Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-08-21
affections Of the white men in the county

Il
cratic nominees, Seymour and Blair, and
the platform on which they stand, in a
strain of annimating eloquence, he took his
| seat amidst loud and prolonged huzzas and
| cheering.
Saml P. Williams, Esq, was next intro
duced, and occupied the stand for near an
hour, in strain of argument unanswerable,
scathiDg and sarcastic His whole soul
seemed to enter into the occasion He
urged action and the defeat of Grant and
Colfax-pointed to the great Conservative
party at the North who were striving to
give US the forms of white mans govern
ment, and to give us peace Kentucky had
| thrown down banter to her sister States
of the South by giving $4,000 majority
against Radicalism-otherS States had led
off, and would Carolina, the home of as
gallant men as ever lived, prove recreant
and fall again under the deSpotic sway of
scalawags, carpet baggers and ignorant ne
groes Great applause.
=" Hon." Mister Devices was handled by
the speaker as only Sam. Williams can ;
and yet s. the ways of Providence are past
finding out, for it was through the agency
OF this nencompoop that the miserable Con-
gress was dispersed-the RAIDS become
ashamed of Devices first attemp OF at Con-
gress speaking and, to save their shame,
adjourned.
Mr.. W. fully endorsed the Democratic
nominations, with the platform, and at the
conclusion of his speech q recess for an
hour was taken, when the vast multitude
partook of bountiful barbecue, which had
been prepared for the occasion.
At two o'clock the crowd re-assembled
around the stand, when
Col. Cowan, of Wilmington, was intro
duced, and proceeded. in q mastery man
ner, to discuss the great issues of the day.
He fully endorsed the arguments of Maj.
| Engelhard, and assured his audience that
the hardest political fight he ever entered
into was against Holden, several years ago,
and he was now against the man and his
policy, and always felt that he was on the
! right side when opposing Holden-and if
the renegade son of North Carolina should,
as is usual with him, make another shift
ana come to the Conservative party he,
Col. c., should beg in to think of looking
for other company, or seek another politi-
cal home.
Col. @. was not candidate for any
Otlice-he wanted nothing of the sort
would not accept Office. love for his ma
tive country-an incentive that should
prompt every patriot to action in the pres
ent crlsls-alOne prompted him to come to
Johnston county and urge her people to a
united action in restoring a permanent
and stable government In the place of
the bogus, scalawag, carpet-bag tyranny
that now exists. He urged every voter to
influence another vote in aid of this great
object, and, if they failed to do this, he
trembled for their fate if radicalism pre-
vailed
Col G. reviewed the action of the Lee
gislature in enacting odious laws to Cypress
the people high taxation; an interference
with municipal affairs the introduction
OF a standing army, with powers delegated
to Holden not delegated to the President
of the United States. With the exception
of one or two, the judicial chairs of
State had been filed, under Radical rule,
with ignorant, drunken Judges-ignorant
of the law, and common practitioners at
the whiskey Bar. What picture What
degenerate times The seats once occupied
by CASTOR. u Manly, a Gillian, and other
distinguished sons OF Carolina, now occu-
pied by Jaybird Jones and Greasy Sam.
Watts .r !
The reporter cannot attempt to follow
the eloquent Cowan, or even give a brief
of what he said. To appreciate his effort,
one must have heard it. He closed by
paying handsome tribute to the states
manship of Seymour, and the gallant and
gentlemanly soldier, Francis P. Blair. He
bed our people on his march through the
South. He dld not believe it, but for ar
gument sake, granted; still, with the ces-
sation of hostilities Blair had ceased to
steal, and that is more than could be said
OF the Radical party loud and prolong
ed cheering, with cries of that's so ! Go
on ! Go on!)
Order being restored, an hundred voices |
called for Sharp Sharp -
Col. S. approached the front and said, |
in substance, that he shirked no duty i'm !
posed upon him by his fellow citizens
that however Incompetent he felt himself |
to talk to them after having listened for |
hours to the flow of eloqunce from the hon.
orable gentlemen who had preceded him,
he would, nevertheless, give his hearers the
best he had, and would commence by |
taking birds eye glance at the personal !
history and antecedents of the brave and
gallant statesman, U. S. Grant, who had
the etfrontery and brass to set himself up
as the no-policy candidate of the Radical
mob of the United States. Col. S. then
gave a personal history of Grant as lie
Sharp knew him in the early stages of the
war, and before, in the city of st. Louis
Grant, he said, aspired to nothing great in
that goodly city-nothing higher than the
keeper OF an intelligence office, for the
purpose Oh hiring OUT, OF unulnS uOmeS1O TOT
women of foreign birth
that he was looked upon as one OF that
class of people who make themselves obi
GUS by hanging around liquor saloons; and
his promotion to a Colonelency was not a
thing of merit, as was we'll known in ST.
Louis, but to effect radiance from the
body polite, greatly desired by the better ?
portion Of society. Col. s. reviewed the
military career of Grant, and proved be-
yond contradiction, that he had achieved
his acts were blunders, and
his successes purely accidental, not the re-
suit of superior generalship or strategy
This rehearsal of the history of Grant,
drew forth applause upon applause, with
cries from all quarters, ego it Colonel
give it to him Sharp"
Col. S. next addressed himself to the in
of the people of Johnston coun- 3
", III making their choice between two l
such men as Seymour and Grant-the one
1 scholar, a christian gentleman and
statesman, with popularity unbounded, :
md policy we'll defined. The other, I
mere tool-a no policy candidate-a man
o%okn cold