Wilmington journal., 1875-02-05

hands. 1t was high ground he tool
and most loudly did he roar and ran
until finally being we'll warmed up
and having listening Senate, he be-
came a striking spectacle, each par
ticular hair stal ding on end and hi,
eyes in fine phrensy rolling.
From the great earnestness of his
manner l must believe MIR. CANrwKL1
has some insane idea that he really
represents the white people of New
Hanover county.
| CANTwELL AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
How utterly Insane any such notion
must be is apparent when it ia remem,
bered what views he entertains in re.
gard to the negro race and their pro-
per relations to white people; views
that he does not hesitate to avow any,
where; when it is remembered that be
Was elected by the votes of negroes
and i'll defiance of the almost unani-
nous vote of the white people, and
When 1T Is remembered that to-day he
has no more influence with the great
body of the respectable white people
OF the county than q babe unborn.
And his assurance III making such a
claim before the Senate is apparent
when 1t is remembered that he was
the only white man in that body, if
mistake not, who voted for a negro to
preside over it's deliberations M.
Cdntweli at the organization of the
Senate voted for negro to be it's
President. And yet this man gets
up and bellows about the courtesy
due him from white Senators
representing white constituencies
And stranger than this there were SEN
ators who listened to him, enough at
least TO defeat the motion to suspend
the rules, which required a two-thirds
vote of those present. It did seem to
me that if any question of courtesy was
involved, consideration was due rath-
er to the oppressed white people of
the City of Wilmington, than to Mr.
Edward Cantwell, the representative
of their oppressors, the negroes of Will
mlngton. The white people of New
Hanover utterly repudiate Edward
Cantwell rs their representative.
Among those who yielded to the
"eloquence' of the individual who by
virtue of some thirty-fve hundred
negro votes. claims to carry about
twenty-five hundred white voters and
their fortunes in his breeches pocket,
Wa regret to say, was to be found the
Senator from Mecklen-
burg
Mr.. WARNING
who voted with Mr. Cantwell against
the suspension of the rules. Mr.. WAR
ING's vote caused me both regret and
surprise Wilmington and Charlotte
have for months past been vieing with
each other in protestations of love and
regard for each other, until scarce did
ever any lover and his mistress excel
the two cities in honeyed words and
loving caresses. We knew all the
while we loved Charlotte and we
thought Charlotte loved us, but espe-
ciallv since we have at last been linked |
together by those hooks of steel that |
we have all been talking so much |
about. We had been very compls-
Gently contemplating the pure afec-
ton that the future London |
for her fair sister,
our City by the Sea. We are not the |
first people that have come to grief |
in the matter of love, but it does
come hard that we should learn this
bitter lesson from her gallant WARING.
The opportunity for CHARLOTTE to do
4 courtesy to WILMINGTON I thought |
would be gladly seized, but so it was
I't. 1If-o dlI NAOhO GIIlS l. "Oulu
lOt have complained but when the |
rebuff came from our own familiar
friend, from one of onr own house
nold almost as it were, confess that
was hart. I write not in anger but
n sorrow, regrettiug withal that my
1uty as a faithful chronicler, requires
ne to speak of the matter at ALL
This morning the bill was made the
special order for half past twelve
o'clock to- morrow, a proceeding that
Mr.. Cantwell vainly sought to pre-
vent by weak attempt at parliament
ary filibustering. Mr.. WARISG acted
with the friends of the bill
% day, and will doubtless continue to
10 so. Before this letter reaches your
readers tn e bill will, I trust, have
passed tbs second if not the third
reading in the Senate. s.