Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-13


Not Bale. nor Barrel. a Hog had.
We are contending for life and death with vast and
INSCRIPTIONS power O,htr powers look codly on, or
rather with TIE instinct OF powers they sympathz
with the party which they think the more powerful.
In this struggle We have nothing to spare. We can
afford to throw nothing away. We can forego no pro-
per advantage
The enemy aims at grasping those products Of the
Confederate States without which his own commerce
and industry and the commerce and industry Of the
world in general must be severely crippled if not who'll
ly Frustrated. His experiment at Port Royal shows
him that by no process OF grasp'ng at mere ports or
points Of shipment be get cotton. 1t has not been
sent the ports and will not come to ports occupied
by Lincolnites aud enemes. He wishes to grasp
cotton and OH products by force. He thinks bat by
capturing Charleston, Savannah. Memphis New Or
leans and Mobile, be can punder to the amount of two
million bales Of cotton, thus having plenty for his own
use AID some to send to Europe which be thinks that
having stolen, he afford to supply cheaper than the
plundered planter who raised it, could have dote.
The enemy Dragged after the capture of Hatteras
that he would get plenty Of naval stores and good
deal of cotton, How much bias he got? Commodore
Goldsborough may have lifted bales FROM the
wharf at Edenton but they very few, Naval
stores he got none Tobacco of the highest grades is
grown only in Southern Virginia and the Northern
ntraI counties of North Carolina although it is true,
good deal of the coaser grades produced in Kentucky
Tennessee and Missouri. There won't be much grown
there this year, we take it.
Should the enemy be permitted to gel bale OF our
cotton, barrel of naval stores, hogshead OF our
tobacco, or ought to add fierce Of rice Re
c5lect the money result is the Same, whether
they tall into enemys hands, whether destroy
them ourselves they will take these things for nothing
from all who do not succumb to their power and bow
down before their despoism Every true Southern man
then ought when be cannot remove such things beyond
their grasp, to destroy them.
Shall they, who common navy to seal up cur
poris-lmfisoD products, and if possible starve our
people-sha hey have those products Tor which their
own people are suffering, and from the possession OF
which they would derive r sh strength to be used for
our subiugat0n as h- r5os of war AMI the trophies Of
victory over and liberties Shall they be ena-
Died also thus as they say they will be enabled, 10 sup
ply out Of the fruits of plumber, those foreign nations
| whose course has shown that they would be willing
enough to share such punder and b come partners IN
Abraham Lincoln and William Ii. Stewards schemes OF
conquest and of rapne rather than by open aud
manly course break up tbs unj Just and unrighteous
blockade, and thus extend honestly to their people
that relief for which they calling earnestly
and so vehemently By doing they would ouly be
observing true, instead Of mere nominal fictitious,
neutrality for situated 90 we now are, the North en-
joys every facility of trade aud Intercourse Of obtaining
from them arms and munitions, while enjoy virtual
Ilu ShuUt l,o re hC
the process o direct plulder and Europe by indirect
plumber, through the North? Shall the one be the
thief and the other the receiver and we the tame VIC
tins? We think not. We think that it would be bet
ter thousand times to burn every bale, every barrel
every hogshead every erce that might be in any dam
ger of falling into the hands Of the plunderers We make
but one exception as the barrels If we could get pen-
ty of Stearns' Richmond Whisky into the camps on the
f! North side Of the Potomac, we think the " Grand
Army " would he eff ctuaIIy disabled from advancing,
or ii Burn8des had only 9ua,tum suf., they
would fad something very deadly in Southern climate.
There is good deal OF tobacco in Richmond Le1 on
French account, and as tobacco is government mono
poly in France suppose may say, upon accoant
of the French government. TO avoid difficulty with
France the New York Herald suggests that President
Lincoln permit this tobacco to be taken away. We
not surprised at this, but surprised that the idea
should meet with favour IN respectable quarters
at the South We eGy most empbatically no! to this
proposition It caobot be DONE aad ought no! to be
done. Nothing ought to be allowed to leave South
port under Yankee auspices, for Yankee purposes
or to Yankee policy. We have idea that our
government will assent to any such colu8ive manou-
wiring its shoulders If it did, it would be sinking
itself from its high position, and lowering itself in the
eyes OF its own people and'of the world.