Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-06-09

PRrsisan PREJUDICE.
A man having onc9 formally announced
his position on any issue at stake, and
having pledged him self to maintain that
position, is slow to profit by the truths
that may be evolved by an intelligent
discussion of the question, and is 10th to
acknowledge that any of his premises are
wrong. As he is driven to a corner he
often loses bis temper in The discussion
and confounds the merits of the issue with
his desire to establish the correctness of his
position. Hence, when argument fails him,
he sometimes decends to abuse, and says
many .urjust things of those who may not
coincide with thu views he has advanced.
| The Raleigh Telegram has long and per
sstently opposed the call of a Consiitu-
tional Convention to be submitted to the
its Editor has been actuated, throughout.
BY conscientious convictions of right. But,
as its arguments have been gradually borne
away by those brought to bear against them,
it has, by degrees, lost its temper and
has sought to reflect upon the character
and ability of those eminent gentlemen,
who, in many counties throughout the
State, have been nominated by the mani
nous vote of the Conventionis;s. In its
Thurday's issue the Telegram says:
The names from day to day brought forward
and suggested as the most fitting Delegates to
the COME IA o.ated Oonyention IN this State, fur
nish the bes3s9N4dence Of the Eain purpose and
leading oBjeh of the Conservatives in their de-
eire for Convention.
heip nb iaof ia f1aa m heir nnr
cal revenge. tse tit - power As proof Of this
siona poli clans. spS1ey woods statesm IN, third
rate lawy err. aud, s@e y professionalism Of
them.
This is a manifest and as gluring irjas-
tice on the part of the Telegram, as We
hope that its Editor will acknowledge, af-
ter careful consideration of the article
VIC quote-an injustice 50 manifest and 50
glaring indeed, that it can be accounted
for only On the e1ppQsition that the Editor
has LOST his temper, and is striking about
blindly. He must know, as We all do, that
the names of some of the most eminent
gentlemen in the State appear as the Con
ser7atlve nominees men who have not,
in any way, sought the positions forced up
on them, but who have accepted them
merely at the dictation of duty to be
fulfilled "a duty due not only to those who
nominated them, but to the people of
the entire State.
Who are these men that the Telegram,
in it's petulauce, denounces as " office
seekers, professional politicians. piney
woods statesmen, !hird-rate lawyers and
seedy professionals Of them" %, In.
which Of these classes are We to look for |
Judge Manly and Hon. C.. @. Clark, of |
Craven. Ex-Governor Graham and DIR. |
Pride Jones, OF Orange. Hons. John Kerr |
and Giles Mebane, of Caswell, Hon. Har-
vey Wilson, of Meck!euburg, aud F. B.
indulge IN such Wholesale denunciations
Of such men, where must we go to find those
worthy Of consideration, of honor, of conf
1ence If these gentlemen are mere "ofice.
seekers and seedy professionals" and their
purpose is only political revenge, profit
md power" where among our public men
shall we look for these 10 guide and direct
our people. either in prosperous or adverse
periods of our history? Indeed there is
lot single gentleman nominated by the
and the list alb owe embrace
more than half of those as yet announced
whose moral, social and political character {
s not above suspicion. They are all men &
# sterling integrity, of leading positions, 6
# marked ability. Thus far the nomina- |
ions, without exception, are among the I
cry best men in the State. &
In contradistinction to these ill-humored {
harges of the Telegram, we are pleased to t
i've here the opinion of a citizen of Will t
lington. and very prominent member !
{ that party which the Telegram, by OPP
osing the call for a Convention. is aiding il
maintain its supremacy in our. affairs. b
he gentleman to whom We allude, is bit &
'rly opposed to ConHeatiou bat yet, as v