Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-21
From the National IDte.EGcncer.
To Frean,ar

from time to time, we imp!Orel to lift their
eyes to the landmarks Of civil order and
re2l1Ze their fearful progress 20 anarchy, to
deSpotlsm, and to shame. We warned them
Of the degrading clientage of old Rome,
whereby every sutfragan must choose lris
patron, or else either forego protection or
sink to helpless abasement. The spontane~
Gus organism Of political decentralization
was rapidly growing up here under the in
ordinate promptings OF indiscriminate and
exaggerated hero-Worship, whether Of those
whose epaulettes Outshine the inglOriOus
musket to which they ungratcfnlly owe all
their honors, or to the heroes of the stump
and the caucus, who, the same in every
age, with their eloqucnce and their craft,
unnamed the hearts Of Athens and opened
her dishonored gates to Alexander, his gold,
and his will
We told the people that the powerful
leaders of the Radical party, unconsciona-
ble with the imitation Of power and mad
dening with the early prospect of loosing
1t through their increasing intolerance for
truth and justice, were keeping them de
irious with startling and gigantic ISLANDERS,
long enough to consummate a revolution of
their civil system that would forge a rivet-
ed and remOrseless chain about their necks
whereof they alone would hold the bloody
key. We exposed the monstrous fraud Of
creatlnga third House of Congress, through
the disgusting subterfuge of the celebrated
concurrent resolutions OF December, 1865,
whereby its constituent body, sheer par
tlSan caucus paralyzed the legislative pow
ers Of each House and demolished for the
session the essential constitutional func-
tlons Of the National Legislature We
exposed the traitorous scheme again, as
projected in the Freedmen's Bureau act,
q measure Incapable of reconciliation
with any theory but that Of revolution. -
Again, III the civil rights act, unfettered by
the policy which deprived the powerful
veto Of the President Of the actual and I'M
minent point Of the occasion, we domonata-
ted the distinct purpose of abolishiDg
the States of the Union-all Of them in
turn. On tho close of the infamous orgies
Of these fell managers of subyersiOn, with
that Of the session last summer, VIC ar
raigned the Thirty-ninth Congress- upon
charges, with like of which no legislature
that ever sat has been publicly impugned,
and we defy, to-day, controversy Of Il single
one.
At length came, over the most solemn
and timely protest that ever issued from
one branch Of a great Government of law
to entreat and warn another branch and
the people against the unreasonable mad
ness OF enactlng war i'll profound peace,
the great stride of the statutes of outlaWry ::
the deliberate dissolution of the social com
pact in the American Republic, the half
now, the other half to come, if, in the poets
frightful figure, ''murder bares his other
arm"
Less than two years ago we were suspect
ed of rashness i'll urging, from the seat of
Government, upon the unerriIg of daily
observation, the probable imDunence of
these great dangers. The country, incred-
ulous then, seems listless even now, with
these astonishing spectacles Of folly and
treason, public and fragrant. Is this to go
on Or shall it go back It cannot stand
still. A few more strides, and liberty, de-
luded to ascend to a flower -wre athed plat
form by artful eXhortation, will reach it's
floor, and there see her ghastly block, her
black-veiled aXeman, her pitiless betrayers,
and, turning to go back 20 solid ground, will
see her ladder cast down, and will kneel to
her murderers
Are we now to be told&kis is improbable?
version 1t took Rome from Numa to Ne
TO to get down to such a perversion of gov
ernment. Go back to 1860 and read a
newspaper or recall q partisan harangue,
however loose and eXtravagant, and con-
ceive, If you can, the anazement and in
dignatiOn with which the most unprincipled
or the most fanatical speaker then would
hear himself charged with tolerating meas
ures with which, to the dishonor of man.
hood, we have suffered ourselves to become
familiar. In those seven short years we
have unlearned the wisdom that ages upon
ages combined to teach us, and have bias
phemed Heayen with a greater recreancy
than vagrant Israel in worshipping the
golden calf during their forty years of sOr-
row in the homeless wilderness. II yet the
brazen serpent is lifted up, pray, freemen
of the Union, that the snakes OF this hel-
llsh dcmagOguery may uncoil their tight
ening hold, and strike themselves with
their poison fan8s, and spare our children
We set out with the purpose Of remark
ing some of the more recent and contemp-
tuous Of the spurred and booted cdicts of
those lnsolent usufpers who, as being all
Americans born, should be banished from
the homes of their childhood by the re-
proacheS Of those who saw them led to free
dom, with no reward for their services in
the field but an honest soldiers pension,
and the shame of their nobler fathers and
the tears Of their pitying mothers, for dar-
ing to defy civil supremacy, and to promul- |
gate the brutal substitution Of power for
reason in civil society. But i'll looking
over the accumulated OfQefS o. JnOEe VINO
are so long and so unaccountably indulged
by their official superior at Washington
the Commander-in-C -Chief-so much arises |
for special consideration that we forbear
this with matter, some of which |
will appear in other articles.
But once more let us con jure all free and |
honest men to look whittier their apathy Is |
carrying them Shall the insolent con
tempt by these men Of all principles which |
we have been taught to revere work no
change in the favor with which we have |
nonored them as military heroes ? Be
ware
Professional Courtesy.
Judge Busteed, Of Alabama, formerly Of
New York, is somewhat impulsive in tone
md manner. A few days ago one of the
of the Alabama bar, L. Ii. Watts,
ESQ, taking offence at something he had
'aio, announced his purpose not to practice
n that court any more. The Judge there
lpon wrote him note, saying he couldn't
!llow that, and that he issued his 'man-
late" requiring him to revoke such inten-
ion, if it existed. "Tbe fact is )" said the
Judge, 81 cannot spar you. Your usual