Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-09-11


this the contamination which the Government of the
United States must want than be desired
b the European states This Government has expressed
that want earnestly decidedly sometimes, perhaps even
mpatentiy Nevertheless, the has continued whole
year. against the wishes of Europe as well of America
new eampan IS even beginning In order to determine
whether likely to reach the desired end it will be
Improbable to consider the of It's polongaon
the period This Government the beginning
sumed aud it has constantly insisted that the Union could
must, snd should be preserved On the ether hand,
european nations when they saw the storm burst upon the
country either doubted, actually dsbeleved the posi-
bty Of that great salvation Europe had subordi-
nate and ndrect nerests IN the great problem and it is
supposed that the United States could be only convinced
that the Union could in the end be preserved they
would at once orego the contest and consent National
dissolution, which it enormously thought would be
lowed ~ peace while knew that it would ogly be the
beginning OF endless Thus European opinion has
practically favored the insurgents and encouraged them
with ephenera sympathies and unreal expectations of
foreign intervention and has thus the the
present time
Certainly this Government and the american people are
even more confident of the of the Union ow
than they year ago, and are, therefore, lees
likely than they then to accept peace with the
inconceivabe pains ard pers of dissolution Cxn be
ptuous then for to ask European statesmen
review in the light Of the events OF the the opinion
which they formed at SO early stage Of it. that the opn
ion itself might perhaps, properly be deemed preudce
OF coube IN such review The observer would not over
look the contrast between the position which the Federal
Government held year ago and its present situatiou
Then had been practically expelled, with all its authori
the Potomac Ohio and Missouri rivers while it was held
into loose siege in this Capital cut Oft from communication
with even the States which had remained loyal.
Now it has virtually retaken a the positions early
lost on the seaboar the Mississippi and ali the
great natural highways and has forced the insurgents
battle i'll the Inaccessible part the insurreconary
district The forces and the Of the Government
uneXh usted end increasing Those Of the insurgents
are dminished and becoming nearly exhausted.
No ore, either here Europe contest these sim
pie facts The only argument opposed to them that the
haze determined not to acknowledge the author
ty CT the Union The evidence of this is certain resolute
and deiunt tone maintained by their organ.
Certainly, long the insurgents have any hope of
ultimate they could not be expected to discourse
otherwise than in Just such tone, will they fail to
! cherish
with mpahy in Europe. he very last advices
which came from quarter previous the arrival there
of the we of the fall OF New Orleans and Norfolk were
u OF speculatoDs about some newly form Of
intervention.
and that they may onabIy be expected speak and
ke other begerent factions under similar conditions.
So also, being and subject to the laws which deter
mine the economy OF society, they must in all
form themselves, however unwilling to the circumstances
by which they surrounded They cannot, than
other of men, determine for themselves under
of crcumetande what they will do under different
writer upon war advises brave men never to nail
their colors the staff remarkng that if they shall be
able and find it desirable bey maintain there with
mailing, while it will be convenient to lower it il
they shall nd themselves unable or no longer desirous to
keep il flying But speaking practically, what has been
the resuthus far III the present case Has dsOyaly been
found an indomtabe sentiment III this war; 1t perVaded
this Capital and his District the beginning of the
strife. 1t longer exists here. 1t divided Maryland and
provoked conflict there. The Union is strong in
that state in any one OF the alwaysoyal States 1t
committed Missouri to the pretended Conederacy-
Missouri now active and earnest among the loyal States
1t placed Kentucky attitude Of neutrality but Ken
to-day hrm devoted to the
Union In oher regions where dsoyalty more gene
rail- such as Eastern Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and
North Carolina acquescence under the Federal authorities
has promptly followed het appearance there, and the pre-
Dary stepsare taken for the restoration of the laws Of
the Union 1t simple fact that loyalty reappears every
where just so fast as the successes of the Government
deemed sufficient to afford guarantee for reliance upon
it's protection. The Dsunonsts, in their strongest
holds, are not people, but only faction SURPRISING the
Loyal in numbers and senciDg them by terrcrs and seVr
prevent the return of district any State to the
Union in the presence and under the protection of the Fed
eral authorities.
The President asks reign nations to consider that we
are only at the end Cf year and yet the whole eff
mass OF the nsurrectonay region has been brought
into the field by conscrpon Tbe credit OF the revolution
is dead before the first dollar has been raised by taxation to
support it, and the territory which bear axation
once reduced to the narroWest ms and Is exhausted OF
its wealth and supplies.
The power of losing faction under any circumstances
must continually grow But that Of the Disunionists
abatpg under the operation of cause peculiar to them
selves, which it is my duty to bring forwardI mean
! the practice of African slavery.
am aware that in regard to this point an opening
subject which early nterdiced in this correspondence
The for the interdicton and the
from it. are however, equally obvious 1t proper
y lett out of view, long 1t might be reasonably hoped
that weakness of the insurgents without encouraging
them to persevere in their reasonable conspiracy agans
the Union They have protracted the year, notwth
standing this fobearance of the Government and yet the
persist in invoking foreign arms to end domestic strife
while they have forced Slavery into such prominence tina
f it cannot be overlooked.
The region where the instruction still remains hagran
embraces all parts of several States with white popua
tion Of 0G0 and negro population OF 50000O chief
slaves 1t is thus seen to be war between two parties
the white lot only in the presence but in the YER
! midst OF the enslaved negro race.
it is not0rousWe could conceal the fact if we wou
that the dispute between them out of questions
which the negro have deep and lasting interest,"
that their synpahies wishes and interests naturally
cessariy inevitably fall the side of the Union. Such
civil between parties of the white IN such
place and under such circumstances could not be expecte
to continue long before the negro would begin
d manifest sensiblty and some excitement We hav
arrived at that stage already Everywhere the America
General receives his most useful and reliable information
from nprr VIII q
freedom: Wherever tie National army advances into tn
nsurectonary region, African bondsmen escaping trou
offer their service and labor in whatever capacity they
be desired. So many of these bOndsmen have with
e Federal military and naval authorities made their Wa
D. from bondage among the insurgents to freedom anon
the lOyaists that the government finds itself occupe
with the consideration OF measures to provide ther
with dopcies at home or abroad. Not le tha
one hundIed such escape every day; and as the arm
advances the number increases. If the war shoul
continue Indefinitely, every slave will become not only
tree man, but absentee. If the insurgents shall ress
their escape how could they hope prevent the civil
they have nauguratGd from Gegeneratng Into servle wa
True, serve population especially long ensaVe
the Africans in tho nsurrectionary States require tim
and trial before they organize serVe but tn
continues ndefely servile war is only question
time The problem, then whether u strife shall be e
t. go that point The Government, animated bY
just regard for the general weale including tb&t OF the
surectiOnary States, adopts policy designed at once
the Union and society from that fearful cat
trophe while consuts the ultimate peaceful relief of IL
Nation from Slavery it cannot be necessary TO prove
enlightened statesman that the abors OF the African
the nsnrreconary region at present indispensable as
resource OF the insurgents for continuing ne war; nor is
necessary show that this labor the basis
es the whole industrial system existing in that region
The is thus to be producing all eady dlsorga
zation of the industrial systeT Of the
States, aud tending TO subVersion of even their socl
stem. Let it next be considered that the Europef
system industry largely based upon the African sa
labor of the anary States employed in the pr
duction Of cotton tobacco and rice and the free lab
which combined productions srses the demand for Eur