Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-03-12
From the Coulter journal.
THE RADICAL PROC IA VI N Z.

Private advices from Washington of
the most reliable character indicate
that the conspiracy for the lnaugura-
ton of q war in the South has been
matured,- and that the adjournment of
Congress will be the signal fog attack.
Arkansas is to be the first State to re-
! ceive the blow of the assassin. The
plan is for Brooks to establish himself
at Piue Bluff and summon to his sup
| port IA many negroes and as many OF
the riff raft white adventurers as pos
sible, and these are to be placed under
the command of General Pagan. a
proclamation is then to be issued de-
claring the Garland govern lent a
usurpation, and ordering the 6 .ernor
and the authorities under - 10 to DIS
perse AID surrender all pretentions TO
the Positions they hold by virtue Of
the sovereign will of the people, freely
and constitutionally expressed at the
polls. This proclamation is to be fol
lowed by an application to the Presi.
dent for troops, and that application
is to meet with a prompt and favora-
BILE response
In this way the legal govmernent OF
| Arkansa &, which stands upon the same
constitutional basis as that of In
diana, New York, and twenty other
States, is to be overturned The
fact that it is lawfully established,
aud peacefully and honestly al
ministered, is considered no valid plea
for its maintenance. The fact tba'
| it is the wish of every respectable
element Of the State that it remain
il is, and the additional fact that Il
committee of Congress strongly pro
test against any effort to overthrow If.
do not seem to have feathers weight
against the reasonable designs of the
conspirators. Though Arkansas has
just risen from the havoc of disorder;
though aft,r much strife and brood
shed she is peaceful and prosperous,
aud though the President himself Co
tributed more than any other person
to the establishment of her present
government, that repose is to be wan
tonly disturbed. her prosperity de
stroyed, and the President. like al
angry savage, is to pull down ana
shatter into ruins the structure Le
has aided in erecting, And for what?
Simply to crafty the greed of the
robbers who have but recently been
choked from her throat, and TO bring
war upon his country in the hope that
ne ma be borne upon its bloody
waves to the guilty eminence of abso-
lutte power.
The carping slaves of party may
laugh at the prospect, but we wish IT,
place on record prophecy that, IN
less patriotism is aroused. and q pow
erful pdbIic sentiment, blazing Will
Indignation, be directed against the
consunmation of the wrong, we
9, lnH fnu ha
volved in war whose wrath
ful atrocities have never been
surpassed upon this continent
We speak advisedly, and me: n
what we say. We say there viii
be war, because we still have SOM
faith in the Anglo Saxon blood-ln
against usurpatior since it was frs;
nursed among the rocks of Scaudi-
navia, which gave us Hampden anG
Russell aud Sidney and Washington;
which has not hesitated to cut the
throats of kings, and which has ''made
the knees of despots everywhere trem-
BILE with n strange and unwonted fear
We may be mistaken III this, it il
true, for every other race has had its
grandeur and decay. its glory and hu-
initiation. The degenerate CIR. Elk now
cowardly sneaks about the b tile fields
his ancestors made immortal, and the
Roman soldier bows in submission in
the presence of the fiery Gaul. it
may be that Anglo-Saxons, too. are
ready to surrender the trophies tf
their thrilling aud sapguinary history,
but we will not believe IN the sudden
dcgeDeracy, nor are We wiling that
the grave of their glory shall be du.
upon a continent they have made jlIur
trlous by their triutnphs. But We say
to the unrefecting and sluggish PEG
pie at the North that they had better
consider the issue and resolve how it
shall be met.
If they are weary of the institutions
which have made their country great
let them be changed voluntarily and
not in obedience to the blows of the
sword, or rather by the lacerations OF
the lash, for tpe sword is too bright
and noble weapon for the castjgatlou
of men who are willing to become the
slaves of usurper.