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

a license before they can practice
medicine, surgery or any of the branches
thereof, or in any case prescribe for the
cure of disease, for fee or reward.
This was great step in the right direc-
ton, and has and will do much to protect
the Profession from empiricism, while the
yearly meetings of the Society will unite In
friendly and intelligent intercourse the
leading medical minds of the State, and by
mutual interchange OF opinions, and ex-
perience, and the submission of papers up
on various practical subjects will tend to
elevate and strengthen the Profession. We
see much, therefore, to hope for in the sue
cess of the recent meeting of the Medical
Society, and trust that the next annual
Convention, to be held in Warrenton, will
prove even a greater success.
The Political RevoIutIon-Forwar or
Backward!
Senator Wilson in his speech i'll this city,
promise made by the Radical party not yet
performed. repeated the trite maxim, much
to the satisfaction of his hearers, that
&" Revolutions never go backwards" This
is true, but they frequently progress to
such all extent as to die from exhaustion,
or aye defeated from the over reaching am
bition of selfish leaders. He claimed that
the unconquered and unconquerable party
to which he belonged had never underta-
ken anything which it had not accomplish
4 x1,i,i hot1 nt
made good. He probably forgot that the
promise of their most distinguished and
popular leaders that President Johnson
should he impeached and removed, had
been violated, or rather the effort to do SO
had proven 1t miserable failure, and the
subject had been referred to the Judiciary
committee in order to give it decent sepul-
ture Possibly the sharp and unpleasant
reminder from Connecticut and many cities
and towns in the North that the storm had
spent it's strength, and the sceptre of the
unconquerable party was passing into other
hands, coming close upon the heels of this
backward step" gave evidence that the
revolution WAS subsiding.
Such we really hope and believe IS the
case The backward step SO fatal to revo-
| buttons has been taken, and we trust the
Radical party will perish among the bill
| lows, which its own excuses have dashed
into fury. The preservation of the ragged
remnants of the Constitution and the good
of the whole country certainly justif y lis
in this utterance. SO far have the aims
and measures of party advanced, that the
party itself has become to think it is, and
in many instances is acknowledged to be,
the government. Each victory has proved
to be only the precursor of fresh demands.
| Under the sanction of oaths and the forms
of law party leaders have made party sue
cess the object of their legislation. Univer-
sal suffrage to Southern blacks, partial dis
reimbursement Of Southe RI whites, the abro
cation of all civil law and rights of citizens
in the South, and the absolute control oil
the National Government by Congress, de.
manded by party necessities, have been Sc.
cured under the convenient cloak of Re
construction.
Commenting upon these headlong strides
of the Radicals, one of their more prudent
organs, the New York Times, remarks
"Where this movement is to stop, Oh
arhether ii is to stop at all, is a matter of con
lecture. If it does stop, it will be from
compulsion and not from choice. = 3
It becomes matter of considerable i'm
portance to watch carefully all indications
as to what this restless, insatiate and poten
element of the dominant party proposes to
do next. Whatthey propose to-day may be
lo,O tomorrow. Judging from the past i
is likely to be so" This warming of the
danger which surrounds the cause of self
government, is directed to the Northern
reader by one who is himself payticep
crineinis, and is brought out by whole
some fear of having forced upon them by
Congress condition of affairs similar tx
those which now exist i'll the South, as ad
vised and threatened by Mr.. Sumner in
recent letter. In order to perpetuate TIT
power of his party, this distinguished Sen
, ator sees that it is necessary for Congress
to assume control of all the States, and an
nounces his intention of urging this matte
at the next session. The elections at tn
North give evidence that the people begin
to have a we'll grounded fear that in Ell
shaving the South they we're laying tn
foundation of their own subjugation, an
have begun to take advantage of one back
ward step to check others equally as dan
gerous.
If our overthrow is followed by their
also, the Constitution will be as powerles
at the North as it is here, and the last hop
of its ultimate preservation will be lost. an
then the revolution will progress until a
pretence of constitutional government
= gone and an acknowledged despotisr
, stands upon its ruins. The hands whic
have destroyed the temples of liberty i'll til
% South, are even now being raised to recol
struct the North by the same means, br
the steps will be even more rapid. Ii tn
South is not secured by the recent legisls
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