Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-01
Our Meuntaia Correspondence.


Whirligigs and the Holden Carpet bag.
Radical Party-Newspaper Matters-
Things About Ashevme. 81.
AsHEvILLE, Sept 18th, 1869.
Dear Journal Matters in this part OF
North Carolina's broad domain are. in q
political sense, rather obfusticated." 1T
is curious to notice the deep interest which
those political demagogues take in the
spreading liberal idea of amnesty, kind
ness and good will to all men, and of every
condition and previous status. l mean
those who have hitherto thought nothing
too scornful, nothing too vile, nothing too
black to be heaped upon the South and
Southern men. At the STAND point of this
individual we are forced to smile, and
forced to say-out upon any party of lib
eralism in the South that will have any
thing to DO with such rascals, or trust it's
honor to their snfe keeping. If men
fought for you, and betrayed you when
your weakness was felt, can you trust
them 1T men esponsed your political
cause and abandoned you when in their
false deduction they concluded you would
never ascend, can you have faith ? Faith
in them Trnht in thom Let them sneak
in as they are now trying to do. and rogues
will attain the seats of profit and honor,
and honest, sincere friends, friends
at all times, and in all positions, will, if it
were possible, be constrained to do them
reverence. These pettifoggers, these Mi
cawbers, these political whirligigs, think
that their harvest is ut hand. They speak
contemptuously of Holden, and of that
Legislature of which some of them arc
ignoble members, and thereby think arc
making strong friends OF those people
whom they have deceived.
The growing discomfort of tho people,
owing to the enormous taxes and other
causes, bnt especially the first, is bringing
around those, traitors to their country's
honor, and their country's trust, to deep
conviction of their lack of patriOtism +
Words formed on the lips, springing from
deceit. 1t is a grateful feeling to have to
know that the intelligence of the State is
moving cautiously in this new turn of
things. The virtue and the intelligence
that have been kept down 10y vice and ig-
norance, marshaled by their pure patriot
ic leaders will triumph. That we know,
says Captain this, and General that, and
by hook or by crook we must Jump into
the popular current. We have
brass enough for ballast, and
hypocrisy enough for cork, Not long
since q man went through the mockery Of
leaving the Conservative party, and join
the Radical He thought, no doubt, that
ho would be the next on the roll for Con
To o1C @1,oA L.
Carpet-Bag Radical Party Is an in
means of a tyrannical nnwise taxation.-
The Liberal party for me Another man,
a leader of the people in these parts,
knavishly joined the same party. Polit
cal tricks had their fling, and he was
tricked at Washington. He is Disguised, |
and will now pitch in NJ et drnis into the |
7mbryo organization. Now these men, |
and such like, are they to be returned by |
the people to the State or the Federal |
halls of legislation a.? This whole district |
will go unanimously for the Conservative |
ticket, bnt thoee men will not figure there.
The people are after all not fools. They
will be led, but Their leaders this time
Will be honest mon. This State needs a
political regeneration. 1t has ample time
% prepare for the featal day. The people
will work, black and white. on the liberal
}round, There will then be q common
on which the battle may go on
without restriction. They will get the
oower as q SINE qua non of future applica-
ion. That gained, they will from ex-
,arience know how to WELD it, and adj
minister Justice.
The NelCS, the sole Conservative organ
vest of the Blue Ridge, is advertised for
ale new naper ia talked Of being oS- |
here, and in the interest of the
Using party. Perhaps the Ne'cs will fall
nto friendly hands. Its late editor, DIR.
". q. Sites, and in my estimation q star
II literature, and man we'll versed in the
politics of the times, is lying hero sick, but
till able to contribute some of his pm
rent articles. During the war many of
lis poems fell among tho soldiers of Lee,
ike tctnged flames Of fire. Many of his
pieces, ] now see, are going tho rounds of
he press in honOred verse. but in name
Unknown. He reminds one of tho oft
uoted lines
g. Fnil many rose ia bonn 20 blush unseen,
And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
1t is tho wish of many that he will be
ole editor of the paper. Many of US here
re now looking to the Wilmington Jour
AL rs the manly exponent OF freemens'
principles. Always dignitied, and aohere
ignity is virtue
The railroads that are now in course of
obstruction are bringing many laborers
0 this section of country. The streets OF
4sheville are alipe with them every Satur-
ay evening. They put some money in
regulation. There is no doubt that when
he railroads are completed emigration
ill turn rapidly this way. OUI. {