Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-09-18

political capital with the people by any
hd''a kd''i process of the corrupt Congress
s1onal conclave, and are remanded to the
electors for their judgment of the deeds
done in the body by an infamous rump
of usurpers and revolutionists. These
are as legion" the major of which, OF
the head one of which, it We're most
difficult to characterize. Generally the
reconstruction scheme, with its standing
army and Freedmens Bureau of public
and private plunderers DISTINGUISHING so
many whites as to make negroes the Doac-
En- IN the State, would seem to be a
d" bad emminence enough in all reason.
But the admission, in effect, by Congress
of the truth of the charge of Mr.. Wash
burne, of their own venality and corrup-
ton, (they calling for no committee of in
vestigation on the subject,) is culmina-
ton of political crime which "will arouse
the eternal Providence" to acts of condign
punishment, even should it not awaken the
people from the dangerous lethargy--s SO a
little more sleep, little more slumbering,
a little more folding of the hands to sleep"
which, INDUCED in for years back, has
brought them, in the respect of their lib
critics. to the brink of fearful precipice
They are now to determine finally, and
without probable recourse or remedy here
thrall to unparalleled political abasement
by the golden chains of their own forging.
In plain words are they longer to be bought
with their own money
Congress gave $4,000, 900 year to man
ufacturers at the last session. The politi-
cal apprehension was SO dull and blunted
here that the measure scarcely met with
opposition. Yet had its enormities been
fully exposed here, it would have gone far
to sink Radicalism into an unfathomable
gulf of disaster.
Now these manufacturers are called upon
to raise huge sums of money to purchase
at the polls that people-the laborers, me-
chanics, and farmers-who must hereafter
pay in the sweat of their brows and by
worn limbs, $40, 100000 each year to make
up in public revenues for debt and current
Government purposes what Congress has
given away to manufacturers.
In New Hampshire, at the last election,
Radical emissaries, in the last hours before
the election, came into the arena with
huge sums OF money. giving as high, in
some cases, as 800 to voter One fami-
ly received $3.50 for their votes
We have known for some time that the
same game is to be played in Maine
Thank God, those seas of men, so to speak,
those oceans of opinion, the great Middle
and Western States, cannot be easily di-
verted from their strong and determined
purpose of revo!utionizing the politics of
the country. Maine on this day is to be
put to the extreme test of resisting the
brides of the class-monopoly interests
through the standing army of Radical Of
fce-holders, State and National, within it.
On this head We copy from the World as
follows
"According to all accounts from Maine the Rad
icals are dealing out money in this canvass and
buying votes right and left. Wherever they hear
OF dissatisfied Republican, they Immediately go
after him with pile of greenbacks and endeavor
to satisfy him in that way One hundred five
hundred, and in some instances thousand
dollars have been paid to one dissatisfied Repub-
lican. Where does all this money COM from p
Is it the money which the Radical tax officials
have collected from the people and did not pay
over to the Treasury? Does it come out of the
contingent fund at Washington The fact that
Congressman Blaine is the man who is dealing
out this fund is significant as to the source from
which it is derived"