Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-02-19
From the Richmond Examiner.

soldiers bill had passed the Yankee House of Repre-
sentatives by vote OF 58 to a. The slaves OF loyal
PERSONS says the despatch are not to be received
and recruiting officers to be sent into the Border
States without the permission of their Governors MT
Stevens said three hundred thousand would leave
the army in May. We could not raise fifty thousand
white men. CONSUMPTION was impossible"
Thus the unfeeling types announce to mankind the
most awful intelligence that met the mortal eye or
shocked the human heart The representative men of
nation claiming to be enlightened than any other
on earth have deliberately resolved to iucite African
slaves TO instruction, to place arms in their hands, to
organize dfill and officer them, to lead them against
their and msresses and to reenact in the nine
tenth century, and in America, the last child and per-
lection If modern civilization horrors unequaled in the
darkest ages ard under the worst dspotsm that ever
cursed the most benighted lands. Compared with the
stupeDdous crime thus authorized in cold blood by the
National Legislature of the United States, the massa-
ere of ST. Bartholomew, the sangujnary orgies of st.
Domingo and the bloody eacchanaila OF DahOmey
but the pastmes of innocen ancy or the gamhols Of
lambs upon the grassy upands In the hight OF tie
widespread and appalling tragedy 50 dispassionately
melted, civilization bat the ,mockery OF some
dreamer's fancy, humanity delusion, and religion
non-existtnce and impossbility Staggered by the
very enormity of this medated outrage, we who read
the news borBe to from the North and against whom
these armed hordes of African miscreants to be
bur led find the faculties OF the understanding at fault
and the OF comprehension unable to credit lnell-
| pence so unnatural and astounding. We seem to be
readsg the annals OF forgotten age or the tragic I'M
aginations of some master OF historic fiction
| Yet never in human history there fact more
positive than this seeming Gcti0n. The skies above
the earth beneath feet, the beating OF hearts,
are truths not certain than the gigantic wicked
ness which Yankee malice is about to perpetrae. So
far in them lies they will fully, faithfully, vigorously
mel cessly do this deed of heish darkness aswere it
in their power-they would summon from the Bottom
less Pit the hosts OF ands to accomplish
insatate cravings OF their avace and their hatred
If they fail to muster their myradS OF armed blacks,
or having them enlisted they fall short of their expec
tatons OF carnage and destruction 1t will be tor want
not of will or of endeavor, but for want OF ability alone
and because of obstacles which Yankee ingenultyex
cited its utmost by fanaca hatred and commercial
spite, cannot evade or overcome Their demonlacal
purpose will have been toed by forces superior to any
they WELD but that purpose will be registered
where thoughts accounted deeds and to the u,
its dreadful penalty will there be paid.
What confession is here lore than twenty nail
lions of white people, educated highly in common
schools accustomed from chdho to those practical
exercises by which the wits supposed to be sharpen
ed and the body invgorated, and pridng themselves
upon their endowments, make war upon less than one
third their number of semi-barbaran Southerners,
sothfu ignorant, enervated, depaved and after two
years of such as no people ever waged and none
endured $50 vast IN its magnitude and so vehement
and malignant it's energy the stronger power forced,
by the necessity of constant defeat and the in
herent wickedness of the cause to appeal from its
race to African slaves Tor help How shameful the
admission of weakness-how ridiculous the appeal for
aid hree hundred thousand white men, trained in all
the arts of modern warfare, throw down their in
disgust in May, aud their places to be filled will ne
groes who scarcely know the muzze from the butt of
musket and who there is every reason to believe can
be taught the simplest evOutionS OF the line
Gould the absurd folloy of the Abolition crusade be
more gar3gy manifest than in this preposerous SUBJ
sttuon of muscle for mind, ignorance for education,
inexperence for training cluasness for skill, childish
ness for manhood ccwardice for courage, blind brute
force for patriotism and reason, Africans for Anglo
Saxons! 1t is the insanity of tanatcism whipped,
hoo<a TO finp 10 fha IouSfro
furious useless struggle Of bad bewidered by the
breaking down of unrighteous cause in word, it
is the arrant docy OF hopelessy defeated snfuIness
EnghtcLe1 Europe may turn from tbs sickenrg
horrors OF servila instruction invoked by the msdan
at Washington, to phase of this war, it will be
waged next summer, which when depicted with hi5tor
ical accuracy and physiological fidelity scarcely
fail to ieve its fears to the future Of the white
at the South and conduce in no small degree to the
alienation of any epigastrc uneasiness that Exeter
Hall mayexperience III regard to the corporal welfare
of the colored brethren. TO be sure some Southern
families may be massacred and thousands of the
dusky fraternity may be exnguished by way of mild
admonition to the remainder but to suppose that the
masters of Cuee will be generally abaed at the point
of the John Brown pike, that Cutie himself will be
slaughtered by Wholesale swine at Cincinnati is
to indulge nightmare which only weak tea aamixed
with unaduterated flnaticsm can engender.
The fate Of the negro, Of the white population at the
South md of the Northera army respectively, will be
decided in brief contest, which will about the
gravely and succnctly pos sble. Ga the first of
April fifty thousand negroes, who have been previous
drilled in various camps of instruction, will be debark
ed at Acquia Greek. PugnaciOu5 Joseph Hooker, |
foaning at the mouth from long delay, will organise
them into brgades and divisions with the velocity of
renzied Impotence But it wall eeuirs six weeks OF
incesan toll to perform this simple feat 1t is at last
accomplished. The pontoons are laid safely and crossed
without opposition. To prevent accident the Grand
Colored Division ia put in the Greeley, its CON
mander, remains at Acqua Greek with a.powerful
glass" after the of Burnside. The skrmishers
OF the Grand Colored Division are thrown out They
deploy.
The voice of an overseer calling hogs is heard in
distant field They rally On the reserve. No rebels
being visible, they again thrown forward. They
feel for the enemy, but he is not to be felt. They fire
at nothing fifty feet in the air, aad hit it every time
The rebels being thus driven to their earthworks the
Grand Coored Division advances at the pas de charge
singing Methodist refrain, to storm the enemys posi-
ton, and to carry the crest " at all hazards OF
sudden, the artillery of A. z. Hills command beches
forth hurricane of shell and shrapne There is a
rising of WOOL of quilts upon the fretfu porcupine
under the caps OF dusky Brigadiers and so0y Major
Generals there is Simultaneous efusien of mellifu-
perspiration from fifty thousand tarry hides there
is display of ivory like fifty thousand flashes of light
ming fifty thousand pairs of charcoal knees are knock
ing together, and hundred thousand Ethiopian eye
balls rolling medy 10 their sockets like ESQ many
drunken and distracted dancing in an ebon sky
the Grand Coored Division trembles like mighty
pointer dog on icy pavementthere is universal
squa, if all Africa had been kicked upon its shns
at the self same moment scattering if all the black
birds and buzzards in creation had taken wings
at once To man. the Northern army lies PROSTATE
in the field, asphyxiated by the insuerabe odour be-
queathed to the atmosphere by the dark departed host
For like cause the rebel army ia in full retreat to