Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-01
Political Baseness and Insult.

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upon the character of the Southern people
to say that Union men " we're not safe in
the South from assault, and even from as.
sassination. We have submitted to these
base SANDERS supposing they would cease
as the South gradually passed under the
dominion of the miserable incendiaries and
miscreants who have, regardless OF the
pretended dangers, swarmed all over our
country, attracted by the commotion and
disturbance in our political and civil affairs,
hoping by this means to reap the reward Of
their own corruption and crime. But these
reasonable and just expectations have not
been realized. In the midst OF the South
ern elections. when the people Of Alabama
are being forced to live under a Constitu-
ton which they have rejected, and under
the administration of Northern adventur-
ers whom they have defeated when Ar
kansas is being placed under laws and men
adopted and selected by fraud; when South
Carolina is under the entire dominion of
her manumitted slaves, this parrot cry of
persecution Of Union men " is renewed.
recent number of the Cincinnati Ga
zette has the effrontery to say that the
life of no man is safe in the South who is
faithful to the Government of the United
States" What calumny! What falsehood!
To the people of New Hanover, what biting
sarcasm A Provost Court, presided over
by man whose only qualification seems to
be his " intense loyalty" and want of sym
pathy with our people to try minor offences,
and Military Commissions and Courts
Martial to try the higher offences, and mill
tary bastiles to confne their victims, ''faith-
fulness to the Government, 4. 6. to the
Radical Congress, seems to be the most i'm
penetrable armor one can wear in this To-
cality.
No man is safe, indeed, in this country
who is faithful to the government, when
such fellows as Schenck and Wilson are
placed in responsible and lucrative posi-
tons by the votes of ignorant negroes and
few white men who pretend not to be
ashamed, much less afraid. of their conduct;
not safe, indeed, when the faithful have
the brazil effrontery to attempt to elect
Ashley to most important and responsible
position in the State. Men who perpetrate
such social and political outrages must feel
the utmost confidence in the forbearance
of Southern people, or are as "bold as the
Nem@n lion"
But what better refutation of these alb
surd stories of danger in the Southern
States to the trooly loil, than the facts
now witnessed, that in some of them the
control of their governments have passed
under the direction of few strangers from
the North, and in all of them they are as
piring to accomplish the same ends with
favorable prospects of success. In the
South, men have been elected to high Off
cial positions in the State government and
to the House of Representatives of the
United States, who, if required, could
hardly procure letters of recommen-
dation from their recent employers at the
North, should they desire to renew here
their former mental positions and occupa-
tons. It is high time to cease these SLAM
ders when the South has become para
disc for adventurers, bankrupt in fortune
and character, whose only stock in trade is
unmistakable loyalty" to the Radical
party, and who respect or regard with ia
vor no Southern man, unless he degrades
himself by desertion of his friends and
kindred, and assists in betraying his State
into the hands of its enemies
How long before the South becomes I'M
safe for those who
are native here