Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-07-15
Special Correspondence OF the journal.
War Inaugurated-News from the Front
The Fourth at LiIlEngton-Bivens fires
the first Gun-Larkins the InccndiOus
The Devil to Pay Generally.

The Devil to Pay Generally.
LILL1NGToN, N. o., July 6, 1870.
The 4th of July at Long Creek We
were there yes We we're, and propose to
give your readers some accounts Of the
disgraceful proceedings there enacted, one
of the actors in which is q magistrate, and
should therefore be conservator of the
public peace. But Oh is everything
right Have we got far enough from the
scene of action to be out of danger? Can
no death missile reach cur poor unprotect-
ed heads from the bloody fields of Long
Greek Are we safe Oh surround US
miitiamen, with your guns and pixies
while we give meagre account of the 4th
of July proceedings at Long Creek The
world ought to be informed of what is &C.
ing on there f; then protect us for the sake
of the world while we give it slight re-
port. Well roll back the curtain Let
US see who is on the stage first as con
| spicuOus performer. The notorious Scion
" Larkins is haranguing the colored men
at speed Of about one hundred and sixty
miles IA hour-he denounces everything
and everybody in low, harsh and vulgar
terms, who will not unite with him in full
some eulogy and adulation of Holden and
others of the Republican party (who he
swears are The only hope of the party).-
| Ho told them he had made speeches eVery-
where;-he had spoken al over the States
aud even in Nova Scotia, and God only
| knew Where it was that he had not spoken
| that Democracy could not be trusted;
that the colOred man would again DO en-
| shaved, whenever they got power; that
| Dockery WAS scoundrel and traitor, lie
had deceived them; that his fevoring the
| amnesty bill established his treacherv to
the party, AMI no such man should be
| trusted that their condition would in q
short time, if they supported such men,
be that Of the colored man in Virginia
| they should go back into their secret or
CARNATIONS, rekindle their fires and como
| out in this election fully prepared
to defeat every candidate who WIS
not squarely and unequivocally
RddicdL. His speech was inccndiary and
infiarnmatory beyond even the most san
guine hopes of tho bloodiost minded devil
| that endorses him-fraught with bitterness,
abuse and denunciation from beginning to
end. Taking in Col. r. IT. Cowan, Dol.
Roger Moore, John uedrick and others.
he handled them with gloves off; de-
EOunced the N with hnrEhnGss that would
have led stranger to believe they were
enemies 10 mankind He told the coI0red
| men he could have thom oil armed ii they
desired 1t ; he appea ed to poor white men
and endeayOrGd to show them that tho
adj h,,Sr
deed all that one OF his powers could do to
cxasperate, to infiame, to excite, to kindle
and enrage the worst passions Of tho col |
Ored man against the white man of tho |
Democratic party, ac0s done. He jumped |
he ravod and beloved like bull, to cx-
cite and delude our people here, who have
been moving on tremendously and rcacea- |
bly, for two years no suspicious and
no foars Of snch events as he told them |
were coming, if they dared forget TO vote
Tor such men AS lie described to DE worthy |
of their trust lie concluded as he COM |
menced, III bursts Of passion and Indjgna- |
ton.
He vas followed by J. S. w. Eagles, |
who spoke in his usual style, and asked |
the s4hrageS OF the people for scot in the
next Legislature.
just here ace should say that DR.. ". ". |
Myers delivered before tho "mclee" &C.
Cured, an Grafton for the occasion that
reminded Us OF oil times-beautiful-e
quent-festeful- unexceptional to men
Of eli parties. He won the almiIa-
ticn and applause OF al who heard
him. Too much cannot be said in
communication Of his feicitOus effort on
that occasion. After the usual programme
was gone through with, john Bell, Esq,
who was one of the leading spirits of the
day, called on Mr. r. 3. Fra user to address
the meeting. After repeated calls MIR.
Frays9r started to the stand, when Scion
'. Larkins opposed his speaking, upon
the ground that lie was double-headed
carpet Dagger. Mc. Ereyser the2 declared
his determination to speak, and denounced I
Lark1ns "a liar, q scoundEel and Ii cow
ard, WhoreupOn the excl cement became
general all through the crowd. Major j.
L.. Rhodes, being amagiatrate aid mayor Of
the village, commanded the peace. He Is
Was Denounced by LGrkius, ana dared to ]
have him arrested. whcreupon l.. ID. Cher I
~ was OrGatC, with others, to arrest Lar |
kilt. Cherry Was endeavoring to execute
the commau'i, when W. j. Bivine, a mag
'trate ami deputy sheriff, dealt Cherry d
blow on the back OF his head, which pros
tlatod him, and while down struck hi III
another blow OF the elbow, which disabled G
him entirely. Lalkins went scot free and T
above civil authority. The cOr3motiOn |
was kept up for some time, until Bruce =
Williams was called TO the stand, and made IS
4 speech Of some length. Larkips then
eft.
When the excitement had subsidized so | :
hat one could be heard, MIR. Frayser pro- l.
,eeded to speak, offering to the colored t.
men such advice (although he is Repub- "
ican) as no good man, wishing well to Ib
White and coiored, could fall TO endorse.
He also alluded to o. II. Dockery's course in
Congress, and gave it bis unqualified ap- IL
said that he (Frayser) had Il
,ever been Democrat that he was an o.
iii line Henry Clay WING from his boy -
lood ; that he was Union man through u
he war (known as the Confederate war; II
lad no sympathy politically with Demo W
rats; but that it was unmanly, unjust st
nd monstrous in men, who professed to =,
re Republicans, to hold in bondage 81
he Intelligent, the respectable and y