Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-08-30
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
Reaction ut the North.

Tt NAV be. and doubtless is, true that the |
editor of the New York Herald speaks
through the columns of that paper only IN
his own interest. But it is equally true
th at he identifies his opinions and interest,
SO far as his editorial existence and success
are concerned, with the opinions and in
crest of the hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple who compose his daily readers. Labor
ing merely for interest, for the popularity
of the Herald, that paper has always been
looked upon as the slrewd indicator OF pun
lie sentiment; not its leader, to be sure put
the best political barometer of the country
Processing always to be independent with
one exception, we never remember to have
seen it mistaken in its predictions of ma
tionaI elections, and always on the winning
side in State contests.
Therefore when we see, day after day.
proclaimed in its columns that the people
of the North are becoming alarmed at the
danger to the whole country of creating
negro supremacy in the interests of a party
in the Southern States, we are satlshed' not
that the editor of the Herald IS uneasy Oh
account of his own interest, nor that ne
oaras ,nuch for that of others, but that he
sees the coming storm and IS arranging MS
Sails To weather it. It has never been his
Motley to breast the tide of political affairs,
but contents himself merely to float Win
#. and when it becomes tranquil, VIII
decks prepared for action, he Is III condl-
ton to make the best Of the new order OF
things. Papers published in the interests OF
parties and supported by their success may
cling with undaunted courage to the last
plank which saves them from destructon'
and their views of the future are always
warped by their wishes and hopes the
principles and interest of party, and pro-
badly the principal and interest OF lndlVld-
nails. NAV control them, when their better
Indictment foretells the beginning OF coun-
er-reyolution-nay, pride and hope to
save something from the wreck may pre-
vent an Abandonment Of the doomed vessel
We have long been satisfied that the rad
ical measures of the present day would
eventually and certainly lead 10 reaction
as rapid and as radical as the means by
which the present condition of political
affairs have been brought about. The very
excuses by which CROMWELL rose rapidly
to influence and power, were the very
means by which the counter-revolution was
inaugurated which deposed him.
History, sacred and profane, from the
killing of Able by Cain to the present day,
is but recapitulation Of reaction following
in the wake of extreme measures to accom-
plish purposes-the more radical the mean:
the more complete the revolution. Human
nature now is what it has always been, ant
the same influences which have ever caused
reyulsion of feeling, when assured strength
has been invariably followed by e1cesse
of action, will work out the political regen
Grafton of this country. Causes which have
buried parties, societies, sects, nay, gov
ernments themselves, are now rapidly un
dermining the party organizations OF TIL
country, and we may well congratulate oul
selves if the superstructure itself is not IN
yolved in the ruins.
The Herald, conscious of these facts, an
hearing the mutterings of the rising storm
taxes CCunSSi Vi It's tSlnlOAiVAoh' Ao'' r.
badly, from principle, but from the lneVlt
able fact that popular favor leads IN tha
direction, and while really following,
would seem to direct political action
Whether it is actuated by principle or pc
lev, its influence is none the less great, nc
its arguments and advice none the less adj
and suggestive. 1t has entered the hs1
against the policy of Congress IN placln
the Southern States under the dominate
of the ignorant masses who have Ju
emerged from the state of slavery, and ola
after day, with the persevering energy an
ability which have ever characterized II
columns, it teens with warnings and arg
ments to show the danger to the who
country of Africanizing the South. Boil
lv il proclaims in advance that the gre
State of New York will condemn the ole
perate experiment of negro supremacy.
The following extracts from different ar
cles appearing daily in its columns, 81
some idea of the confidence and the tet
inss which actuate it's course:
From the Herald, Aug. 18TH