Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-07


know how, nor care, to be useful to the
country.
The Admirable Bearing of Our People.
Confident that it is gratifying to the Chief Ma
gis trate and the Cabinet Ministers present. to
witness the admirable bearing Of The people Of
this Capital it is my pleasing duty to testify to
the President that what he has seen to-day i'll the
Capital prevails everywhere over the broad sur
face OF your noble state-GcnerGb Htct'es al R0l-
C{Qh
1t has been anil is popular, yes, protita-
bic, for Radical papers at the North, and IL
| few disrerutahle sheets III the South, to
denounce the people of North Carolina and
other Southern States as hostile to the
Government, iuiinical to tue negroes, law
| less md rotous-their courts the abodes Of
| injustice and persecution their Execu-
| tives the embodiment of rebellion and dis
| loyalty. Even those whose only fault has
| been to defend the people among whom
| lies upon the false foundation of which
| they have been maligned-to claim homes
| ty of purpose and purity of intention for
| the Southern people III their naths Of allie
giance--to protect the memory of their
honored dead and speak kindly of their
noble living have been denounced, again
and again, as disoyal to The Government,
| their hearts filed with treason and hatred
to the flag, aud their papers lave been
pointed out rs proper victims for the strong
arm Of the military power of the Govern
ment.
This system of abuse has been carried to
such all extent--coming as frequently from
the Congress of tho United States as from
col missionary the masses of the peo-
pie North. ignorant of the real condition
of affairs at the South, deceived as to the
true feelings Of our people, and easily mis-
led on account Of bitter sectional proiu-
diees, believed the insidious sianierG, and
at the ballot-boA condemned us to the hu-
initiation OF our present position. In view
of the lights which NOW open up--in the
face OF the earnest and noble vindication of
our people by General SIcKLEs i'll his Rnl-
eigh speech, how must the honest, law
| abiding aud laW-soving people Of that sec
tion-mGn who honor The CoIietitution of
tho country as the priceless heritage - fet
from fathers Of war proof regard the Or
Gers daily emanating from our Military Com
manders abrogating ali State and munich
pal laws, and paying no regard to the rights
of person or property what would be their
| respect for laws prescribed at the whin1 of
military commander, and only given pub
lioity to by the liberality of an impov-
erisheJ people Under the circumstances,
| they must regard the testimony of the Off
GERS in command in behalf of the admira-
J BILE bearing of the Southern people as the
best evidence OF their overwhelming desire
to do everything possible TO restore the
Union.
If the statement of the orderly conduct
of our people had emanated from such
''traitors' as President JOHNSON, Secretary
| SEWARD or Postmaster General RANDALL,
or such ''rebelg" as Governor WORTH or
Treasurer RATTIE, in their remarks, it
would have been the fruitful theme
of wholesale denuuciation--dou loaded
leaders in the &tnn9urd and its sickly echoes
would have warned Union men" of new
and terrible dangers, and the whole matter
would have been reproduced with improved
''scenic effect" in the Washington Chroni
Gle. and formed the subject of Southern
outrage letters to Congressman KELLEY and
Senator SUMNER. But coming from Gen
S1cKLEs, the military head of the State,
with officers scattered In every county,
these .venomous pens are stopped and our
people are for their good con-
duct and admirable bearing, and instead
of q part of a petty military district, North
Carolina is pronounced noble State, by
the chief officer who represents the power
of the government within her borders. =
What is disloyal in us to pronounce is very
proper and commendable from him.
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