Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05

a principle at the North. Vide our State
constitutions and our late elections. We
know there is seeming contradi ction in
Withholding the ballot from the intelligent
black men at the North, who fought brave
ly under the Union flag in the late war,
while we give it to every ignorant planta-
ton hand in the south, but as we need the
black vote of the south, which is very
large one, while at the north it is mere
trife, to perpetuate our republican dyna-
sty, a mise craftsmanship can easuyreconcile
these seeming contradictions.
3. The national honor requires the pay
ment of the public debt but as it never can
be done while we continue to pay bond
holders SIX per cent In gold, and iegislate
the enormous profits we now do into the
national banks, amounting in sixty-fve
years to So, 500, 900, 600, we must in some
way shirk the responsibility of cur own
policy. Seeing that our financial policy
leads inevitably to revolution an repudia-
ton, we must set the dogs of war on the
wrong scent, by showing that greenbacks
for bondholders is the straight road in that
direction. Though we will say as little as
possible on this point, lest the great West
should perceive that this is Wall street
platform.
4. We see that the working men are
waking up to the fact that the policy of
eide, and that the taxes fall mainly on the
laboring classes, hence the necessity of a
reference at least in our platform to ''equal-
lied and reduced taxation" AS the masses
are easily wheedled with such high sound
ing phrases as Irrational honor" and the
''great principles laid down in the immor-
tai declaration" it is better to give them
these gllttering generalities than promises
of any specific redress of their wrongs that
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party.
The national debt is too big problem
for us to solve. We dare not repudiate,
and we cannot pay. So do not let us bother
our heads about it, but go on with the show,
leaving the burthen of our sins on the
shoulders Of our children, that they may
fight this financial scheme with the bond
holders Just as our fathers left us by their
wicked compact to fight the battles of
slavery for century.
g. Though this debt was made by inda-
ton it will not do to pay it by initiation
Though we are growing poorer every day
for the lack of currency to develop our
resources, and are grinding labor to pow
der by building up monied aristocracy,
yet we must keep up appearances, so that
foreigners will lend us money at a lower
per centage than our own pet bOndhold-
ers do to-day. We know it is the duty Of
Congress to relieve the present rate of il
terest, bat so long as the bondholders own
Congress there is a serious difficulty in the
way of its accomplishment
7. This has been the most corrupt ad-
ministration since the foundation of the
government. Both at our National and
State capitals we have witnessed such
wholesale decentralization, that we have no
faith left in the leading men of our own
party We doubt the honesty Of
William Pitt Fessenden, and the
honor Of Chief Justice Chase, in fact the
Mephistophiles, Andrew johnson, has de-
ceived the very elect We have been $50
shamefully nursed and fostered " in our
own corruptions that we now call the gods
to grant us some new power and pabulurl
for our speedy redemption.
S. We mourn the fact that Andrew John
son has so fully carried out the policy for
which we elected him. We chose him from
all the prominent candidates. in order to
conciliate the South, but he has rather
overdone the matter in that direction
True, we rejected good New England re-
publican to make way for him, but in An
drew We got more than we contracted for.
We tried to impeach him, but we found
that he was so intertwined and intertwisted
with all our party interests that it was like
crucifying our own flesh and blood; to
prove him guilty proved too much against
ourselves, and 50 we ended the farce, and
his fate, like that OF jeff. Davis, IS lndeh-
nitely postponed.
9. Though 800 naturaIized American cit
liens have been rotting in English prisons
for the last three years, sentenced for life,
on the mere suspicion of sympathy with
Fenians, and one of our distinguished cit
liens, George Francis Train, has been i'm
prisoned for words spoken on this side Of
the water--as we had no stomach for a
fight with England, we thought best to be
still in reference to this whole matter. But
now, on the eve Of Presidential campai gn,
with /, OO0, 900 Irish voters in the country
some words of sympathy must b. extended
to the sufferers and some calm suggestion
made to Great Britain to the effect that
''the doctrine if man is once subject
he is always so, is relic of feudal times,
not authorized by the laws of nations. -
When England reads this ninth article of
the Chicago platform, let her beware ?
And let the Irish III this country take cour-
age and all vote for Grant and Colfax.
10. OF all who were faithful in the late
war, let Us not forget our brave seamen and
soldiers who imperilled their lives in the
service of their country We should regard
: them, as we'll as the wives and children OF
our gallant dead, as the wards OF the ma
his gilded carriage, clothed in purple and
fine linen, demands interest all in gold. do
not the boys in blue, manned, halt and
blind, beggars in our streets, appeal as
loudly that their bounties and pensions be
paid in the same currency? Do not our
, sick and dying soldiers, their starving
wives and children need bread as we'll as
T. honor ? Now IS the time to remember all
. classes, for we shall need their votes in the
: coming election.
! IL. We must not forget to congratulate
ourselves on the immense fowof immigra-
q ton to our shores And We would remind
the peoples of the earth that this is the
e asylum of the oppressed from all nations,
\ and the Republican party is the Moses to
lead EN- through the wilderness Of igno-
y rance and poverty to the promised land OF
y specie payments, high tariffs, National
q banks and manhood suffrage.
s u. Being the party of freedom, we ez
] tend our sympathy to all oppressed PEG.
= Piles, black and white, struggling for THEN
= rights, except women. Any amelioratior
IN tboir condition woul6 invnlva Sy1ch finn