Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-05-23


diate Peace Desirable.
The rebeious persons in Virginia to have been
called together by Mr. LncolnS proclamation ordering
the seeding States to dispense" Before that proc
lamaton came out Virginia quiet as a lamb and
North Carolina opened not her mouth if she did, i,
was feeble way, through the medium of the South
ern Rights organization, which, without circumstance
had INTERVIEWED would have had long and hard struggle
before attaining ascendancy in the State Lncon order
to dispense caused the Forts to be occupied the Arsen
and Mint taken and the people TO spring to 1t
worked like charm.
Well now the finest vessel in the United States Ma
w. assisted by smaller armed Ship has been baterpe
and banging away at little earhwork thrown up has
ty at Sewells Point, eight miles from Norfolk
and strangely enough neither the earthwork its de
tenders be induced to dispense" On the contra
ry quite the revers for the Minnesota steamship O
untold size and fabulous gun power, together with 6
smaller mate of hers have been driven of and slightly dis
persed themselves.
But the sinners ought to trembe, for is not Mr. Gen
eral Benjamin Franklin Picayune Butler coming &c
town Is he not the commandment of Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee and the Rip Raps? These arr
questions worthy of all attention. Mr. Butler has been
made Major General account of his high military
abilities displayed in the capture Of the Relay House
and the Patapsco Bridge, in the performance of which
feat he CALAMITY captured the wachmau and scared three
colored persons
Nevertheless must not underrate the forces of the
enemy There is class of their population that we do
not fully understand. Their people and ours are differ
entity organized might say The military strength
of the South is and indeed be il the country from
the fact that we have no large towns few large
towns, as not to affect the general average. In the
North the is different Taking out the very lowest
cass-the loafers OF the Cities the most Efficient soldiers
that that section raise will be found among the fire.
men, the Moses and " Jakes of Philade phia New
York. and measuraby of Boston. these men are gen.
orally workers. somewhat dissipated, fond Of row,
reckless and ready for fight and will fight hard
anybody and from their habits Of life are Injured to
posures and irregularities iu living that would
up the more methodical farmers villagers of the
| interior. Outside of this element OF the city
population, the older States of the North are
not very formidable, until you strike the noun
| tain populations and all along the Allegheny
Ridge in New Hampshire, Vermont, portions Of New
York and Pennsylvania, you will find stal war race
This of people Influenced by the mountain climate
is physically superior to the inhabitants of the seacoas
especially in the Eastern States. The people around
Massachusetts, Bay generally rather defective in
phVSQue. The contrast between the natives of Boston
and it's neighborhood and the of the up-couury
may at once be by comparing the merchants
clerks or operatives with the tIuckmen the latter being
nearly all Vermonters and New Hampshire men, Or il
Massachusetts men, generally from Berkshire some
other Western and mountainous County. The mel
from the valley Of Virginia. and the mountain regions O
North Carolina, TENNESSEE South Carolina and Georgia
all distinguished for their stature but it probable
that this eliminates in the upper portion OF the latter
State, known as " Cherokee Georgia" Enllstments
for the army show a larger average height for
the recruits from that section than from any other
section in the former Union. The artizans Of the
Northern and especially the Northeastern States cooped
up as they in close and arcaly heated workshops
and factories for about half the year, will not make very
efficient soldiers. Neither will the great majority of The
raw emgrants from Ireland or Germany none of whom
in Ireland could have acquired any knowledge or
rence in the use of gun unless surreptitousy il
Germany, either, suppose, outside Of the regular
armies and even this the younger portion generally
capped.
! We have heard speculations and surmses involv
ing doubt to whether, after ALL there would be any
| great amount Of fighting. This doubt is based upor
the evidences of reaction in certain quarters at TIT
/ North. Thus we see that Frank Pierce il
not to be numbered among the coercionists. We SCI
that papers like the New York Day Book Meas, ant
Journal Of Commerce, enabled to speak out witt
some freedom So far as these things 60 they al
right but they fall very far short of the requirements
the occasion All these influences in their fullest strength
exerted to avert the catastrophe before the eecto
of Lincoln, but without the slightest effect They ar
still more poweress now, but we honor them none tn
less. Perhaps we respect them now more than ever
Some also predicate their surmises n favor of an earl
peace upon the manifest justice and common sense
the thing. They know, as every sensible man mus
know, that peace must be made time or other an
it might as well be made hereafter When it
made basis ofseement must be the recognition of
absolute independence of the seeded States WHY, sa
some, does not Abraham Lincoln and the section c
which be is President, take just reasonable and fai
view of this thing, and settle it at once They thin
he will not be fool enough to sacrifice life and prop
erty for no purpose. This is all fair enough, hu
Mr. Lincoln and bis friends no more realize the tru
state of the than did Lord North in the first Revt
luton The North is drunk with prosperity and initiate
with confidence 1t does not realize the difficulty of t
job it has undertaken and the tone of its press and il
officials shows plainly that they are not much swayed
considerations of justice regard tor common sens
cannot yet any to believe or to hope tha
this cloud will pass away without bursting in thunde
over our heads. 1t would be weakness to fatter ou
: selves otherwise 1t would be worse than weakness
dream SO for moment so as to abate zeal or rea
e our preparations
+ 1t is altogether desirable in political sense, ths
this thing should be settled without fighting?
course humanity would dictate and in fact compel th