Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1865-01-26

thu shattered remnant of ihe Revolutionary forces at
Harlem Even pious men took the repeated disasters
and the inserts attending them, proof that Heaven
Itself arrsyed against the strugg e they lived TO
huzza for it @ Cd blessed contest A6x;etv des-
pondency and dread filed all hearts, says the historian
Sickness greatly prevailed and it seemed that Amer
lea must yield from the mere inability to sustain her
army. Ia vain did the dauntess Washinetoa strive tn
reanmate the woeully detected people he was abused
oy the creakers Tor bis pains. be was hopeless;
yet independence was secured and all the croskers
dun bounded.
Misfortune and scarcity so thickep upon ne" crv
the hear vistoned CroaSers, that mpossibtes can
not be overcomeOur rar ks canpot be repenished or
ted, and 50 on" Short sighted creatures! None of
this is trne, and If it wse s there nothing in the les
son we have juat recited, from similar struggle -
Misfortune Was then the order of the day. but The be-
roes who felt it could rise superior to it in spite of all
the croakng which filed the air. And have we mona
such ii our straits great Tue question seems
nsolent and can only be asked OF the croakers What
army OF ours has ever been is ever likely to be as
was w Washingon's when be was fugitive through the
Jerseys? Wnen he wandered, from post to post dis
may and distrust before him, death and disaster behind
him When, at last he could not muster 4 900 men,
and these without ten g. blankets or entrenchng
TOOLS and but imp9rteclg clad and badly fed 2" From
the right bank OF the Hudson &c the left bank OF the
Delaware he was driven In disorder without munitions
OF War, many to usa if he had them and shorn
OF popular confidence That was spectacle for the
croa2ers, and he woe begone mark for their bit
ter reproaches. That was the moment for Ro7al Pro
clamaon, commanding all insurgents to dsband and
all political bodies to renquish their ass lmed auhori-
ty, grating sixty days within which make submis-
sion "-petty mach as Lincoln now does, and with as
much effect the croakers of our day as the Royal
Proclamation those of that time. OF I" it
was all up " then-and yet, Independence
Ihe fearful etate OF currency" cry the croekers
"is enough to oreak the back OF any struggle" Indeed
Why cur currency is sterling compared with that OF the
Revolutionary ers and, yet Independence was wou--
"Yts but they had in those days advantages peculiar
to themseives"-so have we in our days, "Ihey had
Congress composed OF tfe wisest heads and braVest
hearts tbateVer met for county g
may yet prove itsse equal to such praise They had
it is iudted true sympathizng foreign power, which,
betose 1t became an open ally materially aided the
by its loans, gitts supplies OF arms &c. Well have
resources, within ourselves such they knew not and
which are more than set of to all that occasional aid
In the matter of Disadvantage they had little of
which we had not, in like kind. Time numbers and
circumstances alone are altered. They p!ueked Inde-
pendenca from the of ostensiole superiority,
bedged with most formidable obstacles and under the
shade of goom-so shall we.
AS with them so with US, the progress of the war,
aud the extension OF its atrocities but destined to
intensity energy, and bring it to standard worthy Of
the spirit that inspires it. When the Revolutionary
Fathers had passed through their first darkest sorrows
so surprisingly darker than any that our croakers
have yet imagined for us-the true people vert revived
il by magic Then loss after loss but en- larged the
fame of patriotism. What though treason continued
thoug men and officers OF an American army, would
STILL occasionally fly in dsgracefu panc-what though
gallant women found 1t necessary to participate IN the
fght-whst though most exacing impressment laws
became Indispensable account of the Indifference OF
some and the reoseancy of ohers-what though an AR
nod, like Butler avaged the banks of the James,
and British commodores made the fertile valleys OF
all American water courses mere Waste-what
Un1ohisa no8 thep Y9RtlK ore numero4s than the
what though the forces the field oten almost
L kh4 GNRkh md
to the intensest suterng-what though all the chel
Cities or nearly all, were corquered--What though
dense cloud hung the whole horizon and filled even
Washngtons heart with epest Distress" the dVlnl
ty that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we WILL
was nigh ct hand and OF the very debris OF dsas-
tiers Victory was gathered-Independenc secured
The great news from the Jersays, which eliminated
at Yorktown was by fragments OF defeated forcss
by little armies on the very verge OF dissolution Sue
cess being the true elixir OF life, the Wasnlngton Who
10 the shadow of his trials and troubles, denounced
by ali the Croakers Booetian, came, anon, and
suddenly to be hailed as Fabus and Solomon, and
a Saviour. The blaze of finished triumph had the
marvellous effect of consuming all the bemlsnes wnicn
previously conspicuous IN hlm-to the launaiceo
eyes OF Croakers. . ,
Now will our croakers, one and all, take and reflect
on the lessons presented poinedy, by the facts we
have been at the trouble to adduce for them lnese
facts could be readily multiplied ana ora"n ou' non
our ovn history t exactly every feature OF our srug
gle and its varying conditions 10 ut every groove OF
our case in every nstarce. But, we could 90 even
farther off and fare equally well SO far as the lesse rs
of past history applied passing events can guide us
to dispel apprehension. We coaAd even satisfy. the
croakers that an agricultural people are rarely subuga
ted. There certain natural resources which are a
never failing aid to triumphant resistance in their
hands.
Athens could not overcome Sparta, nor could Greece
master Macedon, nor Carthage Rome-nor conld
Great Britain crush her own colonies. No; and all
the inner circumstances that gave victory in thes@
cases Being with u.s. it not in the Book of Fate that
the United States can ever subugae this Conederacy
or rob it of its cherished independence. Croakers go
study the parallels of history, with what PHILOSOPHY
you can, and-be silent.