Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-11-12
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of this State in urging cooperation with the Democratic
party because they have regarded that party the
custodian OF the Constitution and Of States Rights.
Notwithstanding the slucs which have been cast upon
its pasachlevements, of late, have it from Mr. Gal
houn whose long political experience certainly entities
his assertion to some respect that to this party is due
the credit of having achieved every of States
Rights character. A national bank high protective
tariff stupend0us schemes Of internal improvements, all
consolidating in their tendencies oYerthroWn by
this party While therefore, the conservatives OF the
State have urged the surrender Of the State to
federal party, has been time and again falsely
charged upon them they do not fall into the of
conditional condemnation of the party when they have
Mr. Calhoun's authority to sustain them They, there
fore advocate cooperation to give intensity to the States
Rights sentiment OF the party and in this way impress
that policy upon the Federal Government Occupying
this position cannot but approve the attitude which
the Washington Union has taken against the skulkng
policy of some Of the Northern Democrats, headed by
Douglas and encouraged at home by many Southern
papers Ii the Democratic party is to be one of policy,
instead Of principle it cannot command the support Of
the South, and should not We have watched its pro-
gress in the settlement of this slavery question: from the
time it repealed the Missouri Compromise line to the
final consumnation Of the Dred Scott decisiop giving
the protection of the Federal authority to the institution
OF slavery IN the territory and requiring, under the
conference bill representative population for the ad-
mission INTO the Union But if these measures are now
to be set aside and under the Douglas Interpretation of
the Dred Scott decision slavery is to be excluded from
the common territory by scattered and inadequate ma
jority; if the party for the sake of preserving its
strength at the North is going to permit such latitude
OF constructions then it may expect to loose its control
at the South The conservatives of the South occupy
the position Mr. Calhoun did, when he gave it his adhe
sion to the Administration of Mr. Van Buren,. They
VIII support the party ii right, but will not hesitate
one moment in withdrawing from it, SO soon as it tam
pers with its principles stands by silently and permits
them to be batered away and msconsrued for indvid
ua or party purposes. In Pennsylvania, the Douglas
men have been most active against every who sus
tanned the Administration in its support Of the South
in many instances, they have combined with the Black
Republicans. In California the same. How has this
been received at the South To the surprise and cha
grin of every States Rights Democrat instead of these
defections being met with the spirit Of firm adhesion to
principle we see them being openly counenanced by such
journals as the Richmond Enquirer the Augusta Con-
sttutonalist the Memphis Appeal; while by host of
Others among which most regrctfuly class the Rich
mond South, they screened from the public gaze by
silence which no violation Of principles, however fla
grant, capable Of disturbing. In advance Of these
Southern journals, the Washington Union has, with
boIdncss that cannot be too much admired cung to the
principles Notwithstanding the tauns it has received,
from even Southern sources, for its disregard OF party
policy With ali abiding solicitudc for the principles
of party, urge upon contemporaries the impolcy
OF their course.
They are placing their party in q position at home
that cannot be sustained and that will inevitably
er or later cause the South to abandon it, If Mr. Bu-
cilGlan IS ONCftfOWn because he has sustained the
South and Douglas foscred in his rebellion whatfuture
Administration will follow in his footsteps? Whatever
confidence the party may have obtained at the South is
owing TO its adhesion to principles; if it defects
from these its days at the South will be shortly
bered and most rghtCOusy will it merit defeat and dis
comfture- Columbia Banner.
| THE BUBBLE IN THE CABLE.--A writer from Va
entia October H. in speaking of the state of the Allan
tic cable at the time it laid down, says
MANY detects doubt arose from the old method Of
covering the wire with its guta percha covering, which
the company themselves use, and much FROM the ncgi-
gence OF men. On the very place where the splice was
made, in the centre of the Atlantic bubble almost
the size of coffee bean, had to be cut out How ma
ny hundreds of similar places might there have been that
were never seen? The detective cencring Of the cop
per conductor in its gutta percha covering aso
doubt of many serious faults for the reason
that the gutta percha being very thin in parts, al
lows the powerful electric currents from the induction
coils to pierce it and touch the outside wires once this
fault which is technically called blowing hole" in
cable, takes place, such loss of the sgnazng current
that the cable is rendered useless, great aug
mcnta0n of battery power rendered necessary and
when this last remedy is rcsOrtcd to the hole becomes
larger and larger until the water getting freely to the
wire, OXydates it away in very short time. Such ac-
cdens have frequently occurred in the cables between
England and the Hague and there is not the least doubt
that there many Of such faults along the At
lantic wire.
MAN A PETRIfIED WIFE.-A few days since
a gentleman residing in Rising Sun, Indiana who had
married second time wished to the body of his