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

Galloway ON his MetaI-New Hanover
tampa n t-French's Gtzzard MeIts-
Scenes and incidents of the Radical
State Convention.
We copy from the Raleigh Sentinel tie
following account of interesting and affect
ing scenes transporting during the Radical
State Convention:
BEAUTIES OF RADICALISM.
II the Radical Convention now in ses-
sion in this city is a fair index and repre-
sentation Of the party at present in the
State, then we say, God save the State
| from The further curse of their control.
Yesterday, in the Radical Convention
here, Pool, native, and Abbott, carpet
| Dagger, unmGzzled their dogs in Tucker
Hall, as wilt be seen from the proceedings
Such swearing. bowling and confusion
was never witnessed out of Pandemonium
It lasted all day and was continued by
broken squads throughout the night
All this grew out of disafection, revolt
and mutiny against Holden and his SON
in-law, Louis, the former aspiring to Alb
| DOtt's nest in the United States Senate,
and the latter trying to renew his hold on
the Attorney Gener~lsbjp.
| The fight broke out On the attempt at O.
| permanent organization Of the Convention.
The question was, who shall be President,
Senator Pool or Senator Abbott ?-the Sc
lection of Pool being Holden triumph
the selection Of Abbott, the guaranteeing
to carpet-baggers their present status.
Galloway, colored Presidential elector
and ''brains of his party" was a7aH-Hol-
den or pro Abbott. Governor Holden,
being chairman of the Executive Commit
| tee, avai,ed himself of the position to steal
march on the Abbott Galloway mutt
neers, and nominated Col. W. J. Clarke
for temporary chairman, against which
nomination many of the mutineers voted
Treason, sedition and factious opposi-
ten to h a59ld preyvaahe6a all a the
! showed their heads in every corner of the
! Hall, until, at the reassembling at four
o'clock, the Lieutenant Governor as chair
man of the Committee Of permanent or
ganization. made his report. Then Bed
lam broke loose afresh and the demon of
discOrd and anarchy assumed control Of
the assem- blage.
Even Marshal Carrow, with his portly
form elevated on chair could not restore
order, although he ''cussed" and begged
and begged and "cussed," it all did no
good. A. j. Jones, who bought the cot
ton of DR.. Sloan, pointed in vain to the
motto, ''Let us have peace" suspended
over the chai1man's head.
OOI' Oid1ht, Tue Ludl1, WHO 6SEfGu
in the Mexican war, and in the late Con-
fedrate army, land who is now undergo
ing a severer service than either) was not
to be overruled or run over by q negro.
so, when Galloway, sometimes called ''the
brains of his party" but recently dubbed
by some Of his brother RAIDS ''big yaller, -
moved to strike out the name of his friend
MADISON as one of the Secretaries. The
chair ruled him out of order.
GERiO vallar' nerCiGto1 in
when the chair again called him TO order.
and told him to take his seat.
Big yaller" being union and the
chair being "secesh;" "big CALLER" teing
right and the chair being wrong, the for
mer would not clown" at the bidding of
the latter.
White secesh ordering union niger
down was like the match to tho train-it
brought up every union Niger at once
worse than our pious Governor. He said
he had the Bible and the Constitution to
back him, and revolver in his pocket,
and he'd ''be id if he didn't mean to
have his rights
He said he VS. not afraid of Joe Turner
nor the Ku -klux, and If Gov. Holden was
assassinated he would burn the house of
the biggest Conservative in Wilmington,
with its whole family.
Sam Morphis, q decent colored man
from Orange, after repeated attempts, got
chance to auggest to Galloway that he
had never been to Orange yet.
Great confusion again onsued, and 'sthe
brains" went out to cool off, accompanied
by Mayor Harrison, who counseled him to
moderation. But ''hig yaller" swore, like
the Governor, that New Hanover should
''have her rights.
The devils all seemed broke loose again,
and the uproar reached it's acme. Many
became alarmed and left the Hall hurried
~; among them the Governor was 3een 10
take his hat and retreat behind the scenes.
In the midst of the confusion, one dele
gate was heard to cry out, 'break up the
id concern in O row; it was just got up
to make Holden Senator and Odds Attor-
ney General y
James EOntlerOy was seen IN the moving
mass, floating round like cork in an eddy,
aud crying out, ''Let Ramcat be heard
Let Rancat be heard and gentle peace
will again wave her balmy wings over the
Convention.
Clubs, sticks and pistols were visible,
and oaths as deep as those used by the
Governor to the Chief Justice, were heard
IN various parts of the Hall.
James Harris spoke but his speech,
though we'll worded, seemed to add fuel to
the fire.
French spoke his old Wilmington speech
modified, defying the natives and putting
forth the claims Of arpet-baggers. It
was sufficiently conciliatory, however, to
bring Harris to his BOSOM
Here the heat was SO intense as to cause
Galloway to retire to cool off again. While
he was seated on the steps at Peppers, he
was accosted by three colored Holdenites,
who upbraided him for his course in the
meeting. A debate ensned and a crowd of
Holdenites gathered around; Galloway
turned to go in, when one of the mob
cursed him he then returned to the door
and began to talk loudly.
The Chief 0f Yolica oarna nm and