Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-04-26

gether, q political pre-eminence that the
Radical Destructionists can never attain.
\ Few Facts.
1t would be we'll if the freedmen of the
South would heed and carefully memorize
a few important facts. In the political
canvass which is to follow, every sOlicita-
ton which ingenuity can invent, will be
used upon them for the purpose OF secu-
J ring their votes in favor of the Radical
party. Among others, the old plea OF graf
itude to the Northern section for their
newly acquired freedom will doubtless be
one OF the most prominent. 1t Is well
enough to understand in time til" meaning
of the gratitude due by the negro to the
Radical They the Radicals claim that
the negro should surrender all opinions Of
his own, whatever they may be, and adopt
those which have received the royal sane
ton Of ultra Republicanism. To this claim
they present at the same time a little ac-
count somewhat thus:
! Entranch;sed Af'icdns
To Greeley, Weed Dc Co. D'.
To Emancipation Proclamation.
This open account they are willing to
balance by the following credit
By votes given in favor of Radical can
didates and under Radical direction.
But in the wording of this account there
is a very great and q very palpable error.-
Instead of making the negroes the debiting
party, it should make them the creditors
For instance, would it not be more strictly
in accordance with the account as it now
stands upon the great book Of human ac-
tons to say
(Old Account
The Ne,, England States
Tc the 1tricau Race, pr.
To numbers originally sold into slavery by
them, with the same conditions entailed
upon their present heirs and descendants.
CT.
BY m Emancipation Proclamation.
New Account)
To the same, Dr..
To the present tax of cents per pound
$50 per bale upon cotton, aggregating
!, So, 900, 900 per year tax upon cotton pro-
duced by colored labor.
To this lat er, (the new ACCOUNT there is
no credit, and the account can never be
balanced except by change of legislative
debtors. This tax is upon cotton this
cotton is produced by the labor of the
freedman, and Of course it serves to i'm
pose indirectly upon him. Who ere the
gamers The historical and commercial
records of the country answer-the North
ern manufactures and the Northern politi-
clans.
Yet the first account, although a conce-
ded one, Is not strictly correct, inasmuch
rs the negro does not owe his freedom only
to the Emancipation Proclamation, nor to
those who with loud mouths now claim
credit for it, but mainly to the soldiers
Of the Federal army, who by their endu-
rance upon the camp and on the battle
field, carried it with them to the home OF
the slave. And these very men, to whom,
in reality, the freedmen owe their liberty,
are not only more backward to claim the
debt really due them. but do not, in q ma
jority of instances, affiliate in sentiment
with those who are now anxious to enforce
their political opinions upon the negro.
This claim is only one of the many which
the Radical leaders will bear with them
upon their Southern campaign, audit should
be we'll understood by those to whom il
! will be addressed. It is in the nature q
, things that the Ignorance of the black race
will suffer in their intercourse with Repub
5 hcan fanatics. 1t is therefore the most sol
emn duty of the more educated whites tx
point them to the truth. To be forewarneC
: is to be forearmed. Let the freedmen re
5 collect that not to those who were their for
5 mer masters, but who are now their South
ern neighbors, are they indebted for thei
former condition as slaves, but to thost
Q who are from land where the institution
first originated, and who are anxious nov
to raise themselves to political eminence b,
: the destruction of those who were but thei
: heirs at law. Let the negro remember to-
e that the white man, as well as the black man
I was born to the condition in which the wa
: found him, that he did not make, himself
y the institution of slavery, and that he dic
e not more willingly accept the condition il
v which the opening of the war found him
h than he did that which was forced upol
e him at it's close
Degeneracy OF the Descendants of the Puri
tans and OF the I<nickcrbockers.
! The charges OF corruption made by tn
. press of New York and Massachusett
n against their respective State Legislature
are INDUCED openly and largely. The &C
cuSatiOnS ara severe and the Indication
@ point plainly to their manifest truth. Oh
\ their own side the Legislatures charge sub
ordinates of their own creation with simila