Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-22
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, N. c., MARCH %, 1866.
Radicals North and South.

whole country, has averted the late blow attempted
to be made against the south, and by his timely
veto has, for the time being, rendered impotenf
the rage and venom of the Congressional Jacobins,
and although it is demonstrated by the reliable
vote given in the Senate to sustain the veto, that
any law infringing on State jurisdiction will GER
tainly meet with like fate, the Radicals are pre-
pairing to change their plan of attack, and by this
means defeat the Presidents plan of restoration
and carry their point
At present they seemingly content themselves
by Temporarily excluding our representatives from
Congress- although their admission, even II the
entire southern delegation acted with the Conser-
natives would not destroy the Radical majority IN
Congress
Their only hope left is by excluding the pres
ent men elected to Congress on the ground that
they are unable to take the test OATH to force the
south into new election and limit their choice to
such as really can take the oath, for the sake OF
seeming preferment, are willing to perjure them
selves by doing So By this means they hope to
override the Presidents veto, and carry into exc
cution their nefarious designs against the south,
and the Whole country
In this end these Radicals are assisted by few
men and presses in the South, We sincerely trust
IN some instances, unintentionally But that
Summer d Co., have allies i'll North Carolina, is
beyond question. A State contemporary, in COM
menting upon the testimony of Gen. Thomas be-
fore the reconstruction committee (so-called) in
relation to the state of public opinion in Tennes
see in which he states as fact that secret organ
izations exist in all the ''rebel" States, whose
purpose is to obtain representation in Congress,
for the object of destroying the credit of the Ma
tional Government, involve the country in for
oign war and then avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity thus created to effect dissolution of the
Union and the establishment of a separate gov
ernment stateswith such shameless efrontery that
such secret organization exists in this State, and
demands that those who belong to it should be
ferreted out and punished, that city cotempor
ary is induced to give credit to the assertion.
That this libel upon the people of North Caro-
lima, people who have honestly and conscienti-
ously registered their solemn obligation before
God, of their loyalty to the General Government,
and whose history and character gives the lie to
such foul SANDER, should be assented to for q
moment by stranger, who neither knows our
people has the interest of the South at heart is
not to be surprised at but that it should eminate
from one who is a son of the State, can only be
accounted for upon the ground that the people
have more than one occasion refused to accept
his potyotc offer of services in exalted positions.
But however much we know these statements to
be false, they have baneful influence at the
North, and by strengthening the power of the
Radicals, are serving to undermine the President.
And yet these presses desire to be regarded as par
excellence the friends of Mr.. johnson.
We have Radicals at the South who are the
counterpaIts of those North, and whose wishes and
objects the same.
JOHN Van BUREN has left his own bailiwick and
gone into Connecticut. He is talking to the peo-
pie on national affairs and supporting the Presi-
dents policy. He styles the Frecdnen's Bu-
Bureau an eemosynary concern, for the benefit of
negroes-not embracing in its operations the Wild
and orphans of sailors and soldiers, who had
fallen in defence of the country.
Speaking of the Congress who passed the BILL
he said:
Now, it is flattery to call this Congress Rump
Congress. Laughter. 1t is q great deal more
like Parliament that succeeded and which was
known as the BarebOnes Parliament, in which there
members with all sorts of names, as described
by writer of that day, who says ('' Browns Ira
wells in England, page 279):
60 Cromwell, says Cleveland, hath beat up his
drums clean through the Old Testament You
may learn the genealogy of our Saviour bv the
names of his regiments The muster master has
other list than the first chapter of St. Matthew.
The brother of this Praise God Barebones had for
NAME g IfChrist had -not-died- for-you-you- ha d.
been-damned Barebones but the people, tired of
this long name, retained only the last word, and
commonly gave him the appellation of Damned
BarebOnes.
Now, one would have to 90 long through the
present Congress and the Reconstruction Commit
tee before finding gentleman who answers ex-
actly to the description of So Damned Barebones !"
daughter. But, as L say, they are the most ex-
traOrdlnary body that ever organized, and to call
them a RulIp Parliament-which was in fact, a
representation of England, however long it might
have continued It's sessions and it's power-is to
Halter them Why, just look at it Eleven States
are unrepresented IN that body, and about half of
the residue are utterly misrepresented by men
elected IN the time of excitement, when there was
fair opportunity for an expression of opinion
and under circumstances that have entirely chan
ged since their election. 4 = Under q
constitution which requires each House to Judge
OF the election and returns of its own members,
they pass Joint resolution by which they take
from themselves the power separately to Judge of
the returns of their members, and proclaim that
neither House shall admit any person from the
States formerly in rebellion till both Houses have
acted upon the subject by a Legislative act or 9th
erwise. What more Why, while in this disor.
gained state, mutilated and imperfect, man gets
up IN the Senate and charges the President with
white-washinS the south, and another man says
that the conversation of the President, I believe
with Mr.. Dixon of your own State, in which he
simply gave his views with regard to the duties OF
Congress, would have cost Charles l. his head in
the day IN which he lived" Such body as that
L say, Is illegal, unconstitutional assemblage-
1t is, in point of law, mob, and in nv Judgment
the Mayor of Washington neglects his duty every
day In not dispensing them such. Applause
and laughter.
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