Year: 1862

We very much doubt if there is another
city in the Union so well and quietly gov
erned as our own little city is, just now.
under the administration of onr present
chief Magistrate, Mayor GIIriN. We can
all well remember-lor the years agone have
been but iew-when rowdyism and bestial
intoNieaiion seemed to figure conspicuously
among the prominent features OF our out
door character, under men who sought and
obtained Office not because of any special fit
ness ON their part, but as reward for party
services rendered with such adroit slrewd
ness as to come close up to what, in par
tlzan sense might he called the cheating
point and who after haying secured posi-.
tion, found il convenient 10 neglect their
public duties. until riot aud disorder fire.
quently became IA controlling nuisance in
onr public streets.


But things of this sort have slightly
changed under the present Executive man.
agement of the city affairs and our people
can now rejoice over the luct that Whining
ton is one of the most moral and aw-abidne
cities to be found anywhere in the land
With degree of qniet perseverance pecn-
lnrly his own, Mayor GtpN thoroughly
controls the elements of social turbulence
within the city, and with kindly Grmness
executes the laws in so effective n manner,
as 10 quell all the attempts of insubordinate
rowdyism in their very incipieney. Durins
the dark days of secession few months AFRO
when the whole North was in a state ol
excitement over the bold steps which trail.
Tors had taken against their country and
coming down TO II few days ago when the
city was thrown from its wonted Guict nv
the appearance of Col. Wallace and his men
sent here by Government, to dsarm the
secret votaries of rebellion who lurked
about in the dark places of Wilmington: a
Vhlei Magistrate less cool and more impnl-.
sive than Mr. GnpIS. would have beeu
unable to control and enforce the general
peace OF the community to the same success.
lnl extent that he did A single word
unguardedly spoken in the presence of mn
excited people would have led to the worst
results and where an irritable or impetuous
ollicer would have been defeated in his most
laborious efforts to preserve the peace
Mayor GlLrIN, with an active zeal stripped
Of all excitement of language or gesture
would command respect for, and enforce
obedience to, the laws.


A well governed city, whose people are
properly impressed with just sense of theil
obligations to the community at large. by a
voluntary observance of every legal require
ment in times of unusual popular agitation
presents moral spectacle that eclipses all
exhibitions of mere party iealty, and illus
trates in its most beautiful proportions, the
true principle of that genuine democrac,
which teaches that life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness are inherent right,
which neither legal nor physical force car
abrogate or destroy And magistrat.
whose moral courage and instructive sens,
OF justice enable him fearlessly to maintail
those rights equitably for all classes and al
interests of the people, is worthy Of the con
fidenee of the community over which Ii,
presides. Such We think is the city of vii
mington and such the character of hel
present estimable Mayor.