Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-10-27
They Won'G Have Peace,

L. ". Conway, member of the Exec
utive Committee of the Union League in
Louisiana, has been dismissed from that
organization, ''for conduct furious to the
League" The luxurious conduct Ct
Conway consisted in his making a report
that the State was in a perfectly peaceful
condition. and that the Ku-K lux having
disappeared, tie League might just IS
we'll be dispensed with. The League, IN
der the nanipu'a ion Of Grant and his
party, does not propose to allow Louisiana
or any other Southern State to be IN a
peaceful condition. and all refractory
members like Conway, who ore willing to
admit such possibility, must bo Topped
| off. Il is the studious, deliberate and
malevolent design of Grant and his party
at the North, and of their allies at the
South, degenerate creatures like Phillips
| & Co.,-to keep up an eternal discord in
our midst. in order that they may have q
pre:ext for continual interference and
management il our public affairs.
| 1t was but the other day that a number
of the leading Republicans of South Caro-
lima, white and black, together with sew.
eral government officials united in @ for
NAL and earnest protest 10 the President
against the declaration of martial law in
certain districts of that State, denying its
necessity, and asscverating that order and
quiet prevailed. Bat this did not suit
the schemes Of Grant and his advisers
And accordingly. he turns from his mock
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disaster at Chicago, 10 vent malignity
upon the unfortunate people OF South Car
DINA, who were deso!ated by fire ana
sword to an extent almost unparalleled in
the history CT vandalism, aod who are to
day ground down aud impoverished by
| ity, which makes their situation not one
whit better than that of the homeless suf-
ferels in the great city of tho West.
And again Judge Bond, tie modern
Jeffreys, induced number Of prominent
gentlemen in this State 30 believe that, ii
they would write letter denouncing Ku.
kluxism and thus give (what none Of them,
at any time, have failed to givo,) the moral
influence OF heir character and names to
put it down, lie would. on his part, sus-
! pend farther prosecutions of the unfortu-
nate men who had been dragged from their
homes for trial, on the information OF
spies and detectives. They did so, and
! being gentlemen, did not suspect duplicity
on the part of Bond. IL turns out, how.
ever, es might have been expected. He
tortures the latter into an admission CT
poeOer, on the part of the writer's, to sup
press IawIeasaess, turns it over to the Radi.
cal press for publication and to make
party capital, and says the prosecutions
must go on Gould anything be more
disingenuous, moro contemplate
and mean ? Phillips and Tod Caldwell
are said to have been Bonds advisers,
and are entitled to their share of the in
fanny.
No; Peace is the last thing that these
men want. Filled with malice, greed and
lust for pay and place, they seek to crafty
them at whatever cost. They know full
we'll that whenever the turbulent waves
are composed, and men are allowed to act
untrammeled by policy and fear, they will
sink 50 far down into the depths Of exc
Grafton, political and social. tina! nc plum,
met-line can ever reach or sound them.