Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-12-20

enjOined, armed men Will pliStilIS JAZZ
nets are Gathering around the capitol, chal-
longing every citizen whose name IS not
mon the infamous roll of public enemies
and political pirates. The Supreme Court
of The United States has been appealed to
in vain. The President has been appealed
to and he answered the appeal with brief
and surly order to the Federal General to
sustain Durell with United States troops.
But let us look beyond the decision OF
the Judge, and see what has been done.
Upon the impeachment of Yarmouth,
Pipchback, as President of the Senate, is
inaugurated Governor of the State. This
negro was, upon the death Of Lieutenant
Governor Dunn, elected President Of the
old Senate. But the members OF this
pretended Legislature were presumed to
have been elected in November. Pinchbacll
does not claim to have been elected.
Indeed, he was not even a candidate, but
claims to have been elected Congress man
at large. So that, in no point view, could
he be the successor of Yarmouth.
Then as to Kellogg who claims to have
been elected Governor. The Constitution
of Louisiana provides that TO member of
Congress, or person holding office under
The United States, shall be eligible to the
office of " Governor or Cover
nor Kellogg was candidate for Governor
and member Of Congress al the same
time; the vote for Governor had never
been counted the result had not been
officially proclaimed; yet lie goes into the
Federal Court and sues for an office to
| which he IS ineligible, before the vote Las
| been asccrtained, and before the result has
! been declared against him.
This is the case. Not in the interest Of
! Yarmouth, nor Of Kellogg, are the one
hundred citizens lneeling at the throne,
but in behalf Of legal government, in be-
half of peace, in behalf of the SOrereign
| State Of Louisiana. They care for neither
| Of these worthless Adventures who have
brought trouble upon them and their State.
They are in Washington not as partisans,
but as law-abiding citizens. VIII their
entreaties be needed? We shall see.
Even Forney shudders at the spectacle.
In the Philadelphia Press, under the head
of THE NATIONS SHAME, he says:
If there is spectacle to bring blush of
shame to the cheeks OF an American citizen
it is the recent scenes III the three States of
Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina
In the first the Governor, Yarmouth, by
means Of political election law, designed
by its authors (WhO, we are S0Iry to con-
TESS, call themselves Republicans TO secure
their political ascendenCy, elects a State
ticket and Legislature by fraud. His
crime is Immediately met by another. A
partisan decision by a senilG Judge over
| turns the State Government, and sustained
by violence, the influence that dictated it
will declare q man Governor who is inelIg-
IDLE to the office. In Alabama ambition to
/ retain seat in the United States
Senate on the one side, and the violent
determination Of the people to be rid
Of a rule Ct incCmpetency and dis
hone sly on the other, produce a legislative
( quarrel which eliminates i'll the organiza l.
ton Of two distinct bodies, each claiming to
be regular. The result is anarchy, with pro
liability of complications still mere chaotic
unless Acknowledgement Williams c0mpro-
mise is adopted. South Carolina, last on
the list, Is exempt from violence, but not
from Shame. A Legislature, One-half the
| members of which cannot read, nor one
third write, send to the United States
Senate person whose qualifications were
his long purse and knowledge of the
weaker side Of human nature. A few
hours after he finds hins.lf arraigned in
counts for bribery.
These events, shameful to free institu-
tiOns, and disgraceful to all concerned, have
sprung from causes which are now happily
fading away. The political adventures
who swarmed like locusts upon the South
ern communities at the close of the war,
have fulfilled their mission, and the day for
their liberation is past. For Years they
were sustained by the national government
and the voice CT the North, because they
We're the cOnservators Of the peace and the
! protectors OF the negro. These duties ale
no longer necessary. Sectional animOs-
ties, preudices against race, and disloyalty
/ to the Union are being discarded by the
/ Southern people, if only to rid themselves
Of a rGle that eats up their substance and
! destroys their political liberty. The War
mouths and the Moses may have forced
this political revolution, but il is paliation
Of their excuses to say that they fought
| the battle for the negro suffrage and civil
| rights. The day has come for their extinc-
ton. With it will disappear the anarchy
| they have evoked.
The administration has an extremely del
! icate task but ali Imperative duty to perform
/ in this crisis. Now is the time for com
! plete and lasting reconciliation. 1t will not
hazard Republican supremacy, but strength
en- it, to crush out the robbers who claim
| to lead its columns at the South. 1t will
/ with the downfall of Yarmouth and others
/ OF bis stripe, win the confidence Of our fell
! lOW-citizens there that are sincere in their
! professions for the negro and of loyalty to
/ the Union, and do more to establish COM
( mprcjll hnSinpSS fv 1,oD oil f1,o
fine words and apt phrases that fell from
! the lips OF orators in the last campaign
| OF course, we would not have the President
espOuse either side in these factional quar-
! rels. None of the parties are free from
! blame. But let the story of intelligent men.
/ the honest members of these communities
be listened to, and their promises accepted
in preference TO the falSehoods and appeals
Of plunderers, whose only title 20 consider
alton is a pretence of Republicanism. Pres
ident Grant, by his appointment Of such
men as Judges Orr, of South Carolina, and
Phillips, of North Carolina, to high office.
has shown disposition to recognize only
the better elements Of the Republican party
at the South, and we trust that be will le-
collect that there are thousands Of men
there who are wOrthier of his confidence
than the Spencers, and Patter5ons and
WarnerS-such men as George w. William
son, of l. "uisiana, j. w. Throckmorton, CT
Texas, and Wickham, Of Nireinia-who
only need little encouragement to coop
crate with the Republican party in the
grand work of practical reconstruction.
There is more truth than poetry in the
following lines from an advertisement
Babies, after having taken one bottle of
my soothing syrup, will never cry any
more"