Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

tax -gatherers to pay the expenses o.
the tyrants, who have perpesrated these
foul wrongs, are not such blessings az
human nature ordinarily feels grateful
for
Article l, Sec 4, says: "This State
shall ever remain member of the
American Union; the people thereof
are part of the American Nation sc.
In early days we had the Choctaw Ma.
tion, the Greek Nation &C., but now
the English. Irish, Spanish, Africans,
Chinese and other races in the United
States constitute Nation. So says
Senator Morton and SO say Webster
and Worcester; but why make a sol
enn decl. ration of al undisputed fact?
QttO dpinaO' With what intention
We're our people declared
a part of the American nation, if not
to offer gratuitous insult to the clti-
zans of the State? Why not. proclaim
that the full moon is round
Article l, Sec. 5, says : Every citi-
zen Of this State owes paramount allie
| glance to the Constitution and Gov
ernment of the United States. Gas
good men differ on this question, I
will pass over it with the single re-
mark that if the debates in the State
| Conventions of 1887, 49, -'S9, reflect
| the temper of our forefathers, there
never would have been any suspicion
OF subjecting themselves to such
paramount allegiance" as this sec
ton asserts. The Constitution under
which the people of North Carolina
tiourished for eighty years. claimed
that "allegiance and protection are re-
caprocal aud the one should of right
he rnfI1Sn6 yuhan tho nthnr
Withdrawn" and leave your readers
to Judge how far ''life, liberty, and
property" have ever been protected in
North Carolina by the Federal gov
ernment.
Art l Sec. 6, characterizes the late
war as ''insurrection or rebellion
against the Uuited States, thus adop-
ting the false and silly nomenclature
of lnsolent fanatics, and of the unscru-
pulous thieves who have vailed their
Credit MObelier, Pacific Mail subsidy,
and other corrnptions under vociferOus
professions of loyalty.
ART ! l Sec 26, Art Ill Sec. 4, and
Art Al Sec. 2, require the members of
the General Assembly, the Governor,
and registered UOieTS, to take al oath
to support the "Con5titution aud laws
OF the United States, thus attempting
TO bind the people as to the distinction
between All oath of officers and an
oath of allegiance. and to render re-
spectacle the distinguished impudence
which prated about an ''Oath of allegi-
ance" some years ago. The Constitu-
tion Of tue United States declares that
an official oath to support 1t must be
taken by the Governor and the mem
bers of the General Assembly; but the
carpet-baggers were not contented to
re-enact this requirement. They
added to that an oath to support
the ''laws"-the Reconstruction
abominatinn, the Infamous Enforce
ment Act, the Civil Rights bill &C.,
must be taken by every man before he
can vote. And now no man can disre-
gard the provisions of any of these
laws, so as to get their constitution
ality before the Supreme Court, with
out first violating the oath he took as
a voter
These are the facts which I wished
to call up afresh for the consideration
of your readers. If they do not JUS
tlfy the descendants of the men who re-
fused to be governed by the Constitu-
ton prepared by John Locke, in
spurning worse one imposed on
them by strangers and enemies, it is
difficult to imagine tyranny to which
they would object.
Clinton, July 9, 1875.