Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-31
LOCAL.
CALDWELL in WLMINGT ON.
SPEAKING ATTHEC4T YHALLLAST
NEGHT-EEAR ROVEkU-KEUXE
MARS TOD-IONG WIND W..
SHORT BLTSTER.

The Radical ma>sts assembled AZ the
City Hall la. night 10 lear TaZ Ilargrove
and their Mars Tot occupy time which
c"uli har" been more properly spent in
sleep, III ;t,ho,.4ry Of thcir claims to office.
G.. 4. French WIS made Chairman, and
, among hos: "i others Abbott found his
level as a simrln Vice Presidcn. of the rab-
be The Chairman stated that Gov.
Caldwell had refused to divide time with
Il Conservative speaker, as hc did not feel
he would be doing himself Justice to meet
new man at every place.
Mars Tod, having II" oppositinn appear
ell to AXE things easy, aud in 10 hurry 10
strut upon the stage but
- Squire he had, whose name was 1"I.
That in the adventure went his halt.
And he took little more than halt in the
matter Of time and attcution. BY the aid
Of two or thlcC hriminin@ glasses of whis-
kct, which be swallowed raw, without
either Wnking OF blinking, he managed 10
extend his few remarks through about NO
hours anI halt of the evening.
lie gave a copou> outline Of the history
and position of politics before, during and
since the wa, and had the Jlublushing eff
frontery to declare that his Was about the
d-dest record on record" An original
seccssionist, he abused those whom he led
into the war, declared that having bcea for
the South, he was now completely Suhtt-
gated. and proceeded to join hands with
her enemies in villifying her.
:. SO some rats Of amphibious nature,
Are either lor the land or water
lie adopted the conclusion that there
was but one party AZ the close of the war,
the Radical party, and he had to 60 with
that or none. He launched into Il TRADE
against the acts OF the late Legislature; and
endorsed Holden as poor prosecuted and
prescribed individual. His speech de-
velOped innumel able inconsistencies, and,
founded upon false bases, his argument
was web Of sOphstries calculated to tell
with the force of truth upon his hearers
Having exhausted himself and audience
(abOut half Of whom had gradually dropped
away he finally resigned in favor Of Mars
Tod.
The mighty Radical Trojan then took
the field. And here we pause to admire
his vcIce. What his Squire boasted in
wind, this massive short-statue digntary
rivalled in Inagniticence Of tone.
" His ordinary rate OF speech
In lOftiness OF sound was rich
BabylOnfsh dialect.
He commenced with a vindicatiOn Of his
course in refusing to execute the law of
the General Assembly in the matter of
the call for a Convention; then Of his
course in the matter of the nOn-apprehen-
sion of the Lowrey outlaws; from this nat
uraly he proceeded to TRADE against the
Kl-Kux, painting in most pathetic ColOrs,
the hanging of Outlaw and the murder of
! Stevens, forgetting, in the excitement Of
! his feelings, the twenty murders and
more of the Lowreys. He also raised the
old cry of Judge MerrimOn's defending
Swepson, and drawing bills as SwepsOn's
lawyer which he, Caldwell, had altered to
the greater oppression of the people III his
capacity Of Senator. The advantage he
had in Judge MemimOn's absence was
more apparent than in the presence of that
gentleman in PittsbOrO' and Fayetteville.-
And finally Mars Tod, seeing his audience
reduced to comparative thinness, it then
being past midnight, wound up
with matters relating TO mis- pen
itentiary usurpatiOn, taking care, of
course, to conceal his OdiOus share in the
transaction in almO starving the inmates.
He did not, however, fail to show MS ap-
probation OF the manner in which Har-
grove had robbed him OF his time; for
he pretaccd his remarks by saying
his friend had Ku-Kluxed him tonight,
and uncer moniously captured the best
part Of his campaign speech. On the
whole, Mr.. Caldwell's speech was princi-
pail ). remarkable for his failure to make a
point on any point, and for the manner in
which he shirked the Civil Rights ques-
ton, not one word having been uttered by
him in regard to this important question.
The meeting adjourned with three cheers
for Mars Tod and Squire TaZ.