Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-06-07
81 From the Washington Union.
The PeO4lle-TO the Rescue!

The PcopIe-TO the Rescue!
We have strong sympathy with the South, tor
she stands in the defensive attitude but we feel
deep devotion for the perpetuity OF this glorious
Union We will do all we can to preserve It, IN the
spirit in which it should be maintained and the con-
stitution on the principles in which it was framed
We, therefore, go against all ultraisms at Crisis
when country is so much distracted w are
most anxious to adjust this most alarming conrover-
sy: for we saw over and over again. there serious
cause for alarm There is - danger-imminent dan
ger" as the editor took the liberty of warning the
Tammany Society," and, therefore, we call upon eve
nv good and true man to come to the rescue. Wei
ask the people amid the excitement which surrounds
US what will be the condition of our country if the
present Congress should adjourn without settling
the controversy upon the system of adj ustment pro-
posed by the committee or, if it be left unsettled
according to the feeble and temporzIng plan prOpo
sed by the cabal which rules the White House In
either event, the agitation will be continued; the
different sections of the Union will be more and more
alenated from each other; and the Union itself may
be brought to the very verge of the abyss Both the
South and the North have every motive under Heaven
to conciliate and agree with each other. 1t is one
| common country bone of one bone, and flesh OF
one flesh" Away, then, with those nsidous IN
triguers desperate conspirators Away with those
lunatic fanatics who decry the value of the Union
and who, to crafty their ylndlcve feelings, or their
execrable ambition, would insist upon it, that any
one portion of this country would be happier by it.
self than associated with the others We consider
dissolution of the Union of the greatest ca
lamities which could befall the human race-as
ces.arily calculated to provoke civil war; and to
drench the fields of Maryland and Virginia In the
blood of their citzens-and destroying for CEN
fury to the progress of liberty among the OPP
pressed people of the eastern world But yet there
is danger of this terrible catastrophe being brought
about. Let not our brethren of the North believe
there is such danger Let them be assured by one
who knows the South, but who prides himself in be-
ing an American, that there is point of endurance
Il. hnnon IN
her hearthstones and her homes, beyond which they
cannot be expected to go. With the frankness,
we tell our brethren of the South, that there are
equally bounds to the conclaory spirit of the North
They must respect the feelings of each other They
must preserve that noble and magnanimous spirit OF
Cancellation which they formed this glorious con-
federacy of sovereign States. Neither can expect
everything-all must yield something And is it
possible that they should be so blind to their in
terests as not to agree upon some honorable scheme
of adjusting this most unfortunate quarrel! Are
men so completely absorbed by their own passions,
their own ambition their ultra views of proprie
ty as to sacrifice their country to such cOnsidera-
tons And how is this question to be settled Mr.
Burt says: Is have long since, attery and forerer
deSpaired of obtaining even the Missouri compromise
= which denounced by the South when it was
made thirty years ago, as craven submission to tho
: North,' Shall then adopt the Presidents plat
form, the basis of iustmcnt from the committee
: Let tell that the South gets advantage
by the last the slang of the ultras Here We
have been distracted for three years by the Wilmo
Proviso. The South has struggled against it Will
s all her energies, and she has repeatedly declared
!, that she will consent to this infamous mposi
ton Is it nothing, then, that organize the ter
g. ritorial governments of Utah and New Mexico with
" out this Provso and PROSTATE that monster in tn
C. dust Is it nothing that the South obtains NOR
n efficient and stringent remedies for another evil
,e which she justly detention of fugtiy
10 slaves! Our ultra southerners shut their eyes
these advantages. They also take no account of tn
recognition of the rights of Texas, and the remove
of all quarrel between her and New Mexico: The
Ne do not sufficiently appreciate the benefits of givn
TO peace to country but they dwell upon Califo
TT MIA, and the manner of her admission There
Gu great force in these complaints; and if it nc
to give peace to the whole Union, should be mo-
unwilling for California. But in what
g predcament will the South stand if the c0mpromis
II be rejected Does she then exclude California, whe
~ there is decided majority in both houses for it
40 and when she gets equivalent for it in the ado
q" ton Of territorial governments without the Wilm
40 Proviso! And will not even these two Terrtori
u be prompted to offer State constitutions to Congre
~ upon the same principle as California has acted