Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-24

From the Charleston News May 8.
An Old Southern Planter to Senator Wilson
| What the Northern Political Crusade in
the South is Leading TO.
| The subioined letter was sent to Senator
| Wilson while he was in our city. 1t was
written by one Of our old time gentlemen,
| and we have no doubt will be read with
much interest:
CHARLESTON, May 4, 1867.
| To lie Hon. Henry wilson,
Of Massachusetts;
SIR-The accident which occasiOned your
detention in this city to-day enables me to
address you few words in relation to your
harangue delivered yesterday. L beg to
observe that you did not deal so fairly with
the people of South Carolina as you are re-
ported to have done with the people of
Virginia and North Carolina. In those
States on the several occasions when you
addressed the gatherings" citizen was
permitted to reply to yon, and the poison
was thus neutraEzed.
Here you have devised the plan of being
announced through the public print and
through the presiding officer of the meet
ling as an invited orator, and in your intro
duction you claim to be here and to speak
in compliance with invitations. In this
way, and by these means, you secured
vonrself from an answer which would have
exposed you as an emissary of the New
England anti-free trade protective tariff
consolidation interest, whose leading OBJ
iects can only be subserved by dividing the
votes of the South. In other words, by ar
raigning the negro against the Southern
whites. and on the side of the New Eng
land manufacturers as their special friends.
You would have done no more than sheer
Justice to US if you had offered to let us be
heard and you would have contributed to
the enlightenment of your colored audience
if YOU had suffered us to show them how
9 directly antagonistic the interests OF New
! England are to their and our agricultural
:. pursuits, and how imperative it is upon
both blacks and whites in the South to get
rid of the l." friendly hug of New England
, high taxation on us for their benefit, and
, to be united and stand firmly together in
demanding that the fruit of our labor shall
not be pocketed by Lowell, Lynn and Bos-
ton.
In the plenitude, too, of your conscien-
tiousness and candor, l pray you, III your
o next address, enter little into the history
of the slave trade and tell your auditors the
+ truth-tlat your ancestors of Massachu-
; sets, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
G York and Pennsylvania, brought to this
country all the africans who ever came
here, and they sold them to the people OF
: the South. That they had all the ships
. and sailors, and the South had none. That
the trade was profitable to New England
> and the North, and that the money derived
> from it has enabled them to outstrip the
: South in wealth and prosperity, and then
turn to the descendants of those Africans
and say to them, 'The South is innocent
of the crime of enslaving you. Yankee Gu
pidity conceived, planned and executed the
diabOlical work.
:, A truth like this will be more useful in
reconciling these freedmen to their 'tor-
. mer masters, if that were your purpose.
. than all your advice to them to go to WORK
: and raise cotton for the benefit of New
England, to vote on the side of justice ana
7 right, which you interpret to be the Yam
: kee side of every question. And then
again, sir, be just to yourself and your pas
> record, and say out boldly to these peoplgg
that they never would have been hoeTa1eu
:, by the North if the South could have been
q vanquished without it. 1t was to 0Neif
. come the South by the use of couple OF
" hundred thousand of their bodies as DreaS'
works, when the South had not thai nu LtL.
I Der in ALL, that they were promised hOelv;SIi
- and having not received it. This too WI
J. help them to understand the kind OF lIien si
h ship you people have for them. L Will Isn
you in conclusion, to invite discussion ~
4 fore the freedmen, and in your PresSeu Ion
+ that they may hear both sides, anu INV NV
- may have full opportunity to reply to 2h ave-
c one who may see fit to answer you r
p. the honor to be yours, W.
The court of Ocean county, New Jer yay,
1t have gained $4,000 damages to MISS m
nell for breach of promise of marriage Or
ID the part of Abraham Stout, dry goooS NV
81 chant. r.
r Williams the child-forturer, who is . SCI
ing term in the Connecticut PenlteenI md