Wilmington journal., 1868-04-03

asters OF a terrible war and staggering
under an unprecedented failure of crops
and enormous Federal taxation. The tax
on cotton growers only, was - cents pei
| pound OF cotton, selling for 10 cents pei
pound, OF ODe-fourth of the farmers pro
duce. This amounted, for the whole State,
to 81, 900, 900 (Federal taxi Oh cotton alone.
| They created new offices, never heard oi
before by our people They levied taxes
nearly million and Il quarter of dollars to
payinterest on the public debt, and a million
more for other purposes. They imposed
taxes which will be more than eight times
higher than those which the people, i'm
| poveriShed and ruined, with difficulty paid
in 1867. They wasted the public funds to
| a degree unexampled in the legislative an
nails of corruption. They actually gave one
million two hundred thousand dollars to q
Railroad leading to Yankee property, in
the Deep River yalley-S28, 600 per mile
more than other Railroads usually COST
And besides, they made present to the
same Railroad of all that remains of the
Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation
Works-ten large dams and ndlocks-making
an immensely valuable water power, cost
ing the State over half million of dollars.
Gen. Littlefeld, a northern man, who lob
bied the Convention the entire session,
and sang John Browns body lies mould
ering in the grave" over its labors, at it's
close frequently spoke Of having large
possessions in the Deep River Valley.
Surely such gross extravaganza and cor
ruption were the result of putting North
ern adventurers, carpet -baggers, and i'm
poverished natives, into power.
Loss OF POWER TO THE WHITE MAN.
Heretofore the House of Commons was
founded on "Federal population" five
black men estimated as three white men,
the 331, ,O59 slaves counting only as 1913, 633.
Under the new Constitution, black is
made equal in political power to a white
man. The counties where there are large
numbers of negroes will gain power at the
expense of those where the whites pre-.
dominate. Edgecombe, Halifax and War.
ren will gain at the expense of the midland
and mountain counties. Are the white
men of the mountains willing to become
INTERIORS TO THE LATE SLAVES
of the East Are they willing to see their
railroads stop and go to ruin ; their lands
confscated by taxation, to build railroads
in those portions of the State, where ne.
groes and Northerners reign supreme?
These results, developed by the census OF
1860, will be much more striking at the
next census, because negroes are leaving
the midland and Western counties and
moving into the Eastern. They are
coming, too, in large numbers from
Virginia. 1t is said 10 be certain that
Virginia will reject her Constitution,
and in that case, if North Carolina
becomes O. NEGRO STATE, by adopt
ing the proposed Constitution, hordes of
sable voters will swarm here like hocks of
crows, to enjoy the franchises they cannot
get in their native State. From the home
of Thad. Stevens and of Ben Wade, from
Maine to Kansas, dusky lines of immigrants
will seek here that room for the develop
ment of their political ambition, which
they cannot attain in the States which
force the enormity on us. Then, too late,
will our white citizens bewail the short
sighted folly which has led to their ruin.-
The negroes, and their pretended friends,
who for the sake of Office, descend to depths
of conscious degradation, will rule the State,
and all respectable people who have the
power will fly FROM THE POLLUTED
PLACE.
Oh ! North Carolinians By all the sa-
cred memories of our past history-by all
the hopes and aspirations of the future--if
you would make this State fit place for
your CHILDREN TO INHERIT, exert
yourselves, in season, to avoid the impend-
ing calamities VOTE DOWN THIS IN
FAMOUS CONSTITUTION Do not
voluntarily put chain around your necks.
Let not your children and children's child
rem have reason to rise up and call you &C.
cursed