Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-07-10
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Readers Of the Wilmington Journalhe importance ~
r oIass T.s aets and
south here hss been large number of tracts and All
se teamants that could be procured distributed in and
cry Is for cts ard testaments Many Of orr soders are
ID !, Virginia. they too must be sappied .
TEaGts printed in Raleigh, n. c.. BY Rev. w. J. W.
troWder 10 furnish the Confederate army fifteen hundred
pages for one dollar The Confederate Rbe society has
press about hy Thousand copies of the New Testament
Money mast be had furnish the soldiers testaments and
traets have received donatans from ricpds in and
about Wilmington, and from soldiers in camps All
who wish should have an opportunity to give Il win he
impossible for Collecting Agent to see in person manv
who have tie money are wiling to give Tharefore
these in the ely and country whom have not seea are
called to enclose their donations and address me- Pest
Office, Wilmington. -
ask the friends of soldiers to send relio;ons
papers to The camps and hospitals Persons having small
Testaments they give soldiers they can leave them
be kept. w. r. TRAWICK,
Colporter ard Collecting Agent
Wilmington. n. c., July I'd, 1862.
Amos Kendall Writes a Letter, aboat Hunters
Proclamation.
A recent issue of the National InteIligencer con-
tans letter from Hon. Amos Kendall, which we give
below
WASHINGTON, May 10, 1862.
To the Editors Of the National Intelligence,
My attention has been called to a Washington wri-
ter IN the Philadelphia Press in which the writer after
quoting passage from of my letters published in
your paper, says
That it will be that even the veteran democrat
Amos Kendall while Directing to the course OF the abo
ltioDiss, entitled to the credit of having made the
proposition which General Hunter has thus practically
carried out"
Now should consider myself traitor TO nv coun.
try if were to approve the late order of Gen. Hunter
purportng to set free all the slaves within his military
district While exposing to Southern rebels the gulf
which is yaWnng before them, the conception never en-
tered my brain that any military commander or the
President could consitutionaly by general order or
proclamation, confscate their property aud emaneipate
their slaves, or that such object could be effected
otherwise than by conviction for by due
of law in the course of justice Ia the order of Gen
Hunter see the OF military despotism utterly
subversve Of the constitution we are fighting to main.
tain and it is deplorable that the President does not
by the enforcement of general line of policy repress
these assumptions OF power by his subordinates
| Every such assumption unrebuked by him exposes
him and Congress itself to the charge of hypocrisy anc
pefy in their OF the purposes for which
the war is waged it dsc0urages the loyal men in al
the slaVehOldng States and in equal degree encour
ages leading rebels it will cost the North thousand;
OF lives and millions OF money it alarms the c0nserva
tive men everywhere, and makes them begin to think
their own liberties in danger it strengthens disloya
in loyal States aud enables them to embarrass the
Government in its legitimate operations. In fne there
is but safe course for the Government TO pursue
and that is to disregard all party affiliations ard adhere
firmly to the programme originally announced, viz
The prosecution OF the for the sole object of
wing the Constitution aud the Union with the rights
the States intact to be followed by peace as soon
these objects be attained If there be not rmnes
enough in the Administration to do this, we are on
! sea OF revolution, with scarcely hope of ever agar
| reaching the haven OF unity aud peace.
! Amos KENDALL