Wilmington journal., 1873-07-18

riedly" and shall move that library
| from Oxford to Raleigh.
! We return our thanks to the Peters
burg Appc0l for one of the handsomest
| tributes to North Carolina and one o1
the happiest vindications Of her people
that it has been our good fortune tc
meet with for long time. We have
no doubt that it will give as mucl
qualification to our readers as it has
given to ourselves.
You know the way to our heart,
brother appeal. We candidly confess
that we have not been as much graft
fed in long while. Thanks
1t may be proper TO say that we
have never seen the article upon which
the Appeal comm ents, but it matters
not, SO long as the appeal does battle
SO valiantly in behalf of the Old North
State:
NORTH CAROLINA AND THE VIENNA EX-
HIBTrION.
The National EcDublican seems to
be taking on some airs because Prof
Kerr, of North Carolina, succeeded
after earnest efforts in obtaining only
a corn stalk, cotton stalk and few
old coins, to take with him as the con-
tribution of that great State to tue
American department of the EXhibi-
ton at Vienna. And in order to give
force to the alleged occasion of its hor-
rOr and surprise at the short cOmings
of Il great State in this particular, IT
declares that the statement is true, be
cause it learns it ''from Conservative
sources" and hence it is not "Radi-
calfalsehood. The Republican showed
great discretion in making this preface
to its remarks, for in this it exhibits
to the world an exceptional instance,
in which it has taken the truth for
text The failure of the Old North
State to contribute largely in the way
OF specimens of her mineral, manu-
featuring and agricultural wealth, it
attributes to a deplorable "abscnce of
public spirit and State pride"
Now, while we fully and heartily
endorse all that the Republican has
said or can say, of the splendid re
sources of that grand old State, and of
her ability to make fine exhibition ii
she willed to do SO, We humbly submit
that in this instance the people of
North Carolina have shown no little
shrewdness and good sense in declin-
ing to be mixed up with the frauds
which have characterized the mana
gers and management of the American
department at Vienna. What honest
American with either personal, State,
or National pride, would be willing to
trust his wares, OF come III contact
with the peddling, Specializing thieves
sent there by Grant as managers of the
American department 1t is much
better for North Carolina that Prof.
Kerr should walk mp to the show with
his corn stalk in one hand, his cotton
stalk in the other, and his coins in his
pocket, than that he should be cncum
bered with large and valuable contri
buttons to be bagged and appropriated
upon their arrival, by few
sent there for the purpose of thiev-
ing. specializing and money getting
But the RepuLiica5t moans that
holds sway 1.-The white capitalists OF
the South will withhold every con-
ceivable support to the success of
national enterprise" Even conceding
this to be so, it may well be said i'll
offset, that 50 long as g Republican
Administration holds sway, nothing
will be done III accordance with the
dictates of honesty, right or fair deal
of the South to the exercise Of a
national enterprises. Human nature
xuac oil yaars. l,af. no tba Ra1i-
cal party saw light, and it will be the
same when that party is dead and for
gotten. It cannot tread the rights of
individuals and of States under foot,
and then consistently whine because
the people it has robbed and wrouged,
show no interest in it's enterprises or
confidence i'll its leaders.
The Republican in its affected
amazement at the non-action of the
North Carolinians i'll this matter, sees
fit to attribute it TO ignorance, wicked
slothfulness or political prejudice.
Now as to ignorance, the sons of the
Old North State have always compared
favorably upon any intellectual arena
with any Others. In the Halls of Con-
gress, on the bench, at the bar, in the
pulpit, and in every calling they have
been proven the peers of the best.
And no Yankee who ever met them on
the battle field can dare lay siothful-
ness to their charge. But as 20 the
matter of political prejudice" we
will not attempt to palliate or deny
it. If they possess it as asserted,
it is right, just and proper that they
should possess it. They world be spir-
itless indeed did they not possess it.
They have been prosecuted and OPP
pressed beyond the conception Of any
save those who experienced it. and
what the Raleigh Sentinel says of the
educational interests of the State is
equally applicable to all others: Look
| at this State! What is the condition ?
Our University dead, our common
| schools almost dead. Shame upon the
men who did it! So far from resusei-
tating, they have blasted; so far from
| extending the blessings of education,
they have curtailed them"
We rejoice to see the Old NOrth state
standing aloof from the Vienna fraud,
and sincerely trust that the same
policy will actuate her when the Cen
tennial sham comes off at Philadelphia.
The Thirtieth Congress QS47-'49