Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-09-05

troversy and entered into merely party or partizan
discussion We have endeavored to discharge our duty
to thebest of our ability, respectfully to all, but with
out detection from our course to meet the views SUBJ
serve the ambitions of friend or foe
We now notice some things in North Carolina
papers received this morning not with view to
trOVersy for the purpose of setting our position
right before the public but Of preventing Others from
setting it wrong.
The Raleigh Standard certainly does less than JUS
tce when in it's issue bearing date today says that
it is glad to observe that the Journal speaks ont at
last in the most determined tones" What the Stan
da,d means by the phrase at last unable toI
say. What any reader will understand is, that the
Standard wishes to convey the impression that we have
not before spoken out the subject of coast defence
To this, the files of paper sufficient answer
The people, who know what course has been, Will
acquit US of any remissness IN this matter. they
know that we have not waited to come out at last
but that we came out at rst months ago, and have
kept at it ever since with all the energy could COM
mand
We thought and still think that the absence of per-
sona rancour ought to have deducted nothing from the
force of our appeals. An absence not particularly
noticeable in other quarters.
incidentally, we may remark that we think the Stand
ard is somewhat mistaken in regard to the supply of
ammunition at Hatteras 1t is certain that they
short of fixed ammunition" and had not a sufficient
supply of proiectiles of any kind and she'll The loss
sustained by our men was all inflicted by shells The
talk about twenty wagon loads of powder having been
captured ia all nonsense. Instead of their having had
plenty Of ammunition, the Captain of the Privateer
Gordon reports having supplied them with what few
kegs he could spare.
We would respectfully inform contemporary OF the
Raleigh Register who credits all the extracts he does
the honor to make from paper to the Wilmington
Herald that for the present land mores the Pity the
Herald is suspended aud has been for some months.
The State Journal of this date, in article headed
That doeful dirge told yeu sou has the following
paragraphs -
The truth the press of the State to blame in great
for the disaster at Hatteras We have before US
now Saturdays issue of the Wilmington Journal which
contains very indiscreet communication From the Wr
learn all the deenceess points Of our coast and
told how and to what extent the enemy now on our shores
devastate and destroy He tells us of spot IN which
we'll directed shots would break the whole concern be-
cause" (and here the writer into reckless statement
of the precise condition of the guns carriages ammunition
&C., available to repel an attack.
before pubIc-foes well friendsit would be the
prudent to lay it before the authorities whose
special business it is.
Now this attempt to shift responsibility from the
shoulders of those really guilty too ptifuy weak
be even amusing. The State Journal ought to have
completed the thing consistently, and charged the mis-
fortune at Hatteras to the communication which ap
peared in the Journal two three days after Hattera
was taken. The correspondent of the Journal STATED
nothing of which the enemy not well aware
were and we fully satisfied of this before we IN
serted the communication in question. Is not thu
State Journal aware that but the othe2 day nigh
four negroes shreWd intelligent rascals, more o
them pilots and all perfectly familiar with every foot
ground and every gun and every battery put up within
miles of the mouth of the Cape Fear, escaped to tn
bIockadng vessel and were sent Immediately FOrtTes
Monroe Farther if the State Journal knew the 10
caIties and circumstances it would have been perfect
aware that the precise position of Camp Wyatt mus
be known to persons on board vessels cruising aroun
and lying of.
Lay it before the authorities! We always though
that the State Journal had fine vein of irony, bu
this is keen, the satire excrucatng that
add to opinion of its abilities and exat ADM
ration into enthusiasm Why half the prominent cit
of Wilmington and other places, suppose, har
done 30, and have received poo-pool from one and
tut-tut from another. What else was to be expecte
from Military Board that stated on the 10th of jun
as a fact of which no doubt could be entertained ths
the power Of the United States Navy is not sufcier
to effect an entrance into any of the harbors of th
State"
We speak of the Military Board, because the a
tempt to hold the dying Governor responsible for tha
assurance would be as foolish as it would be unyene
We know that the people of the State % no
but we know that they do attach the responsibility
the Military Board.
The Richmond Dispatch, noticing the Hatteras aGai
says that it has made Inquiries at the proper quartz
and is prepared to state that the War Department
the Confederate States not to blame, requsto
has come from the State authorities of North Caroln
that has not been promptly complied with.
Last week prominent gentleman of this State,
delegate to Congress- had conversation with disti1
guished member of the Confederate Government du
ing which he mentioned several facts relative to on
State and defences to which the reply was in sui
stance, that the information given by the delegate di
fered widely from that given by the State authorize
who represented things as all right and nothing NOR
wanting.
The Yankees themselves state that their informatio
was obtained from an escaped prisoner, who had bee
captured by of the prvateers Talk about the pres
of the State
We have been overwhelmingly so, but somethn
must be done, something must be said and now is u
time for being meay-mouthed. If authorities wi
not the press must, and for our part We object mo-
awfully to being "gagged,"-a naughty word tina
even if the State Journal or any body else it.
Is almost, If not quite unfortunate the somewha
celebrated " kill and make alive of another of our RI
leigh cotemporaries.'
The Fayetteville Observer, in indeavouripg
throw discredit upon remarks in reference
the tents supplied by Mr.. MOrehead, by attributiD
them to political personal ieeling simpl
exposes its own motives and impulses, while it who'll