Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-02-22
From the National Intelligencer.l
why support President Johnson-Pro-sIavery

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In respect to the following views, so we'll and
conscientiously expressed, We may say that senti
ments of like character are sinking deep into the
hearts of thoughtful people, and the day is not
now distant when earnest thoughts will have their
appropriate act IN spontaneous movement of the
people in support of the president his policy, his
administration, singly and alone considered, with
out respect to past traditions, Platforms
A Johnson party may be formed that will make the
issue direct before the people, whether radical des
tructiveness is to prevail or the reign of Union,
now and forever, one and inseparable."
| From the Cincinnati Times (Republican.)
| We support him because he is from the people
is most essentially of the people in sympathy
and philosophy while the radicals are above the
people, and look exclusively to the interest of
spectators and monopolists.
We support him because for twenty years he has
been the champion of the laboring classes and can
be relied upon IN respect to the many great ques-
tions in which they are now deeply concerned
while the radicals are his antipodes on this sub
ject, except in respect to the negroes.
We support him because lie 10 opposed to the
concentration of power in the iedsl government
while the radicals are aiming to allow up the
constitutional rights the States, Eth by amend
ments to the constitution and by usnxpation-a
policy that will prove more dangerous to the re-
public than slavery itself.
We sustain him because he believes the world is
governed too much-especially too much in the
and that the sole function of free government is
to protect the people in the enjoyment of their
natural rights, i'll making honest living, and
pursuing their happiness; while the radicals hold
that government may sweap over the whole realm
of human relations, and in every conceivable way
in which the influential shall suggest may restrict
the privileges and hamper the industry of the mas
ses by special privileges to the few, and by such
complicated system of indirection that the COM
mon people may not perceive how they are plum
dered.
We sustain him because he is opposed to draw
ing the interest on, and the principal of, the war
debt out of the soldier class, but is in favor of
levying it upon the surplus income and surplus
wealth of the country while the radicals seem de-
termined to SO adjust our revenue system, and keep
it adjusted that the soldier class shall pay fully
seventenths of both the interest and the principal
as we'll as the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment.
We support him because he is not disposed to
leap high and dry the public sentiment of
the loyal people of the north in respect to unimi-
ted suffrage to those who were yesterday slaves
and are to-day only the wards of the government,
and thus endanger more fatal and bloody civil
strife than that through which we have just pas
sed; while the radicals are not satisfied with suf-
rage to this class far they can read and write
or have served in the army, but must bring them
all at once notwithstanding they outnumber the
whites in two, and probably three states and in
spite of the fact that it will require all army of
three hundred thousand men, and perpetual des-
potism, to preserve the peace through seven hun
dred and twenty-five thousand square miles of ter
ritory!
We sustain him because there is no doubt that
he will take the peoples part in the currency ques
ton, and the payment of the public debt within
ten years, while the radicals are opposed to the
best currency in favor of speedy contraction and,
in short, of system of expansion and collapse,
under which the few grasp SO much of the peoples
wealth and keep the laboring classes poor indeed.