Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-06-03
The War and the Virginia Elections have been the

The War and the Virginia Elections have been the
leading topics for some time past.
The latter will soon pass from public attention, for
the battle has been fought and it only remains to
count the killed and wounded. The victory remains
with the Democracy, was to have been expected
But for the personal difficulties and divisions prior to
the nomination of Letcher the Democratic candidate
for Governor, much doubt whether the Opposition
would have thought it worth while to run candidate
for that office.
But relying upon Democratic divisions they did run
gentleman named Goggin, and came nearer electing
him than we could have wished to In fact they
some of them rather attered themselves with the idea
that they had elected him. and the Petersburg Inte
gencer OF yesterday far forgot itself as to crow and
cavort until within some half dozen lines of the bottom
when it wound up by Tossing the corn and owning up
to the painful fact that it not all rght-that there
was hitch in it-that after ALL the foolish people had
gone and elected Letcher the Office of Governor and
elected Goggin to stay at home. 1t is misfortune of
opposition friends to frequently find themselves thus
set back
The war fever in Europe gets up. Italy is rising,
and France is enthusiastic. Even Austria appears to
have succeeded in arousng her people and nothing but
the exhausted state of her treasury prevent her from
waging most determined and not wholly unsuccessful
war with France. Germany seems DESTROYS to keep
out of the contest, and in doing SO she is wise but
whether should the contest be protracted this
could be consistently persevered in, remains to be
seen. Already the rumored alliance of France with
Russia for the evident purpose Of overawing Germany
and England and enforcing their neutrality, begins to
excite FESTIVE feeling. The sentiment Of German
tonality ercey aroused in 1913 is again beginning
to assert ITSELF and it be turned in any other
direction than that of hostility to France.
Russia places an army of " observation on the Eas
tern frontier of Austria and tells Germany in effect if
not in many words If you take any part with Aus
tria l, as an ally of France, will attack you at the
same time that it's attitude on the Turkish frontier says
to England, If you, in any event. object to the
ments of France against Austria WILL with the assent
of France, proceed to the dismembcrment of Turkey
my legions, placed on footing hang like dark
cloud ready to burst on the head of that devoted sick
man. >"
That Louis Napoleon has, in making this preparato-
ry arrangement displayed the most consummate skill
there be no question neither can any one doubt
that the result of this movement if successful will be
to crush Central Europe between the two preponderatng
military powers at its Eastern and Western extremtes,
while the influence of England, leading power will
be completely neutraIized Again. is anybody sufficient
verdant to suppose that these two graspng powers
aim simply at the regeneration and liberty of Italy, with
out provision for their ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and contin
ued preponderance?
Those who believe in any professions that Louis
Napoleon may make must possess larger amount of
faith than lay claim to. The who, when
he landed at Bologne in l840 invoked all the misfor
tunes of earth and all the judgments of heaven upon his
own head if he should ever prove fahess to republican
principles seek to array himself in imperial rohes who
when elected President after the revolution deliberately
violated oaths voluntarily TAKEN and sealed his
reachery in the blood of his felow-czens and secured
his usurpation by transporting the nobest patriots iii
France to the deadly swamps of South America is hard
ly to prefer plighted faith to personal ambi-
ton territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1t may be that most
Americans sympathise with the French professions of
liberty to Italy We do not because we distrus them
and the despo and traitor by whom theyare made and
spite of his ability, Louis Napoleon is both.
P S.-The reports by telegraph settle the matter of
the Virginia Gubernatorial election.