Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-12-16
The Standard and Captain Ashs.


The Raleigh Standard asserts that "The
County of New Hanover is misrepresanted
in the House Of Representatives by one
Ashe." The gentleman referred to IL, OF
course, Capt. S. A. Ashe, one Of our
worthy Conservative Commoners.
The Standard might have gene lit lie
farther and attempted comparison be
tween either of the carpet-baggers who
were nominally from this county-Geo.
T. French and L. G. Estes-who, without
any claims or qualifications whatever to
the position, were ushered into place by
negro votes and on platform, the most
popular plank of which was a malicious
hostility to the decent white people OF the
county We say that the Standard might
have attempted this comparison it could
have made none, for there can be no COM
parisoa between Captain Ashe and the
parties we have named. The attempt to
make it would only have resulted in con
trast that would not prove at all favorable
to the Radical representatives.
And now let us seq. The editor of the
Stanford is o political pilgrim from Mesa
chusetts, who foated down into North
Caroline, jill 1865, for the undoubted pur-
pose of making or stealing all that he
could from either the honest people Of the
State or from the ignorant negroes, whose
interests he proposed to look after. He
came here as preacher, and if his is the
standard Of religion among the godly ruri
tans of Massachusetts, we thank God that
we have none Of it. he has long since
thrown aside the cloak Of religion and has
sold hiraeclf, body and so1l, to Holden and
the Devil.
Captain S. 4. AsHE is a young man and,
thus far, OF as uuimpeacbable record as
any one IN the State can show. He was
elected to his present position by the votes
OF the permanent white inhabitants of
New Hanover county, those who own
at least nine-tenths OF the real es
tate in the county and who should, there
FORE be able to select an honest man to
represent them. He is the worthy de-
scendant of one of tho most worthy and
illustriouo families in the South. His
great ancestor, Col JOHN AsHE, first made
the name heroic on the Cape Fear, when
in 1855, he and Col. HUGH WADDELL, of
Brunswick, each with Company behind
him, many Of them the ancestors of some
of our present leading citizens, refused to
permit British sloop-of- to land here
G cargo of stamps for the Colonies, under
the enforcement act of the British Parlia-
ment. From that time to this, the name |
Of AsHE has been synonym, on the Cape
Fear, for everything that is true, noble,
manly and honest, and those who bore it
have repeatedly held offices of high trust
the gift of the people, Capt. AsAE's faith.
er. Hon. WM, s. AsHE, having represented
the State in the United States Congress
and being, at the time of his death, Presi-
dent of the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road
For more than one hundred years past
the AsHE family have resided on the Cape
Fear, and no one has ever yet cast stone
at them until the advent of this pious bum
mer from Massachusetts "a political
fungus Of nights growth that dares to
raise its head to the oak of a hundred
years and say to It. % What dost thou
1ere p
We beg Capt. ASHES pardon for thus
coupling his name, in public, with that of
such a specimen of humanity as is this
Ashley. The truth, and the secret OF the
Standards luminosity, can probably be
found in the fact that Capt. AsHE is one
Of those who are opposed to the States
paying Ashley and his family 81. 900 per
.nnum for services that have not only
proved of no value, but have actually been
detrimental to its welfare and interests.
We all know that
"No rogue e'er talt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law.
Dread War.
The horrors of war are not all visible on