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

end in their political and social destruc.
ton.
From the Richmond Examiner
RepubIicanism Tried by its Fruits
| While the Radicals were willing to MIR.
der men and women by the illegal acts of
military commissions, they protected their
| friends from justice, even at the expense
of law, order and morality. The Chicago
Times" give the following instance of this
kind of Radical action:
A creature by the name of Stanton. in
1864, while pretending to discharge the
duties of Provost Marshal of Wabash conn
ty, Illinois, deliberately shot two younp
men, whom he conceived had given him
offence. 1t was premeditated act of MUIR
der, and Stanton was arrested and confined
in prison. Although the privilege of the
writ OF hd6edS corpus was suspended by Or
der of A. Lincoln, the friends of Stanton
pocured the issuing of one, and Stanton
was taken before Judge Pollock, who deci.
ded that the case was manslaughter, and
admitted Stanton to bail in the sum of
twenty thousand dollars some twentv-siy
leading Radicals in the county signing the
bonds. Stanton was no sooner released
than he left for parts unknown, leaving his
bail in the lurch. The bonds were prose
cuted, but term after term passed before
the trial could be brought to an issue 1t
was finally tried by the same Judge Pol
lock, who, for some reason, delayed an
nouncing the verdict. Meantime Radi-
cal Legislature was elected and assembled
at Spring field. Among its first acts was the
passage OF a law releasing the Radicals who
had signed the bail bonds of the murderer,
Stanton, from obligation to pay the same,
and requiring the State Attorney to dis
miss the case and with it the claim. Thus
Radicalism in Illinois fosters and protects
the crime of murder by special legislation!
That is the way the party of great moral
ideas " aids in promoting the ends of JUS
tice What a mockery How cln any
honest man suffer his sympathies to be
with such party for single moment?
STATE ROBBERY.
Under this startling head the Pittsburg
Gazette of the 10th inst, n Radical journal,
publishes the following expose of the do
iings Of the last Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania:
Talking few years ago, with n noted
lobbyist at Harrisburg, he frankly confess
ed that he and his kind had relieved the
Commonwealth of pretty much all the pro-
perty it had worth plundering. During
the past session systematic effort has been
made to gather up and carry off the frag-
ments that remained, and this endeavor
has been crowned with a large measure of
success. If the accounts are true, and we
think they are, the bottom of the treasury
has been cleaned out, and round deficit
left. Nor is this ALL An attempt was
made to rob the Sinking Fund of $500, 600,
for preventing which the people are in
debted to Mr.. Wallace, Chairman of the
democratic State Committee. He raised
the point that by the plain words of the
Constitution the revenues derived from
certain sources were pledged to the Gqui-
dation of the public Indebtedness, and
could not be applied to general purposes
But the members got conscientious, or
something else, over their salaries. Hay
ing voted themselves more wages than the
law allowed, they concluded not to take it,
because the money could not be found
OUTRAGES UPON CoLORED MAN IN ROCHESTER,.
The Rochester Express of a recent date
has the following:
chatham Sprague, q colored man, and
son-in-law to Frederick Douglass, lately
purchased a coach and horses, with q view
of running il Us public conveyance, hav-
ing procured his license. He took his
stand at the regular place, on the east side,
near the Osburn House, Notwithstanding
tnreats from certain quarters that "no id
niger should run as hackman in Ro-
chester. On Monday evening of last week,
and while his back was turned q moment
his coach was badly cut up and disfigured
so as to render it unfit for use until repairs
" ere made, which were quite expensive, as
the top, cushions, and other parts were
nearly destroyed. Sprague is quiet, in
offensive man, and minds his own bust
ness"
Of course it is needless to say that Ro-
chester is intensely Republican-so Repub-
l.. F..
Congress in that District the race was run
by gentlemen both oftbat party.
We conclude our chapter to-day with the
following from the Wing of yesterday:
"What we might expect in Virginia if
the State were to fall in the clutch of the
greedy and corrupt faction of renegades,
calling themselves "loyalists," who are
making such desperate efforts to that end,
is illustrated in the following correspon-
dence taken from the Greenbrier Indepen.
dent:
LEwIsBURG, April 16, 1867.
Colonel d. S, HOlcnsheH:
Dear Sir-Exiled, as you are about to be, from
your home, by the tyrannical laws Of West Nir-
ginia, and their unreentinS enforcement and
forced, as you are, from your family and friends,
to seek home where free thought and free
lspeech are tolerated, we, your brethren of the
bar, desire to express our respect for you as
lawyer and gentleman by rendering you pub
lie supper, at the Lewisburg Hotel, on Tomorrow
evening.
Very truly, your friends, &c,
| SAMUEL PRICE, 3. +. HARLOW,
| B. Ii. JONES' II. Nj. MATHEWS,
| JOHN W. HARRIS, il. G. SNYDER
! r. L. DENNIS, GEO. II. MoFFIT,
A. +. MATTHEWS.
LEwIsBURG, April II, 1867.
GENTLEMEN accept your invitation and, for
your kind expressions of respect, return you my
profound gratitude.
Within her jurisdiction, West Virginia has
tinguished civil liberty, and thieves are foremost
in making her laws. Her tyrannic statutes
breathe the spirit of her Fergusons her Farms
worths, her Witchers and her MAINS, aud are as
vile as the legislators who make them, the judges
who expound them, and the Governor who exc
cutes them
willingly, then, gentlemen, Withdraw from
base-born State, where Legislative execr. live, and
judicial corruption exudes from it's every pore, to
another land under more benignant auspices,
where again can catch the inspiration of civil
and political liberty.
My only regret is that will not be here to re,
ioice with you in your victsry, when truth shall
triumph, and the arm of justice crush these OPP
pressors of humanity.
With considerations of the highest esteem anu
friendship am, gentlemen, your friend, and ODE