Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-11-14
,GEs2: RADICAL PARTY ITS <afs-
E.r,E.TFONS CONEESSED

The Radical party has been i'll the
habit Of charging the Conservative
party with promiscuous indulgence
in inIiscriminate abuse. It is indeed
truc that We have been obliged TO use
some plain talk in speakirgof that par
y. is policy and its members. We
nave been obliged to deuounce its pol
icy as rlinUUs, and at times some Of
its leaders and some of its members as
rascats: not that we desired 50 to do,
mt that truth compelled it.
Eat since the recent elections il is
nr: on cur side alone that such talk is
heard. The New York Times gives a
very brief but singularly comprehen-
:>ivc summary Of the faults of the par
t., aud urges their correction if Rad
icaiiano is any longer to be triumphant.
l. says the Salary bill the treatment
OF the Credit Mobilier scandal, the
general conduct Of the finances, the
tendency to estravagant expenditure,
and recklessness III making ncmina-
t;ons-thcse are the things which Re
publican voters have given notice that
they DO not approve.
Nor is tho IIuacs alone in its expos
uro OF tlc corruptions Of its party.
From every quarter, almost, its lead
ing papers are making confessions of
shortcomings that sustain every charge
ever made nonius: It by its bittcr.st
opponent.
What IS true of the New York press,
IS true also Of the Radical press in
Norti; Carolina. The Raleigh Err, the
central Radical organ in the State.
makes clean breast Of some Of tho
corrupt practices of its party friends.
Its picture Of deputy uiarshals, dc
ruiy collectors, special agents, inform
CTS and spies racing over tho country,
leading squads Of soldiers, riding
through COIN fields, cutting up at peo-
PICS houses, sud wi:La1, travelling
commissioners to arrest, try and bind
over the country Is they CO." is rs gra-
rhic IS 4 Il truthful. Have Conaer-
YatiIo3 oTer said more than this ?
Tie I'm says The investigation Of
the Beaver case. and the examination
OF divers alleged cases OF illicit distil-
ling at statesyille last week. together
with general review Of the conduct Of
the officers Of the sorvice, forces the
conclusion that the Internal Revenue
-,
Carolina, and the South, is an imposi-
rage Oh citizens of the United States.
We lind deputy marshals, deputy
collectors, special agents, informers
leading squads of soldiers, pushing
down fences, riding through corn
fields, cutting up at peoples houses,
and withal travelling Commissioners to
arrest, try and bind over the country
rs they go.
Now and then apoor fellow is found
marketable grain into cash fluid, and
he is pnt through the mill of pains
and penalties, for such cases made and
provided.
Dnt lii t':c majority ii ,.a>cs persons
az = ttf''vt't t1 IL al: .jSi- up cEdiRSS On
iIii.it distilling, and SO far has the
practice OF manufa curing testimony
and creating circumstances gone, that
luriee refuse to convict Oh the bare
Testimony Of men paid 50 much q year
is standing witnesses for the govern
Inent, hence there are few convictions,
and these generally include that class
Of lncn too poor to defend themselves.
The spectacle is therefore presented
Of q great government, whose institu-
tions are the pride OF civilization,
whose strength and beauty are the adj
miration, and whose growth the VOL
der OF the world, fighting and oppres-
sing. with all the power and machin-
cry Of its Courts, aided by suborncd
witnesses, population OF its people
too poor to maintain themselves, ordi-
narilv, against constable's claim in
volsilg So;1r shillings of cost. Under
Tie system as ii E?w is, conviction is
Tho penalty Of weakness and poverty !;
acduittal the reward Of wealth 4;n2d the
Of strength.