Newbern weekly progress., 1860-12-25
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. %, 1850,

harbor. The Charleston Mercury resents the
inference as malicious and springing from a
feeling of hatred and fury. South Carolina
journals are undoubtedly reaping rich harvest
by pandering to the excitement of the times.
The Nercury feeds the agitation on this wise
THE HULLABALLoo ABOUT TIE FoKTs.-The
Republican papers of the North are now exer-
cising their genius and ventiiating their Pa
triotism by reviling Mr.. Buchanan. Like frogs
in chorus they lift up their voices and echo the
cry that the President of the United States has
not reinforced the forts in Charleston harbor-
| that Mr. Buchanan is about to sacrifice the Of
ticers and troops stationed here to the madness
of Carolina mobs, upon the event of secession.
In blind hatred and malice against US, and in
the intensity of their desire to abuse the Presi-
dent, they lose their heads as well as their
tempers-eXhibitlng only fury and folly.
The first gun fired upon Southern men by
the United States Government in collision OF
arms, in the present temper of the South, will
sound the farewell funeral salute over the grave
of the Union dead and buried-that Union,
which, in its day, has so well served the North,
and so hampered and dwarfed the growing en-
ergies of the sentimental, Union-loving South.
| Mr.. Buchanan has more sense than his censo~5.
| He understands that he cannot better serve the
cause of disunion than by producing bloodshed.
/ As Northern man, q conservative man, intent
on giving every opportunity for readjusting the
| relations of the North and South, he seeks to
avoid producing a collision. The reinforce
ment of the forts at this time, and under pres
ent circumstances, means coercion-war. 1t
would be an overt act of war which we are not
SO simple not to comprehend, and which Mr.
Buchanan is not so simple as to suppose We
would not comprehend, and act on. How it
would benefit the Union, or the North, is a
question which Black Republican wisdom alone
can appropriately set forth. South Carolina is
so confident of her deliveranee from the dam
gers OF the Union, that she does not care to
have its doom unnecessarily sealed in blood.
! We Can succeed, perhaps, without it. Mr.. Bu-
I chanan desires to obtain every chance of say
ing the Union, and getting South Carolina back
| again into the net therefore he is unwilling to
seal its doom in blood Each thinks that, with
hands off it is practicable to leave matters to an
inevitable future. VIII this explanation of ours
enlighten our Abolition contemporaries? May
be so-maybe not.
AS to the bugaboo Of mobbing the forts, and
| Staying the officers and the troops, our amiable
friends need not excite their philanthopic SEN
| sibilities or roll up their eyes. We not a
mobocracy here, and believe in law, order, and
| obedience to authority, civil and military. No
mob will attack the forts In South Carolina
we do not act by mobs. We do have Eig-
| lance Committees to make summary DISPOSE
| ton of prowling incendiaries and midnight as
sassns and poisoners. The remedy is only
adequate to the crminality and the mischief
| But we do not act in masses We are aceus-
| toned each to think and judge for himself and
| to act each on his own individual responsible
| ty where left to do so. When the State is out
! of the Union; when the fortunes are deman-
| ded and refused to be delivered up to those in
whom is vested the title of eminent domain,
and for whose protection and defence alone
IL .1al I
| Federal Government showing a hostile pur-
pose, it shall become necessary and proper for
us to obtain possession, then it will be right
for the world and Repubicanisn to expect that
| the State by her authorities, will move in the
premises The people will obey the call for
war, and take the forts. The excitement here
is deep, calm feeling, very different from the
F., excitement of mob, and leading to different
/ and far greater results. This is no child's
! play. 1t is not the urroar Of school boys
! spaShin% water in mischief; ii is the Quiet
tread Of Caesars forces crossing thc ItubIcon.
| FC2 The hoaTy tfickStcr and humblg, who
{ has just retired floln the Cabinet because war
! i> ncI made on South Carolina ne have only
! to say, that his present inbeciiity equals his
past 1reac.'eIy to this section. Had nr been
! carly absent from the Presidents coun.ia, his
/ administration might have been more success
! tiIi.
"A sof['S lES<fli sEaS ESsF S<?k1Ia.
! The following which we most checrtj;lly
publish is sent by a lady friend:
! NEwBERS, Thursday evening, Dec. 90.
To TIE EDITOR OF :" PRoGRESS "-DcttY Sir:
Thinking it probable that some of your
readers might be interested in the opinions of
| the Far South " in regard to the present as
| pect of politics [ subjoin the following extracts
| from letter received from prominent South
| crn gentleman, and also enclose what | think
rather good hit on Mr.. Buchanan:
| am yours, respectfully, L.
| The political armament is overcast and the
| gloomy clouds which ever hang about ssls-
pense and revolution are materially affecting
the spirit of all, not but that we all regard s.
cessionas absolutely necessary and are resolved
upon it with almost entire unanimity, vet We
nevertheless feel much sorrow in being forced
! to withdraw our columns from the support of
of the fabric erected by our glorious and im~
mortal ancestry. Resistance to tyranical cX-
actions caused the war of the Revolution. The
same spirit lives in the South in the hearts Of
the sons and daughters of our patriotic fathers
of 20, a rery .1eto " fear precipitancy ana de-
sire cooperation as if we could be 1are5lpitate
when this alternative of secession or unequal
rights has been staring Southern men in the
face since the canvass of1S56.
wish old North Carolina would take bold
and decided stand at once for it is a fixed fact
that South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sppi Florida, Louisiana and Texas aoiU go out
of the Union in less than 60 days, Most proba-
bly, Arkansas also, and then what are the
States of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland
Tennessee and Kentucky to do? They cannot
remain neutral VIII they join the Northern
Confeaeracy? or attach themselves where
they belong-to the family of like tastes, like
principles and kindred interests with own
The moral social and political interests, as
well as the feeling of kindred must determine
which confederacy the border States will join.
Who that knows the Southern pulse can doubt
the issue! Then why do not those States act
promptly and thus give moral force to their
attitude which they will not possess if like
laggards they stand on the threshold until
they are driren IN for protection against the
still growing aggression Of their Western
brethren? ?
FANNY ELLsLER.-A letter to the New York
Times, from Paris, contains the following:
Fanny Ellser is now at Berlin, at the bed
side of a sick sister, wife of the son of Prince
Adelbert, of Prussia The marriage of the
young Baron de Barnim eldest son of the
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