Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-12-13
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
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Effect CT the G.lSCti5n%'
The moral effects of the late elections are
very good Adversely has It's lessons as we'll
as prosperity. The Radicals are learning
slowly, but surely, in that costly school
whose teacher is experience. The South
ern people have long been cursed with
many of their costly iniquitics, and the good
everywhere have called aloud for reform,
but formerly to no purpose. The Bureau,
expensive Radical organization for polltl-
cal purposes, the chief object OF which
seems to have been to initiate negroes into
loyal leagues and furnish candidates for
their suffrage, is about to lose the sup
port of its pious chief.
We have said that the expenses and
wickedness of this Bureau was one OF the
heaviest burdens which the Radicals had
to bear in the late campaigns, and to 1t, as
much as any other source, would they owe
their defeat, and we did not count without
our host. General Howard, ID submitting
the recommendation for the Suspension OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, We are more than
half inclined TO believe, is making a virtue
of necessity. The leader Lave di>cover' q
that it is unpopuiaa; Jhat the negro vote
having been securcd and its uses very
much curtailed, therefore they are unwIl-
ling TO risk it IN the Presidential contest
next year. In consequence Of tLl5 state of
things, General Howard has gone through
with the ceremony OF making al extended
trip through the South, (he did not honor
North Carolina,) and has formally announ-
ced that he believes the So Nations wards J"
no longer need the protection of the Blu
reau. There arc other sug gestions
in regard to the danger Of the political
rights of freedmen which may be Of use to
them, which will be found in the extract
we publish below, but we advise them that
the greatest difficulty in bestowing any poll
teal priuileges upon them is, that they
are not fit to exercise them for
their own good or the good of the country,
and the people Of the North hare 50 decl0red
ri the 6alLot-6or, and Hat decLaratiort 1rW B"
The laoo Of the land
is of any further benefit to the negroes OF
the Radicals, it would seem that they will
be compelled to do without it. The in
fiuence of the Northern elections was too
decisive not to have a marked effect upon
calculating politicians, and in the nature OF
things that influence, sooner or later, must
show its elf. 1t appears now that this
favorite institution is to be the first victim
offered upon the altar of Conservatism to
appease an outraged country. Other sac
rifices will follow until The will of the people
shall triumph, AMI justice and liberty be
indicated.
See what effect the elect Cons have had
upon leading Radical and he the mouth
piece of most important interest:
"Gen. Howard has returned from extensive
tour through the South and gives 1t as his opinion
that the freedmen car set along without the Blu
Teau in their education and Eelf-suppOrt, If pro
iscted in their civil rights. Gen Howard = tgstI-
mony must be accepted, as against those who
have represented that they &ro continually be-
coming less capable o. soii-sUpport. The present
danger to the political rights OF the freedmen
comes from the false policy of their leaders, whu
would protect tie negroes by DISTINGUISHING the
whites. In such struggle the hiGCAS are S,nf tC
40 "11de,, and viii have their false friends 10 thank
tor it,