Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-09-18

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ease will You not all cheerfully to their help? They
with them Let the law be executed mpartisy upon dH
rich and poor, high and low.
ANY proposition for the further increase of army
shoqd and under our presen prosperous circumstances
might Eafey be treated With delberation, and that
method sought which 1ou!d be acceptable the
people. Then let those Of who remain at home bend
to tt task of clothing feeding
ders in the fed and providing for their wives and children
They should consi iiue first All the fruits of the
begin in cur households AID sxtsud to eve
rIhne public AID private Now is the time for an imita
frat revolution rendered their pemes worthy of bright
place in history and doubt eha examples in
Fellow citizens there also dangers which beget u.s.
besides these which from the f0e Bloody fevo:u-
lions have necessarily chaotic tendency. Yielding
sIves gradually to martial law-accUs omiDg ourselves
BY slow degrees submit to the exercise Of arbitrary
in military leaders, and locking with less end less
cGncern mp the diHOr7eTed morals which state of wa
always must produce we may endapger both civil liberty
and tie frame work of society The lime honored princi
be sub ordinate to the vii AUTHORITIES" should stall be
ored and maintained. Ii should he departed from
sty. when the safety of the tate woud otherwise he i'm
perried 1t through centuries OF strife by our
cesors Exorbitapt grants Of p0wer any of
dangerous in the extreme The generations OF
pus his great journey amoLg the stars for mary crnu
Es before his coaatepart seen among he OF men,
regularly the path OF their accustomed duies and al
spect and obedience yielded thes which the
all the complicated machinery Of the law with the pumber
less auxiaries o: society be kept in unremDg actan-
Beware Of inrngements thereon urder the plea of
Sy ncne has been found plausible ard epecIous
By which to rob The peose of their berties It is tie
pie must kep watch ct this post Their Ulcers raspon
ble to them and must he held to strict So far
itself shall regard my sacred paramount duty pro
teo the citizen in the enjoyment of all his rights and ber
ties.
Most assnredy nothing can be done by our rulers unless
hearty |
your hands, fellow atizeIs in the great SIX which
those by whom expected Of Without it. shall be
utterly poweress Yet that saVsh subserviency to those
in power, which Injuries both giver and recipe6 is be
avoided and despised shall need trre friends, manly
friends who will both warn and cenene as well as praise
and the path of duty less ffcu
We have every believe that the great heart
the people of North Carolna is deeply devoted to this
struggle None the Confederacy have made greater
fces to maintain it, and convinced their patriotism
will not TAIL Our intrepid end heroic soldiers IN sister
States. though praised with grudgng spirit and often
overlooked quite saGdered have yet borne stand
ards with undyng glory in the front OF charge and
death has spread feast which they have down
by hundreds The spr of glorious has exceed
ed if possible The gallantry of our soldiers in the field
Gag laws test oaths ant sedous ordinances have thank
God been uncaed tor and mob violence, that dangerous
offspring of revolution has been equally repessed by
Conservatism of people. TO continue this happy and
commendable state OF things, let all good citizens exert
themselves.
Fellow. 3ns the future depends oarelyes. TIE
skes radiant with the signs PROMISE if we do but
hold faithful to the great work undertaken. Our
victorious Generals everywhere driving enemies be
fore them and the armies which invaded US at the
beginning of the year, have melted like frost before
the steady Vaor OF troops, until hundred thousand
men called for replace them. Let them come too
and fear them ot,-wth shot shell and bayonet free
people will welcome them to the bloody graves Of their
deressors The womb of the future am confident holds
for us bright and glorious destiny The boundaries OF
young Republic, hope to them established,
embrace the tarest and nobest portions Of the temperate
erabIe miles of great nau naygable
q mighty sweep Of coast indented with magnificent
bays and harbors the unrvaed production of the leading
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soil adopted to the Successful cultivation of almost every
article necessary to the comfort and convenience of
embraced in Of $50 600 sqnare miles aboundiDg
with materials tor great navy, commercial warike
nexhanstibe mines of ron "copper" coal and s the vau-
manufactures on the sreama of our mountains bravo.
intelligent and virtpous population numbering eight mil
cacuabe these constitute the unmstaksbe elements Of
great nation Beholdng them, to what splendid visions
dependence, shall have been won Oh, my countTymen
let resolve this day that they shall be that North
Carolina at least shall not fail in the performance of heI
part that the streams of precious blood with which
glorious have consecrated their Immortality
snail not be vain and unacceped sacrifice, but through
the vaor and determination Of those who survive they
shall be rendered efcacous to the salvation Of the patton
and with hearts strong for the mighty task ard purposes
united, will give OF subsancegiye of our blood
| We will toll aid struggle, We will suffer and endure
day of independence ash through the darkness
the east shall fill the whole earth with his beams.
FL ION the London Morning Post, Lord Pamersons Organ
There can be but little doubt that, sooner or later
the Southern Confederacy will be admitted into th'
family of nations After tediously protracted wal
| 3f eighteen months the Federal Government has fail
ID III making the slightest impression on their r5olu
opponents Il is not unreasonable 80 presume tina
wen should the war be proceeded with another yea
AID half the result at The eud at the time would no
be diff rent We have had now fair opportunity O
tstImet!ng the qualities and the caibre OF bOh beig
G. ems These who derive their ideas oil strength ou
magnitude wee LOt slow to conclude that the Norti
ulnat OF necessity prove victorious And III ru h. th
advantages possessed by The established Government
the commencement of the couteSU were, to ali appear
ancea, ovrrpowtrng The Feerai States q ered u uJoI
the War entirely iree from d. b and with
their command tor the prs ducton OF wealth which wer
really stupeDduGus They possessed poWe'fu navy
aud thongh not having at theIG disposal standing
army, bad at ali even,s ~ abunda c the ma eriaiS Gu
OF which could be speedily created They enjoyed tn
| exclusive command OF the ocean, and not the slight
est danger TO apprehend iD the prosecution OF theI
trade. With the whole world open to them they fopn
themselves speedily supplied with every eugne Of mo
dern warfare which science has of late called into exis
Besides all this, they embarked IN their enter
prise with all the prestige which in7ariby attaches 1t
self the established order OF things. Such The Gil
cumstances under which the North addressed itself
the task of crushing the called rebellion is
possible to lose sight them in estimating TIE probs
bilties OF Carry ing to successful issue which,
its present stage, exhibits the combaants standing tC
wards each other in relations different rom thoS
which they occupied when the war began,
1t would have been impossible for any naton to b
compelled to struggle for its independence under Gil
cumstarces more disadvantageous than those unde
which the States seeded from the Union endeavoFed
establish their claims to a separation from govert
ment. Numerically, the population Of the South stoo
to that of the North in the relation Of to FIVE
the material Of war the Southerners entirely de
= ttue. No sooner bad the standard of independent
been raised than every port in large sea-board
once sealed. With such munitions OF they the
. nnssessea they found themselves ohiged not only