Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
d: THE NASTY CREATrKe.,
From the New York Telegram.
The Skeleton I'm the Closet.

The Elijah Frogams are blowing hard \
just at present on the question of a posi- N
bic war with England. It would be a mostl
unfortunate thing for England, say these
asses, to go TO war with America. owe
could lick her so bad,' say they, " in threeH
months that she wouldn't know she everH
twas nation" While all this talk is goines
on nobody seems to bestow single thought
upon the attitude Of the South-the Ire
land, the Poland, the Hungary Of America.
1.-The precious set Of radical statesmen wei
5 have at Washington have done this for usI
s-they have created and consolidated in tenI
States Of this Union feeling Of hostility toI
the stars md stripes, the type Of our nal
atiOnality, that will never die while radical
s ism rules. SO deep-seated and bitter isl
Sthis, that if England landed twenty thou
sand men tomorrow in the neighbOrhoOdI
Got Charleston hundred thousand South
! ern men would rise again in insllrrection.
y 1t would have the same effect as if France,
Sat var with England, landed force upon
athe shores of Ireland. Are we quite sure
1--WE could lick England, with the South pres
xsing lis AT one side and the Canadians at
Sthe other? Yet, patient as this truth is,
Shere are those Senatorial wiseacres at
sWashington defeating qualified measure
aof amnesty TO the "SOuthern rebels"
q craftsmanship would have long since
aremedied the frightful state of affairs at the
South. Had a man like Chief Justice
#Chase been elected in 1868, in place Of the
4military stick who now occupies the White
SHOuse, We should not be compelled to eX-
$prcss the fears to which we have Just given
autterance. The Union would now he q
Mtrue Union in place of the sham it is
n think Of it for moment. Here was so
SCALED rebellion, which intrinsically, had as
Smuch right and justice in it as our owl
:awar OF Independence, and Vet the cantinl
Hs9iIit Of Radicalism goes on forever pro
aclalming about the magnanimty shown t
eathe rebels, and hands over to something
aworsc than the gallows these people of the
NSouth, To he governed by the very spawn
GOT hell. Is Is natural they should love G
3 hag that SymbOlizeS persecution Is il
anatural they should fight for it ? En-
ssthroncd in power In half dozen Southern
Estates are strangers from the North, who
Gin no civilized country under heaven cOulL
Escape the pcnitcntiary er the hangman.-
1Socicty there has been violently wrencheC
s&frOm its normal condition.
q The tree has been pIucked up from the
AroOts, and the branches and blossoms have
abeen buried i'll the ground Ignorance
ssvice and inta1ny flourish over virtue and
Sintelligencc. Now we want this people tC
glove the magnanimOus government which
Hhas consigned to living death the best and
1purest Of their kindred. The patience and
Nfortitude they have shown under their hu,
Civilizations make the gandest chapter OF
thurman self-cOntrOl and stoicism that an
Client or modern history can produce. We
scannot go to war with Engl md while thi,
estate of things exists. There is skeleton
Gin the closet that reminds us of our weak
Aness. The whole South would rally tC
sarms once morce if England lent her direc
aid. Where is the difference ? Might they
2not just as well try the terrible issue Of wal
Gas live aud die under such an infamous
ernie as that to which they are at present
s&subjected. Draw in your horns Jonathan
q When your household is at peace it will b,
ytime enough to think OF a quarrel will
&England.