Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-03
WASHINGTON, D. c., April %, 1866.
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Wilmington, ". e.:
DEAR SIR In the hope of receiving your remarks of
july 26th which fear have mscamied have delayed
reply to your favor of the 17th the receipt of which
when penninS your frank and thoroughly manly letter.
that you we're the most M R not
my recognized position yet no man can be more anxious
W6ics calculated to continue those sectional enmities
which plunged into and made that nefaby
sangunary You sadly msapprehend the of my type
and the people of the North generally when you think
they desire to humate the people of the South that
your equals socially and politically that desire
force pGFs eS a Then o we o
its effect in Indiana and advised the colored men
Court fail to approve the decision of our Common Pleas
that they have the right to ride street to raise
the question under that act Social equality my dear sir
the result of taste and ahntes and classes in social
life well defined in the two most (phosophically
anywhere in the south Nor does the possession Of
equal political rights ensure political eqaslity 1t does
power of combination the secrets of power. Nothing
IN history so forGlby illustrates the tact that compact
the South controlled the country from the close of the
I last with England to the firing on Sumter.
Could sit together for afternoon under the shade
of either of our rooftrees would gladly discuss these
Our positions differing widely, equally beset
with difficulties. Neither side free from prejudces.-
nanmity comes snare to war which devasta-
ted wide and fertile region-which cost many hun
of dollars ought not to terminate without the extnguish
men of its and adequate guarantee against its
repetition. This suggestion makes the animus of the
Southern people pregnant consideration to which al
Jude merely to disabuso your mind to the personal
character of inquiries upon that question Our late
clearly contest for ideas, than that
coded it, 1t was in truth, struggle between two orders
of civilization between which, existing under popular
government rs they did, there was, much dislike
the phrase, rrepressible conflict. Your system
the repression the intellect and aspirations of
laboring people, who always must be numerically the
of the people. 1t not consonant with of
other lands and enGendered modes of thought and pur-
closely supervised press that your booksellers
cautious to the publications they admitted to their
catalogues, and that strangers other than those who
cepted professod accept extreme opinions
were so unwelcome among you. On the other hand
stimulated by every meansree schools-free libraries
scientific institutions with lectures to apprentices, &C.,
&c. &c.the intellectual aspirations and enterprise OF the
loWIest among
In Difference your interests, it is true, ostered
prejudice which excluded those who not white But
this the longer for there large infusion
colored people seated msceaneousy in the two last
public assemblsges / attended in Philadelphia Unlike
you sought the largest interchange of thought with
trbution to literature SCIENCE art practical affairs
Cannot this difference be removed? Ought it not to be
removed? Would not all be blessed by it's removal? And
be done while ignore the manhood of the colOred
citizens of the country? Remember dear sir that they
than four seventies of the people of South Caro-
lima, and in the majority by than 100 900 in
ject. It hope that you will grapple with and solve
the great problem submitted to by the authors of the
The issue between was submitted to the arbtra
ment of arms. We successful and submit frankly
of adjusting the final terms of peace to prevent
recurrence of the from the same cause
have not answered your propositions Perhaps
countryman who was unjustly estranged You viii par
don the length of this when tell you that the constant
pressure Of affairs viii probably forever prevent ito repe.