Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-03-19

From 2. F. Pescud Chairman Of the RalSigh Relief
Committee, bill Of receipts .........,.....sl74 o.
Mr. VIM. r.. Utley. 100 Oh
Mrs. Ann E. Chids, by the hands Of j. L. Holmes,
Esq.. 90 q
Mr. Jacob Lyon % Oh
P. ". FANNIEG,
March 18th Secretary.
PEACE BETWEEN THE SECTIONS, Or WAR
TO THE WORLD.
From the advanced sheets of DeBow's Review MercI
and April, 1868.
SIR: You invite ME to resume the p n If Python
The times demand it, and yield to your request The
fact of revolutions has attended the proptatc forehod
ngs of the Fast, and has followed upon the he'd;
OF prediction. TIE public mind having grown corrupt
and Irrational the restoration of virtue and rra-cr
claimed its usual baptism of blood Under Re Goa
trolling influences of Gods moral dspensitiOn it WAS
necessary that the great American government soud
be redeemed from lis departures from principle and
that American society should be purged of its oznyes
But the reTibutive justice OF the Almighty being now
sas d. the people, regeDerated ard disenthrae may
again SEEK repOse. Tie fratrcidal strife should cease
III passion continues longer en- hrUned in tie temp OF
the human heart untold agOnes follow TO the sec
Ons, aud be suarancs OF the nations will involve Il em
ia the The handwriting is upon the wall decar,
ing peace between the Orth and the South W3r to
the world
How stands the question What now is tie sta US,
not only as among ourselves, but affecting European
powers.
tive quantity in Ma. hema aical problem around which
all other elements in the calculation revove The
North, and the nations OF Europe, be viewed in
reference to the South, and not the reverse What
then in the First place is the present political attitude
Of the North in respect TO the South and the affecting
the question Of peace and war! Parties the North
are no longer Democratic and Black Republican, but
have beccme, as amoOg themselves, purely sectional
OF these three have entered the teId-tbe North vest
crn. the Middle and the Eastern.
TIE States attached to each of these divisions are on
Grated upon by the war, differently and unequar and
the conclusion OF the war; witt without the subiUga.
ton OF the South, will effect them dissimiIarly.
The b:nehts and advantages ct the " lr are chiefly
with the New Eogard States. They feel none of its
evils and Only know of It's exis fence as shpbuil!ers
ship owners manuac urers contractors spectators and
employees Every cay OF the adds to their wealth.
and its Indefinite prolonsatien would make New Eng
land the richest country the globe Of eqSal dmen
sions ard population. And should tie S0uh De subiu
gated AID TIE property Of the South be confcated in
payment of the debt incurred by the North during the
war, as has been done by legislation already aud will
be Done practically end thoroughly sh0u dthe event OF
subJugat0n ever take place. all this fabulous wealth Of
New Eng land realized through tie war will become per
manently secured. The party of the New England
States therefore, desire the continued TO the ea6 Of
subugation and confscation, necessarily Involving
emanc alton and the apprentice system of negro labor
which, III itself, involves another pecunary idea with
the purltaDical Fharsees OF the investment OF their
Superabundant MONIES acquired through tie war, in
Southern lands and negro apprentices leading, yet far
Their to the reopenng of the slave trade disguised
the apprentice trade be conducted in NeW England
bottoms to the greater extension Of unbounded W. h
ard con- rolling power ia the government after the
manner set forth by Python in DeBoW'S ReUiew IN
March, 1860, and, afterwards, in the Richmond Wing
IN February, 1862. Never within the memory of man.
has the world known nonied scheme SO gigantic and
well devised as the centralizng aboliti0Gism at New
England, predicated on and the determination of
the South co-equa part of the Union.
With the Middle states, embracing New 7 ork Penn
slYvania, New Jersey and Delaware the benefit and
advantages of the somewhat eGualiz d by its
expenses and disaavanta ges At the same time, that
they gain much they lose much. La these States the
shipping and manufacturing interests also very large
and they too have vast army Of employees and speCu-
lators and contractors growing richer ana richer
through tie But they have to bear Abe blunt and
burthen of the contest with Virginia and her nvincbla
hero son, Robert E. Lee, the abest and most modest
military alive; the prototype Of Washington and
the Inferior, If not Of the name, of the honor, the
fame the estate, and the family OF that great man. In
this contest the drain upon them for and material
has been immense, and finding their balance sheet OF
loss and gain evenly measured not largely figuring
the side OF wealth and power upon the presump-
ton OF the subugation of the South, they are quite
willing to play the game OF quits, and that the war
shall terminate. With them four ideas enter in the con-
sdsraton of the question of the prolongaton of the
war. Firat-New England wants war; and will be sat
iafed with nothing but war. Se2Ond-the South will
fight to determination sooner than ever allie again
with New England. Third-the Northwesl ern States
and the South embraced by the Mississippi river and
its tributaries, aud having great similarity of interests
materially and politically may, at ary moment, unite
aud terminate the upon terms easily arranged and
entirely satisfactory to both, without regard either TO
New England, or the Middle States, and becoming in
their stead, the shipbuders, manufacturers carriers
and factors for the Northwest ard the South 1t is all
6ecHt steel between the humsnitarians of the Middle
States and those Of the New England States, as to
money end moneymaking, and 10 political power in
the government looking to money and moncy-Inaking
without regard to principle, to human life Senator
gler and John Van Buren, fair types CT the
as Banks and the Beast Butler are OF the other.
The Northwestern States occupy different position
n respect to the from either of the other two sec
Ons. The present gain 10 them through the is
nothing, whereas their losses immense The people
OF these States neither ship builders maRufac
turers but agrcuturists and stock rasers The
far from extending, has limited their markets by cutting
of the Southern States from them They do not repose
near the government at Washington, and hence par
ticpste only to limited extent in the monied employ
mens, specuatons and contracts incident to the war
The burthen of the conflict with all the Southern States
of the Mississippi Valley rests upon hem and the drain
of men and Ct material for its maintenance has been
and is enormous. And apart from these facts vast
MAORI OF their people instead of entertaining human
tartan ideas toward the negro, abhor him belonging
to degraded race, and exclude him from sojourn or
settlement among them although liberated from bond
age Those that fly to their military lines are left TO
starve. For what, then do they continue to fight the
| South with such desperate determination? Let the
answer be well weighed. It is because the future vel
fare OF themselves and children is inseparaby blended
with the Mississippi river and its waters 1t is because
they will not consent that the main trunk and mouth
of this river shall DO held exclusively by any power
foreign to themselves Nevertheless they see and feel
that If the against the South be prosecuted to tie
lend in and ol-JH h.