Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-11-15

: The SLY is changed! And such change! Oh
night,
Aud storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong
Yet LoCely IN yOnr' strength, as in the light
Of dark eye in woman. Far along,
| From peak to peak, the rafting crugs u7a0nq,
LEAPS THE LIVE THUNDER-not from lone
cloud,
Bur EVERY MOUNTAIN NOW HATH FOUND TONGUE.
And Jnra answers from her misty shroud
Back to the joyous Airs that call to her aloud
We once heard gifted orator of New
England, now late Democratic President
Of the United States, pronounce the above
inspiration Of genius in respect to o great
movement of the people. But far more
now is the immortal verse of England's
most impassioned bard typical of the great
moral results Of free people that are an
nounced in accents terrific to tyrants, yet
replete with glorious hopes of genial re-
suits to our common country.
The Empire State, through the acclama-
tion almost Of the people of her great city,
the commercial centre of the Western Con
tirent and from which ramify arteries and
nerves in commerce and finance that per-
meate round the earth, has planted herself
in the immortal eminence cf an acknowl-
edged leadership in q course to which all
: State of the North will in another year
move III grand procession and in most i'm
posing pageant.
| New Jersey has returned, after a tempo
rary alteration, to her old orbit in the po-
| litical armament. Being the belt Of the
Middle States Of the North, with Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana having like ele-
ments'O charaCterin npopulation-herr return
to Conservative principles was an assured
thing. For the same reason, were Indiana
to vote to-day, the negro party, led by Col
| fax, would meet with overwhelming disas-
ter. Suppose, also, that Congressional cleo
tions were now to take place in the States
Of the North, how overwhelmingly would
the present usurpers in the Rump Congress
be repudiated by the people?
On the same base line with NIassachu-
| setts, the cherishing mother of fanaticism,
| bigotry, and sumptuaTy legislation, are
/ Central New York, Michigan, Wisconsin,
! Minnesota, and the northern portions of
! Illinois an / Iowa. All these States and
parts of States were early and largely set
| tied by Massachusetts, men. Being politi-
clans of her stamp, the policy in legislation
for monopoly interests, for sumptuary
| laws, and for bigoted fanaticism has had
nearly as strong a foothold in these colo
MES as in the mother herself. It is singu-
! lar, however, that Radicaism was--Outside
of Maine, rib of Observation-Disclosures
wounded in the New Englandized portion
|
| typical of like fate in Massachusetts, her.
self. The like type Of rigid and intolerant
Radicalism has been much broken up in
Western New York. If, then, Radicalisn,
as represented in Massachusetts and her
colonies, by the native stock, has come to
so much grief, what Of good to liberal
| principles must not be anticipated from a
return to true democratic ideas of the Ger
man element, which is utterly opposed to
religions tests and sumptuary legislation Z?
The States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota, so largely populated by the
| Teutonic element must be thoroughly rev.
oIutionized by them IN another year. So,
also, Illinois, whose election being now
only for county officers, may not be entire
ly indicative of what may OCCUR a year
ahead. AS to Maine, if she adheres to her
sumptuary laws, the people will certainly
haul off from the Radical line. Massachu-
setts, in repeating the prohibitory laws
next winter, will cast off from the Radical
party all the temperance element, and thus
probably lose that State to the Radical
party. In the belt of Middle States, where
sumptuary legislation does not exist the
great issue that has led to the defeat oi
Radicalism has been shat of Africanization
of the South, and the proposition for re
pubiicanizing States in authorizing, by act
of Congress, universal suffrage. IF Con
gress we're to act, and it were to take prac
l;cal Effect, Missouri, Tennessee, Western
Virginia, and indeed, nearly all the exclu
ded States would go against them, besides
assuredly losing all she Border States that
: were formerly free ones, except, perhaps
Iowa. This State, with Rhode Island anC
|. Vermont, Missouri and Tennessee, are the
only ones where the Radicals will not have
: f,11 Of troub1a tho oO1oi voor Mo-
can they count upon practical Africaniz
ing of all the Southern States, since The
constitutions that may be framed will no
all stand the test of approval by the regis
tered voters, OF perhaps by Congress.
Radicalism is near it's end. If Con
gress goes on with usurping and crue
legislation, the Conservative sentiment 0
the country will become still more shock
ed. If it stops, portion of the Radica
Z. element will abandon the banner of TIL
3 Rump. If it proposes to take refuge un
} der the wing of a hero in the field, o
! even a martyr in it's cause, let us poin
to ''Sheridan's ride" throughout the Nort
g as having been utterly void of effect L
9 political influence. The people are intel
e ligent and resolved. They are sternl
looking to principles and measures, nc
S men. The better portion of the Radlcs
9 press are already laundering against tn
/ Stevens, Butler, Colfax, Forney usrrps
+ tons, cruel prescriptions, and sangulnar
g prosecutions, and are calling for practice
/ measures of reform concerning the +
i nances and taxation, for the relief OF a
g afflicted people.
IS In whatever form the duties Of Rad
e Gals lie, as the paramount power IN pos
: ton, with them is the entire responsible
: ity as to what shall be done in either a
/ affirmative or negative direction. By thei
e acts the people will continue to adjudg
v them. They must return to reason, COL
) servatism, and duty, inside Of the Cor
c stitution, and not " "outside of it, - if the
! would not, by another summer, be a
i frantic fugitiyes, imploring the hills an
a mountains to fall upon them, to avert a
$ i1nexampled popular doom.
# Let the Conservatives and Democrat
4 continue to assail them, and bide their ow.
time to propose measures of policy whe
they shall be i'll the ceats of power. W
S have heard, indeed, of another movemen
It of fgurantes and posturers in politics t
o summon Democratic National Co1lven
r tion but the sound sense of sagaciou
s leaders repels the project as one as muc
D in the interest of the Radicals as if the