Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-11-25

us, is we'll nigh t, lfa close The rule of
honest men is we'll nigh % its advent. We
do not pretend to feel any regret at this
state of things We have fought too long
to bring it about 10 exhibit now any sem
blance of sorrow, real or feigned We have
no patience with the siskiy sentimentalify
that fesds fungus growth OF sympatL etic
feeling for people who, baving waxed fat
upon our spoils. arB now eager to let bye
cones be bye cones; for wretches who,
having secured position and property by
plumber of our peopls. now seek to retain
them by appeals to our pity ami loyalty
and feeling of nationality. Carpet bag
gers end Scalawags Faugh Our very
children. with lips as yet scarce conscious,
lisp the words a terms Of bitterest inf ~
tile rcproach We would not have it 9th err
wise. We have no patience with the sick
~ sentimeDtality that can regard as harsh
measure Of pua shment, Que that shall
drive in disgrace from their high official
positions. John Pool, Richmond III. Pear
son aud William w. Holden feeling so
blind as not to SEQ anything harsh in the
imprisonment in vile dungeon of that
learned jurist, that venerable patriot, JOHN
KERR so blind as not to see anything
harsh in the confinement of the Honora-
BILE JOSIAH TURNER, side by side, in the
samo cell, with a negro felon condemned to
death SO blip~d as not to see anything
harsh in the hanging by the neck of Sher-
if MURRAY, OF Alamance county, until it
pleased the minioLs of Holden to cut him
down. We have no patience with the
s;ckly sentimentality that is of such pc
culiar character that it can ever be easily
excited by the known perpetrators of crime
and never by its innocent victims. We
have no patience with the sickiy sentiment
tality that gushes out for criminals who,
decked in their robes of Office, have viola
ted the law they had sworn to support. and
shrinks back Or looks with Indifferent eye
as their outraged victims pass by.
The people of North Carolina have
looked with establishment to see that two
men could overturn their Constitution and
Laws. They have looked with astonish-
ment to see their Governor lad Chief Jus
tice conspiriDg together in the interest of
a political party to set up an absolute, IT.
responsible monarch in the State. They
have looked with establishment to see this
conspiracy successful for a time even, and
finally defeated only by their official. legal
declaration of their will az an outraged
sovereign people. They feel now that
unless Richmond NJ. Pearson and William
W. Holden be impeached and convicted
of such high crimes and misdemeanors in
Office as shall drive them out IN disgrace,
they will henceforth hold their lives and
liberties, not By the Constitution aud Laws
of their country, but by the arbitrary will
OF the two men who may chance to be
Governor and Chief Justice of North Caro-
lima. Our property, our lives and our
liberties, the property, the lives and the
liberties OF our children. imperatiyaly de
mand the punishment OF those ntsn- Let
John Pool, RichmoId NJ. Pearson and
William W. Holden, and their aiders and
abettors and acconplices gratefully thank
the forbearanoe of their long suffering
fellow citizens that their miserable lives
have not long ere this paid the forfeit of
their crimes. Instead of seeking to retain
the high trusts they have so grossly abused.
let them, with becoming humility. wei
come, in tbs prolongation Of their wretohed
e<letences, a providential opportunity 10
repent them of all their ontrages aud all
their villainies. The time has come when
it is due to right, to justice, to the ineulted
majesty OF sovereign people, due to their
fr1o fo1 int md In,
when it is due to helpless citizens, sub
jected without law aud without redress to
confinement in filthy dungeons aud even to
the halter itself; when it is due to every
hope for the preservation Of free govern
ment in the future, to speak the truth
being our viows, We republish this mora
ing our recent e1itoriai aud reiterate every
sentiment contained in it.
The carpet baggers and scalawaes who
have taken part in bringing our State TO
ruin are, and Of right ought to be, a stencil
in the nostriis of every houest citizen of
North Casolina, without regard to race,
color or former condition. 1t is absurd
to suppose that this vast ruin, shame and
disgrace could be put upon the State and
yet that no one OF the known authors
thereof should be held up to the execra-
ton and odium of her people.
Carpet-baggers aud scalavags. your
punishment draweth nigh The reckoning
is, indeed, terrible one, but thank
Heaven it must be met. There is no half
wav orOund These men must he driven
in disgrace from Office or they will stand
unrebnked. II they stand unrebuked they
stand endorsed. We speak not of honest
citizens, no matter from whence they may
have come. We do speak Of men who,
without position, social or political, at
home, seek to force themselves upon us of
the South. We speak not of good citizens
who may have honestly differed from US
upon political questions. We do speak