Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25


Gen. Grant wants to secure the State for
himself in the next Presidential election,
and all u. S. revenue officers forsook their
business and ''stumped" against Conven-
ton. telling the people authoritatively
that to vote Convention" was to vote q
conflict with the General Government
This terrified timid men into silence or q
negative. Carpet-baggers and scalawags
assured them that their homeeteads were
menaced by Conservatives. This was done
in the West, where the whites preponde-
rate.
In the negro counties violent infama-
tory speeches were made to the negroes,
with the purpose OF
ARRAYING BLACK AGAINST WHITE.
They were told if the Convention was
carried, back they would go into slavery.
A mulatto member of the Legislature ex-
claimed from the stump, eff the white
men get this Convention the old-fashioned
patrollers will be the executors Of the law,
and they'll execute it on your backs with
bull whip twelve feet long, with bullet
In the cracker" and all such criminal non
| sense. This sort of talk breeds riots, and
burns white mems barns in the night time.
But such is required to keep them in the
Radical line. Like harangues produced
the disturbance in Goldsboro, the Com
mune slaughter in Paris, and the 10Th of
July bloodshed in New York city.
Perhaps it is thought that your city is
entitled to the first rank in perpetrating
election frauds, repeating, &c. just note
what advancement the negroes have made
in the course of brief citizenship. Take
the county of Edgecombe, for instance.
Phillips, Radical candidate for Attorney
General, obtained last fall 2,878 votes
This year ION August 81 "No Convention"
receives 1921, 443 more than Phillips;
this in face of the facts that farming
operations have been curtailed on account
of the low price of cotton, four hundred
have been enticed off to Louisiana for the
purpose OF procuring higher wages, and
two hundred have been transferred to
Nash county by change in the county
dividing line. Can New York equal that
Not one hundred IN the entire State failed
to vote ''No Convention"
A Co1oRED MANS LOGIC.
A very intelligent colored man said to
the writer, to whom he was under obliga-
tions, 81 am mighty glad We beat you"
you had beat us I'd have gone back into
slavery, and that would have been bad for
me you'd have had to go into war, and
that'd have been bad for you" "I asked,
GLOW can you pay the tax better than ?''
"Why," he replied. 81 don't pay tax"
"How do you avoid it ?" L asked. With
smile "chIldli1e and bland" he answered,
81 just lodges the sheriff" There arc
$4,000 dodgers, who vote to tax the prop
erty in North Carolina, and pay no taxes
themselves.
Is there no "baIm in Gilead"? AS many
North Carolinians, both in and out of the
State, read and admire the independent.
fearless course pursued by the Sun, and
are regularly electrified by its brilliant
beams, will give verbatim speech of q
"No Convention" candidate in the county
of Nash. Its genuineness can be attested
by numbers of respectable witnesses. The
most laughable part of the affair is, how
ever, the foot that he was elected.
E1oQUENcE FROM THE STUMP.
Feller citizen, I'm proud to meet sich a
honorable congregational in de gloryful
ole county Of Nash, an tell you about dis
ERE Convention dey is after. De greatest
an de noblest men an lawyers, Misters
Lindsay, an Bum, an Battle, an Harris,
an Williams, an de mountain Boomer, an
de Attorney-Gin raj, is all agin me. an
de appropriate meaning Probatel Judge
is agin me. Dey dictates to de good, hard
workin', homes people OF ole Nash how to
vote away dey rights. Dey dictates to
make de lily white hand Of dey wives sign
away dey homesteds, which de Constitu-
HlIOWB uem uOL 10 uOs All uOLu III &c u0HIg
in Of my voice knows dis is so.
Feller citizen, you hangs round gros
shops, an de fust thing you knows dc
homestids gone, an your b'loved little
ones is suffrin' for bread. An don't all in
de hearin' of my voice know thar was
forty-six lawyers on de Dimycratic Com
mittee what called dis ERE Convention
Lawyers All de lawyers is most anx-
iousest to git dis Constitution changed to
put money in dey pockets Oh. L-o-r-d-y
An didn't my old friend Badly, my hon
able opponent, vote for de tWenty-nigger
law In
DE FEDERATE CONGRESS
An didn't dat law keep de rich man who
owned twenty niggers out o de war, an
put de poor man in An didn't de SOL
diers, an de wives, an de homestids, an
de little ones, all go in de war I tux
advantage OF de twenty niger law, an
staid out, an I'd do it agin. Dey talks
about taxes, taxes, taxes Dont you
alters have to pay trxes Somebody
likened my friend Badly to be comparable
of de deer an de gun, an Mr.. Clay; an
suppose de gun had kicked ? All dose in
de hearin' of my vice. An tells you fei-
low-citizeD, all desc big men-all lawyers
from Rocky Mount AMI Battleboro, an q
commission merchant, an lawyer from
Torbry, an a man way up in Mcdowell,
an de editor of de Advance, all desc noble
men come out again-Who folIer citizens !?
Why agin me, a hard-workin' bonds
man. Dey say l don't know whether
dis Convention is constitutiondHy or
not. L know dey is eminent men,
dey is mobile men, de noblest men
of our land but dey mustn't come here
an dictate to you like tyrants. amt
goln' to answer de questions dey axes me.
| An it's sorter like de ole man hirin' de
young man to do what de preacher said
| he'd do for less money. Now, felIer citi-
zen, don't want to have TO Convention
nohow, an you good homes people of
| gloryful old Nash don't want to have no
Convention neither. Amt you Satisfied
yit, feller citizen, after all desc arguments:
L thinks you is, an L thank you, fellel
citizen of dis gloryful old township, for
your honabie, an clever, an intelii gen
| attention.
These remarks, with variations, CON
sumed two hours in delivering, and the
| orator is fair sample of candidates r