Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-09

they would be too coWardiy to reject them,
but offered to gentlemen, they were too
honorable to accept.
Those creatures have the audacitv to tell
the colored men that it Was by them, and
them only, that they were ut all liberated
and made citizens. Let the men of color
understand this, and understand it distinct
ly, that no Federal power ever liberated.
or made them citizens. God has been with
them. God is with them, and God will be
with them. God has done all for them.
God, and only God, need they thank and
glorify. Let them be true to themselves
and if they be true to themselves thew will
adhere to their own people with whom thew
have lived, they do live and they will have
to live among forever. The people of the
South have claimed the Constitutional pri
yllege OF fixing suffrage as the States may
think tit. The Radical Congress has. for
party purposes, denied them that right, :
The States of the North have proclaimed
that the colored men there will never get
the privilege OF voting. This is compat-
Idle with Northern love for the colored
man. L have seen more of that race
Knocked about and prosecuted in the North
than have ever yet in the South There
is less friendship for him Nor is there
disposition to do him an office unless
he can be employed as a tool. New
England loves him. Why? Money =.
Money! Money! That is her cry.
She showed little love for him when
by history We can show that a citizen of
Boston was the first American to traffic in
"human fesh," and that that citizen was
no other than a Yankee preacher, or a
member of Boston church. Those very
men that now use the colored men to ride
into Office and notoriety, were they back
in their own States, I have no reason to
doubt it, would be their most violent OPP
posers. There, money was to be made by
opposing them. Here, ten times better, not
money, but money and distinction can be
gained by using them. A little more, fell
low-citizens, and Ill have done.
Our party ideas are pure, our sentiments
are as holy, and our virtue such that no
saint can object. These traits character
ize our people. Let US be strong in these
Let us hope. To be hopeful, we must not
be respondent; to be prophetic, we must
not be superstitious to be devout, we
must not be bigots to kneel at the shrine
of departed liberty is not the part of sense
less enthusiasts to fly the contact of the
enemies of our land, of the stultifers of
our manhood, of the blighting blast of our
hopes, is not to be deemed an act of COW
ardice. From all these crimes and crying
wrongs the good men fled, yes
s'Far he f1ed-indignant fed,
The pageant.o of his country's shame
While every tear her children shed
Fell on his soul like drops of flame;
And as lover halls the dawn
OF first smile so welcom'd he
The sparkle OF the first sword drawn
For venge ance and for iberty!'
o, say not our hopes are dead. Say not
our strength is gone. Say not our resis.
lance is made tame. Rather arouse our
a. fo11
show that as treemen. as brave men, and
as men of brains, we are bound to go for
ward with stouter hearts than ever to win
the glorious prize. That is the spirit
which should guide us in this political crr-
SADIE. That is the feeling which should
course our veins. If we then fall, we will
fall as heroes, and not as slaves [ tell
you, sirs, and you know it, that the strug
gle for victory this November will be more
obstinate than any that has ever been re-
corded in the political history of this coun-
try. It's reverberations will surpass the
cannons of Fredericksburg and Fisher
Like brave mariners dare this boisterous
sea of politics.. Sail our old ship of State
amid all the adverse elements of Radical
rage in grandeur, and in greatness, and in
triumph, to the haven of constitutional
safety. Fling overheard the offal of Radi
her cabin, and her state-rooms filthy and
sickly. Let us use every faculty that God
has given us to prosecute this noble work.
Let us adopt the motto of South Carolina,
"Duna spiro spero," while there is life
there is hope. If one must fall to the earth.
how superior it is to fall with Truth, and
Honor, and Justice, than to live on IN
pomp, and in luxury, the index of scorn of
these three cardinal words pointed at you
unto all time. We may have to yield
But as sure as
1" Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
as sure as Honor will rest again on
firm basis, as sure as Justice will assume
the scales again, SO sure will we rise
mightier than ever, more terrible than
ever, to hurl to their dens, and to their
kennels, and to wallow in their native mire,
those treacherous, those traitorous, those
VIGOROUSLY false men, who are destroying
the last vestige of constitutional liberty.
Think not of defeat. Bestir you from such
a thought. Cast forever from you a gloom
so cherries. Be hopeful. Be vigilant.
Be proud of your manhood, proud of your
home, and your Southland, proud of your
glory gone, but prouder still of the crown
ing glory which is sure to come. Money,
cries the Radical, is everything. Honor,
and honesty, and all of those noble pas
sions that God has implanted in the hu-
man soul are as nought! o, such debased
and debasing philosophy. o, such versa
tility of wickedness. O., such absolute
knavery. Infamous system, you cannot
stand. You must fall. You must be
buried in the slough of your own putrefac-
ton. Wether it be this year or next, or
the year after, or in four years, God cannot
curse the earth very long with your leprous
presence. o men of the South, all who
love her, appeal to you to stir yourselves.
Do not like another Brutus, snatch the
dagger, strike it deeply into the vitals OF
your bleeding country, and then, when it
will be too late, in the bitterness of your
soul exclaim
Liberty,
I worshiped thee and find thee but shade
Be not led away from your sacred duty
in this, your country's hour Of trial. Heed
not those men who have not the semblance
of virtuous liberty in their hearts,
Their honor is deceit. Their patriotism
is gold. Let your honor be bright,
and your patriotism such as character
lied that of your revolutionary sires.-
Re of the Romans the noblest Be of yOur