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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

them against the poor, poverty. stricken
South and her crippled population. Here
is magnanimity Hero is Cancellation !!
Can men see this, feel this, and yet adopt
the damnable principles Of that party ?
Impossible. They will rise, they must
rise, aud put it down-the Radical Consti-
tuition down. The resistless torrent of the
Potomac, dashing, splashiDg, foaming along
to the ocean through the passes of the far
famed Blue Ridge, will not be as sublime
as the white men of this State rising and
rushing to the polls, determined to save
from Radical usarpation and the veriest
degradation their affairs and their homes
to save from the tide of immortality their
firesides and their social circles. Can this
not be? 0, say not so. Is there spark
of honest, pure, burning freedom still in
the breasts of freemen Let it not be
smothered in the bosom. Let it burn
forth, and brightly. Heroes of a hundred
battle fields, spring to the fight; no greater
battle for freedom was over offered you.
Know your duty, do it, and conquer. Let
us ask the House, the council of the nation,
sis there,,no control to its authority, is there
no limit to the power of this national legls-
lature There are, indeed, two-NATUR
and the CONSTITUTIONS"
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"Like bastard cures, that having at bay
The savage beast embOst in wearie ChaCG,
Dare not adventure on the stubborn prey,
Ne byte before, but rOme from place to place,
To get snatch when turned Is his lace
4 coward. 4 villain. A kite. A SLare'S
ORAL Yes, that party is all this and more
A moro cowardly one never existed. never
purified the air of freedom. The Radica
is the top and bottom, middle and centre,
of everything that goes to make up what is
most commonly called q nuisance-a politi-
cal heap of ofscourings from every -utrid
hill and hole in the land. If you oppose
the Radicals like men, without fear and
with candor, they will entrench themselves
behind the assertions that you are a rebel,
traitor, and you ought to be disfranchised,
plundered of every right for which your
fathers fought, and which your fathers
won. If you hold a petit office of which
they think they can deprive you, they will
leave no stone unturned until the eject
ment is accomplished. They will use
bribery and perjury, threats and dishonesty,
to snatch 1t from you. If you confront
them, and show the fallacy of their argu-
ments by using their own points, and you
are determined to thwart their nefarious
designs, they will maign you, and repre-
sent you to the Rump Congress as dan
gerous person, and one that ought to be by
all means removed. Is it not so e? They
viii work in darkness, like the Father of
darkness, and in light, like a sheep in
VOLTS clothing, to scatter broadcast over
the land their pernicious opinions, breath
ing death, political death-for they would
be our 'poitical masters to all those
who have the power, and who use that
power to defeat them.
Here they hit the poor white men. They
have the power to present bristling ada
mantine front, tower of ivory, wall OF
brass. They can bring upon them, and
they will do If, utter defeat and ruin as a
political party opposed to their best and
most sacred interest. The Radicals are
very sweet to these poor men. They
wrap coatings of New England slop
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

around the pills of honey which down
their Threats they would poke moEens uolens.
They offer them the lukewarm porridge,
the water and milk of Massachusetts, and
onions and garlic from its infamous hot
beds. They will educate your children in
their own style, whether you will or not,
and bring them up at the same desk, and
make them eat out of the same dish with
every darky in your section of country
| Such is the love of these Radicals for you.
| o We poor white men. Is not this the very
acme of love? You give them the offices.
They will give you -? They otter you
| lands and homesteads. but if you do not
fall into line with them they curb your as
pirations after liberty, wealth and happi-
ness. You must abide their dictation.-
This is liberty. You must take the crumbs
that fall from their tables. This is wealth.
You must slave for them for aye. This is
the very quintescence of happiness. 1t is
all we'll that you aspire to riches and dis
tinction, but you must give them the tacit
understanding that you favor their views;
that you admire their creations and Cred-
tires; that you support their institutions.
What if you do not They tell you dis
tinctly that you will find yourselves more
groveling than before. That is, unless
you adopt their political creed, you will
remain in sack-c cloth and ashes; and that
no other party, political or social, can ever
raise you from the humble station in which
you are now situated.
It is all very nice indeed, for them to
talk thus They must give the poor white
men credit for little brains, notwithstand-
ing they say, they are the most abject,
most ignorant class of mortals on earth.-
White men, read with us, and let us judge
the tree by its fruit.
What have the radicals done for you
and what do they propose to do for you
The idle, the low, and the vicious innova-
tors, tear down, construct, change, and
make laws in their own peculiar style, to
please themselves and their abettors. 0,
that we had the power to reach and touch
every heart in the land, and expose in
DuTIS NdtNrGtl0uS the sinister mOtlVeS
of that party. We ask you again, you poor
white men, what have the Radicals done for
you? Have they put money in your pocket?
bread in your mouth? labor in your hands?
Have you not to work from the rising sun
until its going down; to toll on, toll ever
for your very sustenance That is the
plain question. That is the question to be
This you will have to do, no
matter what party you support; no matter
what principles you cherish; no matter
whether you adhere to the iniquious isms
of the New England school, or follow the
yearnings of your own hot, generous na
ture, nourished and vi7ifed by the genial
warmth Of your own rich Southern cline.
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VALID OBJECTIONS TO THE CoNsTI
TUITION

