Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-13

OF the lives Of passers by.
This is a free country-fcr negroes and
all SIGH Raleigh Sentinel.
We are gratifed to announce that that
gallant gentleman. Maj. A. G. Avery, is
Senatorial District, composed of the coun-
ties Of Burke, Caldwell and Watauga.
Raj. Sentinel.
STEPHENS, the chicken thief, has been
elected to the Senate in Cnswell, vice Hon.
Bedford Brown, declared ineligible.
Raj. Sentinel
From the Richmond Wing.
The Presidential Election
Well they, whether they know it or
not, have Master as well as We Our
hope is that he will be mild and merciful
to us poor miserable sinners. All the lit
tie we know of him, or imagine we know,
is derived from newspapers and current
talk, and is scarcely sufficient to justify an
opinion that is worth anything. We can
not assert that he will cut the Radicals, or
give a fresh turn to the screw with which
they are torturing the South. We know
not whether he will be q bloody NERO, or
he will lay deep and broad the fountains
of despotic empire, Or restore the lost
rights Of the States, and re-establish the
Constitution in its original vigor and puri-
ty. There are some favorable indications
our ignorance does not enable us to use
a stronger word-there are indications
which may excuse the wrongcd and Oppress-
ed for indulging hope. If he be, as Gen.
Butler says, Indifferent to human suffer
ing, he has never manifested. by act or
word, SO far as we are aware, any pleasure
in torturing his victims. He has left the
indulgence of that noble feline propensity
to others, who more loudly vaunt their
humanity. He acted with manly heroism
in demanding that the parole of General
Lee and other Confederate officers should
be relgiously respected. His conduct on
that occasion induces the belief that, when
in position to control the matter, he will
insist that the spirit and intent of that
parole shall not be confined to the officers,
but shall be extended to all the people of
the Confederate States. No man knows
better than he does, that General Lee
would never have surrendered his sword.
! if it had been understood that the people
whom he represented were to be subjected
to African domination. General Gran is
letter demanding surrender excludes the
possibility of such an Interpretation. That
letter, the second tC General Lee, says:
| GLNERAL-Your note IF last evening, in reply
to mine Of same date, asking conditions on which
I will accept the surrender Of the Army Of North
ern Virginia. is just received. In reply, would
say that peace being my great DESIRE there is but
ono condition would insist upon-namely, that
| the men and officers surrendered shall be dis
qualified for taking up arms against the
Government of tho United States till properly ex-
| changed. | will meet you, &c.
In exact accordance with the GO one con-
diHon were the terms of surrender. Here
they are
TERMS OF SURRENDER.
APPoMATTox CoURT6oUsE VA, April 9, 1865.
GENERAL-In accordance with the substance Of
my letter to you Of he Sth instant, l propose to
receive the surrender of the Army Of Northern
Virginia Oh the following terms to wit: hollis of
all the officers and men to be made in duplicate
| one copy to be given to officer to be designa-
ted by me, the other to be retained by such Off
Ger or officers you may designate. The Off
GERS to give their individual paroles not to tat g
up arms against the Government of the United
States until properly e1 changed, and each COM
pany or regimental commander to sign a like pa
role for the men of their commands. The arms,
artillery and public property to be parked and
stacked and turned over to the officers appointed
by me to receive them. This will not embrace
the side-arms of the officers nor their private
horses or baggage. This done, each officer and
man will be allowed to return to his home not to
be disturbed Dy United States authority so long
as they observe their paroles, and the laws in
force where they may reside
U. S, GRANT,
Lieutenant General.
General + L. LEE.
We are not left to conjecture why these
liberal terms were accorded. We are not
certain that General Grant himself has not
admitted that his object was to remove
every inducement to guerrilla warfare. x
His friends have frequently confessed that
such was his motive, and we copied an ar
ticle last week from the Now York Times
to this effect and expressly conceding that
it was wise stroke Of policy as we'll as a
grand act of magnanimity. General Grant
knows that there never would have been
peace that southern men, with arms in
their hands, never would have surrender
ed them on the condition that they were
to exchange position with their s lavea.-
lOuibbles may be raised about military
lcapitulation embracing political rights, &c.
But General Grant knows the full intent
and whole scope Of that capitulation, and
he knows it would never have been agreed
to buy Confederates on the terms of Rad
ical reconstruction. We appeal to his hon.
He has testified to our faithful observance
of the condition imposed he is now in
position to exact a like compliance On the
other side.
| We have referred to Gen. Grants testimony
before the Congressional Committee and find our
irecOllecion correct. He says.
| 81 believe that with ell CHI terms all the rebel
'armies would surrender, and that would
sc then avoid bushwhacking and continuation OF
Sc the war III way that we could N AXE very little
''progress with, having no organic ed armies to
| "mect'
Shooting of Mr. Law at Darlington.
On the night Of the 4th instant, a party
of from twenty to thirty men broke into
the cotton house Nj. J. K. Law, brother of
General E. NJ. Law, who, hearing the noise,
got out of bed, and opening the window to
look out was Immediately fired at, by the
whole party, three balls entering his face
and forehead. The window was literally
shattered with the bullets after which the
party took four mules and wagon, and load
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