Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-09
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Sterling's, Thursday, 22nd.
Hog Swamp Church, Friday, 90 23rd.
Black Swamp, Saturday, 9th.
Why Still Cry We Peace, when ye have
Declared for War!
The fendish purposes of the Radical
leaders and the miserable tools which they
hold in obeisance, in connection with the
true men of the South-the upholders and
supporters of the Observation-Disclosures
subverting them to such a rule as ne'er
despot thought of or tyrant dreampt, must
be held in detestation and horror by all
minded men everywhere who will be-
hold and reason upon their course. We
know that the manifest tendency of this
destructive monster, Radicalism is to the
entire subversion of the Constitution, the
complete overthrow of free government
and in the end military despotism fol-
lowing close upon the heels of anarchy
These are the general and ultimate results
if its terrible course is not checked and the
people do not raise aloud their voice and
declare, through that moral force which the
ballot gives them, that checked it must
and shall be. And towards the accom-
plishment of these ends and the subjuga
ton Of our people to state worse than
death itself, they are using all their efforts
to provoke strife and bloodshed. While
raising that cry. which originated with an
imbecile, and is being re-echoed with the
madness of despair from their press and at
their meetings throughout our broad land
-"Let US have peace they are openly
and secretly, above board and at their Sc
Guided conclaves,s declaring for war and
urging the mad, ignorant masses at the
South to a course of open instruction and
violence-virtually and in fact assuring
them that the whites have no rights they
are bound to respect.
Take this State alone. How is it with
us here For months past their delecta-
BILE organ, the Raleigh Standard, has
abounded with Infamous, infdel and in
cendiary appeals to the negroes to rob,
outrage and assassinate the white people,
plumber them of their property, and leave
but blackened mass to mark the spot
where once their dwellings reared their
heads in peaceful repose. Almost nightly
from the stump do their speakers, both
white and colored, while beginning with
the imbecile cry of "peace," urge upon
them by all the prejudices of their excitable
natures to turn against the whites. Their
phrases are sometimes skillfully framed,
but beneath them and in their insinuations
creep the very devil and his malicious
hosts. Let them deny intentions as they
may, the effect is the same. But is there
any excuse, can any be formed for the pur
port of such advice as the Standard gives
in the following extract:
''something must be done. The law of self
preservation must necessarily be obeyed. Some
thing must be done at all hazards but the more
quietly and peaceably it can be done, so much the
better. The question then is, can there g, be any
remedy under the forms of law? We think so,
unquestiOnably. Of course it is not to be sup
posed that men and women and children will
starve to death, while corn is still standing in the
fields and while hogs and cattle are not kept
under lock and key! But these are matters of
minor Importance and are to be expected, how
ever much the necessity may be deplored What
mean is this, that there is one efficient remedy
for this wholesale crusade of oppression carried
on against the Colored race to starve him into
voting against his choice. The remedy is this:
whenever the Republicans have control of
county, let a meeting of the Commissioners be
called st once. Let them make out list of all
the cOlOreQ SIOne-m aSOnS, Drlck-IayerS, plaster
ers. painters and carpenters. Then let them
select a site of sufficient dimensions for vii
lage of from five to fifteen hundred colored
paupers as the case may be. The work itself will
give employment to considerable number of per-
sons and time Will be required to COM
plete it: Then let the county paupers be moved
IN ana De provided with houses and food at the
expense OF those who have made them paupers.
Let the tax be so laid to affect only the large
iand holder. Not one IN twenty owns any land at
all, and the largo land holders are much rarer-
This tax will fall lightly upon the great mass of
the people, while the oppressive land holder will
be compelled to throw his broad acres upon the
market to raise money to pay the taxes. And in
addition to this, let the Legislature deprive these
exactlnS tyrants OF the benefits of the stay law
and compel them to pay their debts, Pass their
lands under the Sherif's hammer and give the
poor a chance to buy land"
Here is programme to rob us of our
property under the semblance of law-such
law as is devised by tyrants and executed
by hirelings and tools. Truly it is thus
they would restore peace. Countenance
and weight is given to the above teachings
by an address issued by the Radical mem
bers Of the Legislature, principally to the
negroes, which we have previously pub
hshed and the following extract from which
we desire our people to again read
Did it never occur to you, We gentlemen Of
education, property and character We men and
especially ye women, who never received snv.
thing from these colored people bnt services
kndness ana protechon-did it never occur to
you that these same people, who are 40 very had
Will not be willing to sleep in the cold when vonT
houses are denied them, merely becansa +haIy I'll
not vote as you do? Did it never occur to yon