Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1866-09-13
WINSTON NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER .1s

" lNOION,} NO1SIH~ H~CAKCLlNA, u
aLpoI am aware that good men are with,
Lhelds from advocating the prompt and. sue
4 eessiye admission of the exiled, States by
1.-THE fear, chiefly, OF it's effect npon parties,
and upon the freedmen. III s43ra4,n41 u
Igo It is said, that IL admitted to- Congress,
the Southern senators, and representatives
will coalesce. with = Northern Democrats,
and rule. the country. Is this nation
then, to remain ,dismembered to serve the
ends of parties Have we learned nc
wisdom by the history OF the last ten
years, in WHICH inst this course OF sacrl-
ticing the nation to. the ex'gencles OF
parties plunged rs into rebellion and
war! 80 - -. -
| Even admitthat the powers. would pass
into the hands OF a party made up OF
Southern men, and Hitherto Gish honored
| and mised Democracy Of the North, that
power could not be used jnst as they
pleased The war has changed, not alone
| institutions, bnt ideas The whole coun-
try has advanced. - Public sentiment is
exalted far beyond what it has been at
any former period. =, A new party would,
like a river, be Obliged Ito slseek Quilts
channels, in the already existing slopes
and forms ct tle~centinent. p
We have entered a new era Of liberty.
The style OF thought is freer and more mo-
ble ~ TIC young mon OF our times are re-,
geiie..t Cd: Tie great army has been a
school, and hundreds Of thousands OF fnen
are gone home to- pieacliaa trner and nos
blersviesv of human rights All the ina
Gnstrial interests of society are moving
with increasing Pwiseloilrs toward inteli-s
gence and liberty. Every where, in church,
es, aaliterat,ire,s III natural asciellces, III,
physical industries, in Social questions as
well lis in politics, the nation feels that the
winter is over, aud a new spring hangs in
the l,orlzon,' and works athroughaall the
elements, IN this happily changed. and
advanced condition of thiEgs,, no party
ot the retrogade Fa9can' maintain ITSELF
marches and parties must
niafsch.aT3fsUs nH Il 0IH s39f:'nF "a ouinH stst
-; I hear with wonder and shame and
scrrr, the fear Of a few, that the South,
once more in Adjustment with the FEEDER
al government, will rule this nation !! The
n orth is rich, never SO rich j;.sthe South is
poor never before So poor The. upopula~
lion Of the North is nearly double that off
the 3Soitil5 {Tlie* industry ofithea n ofth, III
diversity. in forwardness and productive
ness, in all Ethe machinery and education
reanited for1manuiactnring, is halt a cen
tury in. ADVANCE nflthe South. Churches
in the n orth crown every hill, and sch ools
swarm in every elahborhoods r; while the
South has but scattered Fights, at long dis,
tances, like lighthouses twinkfng along
the edgedf a Continent Of darkness. a1ll
the presence OF 'sttchd;s contrast lIow ne:s,'
and craven is the fear that othes South will
rule the policy 4't tire land ! T. That i will
have al, ,influence, thai, it will contribute,
in time, most Important ortt Il lnfipences or res
traints, we,are. glad to believe Bntsif it
rises at once to the control Of the gs,Yern
meat, h twill be because the Nortby de-
,nosalized by prosperity, and besetted by.|
groveling INTERESTS, refuses to- discharged
its si,afe'cf political datysia In such a case,
the South mot only viii contr0l&tha' gov
ernme1t, but It ongff to do it f''ss3 - sl2"i1
-. It is feared, With more reason, that|
The restoration of the SonfA!fo fer fiilf in- /
dependence ce-wiA. detrimental to tlieI
freedmen. The sooner .sxe dismiss from |
our minds the, e,deasthasahe fseealnen acan |
be- classified and sepafated fresns the white
and nursed and defended yhy |
rhefnselv ves,a the bettera it I'm be fcrsfffen
and u.s. haTheP negr6 u part ana pafccf aofI
Southern society He Cannot be PROSPER
GUS While II is hrprospe fets, 1se Its evils Will
ebopn upon p5lisss And Al I re;
inyiporatiorl cannOt BE Kent from i,is nair