Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-10

especially in the women. With their mat
ted hair, beetling brows and dull, raw esq
eyes, from which not spark of hum"
feeling beams, these last look like idiots
No trace of womanly grace is there. Tn u,
place hideous deformity croucbes in ssrns
womanly rags" and asks piteouslv for aims
Now and then they work, at least the bet,
ter disposed, when dire necessity forces
them to 1t or the nature of the work suity
their rowing tastes Collecting ginsen Is
the favorlte occupation. Sang, as they call
1t, Is found a. certain seasons in larrn
quantities, and the whole community nc
the mountain side, through every 1oonan
nook and ''cove." cit is o nice hps;nacJ,
for lazy people" said nv informant 100
is like sport, and they make three do,,orS
a day at 1t, which makes it a very ne
business indeed" Three dollars a daH
they only make two at the gold mines near
Morganton SO 1t Is better than gold die
| ging, III North Carolina at least
There Is very little to be said in regard
| to the political views of the mountaineere
other than has been stated already. Tbeir
notions on the subject of reconstruction
are quite simple, and notwithstanding somp
objections, which they urge from not fuljy
comprehending the question, perhaps. they
are innocent of any intention that looks
in the least like offering opposition to the
carrying out of measures that have recon.
struction in view. Indeed they do not
have much to say against the spirit of the
Military bill they merely assert that strict
obedience to the letter of it will both dis
qualify many of the best friends of the
cause of reconstruction, who are too hon
orable to evade even the letter of the law,
q nd will n fU hn ala of 1alNa
who will not scruple to perjure themselves.
It does seem as if there were some truth
in this j.; and when it is considered that
there are no longer any really rebellious
minded persons in sufficiently large num-
bers to constitute the remnant of party,
it appears strange that we cannot encour-
age to cooperate with MS the best of those
who were formerly in rebellion rather than
the worst There may be man now and
then, whom nature has endowed with more
passion than principle, who has not got
over the fever of rebellion but there is
nothing more apparent, nothing more re
markable, indeed, throughout the South
han that rebellion is dead idea. It is
remarkable, moreover, to see how com
pletely the emancipation of slavery is an
accomplished fact how its accidents and
attendant circumstances are taken as a
matter of course, and how, still more
strangely, the South seem called upon,
from the necessities of the case and by the
law of self-preservation, to push this re.
form to an unlocked for extreme. Look
ing at this picture, fancy will curiously con.
slider that the South, once started may go
in the van of reform (they are great on
camp meetings and revivals, aud such sorts
of things), and some day may carry its
banner into New England as the champ
ions of cause that shall have for its OBJ
ject the righting of some real or fancied
wrongs suffered by the shoemakers OF
Lynn or the weavers of Stockbridge
shall have for its object the removal from
the hand of task masters of those of tender
years. who are picker tenders, warped ten
ders and almost any tender that requires to
be hard and greasy.