Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-09-29


Radical juries that were a. sure to convict,
as suborned Witnesses were sure to swear,
10 whatever rnighs be required at their
hands.
We learn that Mr.. PHILIPPE. in the course
of his mercenary and partisan prosecution
OF the prisoners, virtually took the broad
ground that the Republican PARTY was the
government, aud that any assault upon that
party was an attat ( upon the government !!
Herein, in o nutshell, is she secret OF this
most extraordin and Yindictive elsmor
over the Ku-Kl1lx. We had supposed that
Phillips had more shravdness than to show
the clo7en foot so undisguisedly. bnt the
truth is that, when man. who has been
raised well, turns apostate aud renegade,
he descends to lower depths of meanness
and shamelessness than your common
scape-grace.
When men commit crimes against
society and offences against the law, let
cases Of Ku-Kluxism, reprehensible though
they be, and deprecated as they shenid be
by all good men, the question remains
how fer The gouer7anae'at Itself is responsible
for the condition OF things that has epgen-
dered and provoked these outreges, and
but one way. should 60 far in mitigating
the penalty of the law. When it il taken
into consider alton that all the legislation
of the government, since the close of the
war, has been directed to the humiliation
of the white men of the South, and that
they have been badgered by the bsyonet
aud overwhelmed by taxation. at the in.
stance and by the manipulation OF i'm
ported aud native outcasts and thieves. the
wonder really is that 90 few "outrages :"
have been perpetrated. We have no SYM
patty with any violations of the law that
may have been committed, but We repeat
that. all things considered. they have been
m2rvellously few, no greater in number
than have occurred. within the same space
Of time, in any one Of the Northern States
Of the Union.
But another Presidential election is ap.
preaching, and party capital must be had
to secure to the man in power a continu-
ance of the spoils. The var sh;bboleth
must be raised again and the cry of
"rebel" revived, TO FIRE the Northern
heart. North Carolina, as heretofore, is
selected as the fittest theatre Of opera
tions, and for two reasons first, because
it has the honor Of being che special OBJ
ject of Grants antipatby, since 1t wheeled
into the Conservative line lsst year, aud
again, because amid her thousands of good
men and true,--as brave and true as e'er
the sun has ghone Oh in Its ooarss. !here is
still, unfortunately, large proportion Of
deg AIDED and Tecresnt sons OF hers. who
are always ready to wound her honor or
stab her good name, for tho ruffian's re-
compenee-pGy! Men, like Holden, who
turned band Of cut.throats loose upon
his own peoplc.-I.ke Phillips. who. sell
ling goodly birthright for pottage, ooun
sells the packing Of juries TO fix crime on
the garments Of the btate,-snd like Pool,
who is daily and common "ioforEer"
against his mother! And so Is is, We say.
that North Carolina Is to be held up 90
swarming with 's1ebels" and "traitors,"
take up arms against the government. and
among whom "loyal" men are unsafe in
person and property Holden, through
he Washington Chronicle. Tevi@es his an
Gent chronic sensation that "another
revolution is imminent" and, 40 the
prompting of Phillips i Co., Judge Bond,
from the Bench, utters deliberate calum-
ny upon the whole people OF North Caro-
lina.-a calumnY which stamps his So
called "charge" to the Jury as the ema-
nation of bitter party nalevolence. We
use strong language, bnt no fair man will
say that it is unwarSsnted, when we call
attention to the fact that Judge Bond said.
in substance, If not in these exact words.
that an acquital of the prisoners before
him would place human life at the mercy
of banditti and that there would be no Sc
curity for life and property in North Caro-
lima We direct attention to his charge.
published elsewhere.
We repeat that, in at least nineteen
twentieths of North Carolina, there is as
much peace and quiet as in any portion of
individual right, less crime and lawless-
ness in North Caroline than in any North
ern State, in proportion to population,-
and that all the present clamor, political
and Judicial, is prompted OF party neces-
sity and malignity! Il is hard that peo-
pie and State should be so wantonly and
persistently maligned. villiied and op.
pressed and harder still that matricidal
hands should be lifted against her by I'M
fiIial and degenerate sons-paid to stab
JOHN BUNYAN, in his marvellous Allie.
CORY, the ''Pilgrim's Progress" satirizes
many popular vices and follies to an extent
not generally appreciated by those who see
nothing but religious struggles and
triumphs in the story. Il is impossible
to doubt that. 10 the passage in which the
proceedings against Faithful are described,
he intended to satirize the mode in which
State trials were conducted under Charles