Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-24


BY this bill you make IN the iesr
ranny against law and liberty. Tot ~ W
people, whose servants wo arc dooiJ' me
and Judge us. 00iue IL
MIR. Beall said that tho Senate IN ron
terday passed resolution Instructive a.
Committee on Military Affairs to take H lie
Wnole subject into consideration. on6 as
report bill to meet the case. He tbo,,,I'o,
that the proper course to pursue and rnoSoa,T
a reference of this bill to the soma LIVED ToY'o
mittee. Oom
The chair ruled the motion ont If ordor
as the rules had been suspended tn NM tL5,
bill on its second reading. P"' 'no
Mr.. Graham said he did not irto
consume much of the time of tho s.. "
Tor he presumed from appearances tbot AZ,
minds OF Senators were already made ~
as to how they intended to vote Int ~
desired to allude to some rumors that woro
aHoat IN reference to his county A.
statement that the law could not ho o.,
forced there by the civil authorities Woe
simply untrue. He had heard of soma US VS.
predatlons that were committed IN,
burning of three barns in one night any
of two cases of rape on two white womn,'
By negroes, which happened some TIM
since ; but this Legislature is respons;hI,
to great extent for this state of affairs IN
repeating the law to punish larceny with
death. In the section of the county IN
which reside, there was never a bette
feeling between the two races than at tbo
present time. He thought it unwise r.
pass such bill /; it would simply excite
the minds of the people and cause tbosn
who condemned such things to sympatbise
with the criminal
Mr.. Jones, of Mecklenburg, said
MIR. president Il have had tho plea.
sure OF supporting many of the measures
proposed by the Senator from Alamanco
since have occupied q seat on this floor
and, Sir, from the character of the measures
he has initiated, and those he has odvo.
Gated, feel assured, Sir, that he wonId
not wlllfully or recklessly jeopardize the
peace of the State. And vet Sir, in INV
Judgment, the inevitable consequence If
the passage of such an act as the ono mo
proposed would be to retrace many .
painful step which, during the last four
years, we have taken towards that roal of
our great hope, condition of permanent
and perfect peace, q condition in which
we may look, nay gaze, once more upon
our landscapes and see no blazing camp
fires there, when we may listen aud hear
no more the roll of the sullen drums upon
the evening breeze. When war shall be
but dreadful memory in this unhappy
land and peace blessed reality. I come
to the consideration of this subject, Mr..
President, with no partisan feelings. |
know, Sir, its Importance, and l approach
it with that feeling of solemnity which
must ever attend the abandonment of the
peaceful agents Of the civil law and of the
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power, and 1 appeal to Senators of the
dominant party, if they are not predeter
mined upon the passage of this bill beyond
the hope of recall, to accept my words in
the spirit in which they are spoken, to
break loose from the shackles OF party
caucusses, and to vote upon this bill with
an eye right to the interest Of the State. -
OF all the subjects, Mr. President, upon
which we could be called to Iegislate, this
is, perhaps, the most delicate, for indie
pendent of the gross violence done by this
bill, both to the letter and the spirit of our
constitutional law; independent of the
dangers kto which it exposes the liberty
of the citizens, by withdrawing from him
that protection which the civil law throws
around him, its consequent effects upon
the prosperity of the State must be, to the
last degree, disastrous. Sir, | have ever
and 1 still contend, that the
chief cause Of the slowness with which our
State has recuperated since the close Of
the war, and the main reason why capital
and emigration have not flowed thither, is
the opinion which prevails abroad, that our
pretended peace here is more specious than
real, that society and government here
stand upon q thin crust OF trembling lava,
beneath which is ever swelling q seething
sea of anarchy and revolution. Is not this
true, Sir How else shall we account for
the fact that millions of foreigners, who an
nually land upon our shores, turn deaf
BAR to our solicitations, and prefer to buy
lands away in the far West rather than
Jake that you offer them at nero song
here, IN close proximity to the great ports
If the Atlantic, through which all their
surplus products go? How else shall we
explain that strangest of all the anomalies
q the commercial world, that while
The price of oil other commodities
lere is regulated by the prices cur
'ent in those great centres of commerce
he cities of the North, that of money has
'anged uncontl oiled by any influence
save the demand in this restricted mar
zet? Your cotton is daily bought and sold
n this city, and its price varies as tho
|AOAAA "a viz COAOSAoP1 1SukIJ uIuLAo NuN
fluctuations in New York; your tobacco
briggs just what it is worth considered as
IN article of commerce, so of your grain,
10 in short of everything except money
We find that the capitalists of New YorE
even in those frequently recurring periods
IF momentary pressure rarely realize moro
han seven per cent. premium upon their
oans. while here in the city of Raleigh or
Charlotte, if you go into the market even
upon mortgage of the best city property
you pay from one and half to two per
,ent. per month. Why, repeat Mr.. Pres
dent is this so? It is because capital is
cowardly and fees instinct
vely from land where the winds are
haken even by whisper of war. 1t is
because newspapers here IN North Carroll
Ia for party purposes, have harped upon
he pretended disorder in our midst, have
us, Sir, in condition border
ng upon actual war, until the people OF
5he North, ever too ready to credit evil
'eports of US, accept these clever tictionS
Is absolute truths and propagate them
With still further embellishments among
themselves. And now you propose bythis
ill to add Legislative endorsement to the
ruth of oil these wild reports and to
,lunge us again into those very dificulties
rom which had most devoutly hoped we
we're about to emerge. Sir, let us look at
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