Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-12-04
POST FEsruM CRUSADE.

this broad country, should look
facts squaraly in the face through the
light of truth and candor and not OF
prejudice, and especially that interested
prejudice which makes mountains out of
moIehills or, worse still, that resorts to
absolute fabrication for the material
with which to keep alive the feelings
Of sectional hatred.
The tardy justice accorded to the
long suffering people of the South, in
tlerebuke administered to the Admin
istration party though the results of the
recent State elections is, we are happy
TO say, accepted in good faith as such
by many leading Republican papers in
the North, who see in it popular
condemnation of the excuses commit
ted by the Administration and its sup
porters, as well as a total and utter
unbelief in the falsehoods that were SO
industr1ously circulated Throughout
the North, for months previous to the
elections relative, to alleged Southern
outrages.
These falsehoods bore their own
legitimate fruit then; they we're one
of the free horses which the
Radical party rode to death, and
in falling both horse and rider were
brought to the ground. That the
stories so industrious1y circulated were
manufactured articles and vilIainous
decoctions, intended solely for the
purpose of assisting in the perpetual
ton of Republican ascendancy, was
sufficiently proved by the investiga-
tions made in Alabama and Louisiana
by the special correspondents of the
New York Times and Tribune, both
Republican, and the former the
whilom Administration organ, to which
papers, by the way, the Southern peo-
pie are under real obligations for the
exposures made by them, and which
had more or less influence in deter
mining the results of the recent great
contests in the Northern States.
Time teaches its own lessons in tie
results it brings to bear on public, as
we'll as private, affairs and it is strange
shat people will continue to refuse to
be taught. One would think that,
after the recent high tide of Demo
cratic victories that has flowed through
the South, the trash and dirt of the |
political contest would be swept from
the banks and ont into the great ocean
of the past, and that the country would
enjoy at least little of the calm ard
quiet that should follow all great con-
tests. But there are certain papers
thatliveupon agitation alone and which
would relapse into the nothingness .
from which they were called forth into
creation, were they not i,blo to furnish
each day series Of sen7ationalisms
for the graft fication OF the mo. bid ap- !
petite OF their readers. Prominent IN
this class will be found the Washing /
ton Republican, the central organ OF
the effete Radical party and the mouth /!
piece of the Executive. When the /
first great ripple of the recent tide of |
victories flowed through the country |
on the telegraph wires, the Republican
headed its dispatches with the grace
full expression, ga disastrous day for
the country" and this seems to have .
been the text for its leading discoursos
ever since. In its pampered arrogance
~ has founded hn 80,
people, and notwithstanding the i'm
mense expression of the opular VIII. the
Rcp,.jtican, the representative of
weak minority, dared to enforce the
doctrine that the great majority were
wrong. And it, and others, still harps
upon this theme and to enforce such
putrld doctrines, is again endeayoriag to
Scare up the ghost of Southern out
RACES with which to continue to
delude its readers into the fan
ciful belief that the ku-KIux
are still stalking boldly through
the land, only that now they
wear 10 midnight masks, but
sit, day after day, in the Legisla-
tive halls, connecting schemes for :
the renewed enthrallment of the
enfranchised slaves. Like the man of
q lively imagination who tells his tale
SO often, exaggerating little more at
each telling, until the complexion of
the whole is entirely changed and he
himself gradually grows to believe in c
the truth of it all, 30 the Republican, 4
by the force of constant repetitions,
has SO magnifed that which was at c
begins to believe now in its own false G
exaggerations, and will soon be q
dubbed throughout the country, even
by its own allies, as the political Nun ]
chausen OF the age. Evidently, either r
the Administration editor of the Re i
publican is growing old, or else his
nerves have been sadly shaken by the
recent severe cudgeling his party has .
He sees Richard in every T.
oush and Ku-KluS in every shadow {
hat falls across his path. He has a
lew diversion, too, and it is the study p
If political economy-not at home, oh, .
10, but abroad. He has plucked O.
handful of quilts from the tail of tie II
proud bird of freedom and the theses "
le writes on the political status of .
be negro in the Southern States are "
Vonderful-far more wonderful than
farming. He has visited Texas and Gu
las there actually seen negroes sold re
'ack again into slavery and he e.
tartles the world by the declara-
ion that Ito quote the caption of an
1itorial in last Saturdays issue)
Georgia-Slavery Again Establish m
d." This is terrible head and cal lot
Hated if tr'ie, to cause thousands of fo
lose ID the MOI h who recently voted an
" the Successful nominees to curse To
lie day in which they cast in their sta
allots for Democratic Congressman. Co
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