Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-01-07

Of this total force in the colonies at the
iect, 1868
Leavinp 1876 OOS
To this add sailors and marines afoat OSJ2) 50 295
MAKING tooetber 800 BOB
Add addition to scamen 5000
The Morning Herald in speaking of the naval e>,i-
mates, says 1--WE stated some time since that the
naval forces OF England would include Ten line
of-battle sh s. We believe that before this time
year shall have double this number of two and
three deckers propelled by screw machinery afloat."
The Rev. Mr. Capp, Unitarian clergyman at New
Orleans, in his Thanksgiving discourse, preached in
that city remarked as follows:
northern minister said to me last summer: 6"
would pass my life amid the slavery of Louisiana,
even the condition of being made proprietor of the
whole State" | will not weary you by repetition
of my well known views concerning slavery. But
say with absolute sincerity, that the Africans held in
servude at the South are, in general, much better
treated than the colored people any par, of the free
States. go farther cannot at present dlsengage
our Christian duties without retaining them in bon
dage. have seen cruelty in Massachusetts than
in Louisiana
Cabin, there is more suffering produced in my native
State in year by the ruthless breaking up of poor
families and the everlasting separation of parents and
children than the slaves of Louisiana have suffered
from the source during the thir,y-cne years Of
my residence here. The romance which have just
mentioned is tissue of the baseSt untruths and the
most erroneous injustice. ! would no write such
a book, if could, than would commit murder, set
my neighbours house in flames al midnight; no not
even if were that to gain thereby the peans of
all the aboltionss in New and Old Eng and and the
entire gold of California Col have mercy the fail
authoress. Time is coming when she may weep in
bitterness of soul the fatal consequences of he
inetfable folly.
Even supposng the aboltonists to be right in the
doctrine, the measures which they adopt directly
at variance with the ends which they profesSedIy seek
If they would speak TO US in the accents of reason
wisdom, genteness and Christian affection, we shou't
listen with patience and candor But instead of calm
sensible subdued, godlke augmentation, they rely
for success upon the foul riblldry of Bngsgate am
unhaIlowed fiction tending 10 kinde flame of exas
peraton between the North and South, which threat
long to reduce the glorious fabric Of our I'm
6 ion 10 shapeess and scattered mass of ruins TIL
Republic OF these States cannot be perpetuaed by thu
> strong of the National Government, by pape
constitutions, by legislative enactments, nor by mill
tary authority Let the sword he once drawn to en-
= force act of Congress a Southern slave State
and this great confederacy, the wonder and amratio
of the world will be numbered with the things thu
were. " Fuit Ium ct ingens gloria Teucrum." Max
the inhabitants of the free and slave States love
other all our difficulties will 5000 be settled. b.
let this horrd, internal work of ordinations an
: cr'mlnaiions-thls tragedy of deadly feuds and AM,
pathIes be carried on little longer by the aid
speeches. tracts, preaching and romances and our de
tructIon will be the inevitable cata-trophe-we sha
lie down TO steep the sleep of eternal death in the va
y cemetery OF nations that are no more
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