Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-12-12
MI L,ncnln.s Message.


dent of the Northern States reached here last Saturday
night in the Richmond Dispatch and the Norfolk Day
Book After the most careful reading of it find
absolutely nothing that has been anticipated by the
telegraph and therefore do not feel like inserting at
length to the exclusion of other matters o. interest
The message returns the usual thanks to providence
thinks that not only the duty but the interests OF foreign
nations should urge them TO avoid interference with
matters this continent since in his opinion, their
nearest way to cotton and commerce lies through the
preservation rather than the destruction of the Union
as however foreign dangers necessarily attend domestic
difficulties he recommends attention to coast and lake
Notifications SO to be prepared FOR any emergency
LIE proposes the construction of Rail Roads connect
ing the loyal regions of Eastern Tennessee and
Western North Carolina with Lexington, KY and
other faithful parts of the Union. w onder he don't
recommend rail road to Hatteras He will find little
encouragement among our mountaineers
He does not state the from ordinary sources
but mixes it up with oans ETC.. so that it gives in
formation The expenditures for the quarter ending
lst Oct. 1861, were 500, 239,733 CO. The estimates
for the remaining three quarters of the current
also for the financial year commencing July lst 1862
not given, but reference is made to the report of
the Secretary of the Treasury.
! ne NUMBERS OF Ine are iul ana amount 10
GIL of all arms, which is than has been called for
The Secretary of War recommends that this number be
reduced, and bases his estimates upon a force of five
hundred thousand
| Mr.. Lincoln recommends revision and codfcatiOn
of the laws of the United States also reorganization
of the Supreme Court also of military courts, with
summary power to compel payment of debts due from
Southern debtors to Northern creditors.
He proposes to take back the Virginia portion of The
District OF Columbia. Says that the sales of public
lands yield virtually revenue that the Indians that
are said to have joined the South only do compul
sion.
He says that by virtue of act of Congress, ap-
proved August 6, 1861 for conscatng property used
for nsurrectionary purposes certain contrabands are
thrown the United States and must be provided for
in way. Others in the course of the may also
be added to the humber. Others may fall upon States.
He therefore proposes the acquisition of territory upon
which to COLOMBO these peopeas well as the free coored
population already in the different States.
Mr.. Lincoln goes on to show, apparently to his own
satisfaction that the Federal power is progressing
Southwark and the Confederate recedng referring to
Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and Western Virginia
forgetting that if these States portions of them
doubtful for the Conederacy he found them, when be
into Office in full union with the government over
which be presides and that to his coercve policy
is due the fact that Missouri Confederate State and
that Kentucky trembIes in the balance, with her best
and bravest in the ranks of the Confederates Why
North Carolina herself well her gallant daughter
Tennessee owes her uuanmity in the Southern cause to
the operations iuaugurated to promote union " by
means of coercion.
Mr.. Lincoln closes by asserting that the Insured
ton is upon the first principles of popular gov
ernment, and tie rights of the people, and goes into
scattering dsquisition upon the rights and relations
labor and of capital which is certainly weak enough
besides having relation to the matter in hand.
e We quote in full one or two paragraphs
The Union must be preserved, and hence all indspen-
sable means nust be employed. We should not be in
haste to determine that radical and extreme measures
which may reach the loyal well as the dsoya in
s dspensabI
The last ray OF hope for preserving the Union peace
ably, expired at the assault upon Fort Sumter and
of what has occurred since may not be uDprof
able What was painfully uncertain then is much bet
If ter defined and distinct Dow and the progress
e events is plainly in the right direction.
J.. The message is weak and diluted enough in all con
science 1t possibly owing this fact that it strikes
US as being deficient in that energetic bitterness which
It thunder worth noticing and did not appearances lool
different one might think that the ashngton Admins
J., traton modifying It's tone in prospect of some an
l. ticpated accommodation, overture mediation. W,
do not take this view Of the case The only reliance
for the South is still herself The attempt now be
ing made ruin Southern barbors by sinking obstruc
n lions 10 their channels is piece of coldblooded mac
v without parallel in modern history
1T COMPANY A. ID REGIMENT N G. STATE TROOPS
e, This company recruited iE this town during tn
y last spring, by Captain, now Major E D. Hail. an
the have been in service during the whole time an
d, in Virginia for some mouths. From some cause @
other we regret to learn that they have not been E
recipients of any aid from the liberal contributions
Of citizens, at least since their departure We pre-
sumo it was from dfdence in making their sue
ia ton known than from any other cause On the ar
Re nouncement of their situation meeting of few ger
tlemen of town held yesterday, when liberal SUI
nc scrpton was made and committee appointed to soc
further aid in behalf of the company 1t appears ror
i letter from COL Tew that the company stands in grea
to need of clothing and blankets We have no doubt on
is citizens will respond to the call of the committee in
" liberal manner subscription paper may be found
of the Journal Office and at Dr. McLINNs Drug Store
We Contributions of undertaking, socks and blanket
N will also be thankfully received at the Room of Mr.
re {. Barry Mozart Hall.
y For the Journal
Mr. EDITOR:-lt not the of the weaker
dabbe in affairs State but the peculiar position of on
country at this tme calls for exeron the part of all
brothers are bearing aoft in triumph our ag upon the ba
o tie fields, and proving to the world that enemies
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