Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-02-15
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, N. c., FEBRUARY Is, 1866.


"There is Something Rotten i'm Denmark.
Our readers have no doubt been as much aston
ished as ourselves at the exhibition of such won
derful love for the inevitable niger, as IS mani
Tested nv the radicals in and out of Congress. One
would suppose from reading their speeches and
resolutions, that the negro was the dominant race
on this continent; that the government OF rght
belongs to him, and that he has been defrauded
of his birthright by white interlopers. They seem
to think that all the virtues, natural acquired,
that should dignity human nature, find their pro-
DER lodgment beneath the black skin of the Eth
opian; that high-to morality, chlvair1c honor'
and delicate refinement are only to he looked for
among those who can neither read nor write; VINO
have no regard for the sacred obligation OF the
marriage tie, or the solemnity of an oath, but
whose sole claim to notice is the color of their
skin We have been at loss to understand, and
unable to account for this marvellous infatuation
It cannot be that the whites at the North are real
" willing to admit the equality Of the races; that
they are really in earnest when they say that the
negro is as good as white man. Do they fully
comprehend the meaning of that expression, so
frequently and fippantly used, Gas good as white
man ?" In the name Of heaven, in what single
respect is there the faintest shadow of an
telligence of our readers by argument on
this point, but may be allowed to offer some
reflections upon what think would be the ma
tural results of such an equality. And first, the
right of suffrage Will any one pretend to say,
that the negro class is capable of approaching
that inestimable privilege of freemen? Is he NOR
ally fit to be trusted with it Do we not all know
that, as class, they are totally devoid of moral
IoH 1vvSh oa DO Of
the designing and the unprincipled? Perhaps it
is this very factthis peculiarly OF their organ
ization-which may account for the determined
effort of the radicals to give them the elective
franchise. They want their votes for their party,
and it may be their wish Intention to neutralze
portion of the foreign vote by theirs The Dutch
and Germans, in the Northern and Northwestern
States, generally vote the republican ticket,
under the lead of Carl Shulz but the Irish almost
invariably vote with the democrats. And they are
power which is generally felt in the election
To overcome this power, is doubtless the wish of
the dominant party, and the means by which they
expect to do it is as usual, the inevitable mig
ger" Hence their great desire to invest him with
the rights of a freeman, to make him a power in
the State. They argue that as the negro is in
debted to them for his freedom ordinary gratitude
would induce him to follow their instructions and
be gnided by their counsels. He probably might
be governed bythem, but not from any feelings of
gratitude for in our humble judgment people
that ever breathed, either before since the de-
luge, ever exhibited such a total want of the
above mentioned virtue, as this same negro race
They do not know the meaning of the words graf
itude and affection.
1t remains to be whether our ideas are cor
rect in regard to the motive which prompt the
action of the radicals, to universal suffrage
If correct, then, the milk in the cocoanut" is
readily accounted for, and it is not so much the
love for the negro the accomplishment of their
own party purposes, the maintenance of the re-
publican party in favor for all time to come. II
the right of suffrage is granted, it follows that the
right to testify in courts must also be allowed
and natural consequence, there must be no
social dstin ctions, for is it not the cardinal prin-
cple of the party in power that all men are equal
and that the negro is good white man. y
Having given this declaration to the world with
what shOwof consistency they close their doors
to any application for admittance by members of
that GO heroic race" as they delight to call them
Can any one conceive of greater degradation
than the enforced commingling of the two races
on terms of social equality =? and are there any
North OF the Potomac, who, in reality, desire OIL
would consent to such an amagamation? We can
not believe it, the bare idea is too abhorent and re
Voting to any civilized comm unity Every instinct
of our nature revolts from such obscene alliance
from the communicating contact with such q seeth
ing and fostering mass of moral putrefaction. We
will have none of it; better be
Where the eHtinguished sBgsrtans still are Free
In their proud charnel of Thermopyle,"
than consent to such hideous degradation In
our day and generation it can never be; and while
willing to coneede to them certain priv
leges, yet $50 far may they go, and no farther -
The hand of God has stamped the distinction be
tween the races, mentally, morally and physically
in language too plain to be misunderstood Ar
cannot improve nature" the leopard cannot
change his spots the Ethiopian his skim" or
negro become the equal of white man.
...-- MIR. Jones' Report.
In publishing the report of the joint select com
mittee on Banks and Banking, submitted few
days since by Mr. Jones of Columbus in the Sen.