Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-03
Response of the Wings.

The attempt of Mr.. Wilson to get the
old Wings of Virginia to attach them
selves to the Radical party does not seem
to meet with much success. His appeals
may have been very insidious, but as yet
from no respectable quarter has there been
a favorable response. We publish below
extracts from leading papers of Virginia
edited by old Wings, who repudiate scorn-
fully this attempt Oh the part of the Mas
sachusetts Senator.
What the LouisburS NcrS says of parties
and party feeling in Virginia, is true in
North Carolina. \ common object, COM
mon suttcrirgs and mutual interest has vel
ded togethe. all parties III the South, and
to-day, III this State, no question has been
asked, and very frequently it is unknown
what was the former party affiliations OF
persons offering for office. We have known
former Wings returned from the strongest
We have seen the foreigner and the former
Know n othing walking to the polls arm in
arm, and supporting each other with the
same fervor with which they stood shout
derto shoulder in the forefront of the battle.
No, we have no parties now, but Consti-
tlltionala and anti Constitutional parties. The
stronger VIC are oppressed and prosecuted
by the powerful Radicals of the North, the
more closely will the people of the South
unite, drawn together, not only by COM
munity Of feeling, of interest and of suffer
ing, but to protect what little of rights and
freedom that may be left to them from the
rufus Of q Constitutional Government.
But for the promised extracts
The Fredericksburg Herald, edited by a
worthy gentleman of Wing antecedants,
responds
The appeal OF Senator Wilson to Henry Clay
Wigs in the South, to fall into line under the
Radical banner, is about stupid as it Is impu-
CCnsercdticc party. 1t never took near cuts to
btain success. 1t preferred to be right-as the
body of the party understood the ternl-rather
than elect Presidents
acquisition OF territory lhat lost Clay his election
in ISL 1t was its determined support of the
Missouri Compromise that lost its prestige in the
South. The Wing party proper was always, and
eminently conservative, and the appeal of Wilson
to Wings Of the South to forswear what consti-
tutes the w-b and woof OF their political action,
will ia i, utterly, entirely.
The Wings of the South never were consOlida-
tonists They believed that each government,
Federal and State had its Legitimate orbit in which
to reyoIvc and that the wisdom Of the trainers of
ring probabilities that danger existed in re-
gard to the cashing Of rights long each
body revnvcd in it's own orbit
'The Wings Of the South did not recognize the
right Of COERCION in 1862 and they do not now re-
cOgnize Mir. Wilson'S threat Of cOeTciOn-confsca-
t,on-unless they joAfuHy accept the terms Of the
the past, SO will they, the Wings of the South,
prove true to principle i'll the future. Not as
party-for the people of the South, thank God,
are not partiZan nOw-but as individuals they will
prove true to themselves, i'll being true to their
record"
The Lynchburg Necs, edited by gallant
gentleman Of like antecedants: accomplish
ed with both the pen and the sword, re-
spends as follows:
The policy of the movement in which Senator
Wilson is engaged is so patent, that we wonder
any Virginian should for a moment be deceived.
The appeals to the prejudices and the cupidity of
the old Henry Clay Wings are so evidently prompt
ed by the desire to perpetuate political power in
the hands Of those who have been the willing in
struments in intictiDg upon US the calamities un-
der which we suffer, that we astonished
at even the semblance of consideration with which
'' But the furnace or affection in which we have
been tried has welded the hearts of the Southern
people into homogeneous mass, In which FORM
81 political prejudices have been broken Gown
old party lines have been blotted out and Inc re-
membrance Of common trials, common suffering,
and common dangers has taken the place of NOM
cries of former enmities. During the war, through
which we have struggled and suffered, all former
party lines have been obliterated. The march,
the bvouac the battlefield the hospital the pris-
On, and tie cemetery, have laen shared alike by
Wing and Democrat. The half famished Wing has
shared his scanty ration with the starving Demo-
GRAFT The shout OF triumph, which in the mo-
ment of victory rung out from the lips of the ella
ted Democratic soldier, was re-echoed in stirring
cadence by his no less enthusiastic Wing com
rade political distinctions were annihilated amid
the smoke and carnage of the battlefield, and
from that baptism of blood the Southern people
emerged united by sympathy, endeared by suf-
fering, and untitled by poverty and danger.
50 Should any considerable number of our white
citizens unite with the Northern Radicals, and
draw into the meshes of their net the bulk of the
colored population, the only effect would be to
preciptate upon US in Virginia the horrors under
which Tennessee is now groaning. We earnestly
lepr ecate any action which must eliminate in
such calamity. We raise our voice in warning re-
nonstrance against the incpient effort, and call
lpon all who would avert from US evils hitherto |