Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-10-17

Col. Barlow, of the Georgia Regiment, remarkable
feat, as COL Barlow merged into General Barlow,
and fell CALAMITY fghtng at Manassas It says that
Col Brown, of the Goth Indiana regiment, succeeded in
saving his tents provisions and so forth
There two items that may be of interest and
possibly true The first is that the s. r. Spauldng
rived at Hatteras Inlet the th instant with General
Mansfield and landed her men and stores. Also, that
Lieut. Burkhcad from whom the letter writer obtained
his inormatiOn thinks that Federal advance be
made from the Inlet without the support of feet of
light draft vessels. Aiso that the Federal troops at
he Inlet ought to be increased.
If General Mansfield be coming or be to any
point coast it gives strength to the report that
the board OF North Carolina is to be the object of
serious demonstration, since otherwise regular officer
of Mansfield high military reputation would hardly be
sent
We HAVE not paid any very great attention to cleo
tons for time, nasmu rs, apparently, the North
is unit against US, il be latent peace senti
ment it has not yet taken political form attained
strength and organization sufficient to make its OPEN
appearance the political arena, with any prospect of
affecting elections in that section
If the North is so united in aggression, then indeed
might Expect the South to be united in
resistance, and upon the whole our expectations would
united, although it must be confessed that even the
great interests connected with this have been
able to expe that leaven of seshness which will in-
trude itself into all things merely human that trail of
the serpent which is over all the flowers OF Eden which
still remain to 10 his fallen state The operations
Of this leaven in the manRuvres of politicians
in sundry Of our Southern States, but the most
spcuous examples to which attention has been call
ed have been those of the gubtrnatoral elections held
this year in Tennessee and Geol gia, exhibiting nsidi
Gus attempts GUST Governors Isham q. Harriss of
Tennessee, and Joseph E. Brown of Georgia. such at
temps being made by combinations of politicians who
had not the cearness of judgment decision of char
acter to approve of and stand by the manly of
those patriotic unctionares at the beginning, the
magnanimtv to yield gracefully to circumstances when
no longer able to oppose them.
The party in Georgia which from the beginning so
pertinacously opposed the of Governor Joseph
E. Brown compelled to yield their opposition 10
his course, but they felt the inveterate animosy
to him and to those who acted with him. because hav-
ing been compelled to the triumph of his policy
they transferred their opposition to his person.
The people of Georgia wanted no Convention at
MiedgeviIte to trump up candidate in opposition to
the Governor whose vigorous hand had gasped the helm
o. State so firmly during the crisis of revolution, and
by their verdict at the polls they have sho.7n this
That supernumerary Convention got out Judge Nesbt
of highly respectable character, but of those
who had to the last possible moment opposed the
ssance secession policy pursued by the Governor and
approved by the State. Judge Nesbitt to be used
the instrument for striking down the man. the ri-
umph OF whose policy hrd excited the hate by morty
ing the vanity of many of his opponents. In the
of Governor Brown as in that of Governor Harriss,
the people refused to strike down man whose gene
raj policy they approved at the dctaton of any fac
ton or clique
We do not say that at Miedgeville there were not
e many very many good, worthy aid true men. We dc
not say that Judge Nesbt not supported ir good
faith by thousands of truly patriotic citizens Of Georgia
and of the Confederacy-nay we do not say that any
supporters of this opposition movement in Georgia
were actually unfaithuI, but the of the instiga
tors we fear actous and selfsh-defcient in mag
If nanimity; the course rather OF politicians than o.
o patriots.
Is such feeling totally absent from our own State
Are there not politicians no desire to indemnify them
If selves for the sacrifice of opinion which Iucoln
proclamation compelled them, by INDUCING in feelings
of bitter opposition to all who had voluntarily come
to the conclusion to which have brough
all who say, that the machine of State com
PEELED from considerations Of honor and safety to run q
the secession track that its management should dice
ted altogether by those who had consistently enoun
ced that track easonous and leading only destruc
tion without justification in morals and at war wit
y every consideration of prudence craftsmanship.
ce This thing has assumed forms than Proteous
has presented more hues than the chameleon but at h
is bottom of it all be traced the political manoeuvre
If Of those DESTROYS Of assuming the sole control of
NJ ment they bitterly denounced and of oustng ror
r any participation in that control those who took the
ng sponsibiity of the initiative steps.
at We did hope that all this thing would have bee
avoided. That being all embarked in one boat, lookn
to haven of after our voyage-feeling but
guarantee for security during the stormy passage
that to be found in hearty cooperation there would ha,
of been few chickering's or heartburnDgs jeaousies
early not among the earliest friends of the movement
which this State in with the whole South is
gagged have been anxious for its than
he the promotion of men. We have withdrawn in gre
ps measure from the fpo.ca controversy not
oil we have abandoned any principles but because
he the present transition state have lot perceived
political necessity for tter assertion, in strictly par
mt point Of view This necessity w no doubt hereaft
arise, and that soon enough At present. there shou
he be but one party-but test of merit that par
having in view the early and complete independence
the Gonfederacyhat test being founded upon zeal
ability in promoting this contamination So far