Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
NORTHERN SENTIMENT.

No reader of the current political
history of the day will fail to be struck
with the marked change i'll the tone
and sentiment of the leading organs of
the Radical party at the North Col.
WADDELL in his speech to MS friends
who scrcnaded him the other evening,
remarked that the sure and early dis
integration Of the Radical party was not
only discernable from conversations
with the leaders of that party in Wash
ington City, but that il was visible in
their faces. The same may truly be
said of their papers. The new depar-
ture Of the New York Times, the
Chicago IrjJtntc, and even the Wash
ington CHr0njclc, presage the utter
downfall Of the party. 7ckcl is indeed
written in burning letters upon the
banners Of Radicalism. Its mission,
whatever that may have been, hasbeen
fulfilled. and weighted down by cor
ruption and political profigacy, its
death is proclaimed in the house of lis
own friends.
As fair sample of what is being
said by leading Radical papers, we
give below extracts from two, which
are conspicuous in their devotion
the doctrine of State Rights, rather
local self government, as it is now
termed by those who could not per-
suade themselves that they would sup
port any principle of the Democratic
party. In other papers than the New
York TInrc@, and in other latitudes
than at the North, it has been deemed a
sufficient answert o those W no talk about
State Rights to call them "Bourbons, .
and when Radical papers at the North
acknowledge its weakness, probably
Conservative papers at the South viii
perceive its folly.
Tile New York Times in a lead
ng editorial, comments as follows
upon the recent declaration Of
NJ. Eaton, the newly elected Sena-
tor Of Connecticut, that lie would TRY
to take away the Federal bayonets
from orr brothers in the South, so that
every State III this land shall have the
same right OF local government, and
the same exercise of l., as our own
State =:
SAYS the ITnca The extreme
length 10 which State rights theories
were pushed III 1860 and 1861 brought
abcut a reaction, and that reaction has
led many people to think that States
RIGHTS belong to the dead and gone
class of questions. and that any man
who talks abont State rights is sniff
ciently answered when he is called a
- Bourbon" 1t is unnecessary to say
to any intelligent reader that this view
is a miserably shallow one, and that I'D
reality the right Of suites to govern
Themselves IS as dear to the
DeoDIe as crer 1T aras. And
it ought to be dear to them, for
| when they abandon it they will have
utterly forsaken the system of govern
ment established under the Federal
| Constitution. They may set up some
thing else in its place, which may be
| called by any name that may please
the persons then living bnt it vii!
not be the government designed by
| the founders of the Constitution. Ii
| may be a civil polity based upon parli-
amentary rule, or it may be mon,
archy or despotism but it will nc
| longer be a constitutional republic
such as we have seen here for nearly 6
hundred years. The people vii
not consent to see either a Poland OF
an Ireland created on this soil.
Look at South Carolina. The facts il
reference to that State seem to be
about as well established as any his
torical facts can be, and they amount
f. to this-the negroes, assisted by ras
cally whites, have held q sort Of granc
orgie in the State for several years
past, have swallowed up among then
pretty nearly all the private property
in the State, have ruined what may bt
called the native citizens even more
thoroughly than the war had done
have robbed and harried like SO man,
highVaymen, and have reduced the
State to a condition which must shocl
every man who sees it or reads abou
it. The very Governor of the State j
thief. The Legislature is a gang o
thieves. Is this a Republican gov
eanment" such as the Constitution
expressly guarantees to all the States?
We venture to say that is not-that
on the contrary, it is government @
which the Republic has every reaso
to be ashamed. Now it is foil
/ to suppose that the Republican party
as an organization, will continue muc
!, longer to look on with perfect satisfat
ton at this great failure. The leader
| of the present moment may not pa
any attention to the subject but
they do not, other leaders will aris
who aOiu see that justice is done. I,as
s week we all witnessed the Unite,