The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-11
The PestiferOus Radicals In North
Carolina,


They have in North Carolina the same
class of men which, to limited extent, may
be found elsewhere South. They are what
We have termed so-called Union men, who
refuse support to the restoration policy of
President JOHNSON, or in more sullen and
negative manner withhold their assent to that
policy, and favor the congressional radical
policy. The party in power at Washington
will always have support from certain class
of men who are swayed by present prospects
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and lock not to the
future nor regard present abuse of power
They claim, par excellence, to be Union
men, and regard all who differ with them and
sustain the policy of the President as disloyal,
and unworthy Of the confidence of the Gov
ernment-by the Government, meaning the
radical party in Congress In North Caro-
lima this so-oalled Union party are charging
their sympathy with their own people and
section during the late effort for Southern in
dependence, but who since the settlement OF
the controversy by physical force, and the
termination of the war, have manifested every
disposition to conduct themselves as peaceable
citizens, and are anxious for a restoration OF
the State to its former relations to the Gener-
al Government The chief sin of these men,
composing nearly the whole population, with
the exception Of what may be regarded as a
faction of malcontents, consists in yielding a
cordial support to the restoration policy OF
the President, and expressing their unfeiy ned
detestation and opposition to radicaiism.
This party Of malcontents and recraants to
the true interests of the State have gone
farther than the utterance of ISLANDERS against
their brethren, as entertaining iaimcal or So
called disloyal sentiments. They have pro
cesded to malign the Judiciary OF their State,
as composed Of men who are wanting in
fidelity; and documents in the form of petit
tions are gotten up to be forwarded to Wash
ington, setting forth that the petitioners are
prosecuted by the courts and .'disunionists,
secessionists and disloyal men, on account
of their Union sentiments. They desire to
prolong the anomalous condition of affairs, by
which the element Of military rule may be
longer kept up. They thus play into the
hands of the Radical leaders, and seek to af-
ford a ssmblanee OF Justification Tor their
harsh and unconstitutional measures and
distrust of the South. ~
These men are enemies to the peace of so
cisty for which all right-minded men are
now so desrsus, and are a pest to the State
Of which they claim to be the only "loyar'
citizens To this portion of malcontents the
Standard is said to be lending its influence
The charges uttered against the really true
and substantial men Of the State, of the same
character with the vast body Of her brave
MEN who SO nobly Tell in battle in defense
Of their conscientious sentiments, are Of a
nature that, in the absence of specifications, it
is almost impossible to meet with the evil
dence which would consign them, and the
factionists who prefer them, to the Just repro
baton of the vast body of the good and true
men of the Old North State. Agitation, mis-
rule, and the hope Of spoils seem tn be the
aninating principles of their action. e. ss