Wilmington journal., 1876-07-21
IN BATTLE ARRAY.

IN BATTLE A KAY
The action of their State Convention
having completed the alignment OF
the Radical forces. the two parties
now stand confronting each other in
battle array. Our leaders are known
and our position is known--both having
been deliberately chosen and boldly
announced to the world: The Radical
! leaders and the Radical position too,
/ whether chosen with deliberabionor or not
have certainly been announced with
| holdness Indeed, we are not quite,
sure that the Radical party has not
| exceeded us in boldness, for none but
that party could have the assurance 30
go before the people Of North Carolina
under such leaders and with such
record. We froeiy and frankly confess
| the Depaocratic party could do no
snch thing, or if it did, that it would
,tdeseryedly meet the fate that isr cer-l
| tainly awaiting it's foe in November
| next. '''''r''i -...@:'.bFi '.'''d .':''C'
| There are two great and grave issues
in this campaign in North Carolina. The
| first is a return to hdnest, economical
governments and the second is the pres
ervation of The liberty of the citizen and
these being the issues nothing but au-
dacity unparalleled or blind and impo-
tent desperation could have induced q
party to put forward as leaders and
| exponents such men as were chosen
last week. Judge SETTLE is the friend
and ally, personal and political, of
President GRANT More than any
other man in the South except Mosby,
| perhaps, SETTLE has been in GRANTS
confidence. If GRANT has upon him
the odor of bad, corrupt and illegal
government the smell of. it is, upon
SETTLE Also. When his party was pilla.
ging and ulundering the Treasury of the
State he uttered not word. It is but
| little credit for him to say that he stole
nothing himself; he saw his friends
take from his poor old mother State
her entire substance and uttered not
word in her behalf. ~..... a..:., III,
| Nor is Judge SETTLES record
upon the other issue any better.
All men know, that the writ of Ha6e0s
Corpus is the foundation eff the liberty
of the citizen, that without it citizens
! are slaves and their rulers are masters.
'The writ of Habeas Corpus'' is the
name of the writ that under the Con-
| stitution both of the United States and
of the State every citizen has right
to have issued by a Judge to inquire
into the legality of the custody in
| which he is held. If men can be ar.
rested i, y the government and held in
custody at it's will without there being
any legal process for inquiring into the
lawfulness of their arrest and detens
tion, it will be seen at glance that the
citizen is helpless and the governments
IS absolute. And it was Just This state of
thinks that Governor Holden brought
about by the help of Judge SETTLE
during the Kirke war. Men we're ar
restel and held in prison in defiance
! of the known law of the land by q
ruffian and cut-throat from Tennessee.
acting under Holdens orders, and
when SETTLE a sworn Judge, was called
upon for relief, he. cried out that he
was exhausted. !" Without his con-
sent and connivance the Hoiden-Kitke
war would not have lasted three days !
But he consented Aud this is the
man the Redical party has put for
ward as it's champion in a campaign
that involves the preservation of the
liberty of the people! Il !. .e.-.s Il:
What a contrast he presents to his
opponent, Governor VANCE When war
came, VANCE took his life in his hand.
and went into battle to uphold the
that government sought to violate the
sanctity of the great writ OF HabedS
| Corpus, VANCE withstoOd. its officers
| with AL the power at his command.
! Not even the government for which he
was willing to, give his life, should
touch hair of the head of the mean
est deserter in all North Carolina, if
thereby it violated that great safeguard
to the liberty of the citizens, common
| ly called the writ of H0beas Corpus,
In time of profound peace Judge SET
TIE permitted Kirk, to trample it in the
dust under his feet and to hold whom
soever he would in vile dungeons
as long as he would. And even now
| he thinks ita fit matter for jest and rid.
icule before gaping crowd of negroes,
The right men are undonbt
edly in the right places. VANCE
as the upholder and defender of
the rights Of the citizen no matter
how humble or even how mean. And
SETTLE as the betrayer and despiser
and the ridiculer of those rights.
And then too in these days, when
every wind, that blows from the North
to the. South and from the South to the
North, brings to our ears the peoples
piteous pleadings for retrenchment,
reform and honest government, to
think that party should have the
brazen impudence to nominate for the
high and respo onsible position of Lieu
tenant Governor such a man as Blow
your-Hern-Billy Smith! .-,j+- .-.-s .
Verify it does indeed seem that
whom the gods wish to destroy they
first make mad. Surely none but mad
men would have nominated such can
didates at such times. .-...s ..,9 4.. D.
The New York ,Saa, says: .. ..
Including all who are in the nav Of