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

Where is seen the humanity of the Rad
ical party? Where its benevolenee
Where it's Cancellation We see it in vi
tuperation, in prescriptions, and in injus
tice. It has broken into fragmentary
pieces the ligament of all social order and
security. 1t has arrested the improvement
and progress of our country. It has blast
ed the interest of all, and has subverted
the temple of justice and freedom. Where
does the temple of national prosperity
stand ? To-day it rests on rotten foun-
dation, and is in the keeping of that man
Stevens. He has trampled GU the Consti
tuition on every right, private and public.
Where is social security Do you find
any in this land, SO plundered and impov
erished, so robbed of its freedom, and of
every privilege transmitted to us by the
trainers of that Consultation? This, too, by
that very party which claims par excellence
to have pledged itself on the altar of our
bleeding, and our common fatherland to
open its arms. and with magnanimous
embrace receive the erring wanderers
home. Magnanimity The radicals do
not understand the word. They can tell
you what the Freedmen's Bureau is who
Thad. Stevens is who Wilson is, and
Sumner, and Butler, the Beast This is
| their
LITANY.
| 0, Bureau, prey upon the vitals of the
still struggling, fighting South.
We say Good Lord deliver us.
O, Reconstruction, disfranchise every
Conservative, but sweet freedom give to
every Radical.
We say Deliver US, o Lord.
o, Thaddeus Stevens, hurry up confsca-
ton for the Conservatives of the South.
We say From the Evil One deliver us,
Good Lord.
0, negroes, we deliver into your hands
the future government of the South.
We say From all darkness deliver us,
Good Lord.
0, Wilson, Sumner, Butler still issue
your orders to impede the moral advance
ment of the South, and to insult its high
toned chivalry.
We say From the torments of the
damned deliver us, Good Lord.
Il 0, Congress, put on the screws, and
make the wounds of the South bleed anew
in spite of the people and the Constitution
We say From this Yankee pandemoni
UNI deliver us, Good Lord.
Behold their Cancellation. They I'M
posed on the country and chained on the
suffering, starving South, rotten carcass
a drain on the treasury. Can the Bureau
be regarded in any other light Is it any
thing more than general rendezvous fol
Radical politicians, sapping the life's blood
of the nation, all national prosperity,
unity and love ?
Do not the Radicals destroy the existence
of the country-for land divided is NJ
nation at abby plundering two-thirds o
the population of every right under thu
Constitution They destroy all prosperit,
for years, if not forever, by plunging NOR
deeply into debt the grand Commonwealth
in which, forsooth, they pretend to take s,
much interest. They destroy the cemen
of all fraternity by fostering an implacabl,
hatred. In the propagation of their wicked
schemes they show that their platform i
not only replete with sectarian fanaticisn
and falsehood, but that it is sectional il
place, sectional in position, and sectiona
in works. They appeal to the passions an,
prejudices of the Northern masses, incitini