Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-09
The BRUNSWICK MYSTERY EXPLAINED. -

| mas DeeD SATISFACTORILY 0Aplalueu. we
have ascertained that both mule and bug
gy belonged to Mr.. McFadyen, of Bruins
wick, which the son of this gentleman was
driving from Smithville on Saturday. On
the road the young man became delirious
with fever and left the mule and buggy in
the road where found, and walked home
through the woods and swamps some fif-
teen miles. It was he who called at the
plantation of DR.. Bellamy, inquiring for
the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
and causing fright to the negro woman
who answered his inquiries.
We are pleased that the affair has been
cleared up in this manner, and proves no
more serious. There were reasonable
grounds for strong suspicious ofsome more
unfortunate occurrence, and this statement
will cause relief to many anxious parties.
Letter from Ex-Gov. Graham to General
Rosecrans.
The following letter from William A.
Graham, of North Carolina, to General
Rosecrans, was elected by the White Sui
phur conference
H1L1sBoRo' N. c., Sept IA. 1868.
TO Gen. " s. Rosecyans:
SIR :-Admiring the noble spirit Of pat
riotism, peace and good will which die
tated your letter to General Lee, at White
Sulphur Springs, on the Goth ult, and
presuming it might be acceptable to receive
answers to the inquiries therein made,
from more extended circle of citizens of
the Southern States, than happened to be
convenient for consultation at the time of
| Ill., l.
superedd my testimony in hearty concur
renee with the replies of General Lee and
his associates on the topics embraced in
your communication.
| To be explicit
| [. The surrender of the Southern armies
was real surrender, made in honor and
good faith as has been demonstrated by
the fact, patent to all the world, that in
three and half years, not word has been
lifted against the Government, nor any plot
for resistance to it formed.
2. The claim Of State, under the Con-
stitutlon, to secede from the Union or to
nullify its laws, never concurred in by a
majority Of the people of this State) has
been abandoned by those who entertain it,
as settled by the decisive arbitrament of
arms.
| B. African slavery was surrendered up,
as a result of the war. in perfect sincerity !;
and there exist no purpose or expectation
| of it's establishment.
! 4. There has been, by general consent
| a concession to the emancipated negro, of
all the civil rights of white men, and there
is nc hostile feeling on the part of the
white race against the colored but there
are admitted to be mutual interests and
independencies, which would ere this,
have been adjusted upon the ordinary
principles which regulated labor and capt.
tai in other communities but for the I'M
wise action of Congress, and the agitations
of politicians, for the most part new
Corners from the States of the North and
West, operating on the prejudices of the
blacks through secret leagues and combina-
tons.
5. The people of the States of the Sonth
have an Intelligent comprehension of the
Constitution of the United States, as writ
ten as expounded in its administration
for eighty years as illustrated in judicial
decisions, and as taught in the commenta-
ries of Kent and Story. To this they re-
sumed their allegiance, after the late IN
fortunate war. not merely in sincerity but
with a reasonable degree of cheerfulness
and hope. And their dissatisfaction and
complaint now is not against the Consti-
tuition, but that its provisions have not
been observed and kept toward them, and
that they are openly denied the rights of
internal government, acknowledged in
the Constitution, and proudly and def
antly, but rightfnlly, claimed and exercised
by the people c. che States North of the
Potomac and the Ohio. Dissatisfaction on
these grounds pervades more than four-ifths
Of the white men, compromising not
merely old secessionists and Democrats, but
the lifelong followers of Clay and Web
ster, the supporters Of Harrison, Taylor,
Fillmore and Scott, many of whom resisted
secession at every hazard until the war was
begun and there was left to them only
choice of sides, and then, according to
their opinion of duty, went with their
States and section; others who never aban-
doned their opposition, but expressed it
freely throughout the war-an of whom,
without regard to abstract. IDEAS of political
power, readily acqaiesced in the measures
of restoration prescribed by the President
in 1865, and have ever since been anxious
for return of cordially and harmony in
every region of the Union. They have no
power or purpose to attempt redress by
force, but they appeal to their fellow-citi-
zens everywhere for restoration of a
true covenant of the Constitution; of that
equality which among States as among in
dividuals, is a principle of equality, and
"AAASA ILL OAA aL1c11CdA Ou1Ou, Is
rated into the Constitution and made the
supreme-l law of the land.
With these convictions on their minds
they have hailed your intervention in be-
half of solid and lasting tranquility as
that of public benefactor, being them
selves thoroughly persuaded that if the
justand patriotic men of our several sections
could but intercommune and understand
each other, reconcilement, harmony and a
gradual return to prosperity would be the
sure and natural consciousness. May
Heaven aid your efforts to this good end,
and reward you with it's choicest blessings.
Believe me, Sir, with true respect,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM.
The Cost of Radical Rule