Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-18

he was one of the first TO strike dow al Iuose H0
ing. He presided over the board OF overseers Oh
Harvard University when he was lremoVed rom 'he
office of law professor on account of his hoehy TO
the constitution Then he had no hesitation In JOIN
ing the yeping cry of ours 10 hunt down MI Lor'
inc No1y he changes his tactics, in the true spirit
of nolitical iesui TO operate on the Virginia cleo
tions.
We have now gone through all that is In any way
material in the HeraIds article. We cannot follow
in its tone of vindctiveness and personality Those
onlv resort to that who feel their weakness on every
other point The Herald, doubt, thought 1t smart
to speak of this 'newly coined American citizen"
the fact being however, that were we as Old
man, we would also be as old citizen as the
writer of that article. If there could be new COIN
age in his case it might improve the face OF the CON-
and certainly could not do it much HARM
The stale charges against the President have been
refuted and again, and amount to no1hlng.
News MATTERS, Erc-The public expectation turns
with eagerness TO that which it must soon hear, and
with comparative neglect from that already within its
reach Sebastopo and Virginia are the main centres
of interest The Steamer due day at New York
will probably bring of some decisive operations
involving an inevitable sacrifice OF human lite,
which the heart shudders merely TO contemplate
Next Thursday week will test the question in Vir-
ginia and set that matter at est for the present.
In this position Of affairs speculations are mere
idleness and yet idle as they are, few he'll in
duging in them About Sebastopo there is this pain,
full certainty that an assault has indeed been atemp
ed--and it has already been attempted if at allthe
destruction of human life must have been awful no
matter with whom the victory remained And even IN
the event of the capture OF the city and the torcatons
on the south side of the harbor but half the work has
been done Those on the north side remain intact, and
even suppose these taken, the war is then merely
opened for as the invaders have never been able to
invest the city, they can OF course take no prisoners
from the garrison The taking of Sebas1opol, sup
pose it Effected will simply amount to the forcing OF
a Russian postion-tha is all. # any one can look
forward to the end of this war; or even pretend to
foresee the complications which its progress may in
troduce, he must be wiser than any mere man. We
may make plausible conjectures based upon an in
fnty of 8" ifs but if one of the ifs don't come
straight then away go all our ingenious theories.
Now, Virginia is very different matter" horse
Of another color" Even the man that processes to
Know Nothing" can still tell you all about that
You will be confidently assured at every street cor
ner almost that Henry A. Wise will be beaten
Sam :" is going to turn things up side down in the
cold Dominion" On the other hand the old line
Democrats and of the old line Wings feel per-
fecty confident of Mr.. Wses election. The Rich
mond Enquirer has tone of cool confidence which
contrasts curiously with the spasmodc efforts of the
K. n organs to be 'jolly." Mr.. Wise certainly has
gained ground within the last few weeks, and from
all the lights before US, public and private, are
strongly of the opinion that he will be elected. Nc
one can tell who will be Governor until after the
election, but unless are greatly mistaken or mis-
led we can make tolerably accurate guess.
There are very well-known causes which may
operate against Mr.. Wise, and cause his vote to be
rather an unfair test of the strength of parties in the
coming contest. We feel sort of doubt of the
election of the usual Democratic delegation to Con-
gress The game of brag is one that don't like
When our party is interested so We and that sc
deeply that weigh every thing too carefully to be
much deceived ourselves, and consequently cannot
honestly deceive others. We have tried to find out
everything about Virginia, and it to US certain
to 60 as usual, Democratic. -Daiiy Jour- 18th
Col. KINNEY ARRESTED AGAIN.-COl. Kinney was