To the + ditors ofthe Wi!mingtonian.
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Geatlemen:-Fhc forty-ninth annversa-
~ Of our independence is at hand, and re-
rrct to saw that have not heard from a
public journal Of our State, a single call up
on our citizens to meet and commemorate
this glorious event by a public festival. |
am a reader Of many papers, and every
day my eyes arc greeted by annunclatlons
Of busy preparations making throughout ev-
ery State in the Union, (except this,) to
celebrate in a becoming manner the birth day
Of our independence. / do not altogether
conceive it to be the duty of persons oftci-
atinc in your capacity to make this call, but
rather that of some few patriotic leading
individuals, whose examples arc always
looked upon to be correct and proper. But,
we either have no such persons among us,
or they are so completely under the inAu-
ence of that political lethargy, SO prejudi-
cial to magnanimity and patriotism, as co
render them Indifferent to the excitement
already created by the coming event.


| have understood that it is the intention
of few of our most opulent citizens to
have private entertainment, at some re-
mote spot from our borough, on the ap-
preaching anniversary, and am not lit