Newbern weekly progress., 1859-12-06
PROGRESS.
The Union Must BE Preserved.


be entitled so the paper one year gratis.
The Union Must BE Ereserved.
There is no denying but the presents a crisis"
in our national affairs Sectonalism, abolition
ism and fanaticism have mad, and really the
future looks rather dark and threatening, but still
we can see nothing which should cause the pure
patriot and lover of his country to despair of MAIN
tanning the supremacy of good government, the
faithful administration of the laws and the pre-
servation of the union OF the States. Old Brown
has paid the penalty of his folly, and the 10Th
his confederates, Cook and the Others await
ing the execution of their sentence, will swing
Frenzied fanatics may rant and foam, may rage
and threaten, but the violated law will be appeas-
ed as far the hanging of the Harper's Ferry
conspirators accomplish it, and no formidable
interference is to be apprehended or feared from
our negro worshipping enemies. In few months
all will have become quiet and Old Brown and
his followers will never be mentioned thought
of save by higher law - preachers and few
other active abotionists of the Black Republican
school at the North. The strength of the Union
will be in wise impaired by this occurrence
The Union has nothing to fear but the triumph
of sectional party in 1860, and to avert the pos
sibility of such calamity, it seems to us, the
energies of every patriot in the land, whether a
citizen of a slave a free State, should be en-
ployed
Eye hath not seen nor heard neither has it
or can it enter into the heart of man to conceive
of the countless evils that would result to the
citizens of every portion and section of this vast
country were the confederation of States dismem-
bered. That Southern and a Northern confede-
racy could be established is by means certain.
Destroy the sacred instrument, the Constitution,
and each State becomes power of itself, and any
attempt at counting the evils, dangers and suffer
ings that must necessarily be encountered before
a reorganization could be effected is but folly.
There would be no safety to life property,-no
government, no laws-all would be confusion
confounded Who contemplate without a
thrill of horror the possibility of such state of
things!
Will the great conservative element in this
country-which when fully aroused we are salts
fed exists in every State in the Union-suffer
agitators, fanatics and selfrghteous bigots to tear
down this haowed edifce reared by the strong
arms of our revolutionary sires and cemented with
their blood? Shall the hanging of few Williams,
to satisfy law which they have wantonly violated,
cause any respectable portion of the people of a
single State to desire to give up the Union and
al the protection and blessings which its perpe-
tuitv guarantees to them and their pOsterity
We think not
Some of our people seem to think that there is
no conservative element, no law abiding lovers
of the Union and the Constitution, at the North,
and we confess the supneness of national men
in the free States, recently, is almost enough to
induce such a belief; but still, as we said before
the Brown excitement will soon die away, the
great heart of the country will beat freer; calm
will give time for reflection, and when tho strug
gle of next year approaches and the battle be-
tween sectionalism and the conservative wisdom
of the whole country comes to be fought, we dc
not fear for the result. We have passed through
many " "crisis" before; have felt the vibrations
of one at stated intervals of four years, for many
years past, but in every instance patriotism as
triumphed over fanaticism, and the country, in
stead of being wrecked and shivered in thous-
and atoms has come forth at each struggle with
increased strength and renewed vigor, while ev.
erywhere and in every section patriotic hosts
cling to the Constitution their greatest earthly
inheritance and to the Union ark of protec
ton and a haven of safety.
Well what is the nature of the present crisis
Simply this, 1--WE mean to speak freely:) The
next contest for the Presidency is to be fought
between the nominee of the Charleston Conven-
ton and the power that creates him its leader
and the Black Republicans. 1t is folly to talk
about tlcO parties at the South. The South must
be unit-must act in concert for the Union and
the Constitution and if the conservative men OF
the North will unite with the South in putting
forward national ticket at Charleston, come from
whatever section it may, let the South unite a.
one man in its support that the Union and the
Constitution may achieve a crushing victory ov
er sectionalism and fanatacism.
AS to State politics and State policy we nave
nothing to say, and care but little, tor we Tee
confident that let either party be placed in powe
and the affairs of State will be managed mainl.
for the public good, but as many think that tn
Union is either to receive additional strength
be dissolved by the result of the next Presdentla
contest, we say that Southern patriot can oe
cupy middle ground. If the fight be between
the nominee of the Charleston Convention,
national ticket and the candidate of the Abof
tionists, let every Southern man do his dut,
That duty need not be pointed out TO any-n
too plain.
EUMBUG.-Some of the members OF IL
South Carolina Legislature are discussing th
propriety of establishing a Southern Confedera
cy out of South Carolina and such other State
disposed to follow. Now this Is al
CANNON, and we regret very much that oul
chivalrc cousins will not behave with little