Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-23
The London Tnfi-x.


We have the ILdex " of March IL The Paris
correspondent OF that paper speaking OF tie appar Mt
indifference of the French Government to Nr Stewards
last and most impudent despatch says:
Mr. Lincoln and bis associates refused to see lbc
meaning which was obvious to cvety one out OF his
Cabinet that read the French despa ches. 1t is pro-
baby prevent any possibility of any further appre
henson Of this kind that the Imperial Government has
caused to be inserted in the Monileur," in the shape
ola letter from NV York, statement of its views of
the state of .f1rs throughout the length and breadth
of the North. Though not strictly an official docu
men the insertion OF that letter in prominent part of
the MOniteur the nature of its contents and the sig
nfcance OF its tone invest it with all the Importance
OF state paper. 1t is not usu4 for the French official
print to treat with such scant ceremony the
OF country with which France is, will not say on
friendly terms, but at peace Hear how.the Moni-
teur describes MIR. Lncons last convulsive effort to
raise an army
That State which has successfully called under
arms first, 10000, then 100000 then 100000 vClun-
teets, spent several thousand millions OF dollars as pre-
NUNS tor enlistment and res0rted to 'draughting as
last resource, should after war of only two years du
ration, be at loss for men to continue the s uggle s
extraordinary and abnormal fact-yet that such is
the fact is proclaimed by ss authority than the
United States Senate ITSELF"
The writer then gives outline of the last extra
ordinary measure by which the Federal Congress has
actually contrived to surpess itself in exciting the de-
rsion aud contempt of civilized nations and proceeds
encountered Washington last autumn? The enemy's
fire. disease, the winter can account for good many
doubt, but the osses heavy they may be- are
of all proportion and state of things which requires
such extraordinary effort. 1t can only be
for by the fact which the Democratic party
have already proclaimed and which the Abolitionsts
sturdly deny sf course but which the measures they
compelled TO show to be true, yiz that
the soldiers lat east) quite tired of the war as
the citizens themselves
TIE "Mouitor" proceeds to den onstrate the correct
Of the concuslors it has arrived at by arguments
which Messrs. Lincoln Seward g. CO., will, no doubt
think eefingthe official print seems to be strangely
fogetful of the fact that those high aud mighty seg
nors cannot with any regard for truth call them grave
and reverend hold it treason to doubt their use dlrn
"If the soldiers not weary OF this struggle should
we have beheld tie Army Of the Potomac melting away
without hghtins-that immense agglomeration of men ,
to form WHICH the United States had devoted the
best of their blood and treasure? Letters from officers
have described the perpetual flow of deserton, mixed
with outbreaks OF mutiDy which paray in their hands
that formidable instrument of war. It's dissolution
which dlscOntent had commenced, wearness completes
The NOnlteur" then goes to give a rapid but
graphic and stikDg sketch of the utter nacton which
prevails in the Federal camps from the banks Of the
Potomac to those of the Mississippi Tom is doing
nothing and Jack is elping Tom. The Federal army
doing nothing, ard the Federal navy is helping the
Federal army
AN immense feeling of hesitation June immense
hesitnion) hoEers over the What they wait.
ing for? Reinforcements? Why, by their own con-
fesson. the Federal Government have not one man al
their disposal The i'd. is ridic0lous-it to be
consider so even at Washington, the white popula
ton is ,summoned e1a mGsse."
With cruel irony the g1oniteur asks if the North are
watlrg Tor another "strategic movement" This is the
unkiDdest cut oil all, aud even the exposure of the
absurdity OF the Yazoo Canal, and the inaction of
Grant in Tennessee and Rosecranz before Vicksburg
"waere his army wasting under the influence of MAS
ma and marsh iever appears good nature itself when
compared with this cruel sarcasm. Surely this should
be sufficient to satisfy Mr.. Seward. In case how
ever, that model OF transatlantic diplomacy should not
think bis last dispatch adequately answered by what
have quoted above, there is to come. He is told
nc longer In the urbane inunendoes of Drouyn de T.
Hugs, but with calling bunness that is all over with
the war, that the soldiers will longer fight because
they feel that it is all up with the Union and that s
hopeless to attempt to restore it because they know
that the South are waging defensive war; net an ag
greseve because they conscious that they are
risking their lives for practical object because in
short the war don't pay"