Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-23
NeRVnERN DEmoCnATs.

| We have ever sought to do full JUS
tice in feeling and in expression to the
| true men of the North and the West,
| who in the darkest hours the coun-
try has ever Witnessed, faltered no
| nor failed in their allegiance to the
| principles of constitutional govern
ment. It has been our pleasure d
| well as our duty to single out from
any expression of anger and from al!
| feeling of resentment, the meu who
stood up against all the pressure the
Federal Government could bring to
bear upon them, and maintained their
Integrity to their principles amid trials,
temptations and defeats, without num-
| Der.
Feeling thus, it has given Us much
pleasure to read the glowing cJlio8ita
some Of our Southern contemporaries
have recently given to these gentle
men, whom we may all be proud to
call our Northern brethren, SO much
SO, that we cannot refraiu from repro
duciag some of them. The IoDl.r
Register says
Philadelphia has been an extTt me
Radical city, but few OF US reflect hal
IA vote OF mole than one hundred
thousand people (nearly half OF the
vote Of Alab 1ma) the majorit? against
| the Democracy IS but 1900. Penn
| syivania has been the home OF IhaC
| Stevens. but that STATE, witt h.r
| vote Of moro than half mil
| lion gave the Democracy, It t
| year, Il majority upon the general
| ticket and a Legislature which sent
! to the United States Senate one of the
| brightest inteliects and fTmest spIri Is
| Of that body. The Legislature Of
! Pennsyirania, which controls the
t management of the Centennial Exp
| sition So far as any government po"cG
| can supervise a private corporation
! have, III the election of Wallace to
! the Senate, spurned the very Leg 7ss;-
/ ton to which Admiral Semmes and
| the entire South object 50 indignantly.
! They stand ready to aid us III rem0v-
/ ing the last badge of inferior'ty, and
! To welcome lis as Il State equal IN
( power and honor with themsel yes.
( ur better, 1t seems to us, would Ii De
10 stand shoulder TO shoulder with
! them, to continue the battle which Is
! not yet over for & restoration OF thu,
! Union upon the basis OF co-equa'
| States and Tor an OblittratiOn of IL
bitt rucAs nEd anlmOsities wEic:'
strike btindly at friends and foes aliii,.
In the same vein, the RichmoAd
Enquirer speaks
Our people are too apt to lose sigh
II tne fact III their TRADES against t.s,
North that nearly, if not quite enc
baif the people III that section are the
warm friends OF the South, and have
been doing all III their power for Ia
past fifteen years to aid Us IN ti,t:
establishment Of our ,Ight to seIf-gov-
ernment. Even III Boston We have bad
tens Of Thousands Of devoted friends,
aud al through much-abused New
England Pennsylvania, New York aud
Ohio, large minority Of the pp0rl"
| have stood nobIy by lis, sacr,fcln2;
| themselves for our sake. And TOW
when VIC can hold up their hands o.
the very eve OF victory, let us see e
it that every true man in the Sour
i PES his whole duty.
And the Augusta Consjt,Hionulisf
says a:
What Southern State has ever It
Joiced in the possession of truer ra;ri-
OTIS than have, from time to tine.
adorned the history Of the North ?
Was there ever H0bler SOU, b1nehti'
the sun, than Thomas Il. Seymour, Of
Connecticut Emmett desired til
no monument should be erected +,
him until Ireland was free Doubtless
Thomas IL. Seymour had the same as
piratlon; and If the United States shall
ever be redeemed the glory Of thar ~
demption Will properly belong, III 81
great measure, to Thomas Il Sey-
moUr and such heroic men, who's
spirits walk abroad and whose prlnci-
pies still survive.
And we ask what Southern State has
ever rejoiced IN the possession of any
truer patriot or nobIer gentleman tllu4
FRANKLIN PIERCE, OF New Hampshir. ?
Like the CHEvALIER BAYARD, of the,
olden time, without fear and withcu,
feproach, Franklin PIERCE was il
deed a man whom any country might
be proud to claim for IFS own.
1t Is we'll TO recall the fact that such
men have been and still are, for its re-
merlbrance can but attune our hearts
to kindlier emotions toward tliose
among whom they lived.