Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-04-15
Government OF the Eayonst.

The Secretary of War says that the de-
msnd for troops in the Southern States
and on the frontier will prevent reduc-
ton of the army.
Gov. Davis, of Texas, writes to the Pres
ident that the troops cannot DO safely with
drawn from the State.
Gov. Holden, Of North Carolina, de-
mands troops to suppress instruction, and
asks for O suspension of habeas corpus.
The Radical leaders in Tennessee say
that the lives and property of Union men
are not safe here, and that Ku-Klux
abound, and that murders and robberies
are committed daily, and that the Federal
forces in the State must be largely increas
ed, and the present State Government
overkhrown.
Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, wants more
troops, and wants Congress to extend the
terms of Office of himself and the present
legislature, and says that such an action is
necessary to maintain order and protect
the lives and property of the Union men
of the State.
Admit, for the purpose of argument, all
that is alleged by Ben Butler and the men
who are with him in manufacturing and
publishing accounts Of lawlessness and
crimes in the South, be true, what better
proof can be asked to show that the recon
struction infamy has been the parent of
crime?
Upon this subject of reconstruction the
Chicago Times proceeds
It "organized hell in the Southern States, ;"
and the men who we're engaged in the work have
been given control of those States. When vice
and ignorance rule, can it be expected that
decent respect for law and order can be main
tanned The press of the ruling party does not
deny that the carpet.baggers despcabIe
gangs Of adventurers, and of the lowest order Of
demsgogues. 1t 10 not pretended that the ne
Rroes OF the South have any knowledge OF public
business, or are in any way capacitated to act as
legislators or public officers. Notwithstanding
this, negroes and cSrpet-baggers are given po-
litlcal supremacy, and such was the purpose Of
the reconstruction infamy.
In spite, however, of the Infamy and OF all the
corruptlons and crimes growing out of it, the
counts of lawlessness in the South are grossly
exaggerated. The abundance OF the cotton crop
last year, and the Improvement of the country
after the waste and desolation of the war are
evidence that the Southern whites are irving by
hard work to repair their fortunes. The partial
return to prosperity has given them hope and
they know that all considerations of policy,
without regard to right wrong, require of
them to maintain order and do all they can to
They are loaded with political disabilities, and
excluded from all share in their State govern
mentg, and yet are the men whose influence
prudence and regard for the welfare of society
have done most in suppressing disorder and
bringing offenders to punishment. The leaders
in the rebellion and the men denied the privilege
Of holding civil Office in the South have redeemed
their States from the hell organized by the re-
construction infamy, and, even under negro and
earpet-bag rule, are bringing them steadily for
ward in the road to wealth, and making return
so stable and just governments probable at no
distant day.
They have met the most terrible calamities
with fortitude; have patiently wrought to redeem
their States from the ravages and waste OF war
have worked manfully to make life and property
safe under the rule of semi-berbarous negroes
and unprincipled demRgogues and have replied
10 the insult. and maleYoience, and oppression Of