Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-02-18
National Police.

We have received from Senator ABBOTT
a copy Of his resolution looking to the es
Enlistment of National Police. Senator
ABBOTT bases his resolution upon the al
legged prevalence Of crime ''in some States
of this Union" So far as by its introduce
ton by this particular Senator the intima-
ton is made that in North Carolina ''the
public peace is commonly violated, laws
defed, and life and proper ty unprotected,
we pronounce the intimation as false and
slanderous. There is to day no State North
Of Mason's and Dixon's line in which few
er crimes are committed or the laws less
frequently violated. What is true of North
Caroliua is also true Of most of the South
ern States.
We have in this movement of Senator
ABBOTT mere repetition of the worn out
political falsehood of Southern disor-
ders, OF persecution of loyal men," for
no other reason than miserable excuse to
continue military government in the
Southern States for the benefit of his indi-
vidual aspirations primarily, and for the
advancement of his party as a secondary
consideration.
We prefer to copy the language of the
Baltimore Gazette in speaking of this new
movement to tyrannize over the South
than to express our own feelings upon the
subject. Says the Gazette:
Tho first act of Reconstruction is nearly |
over. Most of the Southern States are |
now ''back i'll the Union" They have
been reconstructed in accordance with the !
Radical requirements, and solely to pro-
mote the political aims o. that faction. In
sore few instances, as in the election of
Governor Walker in Virginia, the designs
of the Radical leaders miscarried, but in
the main they are we'll content with their
labors The South is now pretty much in
the hands of the allies of Butler and Sum
ner, and that is all that they and their par
ty have been working for since the close of
the war.
but after the Southern States shall have
all been readmitted, then will begin an
other part Of the programme. It is not {
enough that Governors and Legislators. {
Judges and Sheriffs, Mayors aud Common
Councilmen throughout the South should
be generally selected from among the most :
obsequious of the Southern whites or from
the negroes and adventures from the Ii
North. The power of the Radical party g
even under such q condition of things
could not be said TO rest on very secure :
basis. Its foundations are to be much
more firmly and widely laid The noble In
army OF progress" is to be still further 8
recruited. The chains around a defence
less people are to be multiplied and :,
strengthened. We have suspected as much +
Ill the time. Our political calculations of Is
ate years have been framed upon the hy- "
oothesis that the Radical leaders at Wash. 70
ngton are absolutely without principle or !.
patriotism are wholly devoid OF truth,
honesty or honor. The sad fact that our v
representations have seldom or never t.
alled' proves the truth of the theory on p
winch they rested. Now, it has ever been
'laln to us that the Radical party intended {,
o govern and plumber the South, if il | a
ould, for many years to come, and that it
ad made III its mini to resort to any n
means. Whether corruption or violence.
MAINTAIN Its ascendancy. How it pro -
oses to manage matters after all the States A
re reconstructed back into the Union
ut OF which, according to the declarations %
Il nearly every one of the extremists at
Washington, they have never been-is for
he first time fprvshadowed. The military h