Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-25
Who Cannot Steal Shape that
Means Deceit?

commend it to our readers.
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Who Cannot Steal shape tina
Means Deceit"
1t is really amusing to see Radicals apin:
the ways OF honest men. We are otter
told that "'while the lamp holds out TO burr
the vilest sinner may yet return" There
can be no doubt that North Carolina Radi
Gals, both carpet-baggers and scalawags
are the yilest of sinners. They are a liy.
Ing proof that men are corrupt by nature
It would be simply impossible for human
beings 70 attain such an appalling degree OF
yileness In the short space Of lifetime
unless they had begun their career with a
considerable stock Of original sin Oh hand.
1t would be a rash thing to assert that a
full grown Radical had truly ferented. We
do not affect the reputation of rashness.
but we cannot blind our eyes to the fact
that some of the most ''sweet scented" OF
our Radicals have either repented or pre-
tended to repent Of their evil ways, and,
strange to say, Josiah Turner, Jr,, is re-
sponsib!e for their change Of heart.
As our readers know Mr.. Turner's print
ing oti e was blown up last week, but
perhaps they do not know that our Radi-
cai friends are oonvulsed with grief at the
outrage, Or rather that they say they are
Ra4:cal Judge Watts charged the Grand
Jury specially that the blowing up was an
outrage.
The Raleigh Era, the Radical State or
y
The Radical Press generally denounced
it as al outrage and expressed their regret
with a great profuseness.
The Radical Sheriff of Wake county, it
was rumored, intended to offer a large re-
ward for the "outragers.''
The Radical Commissioners of the city
of Raleigh actually did offer large reward
for them.
A lot of Radical offceholders in Sails
bury held public meeting and denounced
the blowing up as an ''outrage." But these
lively Youths were not satisfied Herewith.
lhsy publicly resolved that ''the principles
of the great National Republican Party
we've amply sufficient to carry out their
ends without resorting to any such con-
telHptble act as blowing up Democratic
,.rnting office with gun powder. Thanks,
friends, We feel better. Your party has
either changed ends or it has changed pin
cipes. The country will be better for
either change.
But to return. Rarely have men been
SO virtuously indignant, or SO Indignantly
.ittuous. What lovely sight it must have
Leenl Revenue officer, Windy Billy Hen
derson, the man who was acquitted Of
stealing Darr's mule the man who Chief
Justice Pearson SAID somebody else said
had stolen poor Ben Kittrell's (blessed be
his memory y law books the man who
the Salisbury Tribune said, not many weeks
40, was kicked out Of hotel in that place
for grossly indecent and immoral conduct,
painted in glowing terms tie enormity OF
the outrage OH Mr.. Turner. And TCm
Long, the Poscotfiee Agent, vas there,
the man who was afflicted with such a
"sholtne,s " in his accounts, when Billy
Umth discharged him from the North
Carolina Railroad. And Bill Howerton
was there, the Secretary of State elect,
so-called, the man who, by some unioItu-
nae miscaculation Of time, got to his
Regiment after the First Fredericksburg
Battle, instead Of just before it. And Pink
Hall, :: Of COLOR was there q very re-
spectful and very respectable servant, we
believe. before the war. And Dave Bringle,
(which is pOstmaster,'' if we mistake not
These men all got together, and before
the whole world, put on sack-cloth and
ashes, and mourned and WerJ sore because
the Scn'iltd Office had been destroyed, and
Josiah Turner Jr., had been impoverished
Could there be any greater proof Of a
change of heat than this ? Hencetorth
let no Democrat be reproached for voting
or their old enemy, Horace Greeley
What a meeting that was. Dave was
Chairman, Windy Eilly spoke, and Pink
and soldier Bill got up the resolutions
And what resolutions they were. How
generous and magnauimOus i'll them to
resolve
81. That iii the event a sum sail be de-
sired to be raised to place him again on
his feet, we now authorize the Republican
Executive Committee of the State at large
10 draw on us for our quo.a.
But drawing and paying are two very
different things; and this doth remind us of
what Will Shakespeare, who understood this
as he did everything else, said about the
nutter:
Hi,ndo,cs.--I can call spirits from the vasty
deep.
HNSPHf-Why, 81 can | or 50 can any MAN.
But Will they come when yo; 10 call tor them :
After this let no man think that Shaks-
peare did not know Windy Billy, and Tom
Long, and soldier Bill
Unfortunately for our Radical friends,
actions speak louder than words. ALI this
aiIaNOf virtuous words might have some
effect on us if we could forget some iniqui-
tops acts.
We cannot forget that the Radical
Speaker of the House of Representatives
and body ofother Radical officials, made
deadly assault on Mr.. Turner. There
was no Radical indignation then.
We cannot forget that the Radical Gov
ernor avowed in open court his previous
knoWledge Of the intended ass ault and his
approval of all that had taken place.
There was no Radical Indignation then.
We cannot forget that when an effort
was made to assassinate Mr.. Turner in
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