tALiD ObJEOIKONS TO THE CONSTI.
TUITION.
Because it inaugurates CONFISCATION
by means of TAXATION.
Because it forces NEGRO EQUALITY
in the PUBLIC SCHOOLS and the UNI
.VERSITY.
Because it forces NEGRO EQUALITY in
the MILITIA--in the JURY BOX-in
HOTELS-in RAILROAD CARS--in
CHURCHES.
Because it permits WHITE CHILDREN
to be apprenticed to NEGRO MASTERS
and WHITE WARDS subject to NEGRO
GUARDIANS.
Because it places many of our counties
under NEGRO GOVERNMENTS and
grants NEGRO EQUALITY in all of
them.
Because it requires of voters an out
rageous TEST-OATH.
Because it licenses INCARCERATION.
Because it will BEGGAR our people
EXALT the WICKED and HUMBLE the
GOOD--and RUIN every true interest of
North Carolina.
DOWN WITH THE BASTARD ABOR-
TION.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

The Conservatives of this District, COM
posed of the counties of Moore and Rich
mond, have nominated M. J. McSwEEN, of
the latter county for Senator. The nomi-
nation coming from the citizens of Moore,
to whom it had been referred by the Exc
cutive Committee and representative men
of Richmond, is a compliment indeed to
MIR. McSwEEN, and manifests the high es-
TEEN in which he is held by the people of
his adjoining county. It is needless for us
to say that the nomination meets with a
hearty response in Richmond.
Mr.. McSwEEN has entered upon the can
vass and will handle his opponent, Col.
Richardson, without gloves. We antici-
pate glorious triumph for Conservatism
in the district.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

NO. 81.
The Ordinance Of the Constitutional Convention
of the State of North Carolina. convened in COR
formity wi tn the Act of Congress of March %,
1866, supplementary to the Act of March 2, 1887,
" to provide for the more efficient government of
the rebel States," entitled "An Ordinance re-
specting the jurisdiction of the courts of this
State which was ratified in said Convention on
the 18th day of March, 1868, and which is here
ths force of law in the said State until the ratca
ton rejection of the Constitution framed by
said Convention, by the people of said State, shall
have been determined by an election held in the
manner prescribed by law, and, in the event of
the rejection thereof, for the further period Of
thirty days: Provided, that the term of said Or
dnance shall not be held to apply or conflict with
any agricultural or labor lien guaranteed by any
law of said State, enacted subsequently to the or
ganization of the provisional government OF said
State under the Presidents proclamation of the
29th of April, 1865, by any military order from
these Headquarters row in force. And prouided
further, that all proceedings of any court in North
Carolina, recognizing or sanctiOning the invest
ments of the funds of minor heirs, or Of females,
of insane persons, in the securities of the late
of North Carolina, created for the purpose of
rying on the war against the government of the
United States, shall now be suspended until the
question of the validity of investments shall
have been determined by the courts of the United
States, shall as now be determined by the courts
of the United States or by national legislation And
nothing in the provisions of this order of the Or
dinance herewith published, shall be held to bar
minor heir, female or insane person, respecting
trust estate, property interests in the hands OF
executors, administrators, trustees, guardians,
commissioners, masters clerks of equity courts,
and other fiduciary agents, or invested by them
in their iduciary character.
By order of Major General Ed. R. s. CANBY.
LOUIS v. OAcIARo,
Aid de-Camp,
Ackp Aast Adj Gem.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
ITMRERTON. April

