Wilmington journal., 1867-11-22

SOOu TeSlilG III securing ING ouppo1b VI Soh
tlemen in other portions of the State. We
are certain that none of them will touch
the 8 unclean thing; they can possibly
have nothing to do with a party, the only
object of which seems to be to foist upon
the people OF the South unknown strangers
through the ignorance and preiudices of
the negroes. We expect proper denunci-
alton of this base falsehood.
OUR IFASHINGT TON CORRESPON ONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. IS, 1867.
To tie Jow'nN In this age ef rapid
thought, expression and action, when ''one
marked to friend, at Fortress Monroe,
'is more than one hundred gears offormer
ages" the faithful historian of passing
events confers a positive boon upon those
whose means and situation preclude them
from personal knowledge of the same as
| they occur. Readers of newspapers cannot
appreciate too highly the energy, enter
| prise and tact which secures for them at
home and abroad an early transcript of i'm
portant and interesting events and while
it Is hardly within the province of 1t cor
J respondent to make reflections upon, or
draw conclusions from, the news, it is also
true that opinions of his constitute a part
of the news; for, as a general thing. they are
based upon information obtained from men
who share in the direction and control of
| t., Ink ~,
nal the politics of the country will receive
special care and attention. Readers may
rest assured that i'll no case will they be
misled in forming Il correct estimate Of the
power and strength of the great conserva-
| tive organization at the North, and the ex-
tent to which that organization may be
trusted i'll securing to the people of the
South their Just constitutional rights and
their early assumption Of a normal status in
thc Union. In 1017 Canute, King of En-
gland, Denmark and Sweden, was treated
by his Courtiers as if nothing was beyond
his power. At that time he was i'll the zenith
of his glory as ii Monarch. Being at South
ampton one day, he seated himself by the
shore Of the sea when the tide was rising,
and i'll q loud voice commanded the Waves $
to retire He appeared to wait SON e time
for their submission, but as the sea began
to wash him with its waves, he rebuked his
fatterers by observing, "There is only one
Omnipotent Being who can say to the
ocean, Thus far shalt thou go and no far
ther.' " In like manner that maletic spirit,
hitherto the reigning monarch of Radical
ism, has rebuked its followers and fatter
ers. It has taught them that it is not the
absolute master of the American people,
and that the time has come when its intiu-
ence must in a tlrett measure cease.
The most interesting topic of discussion
in Washington to-day, is the great speech
of Lieutenant, General VIM. L. Sherman,
made at st. Louis on the 18th inst In this
speech Gen. Sherman shines i'll the triple
character of politician, legislator and war
rior. In majestic thong ght and utterance it
revives the memory of Webster and Cal
houn in its classical beauty and finish the
silver -tongued Everett and Clay and in it's
practical force and suggestion we are re-
minded of Marcy, Wright and Benton.
Assuming, in this speech, that slavery was
the cause of the war; he fixes q large share
of its responsibility upon both Old and New
England, and says that the "great North,
who shared in the original causes, and en-
ioyed large part of the profits resulting
flom cotton and slave labor, should be
charitable and liberal in the final distribn-
| ton of the natural penalties" He then
quotes DR.. Draper '' Guilty, then, both
of us, in the sight of God let us not vex
each other with mutual elimination, but
! bear our punishment with humility He
| then draws mournful picture of the ruin,
desolation and mourning at the South, and
says s. Now that slavery is gone, he would
trust our national destiny again to those
grand old national laws which raised our
lage of colonization" up to its present po-
sition. He would ?'erire tie SYSTEM achjch
,cds re0ealed IN JuIeu. He entreatcd the
South not to cling to the dead past, and
shut their eyes TO the coming future
presume that at least the political por-
tions of this speech will be generally pub
| lished in Southern journals. 1t breathes
the animating spirit of the friends Of the
South at the North, ond IN u little time ii
may .fod, MromgA Sherman rs The President
Of tie United States, a more forcible express
sion. If a military man is selected as the
Presidential candidate of the Democratic
party, in all human probability Sherman
will be the man. When George Peabody
was in this country, it will be recollected
that he nominated Robert G.. Winthrop, of
Massachusetts, for President. The nomi-
nation has attracted attention, and in inhu-
ential quarters. It would be, to elect him
to that office, long step towards a return
to the "purer and better days of the Re
public"
Ex-senator WALL of New Jersey, is en-
gagged in the preliminary work of holding
a grand Convention in the City of New
York, on the 22d of February next of all
the "late prisoners in the Lincoln Bas-
tiles" In a letter of the 14th inst, ad-
dressed to Frederick A. Aiken. Esq, of this
city, Mr.. Wall says 1.-The main object of
the Convention will be to secure from each
delegate plain and concise narrative Of
his individual case, to be collected in vol |
ume. Next, to lay down platform OF
principles in reference to the true cLarac-
ter of republican form of government
and as to the nature of those absolute rights |
belonging to the citizens, with which no
governments have any right to interfere -
This Convention will be an important |
one. In it some terrible blows will be lev