Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-06-04

he action of the Government and military autbori-
ties in this case is generally condemned by Yankee
papers, even those OF the Abolition faction. The Her
aid says
If General Burnside bis own responsibility initia
ted those late military proceedings against Mr. Vaan
dlgham he has Ooshy dashed himself against stone
wall much more difficult to carry than that along the
heights of fredericksburg Ii he has acted under in
structlons from Washington, the administration has
committed the grave mistake. In either event it is
within the power CT President Lincoln reverse these
proceedings and to turn the party accused the
civil authorities The Northern elections last autumn
involved serious warning from the loyal States against
these arbitrary arrestsa warning which, it was hoped
had put an end to them. Under this conviction the
people of tie several States concerned in our late Spring
elections rose up TO sustain the administration and the
war against ali the peace clamors of the copperheads.
In Connecticut where these agtaors were the most
numerous and violent they were most sgnaly defeated
But this Valandgham affair furnishes the very capital
to these d. mocratic radicals which they have most de.
sired, and puts them in constitutional position from
which they cannot be displaced. fbe public sentiment
OF New ork and of all the loyal States on this point
with Them ard the administration must quash thes
military proceedings against Valandigham end reccg-
nz9 the vitality Of the civil law in the loyal States or
there will be civil war 10 the North.
This is tie great danger underlying all these appar-
emily incoherent proceedings of tie radical democracy
at Union Square.
From the New York Tribune.
Mr.. Clement L. Vallandigham is pro-slavery Dem
ocrat of an exceedingly coppery hue His politics are
as bad as bad can be- Ii there penalties Tor hold
ing irrational unpatriotic and nhuman views with re-
gard to political ques IONS be would be one of the most
fragrant blenders. But Federal and State cousti.
utions do not recognise perverse opinions uupatr
otto speeches. grounds of in6ctiop beyond the in
fictons of the speeches themselves aud then the bearer
suffers the penalty not the speaker. So we don't ex
acty see how Mr. v is to be lawfully published for
making bad speech, unless by compelling him to make
it to empty seats
We agree fully with General Burnside that VaIlan-
digham ought not to make such Epeeches-tbat be
ought to be ashamed of himset-but then he will make
them and won't be ashamed-so what will you do about
it? "Send him to the Try Tortugas" says the GeDer
al-probably as hint to him to "dry u p" "Set him
over into Dixie the President is said to suggest as an
alternative. ii this is the worst joke Mr. Lincoln
has yet made. They doa't trouble themselves to try
and silence opposition orators down that Way-they
klll them on sight, and save world VI trouble. Mr..
V alandigbam must be aware that any person making
just such speeches in Dixie against the war for
sion as be makes on our side against the for the
Union, could not live out the first days experiment
He would be shot by the first rebel That could obtain
musket and that would be the end of him. Sending
copperheads down to Jedom where they have speeches
only On the side OF athe powers that be-" would set a.