LUMBERTON, April 10, 1868.
MeSSrS. Editors Il have seen in late
number of the Fayetteville News the
remarks of its editors to the effect that the
Radicals shun public discussion, and that
Holden refused while in Fayetteville to
allow himself to be answered. Now can
say, and let every man know it, that one of
Holden's particular friends of this county
has received letter from him in which
Holden particularly charges him not TO al
lo,c any one of the Conservatives to make
any reply to them, or for them not to re-
ply to a Conservative, though this Radi.
cal has not and will not heed the injunc-
tions of Holden.
A WHITE MAN.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

IMPORTANT TO CIVIL OFFICERS. pub
ish the following order from Gen. CANDY,
which we have received through Col.
Frank, Post Commandant, for the infor,
nation of civil officers in this section and
the State generally:
HEADo'Rs SECOND MILITARY DISTRICT,
CHARLESTON, s. O., April 10, 1868.
GENERAL ORDERS,
. No. &C.
It is hereby ordered that all designations OF
civil officers, rendered either t0 the military OF
civil authorities of North Carolina or south caro-
lima, shall not take effect, or relieve inc oincel
rendering the same from his responslDllly ioL ~
due discharge Of the duties of his office, until the
acceptance thereof is officially notified, ana sue
cessor to such Office has been duly appointed ano
By command Of Brevet Major General ED. H. D.
LOUIS Y. CAzIARC,
Abide Camp. Act'g Asst Adi't aenh
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

hEG1srRAr1oN IN THE CITY.-Mr. Il. N.
barlow, Chairman OF the Registration
Board tor the CITY, has made his official re-
turns OF registration here during the five
days OF last week in which the books were
Kept open. This report differs somewhat
from the daily reports given through these
columns' Tor the reason that many persons
VINO maze a1ndaVlt OF the TACT before the
DOaru CnaG Lney were registered elsewhere
Tboeo boro boo,, ,.u;o1. ee :: H.
GO rol, oo +lo 800, 80 o.ho.o o.~f,sn-
~. oa % 90 'A'p r nses =. osneis ~roneiun
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the State ticket by 2.S45 votes. The Con-

the State ticket by 2,S45 votes. The Con-
servatives now carry the city by from 200
to 800 majority. These results correspond
with the Conservative gains in New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, Michigan and Wiscon-
sin, and are the handwriting on the wall
which, while It foreshadows the doom of
this party, serves at the same time to make
them more desperate in their courses. But
nothing will save them.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
Ashley, Abbott, Estes, Russell, Dockery
and Co.

and Co.
It will be seen that joint discussion is
offered by the Conservative Executive Com
mittee to any of the aspiring Radicals of
North Carolina. Will sny of them accept
it? Dare they do it :? Abbott would like
to represent North Carolina in the Senate
of the United States, he has now an op-
portunity of trying his metal. Barebones
Ashley, who aspires to teach the young
North Carolina idea how to shoot, has now
a chance to give and take lesson to and
from their fathers. Estes, who holds so
many Offices, and wants SO many more, will
have suitable occasion to establish his
claims, and all the scalawags and carpet
baggers have golden opportunity to prove
the faith that's in them.
Who accepts !? Don't all speak at once
There is not steam fire engine in Ala
bama, except at Mobile. The citizens of
Montgomery are about TO get one.
The freedmen of Charleston, s. c., have
on deposit in savings bank $40, 200, and
at Beaufort, s. O., $35,097.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
Hon. George Davis.

