The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-05-09
views of an :. Extreme Radical.,,

Views of an IS Extreme Radical.''
The following letter is from an extreme
radical" Hon. W. D. Kelly, of Philadelphia,
to Alfred M. Waddell, Esq, of Wilmington,
who had addressed him OH the state of the
country. Those of our readers who are
afraid of .'the radicals, will observe from
this letter that Mr.. Kelly is human being,
and not one of those Molochs whom we are
told by some would have us pass through all
kinds of horrors on our way back to the
cold homestead" Certain people told us in
1860 that if we did not secede and get away
from "thc radicals" they would ruin us
world without end; and now these same
people tell us that if we 60 back to "the
radicals we shall be degraded and destroy
ed and annihilated for ever and ever, and
everlastingly, amen! In 1860 We were told
that if we were not for the negro we were
traitors and abolitionists; and now we are
told that if we are not against the negro we
are radicals - enemies to the "sunny
South" and a great many terrible things
What shall we do2 Must we be led any
longer by those who have so frequently de-
ceived us, and who are the real authors of
all our woes We trust not =
WASHINGTON, D. c., April %, 1866.
ALFRED NJ WADDELI. ESQ.,,
Wilmington, N. c.:
DEAR SIR:-In the hope of receiving your
remarks of July Goth, which fear have mis-
carried, have delayed my reply to your IA
vor of the nth, the receipt OF which gave
me much pleasure. You were not probably
aware, when penning your frank and
thoroughly manly letter, that you were adj
dressing the most outspoken, if not absolutely
the most extreme Radical of the House.
Such is my recognized position; yet no man
can be more anxious than l to forget every
fact of the past, the recollection of which is
calculated to continue those sectional en-
mites which plunged us into war and
made that war SO ineffably sanguinary. You
sadly misapprehend the men of my type and
the people of the North generally, when you
think they desire to humiliate the people of
the South that we wish to force you to al
low that the slaves you have held are your
equals, socially and politically, or that we
desire to force perfect negro equality upon
You when we do not recognize it at home
The Civil Rights Bill is of universal applica-
ton. Twill enclose you paragraph show
ing its effect in Indiana, and have advised
the colored men of my native city-Phila-
delphia, should our Supreme Court fail to
approve the decision of our Common Pleas
that they have the right to ride in our street
cars, to raise the question under that act
Social equality. nv dear sir, is the result of
taste and affinities and classes in social life
are as well defined in the two most (philoso-
phically) democratic States, Vermont and
Massachusetts,. as thew are anywhere in the
South. Nor does the possession of equal
political rights ensure political equality. 1t
does but render it possible. Will. energy,
intellect and the mower of combinatinn are
the secrets of mower. Nothing in history so
forcibly illustrates the fact that compact
minority NAV rule free republic as that the
country from the close of the last war with
England to the firing on Sumter
Cou,d we s;t tooetber for an afternoon nm.
der the shade If Either of onr roof.trees T
would oladlv discuss these questions with
Won hut on paner we cannot do it.
Our noo;t;ons d;ffsr;no CO widelv ara
equally heset with dificulties Neither side
l. FREQ from, nra;ud;ces Roth have intense
nonr;ot;aos pr;da heso+. Won ond mac.
non;n,;tv c,n,es 90 Snaro IN no war
which Gevastated on w;Js and fertile a re.
&c., ,uh;ch cost 90 nan, hrndrnd thou
sands Of ,;yes and co manv thonsand mil
lions Of dollars onobt mot to terminate with.
ont the ext;nan;sbment of it's canse and an
adeouate ayantee AGAINST ito renetit;on =
Tb;s suggest;on makes the g an;m,,s of The
sontbern neonle . nreonant consideration To
which alIude merely to disabnse your mind
as 70 the personal character of INQUIRIES M
On that anestinn Our late war was more
clearly . contest for ideas than anv that nre-
ceJed + T. wac in trntl, a struoole he.
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