Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-17
fiOlden'a Inaugural.

In perusing the Inaugural of ". W.
Holden, the Governor appointed by the
unconstitutional partisan body in Wash
ton, one cannot but notice the finsy, hol-
low web which endeavors to conceal the
monstrous ideas Of the man. His very first
sentence is as false as it is ignoble. Is the
unity of our Government restored ? Are
we one people? The Great Rebellion, he
be says, is suppressed. He, above every
other individual, was a mover Of that
which cast his State in vortex OF excite
ment in 1861, and did more by infamma-
tory harrangues to urge on the masses to
bloody war. He now prattles about the
restoration OF the insurgent States "to
their Constitutional relations to the General
Government" and of '' Liberty and Union
in North Carolina" These expressions
would imply that the Congressional Gov
ernor was permitting a witticism to shine
forth from his dusky, greasy visage.-
Liberty and Union Liberty to usurpers
to rise up and plumber the people of their
rights, their manhood and their name
Union of carpet baggers, gathered together
from New Hampshire and Maine, and from
the scourings of the ctnaiNc, negroes and
scalawags, to tread beneath their dirty
feet the wealth, happiness and Law of the
land. Governor Pecksniff is Mortified
when he thinks Of the late civil wal what
sacrifices it brought on countless families;
what tribulation and distress Now, sno
effort will be made to blacken unrepentant
rebels. bnt it will be left to history to as
sign to their appropriate places all the
actors in the late tragedy of rebellion
| What place will the historian assign to
that man that has never done deed in his
whole political life which is not stamped
with the blacklist and direst dishonor p
What more deceitful actor in that ''trag-
edy - than he? Every soldier who fought
for the Union knows this answer None
He was cunning, malignant and cruel,
false to his heart, for his tongue did never
pronounce the prickings of his conscience.
Had he ever any? He would provide for
the poor, the deaf and dumb and blind, for
the insane, for idiots and inebri ates.-
Wonder if he means his political house.
hold Certainly. A man that would re-
move from the medical supervision of in
stitutions for those classes above men
toned, without doubt cares not for their
place of an experienced physician in the
care OF the insane, when every candid man
must know that of every other class of
Gods afflicted, this particular one demands
the Office of one who has devoted his
talents and his years to it as a speciality.
The demagogue further says cit is
known that many hold the opinion that
| the reconstruction laws of the United
States (of the Radical Congress) are un-
constitutional, and therefore null and
void" So the Governor had to give ex-
preston to the confession of guilt. You
say truly, 0 Governor, that many hold this
opinion. The millions say SO, and they
will make them null and void. The fiat
is gone forth. From Oregon to Maine is
it ringing in the ears of enthusiastic null
titudes. "To maintain the honor and
good faith of the State untarnished, the
public debt, regularly contracted, &C.,
shall be regarded as inviolable, and never
be questioned" We say to maintain the
honor of the State, that every evil which
has been inflicted upon our people by the
miserable men that are now at the head of
our Legislation be removed by the removal
of its cause. And we are men! A negro
and a cobbler, from Massachusetts,, are our
Senators from this district .E .g-as
The man moralizes: g Behold, the beau
tiful country they have left us {" &s., Sc.
The Rump. Congress {" has exhibited ex-
traordinary clemeney and magnanimity ~