Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
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There are two kinds of people l could anathe-
Matte with better weapon than st. Peter 6
those who dare deprive others OF their liberty
and those who suffer others to do it,
Those who dare deprive others Of their
liberty are the deceitful Radicals, and
those who assist them are the mean and
treacherou3 Observation-Disclosures =
Let them fling from them that title. They
do not deserve it. They are not South
erners. Is this not SC Is there a truth
so self-evident ? Why, to be Southerner
is to be Roman, if not in success, at least
in true manly prowess. We thought you
could traverse the whole length and
breadth of the land, from the Atlantic to
the Gulf, from the Alleghanies
to the seq, and search, but search in
vain, for q Southern man who was
ashamed OF his race and his lineage who
would not blush to have his name linked
with any party plotting for the destruction
of his felloW-countrymen, for the forging
of servile chains. Alas for the mutability
of things Alas for the tickle nature Of
men Men born freemen, that lived free
men, and that fought the battle of free
men and freedom.
The Radicals speak to you about the
bonds of fraternity; about an undying love
for the unity of the land; about a devotion
for the country's flag. All sham; all
nonsense; all twaddle, There is no ques-
ton of loyalty here. There is no patriotic
sentiment here. There is not even
sole cintillation Of patriotism
in all their doingS, i'll all their
harangues. They puff Off party prcjudices,
bigotry, fanaticism and lies. They preach
cruelty, dishonor and disunion. Their
check on free representation is that of de-
signing knayes, not that of pure patriots.
Away with purity! What they speak
about they desecrate; what they touch they
contaminate. A freeman is one who des-
pises them. A brave man is one who scornes
them and their principles. Power is their
motto. Ruin is their doctrine. Desola-
ton IS their success. Power, they cry,
now or never now or ruin ; ruin and des,
olation, blood and devastation. disfran,
chisement and slavery, to all orposerB.
Upon their flag, the black -. inner of po
litical piracy, is inscribed all their hope.
They cannot find single precedence i'll
the history Of tho United States, or in the
supreme law of the land for their devilish
manifestos. In eighteen hundred and
thirty, and for the five subsequent years.
this was fully and ably canyassed. Men
then stood on the platform of the Repub
lie, and knew how to beat back into theil
dens the animals that are now running
wild over the land, poisoning our ears will
the dogmas of he'll, tippling our institu
tons, plundering our people of their bor1
inheritance. For years did the North
ern emancipators work night and day
3 with might and main, in issuing from
their press the most ubiquitous, the mos
incendiary, the most fanatical proceeding,
against the men and manners Of the South
and its "peculiar institution" Not of tina
: day, nor of this day, does their labor be
long. It will be for now and forever th,
/ same, unchanging, unsocial, black and for
bidding. What Southerners stand b,
them =? Where is the Southern man, O
man of Southern principles to say PIE
him be spotted, He is moral leper ant
} needs cleansing. He must be indeed for
J getful of the past, its sorrows and its joys
be forgetful of the deeds of his revolu
tionary sires, and of the glorles which aipi