Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-06-27
The Approaching Fourth

| The Approaching Fourth
Will probably be the last shall celebrate one OF The
United States; let US do it respectable scale. Let
have general meeting of the people from all parts of thu
District such convocaton needed at this time. To ge
the people to should prepare refreshments some
nature therefore suggest the committee of
ments to take for having dinner the fourth
We clip the foregoing from the second number Of
the Southern Repubiic,' new weekly paper pub
lshed in Camden, South Carolina, by C. AuGUsrU.
PRICE. 1t may be considered fair specimen of the
style INDUCED in by many of the country papers Of
South Carolina, and might be considered ominous
were it not that the we'll ascertained certainty
of there being secession in South Carolina renders
it simply ridiculous The fact is, that whether
the Editor of the Republic chooses to celebrate it
not, it is by means probable that the approach.
ing Fourth will be the last that will find South Car
DINA member of the confederacy. friend whose
recently called him into one of the Districts
OF South Carolina bordering upon this State
us that he was very much surprised by the state of
feeling In the District he visted-Horry He found
no disunionists per Sc, any, even who were dis
posed to secede for anything that has as vet
| red. Another friend who recently passed through
Charleston, was assured by intelligent merchants
than twenty millions of dollars Now, what we
would urge in all Kindness upon the consideration
OF the conductors of the press in sister State
this Whether it is good policy to maintain style
OF talking which very little reflection will show
them the State will not sustain by actual secession
whether it is worth while to drive away capital bv
agitation which at present, at least must prove use
less so far the attainment of the end nronosed ia
concerned while its effect in the future must be pos
lively hurtful, as ahording precedent of threats
without performance, and words without meaning,
so that hereafter no matter how serious the South
or the State of South Carolina may be- nothing but
actual violence will convince the North that she is
IN earnest. There be doubt that the cause of
the South has suffered from the course of some
OF It's ndscreet and others of its pretended friends
than from all its open enemies. When we find men
acting as IooMBs, STEVENS, and CLEMENS did. al
most coming to blows the floor of both houses of
Congress, and afterwards coolly acknowledging that
they only did it for effect we cannot calculate the
injury done to the South The same injury must
result from continuance in the tone of brayodo in
South Carolina after all idea of secession has in fact
passed away
But we have word to say on the other side of the
1~O''AoiA'
serious danger There is deep national feeling in
the hearts OF the American people that shrinks from
the last dread step of disunion as a man does from
suicide There is no sort of necessity for the for
nation of Union parties. None in the world vet
they have been formed, and have received plausi-
BILE pretext for agitation from unguarded or nonsen-
steal talk of some foolish or ambitious persons who
were DESTROYS of raising themselves to prominence by
signalling their extra devotion to the South OUR
MAN. in Mississippi has been forced to repudiate dis
tinctly and emphaticay, all connection with South
Carolina and still such is the reaction in favor of
Unlon caused ty the extravagancies of some of the
most noisy though least influential leaders in South
Carolina that it is said QU1rMAN will be forced to
withdraw from the canvass for Governor of Misss-
slppi to make way for Senator DAVIS, and even he
stands a fair chance of being beaten by Gen. FoorE
hus 1t is that unreasonng excitement defeats ITSELF
and produces results the very contrary of that nten
ded to be produced. We have little doubt that the
reaction of South Carolina violence will lead to the
election OF officers both in Mississippi and Georgia.
of far more "submissionist" views and principles
than otherwise they would have dared to avow.
Settled and we'll defined principles can alone form
safeguards and landmarks for the course of ndiyidu
ais or communities and it is only when moving in
accordance with and obedience to the guidance of
principle that we can calculate with any certainty
the results of action. The Union is not in anv
danger and the cry of Union" raised in many Sec
lions, is mere ignus fatuous. which may lead its
followers within the precincts of federalism and con-
solidation WHILE the other hand ultra secession
ism can only give sort of excuse for the consolida
tonists to represent the Union as in danger at the
same time that it can carry no single State in the
Union and must lessen the moral power of the South
upon subsequent occasions. Others may do as thew
please, or think they please but for our part we
have always thought the battle was in fact between
the principles of State rights and consolidaton-th
first represented BY the Democratic party, and the
second by the Wing party. Our judgment and feel
lngs are with the Democratic party We cherish its
principles, respect its organization and cling to its
name. It's principles are the true and natural land
marks OF the South at the present time. All Gun
on' parties, and Secession parties must unavoida
bly, be tempary in their character and eyaneseent in
their influence.
SssTIhere has been great rise of the Western
Rivers, and large amount of property destroyed
Some OF the towns on the Upper Mississippi have
been overfowed The rise of the rivers is stated to
be as high as in 1874. In Mexico it is extremely
Try. and man and beast were suffering In some
places the cattle were dying. on account of the
brought.
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