Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
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Coz. aIdeII-Gcncral Scales.


Col. NaidcH-ssencral Scales.
WAsHINGTON, July 27, 1874.
Dear Journal 1t will not surprise
you to learn that the Conservatives
hero, as we'll rs elsewhere throughout
the country, appreciating the momeu-
tOus issues involved, arc watching
with intense interest the contest Ill
North Carolina, and especially in the
Wilmington District. We cannot af-
ford to lose such n man as Col. Wad
dell from the councils of the uation inst
now. A gentleman of culture and
ability, he has won position among
the ablest i'll the House, where he il
immensely popular aud an acknowI-
edged power.
Jno. w. Furnov, in one of his pa
pers on Pnblic Men, some months
ago, pointed to Wadieii and Gordon.
rs representing in Congress that high
order of cultivated s:atosmanship once
so common in tie South, but now so
rare in public life. The loss of such
man at this time would be little less
than public calamity, and the ASST
RANGES of hls triumphant election that
we get through the ,iOu!:NAH and 9th
erWise, are most cheering.
All over the State the Conservative
candidates; are uncxccptionable. The
party has ''put its best foot foremost"
and tiio State Will be tho better for
their success. To name them woulu he
''carrying Goals to New Castle, b1t i
cannot forbear the mention of Gen. A.
| NJ. Scales, vino served Il tarm in Con
! gress with SO much credit to himself
n'tc f,If,s3s1, ana A. 4. McNoy and
! Bart. Fuller, both good men and truo,
whose election will cleanse the judicial
ermino of tho dirt and miro through
which it has been dragged by radical
demagogucs for several years past
Such men on the bench will do much
to bring back the glorious olden time,
when learning, integrity and dignity,
and rigid inpartiality were the char
acteristics OF the judiciary of North
Carolina.
In late number of the JOURNAL [
find you asking the question: ''Is
Canby's Judge fit to be on the bench?'
and; having read your evidence on the
point, [ at once answered, no s1', as
doubtless did all your readers. But,
perhaps your question was not aimed
at me and [ might have answered out
of time like Mark Twain, when the
preacher read as his text: ''What shall
it profit man to gain the whole world
and lose his own soul ?" Mark find
ing the preachers eyes resting on him
at the close of the inquiry, shook his
head solemnly and said, 81 give it up
SIR" I do not know the Judge per
sonally, but L saw him once-it was
towards the close of the late Gun
pleasantness" and he was arrayed il
all the pomp and circumstance of glo-
rious war. [ forget his rank tho ]
think was told that he was q sub
Lieut. and did duty principally on his
fathers plantation. [ had even for
gotten tho accidental meeting until he
| interfered to prevent tho removal of
the disabilities of an honOred citizen
of Wilmington, IN achjch hc sigaahy
fuilc4, and [ was surprised to bo IL
formed that it WAS the same Daniel
whose Confederate war harness was so
dazzling that, jtt{Jod dy his d@s2,lay IF
tin3eG, lie would have been Thought IL
greater General than Ice. The brass
from his uniform was now worn on his
fac,, and the transformation WAS cx-
planned.
The voters Of the District VIII also
answer year question on the 9th OF
August with ~ emphatic No
In scathing review of the Rcpub-
iican party in the House by W. L.
Herndon, who SO ably represents the
First District Of Texas, near tho close
of the late session of Congress, he
says 1.-The history of all the parties
who have ruled this country discloses
in none of them so little OF greatness
to admire and so much of littleness to
despiRe as this" and, in view of the
scoundrelism and thievings perpetra-
ted and winked at by them wherever
they have obtained power, but cspe-
cially in this city and throughout the
Southern States, the country generally
will endorse this sentiment as correct.
"Urciean, unclean, unclean," is the
verdict of the whole American people,
and the Radicals admit the charge Gas
witness the action of the last and pres
ent Congresses, and the protest OF
Judge Mackey in S. O. and talk OF
purgation. Alas,it is too far gone, from
tho crown of it's head to the soles OF
its feet; from the highest to the lowest,
it is mass of corruptior, of wounds
and bruises and purifying sores. The
only hope of the country lies i'll their
being drivenf from the places they have
disgraced and better men put IN their
places and a Democratic victory in
North Carolina, will contribute mate
rally to this much wished for result
81 ToD.