Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-08-15

REooGNIT1oN.-It is evidently with the greatest dir
fculty that the blood and thunder politicians of he
North keep their people up to the scratch against
tae South. The whole population of that section ap-
pears to have gone almost crazy after the capture of
Fort SUMTER and great stress was laid upon the in
snt to the flag, and forth. Well that kept up pref
ty well and for toeraby long while, but at last it be-
gan to flag. The cry made about protecting the CAPT
tai and repeng aggression, also found to fail of
its effect since everybody knew it to be false and hypo
critical Then the demand for four hundred thou
sand men and four hundred millions OF money to crush
this rebellion at blow, and the Northern people
thought there might be something in that, and they
watched with patient but excited interest the pompous
y paraded advance of the /" Grand Army" which took
three days to 60 from Alexandria to Bulls Run, but
which got back in about three hours, having dispensed
with baggage and other membranes on its return.
The New York Herald and other papers talk now
about the second uprising of the North That is all
stuff There is such second uprising, is there
likely to be- The people of the North, the rabid Abo-
tionists and such like excepted, no towards nor
are they fools. They ud that they have been deceived
They that they called upon to give their blood
and trea and for what Why just nothing. II
they could do all that Chase and the rest want DONE
If they could ruin the South-subjugate it, PROSTATE it,
free the slaves cut off the cotton and destroy all indus
try they know that in doing SO, they would only be
digging their own graves Almost the only hope Of
Lincons getting army together founded upon the
West and Northwest, and upon of the foreign Gle
ments in the Atlantic cities.
The unsucct ssul revolutions of l648 threw upon oul
shores class of emigration from continental Europe
dangerous in the extreme. Some brave soldiers aDo
patriots there were, but the Red Republicans OF Ger
many represented by Infamous infdes like Carl Schurz
or of Italy, under the influence of Mazzin of France
under whatever leaders, could be but dangerous With
such men as these the said, sober, industrious anC
worthy German farmers of the Northwest might rea
sonaby be supposed to have bad little affinity, and yet
strangely enough, too, many of them did yield to thF
current and were carried away by artu sophistres
designing men, who appealed to them in the name o
liberty, and worked upon their recoections of thu
Fatherland.
1t is upon the professional soldiers and "phioso
piers" God save the mark and upon their DIT pes, to
geher with the floating, hand to mouth population o
tie cities. whether of native foreign BIRTH that thu
chiefs of the Northern army must chiefly depend to
cruIt their ranks and these resources must fa
the source of payment fall for OF these move
without pay he professional soldiers and philosophers
go for pay. The rank and file cannot 60 without it
however willing.
The recognition OF the Southern States by European
nations would still farther open the eyes of the moneC
classes at the North-the rejecting men of all classes
1t would render it impossible for the Lincoln govern
ment to raise money, and it would thus tend Il
enforce peaceful policy, from the impossbility of
ryipg any other. prompt recognition by Eng
land and France would render futile MIR. Auguste Bel
monts mission to Europe to borrow one hundred mil
lions for Lincoln. He could not get it. Manassas ha
done much. Another decided victory will do more
We say dec,ded-n decaS1ue-or it is next to impossi
BILE to make any action in the field decisive without
large force of cavalry.
The news of the battle of Manassas left in the Gun
ard Steamship from Boston, on Wednesday afternoon
the Gath of July, aud probably reached Liverpool il
about II days, say the 5th or 9th instant. w
may look to hear OF the effect produced by the news
somewhere about the close of next week. We hardI
think that the tone of the European mails will be ez
hierating to either Scott or Lincoln.