Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-05
Material Progress Of the south.

For some unaccountable reason some of
the leading Radical papers of the North
will one day publish glowing accounts OF
the sure and rapid progress of the South, |
and the next admit into their columns the
false dispatches and correspondence of de-
signing men, calculated and intended to
retard and injure it's renewed prosperity.
The steady rise in the price of the bonds
Of the Southern States in Wall street the
fact that the directors of the New York
savings banks, who are proverbially con-
seryatiye. cautious and sagacious, are buy
ing largely of these bonds; the value OF
the present cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco
crops the increased attention paid in this
section to cereals, and the cheapness and
quantity of labor, are one day heralded as
certain signs of prosperity, while the next
day we are denounced as outlaws, promo
tiers of strife and contention, among whom
it is not safe to live, because some robbery
is perpetrated in remote corner of the
country, or some laWless men have been
guilty of murder To-day Forney writes
to his " two papers, both daily" that we
are peaceful sober, law abiding people,
with no fault except unwilling to apologize
and repent for bearing arms against the
best government the world ever saw,
and his next issue contains the lying dis
patch of q paid partisan that more
desperate and lawless people do not
live on the globe. Yesterday his papers
say editorially that our material advance
ment is only hindered by the bitter pro-
scriptions loyal men are subjected to,
and the next issue contains the letter of
the Editor himself, from this State, which
speaks of the Hon. G.. A. CILLEY, for
merly an officer in tho Union army, and
prominent member of the legal profession,
and he might have added, recently Judge
of the Superior Court by the appointment
of Governor WORTH, who had settled in
North Carolina, and had the regard of his
neighbors. Col. FoRNEY himself, though
of "extreme politics" rs he admits, has
nothing but compliments for the uniform
courtesy and consideration with which his
party were treated, especially by those
most thoroughly identified with the Con-
federate cause.
Yet all these wholesome truths are
dashed to pieces by the thoughtless or
wicked sensation dispatches of some incon-
siderate or designing scape- grace. A muir
der here, reported murder there, are
seized upon and forthwith the whole world
is informed that lawlessness and an
archy exist in this entire section of the
country to such an extent as to justify the
calling out and arming of the militia by
the Governor. The civil authorities are
powerless to suppress this fearful carnival
of crime" Armed men come by railroad
10 Seymour Indiana, and break open the
Jail, put to death several prisoners, and
nothing more is heard of the murderers or
their bloody deeds. Northern journals
of civilization -. content themselves with
highly finished engrayings of grief
stricken, but beautiful sister, in the at
titude of prayer, swearing vengeance upon
the murderers of her brothers, and from
the exposures of her person, would suppose
she regarded her charms, rather than her
griefs, as the chief source by which popu-
lar sympathy was to be won.
In open daylight. on one of the public
streets of New York city, after a desperate
struggle, venerable and inoffensive citi-
zen was murdered, and beyond q few re-
wards offered, and the popular taste pan
dered to by exciting illustrations, this
wonder of the hour has ceased, and new
atrocities waited for.
Only in North Carolina is occasional
crime denounced as anarchy +; only in the
South are people lawless only here are
the civil authorities unable to &c suppress
the fearful carnival of crime
These men desire to destroy our pros
perity by striking at our characters. They
are bad men, who desire to use us for their
own purposes, and we should regard them
with suspicion when they come with pro-
foso;ono IF friendship On their lps