Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-11-08
people to bide.from their capitalists and emf.

people to hide from their capitalists and emf
grants the great inducements held out in the
| South exist, but it was necessary for political
purposes to misrepresent the Southern peo
pie. To create prejudice to us at the cost
of truth and national Advancement and pros
perity, would be to gain votes for the domi.
nant party and insure their success. II
riots could be created and these misrepre-
scented and exaggerated, States could be saved
to them and political power retained. Con
|sequently to do this, the Radicals have
sparedneither expense norlabor. Their most
eloquent orators and ab!est papers have de-
voted their time and energies to this pur-
pose.
We have frequently said that what fin
South needs more than representation in
Congress and any political rights which
are now wrongfully denied her, is capital
and industrious population. We want men
to come among us with their capital, and
by investments to become interested in our
welfare-to make our section their own.
We do not want, nor will we welcome
among us that class of political adventures
and mendicants, who have, since the ter
mination Of the war, hocked to the South
in gre"t numbers, to consume a large por-
ton of the small pittance left us, and lead
the freedman into hostility to those among
whom they have been reared and with
whom their future destiny is cast. We
want men to aid It's to create wealth and
try, and not consumers. who come as poll
teal missionaries to SOW the seeds of dis
cord and discomfort. Southern men would
not be welcomed, nor, possibly, tolerated
at the North, who went there in
order to convince them that they
erred i'll the late contest. and that
their favorite Generals were thieves
and plunderers So we do cot welcome thcse
who come for no better purpose than ~hlle
enrichng themselves BIZ successful barter
or religious hypocrisy among the freedmen,
preach a crusade against our lost cause, de-
nounce our leaders and rejoice over the
cruel and illegal incarceration 81 our be-
oved ex.President.
No, we reassert, what has frequently been
said by every respectable paper in the
south, that any Northern man coming
among us for the purpose of legitimate bust
ness, and not with the deliberate intention
Of making himself hateful and dangerous
TO our people, will find welcome and encour-
agement here, and with as many advantage
Gus fields for the successful employment
of capital and labor as viii be found in the
world. And we are satisfied that if it had
not been to the advantage of the politicians
Of the North TO have baseIy slandered our
section, the tide of emigration which is
choking the channels of travel at the West,
would have turned Southwark, and many,
very many Of their own teeming population
would have found coutented homes with US.
So long as it serves the purposes Of their
political demands, the South will continue
to be slandered, and for the present must
depend upon herself for recuperation and
advancement. BY honest industry. faithful
observance Of the laws, and Jealous and I'M
firing efforts, we must work out our own
salvation. Our progress, though slow, will
be more certain, and its accomplishment
will be more honorable and lasting