Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-03

gia and Florida reported the condition OF
the cotton crop in July as considerably
below the average of the crop of 1868, at
corresponding date, nearly all now report
an imp ovement upon those estimates, and
several of the more important cotton re-
gions report the condition as better than
in August of last year, the weather having
been generally propitious, and tho injury
by the worm comparatively inconsiderable,
though there is no lack of apprehension OF
damage from the latter. In
view of the uncertainties of the weather,
and the danger of damage by insects to
which the crop is subject, it is yet too
early to estimate the production of the
year with any degree of certainty but it
is reasonable to anticipate, with an aver
age increase of acreage equal to fifteen per
cent. yield fully up to the figures of
1868, which reached 100000 bales, and
there is nothing in the present prospect to
discourage the present expectation of a
considerable increase, which can alone be
prevented 10y some signal disaster from
weather or destructive insects
| Is Virginia TO Have a Republican Gov
eminent!
| The constitution of the United States,
with all its recent mutilations, has still q
clause which guarantees to each State a
Republican, form of government. Webster
defines Republic to be "a State in which
the exercise OF the sovereign power is
lodged in representatives elected by the
people," The same constitution of the
United States makes it the duty of the Pre-
sident to see that the laws shall be faith
| fully executed, and the President upon
entering upon his duties, solemnly swears
that he will .faiMlfuUy execute the laws.
The paramount law OF the land is the Con
stitution Of the United States. Whatever
is at war with the Constitution is not law
According to laws passed by Congress, and
by the authority and under the direction
of the President, Virginia has, complying
with ali requirements of the Constitution
and the exactions of the Chief Executive
of the United States, held an election and
chosen her representatives. Her people
have in a.! respects fulfilled the letter and
spirit of the law OF the land. But now
that the selection Of It's representatives,
does not prove to be sach as suits a set of
partisan politicians ont OF the State, and
small minority of those in the State, it is
reported that az officer of the United States
Arny has determined that the voice of the
people of the State of Virginia. announced
| in due form Of law and under restrictions
and regulations OF the President himself,
shall be unheeded and that the represen-
tatives elected shall not assume the legiti-
mate duties following this election. Ii Is
said, too, that the President, 50 Jar from
rebuking his subordinate in the army for
assumption Of authority ana abroGatiOn of
law, will come to the assistance OF
his willing tool and back him with the
power of the whole government in this
outrage upon the dearest rights of the PEG
pie Of a State and this notification of the
first principle of a Republican government.
It is hard to credit that one, who by any
accident has reached the high Office OF
President of the Republic Of America, can
be ignorant OF the fundamental law Of his
country, that he is so weak as to be lea
into violation of it, or that he can be SO
rash as wilfully to put it at defiance. The
first condition would be inexcusable, the
second contemplate, the last would merit,
and should receive, the prompt and deci-
sive punishment which the law prescribes
and which the people should demand and
exact. A free people have no iavors to
ask of their representatives whom they
have selected, The people of the whole
United States are as much interested in
securing the Republican rights of Virgin
ians as in the safety of those of any other
State. Elections take place in all of them,
but if the parties chosen should not suit
the President or his Cabinet, or an exist
ing Congress, any or all of those States
may just as illegally be deprived of repre-
sentation as Virginia. It is time for the
nation to speak. It is time for it to act,
and make its agents execute the laws fol
what they were framed, the safety, the in
terest and the liberty of the whole people
The Connection Complete.
We were today one Of a party, by invi
tation, TO make the first trip over the new
railroad bridges, just completed. over the
two branches of the Cape Fear. This work
has been projected and accomplished by
the Wilmington Railway Bridge Company