Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-21

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favors and whom he loved sosdevoted-
v, but the campaign progressed and
Thompson found he must surrender
his party or his friend, and he an
nounced his purpose to vote for Judge |
KERR. Being in q crowd of Radlcais
one day he was tauntcd with having
"deserted his friend" The reply was
a clincher. Said he, ''you remind me
of the story Of the farmer who lett his
flock of sheep to be divided between
his two sons, John and Tom. Tom
was considered a half witted sort OF
boy and had passed his leisure hours
in training q ram in the flock that he
called Billy to perform all sorts OF
tricks and lie was devotedly attached
to Billy. John, who was on the order
OF Jacob of old, knowing his brothers
love for Billy proposed to divide the
sheep and let Tom have first choice.
Tom agreed to the proposition, and
John thereupon put Billy and all the
NANCY scabby sheep in one lot and
the fat well-to-do ones in the other lot
and told Tom to take his choice. Tom
stood moment and as he saw what
had been done the tears came III his
ewes, but recovering himself, said:
Billy I love you nightly; you are
mighty smart and I love you Billy, but
Billy can't stand that NANCY crowd
you are in. I am bound to part with
you. Brother John I VIII take the
other lot And SO Thompson part
ed with his old friend Colonel Rufin
because he could not stand the dirty
lot of Radicals supporting him.
But Colouel Ruflin was supported
by gentlemen who were neither dirty
nor radical, but who were and are, and
will lie as long is they shall live, the
peers Of any men in North Carolina,
and it will be worse than idle to at
tempt to disguise this fact. But we
do not propose to go into the causes
OF the party troubles in Orange. The
only regret we have about the result
in Orange, for whose people we cher
ISL peculiarly strong regard, is that
III rejoicing as We do in the election OF
that true man ard tried patriot, who
III the dark hours of adversely, as well
as in the bright hours Of prosperity,
has never wavered nor faltercd in
Whatever became agcntlelnar i'll North
Ca.olna to do, Int who i'll prison and
under the guns and bayonats OF the
| lawless soldicry has ever borne himself
proudly aud bravely, the only regret
we say that we have III this matter, is
that We lird ourselves separated from
some OF our best, most trusted and
most esteemed personal and political
friends. The trouble was uot .ha.
we love KERR less, but that We loved
| RUFFIN more Mfr. STIUDWICE, the
candidate for Solicitor. received the
FIJI party strength. A bolder, ii truel
man than FRED STRUDWICK, we have
not, nor have we any possessed OF
more easy, natural clCIuenca or more
graceful oratory. truly may it b,
said Of hin that he carries his
destiny in his own hands. 4 man tia
possesses the Sf tina: FRED STRUD
WICK undoubtedly possesses, i'eionE5
not TO himself but to the people,
\ word ROW about A!amance affairs
ard [ will close this letter. Tie Con
sentative party has to thank those o
the representatives. III the two last leg
islatures and those who CONTROLLED
their action, for the disastrous rcsul
in Alamance. No sane man, a. al
acquainted with the people Of tina
county or the history Of their affair
for the last six years, can pretend t.
believe that they voted for Boyd, III
Ku-LlnX betrayer, as a member Of tn
Legislature, except under compulsion
What are the facts? There is larg
number OF men, good citizens too
who are implicated the ku-klu
troubles that occurred in that count,
in 1869 and 1870. Many of them ar
still exiles and refugees. Many other
are indeed in the county, but are il
hiding. Time aud again these peopl
and their friends have appealed to thu
Legislature to pass an act Of amnesty
SO as to close up the troubles CROWN:
out of bad government and politica
oppression of the men in in power Ii
times now happily passed away. A
its readers well know, the JOURNAL
has sought to have this reasonable
request complied with by the passag'
of an amnesty bill, and it is within tn
personal knowledge of the writer o
these lines, that members of the Leg
islature were warned last winter tina
if the bill failed to pass there would b,
trouble in Alamance in this very cam
paign, and that as the Conservative
party had tho power to grant the de
sired relief, if it failed to exercise tina
power the people of Alamance who
had become at least technically in
volved in the meshes OF the law, ant
their friends for them, would seel
safety and protection at any price ani
in any quarter. Boyd, the betrayer o.
tho Loot ~--:Il