Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-06-28

the required majority of twenty-seven States. and
it is not DONE still those refusing to ratify
cluded from representationin Congress.
Should the people. then, at the Fall elections
throughout the Northern Safes, sustain the Radi-
Gals and endorse their plan of reconstruction by
returning majority of members opposed to the
P esident, we see no settlement of our national
difficulties short of the Presidential election in
November 1868, if indeed at that time. Should
the party at present in power still control Con-
gress, that body certainly will not admit the right
of any State, not represented in Congress and
therefore not regarded as in the Union, to take
part in that election. The Southern vote, if al
lowed might and probably will control the cleo
ton adversely to the Radicals, but should it be
cast, it will be thrown out by the President OF the
Senate in counting the vote
We have already seen to what lengths the Radl-
Gals will go, and the means they expect to employ
to secure a majority in the next House, and to
make certain their success at the next Presidential
election. If they accomplish this, their object to
force the negro question upon us in its most re-
voting form, is now no secret. We understand
that the leaders of the Radicals openly declare,
in the event of their getting control of the Execu-
tive Department, that they will force negro sui
frage and negro equality upon all the States, at
the point of the bayonet. This would be resorted
to now, but apprehensons felt that the people
of the North themselves arc not yet prepared for
such extreme measures, which might prove disas-
trous to them in the ensuing State and National
elections
Many prudent and conservative men regard the
danger to the Government most imminent and
will eliminate at the Presidential election, when
the strength of our Republican institutions will
have to stand their severest test It is extremely
doubtful, we think, if the Conservatives of the
North will allow Radical President to be inau-
gurated should he not received majority of the
whole electoral college, and quietly permit the
control of the Government to pass into the hands
of their political foes when the majority Of the
people of the United States have declared in their
favor and given their votes to their candidate.-
Indeed it has already been suggested by Wash
ington letter-writers THAI the continued exclusion
of Southern members from Congress will probably
cause the springing up OF two Congresses the
North being represented in part in both and while
both will claim to be the true Constitutional Con-
gress the President can recognize but one. -
These are some of the foreshadowings Of
our political disturbances, but what will be the
end of these national troubles, no can forsee.
The people ut the North have it in their power to
give a,happy solution of them by condemning the
conduct of men who are ieopardizing the prosper
ity and peace of the country for the selfish pur
pose of controlling the Government, by harsh and
just means.
We have confined ourselves to political matters,
but our national troubles, ii not quoted, must cul
inmate in ruin to finances, that are already
perplexed by many difficulties. Government Sc
curities even now arc shutle-cOcks, that rise
and fall at the bidding OF London and New York
brokers' and will most surely fall with waning
confidence i'll the early settlement of political
disturbances, with the prospect of still greater
complications.