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

The following is the leading editorial article of the
New York NeVs of the 4th CT June. We must con-
fess there some pretty strong language used such
would not have been permitted bg the LINCOLN dynasty
eighteen months ago. Ire Northern press speaks
| freely as ti1aa progressea:
From the New York News, 4th juno, 1884
REV REGIME''-" NEW EATToN."
Are the people mad? Ii the pane CT H:aven, we
ask our fellow counttymen are they mad-has reason
departed from the land? Do ask themselves the
oojec Of this terrible war Why fellow-cizens
are driven to the slaughteTpen like bollocks-why our
rivers are nngcd with bIoOd-our soil saturated with
human gore-our country sounding with the walls of
widowed women and helpless children? We say do
our people ever, ever ask these questions?
We are told the war is to pres Tie Government
10 uphold the majesty of the Constituton-to pre-
serve the Union
What Government What Constitution What
Union
The Government of our fathers, the bypocritcal
offce-holders cay. Never was there more wicked
fasehood Did the Government OF cur fathers demand
the erection of horrid bases the land, in which
ucarcerate free white citizens because of their polt
cal opinions? Did the Government of our fathers de-
mard tue destruction of the liberty OF speech, the free
dom OF the press and liberty of conscence-the great
franchises 1t intended to protect Did that Gov
eminent authorize the assumption of despotc powers
by the agents OF the people order to enslave freq
men? Did our fore fathers ever contemplate by their
military saraps should have and ex 3rcisa unlimited
power and control the lives liberty and property
OF free white ciuzeos-shauld tell freeman how he
should pray-when be should speak--vhat he should
and what he should sayand unless tie obt yed ha
should be maraced like teIop, hurried ino dungeon
shot down like beast Never, never l. is d base
elaIder upon the founders of GoverDment-a tout
hsperslJn upon our encestOrsto say that Thy ever
formed such GUVernm. .ot. Yet these are the Dogers
claimed and exercised by Abraham Lncoln and
his military satraps ,hrUug bout the aDd THESE are
the powers "nlch they ask our eil)wcOuntrymen 10
let them e1ercs9, upon the false statement they
necessary support the GoVerLLaent of cur ath
Ae you mac, that you Will iouger heed such vii
fu misreprt attOus?
" The Const,tu ion OF our fatters' these wicked
and byp0crltIcai Iuers say
YES the tyrant at Washington says be has re
gard-high regard for that ins.rument-and in his
prJuuNcla meutO, issued bis employees il Ken
lucky openly adults that he violated that sacred
Quart OF htertes and Ii is under preelse OF pre-
serving the nation.
The Constitution of our fathers. Yes. Where is
the blessed Instrument? 1t bas been torn tatters
by the rutIl SIS desuoyers 10 power, aud ghreGs
ecornfuIiy tramplcd under foot and spit upon
Why leader oil the party in power NJ Cola
mer, oil Vermont-a6m tied The oner ,iay in the Senate
chamber, that The Constitution was now never men-
tlOutd but III terms OF contempt and dtrsoD. l. has
denounced by the political iriencs OF the Federal
tyrant as Ga covenant win hell" and but a little
while btck en- OF them bossted publicly that it had
been committed to the fins, and that be rtioiced ct
1t.
Away then, with such ie se pretouse as this that
the is c,gred to preserve, pro ect and defend
the CoDstll utcD, when the COmmardern chief Of the
Federal army and navy thus bOastiuiy pIocams that
has violated TIE slered chart, snd his friends are
trampiing il under loot.
For ''he U0ion these same wicked rulers will
say. The UnIop of our Fathers ?"-not at oil A
Union of peace, harmony, ard love? No-tDey scorn-
fully answer. What kind Of ULiop theu are they
fighting for? The answer is written in blood
A Union of hate-a Union of s.rife-a UEion of
discord-a Union pnned together b. swords and bayo
nets-a Union in whcl such men as Phillips, Greeley
& Co. TO be the maste. s-a ULion in which Fede-
raj bayonets, shou der strapped Eants nsero Clover
nors, negro Judges, shoddy lords, AID mlscegenaton
minors are TO rule.
Have not h1ir leaders alcaly proclaimed their pu-
DOSES upon the housetops and 10 the valleys-on the
battle field and ia the cbucchsn their speeches and
in their ne ggpapeIs-- muskets and bayonets, and
all the Dire d implements OF death Is i. lot now ad-
Judged treasonabe BY The mniors of Federal tyranny
70 talk about the restoration of the Union aa it vas
tile Unon of our fathers? Are not men mpris soned
and banshed for daring to utter word in b3ha OF the
Ole Union of States Ha7 rot tie leader of thc FEEDER
al party aunoanc-d the floor of Congress that the old
Union was dead-aead-dead
Yet with shameless rontery these desroyers OF the
old Union-men who for years. long years, have made
it tier business to dnouLce it as an &naoce ~th
the deVi', still e, you, countrymen, that thls war Is
for "Mc Union = and that chief hypocrlte OF all, the
President calls upon the people TO pray Tor the Unlon
What faisehocd ard hypocrisy.
No the war is not for the Government oil our iatb-
ers-it is not tor tie Constitution OF our IL a.hers-lt
not for the Union of our fathers Il is war carried
on to destroy that Government that ConstitutIor-
that Union. 1t is waged to overthrow the Ola
Government, and npon its ruins to erect despotsm
Acts speak louder than words. What means ben