Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-01-01

We copy in full the New York Wortds ednoflaI OF
Thursday last to which brief auscn has been made IN
the telegraphic column:
Heaven help Us there seems to be no help in man.
The is perishing Hope after hope has vanished
till now the only prospect the very backness OF des
pair.
But how can adjure Heaven for help Was It
not said by the wisest of Pages that there s stupid
lily which battles the gods 2" and is it not pro-
verb among Chris too, that God helps those on
~ who help themselyes?" What right have We to ex-
pt that Infinite Mercy will stay the laws OF the
universe that we and ours may be snafched from the
track to death liz 1t not mpious presumption TO I'M
agine that the Eternal Reason which has ordained
and effect will abdicate to suit the folly that now
governs Us
And yet it is terrible spectacle ship the gran
dest that sailed the tide of me freighted with in
teress for The passing all calculations end beyond
all price, the marvel and the glory of the whole world
say it is terrible spectacle this peerless
argosy in the hands of chattering idiots, and blind
blundering imbeciles driving straight on upon the
breakers and 9ucksands while the crew, the stouest
and the most faithful that trod deck are compelled
to look passvey aud in sheer helpessness, await
the all engni phing fate
Don call Il ia extrayaeant language 1t is not ex
tEavagan It but eebIy expresses the dreadful reality
Here reeing back from the third campaign upon
Richmond Fifteen thousand OF the grand army sacri
fcs at one swoop, and the rect escaping only by q
hairs BREADTH ard all for what? For the same old
accurssd trio of fmbeci}es WashiBgt Hal
leck and Stanton. Ths rebel heights Eiurderous,
might have been carried without blow had the pom
bridges been delivered the time promised by the
imbecles at Washington. 10 the face OF thes,upen-
deus work which the er envy was able accomplish by
of that failure, Burnside would have never made
the attack, he did, had he not in spite Of bis mos
pressing protests been peremptory ordered 10 cross the
river and storm those heights then and there, by the
mn at Washisgton. that is be true record Not all
| tie ming ali tbe impudence of W hte House
| funkeys, change that record iota. Like the
fatal plumbers that preceded 1t, it has gone unaefaby
! into history.
Alas, for country! Given over, it would seem,
to the most ignobe fate that befel a couutry-
WIRE ck d by imoecee Time was, We have read, when
an incompetent ruler Was not permitted among men
Ii he could not wcud grid himself no to the task
required of hiu he bad to give way, end often very
swiftly, too, TO The whom God made 10 command
This canuot be now. The people have named the one
to hold the helm of State for tour years, sunshine
CT come storm. We must abide bin he is. ard idd
in bis drolery what solace we can. And yet 1t is
pity that he cannot be Induced to call 10 proper helpers
Why. look t'r moment.
There stands his Secretary OF War, upstaEt Ill
pun'c life, with neither knowledge experience yet
full OF pTetens0n ard impa eDca, alike puzzlebeaded
and pragmaticaf his movements bafDg all cacua! ion
and forfeiture now pitching loyal into Fort
Lafayette, aud now runoiug muck OF Generals n the
d III h!atherskltes and biunderer mil chlet-makel
and plot from the beginning. There stands the
Secretary of the Navy venerable in years, gentle at
heart, mild IN Manners admirably qualified to do The
needtn tor boarding school in
Murm ring streams shad 3D. and sBrtngng overs,
LuEee, aarefs seas OF max, and SHIPS Of amber;
but as ID his capacity TO do tie needful in these dread
times on the broad oceango read it in the flaming
tracks OF the Sumter and the Alabama. There stands,
too, the Secretary of the Treasury up to mis- eyes in
Tired 'emabe paper and yet without knack enough to
furnish even green backs for the monthly pay OF
the soidters though the consequence be violation OF
the public faith pledged them, The untold suffering oil
their families at 1me ard heit deDora Zation and
desertion 10 degree ncacuabIy damaging to The ma
tionai cause There too, stands the man who calls him
self Genera-lo-Chief lie Presidents chosen military
and adviser, whose strategy in his dis
patching the Backs expedition to fexas when every
principle G: common required it TO bear Rich
mond whose ousInss habits Illustrated IN his for
getting the pontoons though he had expressly prohibi
ted them, who's judgment is shown by bis persis
isn't order 10 storm Fredericksburg heights il spite Of
the conclusive reasons of Gen Burnside agaiDst it.
| How can tie country be saved with such men 10
charge oil IL dsstiny? Human reason gropes in vain
for ans" But is there any prospect of change
| How can it come? The President is bindy and OF
siDatey confident in those OF public opinion be
takes heed. In fact, be knows nothing of it as it
really exists for it is notorious that he reads little
OF misrepresentation the only true index of public
opnion-as the child unborn. His notions of the pop
ular feeling are ade mainly from the representations
OF the Interested cotere about him, and the fugitive
statements of the few visitors who quiet his estng
tongue long enough to get his serious Of course
notions thuk gained nxel crude, and wortbl SO.
What then !? Must the nation surely perish? Is
| there no remedy against all this inca yacy? We
vsuch fer nothing. The at best is deplorab!e-
Bat We convinced that if there is any chance what
ever it lies with the Generals in the field. There is this
one thing observable the further off from Washington
the more successful are our military operations has
bten so uninterrupttdy from the beginning This can
be due to ohOg else than to the greater freedom en-
joyed by distant Generals from Washington dictation
Let our Eastern sIenerals longer submit to this
rbe disadvantage. II worthy Of their position all,
they have right to manage their prescribed campaigns
| in accordance with their Judgment No man,
however competent, away from the actual field of ope-
ratons, nelligently order them when and bow to
give hatlenhnitely such men now presume to d.
= ct IN asdingon. We say, theo, to those Generals
insist upon cote blanche in aspect to field operations
aud, when IL is once gwen if it is nrnged resign on
| the spot McCeIan did wei! in requiring such per-
NIT but he did not do well in suffering be- con-
santiy ov ridden Burnside, 10 like manner did well
in ex2ctng the solemn pledge before be took com.
mand bat ne did not do well n quietly submitting
when, two days afterwards its systematic violation BE-
gan. Our commanding Generals cannot act too reso
Ia ely or too promptly uader bghhanded breaches
OF faith Let them heDcaforh ba true to themselves
The people know that they have military right un-
divided command and that the salvation of the country
depends On their exercising it, 1t would not take
than ooe resignation produced directly and distinctly
oy the disregard of this right and necessity-we say it
would not take more than such resignation
tempest that would brighten the Cunderheads at
y" ashlDgton into some improvement of their ways
IHz --LATEST - JOKE" FROM L1NcoLN-A story il
in circulation at the North, and is now quite current
here, OF the dgoied reception recently given by the
President OF the United States to English nobleman
OF high birth, which ls another illustration of the ex-
traordlnary brlliHucy OF Lncolns mind The MARQUIS
OF harrington, sou OF the Duke of Deyonshire and
for