Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-28
North Carolina Rebels Rampant and
Defiant.

- 4 private letter received il this city states
that the rebels of North Carolina have again be-
come rampant and defiant, to such extent that
/ numbers Of Union men in that section are prepar.
! ing to leave for the North Some of the unrecon
! structed Il few days ago set fire TO ole OF the
largest steam mills III that State, situated or
/ Cape Fear river, ne Wilmington, and owned 10y
Generals Estes and Albeit. Tie mill WAS entirely
/ destroyed"
| Falsehood and SANDER are the meat and
drink upon which the Radical party has
grown great, and the means by which it has
| thus far been sustained III it's bitter and
yindictive prosecutions of the Southern peo-
pie. SO long as party success is to be at
tanned there are human beings-men. so.
called, by courtesy, - that neither having
the honesty of Christians, nor the truthful
ness OF Christian, pagan, nor man, that we
have thor ght some of natures journeymen
had made men, and not made them we'll,
they initiated humanity SO abOminably -
who will resort to any means, however dis
reputable and dishonest, to accomplish their
object. In hopes of small official favors-
a few paltry crums which fall from the Rad
ical table-these men sell, with eager avidi-
ty and great profit, that purchasable article
they fiatter themselves in calling soul.
The above extract, which we clip from
the Washington correspondence of the New
York Herald, is a fair specimen of the
means used by these vipers to misrepresent
our people and retard the welfare Of our
section. We know nor care not VIII may
be the author of the ''private letter. He
is as depraved in heart as he is slanderons
in expression, and but for abject cOwardice
influenced by equal hopes of gain, would
commit murder with the same facility with
which he basely attempts to injure the good
name and destroy the prosperity of our
people.
Instead of being rampant ard defiant,
the Southern people are as gentle as suck
ing doves, and under the operation of po-
htical and military thumb screws are rap
idly losing all interest in or care for the
political future, or have given way to
man forced to leave this State merely be-
cluse of his being Union or Northern
man, but those referred to possibly are the
victims of idleness Or dishonesty, and in
some cases, at least, Northern men have
been the knowing cause.
So far as the falsehood in regard to the
destruction Of the Bladen Land Compa-
ny's Mill is concerned, we have the official
contradiction of Generals ESTES and ABB
BoTT, the gentlemen mentioned in the let
ter. The facts in relation to the fire, pub
lished in this paper the day after its occur
renee, were furnished to US by General AB-
BoTT himself, and he distinctly stated that
it was the result of carelessness. Imme-
diately upon the receipt of the paper yes
terday containing the falsehood, we were
called upon by General ESTES, who author
lied us to deny the statement, both as to
the cause OF the destruction of the Mill,
and so far as he and General ABRoTT were
concerned, in regard to any unkind treat
ment experienced. And here we will take
occasion to say that no person in this sec
ton has been lily treated on account of his
political sentiments. Where persons have
behaved themselves as gentlemen, and
proved their claims to such title, they
have uniformly been treated as such,
whatever may have been their political
creed, or from whatever State they may
claim to have come. Officer and citizen
have been judged and treated in &C
cordance with their conduct, as all should