Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-10
NORTH CAROLINA, July 6, 1863


NORTH CAROLINA, July 6, 1863
| Messrs Editors: No public man in North
Carolina assumes more grave and dicni
fed carriage than Judge Reade. A dog
would scarcely dare to bark in bis presence
and boys at marbles would fly away at his
approach The written opinions OF the
Judge seem to be in keeping with his out
ward deportment-in fact, both always ap-
pear to be "upon stills they are so very
"high up"
Our grave and dignifed friend was. it
seems, called upon to administer the oath
of Office to the members elect of the
blouse of Representatives. One would
suppose that SO decorOus parsonage, up
on performing this duty would have quiet
ly retired with that judicial gravity becon-
ing ''his station" But when His Honor :"
surveyed the scene before him, where the
grateful odor Of the piebald assemblage
was waited to his nostrils, when he saw
the native scallawag. the Yankee adven-
turer, and the thick Tipped Ethiopian, oo-
cupy those seats from which the brighte st
and best of his former confreres were ex-
cluded, his heart expanded to the magni-
tude Of the occasion-his person swelled
with emotion-forgetting alike his sense of
propriety. and his cherished dignity, his
gushing feelings overcame him, and ex-
tending his arms as # he would clasp his
friends and brudders in one long, loving
embrace, he was forced to exclaim, in tones
ecstatic, IS FELLOW CITIZENS, WE ARE AT
HOME"
"Simple words, truly, but what world
of meaning !''-worthy, indeed, of their
period of CESSATION, or incubation, which
was precisely two years, eight months,
twenty-eight days and twenty three hours.
L. - HaAo n
- NJ, Judge Reade conceived. On the 1st
day OF July, A. D. 1865 at II A. NJ, he
was happily delivered, the "Chief Justice
acting as man midwife, and "Gov. Hol-
den standing sponsor for the fretting
brat On the day and at the hour, first
above named, Judge Reade addressed an
assemblage, of sufferable Odor at least,
from the very same tribune. "Fellow-
citizens" he said, ''aoe are going home, -
SEQ instanti' he became impregnated, and
had been looking for place of delivery,
until, happy man he found it in that iden
teal spot, and Gov. Holden, who witnessed
the conception and was present at the ac
couchment, row handles the baby.
"Times change and we change with
them" Not SC with Judge Reade. It is
true, that during the Convention of 1866
and 1866, he was out-and-out opposed to
"negro suffrage. 1T is even doubtful
whether he did not desire, in Difference to
his Western friends, to exclude negroes
from the g basis of representation. 1t is
very true that he then made right plarly
speech. in response to General Howard,
deprecating the existence even of the
" Freedmen's Bureau" It is very true
that he was then opposed to all punish
ment, and to any exclusion from Office, for
past offences; but what of all this Judge
Reade has arrived, not indeed, at the cold
mansion" but at mansion where he has q
place at The table. This is sufficient for him.
The s'world OF meaning" in those ''sim-
pie words means simply, that Judge Reade
endorses the whole Radical policy of Re
construction. He could not have declared
his approval in more emphatic terms. He
as at home in the Radical mansion-tbere let
him stag. He has not yet reached that sold
mansion built upon a rock, pictured in
his Convention inaugural, but he has taken
up his abode in the new one built upon
sand, and when it totters to it's base, as as
suredly it will, no one will make longer
strides for the ''old home than Judge
Reade, to find, I trust, the door slammed
in his face, and himself "zet1outi in the coZd.."