Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-07-05

publican conclusions. Tt is true that all
persons allowed to register ought to do SO.
and equally true that all persons allowed "a
do SO ought to vote, but that it is the dutv
of every one to vote the Republican ticket.
is, it seems to me, perfect non sequituT.-
What is the platform of the Republican
Party What is it's creed and what it's
practice Are they such as to invite our
people to embrace them !? Are such lead
ers at home and abroad as Holden, Settle.
Thad. Stevens, and Judge Kelley, calculated
to win the confidence OF the people of the
South ? Is it possible to hope even, in ten
years time, to induce the mass of our white
people to unite with such men, in such
professions and practices No matter
whether right or wrong to do so, polite or
impolitic, will they do it? Statesmen
should deal with men and things as thew
are, and notas they ought to he, and, there
fore, if our white people can not be brought
up to Republicanism all at once, although
it may be best for them, it is plainly the
part of wisdom not to attempt it all at
once, but to begin with small quantity at
first and to gradually increase it as the
strength and stomach of the patient will
bear it, until the full dose of Republican
ism can be taken at one gulp. Our peo-
pie have each day shown a remarkable ca
pacity for a larger Dose They have sval-
lowed negro citizenship, negro testimony,
negro equality before the law, negro suf-
frage, and are now ready to swallow negro
association in the jury box and other pub
lie places, and by to-morrow's sun, will
doubtless be prepared for confscation-
what more can be asked :? If, then, the
rights, both political and natural, and the
legal status of the colored race be the real
object of the Republicans it is already, or
soon will be, accomplished. Why, then, af
ter having obtained the substance, do they
so insultingly force upon US mere matter Of
form by demanding that we enter into po-
litical utilization with party whose mis-
sion is ended, and whose name and mem
bers are personally offensive to us from
past associations, and that too when the re-
suit must necessarily be full of evil for
while it is true that the mass of our white
people cannot be persuaded to vote with
the Republicans, it is eqRally true that the
mass of our colored people can be persuad-
ed to vote with them. Here, then, is at
once a fruitful source of distrust, suspi-
cion, misunderstanding, strife and enmity,
surely and certainly, sooner or later, to
end in a war of races, the horrors of which
not even the survivors of the late war can
picture to themselves No sane, honest
man can for moment pretend to doubt
the ability of the military authorities to
secure the entiretequality of the colord race,
or pretend to believe there will be any at
tempt to prevent the earliest possible re
construction of the State. Conscious that
no such desire is entertained and that no
such attempt will be made, we cannot help
thinking that all the Republican operations
in this State are directed solely to the per-
sonal agral d cement Of certain individuals.
1t has been alleged on their part, however,
that the North will have no confidence In
our loyalty until we entrust the admins"
tration of our State government into the
hands of other men, and therefore that q
Republican party organization is necessary.
! These other men, who have put themselves
forward as best fitted to create faith in the
Northern mind, in our loyalty, a.e such
persons as w. w. Holden, Thos. Settle,
Capt. G. S. A., Eugene Grissom, Capt. G.
S. A., D. NJ. Carter, Col. G. S. A., Rev.
Col. Sinclair, @. S. A, John Pool, would
be Brigadier General, G. S. A, and poor
Sarbuck, who has just been indicted by
the U. S. Court for perjury in taking the
s'iron clad OATH" These are the men who,
according to their own showing, can soon,
est stimulate the growth of that ''plant" Of
such proverbially "slow growth, " who can
act as the best moral pOatdrette fer the cul
! tivation of political confidence in the NORTH
e77a mind.
But have wandered further and written
more than wa my design.