Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-23
WASHINGTON, July 13, 1868.


The split in the Republican organiza
ton is doubtless permanent as we'll as fun.
damental. This is shown in the course
and comments of the two prominent Re
publican Newspapers published here in
respect to the Virginia election. The Re
publican admits into its Columns this
morning communication, heralded by q
special editorial in which the proscriptive
wing of its party is unmistakably thrown
overheard. In the following extract the
person to whom allusion is made is Mr.
Hughes, who recently fought duel with
the editor of the Petersburg Index, tc
show his zeal for Radicalism. The "lead
ing Confederate notability referred to is
the late General Floyd, whose God-daugh.
ter Hughes married.:
"The discounted organ of the Wells
prOcOnsulate is endeavoring to console it.
self in defeat by ungenerous filings at the
rebel party; but it knows full we'll that
there is not word of truth in what it says.
The principal writer for that paper is an
able politician who is connected by mar
riage with leading Confederate notabili-
| ty, and was himself an original secession
ist. Now, he desires to make amends fol
his former errors by prescribing his former
friends, and carries his Radicalism so far
as to talk of those pseudo Republican
organs, the Tribune and Times"
This ungrateful thrust at the genus
Longstreet, is preceded by unmeasured
denunciation of "Carpet-Baggers and
followed by special cut of Forney, the
"Wells faction" the. Union Leagues" and
the whole Sumner malignants, as witness.
''There are papers in the North devoted
to the proscriptive policy of the Wells
clique, who labor to persuade the public
that the rebels have gained the day in Vir-
ginia. Unfortunately, one of your collea-
CUES of the daily press in Washington is
engaged upon this ungenerous and vain
attempt. The proscriptive faction of Wells
had strained every nerve to array the col
ored vote in solid phalanx. By means of
their secret Union Leagues they had gen
orally propagated the most stupendous
falsehoods, and actually had the unparal-
l9led cynicism to persuade that Ignorant
race that If the rebels gained the day they
would be reduced to slavery again, and in
other places that their children would be
taken from them and bound out until the
age of 21.'
This is just what the Democratic papers
have been asserting for four years Of the
lies of the Radicals at large. On the other
hand, the Chronicle with might and main,
sustains Mr. Hughes and his whole tribe
of miserable shuttlecocks, together with
the 'carpet-baggerd." 'scalawags," the
''Union Leagues, the ''Wells faction and
Sumner malignants. 1t is safe to say that
the Republican has the inner track with
the Administration; and equally safe to
predict that our whilom ''illustrious Presi-
dent" will soon be, in the mouth of 900
casional, an "ingrate" and ''base be-
trayer of the party that elected him." if
not ''red-handed traitor" in the late
war!
gave the other day an extract from the
speech of Walker, the elected Governor
of Virginia, in which he exulted at the as
sured speedy exodus of the Yankee "car-
pet-baggers" from the South. The official
report of conversation between the Gov
ernor and General Grant yesterday ex-
plicitiy states that the latter approved and
endorsed every sentiment uttered i'll that
speech. The game is becoming very in
teresting.
A Joint meeting of all the Trades Unions
of this country is soon to be called to take
into consideration the great influx of Chi
nese emigrants to this country. The Of
fcers of the National Workingmen's Union
have lately addressed letters to various
trades unions throughout the country,
calling their attention to the matter, and
asking advice. Representatives of the
Trades Union of California are now in
New York and other Eastern cities, agitat-
ing the question. [ learn that the still
more important question of negro equality
in the workshops will also be discussed,
with decisive results. 1t is to be hoped,
however, that the altered condition of
things evidently in the immediate future
will render practical action in this matter
unnecessary.
I have not been able to ''scare up" a
single item of important news to-day. X.