Wilmington journal., 1869-02-05
North Carolina Railroad and its Man
aaement.

North Carolina Railroad and its Man
asement.
President Smith has finally written an
artiele-we know the authorship by the
ear marks" It is silly and ungrammat1'
cal mixture of nonsensical egotism. But
as the poor fellow gives up the controversy
and appeals for protection to the Radical
party against our attacks, we will permit
him to retire without further molestatlon.
We will say, however, that his piteous
cries to his party friends, that our venti-
Iation OF his shortcomings is an attack
upon the Republican party, to say the
least, is species of vainglorious self-lauda-
ton, which is quite refreshing. Our opin-
ion of the Radical party is none the best
but we must pay them the doubtful COM
pliment Of admitting that we had never
placed SO low an estimate upon them as
does this self-conceited official. We are
fearful that North Carolina Radicalism will
survive the official death of President
Smith. His own friends have hastened
that sad event in their vote on "Consolida-
tion," and none of them, we expect, sup
pose, in doing this, that they could be
charged with hostility to their party.
President Smiths egotistic statement
that our attacks upon him were secret
thrusts at his party was duly anticipated by
us and provided against. To meet this
expected charge, for we knew that drown
ing men catch at straWs, we had already
published extracts from the speeches OF
Representatives Seymour and Estes, and
the conversation of Senator Galloway, high
authority in his political church, sustain
ing our different articles in several of their
most pertinent points. And below, we
quote again from loyal correspondent of
the Standard, whose letter unfortunately
appears, side by side, with President
Smiths article.
We cannot close without asking this Off
cial how he comes cn "gouging Presl-
dent HAWKINS. A friend has intimated to
us that this latter gentleman does not grow
lean under the operation, but actually is
waxing fat The fact is, President Smith,
you don't "gouge" deep enough you
only succeed in tickling that Official, and he
laughs at you lin his sleeves). What an
incorrigible wag, to be sure, who perpe-
trated that joke for you and at your ex-
pense, President Smith
Says the Standard correspondent
THE consolidation measure has passed it's
second reading by very decided majority and of
course there will be little opposition to its final
passage. This is as it should be. Let the roads
be consolidated, and placed under the manage
ment of energetic business men, and the Traveller
will not be compelled to drag out weary ride of
four hours from Raleigh to Goldsboro-a dis
tance of forty eight rniles-on a freight train
with passenger car attached A rumor was
current a few days ago, that some enterprising
individual was going to establish line of stages
between Raleigh and Goldsboro', and thus secure
the travelling public speedy and scfe trip from
the Capital to the city Of railroads. We do not
know how much truth there is in the rumor, but
we are satisfied there is good opening for a
thing of the sort. But
when it comes to having to keep the cars locked
to keep the passengers from getting out and
taking it on foot, it has nearly got to the bot
SOM"