Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-06-01
From the N. o. True Delta.


the rampant treason of their Massachusetts friends
and allies are dreadfuy exercised al present in Ell
forts of elaborate laudat of Governor Gardner,
if the spasmodc of justice of that functlonay
in solitary or two, amply compensates tor
lifelong adhesion to factions whose only bond of
ALLEGIANCE and fidelity each other is found in their
reasonable designs against the constitution and the
Union That Gardner should have hestated to obey
the mandate of the Massachusetts Legislature to Ie
move Judge Loring is gratifying circumstance, and
that he had the moral courage and the sense OF shame
to dsobey and disregard lis resolutions to that effect
entitle him to commentator, but the credit to
which so violent fanatic Gardner is we'll known
to be- is entitled for single correct act is about
equal 10 what a passive locker. on and alprover OF
the proceedings to the slave Burns would be
entitled, compared with him who would Justify the
murder of the Assistant U. S. Marshal upon that de-
plorabe OCCASION Gardner is found stimulating the
bad passions of the people as zeaously, earnestly
and ndefatigahly the vilest ncendiary Of his fac
ton in Massachusetts tor years past but all at
once, he finds himself in position of defiant hos
tty to the planest laws to the constituted author.
ties of the nation, and to the constitution of the
United States. and his courage fails him; he faters,
wavers but finally masters up sufficient tortltude to
resist the wrong. We are glad he resisted we re-
joice that one functionary is still found in Massa-
chusetts who is unwilling to take the perilous re-
sponslbility of arraying that old and honored
monweah against the Union her llustrious departed
sons did much to create and against the laws OF
the republic framed sanctioned by the giant intel
lects who so long and worthiy represented her
principles in the great councils OF the nation
We would not churlishly withhold from Gardner
any praise which he may have entitled himself for
opposing however impoently and Intellectually, the
mad torrent of abotionism which at present sweeps
so rresistbly the conservative barriers erected
by the intelligence, sober sense and fidelity to the
UniOn which have heretofore characterized Massa-
chusetts neither should we, as some of our cotem-
poraries doing give him extravaganza praise-gIve
him hyperbolical laudatIon-as if we of the South
know no bounds to gratitude to those who would
just stop short of open war in their own persons,
against the integrity of the Union although guilty of
stimulating others TO the commission of the treason
they want the nerve the courage, the temerlty to
attempt
He must be blind, indeed, who does not perceive
in the present political movements through the
free States but chiefly and prominently in those OF
New England great danger to the perpeuty OF the
Union, real peril to The institutions of the South In
New York, where probably the South has for COM
mercal and other reasons, larger number OF attach
ed friends than find in any other North ern
State we have recently its Know Nothing Grand
Council, which represents body said to be neutral
conservative the question of slavery, unable tC
agree upon any platform of principles pledging the
members to a national rather than sectional view
| of the question And if in New York, which has sc
deep pecuniary interest in the conservation Of
Southern institutions it is found impossible to ex
c1"ue dCV'e aoolitiohS iton any poltlCdl oouy, III
matter how organized which aims at sovereign pow
err, how will it be in those States between whom anG
us there is no particular afhnities, nor any CONNER
cial lgament
For factious objects or the sake of Office, it may
for little WHILE continue to be the interest of por
ton of the press here to deceive its readers in regarc
TO these matters but it cannot, be long, if the South
remains apothetic before every true friend of TIT
Constitution and the Union in the free States will b.
overthrown, contest of slavery commenced, the enc
of which cannot be foreseen nor its tremendous evils
exaggerated