Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-09-04
FORT SANDERS, WYOMING TERRITORY,
August Is, 1868.
The Aims of Parties.

While the Radicals in Florida and Ala
bama are fraudulently depriving the peo-
pie of those States of the right of suffrage
and are contemplating the same thing in
Louisiana while the Governors of the ire
constructed States and "loil" members
Of Congress from the South are crying for
arms, and while in some of the Southern
States the Legislatures are preparing to or
ganize and arm a specia. militia force, the
| Democrats and Conservatives are, By pre-
cept and example, doing all that can be
done to insure peace and good order. In
suits, violence and riots have been met
with most commendable forbearance, and
| that, too, when these acts were known to be
the result of the teachings of the base and
dishonorable men who have set themselves
up as the leaders of the blacks Misrepre-
sensations have been tolerated with a man
ly reserve, and expressions have been
borne with quiet submission as remarka-
BILE as it is con trary to all precedents in
the history of the world.
Nowhere are the aims of parties more
| aptly illustrated than in North Carolina
Throughout the State, almost universally,
from the highest to the lowest, all the Off
ces-all the emoluments and powers of
the government-are in the hands of one
party. The laws under which we live are
in accordance with their wishes and dicta-
ton. The officers who interpret and ad-
minister them are their own chosen SER
wants. Even the works of internal i'm
provements and of charity are organized
after their own fashion and under their
own selected officials. The legislation of
the State and the power of its treasury
have been used for the sole purpose of
continuing this supremacy. It's life and
power being built upon false foundation,
every effort is made by fraud, by bribery
and by threats, to ward off the blows
which are aimed at it, and even force and
violence are proposed to save it from the
just indignation and wrath of an outraged
people.
The man who pretends to be the Gov
ernor OF the State, by virtue of the illegal
~ exercised power of Congress, now bold
~ announces his intention to organize an
armed force in North Carolina in direct
and palpable violation of law of the very
body which gave him official existence. In
the face of the order of the Secretary of
War he has appointed full corps of Ma
jor-Geuerals, and added to his civil retinue
a complete military staff of Commander
in-Chief in time of actual war. Our peo-
pie are too impoverished and our property
already too burdened with taxes to suppose
for one moment that Governor Holden
is surrounding himself with this "pride,
pomp and circumstance of real war as a
vain-glorious and idle show. He knows,
as do the people of North Carolina know,
that such military preparations are not de-
maUded by any condition of things in this
State. We have passed through the most
exciting and irritating ordeal that ever
stirred up people. We have buried our
bravest sons and brothers, and seen their
best and noblest survivors outlawed and
DISTINGUISHED. We have had our former
slaves armed with the ballot and placed in
control of political and civil rights of
which we had been violently deprived
Through their ignorance and prejudices
we have had our State pass under the pow
er of proAigate and wicked men. Our
property is made liable for the enormous
debts created for purposes of corruption
and plumber. Our honorable sympathies
and opinions have been insulted in the
fundamental laws Of the State, and thel