Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-12

the clincher, while We smile at its facetious-
this formidable array Of names To prove
Tourgees bad character, viz s' Thomas
Burley, freedman. Greeasbnro, \. {. -
As much as to say. - if these names vii!
not satisfy you, General, close with one
YOU caunot fail to respect"
The TACT that such wretch is made a
Judge under reconstruction, and at the
same time appointed Code Commission
er, drawing salary of some $4,000 year
from the State Treasury, is very striking
Read Governor WORTH on "JudRe" Tour
gee
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
! RALEIGH, January 9, 1864.
MAJOR Ge;:e''tl Car5y charleston, s. q
| GENEaAI - Yours Vi the 4th inst is before me,
in which Won Soy. "a. ", Tourzee has been nomi
mated t. ill q VsceGcy III civil office IL North
Carolina, and would Il ave received inmecIate ap-
pointmsnt, but :or the charges affecting his
moral character. made against Ann, py yon. IN
v0ur official cOLngnu ucatior OF November. 1887"
! IUpOa representations made by Tuurgee, and
tha 1eiou Johnson, commonly known As the
!nral student, y the Sheriff OF CasWell la been
arrested and carried to Charleston for trial before
a Military Commission. In demonstrating against
rtis arrest tbs Governor had represented to Gen.
Candy to - Hourgee ali johnson were t"l very
detest abs characters" IN North Carolina.
with s view to the investigation OF su;h
charges, I desire you furnish mo with the
names and address OF all part es from whom yen
derived the Information upon which your chargs
is based. aud also o statement OF any ma !tars
within yon" noEiedga that may De OF Importance
TO such inquiry"
! Iregard this IS a most extraordinary request.
The chsracrer Of General Washir eioG ! very
! good;--that OF benedict Arnold very bad | an
| sure of this aud yet | could not gite Ae na9neS
! and address Of oil l have heard say 20, snst an
not sure could give the name and .h!r.se az
one of them. ] happened in THE case, - leineot
bsr few. Iname 3. s. Hederick, ho''iiug d
Washington. D. 6; II. 3. Helper, I aaessoc,
Salisbury, Il c.; jess, :, AeeeI L. :. A-assGr,
Siram Worth /. =. Commissioner, Hon J. Z.
Mclean, uou Juu. 4. Gmer, G:tc;.-b r.. +. q.
IN addition 20 the ADORE gentlemen, whom cs d
remember - have head speak III terms 0; dis.
p8raEeTneut 0t fu5"Ece, have been informed
and believe, thai the 52Gow;ng gentl%mer kno"
his character wC!l snd tia: they will fully con-
firm will.: have s3.< e.! him. viz:
IIos i EeoEh, iiceiotar IN Bankr' ptcy, lo;tn
Creme, Goec:.,r Internal Revenue, Ra pa GoIroI
Jesse Il Lint!s&y, Jol IL Lindsay, James s oan
" ]. %rn!t, Los: = scott, d e Caldwell, + or J 7
Eoreheah. Nathan Hiatt, Jonathan Cox, Jonathan
Harris, Cyrus I AondcuhajI, robert L Dick, Ne
reus heEdenhal, aii ii GIeansb1r1'. {; lion
Bedford Brown. Same! " aDi, VIM Long, l. L
Totton IancaA vile, \ - Hon u Leach, tx Y
ington, II G; D ,arbuck, United states District
.
NC.
$50 refer you to tue records of csrtai.. suits
, u Guito1d County Court, st February Term.
! 1867, or about that time --Cyrus Mcntcnhal Csc
Tourgee-and certain ca So cases il Which freed
men plaintiffs and Tourgee was defendant.
have not the names OF the plaintiffs. The Clerk
Of the County Court Of 6uiiford can furnish ti'en
And to
Major Won't, CYi,e,l State, 1atsn3ry, Raleigh,
NC.
