Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-17
The Radicals and Foreigners.

The Radicals are very willing to add to
the voting population 1.-The ignorance and
superstition of the New World, when it is
thought that their party will receive the
support of said ignorance and superstition,
but they are unwilling, even after the con-
stitutional probation, to trust foreigners
with the ballot, and falsely charge them
with ignorance and superstition, when, in
fact, they are, as q class, as well, and pro-
badly better educated than most Of the in
habitants Of this country, and this very
fact, added to personal experiences of gov
ernmental radicalisn, cause them, as gen
eral thing, to affiliate with the anti-Radical
party in this country.
To illustrate the antipathy which the
Radical leaders entertain for the foreigners,
we quote the following remarks of MIR.
Ferry, the Radical Senator from Connecti-
cut, in explaining the causes of the defeat
of his party in that State at the recent
election. He said.
Tho vote Of the Republicans was larger than
that of last wear The Democratic vote was in
creased by the natur&lized vote. Owing to this
cause the Republicans always had hard battle to
fight. They must win acceeeions OF Americans
reared in their schools and churches, while the
ignorance and superstition of the ont World are
poured into the ranks Of the party 'rdt ao',ich has
colleague acdS proud to affiliate
Such language and feelings are the legiti-
mate offspring of the purposes of the Jaco-
bins to strike down every barrier to success,
and will eventually lead, if not checked, to
the same lengths, which in 1898 eliminated
in the Alien and Sedition laws, and convert
this Democratic Republic into just such a
monocrasy which the leaders of that day
attempted to establish, and only failed by
being hurled from power by the votes of
the justly alarmed people.
Who does not see, IN the petu-
on the part of the Radicals, if they dared,
to disfranchise the foreigner, with the same
disregard to law, with which they "win
accessions Of Americans reared in their
schools and churches" that is, freedmen,
indoctrinated into their party tenets, or
Bureau agents and political preachers in
the holy precincts of loyal leagues.
If in the great contest now pending Rad
icalism shall become the ruling politics Of
the country, what man, white or black, ma
tive or foreign, can place reliance upon
what may constitute the basis Of citizen
ship and suffrage. In the preliminary
struggle we see large numbers of native
citizens disfranchised, and unrestricted suf-
frage given to negroes in ten States, and
who doubts, if the contest in its culmina-
ton discloses the necessity, that the foreign
whites would be placed under political dis
abilities ? And if the black votes but add
to the representative strength of the South,
without securing these States to the domi-
nant party, what assurance has this race
that their newly acquired rights will not be
withdrawn by the same hands which gave
it to them Under the direction of q par
ty which holds all laws as it's own conve-
nient and subservient landmarks, no citizen
can feel secure in his political rights, and
the very objects of organized and constitu-
tional governments will be frustrated In
the name of liberty, tyranny and despotism
will usurp the seats of justice and freedom,
and the Constitution of the country will be
offered willing sacrifice to the Moloch of
Radicalism. In its defeat and overthrow
rests the last hopes of free government.