Wilmington journal., 1872-07-19
From the Columbia Phoenix.
The First Gun.

Money will be freely used by the vultures
now in power, only with the hope Of fast.
ening themselves upon the people for an
| other term of plunder-nOt Service-durins
which time they will reap usurious inter
est and collect the principal invested; 70,
| they believe, as has been recently affirmed
/ by one of the shining lights of the domi-
| nant party in this State, that there are two
years lHore QfgoQf stealing in North Caro-
| lima.
Senator Pool has already received SIS
OOO for campaign purposes; and as Secre-
| tary Boutwell, is to take part in the can
vass, he will no doubt supply his party
with all the money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated. This honorable
Senator will consider no work too mean to
effect his trl umph. lie has had printed
and circulated broadcast through North
Carolina, free of postage, under his own
frank, most scTrrilous campaign docu-
ment, containing the basest misrepresen-
tati0ns and falsehOods.
Already are efforts being made to excite
the popular mind Of the North by Pool and
those of his staI2p, by res esurrecting the cry
OF ku KluX." A feeble attempt TO invent
Ku KluX sensation out of a few ques-
lions propoundcd to Judge Settle, at y an
ceyviIle, and the cheers of the friends Of
Horace Greeley who were present, has
proved all ignOminiOus failure. But not
word do We hear from these conveniently
hOrrOr-Stricken raScalS when The LOWrey
swamp angels murder inolienSiVe citizens
In the broad glare of day and i'll cold blood;
when these loyal kukluX commit depreda-
tions upon the surrounding country for
months and years. No infantry, cavalry
and artillery are sent to the sWamps of
RobesOn county to capture or kill these
murderers and robbers. They are of the
party, all4 Geser."e to be let severely alone
rs a recompepsc ioE A2ir brutal killing of
disioyat Democrats. What W I'll Il, admins-
tration party organs say OF the brutal and
coWardly attempt to miurder Capt. Biggs,
OF the TarbOrO' SOutheTner, who was in at
tendance upon Radical pOH-wOW at Tar
bOrO', n. g., on the 4th of July, Us re-
porter tOr his journal? He was asSailed
by large number of negroes, and barely
escaped with his life. The attack is sup
posed TO have Keen the result Of previous
plan. Here is O. genuine Eu-K K!ux outrage,
III n community where the Radicals are in
the majority. This outrage, like all others
i'll the interest Of the ruling regime, will
either be kept rs silent us the grave, or will
be so misrepreSented as to show the as
sailed party to be an interlOper, who had
provoked the ire of the mob, and had re-
IliS .JuoO III OGIlcI WOTuS, uG
is deGtocrat, anG has no rights which the
Radicals are bound 20 respect.
AS above stated, the opposition will
bring TO bear upon this election all the |
power at their command. The State will
DE hOtly and closely contested, and the
contest will grow hotter after the Baltl-
more Convention, which meets to-day,
endorses Greeley and Brown. Meetings
are now being held in all parts ofthe State,
and the time, generally, is divided between
he opposing elements. A grand mass
meeting 81 Weldon, ON next Friday, is to |
De addressed by laany able men. SchLrz,
frumbnll, Ransom, Blair, Thurman, Doc |
title, Vance, Walker, of Virginia, Gordon, |
IF Georgia, and other distinguished speak |
RS, will be there and at other points during |
he campaign. They will create an entllusi |
Lsm among the people that will know no
INIT this side of a glorious Conservative
ictory. Reform is sadly needed and now
5 the day and the hour for deliverance.
The Conservatives of the Old North State
lust buckle on their armOr, and go boldly
nto the fight. They cannot afford to be
different. They are unwillingly gov
rned by carpet-baggery and scallawagery.
hey must not, they will not, prove recre-
mt to their duty in this mOmentous issue;
ut will rise in their might, and ''with
'ng pull, strong pull, and pull alto
ether" pull the State out of the mire of
,adical corruption and fraud, and place
er upon Ile enduring rock of honesty and
efolZl.