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

the fact that nothing can be done now tx
prevent war of races. And to the actor
OF the Radicals must be ascribed this terri
BILE prospect for the South. They and thei
eIalssaries have infamed the minds of thu
negroes with ideas which cannot be obliter
ated except by the stern and bloody expe
riences of the battle field. They have
goaded the Southern whites into despera
| ton forced them, as means of preser
wing their race, to initiate the example Of
their black antagonists by organizing 6
powerful secret society, and they have
planted the seeds of the most fearful con
flct that this continent ever Witnessed
Unfortunately, the races are nearly bal
| anced, numbering as they do some SIX
| millions of whites to over four millions OF
blacks. A war between them will be much
worse than any of the Instructions in st.
Domingo or Jamaica. In the South the
whites are numerous; they possess superior
intellectual powers, and have won a world
wide reputation for valor. But they have
to contend against horde of seml-savages,
backed up by the entire power of the Rad
ical party, and half crazed by the PERM
cious teachings they have received. An
army costing three hundred millions per
annum will not suffice to keep the peace
between the two races The infexibility
of the whites, and the logged determine
ton of the blacks never to submit to each
others rule, appear to render in advance
any attempt at a reconciliation Or restOra-
ton of kindly feeling utterly impotent.
The situation IN the South is sad one
the future offers nothing better than inter
necine war. In the "back belts, !" as they
were called, Of the different Southern
States, those whites who can get away are
already leaving the homes of their nativity
and seeking safety elsewhere. They are
fortunate in being able to leave for those
who are compelled to remain will have to
bear the brunt of the storm and for this
impending confict-for this certain ami
hilation of one, and possible destruction of
both races-the Radicals are alone respon-
sible. They attempted to overthrow the
laws of nature, to strike down the barriers
which God had placed between the white
man and the negro and to elevate the in
ferior race into the position Of ruler of the
superior. That this attempt must even
tually fail, we firmly believe but before its
impossibiity of success has been demon
strated the wretched people of the South
will have to confront another and more
terrible struggle, and another and greater
hecatomb of graves must be reared from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Such
will be the results of a Radical policy of re-
construction !; and we claim no remarkable
prescience in seeing it. The Radical party,
in the effort to perpetuate their power,
have "organized hell in the South" When
the fruits of their measure have bloomed
they must prepare to receive from the en-
tire people that eternal infamy their own
acts will have brought upon themselves,
and to sink into oblivion amid the execra-
tions of the thousands in the South whose
kindred will have been murdered, and
whose homes will have been desolated
through an insane attempt to compass an
impossibiIity.