Wilmington Journal

"The Wilmington Journal does us gross injustice, (and it is very rarely that we ever receive any thing else at the hands of a press or individual of his party,) by insinuating that we have ever opposed any appropriation of men or money to prosecute the war. We defy the Journal to show any such sentiment in this paper."--Fayetteville Observer.

We will set the Observer right as to our meaning, if he will understand us. We did not say he had opposed "any appropriation of men or money to prosecute the war ;" nor did we intend to insinuate any thing of the kind. What we did say was, that the Observer had probably began to repent of the Mexican preamble, passed by the Federal majority of the late Legislature of N. Carolina, which declared that the President was the cause of the war. We also commended the editor for the independence he exhibited in his remarks, and was in strong hopes that he would not recede from the path of virtue which he had laid down in that short article; and in future would follow that path more strictly than heretofore. But it seems that our friend of the Observer is not disposed to hold on to a good undertaking; for, as soon as he sees others praising him, he immediately abandons his independent position, and falls back into the ranks of the enemy. We regret this, for we really thought Mr. Hale was sincere in what he said.