Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-06-16
InconsIstency and Hypocrisy


When Mr.. SUMNER, in the Senate Of the
United States, arrnigned President GRANT
for using the navy for the purpose CT CO.
ercipg public opinion in San Domingo
we pointed out the conspicuous hypocrisy
that could dencunce, at convenience, as an
outrage, that which the Senator had sane
toned and justified as applicable to the
South.
When we see men thus condemning, at
one moment and in one breath, while IN
the next they sustain and commend, we
lose confidence in their sincerity and at
tachment to principle, and ere constrained
to regard them as Political mountebanks
and hypocrits.
WENDELL PHILLIPss unquestlonabiy one
of the very ablest men in the Radical
party at the North. has the general repu-
tat;on of being an honest enthusiast and
lfanatic-extreme and vindictive, but sin
cere 10 his convictions. We lave never
so considered him. On the contrary, we
have uniformly thought him an arch
agitator for the sake Of rotor1ety, and an
unscIupulous and malevo.ent partisan.
That he is hypocrite as we'll, is evidenced
by the fact that, al a recent nesting III
Boston, he expressed sympathy with and
for the French Communists, On the ground
that they represented "what every Anerl-
can ought 10 love- the desire of the French
people to govern themselves" 1t was but
a few weeks sinca that the same man ad-
vocated the vicasioUs hanging of
| few Southern millionaire3, to glut his
vengeance on the Southern people for this
very virtue of "desiripg to govern them
selves %
HORACE GREELEY is d better man than
PHILLIPS, with more Of the milk Of human
kindness in him. L. is strange that, with
much of personal charity, he should be SO
! blind to the attitude which the Govern
ment occupies in its relations to the people
of the Southern States. This want of per
ception frequently leads him into grotesque
inconss' encies. For instance, we hear
him seriously urging that the present is a
fitting moment for " our Govern ment to
plead, with President Theirs, - that mill
tary law might cease, and that justice be
tempered by mercy"
1t may be very decidedly questioned
whether f." our Government " is in a con-
dition to plead with M. Theirs for the sup
preston of military authority IN Paris. 1t
was but few days since that the Presi-
dent recommended, and an obediant AID
servile Congress passed, land faciIe Mr..
GREELEY approved.) bill which absolute
II destroys all the safe guards Of the Con-
stitution which invests the Executive
with dictatorial powers ; which unsheaths
the sword Of power at the behest of party
p1alignity and which throws leniencv,
Oh arity and me1cy" to The winds as OBJ
so lete ideas. Mercy" may do very we'll,
according to the Radical standard, for q
set of van1als, who have brutaIized the
age by deeds Of savage atrocity and barbar
ism-who have torn down, with blind fe |
rocity, the monument Of art, massacred !
the 10 inisters and leveled the affairs of
religion but il is wholly inapplicable to |
brethren of the same race and citizens of
common government Military author
ity," according to the same logic, |
is terrible thing in its appi- |
cation to state of society, steathing and |
red hot with the worst and most danger
Gus elements Of popular convulsion-
marked by daily deeds of inoendiarism,
pillage and murder-with no mans life or
property secure, and no immunity Of cii.
zenship established; but it is very proper
in q professed Republican Government, |
six years after arms have been laid down, |
and when peace and quiet are the aspira-
tions of the whole people,
We know Of no spectacle that would be
SO we'll calculated to excite the scorn of
angels and the derision of man as that of
the present best government in the
world" inte.cedipg with the Versailles au-
thorities for the exercise Of mercy and the
cessation of military authority The re-
ply, as apt as anything, might well be re-
turned, "Physician. heal thyself!"
In the Post of this city there appeared,
q few days ago, a ridiculous effusion IN re-
ply to the opinion of Hon. B. F. Moore on
the conetitutionality of the Convention
Act. This production was described by
the editor as magnificent effort, writ
lawyer Of Robson county," There being ;
put one prominent lawyer of this name =,
n Robson, Col. Neill A. Mclean, a dis ,
inguished lawyer and prominent ConseE- 7
Vative, We are requested to say that he is r
not the author of the article referred to.
There is an obscure individual, sometimes r
jailed Col. Mclean, but more commonly 3
InoTa in Robson as 6: Nasty Gnat." f
The great event of the week just closed, r
las been the trial of the Sampson county t
prisoners, which was yesterday removed to c
Brunswick county. Those who were pres
mt throughout the proceedings will not s
Don forget the able defence made by the s
minent counsel, Col. A. A. McKoy of 8
sampson, and Col. W. S. Devane and
Iaior D. j. Devane, of this city. With il
areful watchfulness, an untiriug zeal and a
n earnest. determined regard for the truth r
It stake, they scrutinized every word of v