Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-06-04
From the London Times, April Is.

robbed and burned, and the inmates driven
! of. Yours, j. NJ E.
From the London Times, April 49,
The Desponsms"ts W sh'ngtoD-A British View orTs
The old curse of America is upon her; the
evil spirit has returned with other spirits to his
old haunt Mr.. Lincoln has held the Presidency OF The
United States for two miserable and disastrous years.
1t is unnecessary to date upon the results OF bis Ad-
mnisratiou. 1t has destroyed vast o. property
and happiness and scattered to the winds the best hopes
of the American people. Of how many States may it
be said with truth that Mr. Lincoln has found them
garden and left them desert; Of how many fourishing
institutions that he found them reality, and has made
them bat name; OF how many families that be found
them united and prosperous while they now decl-
mated by wa, and divided by factions The exchequer
of America full and is empty; her credit high,
aud it is all but extinct the evil Of today is regarded
by those who foresee and calculate the future
altogether light and endurabe, compared with the
disasters that ore looked for from to In little
than eighteen months from this time the pe0pe OF
the North, orof whatever portion Of the United States
may still be under the Federal Government, will be
called upon to elect another President. 1t s long
while to look forward to- especially in the present state
of things but the stake to be played for vast and no
of securing it must be neglected. The repubi
majority in Congress have before separating, done
everything their power to another quadrennial
period of Office. These reckless deserve foremost
place among the representatives of the people who ave
from time to time made themselves notorious in the
history of the world by surrenderng the liberties of
There is hardly right secured by the Constitution to
the States individuals which the late Congress of
the L. S. have not invaded, principle of freedom
which they have not trampled under foot. The Office
of President plain and republican as it came from the
hands of the founders Of the federation hardly recog
nizable beneath the of powers with which it is
OVERLAND The first citizen of the Republic the servant
of the people, the head of Executive, exercising
tain few and early defined powers, has become by the
treason of legislature exercising functions which law
had limited with equal to that with which it limit
ed its owD the most absolute autoorat on earth.
Yet it is feared that all this power and all this vo
leuce may be unable to perpetuate ITSELF and time has
been found, IN the midst OF civil war, to get up
organization evidently created for eectoneeriDg pur-
poses. The word has been passed say little the
abortive proclamation of the President the enamel
patton OF the negroes, and to get up meetings every
where in favor of loyalty and oil the preservation of the
Union This movement does not appear to have been
crowned with any particularly brilliant success, and
s succeeded by measure so desperate and dan
gerous that we, who have expected much from
Mr.. Lincoln, confess that stand aghast at bis reck
lessness and hardbood. The last resources of MIR. Lin
coin has been to turn the Of every regiment
into debating society, and it's soldiers into miniature
constituencies. The papers from America full of
addresses agreed to by meetings of regiments presided
over by their cOlones with captain and chaplain for
secretaries
The regiments from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Connecticut have taken the lead in these political
i(estatons. Their addressesl have suspicious likeness
to eaCh ouer lucy are aiI MANIFESTATIONS VI FoIeht
republican opinion. They assert views avo rabe to the
continuance of the war, and denounce not mistaken
friends, but enemies, much detesed than the
souherners themselves, those among their fellow ct
who have presumed to think talk Of peace
These military logicans will tolerate difference of
opinion. We that is not with them aud he that is
against them is to their language, helish dia
boica and worthy of death. Such language deserves
attention when it is held by who may at any mo-
ment become the excutioner of their sentence
Henceforth there is but one opinion in America and
no distinction is to be observed between the man wbo
counsels peace and the who actively carries 90
war. The dungeons OF the State and the sword of the
army equally ready for both.