Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-05
For the 10. rna:.
Ellington County.


Nessrs. Edjtors:- Please allow 10
as official Representatives of the pro.
posed new county, to state in advance
through your columns that it will be
again presented to the favorable con-
slderation of the next Legislature
especially should that body be Demo-
cratic. The division of New Hanover
has now and then been a subject If
agitation for the last twenty wears
The more the question is stirred ths
stronger it becomes-the oftener it is
canyassed in our Legislative Halls the
more numerous the votes it receives
At the last session of the Legislature
it was defeated by only one r0te, upon
the third and last reading in the House
of Representatives after its triumphant
passage through the Senate. This
just and rlght6 GUS cause, as presented
in our bill before the Legislature. is
stronger to-day, both at home and
abroad, than at any previous time in
its history. Time and events continue
to strengthen i. in spite of the oppo-
sltlon OF otfice-seekers and office-hold-
ers OF the dominant party in the old
county. Lit IS measure of relief to
true, patriotic, and determined people
"a scheme of deliverance from In,
pending inconvenience, wrong, evil.
and oppression, which no sectional
opposition or fice-seeking rings or
cllques OF any party can continue to
resist with IMMUNITY or success. 1t
has become one of those measures Of
human rights and freedom which oc-
cHpies standpoint abore sectionalism
and political parties.
Free .ium's battle once begun.
Brqueathed from bleeding sire to son.
Though baff1ed oft is ever won"
This local question has nothing to
do with the contest for Solicitor, Judge
and member of Congress. The noml
nees of the political Conventions OF
each party for these positions will,
of course, be sustained by their re-
spective parties Of the new coun-
ty territory, unaffected by this
local issue of the new county,
which we now present for the accep-
lance or non-acceptance of the candi-
dates now out, or who may be out for
Office in New Hanover county. Our
new county organization remains in
all its life, vigor, and strength. Bear
in mind that of the taeo thousand
ootcrs who reside in the limits of the
proposed new county, eleVen hundred
Of them signed and sent up their
names to the last Legislature as peti-
TONERS for this new county. 7Hey
are stiU for 1t and earnestly so.
We repeat that office holders and
Office seekers have been in the past,
the main canse of the defeat of this
the Legislature. Those who
have been most prominent at home
and in Raleigh in speaking and work
ing Tor its success hare not been ac-
tuated by desire for Office or any self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. We say this in JUS
tice to those gentlemen, for upon them
the false charge has all along been
made, and continues to be made upon
the stump, that their devotion, labors
and sacrifices for the new county
spring from desire for Office and pro-
motion. During the agitation of the
last winter almost the entire
party arrayed themselves
against it. The torrents of misrepre-
sentation and abuse of the bill and its
leading advocates poured in from that
party into the Legislature during the
asst few days and hours of its consid-
Grafton in the House of Representa-
ives. But in the very hour of our
lefeat, with its sore disappointment
Ind deep naoTtifcation, We turned,
With generous, magnanimous spirit
20 our friends in the Legislature, who
lad so nobly sustained our cause and
asked them not to regard detection
md desertion, but to vote upon erery
question according to its merits and to
lct not for the East alone, but for the
whole State, as North Carolinians.
We will not consume your valuable
pace by recital here of the strong
'rray of accommodating facts, figures,
md arguments in behalf of this move
nent. Some of them you had the
llndness to publish last winter, and
hey were laid before members of the
They increase III num-
'er and strength, and will be present
ID as the season advances and as the
'eriod approaches for the session OF
he next Legislature.
To the very few Liberal Repubh-
ans from the East, who have a Just
on Of our condition and OF
he wrongs and expressions entaiied
pom us by continuance of the Old
ounty, and who sustained our bill IN
pite of the application of the party
lsh, made SO generally from the Gov.
rnor down to the most insignificant
colored constable, we say
oar generous action WiW Le ren1ent-
cred.
To our friends, one and all, i'll the
Ist Legislature, We hereby return our
earty thanks and grateful acknowl.
1gements. DIR. Murphy, the eloquen'
Id energetic Senator from Sampson
as our devoted champion III the
enate. That good man and accom-.
ished gentleman. Mr.. Stanford, OF
uplin. was the manager of our bill IN
e House. Both were actively aided
7 number of the ablest and best
embers of each House.
Respectfully su omitted,
IS. GARRISON, Prest II behalf OF
Elk. Com. pro
:. W. LAnK4Ns, secfys posed county
LILLINGTQS, June ID, 1874.