Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-04-07


against secession. These questions more or less
difficult to settle But if We fix minds upon the
only point it is material to weigh namely whether the
independence or the subjugaon OF the South will real
y tend most to that which in this country al have at
heart-the ameeration of the negro-ttle difficulty,
as it appears me- will be found in reaching concIu
sion The history of the world does much TO suggest
one. 1t has generally been found that when In any |
country two races are brought together, OF when one
vastly the superior in force n vgor and intelligence
unless some known relation exists between those two
races, the weaker is exterminated Now, should the
Confederacy be supdued and should recerquest be es
tablshed over all the great territory that lies between
the Gulf OF Mexico and the Potomac, two would
be found so unequal Incompatible, so bere of the
original relation NJ which they had been previously
ented at least to augur the extermhation apd the
disappearance OF the weaker But We are not left
to specuations IT this character 1t happens that this
very day. not many hours ago, letter in a leading
London ne vspaper has reached Manchester from the
other side of the Atlantic which gives the best and
the latest Information this question In that letter
it is pointed out in what manner the invasion by the
North has Influenced the prosptc cts add position OF the
negro.
As fir as | remember, the writer speaking from
what has alen and that recently, under his eyes and
his experience, gives tourft Id division Of that unhap
py class He points 10 those who are the victims OF
i0rcbe enlistment mpeled to take arms, exposed to
thu brnnt of battle 10 cauaa which they datest and
for people who desplse them. tie points to another
class who have gole to the Northwestern States in
Quest of employ ment, and who have not found It, He
points to third class, Who, in quence of an in
fectous disorder which attacks them are m'serabiy
dying in the capital at Washington. He points to
another Gloss who coerced TO labor upon the soil
which has been occupied ard upon the estates which
have been confcated by Northern punderers, and
whose condition. as he points out TO Us, Is lnhntely
worse than that from which they have been wrested
for, of freedom they have gaiutd nothing except the
fact that they longer under shelter that they
no longer cared for; that they ale introduced to
the double evils Of responsibility AID servitude. This
is the latest eye WINES who addresses to the public OF
Great Britain tie f4cis he has observed. But suppos-
lbg him to be mistaken, 6upposng that Improvement
Is atansbe and assuming that great measures ought
to be despaired Of for the welfare of the negro, this,
at least gentlemen, think, may be hszarGed with
safety before any audience who look to the great prnc
pies by which human nature controlled and by which
the world is governed viz that those of i'm
provement must be loyal must be well intentoned,
must be designed fer the good of tie negro and not for
the obstruction OF the planter
Could class of men be found, if the topic OF slave
ry was altogether purged from the discussion, who
would seriously maintain before U.s. that it was just
OR proper to create Poland in America Bur to
create Poland in America Is the object for which
MIR. Lincoln end his colleagues conteEding If bis
policy succeeded If his armies triumphad, If his vice
roys were established, as they hope to be- from the
Gulf of Mexico to the Potomac the gloom OF War
saw would exist not in city but n Mobile Charles
ton, Wilmington, Savannah, 10 Montgomery, Rich,
mond-ln tv ~ capital Of every State which Northern
armies had Possessed and Northern garrisons had
cupied. And what is the gloom OF Warsaw, which
these armits designed to fix the CoDtederacy
can speak of that gloom from late and personal
perience 1t is not like the gloom which sometimes
may hang over this city arising partly from the climate
partly from distress, and from temporary want in
some material Of industry. 1t is gloom which no
breeze of spring can watt away, which DO rays Of
sunshine disperse, which roviving commerce
accelerated Industry, or new supply of capital can
alter. Ii is gloom which must befa population
conscious Of their rights and mindful OF their origin
but held down by foreign occupation OF 20 900 men
gloom OF which no man can walk abroad without
observing dark and melancholy faces where no citizen
can leave his home without meeting patrol, entitled,
according to its ORDERS perhaps its caprices to ar
rest him and where, when he returns to that home
which ought 20 be sanctuary he has to lock forward
to the probability of midnight visitation, more desruc-
tive than the by which his footsteps had been
haunted.
Such gentlemen, is the gloom of w arsaw, aud such
is the gloom which Northern armies have aspired to
perpcuate in territory wide than bali dozen
Polands. l. therefore, come back to the position 10
which have ventured to alude-tha if once you con-
tend successfully with ayour advesaries upon slavery
no further question exist and all CLASSES in Great
Britain will unite in common wish Tor Northern
peace and Southern independence-s wish that finding
echoes both in Europe and the world will tend to re-
ass the noble objects it aspres to. There is yet
other observation would make. Success cannot, on
u
icct OF preoiction would justly cse his charac
ter for moderation and for jadment if be ventured TO
predict with confidence the issue Of the struggle. It
me, however, that whatever tDat Issue may be-
this association will not be wholly unrewarded.
Should the issue be that for which you are contend
ing the reward is evident and ample but should it not
the destiny of those who are assembled here to see
what they desire, this reflection may console them
They will have done something to assist the Southern
President in the abors and the by which he is
ppco nd MOI If reHa0 tiC0n
in my opinion, glance at the daily life of Mr.. Davis
without sentiment which even passes admiration. II
an independent and despotc power had been granted
to him. such great men apt to claim under such
circumstances-stll, to keep the mind engaged upon
every part OF almost ntermDabe frontier to divine
the plans of Government whose movement it is diff
cult to calculate to prepare for every possible event. to
picture each imaginable difficulty plan campaigns
upon territory extensive and under circumstances
unprecedented, would tax the v4y highest
reach OF military genius. Bat this is not the
whole of the barthen that 6cyoiycs upon Mr.
Davis. This task he is called upon TO perform, while
at the same time he is accountable to representative
assembly, to senate and to cabinet. But even that
not the limit of bis trials He has to face these diff
fculties to at these results, with free press to
crticise, to CONTROL to reprmand him sometimes to
be eated by Success sometimes TO be depre sed unday
by reverses and sometimes to reveal to distant armies
much which in his opinion it would be more judcious
to conceal from them. The liberty of that press be
has not attempted to control wished to over
ride. And yet to meet this threefod trial might we'll
exhaust the wisdom OF ruler, the resources of gene
raj, and the temper OF angel. Come what may, gen
emen you cannot De deprived of the reflection that
IN your day according to your power although divided
from him by the ocean, you have done something to
uphold one OF the bravest and the noblest minds which
Providence has formed in of the loeet and hardest
enterprises with which the fortunes of the world have
ever been identified.
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