Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-12-11


The London Times publishes the first letter from its
special correspondent in Richmond. He by
quoting from the speech OF E tmund Burke in the
House of Commons, 10 775, in which be said:
The spirit OF liberty n the Southern States is more
high and naughty than 10 the Northern. In the Caro-
linas and Virginia they have vast multitude of slaves
Where this is the case n any part OF tt world those
who are free are by far the most prCr@ and Jealous OF
their freedom. Freedom IS them only an enjoy
msDt, but kind Of rank and privilege, NOt seeing
there that freedom in lries where it is common
blessing and broad and general the air, may be
united with much abb ct toll, with great misery, with
all the exterior tfservtud liberty looks among them ike
| something that is noble and liGo. al. | do not
mean to commend the superior morality OF this sen
| ment, which has at least much pride virtue 10 it,
out cannot alter the nature of man. These people OF
| the Southerh Colonies much more strongly, and
/ with higher and stubborn spirit attached to
liberty than those to the n0rthward Such all
aDcent commonwealth, sucn were our Gothic
tors, such 10 days The Poles such will be all
ters OF slaves IL such people the haugbtness Of DO
inaton combines with the spirit OF Freedom orthos it,
| and renders it lnvOCbie'
H. then proceeds in very interesting letter, from
which we make RAGS:
i TIE FEELING IN RICHMOND.
Tie stranger who wins his way this day to Richmond
will fnd the fullest realization these prophetic words
on far mighter field Of action than was within the
purview of their inspired uerer. Il is not too much
to say that the tanaticaI believer in the
faith that is in him, and acknowledge himself Vctor
= HugOs phrase, the I" sOmnamblst OF Dished
cream" could lie walk the Richmond this day
81 aud guage the spirit and feeling OF its people after
lY nineteen months of such warfare the world
contemplated before. The streets are crowded. the no
refuse to contain their shoals OF guests where
" the quetness and confidence OF people secure 10 its
own strength is Dcontestiny evident. Everything
cessary for life, most things requisite for its luxurious
enjoyment, is interpreted this continent to
be found in abundance. TGere is absolutely only enc
commodity 81 which the absence is graveiy felt, that
e commodity being ice. Does the FEDERAL Government
hope by such ra rudder steer the Southern Con
s. tederacy back into the harbor OF Union
y EFFECTS OF THE BLOCKADE.
" Of COZ se. with many Of the supplies sucked In thro
the most ridiculous of block des and transported ovel
r the which separats Richmond from The
ID cities OF the Southern seaboard, prices high Int
board and lodging 10 the hotels amount to four dollar
per day clothing and boots are extremely dear, bu
&C. are be had by paying for them medical supplies
scarce but constantly being introduced 10 not in
Oh sufficient quantities the Potomac and thrOug
the cities of tic coast And here from personal expe
rence may express my conviction of the utter mpos
nd sbity OF bockading the Potomac and the Ohio, ani
shutting off the South from supplies along a irone
or which from Fortress distant Kansas extend
", for $500 miles If the whole Federal navy wa
H. concentrated in the Potomac it would be utterly mad
at equate eectuay to block the nnumerable creeks
ed reaches Of that river. Add to tns that both side
| the stream dwes population Of which not more tina
FIVE per cant. are in favor Of the Union.
RAvAGEs OF THE ENEMY VIRGINIA.
In nearly every county the court house in which II
asszes Tor each county u.s. d to be held is rudey
molshed doors and windows torn down, while whiI
upon the white walls in every phase OF handwriting,
corded the au ographs Of the vaDdaIs whose hand
er work surrounds the behoder. Stories upon stor'
n have reached me detailing how the wives OF The Fed
IN raj officers represented by my exaperatd lnotpan
red as having usually "haed FROM detested New Englan
forced their way behind the Federal troops into tie I'll
Dur family mansions of the Old Dominion and personal
ing supentended the abstraction and TRANSMISSION ort
wards OF old family china, silver glass, pict res, book
. furniture and pianofortes A Virginia lady, WHO r
a. monstrated with one of the Yankee hen barriers
gagged in packing up valued family china, met
the reoinder on REBEL and have no rights til
80 am bound to respect; your property, therefore,
q" mine p 10 short, such picture f desolatton
Northern frontier IF Virginia and the lovely Shena
On doah Valley the Paradi of America, exf ioit,
en- kened only to the Paatinate alter Tily ina Wis
Fe' as Thueydides paints it, after the annual haceoen
en-. incursion during The PeIopponesiau war;
mn. =.
have Travelled far and wide through Virginia
have conyrsed with men, women sripplinga and cl
ated dren in that State and is Maryland; bave
Fee formerly substantial and thriving whose everything
that dsyoured by the Federas; but never in one sin