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

Senator Ransom comes into the
field with a political experience, 6
comprehension of the important issues
involved in this contest, all insigh,
into all the inner workings of radical
ism, which few other men possess. For
six years he has, from his exalted
! station, watched with keen eye and
J deep solicitude the broad field of ma
tional politics. He has observed every
movement of the contending parties,
from the most advantageous stand
point. He is thoroughly conversant
with. the history of the Republican
party; he is familiar with the details
of its corruptions, malpractices and
tyrannies; and he knows the dark de-
signs which it now meditates against
the rights and the liberties of the peo-
pie. No one IS better fitted than he to
tell of the evils of radicals, and to
arouse our people to consciousness
of the necessity of democratic success,
The republican policy is to stir up
strife-rake up the dying embers of
the war-faunt the bloody shirt in the
faces of a people sick at heart of the
war. They cry war war from one
end of the country to the other. 1t is
the theme of the infdel as we'll as the
christian republican. We~hear it on
every stump. We see it in every sheet
that issues from the radical press. The
only hope of our adversaries is in inc.
flaming the animosities, the hatreds,
the deep revenges engendered by the
war.
General Ransom is one of those
Southern statesmen who have steadily
denounced this policy of hate, and
plead year in and year out since the
lowering of our flag at Appomattox,
for peace and for reconciliation. In
this blessed work he has had National
fame. From the day he first proudly
entered the American Senate, as one
nfmscIT uIuUrK4E.ysrytie e---ls~- L~---l-~--rAel
pose of .reconciling. the once divided
people of t.is country, harmonizing
all sectional differences and disputes,
bury1ng in oblivion every bitter res
collection of the war, aud convincing
the people of the North that we of the
South sincerely desire to live with
them in concord under the common
protection Of constitutional and
united government. Nobly has he
carried out that high purpose; and we
are sure that his efforts in this direc>
.tioii have not been in vain. The
greatest speech ever deliverad upon
this subject in the halls of Congress,
fell from his lips on the 18th of Feb
ruary, 1875, when the light of morn
ing, pouring through the. eastern
windows. of the capitol, sYmbolized
'the auspicious dawn. of a brighter
day for the Republic. q
Senator Ransom will now supple
ment the work which he Z has done in
the American Senate. He will go
forth among our party to plead for
peace. and reconciliation, for reform
aud justice and honesty. Let him lift
his eloquent voice here, in his native
State, as he did uader the dome ct
the National Capitol, and again in
woke men of all shades of political.
opinion .t.to gather this day and this
hour around the family affairs and end
forever and forever this fratricidal
strife. So shall it come to pass that
tive shall rear upon the ruins
of our errors and follies, over
the prejudices, passions and the
hates of the past, a granders
and nobler temple of wisdom, Justice
and liberty than the sun has yet shone
upon and all over and through that
temple, fromits foundation to its dome.
we shalt behold, arrayed side by side,
the virtues, the valor, the sacrifices
and the immortal achievements cf the
North and the South. And then, as
the sun rises In the east aud makes
his daily revolutions until he sinks to
rest in the west, his beams will spread
the light of American liberty, and the
glory of J tappy and united people
over the whole earth as q blessing to
all mankind.