Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-09-22
Atlanta and WILMINGTON.


In the hands Of its present incumbent
Atlanta and W,laiDgto".
We place these two OF towns in jux aposilion
og one reason That reason We shall try to give
Atlanta has been tsken Wilmington is threatened
Newspaper correspondents, with few exceptions, the
most fppant and the most useless of men-we mean tie
Professionalism editors Also say that serv5s
Atlanta right. They say it mere nest Of specu-
latore, ETC., etc
These aame gentry would say the same thing about
/ Wilmington, should Wilmington fall into the ha1d5 OF
the enemy totally fogettul of the fact that the perma
nett Wimingtonians, those whose industry has built
up every house In the place. in very few Instances
specuators II that thing has been done here it has
been mainly by people who hardly own domiclle here
The same thing We suppose, waz the case In Atlanta
| Bat suppose Wilmington liz taken, or even seriously
threatened to be the losers? The people who
have here simply for trade will scent the battle
atar of and they will say, ha ha They will be gone,
for tie simple reason that they will longer have
interest in staying. The permanent citizens OF Will
mingon the people by whose life labor this town, such
as it is, has been built up and made place, they must
hear the loss-theY must leave their homes. The
and the Children the widows and the orphans true
Corfederates, true North Carolniana, they will be tie
people to suffer.
Atlanta lad good and trss men and and
children just as Wilmington has. They, We suppose,
owned Atlanta as they own Wilmington. Is the good
town to be condemned for account OF parties who
dc not own it Of men who, matter bow good they
may be, and We have no doubt there many clever
and worthy ia their vaaks-sti!l constitute mainly
that speculative element against which so much has
been said
We know n0thtrg personally about Atlanta Wei
think we know something about Wilmington, add the
SUN OF thst knowledge enables US to say this ii VIII
ngton is takea, its temporary blockade running re
si,ents vii. have been shrewd enough to save them
selV,s and We don't hame them. What will pass to
IL: eolmy will rs the inheritance Of families, the &C
cum2aton OF years OF labor, the support OF old age, OF
wildwood, Or OF orpbanage, and we suppose, these
fppau gentlemen Of the press, editors and correspond
eats viii saY-"5erved Wilmington right u |
DIsCtPLINE.~ S0meh1T we Can hardly avoid The i'm
preston that tie greas difference between the army OF
Virginia and that Of Tennessee IS ia its discipline. Il
a DotCticus that army, while falling back from
Dalton, more dreaded by the inhabitants than
the army CT SHERMAs The soldiers, and even the
iii eTF, took everything that come in their way, giving
tbe excuse that If they did not, the enemy would
Subsequently straggers from army almost
szcked the st2rss N Atienta Now, complaints loud
AID dep up from that portion Of Georgia il the
ueighbotbroi Of our army, telling of outrages Commit
ted ~ BtragGhpg squ&Ce of cavalry, and Of insults Of
ere,i he families OF the htss ard patriotic cit-
z:Gs. This sIIaggling-not confined 70 cayalry-this
page, from which, if report speaks truth, officers
rot fee besides lis intrinsic wrong Is wholly sub
yfrsiv3 Of discipline and destructive OF all HOPES e
et|iciency II not checked by master spirit, it
presents gloomy prospect Of disasters to coma.
How different from LEES army, which, even 10
hostile STATE, behaved itself with marked propriety-
How frant eveR from SHERMAks army, which pur-
sued lis stern and ruthless path from Chattanooga with
oat struggling, aid committed outrages simply
matter Of policy, and in obedience to orders License
fatal 70 discipline and to efficiency. Even the mod.
license Of the Maryland campaign ruined the cay
airy Of the army OF the Valley of Virginia. ard il has
done nothing worthy of it's reputation ite real force
since lis return to Virginia.
Without rigid discipline, we may have large num-
Der Of names On the roll of the army, bat compare
lively small number OF actually at the front"-
Without rigid discipline we may have collection of
brave men, but army of soldiers. The Yankees
have not coed as the Gonfederates, but they
have drid them into soldiers aDd moulded them into
armies which we XIV and feel to be formidable. Wei
DO rot read either sricer rules severer laws. Wei
neel simply their enforcement. We need that officers
should 30 their fail duty, add then the men will be ap
10 Go theirs Vacr in the presence of the enemy is
Indispensable part Q; what is required Of officers and
soldiers but it il OILY part, and, to be OF value re-
qQes to be conbincd with other qualities and acquire
ments. It needs military education to see and
know al Ehs. There is nothing professional about it
it is the humbest sort Of sense but for all
that, it might be worthy Of attention than
would appear to have been paid to it, often it has
been urged ha:ore through numbes channeIs aud by
sandIy p2ops-
DEATH UF GENERAL WooDBURY.-We learn upon
undoubted authority, that state nent of the death of
General D. z. WOODBURY. has been recently published
in the Northern papers. He died at Key West, oil
Yellow Fever. He was stationed there in charge oil
the Qualifications that point, and 1t the Dry Tortugap
a Captain WOODBURY., the deceased was formerly |
eli known in " mingtou, where he had residence.
made With Daniel &c Darmd Esq for the delivery OF 500
(pospy 1907 cords OF wood for distribution to the poor
OF tbs town during the coming winter. M GcDa'nid
has taken he CONTRACT a. s. cord less than the o4es
current peCo,
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