Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-02
VOL. 80.
CIVIL RIGHTS.

During the recent campaign in this
State, most of the Radical candidates
and speakers declared themselves
against Civil Rights, and denied that
their party, rs a party, was committed
TO i. Indeed Colonel Dockery, Judge
Russell, and such lesser lights as
Robinson, Sutton, and the county
candidates, especially in white coun-
ties. charged that the Democratic Con-
servative party was even more COM
mitted to the Infamous doctrins of
Civil Rights than was the Radical par
tv Their professions, however,
availed them little The people knew
that the individual opinions of North
Carolina Radical candidates, even if
honestly expressed, were Of little mo-
ment in the councils of the National
Republican party, and their success
vould have been heralded from Maine
70 California as q declaration on the
nart of this State in favor of Sumner s
LEGACY of hate" And the people
we're right.
Since the North Carolina election
the Fall campaign has opened in a
large number of States, in which cleo
tions will be he Id during the next two
months. In most of them, South as
well as North, Republican Conven-
tions and candidates have openly and
boldly declared in favor of Civil
RIGHTS. and in none of their conven-
tions and by none Of their candidates
has one word been uttered against the
the passage of the bill now pending in
The House Of Representatives.
In Ohio and Indiana, the most i'm
portant of the States to mold elections
in October, the Radical platform and
candidates are emphatic in the en-
dorsement of this bill. In Iowa, Hi
nois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, in
the North; Tennessee, South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, IL
the South, the elections in which take
place during the Fall, the Radical
party is advocating the perfect equality
Of the races. In other States the plat
forms are silent upon this subject, the
party leaders apparently preferring to
risk their chances for success upon
infaming the Northern heart over
Southern disorders.
In South Carolina many Republi-
cans, who seem dissatisfied with the
nomination of Chamberlain, are or
ganizing in order to run a Judge
Green for Governor, in which move
ment many Conservatives, or the Tax
Union as the white people are pleased
to call themselves in our sister State,
seem willing to unite, movement in
which we can have but little sympa-
thy, although We suppose it demon
strates t., what fearful condition
the good people of that State have
been reduced. We read in q North
Carolina Conservative paper. as fol-
lows: Sentiment in South Carolina
opposed to bribery and corruption
is crystalyzing on Judge Green, of
Sumter, who, though in favor of
Civil Rights, is regarded as an hon
'' est man who would faithfully ad-
Z" minister the government of the Pal
metto State" We doubt the non
esty Of any South Carolinian or any
Southern born man who is in favor OF
civil rights, and we should not vote for
such man for any office. The Radical
party may, and doubtless will force
upon us, so far as the Courts will per-
NIT, the equality Of the races, but
rather than give our sanction to it, we
would prefer to enter our unavalllng
protest by voting for some one who
was opposed to civil rights. We have
little patience with such expressions
as those we quote from our North
Carolina cotemporary, and dshallregard
the election of Judge Green as but
jumping from the frying pan into the
fire.
Upon the question of civil rights
there can possibly beno nocompromise OF
thepart of the white people of the South
And so long as it is agitated, ant
worse, if it be engrafted into the law
of the country, people aid governmen
may cry peace, but there will be nt
peace. Man in malice cannot irradi
cate the prejudices implanted b.
nature; laws cannot destroy The dis
tlnctions which God has decreed.