads). Why, mercy on us
it is as you say. If this Constitution goes
JoNEs.-Don't interrupt me, my friend
Here [ see the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and
Lunatic Asylums are to be thrown open
to all classes, rlch and poor, white and
black IF iunatic is worth a million dol
lars the State must support him. That
will cost $50, 900 more than they do now
And then there's the militia.
SMITH. What about the militia ? They
don't cost anything.
JusEs.-That was the case once, not now
Sc here, ''the General Assembly shall pro-
vide for organizing, arming, equipping
and disciplining the militia, and for pay
ing the same when called into actual Ser
vice" This is in direct conflict with the
Constitution Of the United States, which
provides that Congress may ''proyide for
organizing, arming and isciplining the
militia, reserving to the States the appoint
ment of the officers and the authority OF
training the militia according to the disci-
pline prescribed by Congress" What OBJ
iect Is there in thus Infringing On the
power OF Congress ? Why take on the
State this enormous expense Holden,
the reason. In a late Standard he lets out
the secret. He says the new govern
ment intends to have force of loyal
militia to keep down opposition that
we must sit at the feet Of Governor
Brownlow, as Paul sat at the feet of
Gamaliel He forgets that all st. Paul
learnt of that old Jew, Gamaliel, was how
to persecute Christians. Brownlow has an
armed black and white militia to keep
down white men-therefore Hold.n must
have scalawag militia to keep down viii e
men. A State standing army, quartered
among us, insolent, prosecuting, thievish, a
huge sore on the body polite, to trample
on the liberties of the people This will
cost every year $500. 900 at least. Brown
lows army cost that last year.
S7eih.-You alarm me. Did Holden say
that he intended to have State armed
militia Heaven avert such a fate from
North Carolina Why the Radicals say if
we adopt the Constitution the United
States army will be withdrawn, and some
of our people talk as if they intend to vote
for it just to get lid OF the military. But l
would rather have part of the regular
army of the Union, with West Point Off