Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-03-04
OUR ASHEVILLE LETTER.
Winter in the NJ a inS-The REiirOadE-
IsadicaIfsm Dead-- G rcat Political n aHge
IN the West-HcVv Conservative Paper.
AsHEvILLE, y. c., Feb. 23d, 1870.

ASHEV1LLE, y. T., E6D. Zjd, lSIU.
Dear Journal Roads again very bad.
Mails irregular. Extremely cold. Plenty
Of snow Bitter cold Northern blasts. Ice
sufficient to satisfy every one. 4 good
stock Of it is being housed fer the Sum
mer.
The railroad news is not yet cheering.
The people feel entirely down in the
mouth" If the bill stopping further APP
preparations pass the House, more than
one merchant in this region will suffer
While We deplcre this condition of things,
and especially anything that will retard
the working on the roads, yet the lesson
will not be without abundant fruit. Radi-
calism is virtually dead. I will let friend
ly letter speak. SHOULD You see ---
and make his acquaintance, tell him that
YOU have received letter from Il friend in
Forsythe, giving the most encouraging &C
counts regarding political affairs i'll ell
North Western counties. Radicalism is
dead and buried throughout these coun-
ties, and there are no mourners-not even
a hedge priest left to preach the funeral.
Only let the Southwestern counties DO as
we'll as we will do. and such shout will
go up next August from the mountains as
will brighten Holden into the condition of
Nebuchadonsor when he went to grass. ,
The people OF all previous shades Of
opinion absolutely eXecrate him and the
abominable set of scoundrels whom he has
fastened upon the State"
This is very PLAIN and palpable talk from
counties that have hitherto been talked Of
as the very nest of radical doctrine. 1t is
laughable to read the late radical papers,
all trying to make themselves ConSerYa
tive. They have cut the poor mans throat
They have rifed his pockets. They have
squandered all. Now they cone back and
weep over his abused carcass. Pat his cold
cheeks, and innocently cry ont, this is the
work OF Democracy. They have 'Tampled
on every thing decent and honorable in
the State They made her credit lower
every law, public and private, and on in.
dividual right. They have decried the
Conservatism Of the country, and called it
the league with treason, with knave-
ry and the devil They now say
that they are the Conservatives. No
doubt they are. They are those kind of
Conservatives that have been canned in al
iniquity, and at last have bursttheir sides
after selling their State and countrymen
for thirty pieces of silver. If ever State
was cursed with bad government, with cor
rupt public servants, it is North Carolina.
The North Carolina Citizen - is the
name OF strictly Conservative paper re-
Gently established here. The editor, Capt
Shotwoll, is SO well known to the press of
the State that mention made of his fine
nervous ability as a writer, would DO So.
perfiuous. He has already had very greae
success in the subscription list. Before
his third paper was out, his book showed
three hundred aud sevcnty-tive bona tide
subscribers. A thing, paper here, and
edited by as fair representative of q
hearthstone carpet-bagger as can be found
among the re7ilers Of their native State,
finds this for his ergo to all his wishy washy
straw chopped logic--Democrat ! This viii
show your readers how the good cause of
Conservatism is going on up in the noun
tains, which some radicals call the ne plus
ultra of nowhere. That is exactly where
we are going to send them in earnest the
next election-the ne plus uAra of infamy.
ANON.