Newbern weekly progress., 1859-12-06
Patriotic Sentiments.

York, preached most eloquent sermon to his
charge in that city, on Thanksgiving morning,
on American Patriotism. We commend the fol-
lowing extract to the Abolition writers and ran
te1s:
HAre there who openly condemn the Con-
stitution of their country--none who, by the ex
ercise of a corruption that scarcely has shame
enough to keep itself out of sight pervert it from
it's plain declarations and legitimate lnterpreta-
tions Are there none who have been willing
and read to convert executive powers into judi
cial, and legislative into executive! And how speak
some men now of that Union of which our faith
ers Caught by revolutionary experience) thought
SO much They had purchased it for their child
ren with their blood and that blood had flowed
from Northern and Southern hearts alike it made
tone common pool upon the battlefield; they
I knew that upon union alone depended strong,
proud national existence. Do all their ad-
here to this opinion of their fathers or do they
trample on their memories, and despite their wis
dom F? Let facts answer. What means the angry
and insulting language of portions of the press
both North and South towards each other? Why
do tlippant sneers and taunting insinuatiOns and
insidious affectations of candor, and false
tions, and vulgar vituperation, form much of
the editorial staple Of certain prints 1t is thought
to show skill of fence in intellectual gadiatorship?
Whether it be quite as clever writing as its au-
thors suppose may perhaps admit of doubt; but
grant that it is, the sober American who has no
personal vanity of authorship involved, may well
lsk whether it is either patriotic or wise thus to
furnish fuel to the fame of mutual evaporation
already burning, alas too brightly; or to sacri-
flee the interests and happiness of our country to
the qualification of some authors wish to attain
celebrity as the writer of insulting sneers and
trenchant irony. Our country is surely worth
more to than the qualification of the personal
vanity of any man, and while it is cheerfully
Ceded that the press should be tree, and may Of
ten furnish information and instruction to the
public mind, yet it would be hard to show any
lawful power it possesses to assume over it dicta
ton control. The mode of saying may be of
ten more offensive than that which is said; and
there is a mode which does not conduce to Union,
Asause its tendency is to destroy fraternal feel
gag. %Fnny american citizen acishes to be acuh0ut a
EogRtTy that command tile respect Of the cigikized
,oosid let him contribute his aid to dissoIUe the Union
oflheSe United States In the fulfllment of his
unpatriotic purpose he will find his punishment,
for he will have ruined himself. He will be
crnshed and bruised under the edifce he has as
sisted to undermine. Our country is exempted
at least for the present. from the intestine con-
v'1lsion of revolution.-how long it may be before
opposing hosts may be marshaled on the field of
t-aTnage depends, under God, on the camness, the
courage, the prudence and the patriotism of the
wise, the thoughtful and the good men of all par
tbs of the Union, who love their country better
than they do any party, and who have the sense
toappreciate Its value to the world and to them
selves.
SERVED THEM RIGHT Let every Southern
community treat New York drummers as they are
being treated in Virginia. until those wholesale
merchants of that city who boast Of their conseru
dtism come out and show their hands. The Rich.
mend Dispatch of Saturday says
sg07thern Drummers are having lively time in
the country Just now, and there is probability
t aat they will fare any better, in time to come
unless the North changes her course towards the
South, In Amelia, few days since, one of these
gentlemen made his appearance, and attempted
to procure orders for a Northern house. He was
c11rv 1a1 hXTa ho
order to leave the county forthwith, and for fea
offaIing worse he did not await a second invita- |
ton. In this city sharp fellow, who was in the
needle line, and another, who had samples of IL |
quers and segars, called on several merchants foI
9 tradef but finding that they were about tc
put the officers upon them they both left in |
hurry
WATCH THEM.-The Standard of Saturda, |
says
There are persons from the North travelling |
through the South, protesting to be engaged in |
business Of various kinds, whom it wond be vel |
enough to scotch. If they talk against slavery ori
they even apologize for Seward and his infamous
loe trines give them notice to leave and make them
cave It was the Seward doctrine that led to the |
outrage at Harper's Ferry.
s ARRIVED SAFE.-The Propeller Teleg -aph wh:c'
ailed from this port on Tuesday, the 22nd Instant
las arrived at Norfolk by way of Chesapeake and
Abemarle Canal with full cargo making the trip,
Ee learn, in good time.
GRAY FANATICS The n. Y. Day Book o
sist Monday says;
There was meeting at fremont Temple, il
3oston, Saturday night, to provide means fol
lie relief of the family of John Brown. TIVE
liousand people were present. John A. Andrew
Rev. Mr.. Manning, Wendell Phillips and Ralph
Waldo Emerson, made addresses, in which they |
Ill expressed the utmost sympathy tor join
Brown. Several hundred dollars were collected |
DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING.
New YORK, Nov 29.-W sshington Irving, the
historian, died at Irvington last night |