Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-01-03
THE OLD AND NEW YEAR.

No Would he wish 1t Dack NO. why
should he Another year is born. LII
birth has been heralded with peals of Joy
bells throughout the Northern States. Ha'
il been rung in with the acclamations o.
eight million of politically down-trodder
people d? No Will it bring gladness tc
every hearth in Southland No. What
say they in the North ?
Our IMPOVERISHED people have had, ano
have still, to struggle for the maintenance
of existence to rebuild their once smiling
dwellings, which in ruins stood IN blacken-
ing columns against an adverse sky. With
stout hearts, and with determination I'M
equalled by any nation, ancient or MODERN
they have gone to work, and performed
nrodieies. They looked on in silent
majesty during the now closed year, berett
of every right that makes manhood man,
at factions quarreling over their PROSTATE,
chivalrous land. Not content with legls-
Iatinc them out of their born inheritance
that beoueathed to them by WASHINGTON,
and JEFFERSON, and JACKsoN-they con-
tinue their sectarian fanaticism, and with
q brutality that made of Poland frag-
mentary people, and Ireland the enslaved
and the scorned of ages endeavor still to
rob them of what yet remains untarnlshed
and undefiled- their honor. They will say
we have forfeited everything by waging a
hopeless war against the General Govern
ment. That is, we have lost, or will lose
everything unless we become Radicals.
They said we could not leave the Union,
and that for the perpetuity Of the Union
was the war inaugurated. From their own
mouths do we condemn them. When IN
all faith, oil honesty ard intention, we
threw down our arms-when we saw a
further resistance AopeLeSs-we accepted
their conditions, and returned to venture
again common fortune under a common
flag. With one sweep of the pen our slaves
were liberated, the fortune of war, and not
the humane feeling Of the Northern popu-
lace for that class of people. The Execu-
tive and the General Congress began dis
pute over our mangled land. Come to our
arms, We estrayed brothers of ours, were
no longer in their speeches but, avaunt =
stand back; you have not one word to say.
You are conquered. We will do to you as
we please. Oh, how magnanimous how
generous how just How like old DANIEL
WEBSTER, who could say, in all the fullness
of patriotic heart &C Justice is the great
interest of man on earth. 1t is the hga-
ment which holds civilized beings and
civilized nations together. Where her
l. lCnc I 10 n
honored, there is foundation for social
security, general happiness, and improve
lnent and progress OF our race. lead
that, you beguilers of men. Read that,
you legislators of the nation. Do justice
to Us if you want the ligament of fraternity
again to be inscribed on the national ban
ner. Do justice to us if you wish us to be
an integral part of the nation. Do justice
to us if you desire eight millions of men to
inscribe again their names on the portal OF
the shrine of American liberty.
You say we have ruled the country IN
the past. You say you have ground us to
dust Do you fear us Are you afraid to
trust us /? We have no legions in the field.
We have no veterans to confront your bat
talions. They are scattered. They are
trying to keep their poor families from
starving They are rebuilding their dis
mantled dwellings. They are tilling their
deserted fields, and replacing burnt fences
Remember days gone away. When Penn
sylvania rose in opposition to the Excise
law-who was in power The Southern
States. When she insulted United States
officers, and drove them from her borders,
and menaced them with death, thus reject
ing the authority of Congress, and falling
back on what she thought was her original
right, that of Withdrawing at will from the
Confederation did those States in power,
when they quelled her insurrection, enact
laws for her internal welfare, or dissolution?
Think of that, Pennsylvania. Your great
Commoner to-day is trying to enact a law
that will make the very Hell turn pale and
hiss forth, go
THE swelling spleen, md phrenzy raging rife,
The shaking Palsy, and Saint Francis fire.,
he showers on the South" But Pennsyl-
vania has spoken. The dog is dead. His
mouth is toothless. He has the harmless
fang Clubbing IN and out, throwing to the
winds its harmless venom. Good Penn
sylvania, you are not altogether beref5 OF
reason.
And you, too, Massachusetts,, remember
December, 1856. What did you do then
You, too, arose in a more formidable insur
rection, and in open contest under Con
tinental officer defed the Union, defed the
Government. You refused to pay debts
incurred by the war which gave you free
dom from British thraldom. Shays was {
saint then Sumner and Wilson are YOU
saints to-day, dispensing your sanity doc
trine. How were you treated When Lin
coin routed your forces in the field, was 1
reconstruction bill framed for you Die
the Southern States interfere with your in
formal and neculiar laws g? Did thew SenC