Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-02-04

cent emigration of laborers from non-pro-
ducing TO the cotton States is indicative of
anything.
The Prcgrvss Of Capitalization and Des-
pCtisn.
Step by sep, says the Baltimore Gazette,
the Radicals continuc their policy Of CEN
tralization. Their design is to ride rough
ehod over the Constitution, and to make
the Will OF Congress the supreme law of
the land. They are bent on reducing the
Federal Judiciary and the Federal Execu-
tive 10 tho condition of subordinate de
partments OF the Government, and under
cover OF law, and by means Of the machin-
cry of law, arc gradually but surely chang
ing our form Of government as it was es-
tablished by the founders of the Republic.
They hold in their hands, at this day, the
purse and the sword In ten of the South
ccn States they dictate who shall vote and
who shall be deprived Of the elective fran
chise. By putting false Interpretation
upon the right Of Congress to Judge of the
qualifications Of members, they have ex-
pelled men who were legally elected to the
Senate and 20 the House of Representa-
tiYes, and have installed their own crea-
lures in the seats thus summarily vacated.
To swell their majorities in the Senate
they have erected into States Territories
which contain but q few thousands of per
manent population, and have thus crushed
out the opposition of the larger States
where the Democracy are in the ascendan-
cy.
All the barriers which protected the in
dependence Of the States from Federal en-
croachments are being thrown down and
Ievelled with the ground. Even the
equality of the States as members of q
common Union is no longer respected.
The work Of reconstruction is still to go
on in the States south OF the Potomac.
The most solemn pledges given by the
Radicals have been violated time after
time with impunity. No sooner had a
Southern State accepted the conditions
exacted OF her than fresh conditions were
imposed. Georgia was thrust out of the
Union after her members had been admit
ted to seats i'll he House OF Representa-
tives. Virginia is only to be admitted on
terms which are derogatory to her dignity
as q State, and to the manhood of her
people. No Southern State, unless it be
thoroughly and submissively Radical, can
hope to be represented in Congress.
There is talk, even now, Of putting Ten
nessee once more under military rule, and
of Radical intarposition in the affairs of
Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware. Into
the new amendments to the Constitution
amendments which were carried III the
Southern States by system OF terrorism,
and II many Of the Northern and Western
States by trickery and fraud-they have
Incorporated u clause which gives 20 Con
gross the power to enforce them by what
is sarcastically called " appropriate legls-
lation" Under color Of this authority they
can and will, before long, Interfere with
the electoral vote in all of the States, their
purpose being 70 take from the latter the
right of regulating the suffrage within
their limits. Nor is this all. The legisla-
ton of the States is to be supervised by
Congress the functions of State Governors
are to be reduced below those Of pro-Con-
suls in the Roman times and, under the
plea of the power OF Congress to regulate
commerce, the right OF eminent domain,
which has always appertained to the States,
is to be contemptuously disregarded, and
the will of Congress is to set aside the will
Of the people OF State, even in matters of
local concern.
All these revolutionary proceedings tend
but to one point-the Capitalization and
perpetuation of all the powers of the Gov
eminent in the hands of Radical oligar-
chy. AS the New York Journal Of Com
naerce well remarks ''The focal point is
Congressman that is the most alarming
thing about it. The leading epirits in the