Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-06-21

OF censure as stood prison and before that Internal
instrument OF tyranny court martial And stand in
pr1nclpe so will stand in practice whenever occasion
When indicate that there has been no change in my
principles this and this country possiby-for the
riety-may infer what my position now is am an old
line Democrat and believe in the doctrine of secession
a IN r e
that abuses and usurpations had been practced and
partners in this compact that the Southern
States were justified in going out and sir further be-
eve by their ordinance of that they did go out
and thereby became to this Union foreign States These
be removed; will most assuredly proclaim them and
stand by them long single citizen of the Confeder
them There is no political or personal Consideration
which would prompt me to such desertion As the right
charge of treason my voice shall accord with my
convictions and join in that verdict against them
if dd %Rs bseve f them gR
that would have joined them if the sovereign State Of Ma
ryand had said to desert them their utmost
need, when legitimatey give them such protection
as Is df na honesty s tS This House will
readily infer that adverse the policy
been in adopting his mode of reconstruction consistent
with the views of the late President with those of the
claraon the time that he abandoned the Democratic
party and joined the Republicans These facts do not
he issue with of the people who raised him
to his present station In my view the Southern sece
in the Senate and by vote have heretofore nvaria
any person claiming such right and sir, only do
believe that they have no right their present position
think that they have the right to furnish with Pres
dent Vice President. Being citizen of seeded and
unreconstructed Tennessee, Andrew Johnson is in my
opinion only President de tcO forced upon the country
by then votes attended by that very eeetiye imPe
every else acquesce in de fHco governments and de
that cast vote at the next Presidential election
for Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for that high office
them at least, the status of Tennessee herself must be
completely changed.
MI Harris proceeded to define his views in regard
nsct and be nbect to the old Constitution of the United
States 1t was not Constitution they fell out WITH
but the perversion of it by their Northern associates and
their persistent designs to violate and destroy important
rights which secured by that instrument. Those
have been destroyed and can never be of
abolished and the seeded States have acquisesced
the negro placed the position which desired
him to have when provoked the war You know your
proposed amendment Of the Constitution cannot be adop
ted if the Southern States shall vote against it. and
think you must believe that it will receive their
You sya oa hqR Rev f s Te It they
They will reject with the terms of your proposed
amnesty and will await awhile the calm and consderate
honoraby becoming members of this Union What is to
gained under the by keeping those out
ling to come in? You will certainly not try to humbug
your constituents by pretending to fear OF the physi
der its control single musket, single round
You are bent on schemes which seem to contain nothing
but the elements of mischief and revenge leading to
ned and % par OF the Gn4n ana o aim
T6s last you viii not say in the of the Amer
lean people, you shall not accomplish
But there something in the spirit of the Southern
people which will thwar your designs If they have low
lowered the standard of their pridea becoming pride in
the estimation of honorable The southerner
has all around him. without speaking of the merits of the
contest tokens of the endurance and PROV
ess Of his people Sad spectacle though it be- it will not
the graves Of nearly three hundred thousand of his
ageous enemies, and
| sstandmg the Yankee grave
He will not deem himself slave.'
Mr. Speaker all the efforts made here or elsewhere to
elevate the to an EQUALITY with the white man in the
perfectly idle The negro kept subordination
to white man. matter how eloquenty deck
the G IF Wr the t
actual hosties suspended and the negro is under
par lie to keep the peace but when and where they ap
proxmate to anything like equality IN numbers the sword
of power must be held over them There are too many
race involved relax that power for single day The
it. say this with the kindest feelings and sympathy for
the negro Full equality of rights will never exist
between dssnilar that cannot socially amalga
mate especially when they live in large numbers
When aaganation takes place. when marriages can be
consummated between them, when the white woman shall
bring forth negro offspring without blush and the white
grandsire shall his naPpyheaded grand
You may then with safety grant equal rights OF al kinds
snq pes sneR dbsao to
But these are not all difficulties nterposed;
6st the sonh is too unciTized to be
ed with any share in this Republican Government Nor
extensively spread them before their admss to
representation will to be dangerous The honora
BILE member from Minnesota Mr. DonneIy takes the lead
in that position. In speech delivered some time since
he declared 1.-THE great bulk of the people of the South
are rude iterate semcivlized Their onition in this
respect would be shameful to any semciviized people,
and such render Republican Government, rest
ing the intelligent Judgment of the people, mpossi
bty But let us criticse further this Phari-
seeisn claimed and boosted superiority of the North
over the South in enlightenment and Christianity Ed
ucaton is certainly widely dtused the North. Her
peope greatly enl htened but they set great many
nineteenth century, and within the age Of the great
former from Minnesota think the enlghtened ana
IChristian North is entitled to credit for them aMormon
ISM Milersm, Spirtuasm, Freelovelsm, anu WUrs o. e.
If it should spread beyond Massachuses) Strong mind
led wOnans have all sprung and spread that high
" civilized and Christian region The poor Ignorant
educated South incapable OF producing such evden-
ces of advancement and progress. But let continue
the contrast little further.
Booth, the assassin, not caught, but OrdCe snot
bv company of soldiers. He brought to this city
dead order that the reward for his arrest might be
cured by proving his identity After that his entalls
were and thrown to the hogs his head adorns
some chronological his heart is preserved In
spirits his spinal column be seen which will display
~ thn learned how much he must have suffered by the
near approach of the bullet to the spinal marrow the
balance of his remains deposited, God and North
were not handed his poor heart broken mother
so that might exclam his grave in burst OF
onv Would God had died for thee Oh, Absaom, my
son, my son." ,
Mary Surrat was convicted, of She tried
bv court martial. Her immediate execution was order
ed She enreated for four days to enable her to over
her God Not hour, Numbered forth the voice from
the War Department; with the gaows, the coffin ano
this repenant Agents of mercy sought the ear
higher authority, and probably mercful heart bu
Preston King anitOr that day and they were eXcud
She was thus executed speedily; and Notwithstanding
d plcaon had been made in behalf OF her heartbrokeI
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