Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-17
KADICALISm.

and Stlngs, and that has now grown up to
dirty, greasy manhood, guided through all
the phases of politics by that bitterest OF
all spinsters Massachusetts attacks in his
lust for power the Judiciary and the Execu-
tive. He is very Poliphemus-an anti
Christ having one eye, and that in the
middle of his forehead, and directs it to
one end-revolution. He carries big
pine stick-a small tree-and swears that
he will rule this nation despite the Presi-
dent and the people, despite the Judiciary
and the Constitution. Here is the open
avowal of the Radical party. 1t is but a
new form for all the Infamous and inham-
matory isms of New England. The Radical
party embraces the dirty few that stink
and sting, and spit upon ali sacred trust
and honor. It found at the close of the
war that it never could control the destiny
of this country unless it received the po-
litical aid of the emancipated slaves. They
are the very men that hurried up the seces-
sion of the States. Yet, like Pilot, they
attempted to wash their hands and proclaim
their innocence. They have not only been
the means of arraying the North against
the South, but they have ever urged on the
South to villify the North. When the war
came they, in their press throughout the
land, howled, and yelled, and whined, and
prayed with the same candor characteristic
of the Pharisees, to ''let the South go. We
would sooner be covenanted with hell than
with her." They shortly learned that this
cry of theirs was not needed by the masses
of the Northern people or by the Govern
ment. They Immediately change tactics,
and the son to Richmond cry is raised.
White the blood and sinew of the country
were struggling in direful conflict, and
making crimson every field and vale from
the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast,
these brave men sat at their desks with the
light of their midnight lamps, penning the
most atrocious articles that ever the brain
of man or fend created. These they Of
fered to the public, but skunk into the back
ground when brave men were awaiting
them i'll vain on the battlefield, aid where
their countrymen were meeting and stoutly
resisting the rocking, flashing blades of the
South. The war went on, and the Radi-
Gals fattened on the blood of their slaugh-
tered brothers. They were stealing and
enriching themselves, and shirking the
combat which they should have first
sought.
The Southerners were their brothers, but
the Southern ers were, forsooth, fools, and
should have been sheep to give to these
wolves an easy victory. They wanted their
deluded brothers to return, that as soon as
the war would be at an end, they would be
received into the old Union, and when the
strife would be forgotten the old flag would
again wave over them in peace and pros
perity. The true soldiers of the North
cherished this idea. II was not received
by them and then flung away. But the
radical miscreants who know no honor,
and never felt its impulses, used these ex-
pressions to 1ull the public anxiety. The
war placed them in power, and in the ma
jority in the councils of the nation. How
was this ? The true friends of the country,
and the true friends Of the South, and the
true friends of the Constitution, forgot all
Office, forgot themselves in their enthusi-
asm for battle, and the willy, mean and
eowardly radicals saw but Office and green
backs. They have ever been the enemies
of the improvement and progress of our
country and our race. In the furtherance
of their wicked and unconstitutional de-
signs, they employ every extreme, every
injustice and every usur patton. But their
days are numbered. Their death-knell is
at hand. The people begin to see through
their base policy. The scales have fallen
from their eyes, and they are awakening,
before It is too late, from the deep sleep
which radical dragging has brought upon
them.
The Elections.
In the results of the municipal elections
just held throughout the country we wit,
ness steady progress in the great reac.
ton against Radicalism. There is hardly
an exception to this law, and it is so evil
dent that the most casual observer cannot
fail to note it. This reaction is strikingly
evinced in two of the leading cities of the
West-St. Louis and Cincinnati. In the
latter we have the result about equally bal
anced between the two parties. This is 6
Conservative gain of 1000 on last spring
and a gain of 1900 on the election of las
fall. Assuming corresponding gain on the
vote of October last in other parts of Ohio
it would give the Conservatives the State
by not less than thirty-fve thousand ma
iority.
In st. Louis the change is as marked, OF
more so indeed, if we reflect that one-thirc
of the population are disfranchised. A
the last city election held in st. Louis The
Republican majority was some 1850. II
1856 the Republicans carried st. Louis fol