Wilmington journal., 1872-07-26

most intense excitement the cFO"d ouS-
perscd. \ glorious day III CataWIa
Roll Oh the bali! l,oOO0 majority IN
August.
Con,InunicasiOlaf from DR. IE. TX. Speed
on the infamous John POOi-Fred'
Douglas paper, headed Read and
| CIrcuIate.''
Accident threw III my way six column
article headed ''Read and Circulate"
which is being circulated extensively III the
| State under the frank Of john Pool, L. ).
Senator. The article bears unlnlstakabie
evidence Of its paternity. Its ear marks
are plain. IL is the work Of Johnny, as
any one will know who reads his ''breaSt-
bursting, thunIb-screW" article Of 1865, i'll
which he SO feelingly complains that some
one killed his dear friend Thadel1s Cox for
! having sh0. in cold blood, While tied 10 4
stake, in the town OF Elizabeth City, Da-
! riOus White, Il plain, uuOIlendip9 citizen OF
the county. for no other reason than he
belonged 10 the Confederate army. lie
also complained that his dear friend was
| killed while riding the public highway,
! and that his wife and child Suffered the
! same fate, but then as nov, he failed to
! give the ,y4OIe truth. lie neglected to state
| that these men were acting i'll obedience to
! orders to kill Cox to prevent lis executing
/ a nlan he had set on loot To massacre IN
| discriminatory the mIarmca lNen and de
| frnceless women ti,d children OF Elizabeth
I CITY aud vicinity. l VIII inform the author
I that one Of the principal actors in the
| tragedy now stands UP full crown Radi-
I cal, and has but recently received the
nomination of his party for representative
I il the House from paSquOtauk.
\ This 'Read and Circulate paper article
eXcels anything hAye ever seen III low
! 4, fIl li,,lI
face lying.
II charges G,at Judge Merrmon drew the
bill by which the State was roGhA! Of sev-
cral millions of dollars, ami it huge deb.
saddled upon tIic people. False. Tod T..
! Caldwell drew the biz, ana as speaker of
the Senate, engineered it through the Gen
eGal assembly. The original BILLS nav on
file in the Secretary Of States ctlic", in
Caldwcll's hand writing. When the bill
! had passed, and was submitted to the stock
holders for acceptance, Mcr !Iuou opposed
and defeated il. C2idwclia uI;d SWcpson,
after public embrace, Watcrcd the stock,
GOT cOntrO! Ui the directory, accepted the
bill LEASED ilt, road to i4ittlciirld and others
upon fictitious contracts, ODtIEied the
bonds, sold them, and stole III" 3h0nfy.--
These are the fl Is Ofth" case. Then comes
Kirk, and the Ancy forty women, . as
respectable as any W"nl"n Ill til" State
-
down and paid tI,t: iorty uIIL The {" Ara
bian Nights " also :eliS oi forty thieves, but
docs l:ct dvs,IDr them "a. " respectable -
as any Arabs. Now so4le i,oopic-Iiain
people. simple people, honest pc0pl.,-mGht
wish t." k!uW if forty respectahl" women
as live in the State were guik.y of ''1rand
larCcny," why not udict tiIem, aftd if gull
ty, punish them. If not @IiIty Hhy lay
fUur dollars each for a not lr"oS. IL hlay be
wrong 540'o to punish people for otcaling.--
Grant and j.is administration has made
IltLIC ph1HjcFtnY .-spectabi" 10y pre-
fering for public Sat .uns til;cEcS and p'nn-
,Icrcrs and sustaining them in oppression
and robbery, but wien the forty WOMEN
81 as respectable rs amy in tn" Stale were
guilty OF grand larceny, Stealing was rau-
ken among crimes and c,)ItlennIct rs 4 fcl-
OHY. 9E.# #sE.E ~
The homestead, raising money to test it,
threatening - quit the democratic party
for it's name, and ;Gr JsansOms success, |
pass rs too ridiculous for "Pnly.
LeventhOrp x Leach, CX-(;0v. Vance
and murdered Jones, johnny Graham,
that skukcd before sunrise; Gen. Smith,
Bull Pens; Owen in the wood, " ifc under
the fence, Confederate soldiers setting on
it like buzzards looking down upon dead
PIC because her husband would not shoot
the stars &.'I stripes, and because she
would not Tell Whist IA2 was shooting in the
woods. What mess 4that o mess
! And oh shame, by his side stands his fit
yOle-fellOw i'll Vitlany, conspicuous rep
resentative Of unprincipled Radicalism,
! DAVID Jenkins, the Radical candidate fOr
State Treasurer. How stands he
He paid without the shadow of law or
| justification seremy thousand dollars Of
! the peoples money uF0n the order of W.
| w. Holden, and refused TO pay, at the
order of Gov. Caldwell, sums appropriated
! by the General Assembly to tie support of
! the Penal and Elmo5y many Institutions of
| the state.
| A profit is not without LOnor save in his
| own country. Pray when You write again
| tell us something of Gen, Wilds, of Massa-
| chusetts who caused AirS. MUnden's house
to be burned with all she had, her arrest,
imprisonment, her guard of neg. soldiers,
! not allowed privacy in even The calls Of
nature. Brite hanging to a beam dead,
labelled siwoe TO him that gives burial. A
warning TO traitors"
So much tor one side OF the picture,
now look OH the elher side. Gov. Cald
well was present and President Of the Sen
ate when these railroad bills were passed.
He drew the Western North Carolina
Railroad bill a4d engineered 1t through,
by which the road and the State was ruined
for seven millions TO put it as mildlysas
possible. He assisted in manipulating the
stock. lie cancelled III the ticticious con-
tracts or letting of the road. lie advised
the issuing Of the bonds and has never yeG
satisfied the public thai lie did not profit
by the transaction. He knew that money
was used to buy the necessary votes to
carry the measures through the Assembly.
He made no resistance co the passage of
any one of the railroad bills, by which the
State debt was increased TO twenty-four
millions dollars. lie permitted, without
protest or opposition, tie school fund,
which lad been sacredly kept even during
the war, to be sCld aud appropriated hy
the Radical party for its own purposes. He
permitted the University fund to be squan-
dered. lie refused, when Governor, to
obey a plain statute of the General Assem-
bly, positive and directory, thus teaching
the people insubordination and defiance,
and contempt OF law. lie refused 10 allow
directors appointed by the General Assem-
bly, to control the North Carolina ROAD, allli I
placed his own friends and retaineFs in the |
position, and suteyed them to sell the North |
Carolina road TO strangers for one million !
eight hundred thousand dollars less than its !
value; tha5 his friend, w. \. Smith, Dresi- /
dent Of said road might raise q large sum |
or money for the sale. lie refused to let |
the State printer have the public printing !
until forced TO do it by decree of the !
courts. He refused to allow the officers of |
the penitentiary to have the money neces-
sary TO feed the cOnvicts until nladened !
n. 1T,~,r Il IL