Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-08

parties When it springs mainly from sord1C
love of gain, it is most despicable. When power
is coveted a means of charity and philanthropy
the desire may be pardoned: it is the folble, II
foible at ALL of the noble and great. When court
ed or seized merely for its sake, the vice OF the
act may, in many respects, be redeemed by the
absence of mean cupidity, vile appetite, low de-
sire, grasping avarice, or petty vanity, and has
been the sin and error of many of the foremost
among men.
Power attained by INSCRIPTIONS means or accl-
dent and welded with no higher motive than to
ill tie pocket, is means of good converted into an
instrument of evil. Such is the power now grasp
ed by the Black Republican majority in Congress.
The unforeseen events of the late civil war eleva-
ted to position those whom the people would have
rejected in peace,-the people who have so re-
peatedly doubted their integrity, and condemned
their political principles In the storm OF war it
is easy for the loud the vicious and the audacous
to appropriate riches and place To New England
we attribute the late lamentable struggle; and the
spirit that continues the contest in different
form and animates and infiames the partisans OF
Sumner and Stevens, is of New England. With a
soul never elevated above that of the tradesman
New England was for many lustres excluded from
power by the combined strength of northern and
southern Democrats and thus was Unsuitable av-
arice baffied and disappointed. The war withdrew
the south from the political field of the Union;
that south whose citizens were nearly q unit in
support of the principles and policy of Jefferson
and Madison, and Jackson. This was New Eng
lands opportunity and eagerly embraced. We
identify New England with the so-called Repubi-
can party: we use them as convertible terms, for,
no SIo4o nu1
of New England inhabits, directs and pollutes its
body
Now that war hath smoothed its wrinkled
'front.'" now that peace allows the people to exer-
else memory, reflection and judgment calmly and
soberly, the voice of the people will be heard
in rebuke, and its hand seen upifted in the ex-
pulsion of the uncean from the temple of liberty.
The writing upon the wall is very visible, and
the Republicans tremble As the peril becomes
more and more imminent, they are excited almost
to madness and rave against the President and his
supporters with unparalleled maignity and Zero
city.
''The Union has never ceased to exist: it still
exists; says the PRESIDENT but factious Stevens
and his colleagues practically declare the contrary
false to professions, false to official oaths. They
declare it exists in an inchoate and imperfect FORM
if at ALL and shall so continue until the permanent
cy of their party be secured. Reckless, the fear
of loss of power drives, and will drive them to
wild experiments and perilous Devices if not to
treason. The 'quondam slave must be voter
the creature of our party he must ever be subject
TO authority. BY the 'Freedmen's Bureau ;
by its vgiIant and its bounties will secure
him forever, while the agents of this institution
will supply formidable body of political propa-
gandists in the enemys territory. If the Presi-
dent resist and if lover of the rights of human
ity-'l liberty, equality and fraternity anticipate
action by assassination, will impeach him. "
Such is their programme and so they reason.
In the name IF the democracy of the Union we
say tlissez ,tHer: The Republicans will soon come
to grief: what they regard a sure support, will
prove as the straw in the clutch of the drowning
man.
The negro owes them nothing, so far: he is just
about square with them. They have liberated
him. it is true but then, of americans it was they
who tore him from Africa and sold him into bond
age here. They must do something more fo1
him.
The exclusive, the devoted friend must neglect
and sacrifice the white man for the black: he must
feed and clothe the negro, too lazy to work; pro-
vide asyums for the SICK disabled, and aged; and
teach the young. In all cases where the negro is
concerned the trial by jury must be denied; and 8
white man must be ARA gned before a military
court. They must confer upon the negro social
and political equality; concede him seat at THEN
tables,-denied to their poor white brother-and
give him their daughters in marriage. They must
overlook suffering and Indulgence, and Ignorance
at home, if the victims be white, that they may the
better serve the black. If all this does not salts
fy, they must change his skin.
The people are intelligent and practical: they
will detect and expose shams: they will strip
the spurious mantle of philanthropy from the
shoulders of hypocrisy; and uniting under the
banner of Democracy, restore the Union of ou1
fathers to its pristine condition The rural popu
lations of the south and west will act in concert
for self-protection, perceiving that their common
interest requires on their part antagonism to tn,
selfish policy of New England direct bounties OF
codfshing, indirect bounties on manufactures
&c, &C., upon the principle that charity begins a
home, and that mans first duties are to his owl
family and race, they will commit the destinies O
the Republic to aUhHe men, with achite instincts
arkite affections and aChie virtues. You and We
reader, and every true patriot, when the day ar
riyes will mark it with ''aclsite chalk"
A farmer of whom we wot not long ago aston
ished couple of ladies' after assisting them tt
alight from their buggy, by pointing to his house
and saying, NOW you two go in and strip" The
Republicans invite us into the Union, outside OF
which they insist We are in a somewhat different
manner: they propose that we shall strip before we
como in. To this demur. As we are already eff
fectually stripped, further stripping can scarce