Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-02-12

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attachment their General officers has kept steadily in
creahng the composite ranks the dstrust and
cepsons have BEEN Of as steady growth and the
sequence apparent in the fighting qualities Of the two
sections.
JACKSON AND LoNasTREBT.
Sitting in camp, surrounded by thousands of these men,
tempted ask the meaning Of the sudden and dis
tant following which occasionally heard to break out
is either General Jackson or rabbit appears that
whenever rabbit is started in the woods by few saers
and winch rings through the woods for mile around Ii
true that the appearance of other General than stone
about General Longstreet though less demonstratye
certainly not less deep seated.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Aid and Comfort the Enemy.
We have had occasion lately to expose the injury
being done the cause of Confederate independence by
the course pursued by the socaled conservatives of
n Orth Carolina. The defeat of the Ten Regiment Bill
has recovered that State from the odium that would
have attached to it had that impoitc measure been
adopted We should have dismissed the subject when
the defeat of that bill had settled the fact that North
Carolina not to be dragged by the so-caled con-
servatiVes into seeming opposition to the Con
derate Government, but our attention has been called
to the Baltimore American OF January 3lst, which
parades extracts from the Raleigh Standard to
courage the Federal Government in the hope that the
people of North Carolina still entertains feelings OF al
legiance to the United States.
Wequote the following:
The RICHMOND UsURPAT1oN GETTING APPRECIATED.
We last issue amongst the lite ms the
fierce denunciatons of the Raleigh Standard" applied
to the rebel authorities at Richmond and when we con.
sider in connection with these sentiments of leading
journal published in the Capital OF Moth Carolina the
views little less to the principal conspra
plain that the Old North State anything but satisfied in
her ALLIANCE with s single bitter in the
of dissatisfaction, of angry disgust than which nothing
tary despotism Established at Richmond Their motto
vas divide and destroy and their motto now Is conso
date, rule or ruin
The people of North Carolina can see from the above
extract how their patriotism has been belied their
BILE efforts msrepresented and how the course pursued
by the Raleigh 'Standard has been an Invitation to
Mr. Lincoln send forces into North Carolina, under
the hope held out by thesStandard that sympathizers
would rise up meet the cold Government and aid it
overthrow the Richmond conspirators". The inva-
sion of North Carolnaswas regarded invited by "a
leading journal published 10 The capital of North Caro-
iDa and of course understood to represent some por-
ton Of the people, and from its outspoken and bold Ian
guage believed to speak the sentiments of the dominant
party in that State.
The American further quotes the STANDARD -
Richmond conspiraols albeit in coarse terms they
abored break down the old Government because they
carcass upon which vutures settled although
nothing really new the acknowledgment is worth much
this uncture confirming the belief always entertain
ed that despite miserable pretext was mere
volt to gain power.
Are the people of North Carolina content to have
ways entertained that despite every miserable pretext
il was revolt to gain power" And yet the mis-
representations of the Standard place the people OF
North Carolina nthst category and they are held up
by the" American as dissatisfied with the Rich
mond Consprators." Is it to be wondered at that
North Carolina should be invaded when such represen
tations are made to the United States Government
the Raleigh Standard " quoted authority? 1t
was most natural for Mr.. Lincoln to seek to develop
the Union feeling supposed to exist in North Carolina,
epdvp which the STANDARD /" regarded rPOreSent
ing. The thin veil of the pretended support yielded
by the Standard " to the Confederate Government,
was easily seen through at Washington its complaints,
persisted in for long time, and it's abuse Of
members of the Cabinet at Richmond received by
the Government at Washington however they may have
been intended, evidence of real hostility to the
Richmond Cabinet and latent sympathy with the eff
forts of the W ashington Government.
The American - concludes its articles fol-
lows:
And now, have, result Of the experiment SO far
from a G the po
ing tyranny they have fastened upon themselves one
an toq 1o more bc teT Is ne
cape the old Government, whose rule has been
sway Wellmay they regret the evil and deprecate the
has home their interests Constrained to
never really wronged them driven to calculate little
the institution has gained for which their leaders declare
penitence let them endeavor to put upon what
face they may Although we know that they are measure
that nave G0ed
establishing it is good sign to them recognizing at
last such is good sign that with the old Government
s1 ng oes they will be S0" TO ed
Are the people Of North Carolina content to see
themselves represented by the American" on the
faith of extracts from the Standard" and the pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons on the Ten Regi-
ment BILL as of the States vctimised by the en-
deavor for Confederate nationality? Are they will
ing to see their Government denounced by the Amer
can " as thousand told more absolute, more exact
ing more unbearabe than the despised concern from
which their brave have so far, rescued them
And yet the American - has received from the
!" Standard the aid and comfort " necessary to
enable it to hold up Southern newspaper as the au
thor and chief complainant of all the abuses charged
upon the Government of the Confederate States The
curses" of the Standard against the Confederate
kGovermment have come home to rOOst, attended by
the army of the United States The Standard "
having held out hopes that there widespread dis
satisfaction with the Government at Richmond exist
ing throughout North Carolina, has induced the Lin
coin Government to take step further in simple
retrocnation and concludes that that dissatisfaction
was real sympathy with the {" old government" The
people of North Carolina must settle with the invaders
by arms but the chief invader is to be found IN the
office of the Raleigh Standard"
CAMP ANECDoTE-A correspondent Of the Eutaw
Whig and Observer writes thus from Fredericksburg
young stout, hale, hearty young man in s. G.
regiment went to Gen. Lee few days ago, for the pur
pose of getting furlough, when the following amusing
incident took place:
der '' ' ' ~ ~ ~ " p V ~
ISoldier1 (Saluting the GeneraT | do, sir
Gen. Lee. Assume the position of soldier.
want to if you execute two three orders as
give them
soldier.l (squaring himself, facing the General,
putting his heels together am in the position OF