Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-11-25

! ''SigBs OF the Times
/ Our late editorial under this caption has
| given rise TO such comment as to show be-
! yond doubt that it has struck home. We
! learn, however, that an attempt has been
made to break its force rs to those
against whom it was directed by seeking
! to bring within It's scope men against
! whom it was not aimed We take this oc-
casion, therefore, to repeat that we are at
all times ready to welcome among us men
/ who come here to engage in Legitimate
! business, and that we separate this class vi
people from that other class, known as car
pet-baggers, who come South to make
politics trade, and by spelling us to fat
ten themselves. The effort TO induce GER
tain gentlemen OF our community, who
happen to be men of Northern birth, to
feel aggrieved at our recent expression Of
opinion has nothing moro to support it than
had the attempt to create the impression
that the JOURNAL editorial had some con-
nection with the late Fair of the
Cape Fear Agricultural Association. =
That editorial was not aimed at honest
gentlemen, no matter whether Northern
or Southern born. It was aimed at car
pet-baggers and scalawags, no matter what
section of our country they may have dis
graced by their birth. The whole point
of the article. as our readers can see for
themselves, was to mark the striking con-
trast between the relative positions held
by Pool. Pearson and Holden, aud their
associates in crime, at the time Of the
holding of the last State Fair, and at a
positions held at the same periods by the
honest people of North Carolina. It had
no reference to, and did not spc *, nor pre-
tend to speak, for or IN behalf Of, the or
ganization or management of either the
State Fair or of our own Fair, aud this
fact is SO plain that it necessarily casts an
imputation upon the brains or honesty of
any one who pretends to think it is capa-
BILE Of any other construction. We have
said thus much not because we deemed it
necessary, but simply by way OF abundant
caution.
We republish elsewhere, to- day, the ed
itorial referred to. We trust our readers
will turn to it and give it careful perusal.
1t expresses our deliberate sentiments.
We look upon carpet -baggers and scala
wags as the enemies of our State. We
look upon John Pool, Richmond M. Pear
son and William W. Holden as the three
most fragrant criminals that have ever
shamed North Carolina by their nativity.
We regard all people who have aided or
abetted or countenanced, or who would
screen these guilty wretches from their
merited punishment as sccomplices, will
ing Or unwilling, in their crimes. Eith-
erto when the disgrace of utilization with
carpet~baggers and scalawags was sugar
coated with Office and money, when sim
pie alliance with them was the sure pre-
lude to high official position, when by
force and fraud they were virtually mas
ters and we were virtually slaves. we utter
II scorned any association with them. For
the present and in the future we certainly
do not propose to have any association
with them, when the iIfamy of il will be
unrelieved by either money or Office, TN
justified by any phase of "policy." We
took no part with them in committing
their felonies. We shall certainly tako no
part in compromising them.
The August election has fixed beyond o
doubt that the control of the destiny of
our State is to be lodged in the hands OF
the true people of North Carolina, the pc o
pie who. whether native or foreign born,
are devoted 10 the interest Of the, State,
rather than to their own, The day. OF