Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-02

SuPre macy, DC.
vICE-PKEsIDENT WILSON AND prp1,o
AFFAIRS.
WAeH>nN, Mal CHI 25-The Woo
i'resideIt, Il Is evident, does hot he
iieve in 2Ssddring pIayed-out Congress-
men upon the public treasury. In con
vrrsatIon he has expressed himself 90
OF re 'ogniZiug the Government Offices
a ;tsYium@ for broken down and ev-
tinct pohticiaus. He says what flo
Republican panty needs now is an in
fusion of new DlOOd INTO it's leader.
ship. He thinks now there IS to
much dead timber IL 1T. At this y.,v
time Il oAe-third Of the office-bcjd.,s
~ Washington and throughout the
country were dismissed and Their
places euppllei with new men .r,m
the people, IL d more thoroughly i'm
imhu' Il with the spirit of Republican
pJogr 50, 1t would he of great party
advantage There should be yery
general changes in the Offices av.rv
four years. The Vic, president thinks
lis SPIRIT gtield tier cured :, ma of
haQn
overtaking the Republican party since
last year. He thinks now that if the
energies of the Republican party ara
properly concentrated upon general
principles and ISSUES, instead Of being
divided and split up on local differ,
cnces, there would ne not the least
doubt Of success in 1876.
SPEAKER BLAINE ON NATIONAL POLITICS.
Speaker Blame, III bis conversations
on political matters, leaves the infer
ence that, although he has strorg h9pes
Of a Republican triumph at the next
Presidential election, ne caunot regard
it Us at al assured. MIR. Blaine has
not much to say IN regard to the per
sopai attacks made upon Linn by 4 Dor
ton of the PadicaI press IN this city
ami else here, because Of the some
Whist CONSERVATIVE attitude which he
has of ate rs, umed. He does intimate.
hDWevt r. thst he does not consider
tine Republican party in that flourish
ing condition which makes It wise or
expedItnt to drive rom it those who
have contributed 10 build it up. It is
also very certain that Mr. Blaine does
not bt lIt.ve that the Northern heart
can be fred by tie n ,ane aud menda-
ciOus rawlings relative to a new rebel
lion in the South.
Shor ~ after the passage of the Po-
land Arkansas resolution Gen. Butler
said to Mr.. Blaine, "Our people (the
ca pet-Iaggers and the negroes) will
now be slaughtered. Mr.. Blaine re-
piled that he did not for one moment
believe any such thing. He considers
now that the people, net only OF Ar
Kansas, bnt Of the other States Of the
South. are on their good behavior, and
that they are not likely to offer any
>xcI:se for iurther Federal interference
with their affairs Without some overt
action Oh the part of the people of the
South, the North will sustain no more
interference with the internal affairs
of hat section.
WHAT SENATOR MORTON HAS TO SAY.
Senator Morton seems to take a
more oomy view OF affairs than any
other Of the Republican leaders. In
private conversation he imputes the
same dreadful plrpose to the South
ern people and the same murderous
instincts he charges upon them III his
public ntterances. He insists that he
means to inaugurate another rebellion
He was asked whether he had any
far as to its being put down, and
with a gloomy shake of the head, he
said he did not know, that the North
might hesitate to pile up another great
debt aud another load Of taxation. to
say nothing of other sacrifices, even
for the sake of the Union.
Senator Morton may be sincere in
| his belief in this ridicu Gus idea of a
new rebellion. He is certainly very
persistent in the expression of such
belief. Bnt it is well to consider in
tlis same connection the words of
a. o her shining hight of the Radical
patty. expressed also in conversation
in the presence of witnesses, Unless
we can get up another civil war the
Republican party is gone.
A New England Senator came to
Senator Bayard and said, We"
(meanIng the people of the North
"can never consent that the people OF
the South shall control this govern
ment again" 1t is perhaps not nm
natural that the Radical leaders
should view with jealousy and alarm
the +, tnrn t" public life of the cul-
tured class of
SOUTHERN MEN
who welded so much power in the ma
ti0nal councils before The war. 1t les
sens en- easurably their own influence
AID Importance. But if our free III
stltut;ons are 10 last, and these men
Of the South are the choice of the pee
pie, their participation Ill State affairs
cannot be prevented, nor is it the III
tereet and wel!-being of the country
that 1t should, nor is there any reason
tn believe that the New England Sen
ator had the right to speak for the
North in what he said. On this point
another Northern Senator. a Demo
crat, said to-day that it forcibly recall
led to his mind the incident told by
The old historians of
OLIVER CROMWELL AND JOHN HAMPDEN.
Charles the First, proceeded from
one arbitrary act to another. finally IS
sued an edict stopping the emigration
of those who were fleeing from his ty-
ranry to the American Colonies. 1t Is
rel ted That Cromwell aud Hampton
we on b 4 a ship in the Thames,
bound Tor Virginia. when the edIct
was published, and they were compel
!. d to disemb TX. But for this edict
Charles wonld probably have never
/ st his head nor his crown, and would
have died in ob-curity III Virginia.
SO now, the Republican leaders OF the
Moth. who waged four years bloody
ard terlib'e war to prevent the South
era leaders from leaving the onion,
would like to marguerite another war
through the apprehension that these
s,ne mrn whom they would not let
go may become their rulers.
Another conference was held at
Washington on Saturday evening be-
tween members of the Board of Health