Wilmington journal., 1872-07-26
SPECIAL Corr spOHdence OF the journal.
Colonel EVaGdcEl T5egsOIis!,Cs Colo
ueIS Mckay at W.liteystSc.

" NuITLEILLE, y. y, July ~, 1872.
Mr.. Editor: Thinking tI.at al iteEl
concerning the campaign IN this county
would be acceptable, 1 crop you this by
this evenings mail.
Friday, The 18th inst, the lo.lg-loOked-
for time on the pat of tie Radicals when
their ''galiant' Champion foI this Congress
sional District, Mr.. Mckay would make
his appearance aud carry by storln the
strongholdS Of Conservatism i'll Columbus,
! at last came.
The morning train from WIlniington
brought tho ''ColOnel," bat alas for lim,
and alas f,r Il c hopes Of his friends, it
also brought little lnan wearing striped
coat ard bearing The name Of 4. u. WAD-
Soon after breakfast the people COM
menced pouring in f.oln the surrounding
country Radicals to hcartheir Colonel
| Mckay completely "Oyerwhelm with lis
burning eloquence' Colonel WaddeH-thc
Conservatives to hear their nUnIinec de-
fend the principles Of their paTty-and
right nobfy dld NYaddell perform this duty.
The former did make an effort 20 uphold
Radicalism and also, inEthe language Of
Colonel Waddell, did crack few ''ciaste
and elegant anecdotes,' yet must say
that lie most signaliy failed to effect his
ptifpOse. viii not attempt 10 give the
speeches in full, but notice o14yaa a few
things. Mir. Mckay opened the discussion,
| after having agreed with Colonel Waudcu
that each should speak one and half hours
and then each be entitled to a reply Of Lali
an hour each. .&su.gs 3I lu ~ alE
I Mr.. Mckay commenced with his hopes
in regard to the Radical party, and then
harrangued about the Convention, Lcgis-
lature, Amendments, IIomesteads Grant
and Greeley. When he touched upon
Greeley he did rot quit him until he had
taken his seat. At every conceivable point
imaginable he would make a thrust at
Greeley. OF course lie could not let the
Ku-klilx, oil Withcut giving them a passing
cut. lie consumed the greater pOF:ion Of
his time in reading from TIE Testimony of
one David Schenck and others, tIe So
called ku-kluX obligations and oaths anil
Some heart-rending accounts OF poor coli
orcd men being dragged out Of bed st mid
night and having their backs lasEicd. NGxt
came a Iehearsalfof the STEPHENS and Out
law murders. AT the end of every reading
he besought lis fellow citizens not to vote
for Greeley, but to- vote. for Grant, who
had stopped and crushed al Ku-Eluyism.
He told them all those terrible obligations
and CathS We're now no more, but were
dead and gone, and for that cause :. don't
vote for Greeley but fotc FOR Grant" lie
then brought out n large Black Book, con-
tanning the Report OF the X. X. Committee,
something which Col. Waddell pronounced
one.'Of the most damnable records ever
published, but Which he, Mckay, said Il, IL
toqS t5',e that then there had been ouiragcs
committed, bIt would neither deny nor
assert its lalSity .ts "a. ...l ....s.t .
He spoke Of the lcEiency Of that great
military President who has his aid dc ctnps
aud adjutants around linn al tile White
House who, wllile he lad the IIndenilbIe
right to declare Lhc whole OF these United
States under marshal law, yet from the
gcntlenesS Of that mefCiful heart, he could
only declare the pitiful number Of lime,
, only nine Ii Lie cOIatieS iii South Carolina,
under marshal law He made reference
To some forty CT Fifty poor miserable men
| torn from their fdniiIics ard how serving
III the lenitcntiUy another STAFF, corr
lIipG III a place ilt only 1oT teiOnS and crnn-
InaIS CT the ElQst hardened kiGd on charges
Of Which they are gUilt!ess, aud that he
was sorry for them. Sympathy indeed
! The idea OF a man entertaining bis views
and opinions having the least spark OF
sympathy fog those men! 70 think lo is
sorry 1or them wh6H fe is Wiling to SUI
! port the D.au who allowed q student from
Wake Forest College 10 be arrested and
! carried lntO another state, and there tried
and condemned for crime NJ which lie vas
Innocent, and who neglected to en-
quir4 into the cause Of his arrest, or
have him returned to his own Stale :.
lie closed by giving Z narrowing descrip
ton OF the penitcuti9ry in this state, IS =
sctt-olf for Col. WadIel's reference in a
speech III Congress concerning tie State
! prison OF massachusetts, OF ali the bad
bread from Biedsoe'5, bad meat from
Stronachs, bad fish, bad cracks to be found
in tie bread, and worse chinehes to be
found III the cracks Judging from the
amount Of sympathy he Processes for those
! poor men sent to Albany, L imagine his
! big heart O'erflows with whole leap of
sympathy, those poor fellows faring 50
badly at their boarding house in Raleigh.