Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-05-12
Now and TheB.

that The Hon WILLIAM A. GFAHAM and DIR.
Pe1np Homes have been nominated for the
proposed State Convention, from orange.
O.ber counties will doubtless follow the
exam pie thus let, of demanding the serVl-
oes of their best msn in the important
work of rcmodeling our organic law 50
that the Convention, if it ASSEMBLIES, VIII
embrace the ripest experience and maui
rest Judgment of the State"
Tn contemI latiog SO gratifying proba-
bility, We naturally revert t" the PERIOD OF
the ass emb!age OF :he mongrel Convention,
which forced e present 1nconvenitnt anu
ubiquitous Constitution upon Us. La recall
ling the character and doings of that by brid
aud infamous body. it is difficult to deter
mine which feeling predomina'es that OF
amazement, that such concern should
really have existed aud ruled i North Car
DINA, or that of gratitude, at tie day OF
such anomalies has passed aWay-we hope
forever. The recOlle ction Of that untor-
tunate era in our history, indeed, is some
what akin to the morning retrospect OF
the vagaries of dream. 1t won!d be
hard to realize that the men who strutted
their brief hours on our political stage, II
few wears ago, actually dill infest our com
cfls, or that their hideous and revolving
ne, formauces are not my this OF the fancy.
did net the effects remain in the shape Of
Constitution utterly unadsp.ed to the
spirit and exiyencies of our PEOPLE, OF q
public debt ov, rwhelming i'll is pressure
and of grinding, oppressive and rulnons
financial burdens.
Tie composition cf the Legislature. re-
comfy adjourned, presented the names Of
men who have done tue Safe emineot
acknowledgements identified with the
name and fame of the S.ate-and afforded
pleasing evidence that great eoc1al aud
popular. convulsions, though they may
obzcare, cannot obliterate. great names or
great merit No truly filiat son of North
Carolina, who looked in upon the Conven
ton of 1868, aud saw the allen and mer-
cenary occupants of a hall, renowned by
historic and venerable associations, could
have doubted, even amid the then civic
upheval, that the day would come when
North Carolina would expel the Invaders
from her places of honor and trust and
would again claim her own-whea
"Bertram's might and Bertram's right
Should meet on Ellangowan's height.
Thank Heaven the days of the carpet
baggers are numbered. For brief period
they carried it with high hand, and filled
their depleted pockets out of the scantJ
remains of crushed and Inundated peo-
pie. Now, their former dupes, the negroes
spurn them, having learned a sore lessor
at terrible cost, and even their own par t.
at the North look upon them with avertee
eyes. Abbott, Lof in, Estes. Devices e
Seymour, Cook, Foster. Hayes, Martin
dale, Davis, Proctor, ct id Onane genus
where are they and echo c-:tch uF th
glad refrain aud iejoicingly answer
" achere !"
The fact that such men aud such thing
aUe,e, and now are 7aot marks an import
ant aud valuable truth, worth learning a
almost any cost, viz Tha. public virtu
is not extinct, aud that SO long as publi
virtue lives, there will always be found il
the community recnperative energy, ad
equate in great emergencies. to restore tn
moral equilibrium of State.