Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-02-10
Another Desperate Radical Move.

The Radical ball was put in motion for the
next Presidential canvass, by the recent adop-
ton of a resolution in the Senate of the United
States, appointing a committee to investigate
and report on the present condition of the
South, and what legislation may be necessary
TO preserve order In that section. The mem
bers of the committee with a single exception,
are Just the men to do the work, TO the salts
faction of the most INSCRIPTIONS, by depicting
the condition Of affairs down South more de-
plorable than the widest and darkest regions
OF heathendom. The material is prepared and
ready for manipulation, in sundry doleful re-
ports from defeated carpet-baggers, who find
"their occupation gone" and those petty
military satraps, who rejoice in the coinage Of
ISLANDERS, which may tend to give them another
temporary reign of disgraceful tyranny in
those States. WILSON, who-as recently shown
by Judge BLACKS ready to originate false
hood, or pervert fact, TO serve a partisan
purpose, is the willing instrument to work up
this matter in its most inhammatory form
such as to cause 10 echo throughout New Eng
land another wild shrek of terror, at the aw-
ful doom of tho poor blacks of this South.
Like the inebrate, who, the farther he goes,
the greater must be his rotations, to rouse his
nerves to the fiery pleasures of the moment
this committee, to 50 sweep the chords of the
Northern heartas to sound the howl Of lamenta-
ton for the poor freedmen, rs to produce the
desired effect, must paint the picture of Ku-
Klux outragcs, negro burnings, murders, and
the long catalogue of woes innumerable, TO
which they are hourly and daily subjected, in
most ghastly colors. This is to be the finish
ing touch-the GROWING effort of this wicked
and reckless pandering to the worst passions
of the Northern heart.
The object of this movement is patent But
will il be accomplished Will the North re-
spond to this last effort TO galvanze into new
life the decaying carcass of Radicalism2 If we
judge by recent events, we should think not
The voice of the Southern States has been re-
echoed in the Northern with no uncertain
sound. 1t was voice preparing the way for
new political advent. The times have chang
ed. Public sentiment is not what it was two
years ago. Passion and prejudice are no long
TO think, and will act for themselves. They
are as familiar with the South as the Senator-
al doctors who have presumed TO enlighten the
country upon the subject. They know that
disorders have occurred in every section of the
country, and as few of them in the South as
in any other.
This is a partisan move of the baldest kind.
Its object is to devise some means by which the
Federal power can be made TO operate more
directly in controlling the politics Of the South
ern States and thus secure those States for that
party at the next Presidential election. That
ID as evident as if the fact had been proclaimed
in a preamble to the resolution so evident,
that it cannot fail to bring the tnge of shame
to the cheek of many of the party, and will
fall stlll-born in consequence of its palpable
rhrtisaS designs. Sueh schemers have had their
day, aud the change has come. The current
of Radical sentiment has struck the farthest
shore-the rebound has set in-and ISLANDERS
and fllsehoods of the highest or lowest di-
mansions, will be impotent to stem tue return
ing tide
When slavery was abolished, the Radical
party lost the soul of its existence, 1t can live
only upon sectional agitation, and when the
cause for that is removed, it must die, and be
numbered with the bitter and unpleasant reco-
lections of our national history.