National Republican., 1875-06-15
EECKLRNBURG AGAIN.

We learn from the Wilmington P0St OF
June that the New Berne Times has
''eDtered protest against THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN for chsracterizing the Meek
lenburg celebration as a rebel fraud" The
happiness of seeing this protest has not
been afforded us, but whatever it is We feel
it about as much as asalamander would apar-
lor match, or as lion would fly on his nose.
Wecannot help admiring, however, the can
did and brave editorial of the Wilmington
Post, charging that the Charlotte Centen-
NAL ScGs party matter, and that it UG' not
shared in by white and black alike" and
further, that the uttersnces of Judge Kerr
on that occasion were "treasonable." The
Post starts out by an enunciatiOn of lis
belief in the genuineness and authenticity
OF the alleged resolutions OF May 20.
1875. While we have conclusively shown
that they are not genuine, nevertheless,
the manner in which the Post presents
contrary opinion entities its statement to
respectful consideration.
On the morning of the Goth of May we
characterized the celebration to take place
at Charlotte on that day as "a great rebel
fraud" as 1.-THE lat st of Tar-heel
humbuga," and maintained that the
President had been deliberately iDsulted.
That those remarks were made in wisdom,
proof was afforded out of the mouths of D.
H. Hill, Judge Kerr. R. A. Shotwell, and
the invited Hoosier Sage himself was not
slow in the mighty contribution given to
treason on that delectable occasion. The
celebration was in the hands and under the
control of rebels of the Raphael Semmes
stripe. D. H. Hill was the chairman of the
committee on invitation. In his Southern
Home he not only excuses the gross insult
offered to the President of the United
States, but proceeds to denounce him in
language unfit for gentlemen to read, and
only to be learned by association with the
the degraded. OF R. A. Shotwell, the
chairman of another committee, the Post
says he Is ga criminal, convicted by his
peers in a court of justice, and sentenced to
term of years in a penitentiary for a
crime" The New Berne Times, as we learn
from the Post, says:
" Win lew hepuOllCan or Northern residents
of prominence qualified to assume the duties
of the position assigned the managers, it fol-
lowed as natural consequence that those in
charge should be to the manner born and
ex-COnfederates."
To this the Post replies as follows:
''Is it possible that the Times does not know
that there are thousands of Republicans in
North Carolina, both native and Northern
born, qualified to assume the duties of man
ayers OF such a celebration! lift is not aware
of the fact, it is high time that it should no
longer insult the intelligent Republicans of
North Carolina by such assertions"
We can assure our North Carolina friends,
however, that it has gone out into all the
couLiry that the Charlotte afflir WAS
"rebel Fraud from the beginning u the
end. Even the far-Of Territorial Enter
prise of Nevada, Of June l, comes TO US
with these words:
Tile facts are beginning 10 come, and this
old North Carolina State celebration proves to
have b, eli 4 real Democratic lOve-fcast, where
the Lost Cause was President and State
Rights was the Orator. O. the 18th, Governor
Brc.dcn. a Republican, delivered an ad-
dress. and the Stars and Stripes were hOisted
in Independence Square; but this seems to
have been a dccOy, for the real celebration
took place on the 2Oth, and on that occasion
10 one took any part except eX-COntederates,
with the single exception of Governor Hen1-
ricks of Indiana"