Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18


meanest office in the State because o
his part in that cruel and shock ina
drama commonly called the Kirk war
IN the appointment of John Pool, infa.
nous and odiOus in tho sight of al
good men and true. to Office OF the Su
perlntendent of Public Instruction. the
man whose scheming BRAIN devised that
war; i'll the nomination of one Iindsa,
as candidate for Congress- in the
First District, the man who was re-
commended for high military position
IN that War for the reason that he
would 'lose" prs"l"rs if they became
troublosome; III the nomination OF
Stephen A. DouglHs as II candidatt TO,
Elector in the Fifth Congressional
District, man who, like Lindsay, first
became notorious in that war, and
fantly the nomination of Thomas
Settle as its Candidate for Gov
| ernOr, the man who, during
that war and while sworn Judge
on the bench, so substantially Rns-
tanned Holden in overturning til J
Constitution and laws of the State,
and imprisoning her peaceful citizens
| preparatory to their being tried ard
| shot by drum-head court martial; in
all these things, VIC say, the Radical
| party gives indlsputable proof that it
is still fatally bent on mischief to the
liberties of our people, and gives still
further occasion for renewed distrust
and increased abhorrence of it's
men and its measures, for the
| reason that the very existence of the
liberty Of the citizen depends upon
| the maintenance inviotate of the privi-
| legeS of the great writ Of Habena
| Corpus.
10. Thpt the attempt of his Radical
| opponent Thomas Settle, Esq, to in
jure Governor Vance by exhibiting
under the seal of the Federal Gov
ernment garbled letters of Governor
Vance to which he himself had been
denied access, ,des ,rves and will receive
the severest condemnation of all right
thinking men everywhere, as an unfair
and unworthy partisan trick.
During ,the reading of the resolu-
tlons several balloons with lanterns
We've sent up over the stand aud as the
resolutions were one after another read
they were received with hearty ap-
plause.
The President then put the question,
shall the resolutions be adopted. A
unanimous and vehement "aye'' rose
up from the vast crowd as one voice,
whereupOn the President remarked
that there was no necessity for putting
the negative.
Mr.. Davis then in few pointed re-
marks introduced the chosen speaker
of the evening, the
HON. DANIEL G. FOwLE
of Raleigh, who took the elevated
platform on the stand amidst the most
enthusiastic cheering and applause.
The reporter took full notes of Judge
Fowle's speech, but he finds it impos-
sible. even with their assistance, to
convey anything like Just impression
of the character or matter of one of the
ablest efforts ever made in Whining
ton or in North Carolina. Those who
heard this remarkable speech last
night cannot fail to carry with them
through life a most vivid and lasting
recollection of it. The vast and
enthusiastic audience had assembled
with the expectation that in order to
hear Judge Fowle, they would in all
probability have to suffer the discom
fort of being drenched in a soaking
rain, but sc, intense was their anxiety
that they were perfectly willing to un-
dergo this Inconvenience to have the
pleasure of hearing him. And they
were not disappointed. For two hours
and half the orator held his audience
standing in front of and around him,
at night and in a drizzling rain, their
attention enchained to the line of
thought as it fell from his lips. There
were several gentlemen present who
had heard Judge Fowle's speech in
Raleigh. a speech which has perhaps
created n more profound impression
than any speech ever delivered i'll North
Carolina, and these gentlemen eX-
pressed the decided conviction that
his effort last night far excelled his
Raleigh effort. 1t wss indeed a re-
markable speech for its
broad conservativo'vinws, for its eonnd,
unanswerable logic. for its intense
passion, it's classic tone, and it's sple17-
did exhibition of thepowers of oratory.
Occasionally the orator would illus
trate and enforce his points by apt and
would say, ''gayety over the serene
brow of moral freedom"
When he drew the picture of the
two political parties entering the field
under their respective leaders and re-
spective flags, the one flag being the
"bloody shirt, and the other the en~
sign of ''peace.' there was no one
present who did not realize the fact
that the shining Influences of the latter
would be more powerful in the contest
than the despotic might OF the other.
When he described the efforts that
the National Government had made
and continued to make 20 give en-
couragement to those who annually
strew flowers over the graves of the
Federal dead who fell to perpetuate
the Union, and the sad pleasure which
Southern hearts experienced whilst
decorating the last resting places of
the dead Confederates who died in
cause that they held to be just and
holy, he expressed the hope that the
time would speedily come when n last
ing and genuine place should be estab-
lished, when the offerings of the two
sections should be twined together in
one unseparated tribute to valOr and
patriotism.
This description of Gov. Vance's de,
votion to civil liberty during the course
of the war, and the picture he drew
of him as protecting the rights OF the
citizen and upholding the majesty of
the law in time OF revolution, placed
our candidate for Governor in light
before the speakers audience which
brought from them round after round
of applause. The mastery handling
of Judge Settles claims upon the snf-
frages of the people of North Carolina
Was piece of the most scathing invec-
tive that ever emenated from human
lips. Judge Settles official conduct
on the Supreme Court Bench dur
ing the terrible Holden Kirk war was
compared with the lofty, unyielding
unimpeachable integrity of Judge
Brooks during the same trying period.
and when he contrasted the supple
subserviency and grovelling timidity