Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-11-07


needed and when remember how the steady and
phlegmatic traders of Holland at one time mad
in speculation upon tulips and tulip-roots, need
not he much surprised at the otherwise incompre-
hensible movements of some of our heated pol
itcians. During the excitement through which We
have just passed. have heard it gravely asserted
and asseverated by intelligent and patriotic gen.
tlemen. that the Union could not last for two years.
showing how little they had calculated how little
allowance they had made for the really deep and
reflective character of the American people, which
acts not hastily-for the tenaciIy with which pow
erfu and prosperous organization. like that OF our
national confederacy, clings to existence-and for
the thousand ties of consequently and intermar-
rage, of interest and association which would have
to be severed before such event could take place
The Union is not speculation, or imaginary
affair founded upon political fiction. Its only true
existence and vitality is in the hearts and interests
of the people, and while it can claim abiding place
there all mere abstract ideas are perfectly power
less TO endanger it. 1t is only when that union be-
comes oppressive that longer retains its hold
upon the affections of the great majority of the peo
pie of any section-when they feel that their inter-
ests longer safe in its keeping, that any real
danger need be apprehended. From dsunion OPEN
ly avowed there is nothing to fear. From the covert
advances of Notwithstanding What seces-
sion or disunion must fail in seducing men into, con-
solidaton may. nay must force them to adopt the
only safe course. Our readers will remember that
during the in Georg Mississippi, and South
Carolina, anticipated and foretold the of
the Union ticket. The people not prepared for
disunion, and the tide having reached its highest
point in that direction, commenced receding more
rapidly than it had advanced. We have now ano-
Their and more real cause of anxiety. This cause
is to be found in the growth and audacity of an ul
ira Union party, which party, by conceding too much
and going for the Union at all hazards, may and will
unless checked, invite aggression and ultimate
solidaton, proving fatal either to Union or liberty
possibly to both. We consider the Union mania
which seems to be getting abroad, as far more dan
gerous than the dsunon phantasies which it has re-
placed. For our own part we must distrust the pru-
dence of the ultra Unionism which seems to be the
rage with many Of wing contemporaries. 1t is
a hundred times dangerous to the Union. than
were ever the doctrines of Barnwell Rhett and his
ultra followers. Were a disunionst, would
90 for consolidation the most direct and practical
Bile means of achieving purpose. Do not our Ill
ira Unionst friends the danger of their course?
BGs~We have no disposition to enact new YER
sion of = Much ado about Nothing" by protracting
the controversy which neighbor of the Herald
seems to regard as in existence between US. We see
no cause whatever for it the printing of the Report
of the Auditing Committee we did not seek care
for Indeed from the pressure of our different is
sues, have not been able to attend TO what bust
of that desert pton have already on hand. as
he or his foreman must be aware, from our having
been forced to send some away. AS for the publish
ing of the Report in the Journal it came to US as
advertisement, and we treated it in stating our
terms for publishing it, although We afterwards, for
the information of subscribers published it gra-
It's, as matter of news. The Editor of the Herald
says, that the Journal "knows very we'll that the
printing of the Report of the Convention often al
luded to, considered piece of job work and
not an advertisement, and that any paper would
gladly have published it without charge item,
of general intelligence In the latter part of this
statement the Herald is correct. and we did so pub
lsh it but in the first he is mistaken, so far as we
are concerned, for did consider it advertise
ment, because of opinion that it Of
l fered. The editor of the Herald took different
view of the matter, and in doing according to hi
understanding of the case, he acted perfectly right
= first to make this explanation. We must therefore
attribute the tone of the Herald in the last two
IS bers of that paper, to misconcepton. If We wer
D to connect any deliberate purpose with its remarks
Re we could draw no other conclusion than desire t.
7, rejudice with the committee.
y If the Editor of the Herald will again look COOL
is at the concluding part of article of Saturda
lie last he will see it is fairly susceptible of inter
probation that would imply any denial of his person
RS al courtesy If our words conveyed such impress
n sion, they failed to embody our meaning. AS 70
the little squbs that have latterly passed betwee
to us, we hope nobody thinks sufficiently thinsknne
d. to take offence at them, the so as we are val
II. enough to suppose that we hold our wit
at most folks in such little encounters As for bein
lit the veneranle,' anything else, why that's prett
Id much our own fault, as he says.
be We hope that this trfing controversy may en-
here. We have wish for the last word w
of even pass the insinuation that do nothin
e. directly which, were we in a squabblesome moot
" we would directly contradict. We have said on
he say and close side of this little finally
RSs"The Fayetteville Observer ''sticks to its mi
representations, and like Goldsmith's Schoolmaste
although vanquished argues still.
The resolutions of Mr.. Wheeler were, as we ha,
-, all along contended, introduced into the Democrat
" county convention at Tammany Hall, New York, fl
;, the purpose of distracting that body The resol
tions in support and affirmation of the compromi