Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-09-04

IocOIotIucIlOn acC declaring bnat there was
mo legal State government in North
Carolina, and placing the State under the
control of the military authority of the
United States The ''ertrn constitutional
doctrine of the Chief Justice can have no
application to the situation at that time,
tor there was no 'emeTgeacy to be DrOvi-
ded for. ''The wheels of the State govern
ment had already taken their "new start, -
and were at work. Unless the Constitution
confers upon the Congress the power to
set aside State government, "nullify" it
and force new government upon the
State, this act, and all supplementary there
to must, therefore, be unconstitutional. !"
Does any one assert that such powers is
conferred by the Constitution? ? What =
An article in the Constitution conferring
upon the Congress the power to destroy, SET
astde "mu1yy" the Constitution and 60
vernment Of State in the Uni0n?" All
the power of Congress is derived from the
Constitution. The Government of the
United States is not one of original pow
ers, but its powers are derivative exclu-
slvely. Unless, therefore, authority can
be found in the Constitution for these acts
they are necessarily " unconstitutional, -
and not '' e.rtra constitutional, the I" eme,-
gency" having already been provided for.
We think our first proposition sufficiently
established
In what a situation then do we find our
selves and our beloved old State? Our
old and honored form of State government,
so admirably adapted to administer to the
every want of our citizens. with but little
expense, all overturned, with new and
costly superstructure of State government
established in it's place, against the will of
the good citizens of the State forced ap-
on us by military power, and directly in
| the face of the Constitution, and this new
machinery in the hands of mere adven-
turers, who know nothing and care less
about the interest of our people and State,
grinding our people with taxes, merely to
fill their own private pockets. Well may the
Chief Justice in his late "ert,d" judicial let
ter, addressed to " the Conservative par
| ty," cry out, 81 am alarmed atthe condition
Of the country." It presents truly an alarm
ing picture, and it we'll behooves every
good citizen to 60 to work and rescue our
good old State from the hands of the ssauL-
Liters and reu0leui0nistS, who have laid
violent hands upon our old mother and
nearly throttled her to death. This we
can do, and must do, by the election of
Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair. and
restore our simple and familiar form of
State government. But we ale met by
Our frightened Chief Justice, the Hon. r.
Nj. Pearson, with the charges that if we
dare go to the polls and vote like freemen
to restore our government to its former
status, we will bring on another war !!
Fellow-citizens have we come to this,
that free man, a 1Ohite freeman, in a coun-
try that boasts of thirty millions of white
people, must not vote in Republican
government their Judgment die
tates, in favor of restoring the gov
ernment of our choice, and making it
succeed the present illegally constituted de
fact0 government, because forsooth by so
doing We may possibly interfere with the
convenience of the adventures and igno-
rant blacks who have usurped the places of
oul best men Are thirty millions of white
people to be alarmed and enslaved by four
millions of Ignorant blacks ? The question
is, are the whites to rule the destinies of
the country, or are they to submit to be
frightened out of their rights, and ruled
by the ignorant blacks and carpet t-baggers
who have thrust themselves into all the
high places in our once happy land [ am
no advocate for war, never did like the
scent of blood, but [ do not feel suffi-
cient alarm about this matter to prevent
me from voting for Seymour and Blair,
who are sure to be the next President and
Vice-President of the United States. The
Democratic party propose no war. It is
emphatlcally party of peace, and against
all revolutionary measures. Our position
is emphatically in favor of law and order,
and We are determined that others shall
obey the Constitution and the laws, and
whenever the people of the State desire to
change the present de fdcto government
and restore in it's place the rightful gov
ernment, we have no idea of being de-
tered by the cry that the negroes and car
pet-baggers will force us into war.
In conclusion have only to say, by way
OF contrasting the policy of the Democratic
party with that inaugurated by the Radi-
Gals, that the policy proposed by the Dem
ocratic party of general amnesty, in oppo-
sition to the policy of the Radicals to dis
franchise very large portion of the most
intelligent citizens Of the South, ought to
be sufficient to induce every good citizen
and christian man in favor of the Demo-
cratic party. will not consume your time
longer. Fellow-citi=ens, go to work. every
man of you, and we can and will elect our
fayorite candidates, who stand upon the
Constitution, and we may then hope to see
our waste places built up, and our good
old State commence afresh career of pros
perity and happiness.
The widow of Stonewall Jackson has pre-
sented to Mr.. David Macrae, of Glasgow,
the coat worn hv that soldier when he fell