Wilmington journal., 1868-04-03
The ,on,titu,ton-Its Preamble.

aroused TO InS OI viz PA ASoSA
Campaign.
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The tonstituIiOn-Its Prea mble.
IF there was nothing in the body Of the
Consultation to prevent lis from advoca
ting It's adoption, its preamble Is so full OF
fal,ehUod and insult, that 1t seems to LS
impossible for any respectable white South
ern man to give his assent thereto. We
have rarely seen SO many palpable qntruths
in SO few lines. As few as the lines are
there are not as many truths as there are
lines We beg that our readers will care
fully consider each line and word. We, he
Ue0Dle of the State Of NOTIh CdrOlin1, and
this i'll the face Of the fact that only por-
ton of the people of the State have had
any voice in the making OF this Constitu-
ton that the best and most intelligent
portion Of the people have been and are
still disfranchised in spite Of the fact that
the authors of this Constitution are for
eigners, negroes. deserters and renegades.
Grateful to Ahntghty God, the S0rereign rat-
Ter Of Nations, far tie preservation Of the
American Union !; and this in spite of the
fact that scarcely the form even OF the
Union of our fathers is preserved that
every power has been .sdrped by General
Grant and Congress that the Executive
and Judicial departments have been prac-
tically abolished. If there is any man so
thoroughly charitable and christian, as to
be grateful for such Union as we now live
under, Union Of corruption and tyranny
only, and not q Union of free and equal
States, we have yet to meet him. And yet,
they require us to say we are grateful
Grateful for humiliation, defeat AID cow
ardly oppression grateful for a land
strewn with graves grateful for the wives
who have been made widows F.; grateful for
the children who have been made orphans !;
grateful that we are all beggars, and our
enemies fatteniDg upon our substance !!
NEVER
And the eristence Of oar ciri, political and
religious liberty What mockery! Civil
Liberty! And yet men can be, and are
daily, arrested in violation of all law, save
that resting in the bosom of Military Com
manders. Political Liberty And yet the
best men of the land are diSfranchised.-
Liberty! What an insult to prate of lib
erty while poor TOLAR is languishing
under sentence to hard labor for fifteen
years, imposed by a tribunal utterly un-
known to the laws of the State.
And acknowledging CIR dependence upon
Him for lie continuance 0f those blessings TO
us and our poste1It!y 40, for The more certain
security thereof, and for tie better goUerm-
?nent of the State. Are We to call the wrongs
and outrages daily and hourly committed
against us blessings? If such they be, they
certainly are I" in disguise" Are we to ask
for these things for our children az we'll as
for ourselves?
Crdain o,.d establish THIS C0aStitutton.-
And this in spite of the fact that if every
man, woman and child-white and black
in the State of North Carolina were to vote
for this Constitution, it would thereby be
neither ordained nor established, in spite
of the fact that Congress, and Congress
alone, exercises the right to ordain and
establish Constitutions for North Carolina!
We cannot countenance or support such
fal>ehoods as these. Ii the trainers of that
preamble had shown a proper regard for
truth, they would have written thus: " We,
the undersigned. negroes, foreigners, de
serters and reuegades, traders under the
name aud style of the people of Norlh
Carolina, having set up shop on the mis-
fortunes of our betters III manners, virtue