Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-13
exchanges in relation TO the result of the
Presidential election :a.-s---.s=---=-=z


s Presidential election -
IL From the New York Post, Rep.
Il The election must show the Southern
democratic leaders thai The American PEG
pie will not have Congress c0erced vii
not have the reconstruction measures over
thrown will not have ouT bonds dishon
ored will not approve Of Or bear will
the invasions Of the sacred right OF fire,
speech, or the atrocious intolerance which
has been openly inculcated and jealousy
practiced by the Southern Democratic
leaders for months past. 1t ought to teacl
these bad men prudence. They have ex
haustcd the patience Of the people they
have insulted the laws, and defel right
and Justice Let them now be quiet, else
exemplary punishment will overtake them
The election of Grant Will give courage
to the lovers of liberty and union in the
Southern States; it will warn the disorderly
and law-defying that they must reform,
and conform TO the laws. No injustice is
demanded by the party which has gained
! the election. 1t requires only that those
who are and were faithful TO the Union
shall have and exercise the same rights
and privileges as those who fought to de-
stroy the Union. AIilder demands than
this 1t would be difficult to invent.
| The Southern democrats are asked only
to submit to Justice. They are not threat
ened with Injustice, with wrong OF with
punishment. No traitor has been hanged
for treason no traitors property has been
confacated, and it needed only the small
| est amount Of policy in the old Southern
| leaders, at any time in the last three Years,
the least show Of good feeling and Of de-
sire to accept the situation, to persuade the
people and the party ii power to remove
from them the few disabilities under which
q small number in each State still lie.
The Old politicians in the South, the
men who were SD long the "SoIthern
leaders" ana who desire once more to COZ
troll those States--but never will--haye
shown themselves singularly unskiliful and
incapable in dealing with the events OF the
last three years. They might have saved
much Of their CID power, but they have
lost it all. They have buiIt their hopes
constantly ON the worst foundations. They
have not only resisted right aad Justice,
but they have done SO at the insugatlOn
and with faith in the promises OF men who
could not help them and whose support
only weakened their cause with the pe0-
pie
From the Philadelphia: Gazette, republican,
One Of the first aud most important
things now to be done is TO aIlay the eS-
element and assuage the angry passions
that have been raised bY the heated con-
test We have passed through : < <
Some good win doubtless arise from the
republican party being constantly watched,
followed, attacked, and opposed by so
strong and resolute foe as the democrats,
for experience has proved that we have
often quite as much to fear from the eX-
cesses of Our Unrestrai16d majority as from
the wiles of the enemy. 1t is true that the
democratic party, while yehemently and
Systematically opposing every measure we
present or sustain, offers none Of its own
tit to be tolerated as substitutes or amend
ments. But the discussions consequent
upon the activity and strength Of that
party throw much light upon the inlpor
tant topics with which we have TO deal,
and were it not for this it may we'll be
doubted whether our policy or measures
would be near.y SO we'll understood as they
are. It is only when we have q thorough
agitation Of this kind in presidential
campaign that the people learn to appre
ciate the force of mighty principles, and
sustain them IN q proper way.
We have had the eyes Of the civilized
world upon us with eager interest during
the whole OF this confess. The magnitude
and importance OF the republic have be-
come such that the election in q single day
of the ruler of its destinies is everywhere
felt to be without q parallel for interest. -
The problem Of international peace and
war involved in such change Of rulers,
the universal anxiety IS to the poiity
CT the republic, and the force Of this
prodigious example in the eyes Of al civil
zed peoples, combine to fix upon Us the
gaze Of millions, and it is not surprising
to learn that in SO free country as Eng
land, where the drift OF tie current is
steadily towards republicanism, the masses
have regarded our election with even more
interest than their own.
In = short time Congress will meet for
the concluding eession, ard resume the
great work of legislation in reference to
the condition of the conquered States and
the liberated race where 1t was broken off
by the necessities Of the pending canvass,
and it cannot be doubted that the work in
hand will be dealt with promptly and de-
cidediy. This is what the republicans
everywhere will expect, and what our ma
jority in Congress will be just as ready to
perform.