Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-02

churches do against the devil, and make
common war against this Satanic despotism
and corruption.
RADICAL FALsEHooDs-No DANGER OF wAr
The Radical organs assert that if the
Democratic candidates are elected there
will be another war; and have seen n
| silly falSGhOod in some of their papers
that told Mr.. Boyden l would be willing
to raise mob and turn holden out of
Office. Tho conversation was, in substance,
thus:
Mr.. Boydcn was very dcnunciatory of
the Democratic Platform and Gen. Blair's
| letter, and asserted that if VIC succeeded in
| the canvass there would be another war,
&c. told him there was no reason to ap.
prehend ii; that Gov. Vance and his asso-
clates IL Office had been turned out and no
war had followed it. That after Holden's
| government had been set up by the Presi-
dent and Worth substituted as Governor,
he had been displaced by military orders,
and no war followed; and if Holden was
likewise turned out no war would follow.
No one supposed that Holden was more
courageous than Vance or Worth, nor was
ne backed by as strong n support in the
State. Ii, therefore, l said, the Supreme
Court should decide these Acts unconstitu-
tional, as Mr.. Boyden admitted Mey ,0,-
do~btec}ly aCere, and the President, with the
aid of the army and navy of the States, and
| backed by the verdict of the people, should
carry into effect that decision, saw no
reason whatever to apprehend war. And
does anybody really believe war would re-
suit in the case stated
Let us make the very improbable suppo-
sltion that, in that event. w. w. Holden,
or his son, Joe, or Judge Pearson, or John
Fool, or A. Ii. Jones, should attempt re
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they all combined, raise single company
in the State for such purpose ? Would
the negroes, who refused to fight for their
own freedom, take arms to keep Holden in
office ? Or would those white men, who
refused to fight on either side during the
war, now take up arms alone against the
authority of the United States You re-
member that the Radical delegates from
the South at the Chicago Convention.
when Grant was nominated, declared that
If the Senate did not convict Andrew John
son in the impeachment case, then pend
ing, they would not dare to return home
again. But the Senate did not convict the
President, and yet every one of these fel-
lows came back as quickly and with as
little noise as frogs make when affrighted
they glide into a pond. The allegation
that these people, who could find no place
to fight in during the late four years war,
will now, rather than give up their Offices,
make war against the United States, is an
absurdity SO impudent and laughable that
it will impose on nobody.
| RADICALIsM WILL BRING ANOTHER WAR.
There IS, however, another explanation
of these cries about second war, which is
worthy of serious consideration. The
Radical majority in Congress has shown
Itself to be reckless and unscrupulous.-
They openly avow their disregard of the
Constitution. Finding, last winter, that
the Supreme Court was about to decide
| that their reconstruction military acts were
unconstitutional and void, bill was passed
through the House of Representatives de-
claring that no decision of the Supreme
Court invalidating their acts should be
binding, unless two thirds of the Judges
concurred in the judgment. BY the time,
however, this bill reached the Senate, it
was ascertained that at least Myee-fourths
of the Judges, if notall of them, would de-
eide their acts to be unconstitutional and
not binding on anybody. Thereupon n
bill was passed rapidly through both
Houses forbidding the Supreme Court to
consider any case in Which the validity of
these reconstruction acts should come into
question. Having already usurped the
Presidents powers, they thus attempted to
destroy the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court as established by the Constitution
They have expelled individual members,
even entire delegations from Congress,
because they were politically opposed to
? them. Their desperate action has created
; an apprehension in the public mind that if
they are beaten before the people in the
Presidential election, they will declare the
! election void, set it aside, proclaim their
] candidate elected and endeavor to install
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duco war, and possibly they are making
} their present clamor to prepare the public
mind for such an event.
At any rate, they seem desperately bent
on holding their places until at Least they
can extract from the people the last dollar
! they are able TO pay. The Hon. Columbus
DCianO, the Radical Chairman of the Com
mlttcC on Claims, i'll the last Congress- de
clarod on the floor Of the House, that be-
; sides the immense debt Of the govern
mcnt, recognized at the Treasury as
amounting to two thousand six hundred
millions, 50, 10000 ,OOO,) there was IL
floating debt of four Thousand millions
due to the loyal people OF the country, not
any part of il for slaves or for the destruc-
tion Of rebe5 property. Ii this be true,
the whole debt must amount to SIX thou
sand six hundred millions, ($G, 600, 900, ,OOO)
OF more than half the present real value OF
the property Of tho country. If the Rad
icals remain in power there is no doubt but
that Il large portion of this floating debt
will be paid partly to the claimants and
partly to the corrupt men who assist in
getting the claims through. When attacked
for these things they raise the cry Of "cop-
pcrhcad5 and rcbcls," and boast loudly Of
their own patrioiiam and topdtH Can Il
man only show his PlH,'iotisD by plundcr-
t ing the public, and his hYaLY by lifting
t money from the Treasury Here, too, in
:. our own State, the very men who, rs mem
t bcrs OF the State Convention in 1860, voted
2 us ont of the Union and into the war then
: raging, and pledged " the last man and the
last dollar" to its support now dcnouncc
D Us as disloWd rcbels if we oppose these Rad
ical outragc5. Look around you and sec
men who i'll the beginning Of the war,
: while it was pOular, were raising compa.
nies, OF lamcnting they were too old to
fight, urged the young men to volunteer,
! and who, after getting us all into the field,
: began to fire at our backs, and are now as
sailing US as still in rebellion because we
are in favor of returning to constitutional
government There is reason, too, to be-
lievc that there is ON foot now, originating