Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1865-02-02
From the Augusta Register.
RECRUITING AT THE NORTH.


We have long since abandoned tue failacy that npy
political disruption any financial crash Mt the North
would be brought about 30 to operate IN our favor
We have rega ded those who expressed such belief as
trusting their hopes upon an imaginary basis.
We Dust bepe for something eis3. Our opinion hos
been hpt when the war was once actually brUdgh
nome to the popie of the North, when msed foreign
ers and Africans could no longer be found to repensh
their depleted ranks hep and not till tben would they
begin to vince under the burden of the war;
The North will stand it to zee her produce
taken from their tarms her merchants from their
houses snd her mechanics from their work shops and
when the time arrives when she cannot carry on the
war without enlisng these portions of her population,
then she would cry out against the Oppressive weight of
the war, and seek for surcease from it by The most
speedy practical means.
We have been somewhat confirmed in this opinion
by Mr. Polard's Ten Months Observation in the
naeny's Country" which h@ been recently published
in the Richmond Eramsnsr We extract tom that
article:
Mr.. Pollard, says:
The writer was in the North during the great ext
gency OF recruiting their armies after Grants butche
~ OF the old Potomac veterans and the vast expenditure
OF Yankee life in last summers campaign. The sy--
tenn OF Yankee recruiting was then, as he saw it,
debased downright 10 the eXpedent of foreign enlist
ment and the arming of the negro 1t is these means
scar cely anything mere than these-Whch is to-day
recruiting the armies of the enemy. heir whole sys
tenn OF recruiting has passed to this Wreched Shift and
beyond the short life of such military expedent the
South las little nothing to fear 1t is positively
known to the writer that Grant is now recruiting al
most exclusively with negro troops and his best i'm
presslons derived from observatop are at at least
hreefourths OF the army of the James are composed
OF negro troops and that in the force lately commanded
by General Butler there was but one white corps.
Ii Is not asserting too much to say that the North
is at this time practically more pinched for the want
OF arms bearing men than is the Confederacy. The
writer Las not caught loose assertions or idle ru-
mors. The information comes from general officer in
the Yankee armies around Richmond, that the half
million draft yielded not than seventy thousand
elective soldiers. 1t patched up with infamous
frauds and absurd communications" to cencilae the
opposition IN the Presidential election of last NoVcm
Der. In that election the vote Of all the Yankee ar
mics around Richmond was eighteen thousand, that
being the proportion OF retive born and naturaliz2d
citizens Of the Uoited States, in the combined hosts OF
Ulysses Grant and Benjamin Franklin Butler.
It is under the pressure Of the practical want of
arms bearing men, and in view of the fatal conclusion
o. actual conscrption that the question has become
uppemost in the Northern mind how long the South
can endure the neceesi les OF the This simple
question of endurance has entirely superseded all other
foreign interterences political revolutions etc. and is
all Northern VINO discern the signs OF the times.
the practical test that is to determine the destiny
CT the South The writer is fully assured that all in
telgent men of the North, including even leading
Black Republicans who have not hesitated to confess
themselves, agreed that the North will stand
an actual conscption and that if the is pushed to
hat point by unflgging resolution, and unoroken en-
durance the part Of the South it is just there that it
will break down by the weight OF insuferable bur
den put upon one of the belligerents."