Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-12-10
Fernando Wood on she War.


Fernando Wool, of New York, attended al enter
toinment given by the Peace Democrats OF Bergen
County, New York, on the "A b ult,, and made
speech, which possesses the Importance only of showing
in advance what will be his and that Of those
who concar with him in the Congress which meets at
Washington next Monday.
The following were some OF the toasts given On the
occasion:
The State of Ilinos-the star CT hope ia the West.
he State of New Jersey-The only spot of dry
land in the deluge
The County Of Bergeu-The banner county of Dem
ocracy, which hes not had such nondescript War
Democrat within its borders.
STATE Rights-May they lot be forgotten in the de-
lriOus and bloody triumph of State wrongs.
The Abolition for disunion-Let those who
think it is right go it, and those who think 1t is wrong
stay at home
The only possible remedy for secession and the only
hope of the Unon-Peace, mutual concession and ccm.
promise.
" Blessed are the peace makers"-In response to
toast complimentary to himself Mr.. Wood spoke as fol-
lows:
Whatever may be the secret Of or avowed grounds
on which prosecution of this is urged rest
ed my friends, it leads to result that will engulf all
alike in mae strom of destruction. / care
not whether be prosecuted for patriotic purposes
aot the objects of men or of the Government are
nothing view of the fact that the effect tendency and
catastrophe will OF necessity be fatally disastrous 1t
is folly to pirate Of motives, however high and en-
nobing they may Ostensbly appear when the results
which from those motives destructive and
dehasDg. 1t may be as we'll said that man is just
fed in jumping from eminence, fall from which is
certain break his Deck because he did not design
doing an injury to himself Whatever his intentions
may have been, he perishes in the act Sol
with this Whether we will or no, its
continued prosecution is certain destruction There is
no such thing rebellion under the institutions upon
which the Government of this country ia founded
Suppose New York chose to secede who dare attempt
TO prevent here? Virginia had the right as New
York War is disunion and disintegration. No man
;rh ic uuhN faVnr
directly indirectly, favors the dissolution OF the
American Union-promotes the establishment OF
centralized despotism and advances the fortunes OF the
most desperate and INSCRIPTIONS knaves that ever
cursed country The advocates of the war may well
be classed as The " evil disposed and the simple
minded" X
The present decisions must subsde Like the French
revolution, the dreadful Of carnage and anatcism
must run its course and have its determination. ALI
civil founded social moral IDEAS have pro-
daced the same exctements, been pregnant with the
popular outbreaks and eliminated as this will
il the downfall and extinction of the party who
advocated them. Rely this. History will repeat
itself in this instance it has in thousand others-
nature has not been changed men are now as IN
the days Of Robesperre and Crom Eel-bloody treach
erous fanatica, selfish and uDpatrotic.
He believed that when the President called for
troops, if only one State Executive with brain and
nerve had done his duty under the Constitution, the
war would have been stopped before now. With loo,
41cr ACAtuoA ~ lob-
ton nor Lincoln would have had courage enough to
urn and lace the fire they would have felt in the rear
1t is the duty of the people to refuse to give
another another dollar fog the purpose of carry
ing on the war A reference made by the speaker to
Dir. Valandigham received with the most bolster
Gus applause.
Ex Gov. Price, of New jersey, followed Wood
He endorsed all the most ultra demonstrations of cop
perbead doctrinsm denunciated by his New York
exampar He believed the only salvation OF the coun-
try lay in the restoration to power of the Democracy
and he was not very scrupuIous to the means by
which the Democracy secured the necessary lease OF
power.
Other speeches were made by G. Chauncy Burr,
Judge Van Loon and others, and letter from on.
j. p. Singleton, CT Illinois, was read.