Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-09-29

LET EVERY BODY READ THIS.
We sincerely trust that our readers
will give their serious attention to the
acts and utterances OF promi-
nent Radicals, in order that out OF its
own mouth the negro party may be con-
demped. No where do we know OF
more complete or o more truthful his
tory of that party or one Tuore perfect
ly consistent with itself, during 80
many years, than is to be found in the
utteranoes of its prominent men from |
its formation to the present day.
In 1868 the women of the State we're |
insulted by advice from the Central
State organ and chosen mouth-piece |
of the party to Radical canvassers to
throw their arms around them when
their husbands were not about. In
1868 the white people were threatened
openly with starvation and destruction
of their homes from the vengeance of
negroes. In 1869 the Radical Gov
ernor claimed the power to sus-
pend all laws at his own pleasure,
and in 1870 he did SO suspend all laws
at his own will and pleasure. In 1889
the bill was passed under which the
State was filed with spies, who logged
mems footsteps on the streets of Will
mington and elsewhere in the State.
In 1870 the infamous Shoffner bill was
passed, empowering the Governor to
declare every county in North Caro-
lima in q state of ilsurrection. It was
under this bill and in this year that
the Holden-Kirk war was carried on
and the Radical Governor asked the
Radical Congress to authorize the
of habeas corpus. SO that men might
be arrested and tried before military
tribunals and shot, and it was in this
year that tho Radical Governor de-
clared that if he was "personally
menaced, certain leading Democrats
and Conservatives, who might be
named, will beinstantly put to death. I"
During all this time Judge Settle
sustained Holden and supported his
administration when his name to a
''ittle piece of paper" as he con-
temptuously calls the great writ of
Ha6eas Corpus. would in an instant
have restored law and order. In 1871
Judge Settle and the other members
of the Supreme Court solemnly de-
clared from the bench that the action
they took in those times, the action
that sustained Holden and enabled
him to carry on the Kirk wal, was right
and proper. In 1872 the Radical Con-
vention of the State, of which Judge
Settle was a member, formally en-
dorsed and sustained Holden and his
administration and the Kirk war, even
after he had been driven in shame and
disgrace from his high office for those
very crimes. And to-day we find,
that same Thomas Settle. the candidate
of that party for Governor, John Poo,
the instigaror of the war, it's Superin-
tendent of Public instruction, Mo-
Lindsay, the pirate, its candidate for
Congress-.
Since the world began, no party has
ever thought, spoken or acted 30
much villainy and infamy as the Radi-
cal party. Don't fail to read single
one of the following utterances if you
wish to know the true inwardness OF
Radicalism and of Radicals:
| 1868.
| you wUrK uOn
1urgeJ 20 work among the women
| Go after the women then. And
| don't hesitate to throw your arms
around their necks now and then whe1
| their husbands are not around, and
give them q good. They all like
it. Our experience with fe.
male rebs is. that with all their sins
| they have a vast amount of human ma
ture, and only want to have it appre
rated to be the most loving creatures
imaginable. Scallawags and carpet
baggers don't fail, therefore, as you
canvass the State, to look after the
women. "-Raleigh Standard.
"Did it ever occur to you. ye
gentlemen of education, property and
character. to you, ye men and especi.
ally ye women, who never received
anything from these colored people
but services; kindness and protection,
did it never occur to you that these
same people who are SO very bad, will
not be willing to sleep in the cold
when your houses are denied them,
merely because they will not vote as
to starve, while they are willing to
work for bread? Did it never occur
to you that revenge, which is SO
sweet to YOU. may be es sweet to them ?
Hear us, if nothing else you will hear.
did 1t ever occur to you, that if you
kill their children with hunger they
will kill your children with fear? Did
it never occur to you, that if you good
people maliciously determine that they
shall have no shelter, they may deter
mine that you shall have no shelter
Tod. r. CaldaOeL.
1.-THE Governor las power to sus-
pend all civil law as it was suspended
in 1866. w W. Holden.
The Spy Bill was passed in this
year.
The Shofner Bill was introduced
into the Legislature. In advocating
this bill Radical Senator Cook, from
Johnston county, said it ought to pass,
because if it became law men accused
could be tried by drum-head court
martial and shot.
The painting or disguise act was
passed this year.
1870.
''If Congress would authorize the
suspension, by the President, of the
writ of Ha6eas Corpas in certain To-
calities, and if criminals could be ar
rested and tried tefore military tri-
bunals and shot we would soon have
peace sand order khrouoh0ut all this