Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-08-27

, ltion of tue road, but with that over, all
lily all exhibition of feeling should have
ended.
Believing that Wilmington is more in
terested in the completion Of this road than
any other point on it, and having sub
scribed more literally than any other
place, we thought we ought to have had a
controlling influence in its management.
So far as politics were concerned, We had
no preference, or rather as whole, we
preferred the Holden appointees to those
of Superintendent Harris, bnt bust
ness transaction, We preferred the latter.
We believed that the control of the man
agement Of the Wilmington, Charlotte and
Rutherford Railroad belonged to Whining
ton, as much as that of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad belonged to Norfolk, Or
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad belonged
to Baltimore, or the Richmond, Danv:lle
and Piedmont Railroad belonged to Rich
mond, and that it was for the best inter
ests of all that its chief officers and Offices
should remain here. In this we may have
been mistaken. 1t may have been our 10
cal prejudices and interests, but We were
honest in our error, if error it was.
In the next place we did not believe DIR.
Sloan was the proper person to be made
President of this Road, regardless of the
place of his residence. We gave our
reasons for this opinion with frankness
which at least should have been met by
his friends with equal fraukness, and not
by ill humored attacks upon this paper.
F., Before the reorganization, with these
opinions, it was our duty to 10 all we
could in al honorable way to prevent the
contamination Of the schemes of Governor
Holden. And We desire to say here, with
the development of the business advantages
to the Road, in connection with the appro-
priations by the State, that we heartily
approve the decision of the Stockhold-
ers in voting DR.. Sloan and his Board into
office, although our sympathies and our
convictions as to the law are with the
other party. Yet, before the meeting,
and after the first days proceedings, we
believed it to be our duty to turn the minds
of the Stockholders to the sectional aspect
which the contest was assuming. In doing
so we copied one or two notices from the
Charlotte papers cut0m comment. Thus
far have We shown an arrogant and die
i tatorlal spirit III this matter. What we
have done Was with Il wish to promote the
welfare Of the Road and of WILMINGTON,
and we must certainly express our sur
PRISE that our loyalty to our homo should
! have met with such ill hnmored attacks
| from the Democrat, whose earnestncss in
all that is calculated to benefit North Caro-
! lima, and especially Cb'utOAc. has given that
paper au enviable reputation throughout
the State. When we laborel in our feeble
way for what we still believe was for the
advantage OF Wilmington, and what was
but her Just rights III the premises, we are
met not only with opposition by that
paper, which we expected and admire, but
in IL spirit and form which we did not
expect, and WAS certainly not warranted
by anything which we had written or felt
If the editor Of the II ,socrat and the
people of Charlotte do not endorse our
unuit{el citolts to take care of the welfare
of our City i'll this matter then have we
mistaken the spirit and enterprise which
is fast making Charlotte one of the fore
mot cities of the State. We assure him
and them that we have long admired their
spirit and enterprise, sufficiently large and
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but not SO unselfsh or mercenafy AS to
| forget or forsake their own homes. If in
attempting to emulate what we have all
mired in them we have fallen under the
ban of their dlspleaa1lre, we can contem-
! plate it with the same satisfaction with
which we read their ompliments to others
who have thought best to pursue differ,
ent course. We have done what we thought
was right and are sustained by an APPROX
ing conscience. and We believe by the
unanimous approval of the people Of VIII
mngtOn.
In so far as the Democrat has left the inn
preston that we have been influenced by
any pref udice To Charlotte it has done rs
Injustice; iii so far as it is thought our aim
was TO protect the interests Of Wilmington,
We have been fairly represented. We trust
that we are fully understood in this matter.
| N. g. REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE
AGENCY. We were pleased to meet here
yesterday with Capt. J. G. Hester of Raj
eigh, President of the North Carolina Real
and Personal Estate Agency, who is here
on business for his Company. We are in
formed by him that the Agency is in a
fourishing condition, the most sanguine
expectations Of it's friends bidding fair to
be fully realized. AS an evidence of this
he exhibited an article from the Raleigh
papers giving report of the sale by auc-
ton in that city recently, of 10 shares
stock of the Company, which brought $40.
When it is considered that of this 10 shares,
the par value of which is 500 per share,
only 10 per cent. or 500. on the whole,
ha sheen called in, it will be readily be-
lieved that the Company is doing we'll and
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