Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-03
From the National Intelligence
A Man OF Iron for the CrtsIs

III Some time since certain leading Rodio,I
papers, as if by concert, and Certain
without occasion in the way of proyocatinS
on the part OF the people, startled tLa
country with the declaration that g o.
gress counted the votes OF elections g..
President and Vice President of the Init
States. 1t was designed in the first in
stance, as an intimation to the weak AMI
tlmid that it was not worth their whila -
exert themselves III the Presidential can,
paign against the Radical party Bnt =
was designed mainly as an audacious motto
In the way OF menace to the country. Ly
the Radical cOnspirators, of their fell NM
pose of counting In whatever elccforl
votes they shall see tit to CONT, and aIs,,
to count out others, if necessary. to COM
pass their ends In political scoundreli.r
Who supposes that they will hesitate at arv
step in fraud and force to carry ont pr,.
gramme to defeat the popular choice il tbo
subject of it should be Democrat or ~
Conservative Under pretence Of an BIS.
tions about the loyalty of electors, or tlat
of their constituencies, or Of frauds in tho
elections, will they stop moment al u NM.
position to treat popular choice of cbc.
tors who shall be obnoxious to them, as az
it had not taken place ?" This was what
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens attempted in Penn
Sylvauia In 1898. for which act Of real tres.
son Col. FOrney Chen young man,
without the guile III politics that has
since stained his name, denounced Steven,
as "a villain at heart" who could nos ,,-
cape the penalties Of the violated laws Of
The Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania Vino
supposes that the party of which Stevens IS
and was at the head, with such subordinate
satraps as Butler, Schenck, Logan, etc,
will not undertake to defraud the bcuplcuf
the country of their rights as voters and
citizens, If the election should 90 against
them? Has not the House constantly SGT
at naught the will Of the people in the
elections Suppose the election against
them by close vote viii they nov car.
tainly ate upt to defeat it.? Again, is !.
for moment to be supposed that the
bayOnet- created negro despotisms in the
South over the PROSTATE rights of whi,e
men, i'll fraud of the Constitution, is TO de-
termine result adversely to the voice Of
the great North "Resistance to tvraut.
is obedience to God" That sentimen,
which was graved deep upon the old rocks
of New England by British regicidrs,
should ever be law to white men when
the usurpers and revolutionists in Congrcs,
dare to cast down the Constitution for the
purpose of raising negroes to despotic
sovereignty over the whites Of the South
By such desperate steps as unconstitutional
negro rule in the South backed by the
sword, by fraud in counting electoral votes
in the infamous House Of Representatives,
and by the probable design of General
Grant to carry out such atrocious purposes
at the cannon's mouth, do the Jacoblus
count for their success in what is to be
rebellion against the elective choice in
November. Their motto is Peaceaby if
we can forcibly, if we must"
When the trying hour shall come for
them to initiate such despotic steps to de.
fraud the people of their rights i'll the re-
spect of their choice for the Presidency,
then there will be need on the part Of our
candidate of an exhibition of nerve equal
to the emergency, and of men as hackers,
who have not quailed at danger, and will
stand up like men of iron for the rights OF
American citizens. Then will be there
wanted a man of the nerve Of Jackson,
who, when assailed murderously at the
Capitol and urged by his friends to go
back, saying there are assassins about you,
replied, Il go this way, or l go no way"