Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-13
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nav 4. 1870.

WAsHINGToN, D. c., May 4, 1870.
Dear Journal We are to have O grand
Radical pow-wow here next week.
document with this end in view has been
circulated among the Senators and Repre-
sentatives for signature and has received
the entire list of Radical Senators, and no
doubt will also be signed by all the mem
bers of the House. Its object is TO hold
q grand caucus of all the Radicals in Con.
gress for the purpose of devising waysand
means and stating tho issues which the
party intend presenting TO the country in
the coming Fall elections for members of
Congress. Also to form grand campaion
committee to furnish documents, &c. and
especially to look after the condition of
the Radical party in tho Southern States.
SO as to secure Radical results in the close
districts. l have no doubt that the dccla-
ration OF principles will be as highsound-
ing and fair as the ingenuity Of Radicalism
can make them, and will be carried out as
faithfully as was the platform on which
General Grant was elected, in which il was
most explicitly stated that the States
OF the North were not to be intcrfered
with in the regulation of suffrage, and
Grant was scarce warm in his scat when
the military power of the Government
was used to back up the ciict of Radical
Congress to force the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment, to do the very
thing that was denied both in their plat
form and on the stump as part of their
designs. So now with another tissue of
tabrications and fair promises these men
expect to again gull their constituents to
re-elect them to Congress. Their grand
pow-wow cannot wipe ont the record of
the past session. The eyes of the people
are being opened, and there will be q
"hard road to travel for those Western
members who have been voting for New
England interests, for reasons best known
to themselves, and crushing those whom
they represented.
The only excitement in this burg is the
coming municipal election. The RAIDS are
IN pieces split with regard TO a candidate
They have the present Mayor, Bowen, an
Emory and richards to choose from,
and 1t is probable they will run two tick
cts. There is no choice between any OF
those proposed. They are oil negro lovers.
and so far are eligible, but the question OF
spoils has shaken the Capital TO its foun-
datiOns. When the ''salt of earth" party
have disposed of their saints to their salts,
faction, the Democrats may nominate q
candidate, in order, as OK" of the Briti-
more Gazette says, "to keep the clect to-
gether.''
The Chronicle of to-day is cut in it's
coaxlng mood. Forney evidently has
given up the hope that TIE lash in the
hands of Drake, Suulner, Butler and
Schenck is powerful enough to DRAGON
the recalcitrant Senators and members WHO
have lately dared to differ from and defeat
the mandates Of the extremists. so he tries
the other track. and hopes that, as Sum.
ner Co. have failed in the '.stithcrino
up" process, that he may succeed in the
buttelng down" process. He conel atu-
latos his party that Senator Justin s. Nor
rill, OF Vermont, intends to give them an
% 4id g 19snIo1ed speech on IT, t..;n' -i,;~l
think justin will have Jolly time conyinc-
ing the people, especially of the West and
South, that protection to nCnopoIies is
good thing for the toiling masses and the
farmer, for the people have learned the
exact definition of high tariff, and are re-
alizing its effects just now to their heart
content. Forney IN his blandest, snoothest
style says, " There is q good deal of free
speech and free printing among Republi-
can politicians and newspapers. A good
deal OF abuse OF this man and that, bnt II
Is characteristic Of all parties. Tho Dom
ocrats are as liberal in their differences as
ourselves. All that is necessary for the Re
publican leaders to understand is that thew
are the custodians Of a sacred trust. the
unity and success of the Republican par
ty. Ii they fail In their duty, tLeir con
will take the business into their
own hands in the future Conventions for
selecting Members and Sena in Con
gress. How conciliatory and peaceful
rather different in tone were tile articles
from the same pen few days before the
vote was taken on the Georgia bill. 1t l.
now believed that "more flies can be
caught with sugar than with vinegar"
hence the change in tone in the admins,
tratlon organ, but we shall see what NC
shall see," anon.
don't see the differences in the Demo
cratic party, but do see very delicate
threat as to what might happen to mem
bers II they failed In their duty, in the con-
Guiding lines of Forney's article. [ think
many members have failed-not in their
duty to party as Forney means, but in their
duty to their constituents, and the fate
above mentioned will overtake q good
many of them, as j. W. Forney suggests.
The Southern Senators and members
held caucus last evening to determine
Upon concert of action with regard to the
AAA01oAI pIOJeCLeO southern 1IallrOaQ5 10
he Pacific, and Notwithstanding the
7arious schemes which were strongly urged
oy the different interested parties the
merits of the Southern Trans Continental
Railway Company, who are now building
heir road through Texas on the line Of
he 32d parallel, were SO evident that the
caucus agreed to support that bill which
will give universal satisfaction to the PEG
Die of the South as being the only road
that was really Southern road
n the interest of that whole section. This
Dad asks SO little aid from the Govern
nent that its claims could not we'll be
passed over.
he duty on steel rails made by the Beg-
'emer process was quite exciting. Mil
ions Of dollars were involved in the qnes-
ion. Attention was called to the fact the
officers of steel works were lobbying nm
he floor of the House in order to soou va
l. S<~L - l.