Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-11-12

rafY, TO attempt to call III. as he do:
to-day as his compurgators, the goot
paople of Meckienburg ani Cabarru3
For we can tell him that We have a fa1
n CHER respect for them than he has
and know them too well not to know
n what estimation he is held by ali ct
them whose good opinion is worth
havllg We of course speak of his 30
| iit'cal and not of his personal charac
| ter, which latter we do not impugn
/ StlI ie,+ can we allow him TO plead his
! works of f@upereGoyation by pointing as
! he does TO his services in behalf of q
| ctG-e for which We both fought and
| WHICH we. at ieast. have never deserted.
I For "a Brigadier Geoeral Of Conf, tle1
ate cavalry h. did his duty, and ne did
no mo e. Stlit in this matter wa are
di@posed to Indulge him a ilt1Ie AID
| could welt y riOn even greater self
iandaFion than that in which he p urn. =
hjm elf, since tj.is Ird deei, IL the ouiv
part of his career for which he nee Il
not fee! ashamed And evru now us
w'e think upon the biv ,atc, the march
aud the battle field We age weak .-nongh
10 cO1fess thAt touch Df f4iiO feel =
leg coms- over ne for "O.d Annt n n.
cy" again, and We are half d,spose-d 10
fJrget the Rad ,cal that is in the Cavn-
Ter that has been. But the n, a a2ajn,
when We coink Of what he w4s and -,
md might have been, We c4n oH:y t.x
cl~iu, ''how ar thou fallen, O L1cif"r
son of fne morning s'ureiy he car
psrion us il. while hiking OF :,ia,,
~s- nov recall the words iu which his
own favorite rcet Milton describes au-
other Apostate:
call h Il Guy. R,- Fo.MsG name
Is heard : ino:- III Heaven.
Gen. Barriugar attempts To evade
toe issue between us by going IF into
khe merit of the police Il writings OF
John MILTON, upon whom De be ,tOw3
much unmeaning praise H al. Cas- q
TondneSs for tie literature of the
Cromwetii.u era; but of any acquaint-
ance with it he has yet gwen us no
prof But ere 1t far moro intimate
than we have every reason 10 thIuk II
is still we should not yield to him in
our al mration OF it. For 1t boasts at
are di-pcscd to rank, If lower, only
little lover than the name of John
Milton. and that is the name of Join
BLnyan. Such, too, is the estimate of
Macaulay. What says Gen, Barringer
then to a qTotatiOn from John Bunyan?
We will give HIM OF (which is german
to the matter in hand and which we
believe our readers will think sineu-
Igrly apposite, and with which we will
for tho present take leave of this cen
1t is taken from the Pill |
grim's Progress, and in order to put it
III the power of Gen. Barringer to verify |
our quotation we will mention that it |
il to he found in the Second Part page
$50 Of our edition. The Pilgrim in
there speaking of the many human
ab~urdities that he had witnessed and
as the one most absurd Of all, be tells
rs CT "the attempt Of two men-the
name Of one was Mr., Fool, and Of the
other, Mr.. Want-wit of aOd8hi7ag an
Ethiopian with intent to make him
5chjte. And the more they washed
him" says quaint OH John ''the 6iuck-
c1' ne 1Ot" It. would seem therefore
that in attempting bus to whitewash
the regro that Gov. Chamberlain and
G II. 3 e~rirgar have b2en bnt copying
a VI ry ancient precedent We must oh-
serve that these two characters in his al
Iegnry are not disti1cuished with the
usual felicity Of Bunyan leaving it
quite in the power of G-n. Barfil ger
10 personate either one of them or
10th at the Same time. But were they
more sharply drawn than they are, still
We shonld fear that our renders would
accuse us of rhetoric Il Xtggeration
were we to call Gov. Chamberlain eth
er the Mr.. Fool or the Mr.. Want
Wit in the performance As the case
stands we Only need another charac-
ter just little less stupid than Gen.
Barringer to make the parra!,e! com
Dlete.