Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-11
From the New York Herald.
The Issue Before the Country.

| III.
| The Issue Before the Country
| Two years have passed since We closed
the war of the rebellion. The people have
waited with patience for the country to be
restored to something of its former glory.
They have anxiously watched every politi-
! cal movement until hope has grown faint
under the hands of the wreckers, johnson
and Congress. Have they given us peace,
| restored confidence in public enterprise,
| thrown vigor into our commercial develop
ment, made us respected abroad Not one
of all these but, as if to make the picture
still darker, they have given US the re-
verse of what the nation has had a right to
expect.
When the first gun against Fort Sumter
threatened the d1sintegration of our terrific
ry, we, as people, sprang to arms, and high
above all petty and partisan feeling, pro
claimed the preservation Of orr nationality
to be the gage of battle. Four terrible
years and victory welded the States to-
gether. The cause was won. We emerged
from the contest still vigorous. The noun
tain of debt we had assumed-the price in
treasure paid for territorial unity-we
thought lightly Of We had not been fight
ing for the negro. The negro was side
issue, aud came in like many other second
airy elements whose fortunes hung on the
have, however, in their political madness,
completely lost sight of the primary object
in pursuit Of an inferior one. Their minds
have been unable to grasp the great prob
lem and it is in the negro alone that they
find national consolidation, national great
ness, national development, and some
thing which, of kindred nature, suits their
calibre
Is the nation to centre all its future
hopes upon the ability of the black man
to govern it Are we expected, in the
light of the intelligence of this century, to
believe that any body of men, be they the
Congress of the United States or a body of
NEUROLOGICAL gods, can, by simple legis-
lative fiat, lift the negro from barbarism to
the summit of civilization ? And yet this
is what the radical party is trying to make
us believe. Not only this, but in the face
Of every acknowledged truth they would
persuade us that we have had the madness
to fight for such an idea A revolution
must be Judged by its results. An equation
is solved when we all agree that the result
is correct. Now if we, as the people of the
United States, permit the fanatical faction
lists of North OF south to bury the great
golden principle of our battle under the
secondary idea of negro elevation, then we
sadly reduce ourselves in our own estima-
ton, and admit that this was the naacin,auaa
d0nuDa of all our hopes-that this virtually
is the solution of the revolutionary eqlla-
ton. But how many Of the people of the
United States are willing to admit that this
is the sOlutiOn-that this is all that they
fought for
The people are beginning to think of
these things ; and we tell Andrew johnson
and our Congress that they must not be
blind to the fact that for the people to
think in the United States is for them to
act. TO act now as they think is to make
a clean sweep Of officials, from the Presi-
dent down to the lowest leech that sucks at
the national life. The country is disgust
eds fairly reeling under the blows given
to it by these political wreckers who have
raised the black flag against our progress.
The people now cry, down with them ! "
And down they must go-down to the level
of the intelligence of that element which
they would use to prop up their falling for
tunes. Let the President and Congress
leave the work which their brains cannot
comprehend. From first to last their poll
cy, on both sides, has been ruin. Not
alone the loyal North, but every true lover
Of his country, has looked on from day to
day, for the past two years, only to see the
seeds OF new revolution planted and fos-
tered. We have seen the President re-
dnced so low that even graveyard, with
five thousand dead heroes lying around
him, he has descended to party spleen in
speech and act. We have seen conduct on
the part of the radical leaders no less dis
gushing. The nation now, drUgged to sur
felt with such things, demands change.
Change must come, for in it lies national
preservation. We fought four years
against one party that we might preserve
our national unity. We won the battle
The party in power now make it essential
that by the ballot we shall again do battle
for national safety. Every act of Congress
indicates the necessity Of this ; for within
our Congressional halls are enacted laws
that would disgrace the legislation of the
Common Council of New York. The peo-
pie and their generals put down the re-
belllon and then turned the political ele-
ments into the hands of the politicians
These have gone on from bad to worse with
their work until there is no longer any
hope for the country, unless the people as
sumo the power that belongs to them and
again come to the rescue. This must be
done. In all future elections let the strong,
clear heads Of the country be placed in re-
sponsibility. Let the demagogues sink to
that level from which they arose to curse
US with what they call legislation. Their
last hope now is lease of power through
negro supremacy. Are the people willing
to grant this, and force to the surface
new revolution? Let every man understand
that herein lies just as much Of the future
welfare of the United States as ever hung
upon the bayonets of our armies during
the rebellion. The new war is to save in
telligence from the food of Ignorance that
the radicals have loosened to the attack.
These are the true issues before the peo-
ple and the ones which must soon be de-
cided.
Corn ant! Hogs.
From carefully conducted experiments,
by different persons, it has been ascertain
ed that one bushel of corn will make a lit
tie over ten and half pounds of pork
gross Taking the result as basis, the
following deductions are made, which all
our farmers would do well to lay by for