Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-10-18

District of Columbia for the re-opening of all the
slave issues and for the establishment ofaiaw high
er than the Constitution of our common country
Everything is conspirng to centre mere IN our city
two millions of human beings, and to bring the COM
merce of Asia as well as of Europe and America to
our doors and with our growth will grow our State,
and with it the value of every farm there is In it ;
but if this is to be distracted country-t civil war
is to rage within its borders, if we are to hdnap
caiole every negro we steal from his master-if
this is to be the great harbor of refugee slaves and
the white aborer is to be driven off to give place to
the escaped negro-where now are long lines of
warehouses yielding princely incomes, and where
now are miles Of Ships there soon will be the decay
ed wrecks of fallen Venice and the fallen grandeur
of an Antwerp or Rome. Our very existence, much
more our prosperity, depends not only upon the I'm
ion of these States, but upon good fellowship and
good feeling for and he who breaks this good fell
lowship, and wounds this good feeling is an enemy
and traitor in midst.
We aware that Abolition agltatOrs sheer at all
prospects of dsunion, and tell the South but blus
ters and will submit to any degradation These
agtators, however in the main, of the Peace So
cety men, who will run away at the first flash of
gunpowder after stirring fire they dare not face
encounter. But it is not sowe solemny tell our
people Mark the struggle that is now going on in
Georgia. between the Union and Dsunion, and fear
full struggle it is though the Union is certain to tr
umph because of the past settlement in Congress Of
all really dangerous slavery questions but if they
were unsettled, or if they re-opened, the Sy
racusans propose, may Heaven help country, for
it would be beyond the power of man: Mark, too
the rising contest in Mississippi The Governor,
(Quitman, New York man born) has convoked che
Legislature in extraordinary session, especially for
disunion Nor is the Nashville Convention over
The fire yet burns there. The whole State of South
Carolina administers the fuel State ready and ripe
for revolution, the moment it find another State
for leader In the midst of much ealperil then
it is savage it is criminal to attempt to undo what
Congress has happily done; and if success could
be had in the new agitation,--if we Wings were to
tell all mankind, the Syracuse Resolution would
tell them that Senator Seward fully ard fairly rep
resented us-a long adieu would there be to the
peace and prosperity if not to the very existence of
this Union.
But let the interior of this State do what it may
however it may sway and swing, as it has swung at
times amid the stormy elements that rock it-there
is but for the Wings, and Democrats, too
of this great and patriotic commercial emporium, and
that is, to cling to this Union. We love New York
but we love the Union more. We are New Workers.
to be sure, but we are Americans first If ever our
State swings off, and runs after Abolitonists and
Abolitionism, the steadier and with death-ike
grippe will we cling to and go down and perish with
the Union.