Wilmington journal., 1875-08-06
VOL. 81.
[FCr the Journal
Affairs En KSfaden.
ELIzABETHT0WN, ~. @.
Jujv 26th. 1879

CHAIR and Mr. Z L. McNabb appoint
ed Secretary. Mr.. J. ". Russ, Con
| servailVe nominee for the Convention
and Mr.. n. A. Stedman, Jr., were the
! speakers to represent the CouseEvat've We
| party. Mayor Cannady, OF Wilmington
was present and was cOurteOusiy .ltOW
! ed to divide time with our speakers.
Ihe,e was consid Eahit Gro wd out
and more feeling and interest Were
! displayed than We thought existed
considering the quiet which has CHAR.
acteflzed our BIaden CANVASS up tC
now.
Mir. Russ, III speech half an hour
long, explained that Il Convention had
been called Gy the Legislature, and
| that now the question was not Con
vention" or mo Convention" bat
whom will you send TO represent you:
He spoke of the Legislative
restrictions placed upon the Con
veIltlon; insisting that as all power is
vested III the people, that they can, if
they choose, delegate to their rep re-
sentatlves ii limited and qualified right
to act; that ia this case the delegates
were restricted III their Legislation, and
even dlsrt gardlng the oath they would
take, still, having been invested by the
people with a limited power, they
would in all law and conscience be,
bound to observe ihe reius thrown
around them by the Legislature. Mr.
Russ spoke OF many Of the patent de-
fects III our present Constitution, such,
for instance, as the Probate Court,
the Commissioner Court, &c.
Mayor Cannady was called upon by
the chair. He arose aid said: Il was
invited up here as ii spectator, and
came TO hear, not to speak; but 1 am
opposed to TIE Convention, which
proposes to revise the Constitution.
and shall do ali IN my power 10 aOOte
it down" He sucked ms lemon turi
0usiy, but failed to xtract enough acid
from II to dissolve his propensity
for the letter 40 sufficiently to. give us
a Single U.
He spoke of the sine die adjourn
ment 'movement, telling us that # the
Radicals succeeded III getting a ma
jOrity in the Convention, that they
would adjourn as soon rs they organ
lied, and that such being the case, the
Convention would not cost the State
"a single doIlar''-''for," said he,
"they will not organize, therefore can
not draw pay" "--forgetting, with won
derful convenience, that any Conven-
ton which could vote to adjourn ''sine
dje," could, with equal legality, vote
itself per diem.
He said that p Convention would up
set our present Supreme Court, and
that as soon as we had Il Supreme
court which did not lean toward the
poor man, the homestead law would be
declared void as to all debts, thereby
charging, individually, the Su-
preme Court, with having VIC
lated their official oaths and stained
the ermine to satisfy political ends.
His speech from beginning to end
was very like ali the Radical speeches
We ever heard-like the Old musket
painted new-a new ram-rod-a new
stock-a new barrel-but the ''same
Old tech-hole," viz: The whipping post
qualified sutfrage-the redistribution
OF slavery &c, &C., and the one hun
dred and other false and misleading
hobbies upon which Radicaiism has
ridden since '6S He said that he was
gentleman; that he had neither
Jumped" nor "been kicked out Of
the Democratic party Ceaving us to
infer that lie had sneaked out.)
His speech WAS characteristic, and
failing IN argument he attempted to
bulls the Democrats present, and came
down to personalities, till the lie was
thrown point blan@ in his face. He
was at first treated with courtesy, but
failing to appreciate 1t, he received
the contempt Justly due TO an interlop
er When he closed, JEFF. Hesters. OF
pure African descent, as we'll as scent,
with his slOuched hat, unshaven face,
and shirt bosom open down to the
waist band Of his breeches, proposed
three cheers, but as no one responded,
the Mayor very pertly rema1 hed that
he did not care to be cheered; that he
'preferred bench" When the May
or rode out of town, on bis face was
written in legible characters, the words
Caesar didn't say, rC11i Uidi sed non
Uici.
The Chair next called Mr.. n. 4.
Stedman, Jr. Mr.. Stedman complete
ly feathered the interloping Mayor.
Showed how he had misquoted the
opinion of Hon. B. F. Moore on the
restriction question - how he had
fought "good fight as rebel SOL
dier, and then forsaken his race and
country for paltry gain. He gave a
succinct history Of the various Conven-
tions which had come together in North
Carolina from the Mecklenburg
Convention of 1775 down
to the Candy Constitution under
Cowles, Tim Byrns Convention of
1868, in which sat Abbott, the uni
versal bond signer, along with Loren
n Hall, the coOper's tools thief and
host of other carpet baggers and ne-
gro delegates, a sufficient array OF
scoundreIs and ignOramuses to have
disgraced and put to shame the black
est Congress ever held i'll the domains
of heather Africa.
The Convention which gave us cor
rnpt elective Judiciary, a code which
the Chief Justice says no one but fool
can understand. which gave us Lieut..
Governor, increased the Governors
term, multiplied offices, destroyed our
Uni ersitv, increased our debt from
fourteen to thirty-four millions. The
Convention which passed an ordinance
inviting tue military satrap Canby, TO
come and make his pleasure known to
them. and declared the marriag" OF
a. G.. Thornton, to negro Legitimate.
The Convention which adjourned Ill
a genuine negro dance, and dis
graced the halls of our Legislature,
made immortal by Castor and Bat
tie, by singing within their sacred
walls, yankee doodle, "Old John
Brown, and sails in the Garden.
Mr.. Stedmau asked how we, as North
Carolnians, could longer consent to
live under Constitution, which, made
under such circumstances, and adop-
| ted when forty thousand OF our pest
! ciiiZens wnre dISfrancjIsed, OF necess1-
| ty must be rotten and corrupt to the
| core. For an hour he repeated the
history of misrule and corruption, un-
paraileled in the annals OF history
This ended the speaking. Red San
dy Mcdonald, the Radical nominee tor
Congressional honors, failing, as is his
wont to show himself in the presence
| of his opponent.
DUNCAN CRoMARTIE,
Chairman.
E. L. McNABB,
Secretary.
'"IWo souls that beat as one, re-
marked the boy to his mother, as she