Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-25

ion erection last year, and his speech at
NsluOn' ia which he plainly minated not
Oniy the nigh displeasure of the President,
nub the actual interposition of military
loIce The people of North Carolina
snonld, lh the exercise of their right to
change their Constitution, by lawful and
pedGeiai means, cast their votes in a par
Clcular way. You know that a common.
ana perhaps the most effective argument
auureSsed 10 a large portion of our people
III our late elections has been the intima-
ton of Federal military interference.
on KNOW that while details and reliefs
from the Cabinet and the departments of
Washington have been sent here and
elsewhere TO advocate the reelection Of
The President, the army of mlrshals and
revenue officers, and spies and detectives,
mas peen heavily recruited for the same
service.
You know that the keynote of. this
campaign was struck at Greensboro by
the Secretary Of the Treasury when he
protested against the humane appeal of
Horace Greeley to his countrymen to
''shake hands across the bloody chasm''
on know that Senator Chandler wants
one hundred Southern men taken out be-
fore breakfast every morning and shot,
and that Wendell Phillips wants General
Grant to be President until every man IN
the South over forty years old is dead and
buried.
You know the ptiful story of YOUR
IellOW-cltlZens arrested without process,
jailed without commitment, convicted
without evidence, and punished without
mercy. lou know that the great writ Of
liberty has been suspended without ait
thoilty or Justification, and the freedom of
the citizen has thus been made the plaything
OF one man. You know that, although the
alarm was sounded and the Ku-KluX law
was at an end, a religious congrega-
ton, protesting the same faith as a ma
Jorlty OF this audience, was recently
broken up in Cleaveland county by an
armed band of soldiers, who picketed the
woods leading TO the place of the assem-
Dlage, and halted women and children at
the pistols mouth. You know that even
the Radical Treasurer of the State has Of
tered to testify to similar outrages in
another county. You know the Pitt county
outrage recently perpetratcd. You know
the infamous vandalism which occurred
the other day in Raleigh, when the Sen
ttnet Office was blown up by gunpowder.
GU know that to-day hundreds of your
1elloW-cltlzens are afraid to exercise their
right OF suffrage in the way they desire,
| because they will be prosecuted by the
! bloOd-hounds of the administration, and
may be sent to the penitentiary on the evil
dence OF perjured witnesses. You know
these things and thousand others like
them, and you know that almost every
man III the Southern States capable of I'M
Outstanding the situation, and who is not
! or does not expect to be an ofiice-hOlder,
regards with the gravest apprehensions
the possibility of Gen. Grants reelection.
Col. Waddell then, after dwelling on the
robbery of the Southern States by consent
| of the President, proceeded to prove his
assertion that every Department of the
Government was characterized by illegally,
lncompetency or cOrruption-sometimes by
all. He dwelt particularly on the finances,
| which he said was what the Administra-
| ton prided itself on, and showed the inn
| becility, extravaganza and corruption in
the Treasury, War and Navy Departments.
&c, &c. He then made an appeal for
| Greeley and Brown, in substance as fol-
/ lows:
l have taken occasion more than once to
say that LIDO not acknowledge the posi-
! blllty OF recOnciling political dishonesty
and personal Integrity in the same man. |
shall not, therefore. pretend TO have always
been an admirer of Horace Greeley. On
the contrary | cheerfully acknowledge that
at one time my sentiments towards him
were anything but those Of admiration
But l should not be hOnestifI did not now
declare that the speeches he has made this
Fall have won my heart, have excited my
astonlshnent and forced my profound re-
spect. He is a great man, aud is, in my
opinion, animated by a noble desire to
benefit us, his former enemies He is our
friend and we should be his. But men
are nothing in this contest. We are strug-
Cling for life and liberty, and Horace Gree
ley, backed by the best part of the North
ern people, offers us help. Shall we re-
fuse it? | understand the majority
Of You are Baptists Now, suppose your
house was on fire and a stranger was try
ing to eXtinguish the danes, would you
stop him and refuse to let him proceed
until he could satisfy you Of his faith in
the doctrine of immersion? That is our
situation. Our house is on fire, and
Horace Greeley is trying to put it out.
Shall we refuse his assistance because,
when slavery existed, he was an aboli-
zionist? He could very easily have contin-
ued leader i'll the Radical party, and
might now be lending his powerful inhu
ence to prosecute us as they are doing.
Shall we be angry with him because he
refuses to do so, and appeals for justice to
us, and denounces our oppressors?
The concluding portion of the speech
was all appeal for North Carolina and the
principle Of local self-government.
The Heather Chinee az a. Cotton
Planter.
From the Memphis Appeal.
Two years ago number Of Chinese ar
rived at our wharf and were objects of
great curiosity. The negroes especialIv