Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-12-26

despatch from R,hnond showed that there Was Intense
feeling at the NorIh, and that This feeling univer
sally warlike 10 is character be dispatch stat
ed that Minister Adams had d, manded bis passports
the publication Of Qlen VictoriaS proclamation for
bidding the expectation OF sIlpelre and other military
stores.
The SUSPENSE Of specie payments at the North
the great rise il cotton and fall stocks also
toned.
private despatch received later last evening con-
irmed all about the fleet at the North and added that
Mr.. Adams had lett London, and that Lord Lyons bad
demanded his passports and left Washington AID that
the British Consul at New York had left that city.
We say canddIy that although all these details
ports come from arlrs who would not willingly de-
ceve and tle likely to be deceived themselves
as most people hey st in many important particulars
require continuation. For instance, the report that
Charles Francis Adams had demanded his passports On
the announcement Of the Queens proclamation, is simply
given as a report. 50 dit, III the Norfolk Day
Book of yesterday morning, such report being said to
have reached Norfolk by way OF the flag of truce boat
from Fortress Monroe the probably which brought
Mr.. Faulkner. 1t evidently requires confirmation.
We have no doubt in the world but that Lord Ly-
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for reparatiCn and there is little question that he al
ready has done So that in due cOur'; his government
will sustain bin in tie very FINEST position, but there
is very great doubt whether an "himatm was delivered
or declined in the summary manner that would be lnd
Gated by the withdrawal Of Lord Lyons prompt v
1t should be borne in mind that until ul1matum
has been presented and eced it is not usual for min
listers to dtmand their passports, thus breaking of 1T
gotiations and susp ndng diplomatic intercourse.
We Think it best to state our doubts upon these points,
because they seem 10 be not without some serious
grounds Ia regard to the effects at the NOrhto the
feelings excited there and to the apprehensons enter
taDed we think there can be question: Il there be
any error we think that these things have been rather
understand THAN Exaggerated. OF course we omit
from tie the blatant rawlings Of the New York
Herald, which are as noisy as they are nsncere Tie
effect in commercial circles is marked and more
unmstakeabe than any Acknowledgements Of the North
ern papers or politicians whose policy is to keep stiff
upper lip and deny every thing that would depess their
own pe PIE or encourage ours
We stated yesterday that the difficulty arising of
the seizure of Messrs Mason and Slidel was not the
only complication with the British government. 1t is
said that the law officers of the British have CIV
en- their opinion that the Nashville being regular
commissioned shp-O-war OF the Confederate States is
entitled to "reft and repair" in British ports Against
this Mr. Adams has entered his protest under nsruc-
tons from Washington.
But for the strange faulty that to have mark
ed the course of the Lincoln government in nearly every
action it has taken since entering upon oicea uuity
which seems to have extended itself the whole North
much Of what is going before eyes almost,
would be rejected as incredible. The domneering tone
of Secretary Seward towards foreign nations the hos
tile expressions INDUCED in in public speeches by other
members of the Cabinet, the reckless act Of Captain
Wilkes ard the equally reckless endorsement Of it by
Congress and the Executive, seem really Ike the mad
ness with which the GODS visit those whom they mean to
DESTROY The object in view in all this would be diff
cult to find out. Some express the opinion that the
Seward Lincoln Cabinet actually seeks collision with
England in the hope of arousing the prejudceS of tie
South against that power far to incline her to lis
ten to a compromise with the North, looking to a re-
construction of the old Union and the making of com
mon cause against Great Britain This would indicate
an amount Of stodity so great, ignorance of south
ern feeling so intense to be incredible, did not dali
" see evidences Of the existence of such sclidity and
ignorance if not wul Icing and deception the part
of the northern press We VIII give quotation from
the Philadelphia Enquirer a specimen brick from
which we may judge Of the composition of the towering
Babel of Northern humbug. 1t says
North Carolina seeded without her fair consent hel
adhesion to the infamous has been ukeWarm and
ta many of her assembymen said to have shouted fol-
10y the reduction of Haeras heard of in Raleigh
Hyde county, weeks since declared It's independence
oryv of her seventy nine counties subsequently held
convonton renounciDg resumng their loyalty and
a
prospect that the old North State State will
pay to Secession her parting bow and deal discover
ing deadly wound To show that this movement was
no idle FORM poweress threat read what the Raleigh
Standard said just previous to the Convention: Unless
Confederate Government more than half Of the counties in
ment, 6efore the Union Congress meets And again If
to have He0 election today for the Legislature
Ohat state Of things might turn up. Plainly. good man
agemen and timely aid bring that state to fly the
tents treason, and stamp from her feet it's poisonous and
bloodstained dust.
This, remember is from what used to be good, old
sleepy conservative respectable six penny not seEsa-
ton paper as being atoge her too dull to feel sensa-
ton ITSELF much less be the cause of sensation 10 Others
But apart from the impossibility of believing that
anybody claiming any thing like sense or Information
sufficient to control any department of government could
be so wholly ignorant of the apervadng sentiment of
the South it would that by its the Lincoln
government cannot seek to effect any reconciliation what
ever but the contrary to make the breach wide deep
and impossible by its action the slavery question,
which Las forced even Prentice of the Louisville Journal
to come out in bitter denunc alton and must force from
its support even the ultra Union men of Kentucky,
Missouri and Maryland always excepting such bebe-
rate traitors as Andy johnson, Holiday Hicks and men
Of that kidney.
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