Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-02-27
GOING BACK ON THEM.


publican party is beginning to unload
at last. They have been too greedy
have eaten too heartily of the Grant
plum pudding; there was too much OF
mixture. and, although they made
but little difficulty in dutifully swal-
lowing all that was handed them, yet
nature has at last rebelled and the sys-
tenn must be relieved. The party is
sick and the administration is sick and
the great party organs are sick and DIR.
Grant is sick and the people are sick.
And no wonder that they are all sick
when the nature of the villainous
compounds is considered.
Just look at the bill of fare Holden
and Littlefield in North Carolina, Scott
and Moses in South Carolina, Davis
in Texas and Kellogg in Louisiana. to
say nothing of Florida and Alabama
and Mississippi and Arkansas. To
carry such load would long ago have
surfeited the stomach of anything in
the world, but that OF the great Re-
publican party.
But they are unloading now with a
vengeance. Recently Davis has been
spewed up in Texas, but Kellogg and
his negroes in Louisiana and Moses
and his negroes in South Carolina are
not so easily gotten rid of. SO far
they still lie on the Radical stomach
and will not up. They are the
nightmare of the party; the cause OF
all of the hcrrid diseases, the dreadful
visions and the prophetic warnings
that haunt the couch of the admins
trationists. DIR. Grant has advised
them to unload, and his advice is to be
followed. But whether this will afford
the desired relief or not is matter OF
considerable doubt.
Piece by piece the Republican party
is crumbling into decay, and one by
one the strongest friends of the ad-
ministration are dropping from the
ranks. The staunchest of their adhe-
rents in the North are leaving them
and even the New York Times, until
very recently, if not now, the acknowl-
edged organ of the President, has be-
gun to kick against the party traces.
The Times man is sick ; he has swal-
lowed too much of the negro and,
watching the fluctuations of pub
lie opinion ut the North, is even now
ready to repudiate him and his works
in the party. As a candid confession
is good for the soul, the Times proba-
bly thinks that it is also good for the
stomach and it has therefore betaken
itself to the confessional. Hear him
talk now of 'Negro Rule in the Sonth
the caption he gives to the following
article
Ata moment when the sad condition
| Of affairs in Louisiana ID attracting thu
attention of the whole country, and
| when Mississippi has elected . steam
boat porter to the United States Sen
ate only because his skin il black, the
proceedings of the South Carodna
| LEGISLATURE are more scandalous thar
at any time since the close OF the war
No one can deny that some OF tht
members of the colored race have dis
played rare capacity for public At
fairs. Yet, owing to combination o'
unfortunate circumstances. the RACK
has not distinguished itself favorabiJ
in the three States we have mentioned
With Louisiana We have recently
dealt at length, and We need not nov
refer to it more in detail Missisnp'
pi is not in 50 bad . condition. and ha'
not been plundered to the same extent
but tho recent elections prove that tn
State can hope for no substantial pros
perity under its present control L
Is, however, in South Carolina tina
negro domination in affairs is mos
pronounced, and there its evils arr
most apparent.
IF there was any doubt of the unfit