Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-31

We had at one time supposed that the habit of
eating their enemies slain in battle was confined to
certain African tribes and Southsea Islanders with
whom perhaps, animal food is scarce, and piece of
roast man, with good gravy might be regarded as a
luxury; but we find that something of the same kind
is creeping into political usages, and the body
of the unfortunate defunct is publicly paraded with
loud reoicngs and doubt devoured in secret with
cannabalistic ceremonies. Never did the word-re-
nowned Don Quixote charge upon flock of sheep or
wind mill with more daring courage or less real
cause than Rave the Union u party of the South
shown in their desperate contest with the phantom
| of disunion, phantom of their own conjuration-a
thing which never had any real existence in the
brains of those who trumped it up means of adj
vancing themselves and their own interests. There
are and have been no disunionists at the South
the very imputation of disunion has proved IA
tai to every against whom it has been brought
The elections in Mississippi, Georgia and South Car
DINA, show this. Then why is it that we find the
Raleigh Register, and other Union per Sc papers,
howl so dismally over the corpse of disunion-they
say that it is deadthey that it is dead-then
why not let it rest in peacefully outrage public de-
cency by turning resurrectionists and exposing the
CHASTITY corpse'9 The answer is plain 1t is their
trade, and without it they are in the position of
Othello, when his occupation was gone. The "Union''
party has been ruined by its victories 1t has ridden
its hobby to death, and can make further use of
than by retaining its hide and hoofs to cover some
new Morgan and for the present induging itself
in yampire-lke feast over the shadowy remains Of
the ghost of disunion-its own property at that.
In good sober earnest. the farce of Union party
is about played out. In the very midst of the most
= intense excitement, clearly and said plainly
: that the Union was in present danger from the
C action of the south. If the country is to be ruined
it will be by Capitalization, and not notification
secession. "Union party par excellence, while
combatted the ina aary danger Of secession addet
force and immnence to the real of consolidation
to Depend upon it, while the south can stay in tn
Union with anything like safety, party carr
re her out-when the time comes that she cannot, n
a party keep her in. It will be practical AM
ID not an abstract matter.
II AS might have been foreseen, those democrats VIII
in Mississippi, Georgia and other States, went ou
de from the democratic organizations in the belief tina
they could better the south hy acting with til
of Southern ghts' organization have found their mi
take and rectifed it. They have found that the Unto
and the south could be better or at least more eff
GENTLY served in the democratic ranks than in tho
of any sectional local party and have acted
te. ingy. And farther evidence of the real cha
acter of the democratic party opposed to disur
on, We would remark that of the few prominent d
uuonists if such there be, few or none have re-jou
-. the democracy-Governor Quitman has totally 7
R tired The Union party has been very ago
phi Morgan but its day is over, and the people Can
zen no longer humbugged by that cry.