Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
GOLD WBIGSs TBE SOUTH -

GOLD WBIGSsN TBE SOUTH
Under this heading the New York |
Herald has an editorial singuiarly fall
of error and misapprehensiona as to the
true condition of public sentiment in
tbs Southern States. The occasion OF
iue Herald's artic' e IS the pub ication
OF letter purportlng to have been
written and signed by one 5.
Meadows at Mount Tirza. Person
county. North Carolina. The letter
claims that the writer will be seventy
years old i'll September next, that he
was an old tins Wing and is now dis
satisfied with the political condition
Of the country, tina either the Radi-
cal or the Democratic party or both
ought to be "unloaded" by the peo-
pie, and that the Dem ocrats at the North
are no better than the Radicals. In
conclusion the letter says: "Put this
out as a fealer to the old Wings and
patriots of both parties who love
country better than party and oblige
an old Wing who Las felt and suffered
from the plumbers of both parties now
seeking the ascendancy."
Whether the letter of Mr.. Meadows
has any political significance we
know not, as we have not the
pleasure of the old gentleman's
acquaintance nor any knowledge
of his surroundings, fact however
that argues nothing against Mr..
Meadows. It may be that Mr.. Mead
pressing his own views only or it
may be he is tool in the hands ofsome
other more designing man who hopes
to ride into power by banding together
that portion of our party who in
| former times fought under the Wing
| banner. We know not how the fact is
nor DO we much care; for the reason
that We feel confident that any attempt
to excite bad blood between men who
formerly called themselves Wings and
those who formerly called themselves
/
will come to naught. In behalf of our
friends who were Wings in former
days we utterly scout the idea that 1t
is possible by any appeal to Il cir In
terests or to their fears, to their pas
sions or to their preiudices to weaken
the ties that bind them to the party
| to which all true Southern men now
belong.
The men who have been accustomed
to listen to the counsels of George Davis
and Pendleton Meares, Alfred Waddell
section; TO Patrick Winston, to Joseph
Cherry, to Edward Warren, David
Carter, Bryan Grimes, Thomas Spar
row, jesse Yeates, W. n. II. Smith, Henry
Gillian, John Hughes, John Raughton
and Stephen d. Pool in the east; TO
Joe Davis, Fowle, the Battles, faith
er and sons, John Manning. Hugh
Waddell and Maurice Waddell, the Ora
hams, father AID sons, to Henry Nash,
John Norwood, to Fred. Stfudwick, to
the Worths, to Frank Shober, the Gil.
mers, father and son, TO Mont
forG. McGehee, to Hamilton G. Jones,
father and son, to Dargan, tC
Thomas S. Ashe, to Merrimon,
to Robert Vance, aud to Zebuon
Vance in the centre aud west, carnc:
1t this late day be swerved from their
integrity, no matter who may make the
attempt.
| We belong not ourselves to the mum
Der that III the oiden time followed
the teachings of these distinguished
men, but We repel with indignation, as
baseless slauder upon good men and
yrue. the statement made by the
HerGId, that the Radical party in
Moth Carolina 'has rallied the old
Ways to its banners" Between old
Wings and old Democrats in North
Carolina there is, as there ought to be,
no difference. When The tide Of war
swept over our State it obliterated all
i traces OF foIm er party lines from the
hearts Of ali good men and true pa
triots, and We fear not the attempts of
designing aud ambitious men to renew
them for their selfish, demagoguical
purposes. Ia tue future, as III the
past, there will be nc harder blows or
more frequent. struck against Radical
Ism and the corrupt and oppressive
government it has imposed on us than
hose given by the men who, in former
days, we've "old Wings"