Wilmington journal., 1868-10-16

to try them, though believed by most peo-
pie to be entirely innocent of the crime
with which they were charged-and GER
tainly they have not been proceed guilty
these poor men are kept in torture, while
their heart broken wives and children are
looking with sad and longing eyes for the
return of those dear ones whom they know
to be so uniustly and nercilessly used
The recoIlections of this trial and of this
gross injustice should call up sad retiec-
tions in every national mind, throb Of
indignation in every honest heart, and
cause every patriot to weep bitter tears
of regret over the departed virtue of his
country.
sambo 10 be Driven the Wall.
Our poor deluded race of negroes are
led to believe by that miserable scum Of
creation-the carpet -baggers-whose pest
lential presence infects the whole atn IS
phere of the South, that the Governm. 1T
is in the hands of friends true and tiled,
who will encourage and uphold them in
any and every outrage towards the white
people of the South. This miserable class
of adventurers have indeed encouraged the
development of every evil passion in the
negro's nature, and inciteo him to deeds
and acts which his sluggish brain, un-
trained in rascality, would otherwise never
have conceived. All this is done for a
purpose, the time for the full and expected
accomplishment of which is now rapidly
approaching. A potent and effective instru-
ment and powerful auxiliary by means of
his numerical strength and ready tendency
to yield to their designs, do they behold in
Sambo. Fortune seems to have favored
them in these designs. Susceptible to
fattery easily won by promises, however
false treated as an equal by a race he was
always taught to consider, and knows to
be, his superiors led on by hopes of power,
temporary and feeting as the wind !;
given the Importance of q citizen, without
comprehendingi privileges, requirements
and responsibilities, the negro has been
easily won, organized in political force,
placed under designing leadership, and re-
ceives the carpet-baggers with open arms.
Bosom companions and friends, equals
upon the stump and at the hustings, and
if the moral sentiment of the country
though they regard morality but little
would but uphold them in it, equals also in
the private relations of life-no wonder that
the poor negro is led to believe he is as
good as white man, when we recollect
that those who thus teach him by precept
and practice though we blush to ac-
knowledge it-are of our own race, degen-
crate, unblushing and shameless members
though they be.
All this, we have said, is for purpose,
and that purpose the retention of power
through such instruments by the party
whose emissaries and base, unscrupulous
tools these carpet-baggers are. But the
purpose accomplished, and what then p
All ! we shall see, we shall see !; and so
shall the poor negro. Let Radicalism
once more triumph and its advocate be
firmly seated upon his despotic throne,
and newer and more popular issues arise,
and they shall have gained force which
enables them to defy his strength, then
the poor negro will be cast aside as tool
whose time of service has past, an instru-
ment of an obsolete character, void, worn
out and worthless, and no longer the bright,
glittering tool which the oily tongue of the
carpet-bagger kept so dangerously keen
and threatened destruction to all who
should come in contact with so ugly
weapon.
Already is the future policy towards the
negro in event of success foreshadowed,
and he is to be taught that those whom he
places in power will turn and rend him if
he but follows out the advice their emissa-
ries now give. A rupture with the whites
and their destruction is now urged upon
them; but let this outbreak come, and even
these boasted friends will assist in sweeping
him from the face of the earth. And then
"lo ! the poor negro" now among the
things that were. Let him beware how he
were his friends, and avoid contest Let
him scorn the advice of carpet -baggers to
revolt, and tell them that even support
from Grant will be wanting, and that q
prominent metropolitan paper, recently
bought up by the Radicals, and fully
committed for Grant, thus foreshadows the
future policy and speaks to the whites of
the South: "Upon one thing we think our
friends of the South may rely, and that is,
in case O contest should arise as to which
race shall have the supremacy in the South
and General Grant is called upon TO decide,
IStrna6o qCiH hare to go to the aOaH."
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
| Railroad.
We are most gratified to note the pro-
gress which is being made in the extension
OF the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther-
ford Railroad. The work of grading has