Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-24
Contracts Wilmington, Char'otte "O
Rutherford railroad.

As we stated, in noticing this rumor,
would give MS real pleasure to lind ina
there was no foundation in fact Tor 1t, w
most gladly give this gratifying lntorma
ton from the second officer of the road
IT. will be received with that confidence tc
which its source entities it.
While we watch with jealous care the
interest of tho road, we will not inten
tionally do wrong, and shall most heartily
rejoice in the successful management OF
the great work, no matter in whose hands
it NAV be and we will as cheerfully award
credit whenever it may be due. The
speedy completion of the road is the great
object to be attained, and for that we
work.
PAPERS having noticed our first article
upon this subject will please copy this.
We HAVE said that the Standard has sys-
tematically, not openly, opposed lmmlgra-
tion. We only refer our readers to the
columns of that paper for substantiation
of our assertion. The system has been of
this kind by constantly Incorporating
our people as so inimically opposed to
northerners as that those people would be
unsafe in our midst ; by falsely reporting
outrages for which there was no founda-
ton by representations of i'll treatment of
foreigners, when there was no truth in the
statement by persistently pressing the
claims of our newly enfranchised colOred
citizens to the prejudice OF white mon,
and by constant, unfailing misrepresen-
tation of the objects and assertions of those
Journals in the State which have been most
active III trying to induce immigration
from the North and from Europe, and now
from China This is our Indictment, and
every article i'll it can be proven, and that
proof will be found mainly in the Standard.
The course of our paper, so far as immi'
grafton is concerned, has not been intiu-
enced by party motives. We have had but
one object in view, the increase of labor,
and thereby the general development and
Improvement of the State. In our last ed
it0rial article on this subject, we appealed
to all classes, capable Of aiding an this rcork,
to come to the State That there was room
enough and work enough for all. The
Standard quotes our sentence about the
Chinese, but he omits what we said to the
Northern citizens Of Our own country, and
to the immigrants from Europe. We
stated, too, that we wOuld have our pOpu-
lation homogeneous If we could. We re-
peat it. If we could fill the State with our
own race, we would hail snch a consumma-
ton as the greatest social and political
blessing. We are not afraid to take this
position, but we wish to be fair to all we
t0iR be just to all We have no conceal
ments to make. Democratic principles
have ever received our support and always
will but these principles do not dis
franchise the superior to favor the
inferior. Democracy does not mean Ii
cense. We make no appeals of demagog-
ism to the working man. We make 10
false statements that there is plenty Of
negro labor and that it can be had for
the paying for it. We say again, North
Carolina needs population We will work
to get it, but We wish it to be such that
the State will be benefited Yes, we do
want the Northern capitalist, the North
ern mechanical skill and energy, we do
invite the systematic, frugal and indus
trious European, and We here include the
inhabitants of the British Isles and we
would induce the Chinese to come SO that
they may apply their ingenuity and
patience, to the great fields of varied
industry which our country affords We
say all can come as g freemen and as
equals under the law" We do not stnlti-
fy ourselves and declare an equality of
race which does not exist. We do not de,
clare barbarians people practicing the
most ancient civilization of the world
nor do we by our acts exalt, at one step
race of slaves, from the beginning of the
world, to tho higheat privileges of oul
boosted freedom and civilization. We
will ever be just. We will do all to pro
tect whomsoeyer may fall under our laws
The laws place the colored citizen upor
civil equality with the white Citizen
We will not deprive him of has rights I'VE
will protect him in them, but not to the
prejudice and injury of our better white
pIOGueT. 1ulS kflpeI sIldI4 NEVER appeal &c
passions and to Ignorance. We will meet
the issues of the day as they arise, and ad
yocate what seems best for the genera
good. He who states that North Carolina
or any other Southern State, has enough
labor; that the negro labor is sufficient
that it can be had when needed, or that il
can be relied on for faithfulness or stabili
ty, is eontradicted by the returns of on,
crops, and the experience of every man
who has had to employ it for the last four
years. Such unblushing statements are
intended to deceive the whites where there
is not negro labor, and to win favor with
negro voters. Tho negroes themselves
know that not much more than half oil
their number Is at work, and the better
Informed are seriously concerned ut this
state of affairs. Our object is to bring in
population. We will practice no deception.
We know that oompa{;tiop oxo;4,, o,x.