Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-07-03

which we are not fully acquainted, as also WIN lne
plans Of the leaders on both sides.
We have nothing further or later from our agent than
the dispatch published under Geographic head yet
we may expect to receive the most important news at
any moment. We feel almost certain of doing 3d. if
Mcclellan viii only accept battle in which event we
entertain the fullest confidence OF brilliant sue
cess to our arms. Whether the Issue be joined
to dav or tomorrow or at some future day not distant
We can only keep quiet and patiently await the deVel
oDement of results Our own opinion, from the best
Information we can obtain is that the contest at Rich
on1 will be decided within the next fortyeght hours.
Mr.. SrAxLY 10 his speech delivered at Washington,
N O. on the 18th instant, has the following strange
strange coming from him. since
all who know him or his course are aware that his
whole political life in North Carolina, in Washington
CITY, and elsewhere, has been one continued effort to
denOuDce, defeat and break up the Democratic party
first as a Wing in North Carolina and subsequently as
q Black Republican in California. He says -" Who
brought this war about 2 Not the Northern people,
or Lincoln or bis friends, but those politicians who
broke up the Charleston Convention. This editor Of
the Raleigh Standard charges just in the same way,
and nearly in the language in his issue Of the 18th
instant, under the head of Aid and Comfort to the
Enemy" Mr.. Stauly abored all his life to prove the
Democratic party curse to the country, and yet now
abors to show that those whom he charges with doing
what be had all his life been trying to do breaking up
tie Democratic party, guilty of all the ills under
which the country now labors! The Raleigh Standard
had anticipated Mr.. Stanly by six days. But though
the Standard can now charge, and could beforehand
growl and nsinuate it nevertheless supported Breckn
ridge the nominee of the Baltimore seceders such sup
port as it was and with such grace as it was given
Ihed on to the potts. but when its covert enmy to
the party that had built it up and made it all but
Governor deprived it Of the State patronage then for
the first time did it come out in its full-and were
going to say true colors-bu truth is not attribute
of any coors in which that paper has yet appeared or
in which, froa its past course, it can be expected to
appear.
Mr. Stanly in his speech at Washington labors to
prove that Lincoln is aboltionist. He sums up by
saying you see that Lincoln is no abolitionis" He
breaches after the of the Raleigh Standards
watch aud wait editorials. He points to the disa-
vowal of Hunters proclamation He says -" Lin
coins rebuke of Hunter is significant" Perhaps 3d.
But let US see little farther. The following letter
from Charles Sumner, recently published in the Boston
Journal and copied into the Baltimore Amerscan, of
recent date which has run the blockade, may tend to
throw some light on the subject Sumner is big abo!i-
ton authority and the that up to his stan
dard must be not only Thoroughbred abolitionst,
but full booded villain -
From the Boston Journal.
We are permitted to publish the following private letter
from Hon Charles Sumner reply to letter addressed to
al" y SENATE CHAMBER June 6, 1861
MY DEAR SIR: Your criticism of the President hasty.
am confident you knew him as do you would not make
OF course the President cannot be held responsible for
the msfeasnces Of subordnses unless adopted at least
tolerated BY him. And that nothing uBj ust
generous will be tolerated. much less adopted by HIM.
lam happy let you know that he has sympathy with
again his other act of turning into hunting
ground slaves He repudiates bOthpositively The
latter point occupied much of his thought and the
newspapers have gone u recording his repeated
declarations which have often heard from his own lips,
that slaves finding their way into the national lines
or to reeneiaVed. This ia his conviction expressed
without reserve.
eye Ofte-Whe he considering the great questions
which he has already acedthe invitation to emancipation
States emancipation in he District of Columbia and
the ackRo Wedgmen of the independence of Hay and Ii
bera even your zeal would have been satisfied for you
would have felt the sincerity of his purpose to 30 what he
could to carry forward thu principles of Declaration
Independence. His whole soul was occupied especially by
the first proposition which peculiarly his own In a-
miar intercourse with him, remember nothing more
touching than the earnestness and completeness with which
he embraced this idea To his mind il Just and benf
cent while promises the end of slavery. Of
TO me- who had already proposed Bridge of God for the
Yetreatng TEND it most welcome. Proceeding from
the President must take its place among the great events
Of history.
you disposed to be impatient at any seeming short
comngs, think pray you, of what has been done in
brief period and from the past discern the promise
the future. Knowing something of my convictions and oil
the ardor with which maintained them you may, perhaps
derive from my confidence. say to you
therefore, stand by the Administration need be, help
it by word and act but stand by and have faith it.
wish that you really knew the President and had heard
the ess expression Of his CONNECTIONS on those questions
which concern you deeply. You might, perhaps wish
that he less cautious but you would be grateful that
be is true to all that you have at heart. Believe
therefore, you wrong and regret the because
Of my desire all our friends stand firm together
Ii write strongly, it ia because feel strongly, for my
and intimate intercourse with the President be
ginning with the 4h Of March, not only binds peculiarly
t. his Administration, but gives me personal well
political interest in seeing that justice is done him.
Believe me, my dear sir
With much regard
Ever faithfully yours,