Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-09-11
For the journal
sscHGS OF County Officials.
Lc2Sr8. Editors


Tho anxiety among the tax payers
and leading citizens Of New Hanover
as regards the bonds to be offered
next Monday from our newly elected
county officials is more general and
profound than at any previous time
relative to our county affairs. Our
people have just cause for this deep
concern, from the fact that since the
war they have been SO often and so
shamefully imposed upon and out
rageousiy cheated by ignorant and
corrupt men filling and seeking Office.
New Hanover, owing to our over
whelmlng negro population, under the
direction Of the worst class of dema-
gOgues, who are alien III sympathy
and interest with our substantial citi-
zens, affords, as the record of Schenck
and such men show, a tit theatre for
the successful operations of their class.
All that has been and is ROW necessary
for thelc success is to preach and
practice civil rights, social equality,
and other doctrines and practices the
very opposite to what our best
citizens have taught these negroes by
example aad precept. AS an evidence
that these Unfortunate dupes havo been
apt scholars, you have only. to examine
the records of our Courts, jails and
pcneItntlariCs.
The city and county is full, not ouly
of anxiety, bat of speculation as to
what our newly electad Board of Com
missioners viii do. Many are despon-
dent, and recardt the outlook rs gloomy.
They regard the maiority of its
members as plastic clay in the hands
OF the potter-capalpls Of being CONVEX
ted into vessels of honor or dlshcnor,
! and utterly incompetent, morally CT
intellectually, to the demands of the
occasion. Some few are more hopeful,
! anu III chaIity are inclined to hope
that the county will not suffer from
straw bonds or q her delinquincies.- -
This depouent Expresses 40 opiu-
| ion but as an Old resident OF the
county, having no axe II grind,
hourly awaits deve!opInert \ healthy
public sentiment, founded on Il proper
devotion to the interests and safety of
the county, expects and demands that
the Board will no. take any bond ul-
less amply secured iy visible prop
erty Of undoubtab!e title, inside
of the State 1t Will be simply dis
graceful for any citizen seeking AN of
fee of trust, honor and profit It. be
unable 10 give a bond for its faithful
| perforDlailc guaranteed hy those hv-
Ing ailo.ig us.
Our Comfy Board, during the last
| four wears, whatever may te said of its
po.itio::i complexion, Lave showu great
| ,lnck IN SAVING, rs they Lave, our
couut fcom sn;pwreck and ruin
| Ihis Is saying much, but not too
much, III view of the plundering and
pilferipg disposition and rapacious
love of Office and money o. the greedy
since the wal. On the question of
| bonds the two last boards have been
| as sound and solid as dollar and
| have exhibited 40 want of back bone
on this vital question. How is it with
| the new board? OF what sort of tim
Der is il composed ? Is it all iiimsy
and sappy, or is it largely enough COM
posed OF good old solid heart Of OAK,
that can withstand any pressure or
beating storm that may be brought to
| bear.
What say you membership or
| heart? The people will soon make
mp verdict upon your conduct. We
take occasion here, in concluding, to
remark that not alone will public criti-
Cid IL as home be made upon the action
OF the County Board in this and other
matters, but our Legislature, now
soon to assemble, will doubtlessly be
called upon to revise and amend exist
ing laws bearing upon these important
county matters. Among the PROPOSE