Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-31
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but incline to the opinion that some mon
strosity in that line will be patched up. I
| heard scalawag remark, on yesterday, in
reference to this very failure of the Congress
slonal iniquity, ooh GoUerno1 Holden
will purchase arms" That sable Funk
tlonary, 1t Is known, proposes to raise,
| arm and equip at once standing army of
six thousand men. [ suppose that rifles or
muskets alone will cost some 800 each. So
that here we have a contemplated burden
upon our Impoverished white people OF
$40, 900 for the agreeable and peaceful lux
| ury of putting the weapons of our media
ted destruction in the hands of debased
and savage negroes and white villains and
cut-throats By the way, so called Sena-
to- by the name of Cook, who pretends to
represent Johnston, and who once com
manded negro regiment in the Federal
army, has introduced bill which looks to
regular standing army in all its details
of enrolment, equipment, discipline and
operations. It is a perfect curiosity-as
voluminous as the Army Regulations. as
bungling as a report from the "Code Com
missiou," written by Tourgee or Barrin-
ger, as costly in its requirements as Gen.
SCOTS army of invasion into Mexico, and
as fiendish and viudictive in its purposes as
the ID could desire. We shall see what
is to become of it. En- porenhese, this man
Cook is thought to be the meanest man in
the Senate, just as Foster, who comes ria
Bladen, and is said to have been on Beast
Buffers staff, is regarded as the smallest in
dividual in the other wing heard the
fighting Parson" give the latter some
shots, on yesterday, that would have pene-
trated the cuticle of rhinoceros.
The citizens of Raleigh are having the
first fruits of the villainous and unconsti-
tutional Municipal Bill lately passed by the
Legislature, and I fear that it will be your
turn next. The mongrel Board of Com
missioners here, acting under the COM
mands of Soulouque, their master, have
appointed four negroes (one-half the corps
on the police force of the city, and these
big, black, greasy bucks, "billy' in hand,
and graced by star. may be seen walking
the streets, with impudent swagger, at all
hours of the day and night. [ find that
the good people here feel as though they
were standing on the very brink of a crater,
not knowing at what moment volcanic
eruption may take place. They feel that
this proceeding is intended as deliberate
and wanton insult by the miserable Pariahs
of their race who have perpetrated it and
there is no telling what may be the result
if one of these insolent blackamoOrs should
lay hands on white man. l have been
told that the soldiers Oh garrison duty here
swear vengeance against any niger police
man who shall arrest Que of their number.
Bot this-in tamOus and hunliliating as
it isis nothing compared TO Holden'o
atrocity in appoin ing negro Mayor for
the town OF Hi!lsboro', it i, said he has
done. Poor, pitifui creature he thinks
by such step to insult and hnmilate such
men as Judge Ruffin, Gov. Graham, Mr..
Turner, Mr. Kirkland Mr.. Cameron, Mr..
Nash, and others. How is such conduct
to be characterized The author of these
outrages is neither Brownlow, nor Robes
pierre, nor Barere, nor Judas Iscariot-
but simply Holden. That word covers the
case.
am sorry to say that the military-who
have, ordinarily, here at least, I am in
formed, behaved with tolerable propriety
have lent themselves, in an important
and uni ustifable matter, to this mans dev-
iltry. A file of soldiers have been sent to
Chapel Hill, where they have taken forci-
BILE possession of the property of the lnstl-
tuition, including even the private proper
ty of the two Societies. 1t is pro-
posed to steal, for the benefit of the
African or emasculated white youth, who
are expected to congregate there hereafter,
the costly books, portraits and furniture
which have been accumulated with so much
pains, and at so much expense by indi-
viduazs, for the sake of the two Literary So
cieties, which have been, in the past, the
object of their pride and affection. This
is equal to any 6umnainq which Holden's
carpet bag allies and instigators ever did
in Shermans army. Again, as in my last,
[ close from sheer inability to do the sub
ject justice. DOT.