Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-08
Political liabilities.

The Standard, e.r-otfcio, announces to
all Republicans elected to office in North
Carolina, at the recent election, who fall
within the restrictions of the Howard
Amendment, to report their case to The
Chairman of the State Com mittee, that i'm
mediate steps may be taken for their re-
lief.
Here is an invitation TO the worthy crew,
who have deserted their friends, their sec
ton and their race for price, to walk up
and receive their thirty pieces of silver.
Dockery, the "rebel" warrior is to be
purified of his treason" but BoYDEN, al
ways offensive to the Confederates during
the war for his acknowledged Unionism,
must so unpardoned because he will not
now bow down before the ebony idol which
Congress has erected to receive our hon.
age. Hon. BEDFORD BROWN, a life long
consistent Union man, who separated from
his party and personal friends upon the
issue of secession in 196O-'61, must rest
under til ban, while Holden, who tired
the Southern heart and urged and forced
which his cowardly heart shrank, must be
cleansed of his political and moral leprosy
by washing in the Congressional pool of
Sloan. Judge OSBORNE, the christian
gentleman, the upright Judge, the distin-
guished lawyer, the wise statesman is not
to be allowed to represent the people Of
Mecklenburg, that nursery Of liberty, who
have elected him, but for the buffoon Brog
den, of Wayne: as wanting in sense as be
is in fidelity to any cause or principle, the
especial clemency of the best government
under the sun must be evoked. Hon. josiah
TURNER is not to be permitted to take
his seat in the Senate of North Carolina,
where in 1860, with Governor WORTH, our
present Chief Magistrate, and SHARPE, of
Iredell, since dead, he withstood the storm
which then swept over the State and bold
ly voted in that Hall against the call Of a
Convention looking to a dissolution of
the Union, while the legislation of the
country must be stopped in order to giant
this privilege to Winstead, of Person, his
fellow Senator, representing an adjoining
county, who in those trying days was re-
cording his votes in that same Hall in favor
OF the secession of the State and the in
auguration of war. Settle, drunken petto
logger, whose devotion to party eX-
tends only to his ability to receive the
spoils is exalted to the highest judicial
station, while his companions in arms in
the Confederate army are denounced as
traitors and their trial and execution de-
manded by the immaculate Holden him.
self.
These are not overdrawn pictures, bat
true portraits of orthodox loyalty and
Southern reconstruction. The removal of
political disabilities has been one Of the
most potential levers in this contest, and
when such miserable brides were the only
arguments held out for the apostacy of the
Southern people, none can wonder at the
material which was purchased at the price.
To these men. more than any cause the
humiliation of the good people of North
Carolina is owing-upon them will impair
tial history visit the disgrace.
ooh, Tor tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason like q deadly blight
Comes DER the councils OF the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might
His country's curse, his children's shame,
Outcast of virtue, peace and fame,
May he, at last with lips of flame
On the parch'd desert thirsting die,
While lakes that shine in mockery Eigh,
Are fading Oft: untouch'd, nntasted,
Like the once glorious hopes he blasted