Newbern weekly progress., 1862-09-06
Americas /" Dcgcperacy.D
THE LONDON TINES EXPOSED At HOME.

they may indulge their own fierce vices un.
controlled" To this the London Spectator,
the ablest of the English weekly journals,
makes the following reply;
OF the many strange vagaries Of English
opinion the strangest is that which the Times
on Wednesday embodied in two strong words
That Journal, which, aware that its articles
weigh in America more heavily than dispatch
es, writes every now and then as if it wanted
war, styled the Americans "this insensate
and degenerate people" To the first epithet
we take no objection, though it IS scarcely one
which applies to race whose most disagreea
bic quality, next to their selfconceit, is their
habitual "snartness" The civil war, simply
as such, is, OF course, open to any amount Of
reprobation, even from men who were India
again IN revolt, would support it's suppression
by any and every means short OF depopulation.
Misery is rarely just, and the war creates
among certain classes degree and extent Of
misery which would account for any disgust,
and pallla,e almost any virulence. But now
a sensible Engshman, familiar with the his.
tory and incidents Of the war, can draw from
them evidence of American degeneracy. is to
US unin,clligible. To us they seem on the
contrary TO relieve the Americans from some
Of the sevcrest reproaches which previously
rested on their national character.
Lot US look at the facts No sooner had the
war commenced than the Northern people,
supposed to be the one which of oil others
preferred material objects, laid aside every
pu,su and stakcd their lives, their fo,t n $,
and future on the war f1r an "idea, that
idea being one which in England we call
patriotism. Taking the lowest view Of their
conduct, they still had the motive which justi.
ties Italy in declaring war Nenetia-they
fought for their national completeness. Be.
lieved to be disnclned to service and incapa.
BILE of discipline, they enlisted in hundreds Of
thousands, and the Times correspondent bears
witness from the Pamunkey,to their wonderful
patience amid suffering which equals that Of
our soldiers in the Crimea.
Supposed to be guided wholly by impulse,
they answered the frightful disaster of Bull
Run by creatinga new army, and raising loans
on scale of more than European prolusion.
"lmpatlent and fckle,' they waited five
months IOr Mcclellan to organize the army
without abat,ng one j"t of their pu,pose, OF
aro;n., 'ho;r r,os .9nnenat,a ~ sa,T wac,
RANT th.v have n,rdoned NcD,well in spilo
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corpus suspended without struggle, and gave
up Mason aud Sdel in the very midst of theil
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