The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-21

y. D. AVNUs SE4t
MONDAY MORNING. =. =. AUGUST 81.
The Radicals and Nsrth Carolina.
In their anxiety to keep upthe militia
~ government of the Southern States,
and to keep their hands little longer in
the public purse, the radicals are resort
ing to all sorts of Misrepresentation and
falsehood concerning the sentiments and
disposition of the Southern people. The
dispatch published last Saturday, pnr-
porting to be the result Of General Kill
ATRrCK's observations in North Carroll
ma, is a specimen of the means employed
to still keep alive sectional animoslty
and hate and justify the continuance OF
military rule. The great trouble with
the radicals seems to be that neither the
people of the South nor the provisional
Governors whom President JOHNSON has
appointed, are full-hedged abolitionists.
They may be loyal to the Constitution
and the laws, devotedly attached to the
Union, resolved to remain faithful to
their allegiance and disposed to pursue
quietly the peaceful avocations of life,
but if they are not ranting and brawling
fanatics upon the negro question they
are represented as highly disloyal and
waiting only for the withdrawal of the
army to re-enslave the blacks and en-
gage in rebellion again This is the sub
stance of the whole trouble. The South
ern people have forsaken the rebellion
without forsaking their common sense,
and while they are giving every day un-
mistakabls evidences of their loyalty to
the government, they do not become ad
vocates Of negro suffrage, negro equality
aud all the other chimerical fancies OF
the abOlitionists.
The New York Tribune has two OF
three correspondents in North Carolina
whose especial duty it seems to be to
write mp" the disloyalty of the inhabi-
tants of the "Old North State" In a
recent letter, one of these scribblers pic
lures the following shocking condition
of affairs:
There is not man who advocates the
conhscation of rebel property; there is
not man who dares to advocate the eX.
tension of suffrage to the loyal blacks,
though one man, formerly holding office
under Gov Vance, is said to be in favor
Of it. J..s.
Mr.. Pennington, editor of The Progress,
who Is stnmping the county as candl,
date for the Convention, denounces as
''scoundrel" any one who says he is in
favor of Negro suffrage.
Here is Governor Holden's own land
marks" for Union men, cut from TIE
Standard Of July 81. Among other things
one of which is "the prompt insertion in
the State Constitution by the approach
ing Convention of the ordinance Of q
forever abolishing slavery or involuntary
servitnde in the State"
). The right of States to determine the
questions of suffrage for themselves.
Unqualified opposition to arhat ia called
negro suffrage. -
This fsGov. Holden's oSn prog'ammo
~ritten, am informed, by himself
The alleged statement of William a
Graham that he will oppose the return
s Of North Caroline 70 the Union on basis
Of negro suffrage scarcely needs TO he
eontradietsd 90 that seems to be the po-
,!itical creed of Gov. Holden and all the
white men of North Carolina. He has
not been pardoned, He lGraham) is
Enthusiastically cautious and reticent
Of course such condition of things
as altogether dreadful and calls loudly
f., a continuance Of military rule How
terribly "disloyal" these North Carroll
mans must be because they object to the
oonfscation of their property for the
benefit of their kind friends, the aboli
ionists. How sadly ungrateful they
must be for all the benefits they have re-
ceiyed, if they are still obstinai ely OPP
posed to giving the negroes the privilege
OF voting Failing in these things
their Unionism counts for nothing 1t Is
of no avail that Governor HOLDEN was
Union man throughout the entire
struggle and was prosecuted as SUCH ii
is of no avail that large portion of the
people of North Carolina, were never
secessionists aud that it was deemed ne
eessary to quarter division of the Con
federate army in that State for the pur
pose of preventing instruction against
the rebel authorities; their traditional
uniouism and hearty concurrence in the
results of the war and earnest fidelity to
the United States are not sufficient to
establish their character for loyalty in
the estimation of General KiLPATRICK
and the Tribune people or free them from
the constant oppression and annoyance
of military rule
A similar onslaught has been made
upon Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and
every other Southern State and the radi-
cal journals have studiouslv and zeal
ously endeavored to create the impress
sion that the South had not yet had
oc ,x,or Int thot tho orraof raho1