Newbern weekly progress., 1860-10-30
SOUND SENTIMENTS.

Ihe ne" 1ork w orld accompanies the publi-
cation of communication from South Carolina
with remarks of highly conservative character,
such as the times call for. 1t says
Resistance or evasion of federal law at the
North is just as really treason in essense as any
defiance of the federal authority at the South can
be. mob in assault upon United States Off
GERS is worse IN Charleston than In Boston
and south Carolina ordinance designed to nuJIi-
fy one article of the Constitution no wors than
Massachusetts, personal liberty bill designed to
nullify another. The Constitution is ununestiona.
bly, entire instrument. No part of it can be in
tentlonally infringed w thont bad faith to all
Whoever the trespassers, the offence is alike
crime. There Is no loyalty and no security but in
carrying out every clause of the Constitution Just
precisely as it stands and its sanctions are mi.
versally binding. The constitution throughout
is system of checks and compromises, framed
in mutual good will, and with more or less sac
rltce of interest and opinion History makes it
certain that there was no possible mode of form
ing the Union except upon the Identical basis
which the constitution now presents and it is
even more certain that it will be impossible to
preserve the Union on any other basis
AS for any disposition upon the part of maori-
ty ofthe northern people to humilate the South
or to encroach upon its constitutional rights it
does not exist. Many individuals have it some
communities have it; probably there is State
or two which may act under its influence; but no
Intelligent man here will pretend that this is the
prevailing disposition of the northern people
The great body of them as willing as ever
to meet every obligation of the constitution, as
their fathers construedI it and would hail the
day when all this fierce, aud worse than futile
slavery agitation should cease The
South should await deveopements calmly, and
Judge calmly. Let this spirit be exercised and
whatever may be Mr. Lincoln's personal policy,
we believe that the election of the last Congress
of his administration will show a clearer under
standing and better accord between the two sec
tions than the country has at any time seen since
the repeal of the Missouri compromise.
The n. Commercial, also. {Repblcan,) re-
garding the election of Lincoln AS certain
there's many slip 'twixt the cup and the lip"
says of him
"A friend of the fugitive slave law and impreg.
mated with a devout veneration for the cunstitu-
tion in all the breadth and grandeur of its provis
ions and its safeguards, there can be nothing in
his elevation to the Presidency which should
create a moments distrust in the mind of any
citizen of the South who desires only that consti
tutiona compact and state rights should be faith
fully observed
But the commercial adds that we do not all
credit it, as follows
1t is well understood that already appli-
cations from the South to the future President for
perspective offices under his administration are
sufficiently numerous to relieve Mr.. Lincolns
m.nd from any apprehension that he will lack
good and worthy agents at the South to car
ry on the details of government in that quarter"
The New York Times also Republican says:
After Mr.. Lincoln shall be elected think
he will very promptly take steps to dispel the
fogs that have been thrown around his political
postion,-and that he will present himself to the
country as 4 Conservative, devoted to the Union,
considerate equally of every section and of every
State and resolved faithfully and with firmness to
maintain the Constitution in all IFS parts. We have
no doubt that he will proclaim himself opposed to
the extension or increase of Slavery. and equally
opposed to any interference of Congress, of the
North with Slavery in the Southern States. He
has repeatedly declared himself in favor of an
efficient Fugitive Slave Law, and opposed to
gro suffrage and the political equality of the
gro race. We regard these emnenly con-
servative views, and if his Administration ad
heres to them with firmness and fidelity, be-
lieve it will contribute largely to the restoration
of the public peace. and fertify the Constitution
and the Union sti II more thoroughly in the affec-
ton and confidence of the American people.
"Of one thing moreover, we are very certain
The moment Mr.. Lincoln shall indicate any pur-
pose to commit aggrcSsonS upon Southern
rights he will lose every large Northern, Middle
and Western State, which may have aided his
electon.''
Per contra: The Philadelphia Journal (Bell
and Everett,) utterly discredts the candor of the
Republican professions of moderation, and of re-
spect for the Constitutional rights of the South
1t plainly charges that all these professions
made to lu suspicion of the partys designs in
New York and Pennsylvania to put conservatives
off their guard, aud to help Lincoln carry the
States necessary to his election. The Journal
says that the party has been struggling for near
half century, and spending millions of dollars
to get possession of the Federal Government
For what? To enjoy the offices that will satisfy
only few greedy place-hunters. who could be
taken out of the great mass of the party and not
be missed BY no means" And the Journal
goes on to cite the resolutions of the Chicago
Convention, the rawlings of the Tribune and 9th
ultra papers, and the speeches of Seward, