Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-24
CALDWELL AT LUMBERTON.

Mars Tod and HargrOve--A Slim Crowd
to Hear Them---They Refuse to Di-
vide Time---HarSrOVe Dull and Te-
dlOus, and Caldwell Vindictive and
MaliciOus--.TOd AsSaiIs Judge Mer-
rimOn---The Governor and the Out
Iaws---OppOsed to Social Equality,
&C., &c.
[REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE JoURNAL.ls
LUMBERToN, May %.
Governor Caldwell and T. L. HaTgrove,
candidates for Governor and Attorney-Gen-
eral, spoke here yesterday to small crowd,
the majority of whom were Conservatives.
They refused to divide time with speakers
on the Conservative side. They were will
ling to give us enc speech in reply to Har-
grove, but we declined to enter into the
discussion unless on equal terms with them.
They proposed that Hargrove should open,
that Conservative speaker should follow,
and that "Mars Tod should close.
These terms were declined. They were
about as good, however, as we expected
from them. A burnt child breads the fire,
and Caldwell was so roughly handled by
Merrimon at Fayetteville the other day
that he is anxious to avoid being replied
to, if possible. This is worthy Of Gov.
Caldwell, as himself, but not of him as o
candidate for Governor of the State, es-
pecially as Judge Merrimon has told him
that he is always willing to divide time
with him, whenever and wherever he may
meet him on the stump.
Hargroves speech was long, dull, te-
dious, pointless Caldwelps vindietive,
malicious and mendacious. he went over
the war and secession, dwelt upon the
evils and abuses Of slavery, showed how
the negroes could have been controlled by
their owners in the exercise Of the elective
franchise, while slaves, if they had then
been allowed to vote; how they would
elect the rich mans son John, over the poor
| mans son Bob, and great deal more Of
such silly nonsense. He assailed MerriInOn
for defending Swepson when he (Mars
! TODD had him arrested and tried for his
rascalities; read from the report Of the
Fraud Commission in regard to the draw
! ing of bills by Merrimon for Swepson !;
mon had defended, and charged him as
pdrticeps cri1inis in their crimes. He
said that when Merrimon was defeated by
Ransom for Senator he threatened to re-
sign his position on the Conservative
Executive Committee and withdraw from
the party, and that he was appeased only
with the promise of the nomination for
Governor. He predicted his own election
by $4,000 majority, and called upon all pre-
sent to note the prediction. He declared he
was not afraid ofHenry Berry Lowrey; but
! wanted to catch him, and he didn't care
! (phew y if his friends would tell him So
The LoWrey outlaws were accredited with
! % murders. Me didn't know how many
! men they had killed, or whether they had
! killed any-he knew nothing about them
! Except, we presume, that they would
/ for him for Governor)-but he did know
! that the ku Klux had killed, manned and
! scourged more than 1000 innocent colored
men in North Carolina. He preached the
funeral of the Outlaws over again, and re-
! peated the narrowing details of the murder
! OF C0lcken stephens, &c, &c, al 1lOt-
seam. He gavet the Kirk war wide berth.
He was for amnesty, but the Democrats
/ had had it in their power to deprive but
one man in North Carolina of the right to
hold office, and they had exercised that
! right in the case of W. w. Holden. He
was opposed to social equality. No negro
wanted it. No negro wanted to so into a
white mans house, or to sit at his table
to send his children to the white schools or
to attend the white churches. He was OPP
posed to I" mixed schools, mixed churches,
mixed everything" He didn't say he was
/ opposed to mixed Legislatures, mixed Con-
crosses, &C., but we were left to infer that
they were included in his emphatic ''ecery-
thing" Taken altogether, the speech was
a low, dirty harangue, full of bitterness and
slang, but entirely destitute of anything
like point or argument, and utterly dis
graceful to the Governor of State. The
GOVERNOR MADE No VOTES HERE.
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