Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-09-11
THE IsAXONEr ONCE MORE.


camp-meeting to race course, fror
Washington City to Long Branch
hoping to catch him between his din
ner hour and his afternoon drive t.
pour into his smoky brain the horror
of the new rebellion which has br ,kei
out in the South, to the end tina
troops may oe distributed throughou
our section in order to CO troll tn
elections in South Carolina, Alabam
and Louisiana by the bayonet. Sen
ators Patterson of South Carolina
aud Spencer of Alabama, ant
Representative Hays of Alabama, des
pairing of overtaking our peregrina
| ting President, ,unburdened Themselves
to that common sewer Of all the flti
of the Administration. Attorney Gen
eral Williams. Congressman Hays
tell the Attorney General that he i;
sure TO be beaten unless he can dis
tribute a regiment of troops among
the doubtful parts of his district. He
says he Is "shunned by the white peo-
pie, and even by the negroes" and he
must have troops. Senator Patterson
declares that the only hope Of the
party in South Carolina is "tO nave
the Federal army distributed through
the st te and retained there until af-
ter e'eaiion." Senator Spencer AYERS
that he heard of the shooting Of 2 ne
gro some tine since, and he feels GER
tain that the election will go wrong
ul'css tl.ereare sufficient United States
t,unls Oh hand to secure the desired
result. There is perhaps nothing in
Che whole history of reconstruction, II
We exc, 1T the Louisiana usurpation,
AItich tur,als in boldness this avowal
+ lie purely political purpose for
which Federal interference is sought.
Attorney General Williams dispatch
es the President and that official actu
ally forgOes the pleasure of an after
noon drive to writo letter to the
Secretary of War upon the sub
ject of Southern disorders, and
directs him to place at the dis
posal of the Attorney-General such
trOo IS as may be needed to maintain
order in the Southern States, i. e.,
enough to carry the elections for the
Republican party. We may therefore
soon hear of such States in which
elections ere to be held, being filed
with Federal soldiers, ana hear too of
elections being again controlled by
Federal bayoncts.
AS yet we have seen no Indignation
expressed npon the part Of Northern
papers and speaker. Nothing is said
of the gross violation of the Constitu
ton which prohibits the invasion of
States by Federal soldiers, except on
the application of the Legislature, or
Of the Executive, when the Leg
islature cannot be couvened; nothing
is said of the partizan tyranny
over the Southern people; nothing Is
said against the effort to remit the
South again to a condition of yassal-
ag, nothing is said against giving
Fedora. authority to the sc1itiOuS at
tempt to fomert a war of races moth
ing is said against tile material loss
which will be occasioned to every in
dustry in the land. We hear of its ef-
fects upon the aspirations Of individu
ais ard the prospects, of parties. Yes,
even its hearing upon third term is
sage'y limited it. The industries Of
the country suffer, the rights of the
people are trampled upon, their iber
ties curtailed, their Ii es endangered,
and the most sacred provisions OF the
law rlthlessly violated to
SECURE the reelection of such worth
less characters as Patterson, Spencer
and Hays, and in tho vain effort to
pave the way for third term.
Oar people meet and demonstrate
the falssty Of the charges; the almost
quiet existing throughout
the South. the late peaceful elections
in this State, all plead in vain against
the false representations of these i'll
terested parties. In South Carolina q
war between two negro Senators ut
confined to negroes alto
ee her, condemns the whites of that
PROSTATE State to the vengeance of the
A difficulty in Louis
lana, begun by negroes, in which the
whites in self-dcfence are forced to
kill few white leaders who were urg
ing on the negroes to deeds of violence.
brings that State under the ban. The
unfortunate lynching Of some negroes
in Tennessee, who had been caught in
the act of exciting riot and bloodshed,
with arms in their hands, and having
actually fred on defenceless whites,
is to subject that State to military
rule. Yet we read of the lynching of
a negro in Pennsylvania. the breaking
,peu uf i IL in Indiana and the execu
ton of prisoner, and throughout the
North the papers TEEN with instances
of the grossest violations of law, not
only without arrests, bat almost with
out public comment.
In the meantime the country de-
mands peace. It's prosperity is we'll
nigh paralyzed, and its laws are dead
letters upon the statute books. Are
-o 70 1,oyo another invasion, of the
South ? Is the North prepared 10
suffer the loss to commerce Can the
country afford to open again the
wounds of the war and renew its
injuries =?
The Tax Union in South Carolina IS
rapidly becoming a strong and vlgor-
Gus organization. Says the Charles
ton Ne,Us and Courier: "Already one
hundred and eighty-one subordinate
Tox TIp;opa bava haau formed with