Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-06
sou,n.-r neutrality-suspicious. Power.

Southern LoyaIty-Norshern Power.
The Radical party in ignoring the con
stitutionaI rights of eight million of white:
the right to legislate for themselVes-and
in fastening upon them universal negro
suffrage in all its hideous shapes and con
sequences. as impolitic as degrading, do SO
not bv the consent of the United States
but by authority derived from themselves
not with anv view to the amelioratlon OF
the negro. but to the view OF increasing
the strength of party in the South, with
The vain hope that this will be an equipolse
of power in their favor. They allege for q
reason for SO doing that the South IS SUN
disloyal. Base assertion. The 0outh Is
even more loyal than that very party
which is trying to yoke upon 1t the most
forbidding form of degradation and hui
initiation. That party is lulling the
Northern masses by stating that this meas
ure is necessary to ensure the peace OF the
South. Both Of these statements bear the
impress Of falsehood.
The moral law upon which rests all
greatness, happiness, security, glory and
grandeur, of nation, as OF an individual,
has been entirely set aside by this hang
dog political hybrid. The negro is made
superior TO the white man The barba-
rous black makes laws for the great Anglo
Saxon ! The North shuddered at the idea
when the question was first raised Ii re-
iected the degrading proposition with the
yeriegs scorn. Will it row stand tamely by
and see the Southern States, to which even
many of the Northern people have immi-
grated since the close OF the war, to be &C
tually governed by those men Impossi-
BILE. The fear of having this brought home
to their own firesides will be an incentive
to prevent it if nothing else. The people
of the North are not dead to all feeling Of
sympathy. They cannot forever keep the
cry, rCe 0ictiS-
s'Woe for the captive woe -!
For burning pains and slow
Are his who dieth of the fever'd heat"
Gan it be possible that the soldiers of the
North who felt the battles brunt, and
around whose path were showered leaden
hail of musketry who have charged to the
mouth OF the belching cannon, and gave
knocks and received them on thousand
fields, still entertain hatred for those men
who have SO nobly stood by cause Of
whose right they thought they wore morally
certain We reject such an idea. STILL
if we must see them silently acqulesce IN
the Reconstruction Acts Of Congress, what
can we think Could the hundreds Of
thousands Of Union soldiers whose bones
are now Wondering in the National Gene
ferries but arise from their crimson graves,
they would say to their surviving COM
rades ''Bo brave men, and show your
selves brave mon by treating tho van
pushed like what they are-braye men. .
A wounded and YanquiBhed King was car
ried before his conqucror, Alexander.
The latter asked him what treatment he
expected. The prompt reply was, "Treat
mo as Il King" VIII tho victorious North
treat the vanquishcd South like slave ?
Yea, worse than Il slave! 1t is incredible.
The Southern people are Of the same race
and lienagc They speak the same tongue
and worship the same God. They eX-
pected that treatment which all antiquity
has extended the conquered brave. Do
not let them keep up the cry, o North,-
ALAS poor country:
Almost afraid to know tbysclf. It cannot
Be calPd our mother, but our grave where moth
ing
But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;
Where signs and groans, and shrieks that rend
the air,
Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow
seems
modern ecstacy and the dead mans knel
Is there scarce asked, for whom and good mems
lives
Expire before the flowers in their caps
Forget not that the people of the South
are as much heirs to the rich inheritance OF
the great Anglo-Saxon race as are your
own.