Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-07-31


sand miles, was not able to conquer her colonies with
France to help them and here are we. after year
and half Of war, not yet able TO take Richmond,
one hundred and thirty miles south of Washington
and very much afraid the other day for the safety of
Washington itself Then we have been always at
England for hiring Hessans and other Germans to
conquer Us. But what does the South say, aud say
truly? 1t says that all the Germans that fought for
Hing George were mere lambs aud chickens, CON-
pared to the gentry who fight under the blessed lead.
ershsp of Benker, and Sigel, and HeiDtzeman. They
DO fight that's certain, but then there is nothing that
they will not steal Since We find ourselves obliged to en-
poy such to the South, we netd not be
surprised that poor Old King George who lived in days
before people understood anything about the rights of
man, should have taken the Then, for
military violence, what all the armies the English
brought into the field compared with those that
der the orders OF our generals? don't believe Howe
or Clinton bad ever at any time fifty thousand men un
der his orders. Lord Corvallis when he surrendered
at Yorktown, had only poor seven thousand men,
while Mcclellan and Davis, Haleck aud Beauregard
are carrying on the work of destruction with half q
million OF men on each side We have been in the
habit Of asking what right had the English to call as
rebels AMI to shed drop OF blood in seeking to r..
tain against wilH They ought to kao,y that oil
naea are fee and equal, aud have right to consult
their own wshts Ia the cho of government and ia
saarch OF happiness. bats very true but are not
The South free and equal too? Have not they as much
rig as we to consult their feelings in the choice
OF a government and the search after bappness The
wisest people in England, during the OF IodepenG-
enc considered that even more to be drca
td thau failure for while iailule would diminish the
empire, success would destroy he liberties OF the ma
ton. Does not the dang hang over US If we
lose tie South lose large pnpulation aud vast
territory but population iucras-s fact il new coun-
trts, and, as tor territory, shall still have than
we Know what to do with Ii, however, we cDraatr
the South, we must govern them by the swod: aud
how Shall we contrive to SIT up military power and
strong executive able to keep the nth IN slavery and
unable to encroach upon the liberties OF the North?
The man has got on the horse to kill the stag but when
ne has Killed him, quite that be viii get off
again? Ii was very wrong Of the English to make war
Oh matte sp akDg their language and OF their
own kindred and lineage but the e aiOnshIp was re.
mote; and thcugh EugIaud and America both belong
el to tie same cr"wu they could be sa be The
same ctuntry. But We are doing best to tx erm
nate our fellow couDtT men, with the same language
the same tradi loGs, the laws the same history
How mauy OF US have fighting on both sides or
daughters married one to Southeruer and the other
| to NOrtherner. EUerV U0ltcy Of aytitletU sweep,
nway the rery life Gnd soul of the country. We art
| Shedding our oan blood aud mangIng our own flesh
we have been IN the habit Of deGI isIrg England r
her heavy debt aud the vast taxation her people
to bear but that debt mainly incurred 10 a cause
tor which she has bush-iu fighting for her ou lib
critics and hose of Europe against two great eouqu-r
| ors, Louis XIV, and the Emperor Napoleon hat
debt took huudfed ana forty years TO accumulate
while we have incurred at least quarter Of il in
year dlu u nan! bQt ID WnaC cduSc Not TO n lln-
tain berty not to preserve the balance OF power, but
TO put down these very prime PIES OF freedom to which
we owe our eX8e1ce as a separate State and to
our children to pass through the fire to the Mooch Of
overgrown pride aud distempered ambition. Look
how EDgand he's treated u.s. She is starving her one
ratlVeS, cppng her trade reducing her revenue rath
er than break blockade which would melt away be-
fore her breath, aud vanish at her tcuch while
been never weary OF loading her with insults. We
took from her the right of search which she only
led fNr thp Of he tor ho nzoo
whom many Of profess that are carrying on the
present civil war. We kept back the MAPS which
showed that she was in the right in the dspu about
the canadian frontier bulied her OF her rights
On the Columbia river; dismiss her Ambassador
for enlstiug people, though are willing to take
| hers whenever we an find them "
But here we must suppose the patience OF the audi
ence to be entirely exhausted aud the compelled
to make precptate retrt at, if he be fortunate
enough to escape equestrian exercise rail in what
| Sydney Smith calls the plumacian robe" in which
| the sovereign people OF America are wont dress
those whom they do not delight to honor. This pre-
mature mpatence of the audience is the more to be
regretted, orator has by exhausted his
sut ct DE has yet TO speak Of the policy of deray
| ing the whole expenses OF the by debt; of the
enormous Issues 0t paper money evylng heavy tax
all creditors Tor the sake Of small imm diae advdn-
tage to the State; of the proposal to the bl 4cks
and let loose kindred and Christian population all
the horrors OF StrVlle aud savage resurrection
| Gen Buffers proclamation ct New O leans, and his
| treatment of q SIX which America overwhelms with
the most exaggerated homage. But we are glad that
orator did not proceed far tor the OF
| such topic in the manner we have indicated would
surely have brought down upon him the very heaviest
peneay in the code of Judge Lynch, the last and most
| revered of American tuncuOnares
| CAPTURE OF THE BEAVER DAM BRIDGE BURNERS.
General Stuar''s Cavalry again at work. having
just succeeded in overtaklDg portion of the Yankee
force engaged in burning the bridge at Beaver Dam
| One Lieutenant and SIX priVates captured and
one killed The prisoners admit having been engaged