Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-09-25


, alton as law-abiding citizens. W
shall hear all this in a thousand differ
ent ways, and it will be repeated asai
and again by the opposition press
, But with the thinking men, and wit
the people whose business interest
have suffered, as we'll as with the cage
patriots Of the North who stood read,
yesterday to shoulder their musket
for n renewal OF the sectional war, thi
kind of pleading viii carry no weight
The rebels have proved themselves t
be rebels low as thoroughly and a
uncompromisingly as when they Tough
under Reanrcgard ard when they wer,
III the ranks OF the Confederate bat
talions. What assurance can they give
that they will not repeat their crime
again tomorrow, on next week, or mex
EnOi.;:i? It is truc that their expert
rnce u the pat week has been bitter
Ind t!i;t tlr = nave been subjected a
last {, tie huriiiatiOn of IL bio dies
Il, feat, htt it viii require q long pro
button # l.: ace and quiet 10 restore
tll..ns T. ti,a confidence Of the law
:'j''' ii.g -Hvpic OF the country.
y. y, Herali, lad.
; Is 80 i:aye said, there remains 30
! option 10 The President. lie VII
naturally secl, 10 undo his mistakes
II, more than any one else, is to
| blame for the uprising in New Or
| leans. II ne had dealt with the Loui-
siana question at the time, if lie had
| insisted upcn n sediment from Con-
gross, rs proposed by Senator Carpen-
ter, we should not now see revolution
triumphant and the spirit Of secession
manifesting itself i'll the madness of n
| man like TOOmbs. The President
| must answer for this to the country
| and to history. But this present duty
is plain. We cannot tolerate an ap-
peal from the ballot to the barricade.
The most righteous government in the
world would be sinful if it rested upon
| q revolution like this Of Penn Such
performances may do in France or
Spain, or in the Republics of Central
and South America. We cannot per-
NIT them i'll the United States Much
| rs Louisiana has suffered, and gricv-
oJ3s as have been the wrongs heaped
upon her people, they can only be
redrcssed by lawful means, by pa
tience, effort and time. As it is the
cause of good government, OF free, in
dependent, Intelligent authority in the
| Southern States, has been severely
wounded III Louisiana. Our hope is
that prudent colnsels will prevail, not
only in New Orleans, but i'll Washing
ton; that the Penn party will see how
foolish they have been; and that Gen
eral Grant and his Cabinet will see
| how wicked and weak and selfish they
have behaved in dealing with Louisi-
aua and the whole question of recon-
| struction AS it is the Union must be
preserved, and there can be no union
where such revolution is possible as
| the revolution i'll Louisiana.
From the Philadelphia North American, Rep.
General Grant secs clearly through
this artful effort to undo the work of
reconstruction and to restore to rebel
| hanGs the means of mischief they
| know so we'll how to use. There can
be no sort Of doubt that the outbreak
in New Orleans was but part Of the
general programme, and unless
promptly luellcd would be speedily
! followed up in other Southern States.
Indeed, the Arkansas struggle seems
10 have been the pioneer of the reac-
| ton by force of arms, and the rebels
generally appear to have been encour-
aged by the hesitation of the govern
ment in dealing with it. How great an
error they have committed, however.
| they Will now be apt to find out. The
Presidents proclamation gave them
only five days notice to lay down
| their arms and dispcrse, and unless
they do so there will be sharp work.
We are rejoiced to know that the
| government has taken n firm stand,
and will not palter with the insurgents
who seek to monopolize citizenship for
! their own faction and to deny it to all
| others. The reliance of these rebels
has been upon the known weakness of
the national army and navy, just as
their predecessors Of the great rebel
| lion committed the same error of ma
king the same reliance. 1t seems as
though these people would never
learn wisdom from experience, for
| these New Orleans factionists have
been deliberately arming for the con-
fict, and assuming that the United
States could not be prepared in time
to overthrow their usurpation.
New York Time, Rep.
The present outbreak is on every ac-
count to be deplored. New Orleans
has been sharp thorn in the side of
the South the past few years. Just
" Icn .ho Southern difficulty is begin
ming to attract general, and not un-
kindly, consideration at the North,
there is sure to be a 'rising" or a
massacre in New Orleans. The tide
of public feeling is once more turned,
and the whole South suffers. The
moderate people of the South, who de-
sire to make the best of their circum-
stances, and to live in peace, must
often wish that New Orleans-the hot
bed of intrigues and nursery ground
of fire-eaters-could be sunk out of
sight. With regard to the effects OF
these disturbances on the Democratic
party, we leave the leaders of that
party to estimate them. They must
feel like afarmer whose hopes Of good
crop are suddenly dashed to pieces by
the arrival of Q plague of grasshop-
pers. The present insurrection, with
the terror of civil war in the back,
ground, has killed the Democratic
party foT this year. Whatever
chance it had is gone. The people will
not stand the revival of civil warin any
form, although one of the New York pa
pers has of late eimpudently asserted that
the North ought to pay 'war 1ndem'
nity' to the South, and that it was
ashamed of the cruelties that had beer
practiced upon her. Perhaps the
people in New Orleans took these ex
pressions as representing the views O
the Northern people-if so, they viii
be surprised when they find the same
paper now calling Historically for the
application of q little cold steel t.
them. First it melted them to insur
rection, and then it recommended th'
President to distribute among them
little grape and canister. The South
ern people ought to know better b.
this time than to accept the crazy ray