Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

We have withheld SeVerai lCttCTS recon-
mending the denomination Of Colonel
4. MCKoY, our former standard-bearcr' q
the candidate for Congress in this District
We are authorized to state that Colonc
McKoY cannot accept the nomination
rendered. His gallant fight and strong
run two years ago point him out as mos
acceptable candidate, but matters of mo
nent to him will prevent his entering tht
canvass as q candidate this summer.
The Next Legislature.
The various counties throughout the
State IRE holding their conventions anC
nominating candidates for the Le8lSia
ture. In almost ALL IN tho Conservative
ranks, the utmost harmony prevails. n
O few there are strifcs and contentious over
individuals, but in mono do we believe will
this extend beyond the nomination. We
do hope our friends everywhere, and es-
pecially in counties with undoubted Con-
geryatiye majoritie8, Will duly consider the
great importance Of sending gentlemen of
experience and unqucstionod ability to tie
next Legislature. Whether we have q
majority in that body, or our political OPP
ponents continue 10 control it, it IS OF
vast importance to the party and to the
State that our majority OF minority be
composed OF men Of tGtcnt, Of discretion
and parliamentary experience.
When it is considered that the Four
teenth Amendment dcpriYcs the Conser-
natives of the services Of many OF their
ablest and most popular men, and the over
powering negro p.aloritjes in number OF
counties forbid all hope that any but
Radicals can represent them, the necCs-
atty of staunch Conservative counties
sending mon OF acknowledged ability Is
moro imperative. Added 10 this we have
q large number Of counties which are de-
bateabIe ground, and the struggle will be
active and holly contested. In such
nearly balanced counties availability Of
candidates must be respected. Men must
necessarily be selected with regard to their
personal popularity. Prcjudices TO indi-
Viduals and to occupations aud to localities
must be taken into consideration. If an
aspirant in this class Of counties is per-
sonaIly unpopular, or follows some occU-
unworthy and uneccountablo prejudice, or
lives IN a section Of the county which has
had moro than it's share Of officers, he
should not press his claims to the detri-
ment of the party, however useful he
might be as member Of the Legislature.
These very facts make it the moro i'm
perative upon undoubted Conservative
counties to throw aside prejudices as to
individuals, occupations anu localities,
and to send their ab!est and best men.
Orange. DupIin, Iredeil, Onslow, Rowan,
Cartaret and NTecllienblG owe it Il
sacred duty to New HANOVER, Craven,
Edgecombe, Halifax and Warren to send
to the Legislature men of acknowledged
abili ty and experience. ii our friends III
Conservative counties fully appreciated
the trials and humiiat;oDs Of such as live
in Radical counties, they would forget
their petty jeaIou3ies and local differences,
and send to the Legislature men Of such
experience, abilities and influence, as
would not only benefit their own coun-
ties, add strength and character to the
party, but Iool, to the interests Of such
counties, whose character. intelligence
and property are unrepreBeutcd
We therefore formally appeal 10 our
friends IL Orange and Dupin ana Neck
ienburg and other counties TO remember
that they owe duty to the people of New
Hanover and Edgec0mhc aud Craven in
the selection Of their candidates. We arc
poWerless to aid ourselves. Our interests
have been sadly misrepresoHted and
bused. We have been placed under OBJ
legations to Orange in the last Legislature,
and we must look to her u1d to other
counties in the next.
Then, too, q party representing nine
tenths of the virtue, intelligence and wealth
of the State. upon the ultimate success of
which everything of value, of character,
of past glory anu future prosperity to
North Carolina depends, looks to these
counties TO send representative men equal
to the extraordinary responsibilities which
will devoIve upon them men who viii be
an honor to the party and to The State,
and who viii truly represent the Conserya-
tive people Of North Carolina.
How far such considerations should be
above individual and local prejudices we
leave to our friends in those counties to
decide. To us such influences seem IN
worthy of the great issues at stake
DOdging the Responsibility.
Among the resolutions adopted by the
late Radical Convention at Raleigh we
find the following:
8. RESOLVED, Thht those errors in recent legis-
lation relating to internal improvements and the
State finances, which were committed by the
united votes of Democrats and Republicans in
the Legislature, are disavowed by the Republi-
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