Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-31

Southern Politics and the Northern Press
We are glad to see many of the Radical
papers at the North taking very sensible
view of the efforts politicians and dema-
gogues are making to secure the negro vote
and the evil tendency their labors are hay
ing upon the prosperity of the country
The opinions contained in the following
articles from the Herald and Times, two
leading Radical organs, are very similar to
those which we have frequently given In
these columns, and we are glad to be sus-
tanned by such authority. We often see even
in the papers just referred to, sneering allu-
sions made to the opinions of "rebel Or
gans at the South" but we notice that
when the better and more responsible class
of Radical papers speak out honestly and
candidly upon political questions as involv-
ing the duties and interests of Southern
people, that they substantially agree with
the conservative papers of this section.
In speaking of the conduct of the Radi-
cal politicians to secure the negro vote at
the South, the Herald says:
elm the present indecent haste to seize and Sc
cure that grand spoil the negro vote, we see the
real estimate of the war that rules in the minds
of Greeley and Company, the wilder :, leaders OF
holocaust and every family laid its sacrifice, as
it fondly supposed, on the altar of the nation
Husbands, sons, brothers, fathers-men cher
| ished by all the endearlnS names known to hu-
mainly proudly sent out to the death har-
vest that the country might not perish nor suffer
shame. Devastation in the form OF fire and sword
swept over half the land, and the people with one
ready, willing voice, gave the government mort
gage on every dollar and every dollars worth
But it all for the country really or must we
now gradually open our eyes to see that 1t was
all for party Greeley and Company assume
that the war had no higher or robler object than
to, give them chance to get at the Niger
spent, merely moved away the obstacles
that were between them and such purpose
Their eagerness now is not to secure IN the South
any national object that might have been worthy
such a war; not to draw toward us by wise laws
the States that slavery had 80 nearly torn away
not to establish property and personal rights on
better basis not TO assure to the country that
permanent peace and tranquility for which such
sacrifices we're made. No. their whole policy-all
that the war has led them to-is simply and purely
all eager, indecent, devil-take- he-hindmost race
and scramble for the votes of all the nlgSers be-
tween the Potomac and the Rio Grande. Was it
for this that the American people gave million
lives and thousands of millions IN money?
| eve care they say, for no result of the war that
is worthy of respect. 1t was only our party game
and we have won. We have removed the obsta-
the niggers-to vast mass of ignorant voters
whom we can shape and will, and by
whose votes control, not the South merely,
but the North also. There are no precedents to
be made there was absolutely nothing in it but
the Niger and this prisoner. who might be I'M
portant il there were any such national questions
| as good government aud treason at stake, Is not
even worth his board in casemste. Such Is the
tune. how does the country like 1T? How Will
the people bear to be thus told by the indifference
with which the representative man OF the whole
rnVOIt IL large. there
no treason? How will they bear TO learn, by SEQ
ing everything forgotten i'll eaSerness to secure
the negro VOTE that the great dominant party sees
no nober results in the war than the chance to
use the niggers? That it can shut its eyes to the
first necessities of restoration to the securing OF
peace and good order and harmonizlnS the coun-
try nay, that it will actually lay down pro.
gramme to imperil again all the proper objects OF
the war, rather than risk the loss of the votes it
has evidently always reg arded as the grand spoil
of the struggle"
The Times has the following sensible oh.
servations upon the attempt to array the
blacks against the whites
'Our Southern exchanges complain of tho bad
effect OF the speeches made to the negroes by the
Radical orators who have gone there to organ.
Ithe Republican party in the Southern States
They say, land they say it more in sorrow than in
anger,) that they are exciting the worst passions
of both races, and are exasperating the different
classes OF society against each other, in manner
which must prove injurious to the best interests
of them all. Our Georgia correspondent, in the
letter which we published yesterday states this as
the effect of Senator Wilson's speeches. and de-
Of the South and the whole Country TINS
greatly to be deprecated, and nobody depores Il
more than the real Union men of the Eouth-the
Southern men who think more OF the Union than
of any political party but it is not easy TO sug
gest any other remedy than that supplied by time
patience and the most tolerant acceptance Of wha
Il inevitable, The extreme Radicals are evidently