The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-08
Radical Journalism.

The radical press continue to howl over the
dreadful riots" in New Orleans, and the
"dread" which they suggest for the future.
They feign to attribute to "those scenes of
blood and DEATH" "more terrible sgnif-
canoe" The Tribune asserts that they "too
faithfully express the spirit of strong class
at the South, and its Northern friends. and
that they arc the result of national policy"
That agitator says that "Nsw Orleans mean,
the whole South, as Presidentially recon-
structsd, and we shudder to think of the flu
ture." This is call bosh." A more desirable
occurrence than that which has unfortunate
ly occurred at New Orleans could not have
happened for the Radical party. It is the
very pabulum which it Graves. because thew
know that of such stuff will their capital be
made up when they go before the people in
the fall elections. 1t is part and parcel of
their policy to magnify and distort all pepu-
lar outbreaks at the South, no matter how
large or small, Or what may have been their
origin. They will be dwslt upon in their
popular harangues, intensified in enormity. and
made to exhibit the "rebellious and disloyal"
spirit which still peryades the South, and to
show "the bitter and deep rooted hostility
which is entertained in the South towards the
poor black man. The Presidential recon-
struction will be shown up to be a second
League with he'll, - which ought to cause
shoulder to think of the future" alliance be-
tween the President and Southern rebels"
The key note of negro suffrage will become
monotonous, SO universal will be its use by
the truculent radicals. The radical negro
worshipers will laud Cuffee to the skies for
having been the deliverers of the country
from the attempts Of Southern fre-eaters to
dlsmember it, and the disunionists of "Var-
mount and the surrounding country, includ-
ing those in the famous club of the TTni-
verse" will DO appealed to in fiery and say
age utterances to unite in putting down AN
DREW JOHNSON and his Southern allies and
rescuing the ship of State from the breakers
which threaten its destruction.
The more riots in the South, the better for
those cestermongers and mountebanks. The
more peaceable citizens at the South who can
be arrested for violations of order No. "A and
sent to military headquarters, as was citizen
WILKINS, from this city by the represents
tive OF tina military force hero, the moro will
be their chances increased of stimulating and
exciting the Southern people to some out
break out of which they may make capital
pandsr to the "ruls or ruin" spirit, and fur
nish proof to the Radical fanatics that peace
does not "reign in Warsaw" that the South
is not yet subdued; that she is still rebellieus,
and needs, for prolonged period, a set of
military satraps and soldiers to awe and keep
her in subsection.
Such is, and such will be the Radical pro-
gramms in the fall elections.
But, it is a reflection which the sober mind
cd people of the country may indulge with
satisfaction, that the Radicals do not compose
the entirety of the Northern people; but that
there exists in that powerful section of the
land an element of conservatism, which is
sick OF agitation, sick of the ntemperance of
RadicaliSm, sick of its Congressional corrup-
ton, its recklessness and disregard of all Con-
stitutional provisions and guarantees, and
heartily desires real and lasting peace. Upon
this Conservative element the South now re-
lies for justice--it is the only reliance now
left her, and she has cause to believe that the
grand movement which will be inaueurated
by the Philadelphia Convention, will result
in the rescue of the country from a band of
dsmagogues and ultraists, bent upon "rule or
ruin"