Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-10-18
From the Savannah (Ga } Morning News, Oct 10th
A Rational Argument Ia favor of the Union.


1t will be that the writer has just estimate of evils
of disunon especially would affect the commercial pros
psrty of great national emporium, New York. While
he conematcs the utter proraon of the commercial in
eress of that city, which would result from dis
solution of this Union he foresees with equal certainty the
utter mpossiby of its preservation unless the antsavey
of the north desist from their aggression upon the
South There much force in the writer's argument and
it is sincerely to be hoped that will fail due effect
the minds of that large influential intelligent class
of the Northern communities the commercial men, whom
alone our hope abides We have always contended that it
was in the of the commercial interests their
duty to themselves and the country put
les and demagogues of the North Had the independent
commercial press of the great cities attention
class to the necessity of such years ago.
OF dscord would not have presided the debera
of Congress- and the deep seated of discomfort
and enlargement which threaten with disunion
greater evils, would have existed We hope it
not yet too late and that spirit of justice and true
vatism prompted it is by that potent of all argu
ment sefpreservaton, will yet put stop the relentless
crusade which fanatics and demagogues wagng against
the rights of the South and the of
| try.
No after reading the article quoted doubt that
the late action of the South has had powerful agency in
Weakening public opinion at the North steady and
united persistence in the maintenance of
y of obtaining justice and good faith without
which there Is neither security for people How
important then is union and of among
selves and how earnestly should deprcate
those among who seeking by false msrep
resenations of grievances, to divide and distract
people, while they deceive the encourage the
aggressions of our enemies.
The abolition agtaors, says the writer sncer at all
prospects Of dtsuon and tell the South but busters
WILL SUBMIT TO ANY DEGRADAToN This is, indeed the
language of the Aboltonists From whom they derive
their information We from those politicians and
political editors who, actuated by selfish motives
of
ority of the Southern people, under the specous pre-
tence of attachment to the Unon desperately and wcLey
endeaVorng to make political capital, they always have
done out of the question agitang the country Rely
upon the known attachment the people Georgia
Union they hope by making the false issue of union
dunon to their party allegiance the North and
to facou ascendeney here They the who
tell US OF the South that have of dissatisfaction
and that it reasonable to at the outrages
have been perpetrated against whilst they encourage
aggresons OF the North by giving false of u
ct submission TO ANY DEGRADATIoN" They the
who by Pecous arguments suppresson of truth and mis-
representation of facts labor to distract and divide peo-
e and render contemplate in the estimation ruth
less enemies But intelligent and pat; North
well at the South understand these accans
beginning have just estimation their
certify The of the North not ignorant of the
spirit of the South They know as the writer has so truth
fully aid that the fire yet burns that " the Nashville
Convention not over and that if the crusade against
institutions to be resumed cas- the Syracusans
then the friends of the Union may indeed roe
to the country, for it Oo"d be beyond the ocer
man.
/ From the n Y Express
COMMERCE AND D1sUN1oN.-Now that the attempt
has been made at Syracuse to reopen the Compro-
mise Bills to re-agtate the slavery issues and to fan
the flames of Abolition, it becomes u.s. in whose
streets grass would grow if this Union is shattered
to cry aloud and spare not against these Disunionsts
in all their shapes. After ten months struggle in
Congress, in which the strength of the Union has
been tried to its utmost tension, and during which
no business whatsoever could be DONE it is now pro-
posed, at Syracuse and elsewhere, even by Wings,
f. we mourn to say to throw the elementary fire.
brand of Abolition into the District of Columbia to
recognize law higher than the Constitution, to de-
mand the Wilmot Proviso for the new Territories to
the last and to shake and shater the fabric of this
Republic from its top to its bottom, if these things
canDot be done 1t is vain to deny that the concoc
tors of the Syracuse Seward Resolution do not con-
template all that for in thanking one Congressman
especially, and him above all associate members, they
mean that and more, and such meaning all man
kind gives to their resolution.
Grass would grow in our streets we say, if this
Union shattered for what is this city but great
exchange for cotton for rice for tobacco well
for American manufactured goods and for the i'm.
portations from Europe and here to focus the
trade of the North and the South and of all Europe
with which we have intercourse, whereby our com
J. mission merchants, jobbers, importers and
exporters of all classes live and thrive The Soua
ern merchant here to receive the pay for his
products of cotton &C., and the Northern merchs NJ
ii makes his commission out of the double exchang
It The whole prosperity of this great commercial ne
tropois depends upon the Peace Order Stability anG
Perpetuity of this Union The 500 900 human bein
within the sound of the city Hall bell obtain theil
livelihood from the sugar and cotton planter of thu
n Mississippi, the Alabama, the Chattahoochee thu
Santee, &c, who exchanges here the products of hi
soil for the handiwork and headwork of the North
and what an utter suicide it is for such city to nil
on the Abolition torch, and to set on fire so gloriou
n a work!
s. New York now radiates from her ports steamship
for Bremen, for Liverpool for Havre for Charleston
for Savannah, for New Orleans, for Havana, for ia
maiea, for Chagres, for Panama, for Mexico for Sal
IL Francisco and portion of city has become tn
great workshop for the steam marine of all Americ
where artfcers in iron and hewers of wood hay
"a fought out with Britain the supremacy of the ocean
" and demonstrated to the world their victory in tn
r. Collins and Chagres lines of steamers In the mids
I'd OF these gigantic tumphs upon the ocean, and whe
stretching iron arms in all directions to
wards the Interior 1t is cruelty proposed opple
= down from eminence to throttle us at this GU
&c start, and to slaughter our navigation trade an
d. commerce, in the motley cause of Abolition!
es How long is it supposed that the Southern mel
chant will buy goods here-how long will the South
ern planter sell his products here-how long ca
en- Yankee, Ohioan, New Yorker find this mart fo
their products and their Skill if against us and on
State for the sake of politically sustaining the ut
nc worthy course of Senator, we embark our caus
with his, to agtae for the abolition Of slavery In th