Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-22
q do not like you, Doctor Peu,
The reason why, 1 cannot tell;
But this indeed, know FIJI well,
I do not like YOU, Doctor Pell."

support from the South III what was peculilrly
their quarrel-the revolutionary war though for
years they were enriched by their trade with the
South, exchanging Goldfish, cheese ice, onions,
and wooden for cotton, tobacco, rice and na-
val stores, articles in demand in every market in
the world though the South furnished genial
home for many of their surplus population, who
wear by year interpenetrated and became amalga-
mated with Southern society still they cherish Il
blind unreasoning hatred of the South No az
guments founded facts policy can reach
them, though they be conclusive Il demonstra-
ton in Euclid, for - there none SO blind as
they who will not see' Puritan obstinacy when
hate is its element, is incorngible. They have
BEEN for generations, educated in hatred of South
crn men, nor has their gallantry reyOlted at teach
ing hatred of Southern women. The school mas
ter and 'school-marm" have been abroad teach
ing the young idea how to shoot " Southern
men, while preachers, regular and irregular, now
from the stump, and now from the pulpit have
dealt ssapostolic blows and knocks at Southern
heads.
Is there to be no end to this warfare? Does
the prOstratiOn of the South, the wall from count
less stricken hcarths, excite compassion, awake
no generous sentiment? We fear not. They
gloat upon our ruin with savage triumph they
insist upon the Freedman's Bureau, because they
know it to be a thorn in flesh they send us
school teachers, and commend them to our good
offices by the declaratiOn-'' we do not send them
to instruct white children whom we have made or
phans, reduced to poverty, but to educate the
blacks to selfassertiOn and in conformity with the
New England views; they urge that the large mil
itary force encamped III our territory be retained
to keep us in salutary awe and they forbid the
voice of complaint to be heard, by the exclusion of
our members from Congress.
No sane man, no intelligent observer, believes
that there is in the South any disposition to excite
4 second revolt against the United States, much
less any secret organization, to cOntrive mischief
and plot destruction. Such idea only be-
in verify, the spectre of disordered imagination.
New England pre'ea6S there is such a secret organ
ization-it is part of their capital in trade as
politicians, and may we'll pass current in a region
noted for the success of gift enterprises ''bo-
gus banks, sham philanthropy, and patent medi-
CinCs If the fiction serve to defeat the noble
aspirations and patriotic purposes of the Prcsi-
dent, they content.
The rank and file of our late army had become
before the end of the war; weary and disguised with
service. The volunteer and conscrpt felt himself
degraded into ''t5e common SOldieJ''' by those
who bore commissions and even by city snobs
Officers began to regard themselves as constituting
Il distinct caste; and etiquette forbade all So
cial intercourse between the officer and ''enlisted
man." even though children Of the same parents
and though the latter was not on duty The sur
GeOn who sat by the bedside of the sick soldier
to soothe by his sympathy violated the preiudices
OF his class, and became fit subject for discipline
We once heard it objected to a gallant officer that
The kept company with privates. The soldier was
badly clad his rations scanty and inferior because
of the inability of the Confederacy to procure
supplies, and the roguery of its agents. quarter
masters, commissaricS, &C., while funds destined
fer his pay were often diverted to purposes of
illicit gain.
The soldier pinned for home and the embrace of
his neglected family. It is well known that in the
last year of the ceelD,S did not fight with the
. elan" of their earlier campaigns, and deserted
their standards in numbers. Many could not con-
ceive any slavery more intoerable than service-to
continue faithful to the cnd as thousands did, re-
quired virtue almost superhuman, and a patri-
otism which has never been excelled
Now these men, the rank and file constitute the
great bulk of our fighting men. They desire re-
pose and far from painting for new battle fields,
10 be contested with the soldiers of Uncle Sam,
we do not believe Il corporals guard could be mus
tered among them to resist his authority, or to
essay new revolution. There may be some fer
officers, to be regarded not as proceeding from the
people, nor Of the people but as '2ce,eho'eJ-S %
who lament the loss of rank because of its cmolu-
ment and consequence, and pomp and who would
gladly cast their lines again in troubled waters but
they are powerless.
We look confidently, hopefully to the future
1t would be indeed, sunny prospect were it not
for the cloud that lowers on the horizon. sir
charged with the wrath of New England and ath-
wart which flashes ever and anon the yet harmless
lightnings of Stevens and Sumner and Fred
Douglass We have faith in the sober second
thought of the people; and we believe the virtue
of q reunited and intelligent Democracy, the sun
Of our system, viii soon dissipate its vapors and
leave not crack behind" The cry of the sol
der in the hour of our final defeat, in his despair
and pride, may have been Tout est perdu saut
th0nnenr, but we have left more than honor; we
still possess Il region noted for fertility and
the industry and intelligence necessary to stimu-
late its production to the highest degree. Our
people in their adaptabiity to their changed con-
dition display pleasing versatility of talent and
fexibiity of character. Gentlemen dignity the
humblest employment by their signal integrity
and refined manners. Under the stimulus of ne
cessity, manufactures and products, varied and
aumberless, are poured into our markets