Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-08-12

that they are behind the age and in the |
wrong part of the world to carry out the
scheme contemplated by the one and abet-
ted by the other. Tired of fightingand de-
sirious of buying peace on almost any
terms, there are people in North Carolina
who may be cowed by q display of cold
steel and had Governor Holden |
possessed an army OF hundred
thousand men, distributed oil over the |
State. We might havc had a different
result to record. But what might have
been locally gained for radicalism in the
old North State would have been more
than lost in other States, whose citizens
have been looking on at the Holden out
RACES and feeling their gorge rise within
them at the spectacle. AS the case now
stands, radicalism has lost by its abuse of
power in North Carolina, and elsewhere
too, it has Inflicted upon itself q serious
injury. If the Conservatives have made
the gains reported against such odds, we
NAV be sure that men of the same party in
other Southern States will take heart and
do equally we'll at their next elections;
while all through the North the opposition
will derive courage and strength from the
North Carolina victory. Happily for hui
mainly, the struggle III North Carolina,
owing to the pacific disposition of tho Con-
servativee, passed off with little or no
bloodshad. But it will not be safe for the
radical governors of other States to repeat
the dangerous experiment of Holden; and
we cannot believe that President Grant
will blunder into a second disastrous ex-
hibition of his partisan feelings in the
samo way.
And now VOID to the North Carolina
conservatives if they have elected ma or-
ity of the Legislature or of congressman or
OF both. Their triumph will bo n great
one, but they ahould wear their honors
mceky. They should take great pains by
| their demeanor to rcfuto radical assertions
Of their unkindncss to tho negroes and
their generally lawless conduct. Such ale
! CATIONS will continue to be made against
whatever they may do but if not substar-
tiated by facts, as they have net been hith
! erto, they will not be believed by persons
capable Of reading newspapers and Learn
! ing tho truth for themselves. If in any
corner Of the State there is gang OF men
calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan, of
which we have doubts, the conservatives
should suppress it ut all hazards. Every
where they should appear as the friends of
law md order, rs contrasted with the
| iaVleseness and anarchy which Coy
ernor Holden has encouraged. If
there are negroes voting with the Radl-
Gals thero are also negroes voting with
the Conservatives and it is clearly for
the interest Of the latter party to win over
colored adhcrents from tho ranks of its OPP
| DOnents by every measure of kindness and
Cancellation. Not the negroes, but the
Radical white carpot-bGggers are chiefly
TO blame for the North Carolina outrages
It il only upon the carpet-baggers that
punishment should be inflicted, and that
not violently. but by dopriving them, by
the legitimate exercise of party power, OF
all share in the spoils of the local govern
ment which IS all they arc after. They
should be brought to bettcr mind or
frozen out of the State, and driven else
where, to be kept constantly moving by
other peaceful risings of tho people In
r their majesty, until they give up their pc
, culiar vocation.
) Calmnosa, and moderation after victory
if tho Conservatives have gained it
: will be of inc2lculable advantage to the
cause of political reformation throughout
> the whole country.
THE ladies Of Weldon are to hold Fail
, at an early day. to aid in building Meth
| dist Episcopal Church at that place.
The Ola North State whisky distllery
, near Charlotte, is again under way, nnt
working mp IA large amount QE corn int
f spirits
. Rev. WA. Burnt, of DAvio county, N
.
- will be pastor of the Fayetteville Baptis
~ Church,
: Rev. ". A. Lindsay, IF Va. who re
h Gently graduated at tho Theological Sem
h nary of Groanville, S. c., has acoepte'
> the care of the Baptist Church at Wilson
n. G.
n Mr.. J.. L. Briggs, late proprietor of tn
/ Ocean House, ut Portsmouth,, Va, wi
! give up that business for the purpose c
Y entering upon his duties "a Sheriff of Wi
,e son county, to which position he hns jas
/. been elected.
!, TIE following is tho revised list Of nor
cy order Offices in this State: AshvillC
Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Concord, EdentoI
Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Goldsboro
Greensboro, HiIlsboro, Kcnansville, Loui
-, burg, Morganton, New llern, Pittsborougl
VI plymouth. Raleigh, Salem, Salisbur.
~ Statesyile, FnrbOrough. Trinity Colleg
~ Warrenton, Washington, Weldon, Wi
y mingtOn.
is Il GROSS OUTRAGE. --Op last Friday ever
ing, Mr.. II. @. Reed, n citizen of Raleig
= was suddenly confronted, in his own hous
w by j. w. Holden and Stephen A. Dougla
el- who demanded of him certain statcmen
ed in writing relative to the recent hangil
les of VIM. Patton, in Alamance county. Pa
les OF these Mr.. Reed was willing to give b
OF to others he objected. Douglass thu
Sc drew pistol on him and swore that
nd would shoot him if he did not sign 4
raj statement. Rced refused and Dougl0
e. persisted with many oaths in the preson
IL of Mrs. Reed, who had entered the ROOF
tn He finally, however, desisted when t
ms spirited lady threatened 20 send for aid
- have him arrested. Tho two gallant ge
lat tlemen have Lecn hound over in ST.
rin each Cor trial.
n
tie Hon. Josiah Turner, of the Scntin
IN while prisoner in HOlden's Blstillc
in YancnvvilIe. snot FORGOTTEN bv his frien,
IN ,r,