Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-23

uments and speeches among the ne
eroes, he would not have been mo-
Tested. The inevitable conclusions are
that no "reign of terror" exists, and
that the State authorities are fully able
to keep the peace.
The conclusions of the Times corr
respondent in Louisiana are OF
similar character and are well worth
bordering by the Northern people
He says:
Politics in the towns has a warmer
complexion than on the plantations.
II is the interest of the landholders to
be on good terms with the negroes, as
if they abused them they might Wh1s-
tie for their crops. The stories OF ne
proes being shot down in The fields
and in their huts on plantations are
absolutely false. But think it likely
that in the towns there are occasional
outrages. I argue this from general
principles, and not because drunken
Steamboat man informed me with
many oaths that if I was friend OF
Kellogg should leave the town with
in twenty-four hours. This was very
patriotic of him, inasmuch as he
did not belong to the place, but
was sent on shore by an indignant
Captain who thought drunken en-
gineer incompatible with the safe de-
livery of his freight at Shreveport.
His love for the South struck me IN
still more admirable light when L
learned from the proprietor of the no.
tel that he was au Injia,any man. The
proprietor was very indignant at this
attack upon the only boarder he had
received for months, and demonstrated
SO warmly with the Injianny engineer
that he apologised and suggested
drinks as a peace offering, which L
accepted SO as not to appear proud.
Putting aside this personal experience
am constrained to the belief
that the negro is only IN dan
ger in the towns, and there only
from his having been hoisted luto a
false position. All the parish of1lclals
centre in these towns, and it Is CALLING
to have Boards of School Directors,
none of whom can write, Ward JUS
tees who can only sign their names,
Police Justices who are just as far
educated and no more, Sheriff VINO
cannot even sign his name, three coal
black Representative for the district,
not one of whom can read or write; a
mulatto Senator who was a barber, a
Recorder of the same profession, whose
office is to record all mortgages, deeds,
&C., and whose spelling is positive
curiosity. The fact is, that Repubh-
canism down here means eiectlng ne
groes to Office because they are ne
groes, not because they are competent;
and no man is accounted Republican
who thinks otherwise. The Demo-
Gratis of the South are not Democrats.
They are landholders, and their opln-
ions are what might be expected from
ndholders-Conserva and Wing.
They are more nearly allied to the
Conservative Republicans than to any
other political stripe, and if the kel-
logg hand were taken from their
throats, they would very soon unite
with them.
There can be but one result to the
pouring in upon the Northern mind
such flood of light in relation to
Southern affairs.
Nor is it material now to enquire
how far the fact that tie New York
Times has come almost to an open
rupture with President Grant may in
fuence the course of that paper III
regard TO Southern affairs. It is sufi-
ent for us to remember that it is not
the habit of the Northern press to pur-
sue course that does not promise to
pay, and if the Times thinks it will pay
to make rupture with the President,
it certainly bodies no i'll to the South
No matter what the motive may be,
the result must be beneficial to US.