Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-08-14
The Police Bill.

The Police Bill.
No doubt the enlightened citizens OF the
Northern States look upon the inhabitants
(nee "rebels y of the Southern country as
a race of people far below the ordinary
standard of civilization. This fact has
been carefully instilled into their minds by
the abolition orators of the North previous
to the war, as we'll as by the political YAM
pires who are now swarmiDg over the
whole of our fair land, and who, as only
themselves know how fully, have sacrlhced
everything that to an honorable mlno
makes life endurable, for the furtherance
of their schemes of robbery and plumber
These people, then, of the North are pre-
pared to believe everything that is told
them relative to the disorders existing at
the South at this day. They look upon
the negroes as a down-trodden race, who
are still made the objects of numerous and
dire persecution at the hands of their
former owners They regard the Northern
men who have left their homes IN the
North to take forcible possession Of those
of the Southern people rs a veritable race
of saints-saints for whom the fairest
lands of the South are an inadequate re-
ward-and they believe that those who
still dare to assert their constitutional
rights are race of savages who literally go
about seeking whom they may devour.-
They not only, large number of them,
believe these things, but are so obstinate
and blinded in their prejudices that moth
ing that we can say will convince them
to the contrary.
To pander to and to increase this belief
in the minds of these people, the Radical
orators and the Radical papers published
in the South, throw overheard every con-
sideration of decency and truth, and do
not hesitate TO publish at home and abroad
the most shameful Misrepresentation. 1t
is of no avail to contradict these assertions
aud for us to live up to a strict standard of
law and order. Every disturbance, no
matter of how Insignificant a nature, is
perverted to an ill, and the very oppres-
sions under which we are laboring are
made to appear of our own coinage.
A full illustration of this fact occurred in
the North Carolina Senate last Saturday.
The new Police Bill was under considera-
ton, and q substitute of a much more
moderate character was proposed by MIR.
Respass This substitute was adopted, but
q reconsideration was afterwards moved.
II W
some arguing for and others against the
bill It was stated by some that there were
numerous disorders in the State growing
out of the existence of Ku-Klux organi-
zation Mr. Respass dared them to pro-
duce proof of such, and it could not be
produced.
Galloway (negro) Of this county, as usual
had something to say. He had seen, he
said, some evidences of a civil war already.
So have we, Galloway, and had you been
present in Wilmington on Tuesday night
you would have seen, and, possibly, have
borne hand in the same. We saw there
mob of negroes melted to demonstrations
against party of white men, from whom
there came no cause for assault. We saw
some six or seven gentlemen set upon by
a numerous gang Of negroes and stoned
and this without provocation ; and it is 6
well-known fact to all that the city, during
the entire night, was alive with distur,
Dances, all of which were carried on by
men of your own party, and for whose pro
| lection tyrranous and an unconstitutiona
measure is to be imposed upon the people
he had seen loyal men forced to leave theil
houses because they had favored the adop
ton of the Constitution, which is an as
sertion that, in our opinion, cannot be easily
proven. Let this colored Senator &c
farther and say when and where he hai
seen an instance of this kind. As q public
} journalist, we have been aware of facts a.
they have TRANSFERRED, and not in one sin
gle instance has there been such thins
occurring in this Senatorial District, whicl
is that of which Galloway appears as repre-
sentative.
It is unhesitatingly declared in the Sen
ate Chamber of the State, that this polio
: bill is for the protection of the colore
people from the whites, and it is well
known fact to the trainers and supporter
of that bill, that it is the white peopl
themselves who need protection from tn
violence of the negro. How much protce
ton this bill will give to the white man
already known. It will give as much an
no more than was wished and intended b
the authors of it.
! With negro State and negro local pc
:, lice, the small remnants of constitutions
} liberty now left to the people of Mort
Carolina will be buried in the grave tina
holds the repudi,ted instrument carved on
3 by the swords of our ancestors at Moore
Greek and at Guilford Court House, an
8 framed by the authors of the American In
dependence.
GEN. WADE HAMPTON. in a speech de
t liyered at the Democratic Convention @
Columbia, s. O., on the 7th instant, in re
ply to statement made by Northern ps