We would it were in our power to do
Justice to the admirable address of this
gentleman at the Theatre on Tuesday night,
and yet to let it 60 without further notice
would be doing injustice to our own feel
ings and that of the whole community.
For close reasoning, burning eloquence,
brilliant wit and whitening sarcasm, it was
equal, if not superior, to any effort we ever
listened to. For one hour and-a. half he
held the largest assemblage we have ever
seen in that spacious hall spell-bound and
enchanted. Always dear to our people,
on this occasion he laid siege to their
hearts and carried them by storm.
Mr.. DAVIS has appeared before the pub
lie with much reluctance, and has done so
only in the discharge OF an imperative duty
which he owed to North Carolina and the
beloved people who have always manifest
ed their esteem and appreciation of him,
but whatever obligations he may have re-
garded himself under to the citizens of
Wilmington, he has fully repaid them, and
Wilmington is prouder to-day of her noble
son than ever. Dangers may threaten and
darkness may overshadow the future of our
State, but such patriotic sons as Mr.. DAVIS
will not turn deaf ear to her supplica-
tons or fail to stretch out helping hand
to assist her.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

Hon. James Guthrie was stricken with
paralysis at Louisville KY, on Thursday,
and serious fears of the result are enter
tanned. 80
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
Actg. Asst. Adj. Gen.

WHITE MEN, HEAR TH1s.-Said one of
our public speakersrecently: 'The man who
would look upon the dying struggles of a
drowning mother, and fold his arms with
Indifference and make NO attempt to res
cue her, is hero compared with that man,
who, in this hour of our public distress,
sees his good old mother State struggling
in the throes of her present peril, and
makes no effort to save her from the bitter
death which Radicalism threatens" This
is the substance of the words expressed !;
and is there any North Carolinian who
does not feel their force? If such a
man exists, we blush with shame that we
should own a common mother. Degen-
crate son that he is, he has forfeited his
birthright, and is no more entitled to even
common respect from our people.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
A Challenge.

The Conservative Executive Committee
of the county, counting discussion with
their opponents, hereby extend a chal-
lenge to the candidates or orators of the
Radical party to meet speakers of the Con-
servative party in discussion upon the
political issues of the day, on Tuesday
evening, 21st instant. Arrangements to be
fixed by the representatives of the parties
respectively. This challenge is to be I'M
derstood to extend to white speakers only.
Lieut.. Colonel o. H. Dockery, late c. S. A.
Mother Goose, of nursery memory, seems
to have been gifted with the powers of pro.
phecy, for we rather think she had in view
the political aspirations and the fate of the
Radical candidate for Congress in this dis
trict, in the following familiar lines:
'Dickery, dockery. dock,
The mouse run up the clock
The clock struck one and down he come,
Dickery. dockery DOCK
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

Alexander L Menken obtained decree
of divorce in Cincinnati, on Friday, from
Adah Isaacs Menken, on the ground of
adultery with John G. Heenan. The suit
was brought in 1860.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
Registration In Brunswick,

From returns received at the Office of
the Post Commandant, we find the follow
ing was the result of the recent registra-
ton at Brinkley's, Brunswick county:
Whites Observation-Disclosures. 70
DldckS. LOU
Total 2O8
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CONSERVATIVE RALLY,
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES

ANOTHER LARGE oUTPoURING OF THE
OITIZENS!l
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
Repatriation In the County.

We give below the official report of the
Registration Boards for the three Re-
gistration Precincts in this county. The
first Registration Board held its session in
this city, the second at Piney Woods, and
the third on Middle Sound. It will be
seen the list differs somewhat from the ac-
counts previously published:
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
The Relief Bill I'm Force.

HD'QRs. ID MILITARY DISTRICT,
CHARLESTON, 8. c., April 2. 1868.
| EFNERAT, ORDERS
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BadiCalIsln-
No. =.

