Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-19
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
Mr. Cell1ounss RcneAIr.. :,

MrV CoihOuns RemAlnss& ISL
The Chairman of tlse committee of Arrangements
has received official information that the Senate
Committee, with Mr.. Calhoun's remains, will leave
Petersburg, Va, in the cars, on Tuesday Evening"
the T1snty-sccvHd Instant, and arrive here on We'd
nesdag werf, the 9soemtg-tbfrd The Committee pro-
pose to remain in Wilmington until four or Ave
O'Clock that afternoon, and then proceed on board
the steamboat to Charleston.
i BSs~We publish tiss week, communication from
our friend, A. o. GRAbY Esq, of Duplin county, up
on the subject of Northern aggression From the
manner in which the writer aiiudes to some remarks
of ours with which we prefced letter of HIS pub
ished In the Journal few weeks since, we are in
clined to fear that we must have failed in giving
preston to the meaning we intended to convey. We
did not say or at least we did not mean to say that
the Union could not be dissolved without revolution
but we did say that division would be regarded as
revolutionary in its character by the great majority of
the people at the North and by many at the South
and consequently we believed peaceable division
practically impossible. We stating what we
thought sooud be, not what should be the case and
ere have seen no reason to change opinion
In answer to the questions about the navigation of
the Mississippi We would remark that it was the
stoppage of our right of deposie at New Orleans in
1902 and the constant fear of collision arising from
the existence of two powers at different points the
banks of the Mississippi, that induced Mr. JErFER-
SON to open the negotiations which resulted in the
acquisition of Louisiana, and the consequent COM
mand of the whole course of the Mississippi to its
Mouth 1t was believed that, had not that acquis-
ton been made, must sooner or later have
ed The st. Lawrence is navigated in common by
the United States and Great Britain, far as it
forms common boundary; but as both
banks included in British territory that freedom
of navigation ceases and American shipping on the
Lakes for want of free navigation of the ST. Law.
renee out to the ocean, is shut up in the ice during
five months in the year. The Rio Grande, where not
a common boundary between the United States and
Mexico is contained altogether within territories
now belonging to the United States.
We confess that we do not like the use of the word
secede If division must come let the South sepa-
rate equal-not sccede as an inferior. We
have already than expressed belief that
contingency may arise, and is indeed, threatened,
which would not only justify, but demand separa-
ton but to say that bring ourselves to re-
gard such contingency in any other light than that
of calamity only preferable to degrading submits
sion, would be saying what is untrue. We would
here add that we heartily agree with our triend Mr.
GRADY, in regarding the wing revenue system as
having tendency to build up the North at the ex-
pense of the South--even more directly than the
the Wiimot provso, and being quite as unjus as
that odous measure but believe the tendency of
the country is to do away with all such things
whiggery included.
AS to General TAYLOR, surely our correspondent
must be forgetful; do not remember when we
have alluded to him as branch of the administra.
ton. We believe he has ceased to be. looked upon
as having any hand in the government -eyen by hi
own party. We hear about the Cabinet some times
Init nnrnr about tho President except when he at
tends cattle show, ploughing match
AS for Mr.. STANLY's chance of being Speaker o
the next Congress- we think it very slim, long q
it remains necessary for the Speaker to be membe
of the House, which Mr.. SrANiY is not likely to b