Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-08-11


on the great question of the day. we need
scarcely say that with some OF its sentiments
we do not by any means concur. We place
il before our readers for the purpose OF shew-
ing them that even amongst those who from
principle are opposed 10 the institution OF sla-
verv, there are those who have the intelll-
gence and manliness to deneunce the mad
schemes of the fanatics OF the North, who are
recklessly endeavoring, by every means in
their power, 10 hasten the breaking up of this
glorious confederation of sovereign States
The Cabotv,Le Mirror is published in Massa-
chusetts. We might as we'll premise another
thing before we drop the pen. If the North
is under the impression that she can heap
contumely and wrong upon the head of the
South because the South is weak and she is
strong, she is much mistaken. We wish the
North would understand that there are many,
very many, men in the Southern States who
think, yea, who know, that dissolution Of
the Union would prove more detrimental to
the North than 10 the South. With these pre-
liminary remarks, we present the article TO
our readers as we find it in the Boston Post.
1t will richly repay perusal:-
We copy the following excellent and elo-
quently written article from the Cabotvile
Mirror There is not an honester advocate OF
IS free soil" in the nation than the Mirror
Boston Post.
/ MADxEss-We have read of two bitter foes
meeting on plat~of ground. beside deep prec-
pitous chasm. They engaged hand TO hand, and
steel to Steel in the strife. One of them at length
feeling that his opponent was getting the better of
him, grapped in and strove to bear his antagonist
to The ground. They struggled, they wrested,
they bent backwards aid forwards. and swayed to
either side. In the ferceness of the strife, they
approached the edge the of cliff. Suddenly, one
of them made mighty effort, and fingipg his
whole weight and strength towards the brink, bore
his foe onward, and in deadly embrace they both
fell crashing, bloody, lfcless down into the abyss
below.
After all the blood and treasure toll and suffer
ing; after all the prayers and watchings, faith and
hope, in which was laid the glorious Union OF
these United States; after all the glorious results
and rich fruition of this Union after all the pow
er, the happiness, the wealth, the prosperity, and
the harmony which have fallen into the laps OF
two nerations, the fruit of that blessed I" Un-
ion" in one general sovereignty of many indepen.
dent States; after all the trumphs of war and Of
20 .ce. which have added glory to glory on the
bright escutcheon of the nation after all the hal.
lowed, and holy, and sublime deeds and events OF
the past, and brig liter, greater, holier visions Of
the future; after all the fond hopes and strong
faith of millions of the oppressed and the down.
trodden in the old world, who have gazed and
watched our rising brightness the glad star O.
v TO- Ill
= have attained position among the nations of the
" earth. such as YVES never reached since the crea
ton, powerful, peaceful harmonious at home
honored abroad, happy and free-now with insane
madness, must stir up the bitter waters of con
tention between the north and south. With sui
" cIda ecklessness, we will urge the crisis
What though can hear the sken cord Of fra
terniy cracking. and see thread after thread part
ing, we wilt not falter. No taunt the hot south
e ron with the black pIague-spot. which he caugh
y from northern cupidty curse him for his misfor
" tunes; jeer him for his prejudices; madden hin
= by your power; twit him of his poverty, and ,her
!. sneerngy dare him to sever the Union.
J.. Oh, it is vastly fine, It's transcendentIy HUMANE
and phianshropic, for US to talk and dcclaim n
i bout slavery to mount the of liberty and rid
e in triumph over one-haf of these peaceful. happ,
T. States. II is high and noble conduct, after lon
series of gross attacks and aggressive movements
> which have compelled the south to stand on tn
j. defensive, then to hold up our hands in pious hor
is ror at the deep depravity Of the SOUTH" and al
a feet to wonder how men can be so wicked. How
lovely. how divine, how becoming in US, after pi
- ling insult and indignity upon the STAKEHOLDER
Is and arousing the fiery spirits of the fervid sou,
is almost to frenzy, to raise our hands and e~es T.
20 Heaven, and give thanks that are not as othe
men are, even as those shareholders yonder Oh
u yes; and at them again. Apply the scourge
e :alk of humanity, and laugh at your brother. H
l. is STAKEHOLDER, and you are not-he is weak an
you arc strong-he is sinner and you are saint
Hedge him in; surround him with high wall
e chain him to rock; laugh at bis struggles boas
of your own strength and riches, and then dar
" him to attempt to secedc from the Union.
Va Such seems to be the chosen course of some G
r our superfne patriots ard philanthropists ut tn
,e north if we may judge by the gusto with whic
is many journals fling all manner of taunts and or
prohrious epithets at the "sIaveocracy" of tn
,e south. 1t is not labor Of love, but one of bite
h hate. Reason is thrown TO the winds kndnes
and fraternal feeling has given place to struggI
- for supremacy. No sympathy is felt for their mis-
IL fortune; no allowance is made for their position
Of consideration for the infirmites of human nj
ir ture; but with whip and spur they dash on upo
IS their southern brothers. This is all noble, hu
- name, and high-mnded, now.
But when they have goaded the south on TO III
m very brink of desperation when, as the legtimat
and inevitable results oftheiro own mad career, the
IL shall hear crashing around them the umbling frae
W ments of our own once glorious and magnificer
ne temple when our land shall be full of petty DOW
ers, rival States and jealous principalities whe
revolutions instructions, and internal wars sha
lay waste the land when vexatiOus tariffs sha
hedge up the commerce of one State with anotl
in er; when brother meets brother in battle whe
es our land becomes, like other lands, the s.ene
ot mIsrue, strife and run-then, perhaps, these ph
k, lanthropc, patriotic human lovers of their kin
e- may brgln to think that there was some reaso
n for the earnest and suppIicatory cry-torbear.
n is pleasant and delightful no,O to rail at those wh
n strive for peace-those who will not pluck out a
'e- eye for the sake of removing a mote which is
n it. You who are Astounding in love 10 all maj
ID kind that you are willing to plunge your countr
,e IN all the horrors of civil aud servile war; 90
be form your northern and your southern parties
ad threaten, bully, and taunt each~olhet; call o
'te those who have the courage andthe independent
art to act for the good Of the whole, in spite of
outward pressure, ''doughfaces;'' yield not hair
/ | bredth-you the advocates of liberty, the o.
he poneI,s of slavery you aLone are right; on vii
the glorious work-and when instead of desro
ing slavery. you sh Ill have destroyed freedom
self-when you shall have overthrown our pre-
of ent government, which contains power in itse
of if carried out in the spirit of its founders tn I'll