Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-23

For the 'Irnal
The Election In Pender.
ROCKY POINT, 5 o'clock p, M.
April 18th, 1875.

April 18th, 1875.
Editors Journal: The election Ii
progressing quietly here. At this
writing the result is uncertain, but
the probability is that the Radicals
have elected their ticket, including
their secret nomination for county
-ite-Soutii Washington. The cor
respondence published in your paper
o-day from Point Caswell over the
signatlre of wv. T. b :" is full OF
truth and wisdom and explains many
of the causes which have produced
that defeat of q party which has been
foreshadowed for week, aud ever
since the evidence has been so plain
that illegal Radical voting was to be
the means of defeating Us IN this
election Hundreds of Radicals have
no doubt registered who were not
qualified, and our citizens have been
worried by their own observatlors
aud even told by high Radical au-
thority in Wilmington (not approving
of this overruuing of Ponder by Eadi-
Gals from other cOuntles) that some
two or three hundred Radical voters
had disappeared from Wilmington re-
| Gently and come over into Pepdef.
This importation and colonization of
voters in the new county, III conJunc-
ton with lamentable dlsuffection and
neglect of duty in our own ranks, bear
| ing upon the county offices ard county
| t., has doubtless enabled the Radl-
cal party to succeed this time in toe
new county.
The negroes in this township, under
| the lash of their political master, JAS.
| Heaton, who has beer here all day,
i Co. "nS, t,Ir 10,
| for the county site. Certain Radical
zens of Rocky Point who have been
most active in securing the new coun-
| ty, hoping also to prejudice the cit
zens OF Fender against it, by putting
tie site at an announcement place on the
railroad, and thus get Fender back
into New Hanover, have laid a deep
scheme to put the site st South WASH
ington. The radical King of Excel
sior," who made faint for Rocky
Point ard even voted, (tha first time
in this township for it in order the
better to cover his deIusive work. has
no doubt, in bis hatred of Fender, bee.,
ole If tLeee schemers in this radicsl
sciie me for running the new county. :
He has boosted, with others, thai such
loc ltion for the county size would Toe
the entering wedge Tor destroying the
county.
But these enemies OF the new county
know nothing OF tn depth, length aid
breadth of the nndyinR love ior Pen
der, of those citizens of this cs,Inmuul-
ty VINO vera most active III aiding IL Its
establishment. Their devotion to the
name and county of Fender car
not be measured by the subord.-
nate consideration OF county
site and the same Is true of the thou
| sand good men and true. Of Perder.
who p,tltioned the Legislature for its
establishment. They all have Pender
hearts warm enough and big enough
to embrace, ana they do embrace eve
ry inch Of her territory and every spot
upon the said road that has been run
for a county site. They are ready and
| willing to go to South Washington to
attend court if that place has to-day
been selected, aud are 10 day, more
ovtr, nor" united than ut any previous
time foI Fender county. The effort
o. Hea',n, French, Manning & Co., to
,iemOra re the citizens Of Fender, ana
to get back the county III New HaG-
over, serve to unite our people more
thar ever III It's behalf. as these men
will learn to their sorrow. They know
that such ! thing as getting count,
back into the parent county is as M
known as j: Is futile aud absurd
These early trials OF PeuJer VIII make
the name aud county nearer and Ciearer
than ever to her true and gallant Dem
ocracy.