The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-09-04
Radical ISLANDERS.

! Oeen TWO ii not three conSlQeraOle lnlgfatlonS
from North Carolina Oh this ground"
This is known at the South to be without
the slightest foundation. 1t discloses, however.
the weakness of 4 cause which can utter such
reckless assertions. Law and order prevail
throughout the South, and the rights of all
are protected by the civil authority. If any
lawlessness exhibits itself, it is an exception
to the general condition of things, and only
proves the prevalence of the rule.
Incidental manifestations of disregard for
the powers that be have occurred at times,
even in the most peaceful periods of all socie-
ties, whether North or South; but it is mani
testify absurd to regard them as the evidence
Of the general and prevalent temper and dis
position of the popular mind, when they are
but temporary outbreaks and exceptions to
the prevalent peaceful condition OF the tone
and temper of the community. This condi-
ton, as at present existing "all over the
South, is as President JOHNSON in his recent
speeches to the Northern people, has stated
it to be. 1t is one of peace. 1t is pervaded
by a recognition of the obligations to respect
the laws, 1t is opposed to all unlawful man
ifestations known as mobocracy, to which the
South has always been opposed. 1t is con-
dition of the Southern temper and disposition
which frowns upon all evidences which favor
disregard for individual rights, no matter
how humble in the social scale the individual
may be who is in possession of them. This
is the popular sentiment which now prevails
call over the South, and, to assert the exis
tence of contrary tone of feeling is to
SANDER her people. 1t is an attempt of radi-
calism to keep up the bitterness which it en-
gendered years ago by corrupt alliance,
whose legitimate fruits were all the evils
which have cursed the coantry.
1t stimulates the spirit of sectionalism,
waged against the Constitution, which was
characterized as a league with death and
covenant with hell and finally succeeded in
forcing the weaker section to a resort to the
last reason, in order to free itself from what it
regarded denial of its equal rights under a
Constitution which had been framed for equal
protection. 1t is this unholy war which the
same radical party desire to carry on; and
the ISLANDERS which are now perpetrated
against the South by the radical press such
as we have cited at the head of this paper,
are but part and parcel of ther system Of
sentation, and designed to begni!e delude, and
deceive. There never was baser calumny
uttered for the purpose of bolstering up a
base and reckless faction than that which
Unionists are being driven into exile, because
of their steadfast loyalty" or, than that other
vile and unfounded statement that, "there
have been two, if not three, considerable mi
grations from North Carolina, on this ground"
They brace of lies which established
as such by the fact of the undisturbed APP
pointn,ent of delegates from Virginia and
North Carolina to the Radical Convention in
Philadelphia, where they are ambitious to sit
in council with negroes and who are undls-
turbed citizens of these States, and not
"driven into exile because of their steadfast
loyalty"
Though prominent ''white Unionsts, and
therefore, most obnoxious it is reasonable to
presume and most likely to be "afiVen into
av;la t,s,-zzs--, nevertheless, suffered to re-
main untllsturbed, and act with party whose
aVowed object is to crush the South and de-
prive her of the representation to which she
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This is the evidence of liberation of opin-
on adverse to her interests, which the South
is now exhibiting, and which is proof of the
unfounded ISLANDERS which the radical press is
engaged in circulating. 1t is absolutely false,
therefore, to assert that "all over the South it
is perilous to be known as a steadfast Union
list, and we fearlessy brand it as such; for
there is batch of such "steadfast Unionists"
in these two cities, who are living in peace
and undisturbed, They are known as such
and not only do not live i'll peril of life or
property, but they boldly proclaim their SEN
timents-and are neither molested nor
"driven into exile"
We have denounced these attempts of the
Tribune to create false impressions, in very
strong terms. The entire justice of these de-
nunciations is made fully app rent when we
state that the removal of the Guilford
Quakers has been fully explained to Mr..
Greeley by the leading men of this sect, and
these denials of the statement, made up by
Mendenhall and others, have been printed in
the columns of the Tribune.
Population and Water.
1t seems almo;t incredible to us to read
| that on the Emneror's fete day the 5th ri,,o