Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-11-20

Whatever may be the opinion of the course pursued
by the British Government, it is very gratifying to
the change of opinion and the growing perception of
the power and character of the Southern people, ulani-
tested by the British press towards US, which, with the
exception of the Exeter Hall organs-such as the
Ne1Us Star and two three others-are the warm ad-
vocates of cause and constantly and steadily
doing all that they can 10 sustain and cheer US in our
struggle for independence. The London Dispatch of
the Dist, has most interesting article the in
America portion OF which we transfer to our col
umns
There is form of mendacitJ more pcrncious in its
cons quences nsdous in its temptations, than
that which imposes pious frauds upon society. The
specification of means by consideration of their ends
is vice inherent in religious people and offenders
have been shameless in this regard than the Abo
ltioniss Of America and the ant-savery {" Chaplain
Sect y persuasion in England. Their lecturers, their
travellers their takers and tourists their historians and
novelss have in slave countries, aud the effect
of slavery, phenomena which the slightest reflection
would contradict aud belle. Every man at all well
read-any one, Indeed, who can but read his Bible
knows that slavery has been the normal condition o.
human society," and that it has been found compatible
with, to have been even promotlve OF, power, wealth
civilization, nay, even humanity. The Scriptural na
lions, the very patrarcs, all Shareholders Spar
ia, in the glory of its purity and virtue Athens, in
the zenith of its glory in arts, and literature had
vast majority OF their subjects held to labor The
Jewish law of Moses is full OF provisions for the max
Jag, transfer and manumissi0n of slaves The Tenth
Commandment tells not to cove our neighbours man
servant or his Rome conquered the world, Gnt
conquered 1t, under dispensation of slavery. Th
West India Colonies hourshed while slavery prevailed
They went to ruin, both of white and black the da,
they were emancipaed. All the experiments that hav
been tried Of the SeeeVatOn of the col0red races
indeed of even white of aboriginal savages, b.
manumisson or colonization, have been conspcuou
failures. King Lincoln calls the negroes together t.
tell them that their conguity is odous to his subjects
and that they must clear out for Central America. FL
assur Horace Greely that II the Union be save
by rivetng the chains Of the slave he will rvet them
AS for the slaves themselves with the wrong
, of bred Scotland Uncle Tom, most pr0Voking-the
canlo be brought to burn with revenge They spie
for their They obstnately refuse to ava
to liberty outrage and starvation They work ia til
fields as usual when the planter and the overseer al
away, and only the white women left at home.-
The black regiments OF insurgent Unioniss have prove
a failure, aud been disbanded We wonder how "Pr
fessor o. Olmstead and Horace Greedy look now thu
their tours through the slave States compared wit
facts, and laid alongside the dispatches and the tel
grams Of the belligerents Stone, Wendell Phillip
Garrison Insured a serviIe the moment an arm
of liberation marched into the South but the SOC
powder won't fzz the luciier match has been rubbe
but obstinatey refused to fare up. We assure
the SoutherneIs indolent, and their soil strick
j with hopeless and growing proverty. They have So
tanned, tor nearly two years, the shocks OF a war;
), which those of Napoleon skirmsbes, rolled bat
the tide OF battle, and are now numbering at the
gates of quaking enemy that have brought thirte
hundred thousand warriors into the field and equippe
paid fed and furnished them, as army and ma
p were sustained before. We told the SOutherne
were sunk in stess luxury and sefndugen sensualt
D. that they depraved by selwil and licenousne
d below the capacity for administrative government.
What are the facts Never, we assert with the utmo
ID confidence, there known people able in pub
re affairs so heroic, so brave, prudent, so devoted
lie Whatever may be the issue of this war, planters
laveoWners have raised up by their deeds an mpers
ed BILE monument of their greatness and magnanimity
e In little more than a month they extemporized a
matured Government, Constitution, Legislatu
D. social authority, that have stood the test OF the
critical experiment with triumphant success, and
w more workable, consistent stable and Free than the
at situations they disowned. The Border Slave Sta
have LIFT them to their fate have armed against the
at Twenty millions of Unionists attacked six million
sr rebels, and the Free States men have been beat
~ back to their very trenches by less than onethrd
IL their number of slave drivers. The latter had
and had to fight in every river, and struggle in ev
town against powerful feet They bad not the
9et cIeus of regiment company squadron, scarcely
lie piece of artillery They had to raise regiments with
he any great centres of popu2aton-they had no pow
in mills no foundries paper for cartridges leather
as shoes and harness, clothng-ndustry and product
were paralyzed, and their intercourse with the VIC
a shut out by blockade. They had to destroy their
Sc duee abandon their cities to the invaders and their
lob lagos to the fames-they were menaced with aad b
NAT had to provide for the contingency of serve wa
M they have been left without the countenance of Eurt
ray and opposed by the border planters yet behold
result of slavery as against equality and fraternity
nat is quite evident that the resources of the South
,is prodigous-that the state of society must be at
up to the standard OF the greatest and most enghte