Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-12-18

The evil seems to be growing upon our whole popu-
latloD Officers aud soidierS civilians and lawmakers
high and low rich and poor; saints and sinners-a
seem to be giving 10 to this great evil. We pref
bread to whskey peOara thing. but rather think
the scarcity of whskey and the very high price which
It is sold increases rather than dlmnshes the evil OF
drunkenness.
We do wish that everybody would do right AID stay
sobes-bnt We know everybody won't.
RnLrga Progsess
From the Turnwold ga, Countryman.
Tn. Reign Of Terror.
We have indeed fallen upon evil times. With al
outside foe pressing upon with the avowed object OF
exterDinatng people, white and black it might be
thought that this pressure would make our people
unit that they would the nee sst, 1st If the reign
Of Law and order, our 1st powerful auxiliary IN
maintaining independence and 2odly, Of uphold
ing the hands OF executive chief in the great strug
gle in which we engaged, particularly when bis
has FIRST blush the sanction Of law he teing
in authority. ard iu the next place, when it has the
sanction Of the plain letter of the statute and then OF
Judicial dicum upon the constitutlons!ity OF the law
Proofs accommodating every day OF the dire intent
of our foe. One of the recent demonstrations is
the letter Of Archbishop Hughes cOunselng VgOr
10 the yankee government in killing people, when
the hollow hea. ted hypocre who presumes to oe the
vicegerent OF God 10 about the God degreehe being
next to the pOpeprOfesses 10 teach the commandment
Thou shalt not kill.
The Augusta Christian Advocate has recently re-
ceved batch OF Northern religious journals. As the
Advocate remarks, oil these journals breathe out
threatenings and siaughterappaud tie viDdctlVe pol
lev OF their government to the echoand seem think
that war, and arson and puuder, and murder, OF
women aud children, is inn0cn: meth OF treatment
for those who have dared believe that the rights of
government founded 10 the will OF the governed.-
These sentiments come from several Christian Advo-
Gates and the n. Y Observer. The propositions OF the
n. Y. Evening Post to exerminate the negro on
the American Continent s going the rounds OF all the
papers. This from of the highest organs cf
that christian philanthropy which long spent Itself 10
sympathy for the slave, Such the feelings OF Chris
| tians North-protestants and papats. God save u5,
| then, from Northern sinners.
But while this is true of our yankee enemies, what is
going on among ourselves? In the first place, we have
a radical revolutionary governor who it he could but
get the peopa to back him 10 it, would get up revo
luton the Conscript Act, when our own represen
tatives in Congress voted for it, aud when own
supreme court has declared it constitutional. Get up
this revolution, and there would be three government
the U. S the G. S and the State-caiming our ale
glance and between tie three it would be quite strange
! If the necks Of any Of Us escaped the halter.
| Aud not only is Gov. Brown iDu,ug 10 this way
| but see from the following extract from the Augusts
Advocate what he and all others who are Warriug upon
President Daviss administration ar doing for US:
Another fact that we learn from these hateful sheets
is, that they eagerly seize every item that they cal
construe into taken OF weakness, exhaustion OF
disposition to yield the contest, aud ostenaousy give
such items vent as Inducements for pushing the wa
with renewed vger Thus one of the papers publishes
in full z. w. AS acconnt of our shoeess and blank
etless army aud takes csarage from the facts set forth
Little souls they knc how TO appreciate the splrl
of heroes. Miserc Ie muckworms! they caEaot com
prehend the noble pirit Of freemen, which sacrc
everything, and fight in rags, and hungry and athEst
for home and country and liberty Let tie false proph
cts read the lesson Alright 1t means - we not
be subdued. We know how to suffer, wen how 10 die
but not how to yield to yankee domination. But suc
statements crumbs OF comfort to them. And tn
following editorial paragraph from the Chicago pape
shows who they are Ung ourselves that sustain To
hopes OF bitter enemy with the idea that counter
revolutions and anarchy are impending our land
The title is, Georgia repudiatng Confederate AalhoI
lty, and the editor says:
Notwithstanding the taken to conceal the fac
of the great dissatisfaction Of tie State Of Georgi
with the rebel government, evid nee will now and the
appear Not long since, c)nscrpt was discharged b
4 Georgia Judge who boldly declared the Conc ipto
. act illegal aid void We have not heard that til
q Judge molested. But here is stronger evidence
l. Ia an article about # rences between the State
o Virginia and the Coned rate Cove ram n, the E G.
- mond Ernminer of the 9th says: Such 6 correspIn
ence for Instance. that between the Safe OF ap'
. gia tchth quietly ohib IS The EFF GENE It Of the CO.
i. SC ,pt tItC limits. God the Co"federnte Gore
IS me"t whieh detected the Ohibio", Will never tt
light, tor it Will never b. u ,dertakeD."
+ II this and similar outglvings from the NortheT
press do prove that the actous opposition to Il
Administration 10 Georgia, is giving said aud comfort
TO the emmy then do not know what " aid and cor
- fort p" are.
y But this is not all. There seems to be safety f
=, person or property 10 Georgia. Gov. Brown bega
, sDme time ago bis unlawful sc zlres. Now the leg
lature is disposed to clohe him with supreme auth0ri
p in this regard that be may go about as roaring Ito
seeking whom be may devour. All this is clearly u
! CONSTITUTIONAL and should be, and will be resisted
fore the judicial tribunals aud those tribunals shou
# begin to themselves Up, now, to discharge
70 their duties
IS am not done yet. The MilkdgeviiIe correspon
ent of the Southern Coniederacy wrote week 9
10 ago, that some gentleman Il know not who) who b
,e occupied high official position, had been heard to
clare that extortion ought to justify the killing of
go one guilty of it, With TIE general impression amor
to our people that all high price s extOrtion, who th
10 would be safe
e Touching this matter of extorton (reai and imaa
s nOy charges to grand uces from the bench have be-
ed given whose tendency to encourage lawless v
ly ence The press has been guilty in the same rega
d. Even the DID, stad, conservative Recorder intimate
D. not long SINCE that of the overgrown fortur
ill made 10 Atlanta during this war, might be seized
le- divided among the soldiery. The Macon 1eleg'd
o. can nothing but un in the effects to be produc
do by the resolution authorizing Gov Brown to seize
that u.s. to rob. There will be great running of
supplies out of the State to avoid seizure the 1gra
or ntimates, and there will be great destusion in
is markets. and very unhappy results will follo" but
m Telegraph sees only fun in it all it does not $50
he speak) care darn and why? Because the editor
IA. buyer and not seller
yn For my part, / can see no fun in all the matters
of forth n this article. II is fast coming to ths-that
be are to have no law no order, no government but
to government of the mob And it matters but little
h is const quences whether this mob is led by Cover