Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-31


Virginia and Tennessee-Texas-A t.
torney General Hoar-New England and
the west-Death OF Stanton.
WASHINGTON, CITY, D. c., Dec. %, 1869.
Dear Journal A dull Christmas day. |
A large number of Congressman and Gov
eminent officials have gone home for the
HOLIDAYS. Until the re-assembling of Con-
gress there will be little done to interest
the public. Lobby members. the different
rings, and iobists will be busy arranging
their plans of operations so as to be ready
by the time the wisdom and purity of the
Nation comes together again.
The President has appointed German
Radical. Gen. E. 8. Solomon, of Chicago,
Governor of Washington Territory. This
is the first instalment of the price to be
paid for the entire German vote, which is
to be alienated from the Democracy by
giving them a share of the public patron
age. The Germans will be placed at the
estimate the Radicals put upon their love
of principle. They can't be bought like
herd of swine, and driven to the polls to
vote as the German leaders Sohurz, Seig-
ell, and Solomon dictate, even when Our
Lysses" does approve the scheme.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, who has
been openly charged with theft, and who
1eaStoo oeHaGOIs wye, mofton ahu OOo"aAo
and Ben. Butler, among other worthless
at Wormley's the other evening in honor
of the passage of the Georgia "horror,'
as the Georgia bill is called, left here for
Atlanta, Ca, yesterday. Sc bad as is the
moral atmosphere of this city there was
general feeling of relief when Bullock
left If one is known by the company
they keep we shall hereafter have no diff
Guilty in settling the status Of the above
named Senators, as they were we'll aware
that Mr.. lift, of Georgia, before the Re
construction Committee told his Bovine
Highness'' Bullock that he was a thief, and
that if he would convene the Legislature
under the then existing laws he would
soon luxuriate in the Penitentiary. This
statement was corroborated by others and
vet these honorable" gentlemen, with a
total disregard for the decencies of life,
feast and hob mob with the thief as he is
charged withal. Of course Ben. Butler,
''bird of feather" had a fellow feeling
for Bullock and was perfectly at home in
his company.
It is more than probable that the ''Old
Dominion will undergo the same treat.
ment that Georgia has and Reconstruction
aciU be promoted in Virginia by the same
rule. 1t will be remembered that the title
of the bill to unreconstruct Georgia WIS,
ga bill to perfect reconstruction in
Georgia." The word perfect was stricken
place. By this trick there will be an open
ing for another bill and more legislation
to perfect their devilish work, which they
would not admit to be perfected in THEN
last piece of infamous legislation.
Virginia will be forced to bow down
under the rod, and next in turn will come
Tennessee. It is said that General Grant
is opposed to interfering in that Stale, but
Congress pays but very little attention to
the Presidents wishes, particularly in the
Senate.
It is said that the President will sustain
General Reynolds order for an election il
the two counties in Texas that did not
vote at the recent election held in that
State. It is computed that if the votes in
these two counties are counted the result
will elect Hamilton, Conservative, for Gov
ernor, by about four hundred ma ority, if
thrown out, which of course they will be,
it secures Davis election. The four days
allowed TO hold the election in Texas was
!, for the purpose of running the negroes
from one county to another, to vote them
as often as was thought necessary. Texas
will be guaranteed Radical form of gov.
eminent by Congress on the latest and most
: approved plan.
When the nomination Of Attorney Gen
eral Hoar came up for confirmation, to @
position on the Supreme bench, in Execu-
tive session, the debate on it was warm
and spirited. After four hours debate his
name was laid on the table. AS the
President will not withdraw his name
until he requests it, he will be rejected at
the next Executive session.
The attack made on the New England
States by Senators Conk lug, of New York,
and Carpenter, of Wisconsin, brought the
Yankees to their feet, and the debate was
most exciting. I think Western Radicals
are growing FESTIVE under the lash of New
England as applied by Sumner and
Butler.
The public buildings are draped in
mourning on account OF the death of E.
NJ. Stanton. and the Radical press are loud
in their eulogies of his private and public
virtues. OF his private life we have moth
ing to say, he may have been an exem-
sad history of the past nine years. The
Democratic press of the country tacitly
admit the truth of, and endorse the eulo-
gies bestowed on the public career of the
late E. M. Stanton, when they are silent
on the subject and fail to point the moral
that is taught by the sudden taking off of
one who was truly Infamous. The CHAIR
table and kindly maxim "De naort,1ous nil
raisi bonum" should not, as it too often
does, restrain the journalist from writing
the truth about the dead Does the fact
of his death change the history of yester-
day. The New York World of Friday
said of Mr.. Stanton, before they knew Of
his death, 'that he was bloated black
guard, brutal minister and recreant law
yer, whose only eminence was won by
overriding the laws of the land and MAX
ing his own headlong will stand for reason,
and that the annals Of the Supreme Court,
to which he had been appointed, had
never before been polluted by the mem
bership of a bully, liar, a slanderer, or q
shedder of innocent blood.
Is not the above as true to. day as yester-
day? I am devoid Of all personal feeling
in this matter, but justice demands that the
Journalist in the faithful exercise of his
duty should hold up to public execration
the memory of one who had over-ridden
the constitution of his country, and tram
pied upon the rights of the people with all
the insolence, scorn and brutality of a
Nero. We have been taught to abhor the
memory of the traitor, Benedict Arnold.
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