4 Chaplin. Surgeon Of United States army.
Thos Burley, freedmen, tireenshoro, II G.
You do not indicate 10 what vacant civil of1ica
Tourgee would have been immcdiate9 appointed,
but for my charges against him, and therefore
an not called upon to speak OF hls fitness, in
other respects THAI moral cilsrac er. to fl such
ctlce. | leSr. from sources 10 which, give
credit, that be eeeka to bs placed, IS TEur ap
pCirtlrert the henrb % IEl3.r, II ON superior
Co1ris ct IaT, Ia fill the vacancy tr.se o1e,i by
the resignation o! Judge FoNtc think he las
neither pracicct law Hrr obtained hcenee 10
does not ask for any Information as To his htne IS
and you have not hi herto deemed eXpedient
TO ask my views to the s1itahleDess CT any one
OF your nunicrUns appOiOtees ~ :i"u office in
this STATE, l am not unconscious that any sug-
gestiOn from me i'll this direction may DO dccmad
obtrusive; hp: aaty Ia those who plsced me- in
the position occupy cDGs;raiDs Inc TO say that
entertain no dUuht tIst few men can be found,
! mentally and morally. Whit II till ouch p0.
sition In fact. ii ! we're called upon TO name
. one for judge, peculiarly unfit for the PO-
, siioI and very Disgusting to the bar anG the
Virtuous Intelligence of the State, | should re-
gard the name of i. ", Tourgee exact fit.
You also ask me for a statement of any matter
within my knowledge that may be of importance
to the inquiry.
do not know Tourgee personally, but know
that be vas appointed at rural meeting in Gull
ford, delegate to the political Convention held
in Philadelphia, in September, 1856 He had set
tied in that county after the close of the war;
having been, hs said, Cap ain in company of
Ohio volunteers. He was reported ia the n Y.
Herald as having made speech ia that Conven.
ton to eniighten the north to the character
and temper Of the people among whom he had
settled. 1qQOte from that speech follows
Spea king OF 'l1ya! men Who have worn the blue
uniform, he said, 81 have here. to-day, to say
that selling everything they hsd at a nominal
value, twelve hundred of these loyal men have
been driven from the State. / knoH hundreds of
theae loyal men who were threatened with death
il they wore the blue, and they are now wearing
ker in North Caro'ina as was coming here th It
he had seen he bodies of fifteen murdered negroes
taken from ole pend Seven hundred loyal men
had petitioned President Johnson for redress from
the rebel depredaions. and it referred back to
the dsloya Governor OF that State, and came
back to the author:iea Of THEN own town"
betiere. and the respectable people OF the
st ate believe every statement ID the foregoing
quotation was M ieious fsisehcod, made to
engender and infane the luminosity ofthe North
ern people against us;-and | kno,c the last
statement YVES false. The President h Id referred
but two petitions TO me.-the one from some 40
men III Ga 11den county, representing taat they
Ado OeoA SO1uteIeJ tu6I were
cruelty prosecuted by Indictments in the Courts
of their county for acts done Union soldiers
I requested D. D. Ferebee, If Camden, then a
member OF the State Convention, and Hon.
George ". Brooks. Judge OF the District Court
Of the United States. aud also member Of the
State Convention, and residing in the neighbour
hood of the petitioners. to investigate their allie
cations, They reported that they had examined
the records of the Court, and that there werc
only two indictments against any of them-the
one for retailing liquor eotshom a license, and the
other for for7aicdtion and adultery
The other was petition from Clsy county, inn
putting oppression to one Of our Courts in
prosecution for an offence OF which he had been
found guilty, which proved to be all equally
groundless complaint, as all like complaints
honestly Investigated, will turn out to be. The
Secretary of State thought proper to write me
note complmenting me for the manifest fair
ness with which these inquiries we're conducted.
have the honor to be
Yours, very respectfully,
JONATHAN WORM,
Governor of North Carolina.
Fourteenth Senatorial District.