Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-08-30

fits that Will come 10 us from DIS 0io''ioA'
We are not actuated by any feeling OF graft
tude or by any desire to reward INN Tor
ANYTHING he has done or has not done, but !
we support him simply because we think
that nv his election We can best advance
our own interests.
The Democratic party, unaided ana
alone, could not hope to elect PRESIDENT
1t was therefore necessary to increase us
strength by an alliance with other forces.
The formation Of the Liberal Republican
party and the nomination OF Mr. UreeIey
left but little for the Baltimore Convention
To do. if it reflected the true Democratic
sentiment Of the country, save to enter
upon record its formal ratification OF the
alliance.
Have subsequent events Justified the
policy thus adopted?
We say, emphatically, that every day
brings fresher and stronger proof that the
nomination of Horace Greeley was
master stroke of policy on the part of
Southern men.
AS we have said before, it would have
been unnatural for the New DIRK Tribune
to have supported any other man as zeal
ously and efficiently as it supports Mr.
Greeley, and this consideration alone,
other things being equal, was sufficient to
make him the most available candidate.
II must be remembered that the South has
never been able to present its justification
to the Republican masses Of the people OF
the North. Republican readers never
heard or had an opportunity to hear any
thing we had to say in Justification OF our
selves. Can it be wondered at, then, how
bitter the feeling at the North was TO us {?
All that is now changed.
II must be remembered that the New
York Tribune gives us access to larger
number of Republican readers, especially in
the rural districts, than any other paper in
the nited States OrpeIhaps than all others
could give us. Every week and every day the
pages Of the Tribune go out to this large
controlling body Of Republican voters and
readers filed with editorials and letters that
for the first time give anything like truth
| ful representation of the condition ofattairs
in the South. The advantage that this
gives us is ncalculable.
! If any Of our readers doubt the proprie
/ ty of Mr.. Greeley's nomination, we desire
them to read the following editorial, taken
/ from the Tribune Of Thursday last, and
| then to ask themselves what effect such
| editorials as these, repeated day after day,
! will have upon the readers OF that paper.
/ Looking at the matter as a purely bust
ness transaction, we think that Southern
men have gotten a very valuable consider
| alton for the sacrifice Of party pride and
! personal feeling they are called upon tC
make in supporting Horace Greeley. We
do not affect to feel any sentimental de
light, but We do feel the pleasure that men
naturally experience i'll carrying through q
successful business operation:
THE RESTORATION or LAW AND oKDEF
IN THE SOUTH.
\ careful letter from North Carolina
! which we print on Our second page, gives
| an account of tie rise, the history and the
disapnearanca of the ku kluX in that State
entertained Ivy the Conservatives of the
South in regard to the frovOcations anC
peculiar circumstances which called that
organization into existence, and explained
while they could not justify, many Of then
| acts We have spoken with some def
uiteness md energy in regard to the out
RACES by which a few scattered rutlans
made the name Of ku kiuX a word OF E0r-
rOr and intamy throughout the South. We
/ have nothing to retract OF all We have
/ said in regard to this subj ect. But rs
earnestly as we condemned the order
and ali its works while it was ju
operation, so earnestly 10 we rejoice
al its disappearance and laiI lis Gisinte-
grafton as tne best proof Of the pe2ceabi5
and orderly intentions Of the people Of the
| South. The ruff lnism which tor little
while survived the rebellion is now at an
end. The hatred OF race, the violation OF
private property, the organized tyranny OF
numbers, are not entirely gone, but THEN
manifest atoms are seen rather i'll the &C
ton of the carpet-bag administrations and
their parasites than in the laWless out
breaks of the whit" IatiVcs OF the soil. Al
this hour, and for more than a year past.
the white people Of the Southern States
! and the more Intelligent among the blacks
are more faithfully devoted to u restoration
of peace, law, and honest legislation than
are their governments or their Congress
men, who rely upon bribery and the
bay0net to sustain and strengthen them
in power.
it is deeply to be regretted that the VIC
lence Of party spirit at this moment should
prevent any one from doing justice to the
| dignified and laW-abiding attitude of the
| better portion of the Southern people.
| Ever since the beginning ola movement
which held out to them the hope Of resto-
ration of friendly relations between them
and the people Of the North, they have
given to us and the world the example OF
an admirable dignity and patience under
well-nigh intOlerable outrage. We have
published few of the countless accidents
of petty tyranny and spoliaGion which they
have suffered in silence in the hope OF
better things. They have endured Casey
| in New Orleans, and Clayton and Hadley
| in Arkansas, and the carriers of the carpet
bag from Mississippi to North Carolina,
| seeing them override law, steal, and per-
| lure themselves, violate the Treasury and
| the ballot-bOX, Set free the guilty and lock
! upthe innocent, Us if this We're the thirteenth
century, aad they were the chiefs OF savage
tribes whose will y as law. Yet, III spite
of these infamous prOsOc2tlOns, laWlessness
and Ku-KluXiSm have been steadily dying
away The Southern people seemed de-
termined 10 allow their pluDderers a mos
nopOly of wrOng-aOing. The horrible out
rage in Arkansas, where a conspiracy Of
Grant officers murdered two quiet citizens
on the highway for the purpose of pro-
voking an outbreak, resulted only i'll an
orderly public meeting, in which the people