"Like bastard cures, that having at bay
The savage beast embOst in wearie Chace,
Dare not adventure on the stubborn prey,
Ne byte before, but rome from place to place,
To get snatch when turned is his face
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17

Raemont, Robson CO.. April Z, 1868.
Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-03-04

MAY HE LIVE TO SEE II. The Illinois
State Register says that an old man
standing ON the street in Springfield
the. other day addressing "a crowd on
the subject of politics, said, when ask
ed what he thoaght Of the negro, that
he Thought the niger q big thing!
He said he had lived to see the niger
break up. the old Wing party, to which
he belonged; had seen him cause ter
rible civil war; had seen him break up
the white mans Union; had recently
seen him cause the defeat Of the Re
publican. party in nnsylvahia and
Ohio and hoped to see him defeat, ruin
and annihilate the Radicals in the Pres.
idential election next fan. fOa0IO
IL z y
Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-03-04

FEDERAL. OFTIcERs In TIE SOUTH
Speaking of the shooting Of Judge
Busted by the United States District
Attorney, the National baesligencer web
says: r
Now, we cannot see what the South
ern people have to do with this dis
graceful affair." Does not everybody
know that the great mass Of the South
ern people are. utterly excluded from
positions under the Federal Govern
ment? The vilest negro may be and
does hold important Offices, but the
ablest statesman and most virtuous
citizen cannot be even q clerk in Gus
tom-house, or q village postmaster,
much less fill such Offices as United
States District Attorney or Federal
Judge. Theresult is, that the Federal
offices in the South are in the hands,
very often, of Northern Adventures and
Of men who make their pretences Of
loyalty q cloak for crime and knavery.
Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-03-04
eyti !. atJeekly Mnrld,



1GEN. MccLERrAkD on sEN' eR4NT.
Gen John A. McClernand-of Illinois
publishes the following letter in the
Springfield Rsgistasof JAN 9Th in ref
,erence to Gem Grant: fsIII alIITF
Iobser4e- I'M the Chicago Tribune Of
the 4th instant eftainextraets .purport-
ing to be taken from Badeau's Life of
General Grant. OF. whilom Colonel,
now Lieut.. ,Badeau, it is well enough to
say, en- passdnt, that he was unknown
to me, unless I once saw him hanging
around General Grants headquarters
as questionable appendage where ne
NAV still be an. ornamental rather than
useful appurtenanoe. Failing to gain
distinction as asoldier, he seems deter
mined to, gain infamous notorlety both
as a personal traducer and panegyrist.
Undertaking ostensibly to write Gen.
Grants biography, he has commenced
the hopeless task of writing him into
the Presidency. In. this effort he has
gone out of his way to assaii me, and
only. echoes his masters maleyolence.
It is rather, then, of his master, from his
position a more distinguished object,
that would very briefly speak. Let
him publish the correspondence-the
whole of the correspondence of which
he complains-through his partizan
amanuensis. This done, his character
for candor and fair dealing will be ex-
hibited in better light than at present
before the public, to whose Judgment
he appeals against fellow-soldier.
Sometimes General Grants sense Of
Justice, but oftener his passions, have
controlled Misconduct towardme. fspe-
cially has this been the case since the
brilliant and successful issue of the
Mississippi campaign, in which the
Thirteenth Array Corps, which had
the honor tocommand, bore sucn mer.
itorious part. In his official report Of
that campaign, he, either from igno'
rance or malice, falsifes important facts,
honorable to that corps and to me, to
the disparagement of both. J The proof
is on file in the War Department but
has never been permitted to see the
light. Only recently, wnen my name
was before the Senate for confirmation
to Office, he, as | understood, and no
doubt truly, descended from the dignity
of his station to cause my rejection,
thus pursuing me in a civil as well as
military life. A man who receives an
injury may forgive its author, but that
author never forgives the person he has
injured. Gen. Grant, should, in pri-
dence, if not injustice, be more forbear.
ing, for no public man of modern times
: owes 80 much of reputation and influ'
ence to the forbearance Of others. II
the veil were once lifted, and the public
made acquainted with his real charac'
ter, Gen. Grant would stand very dit:
ferently in public estimation than he
does at present. That time will yet
come when the wrong done me and my
command will be corrected
JOHN A. uCCLEgSAND.
Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-03-04

A cRusrY oldebschelor, not liking the
way His landlsdy's daughter had Of sp.
propriatipgils hair oil, filled his bottle
with liquid glue the day beforesa ball,
yowhicilIshs was going She stsid y
kums in consequence II. ID Il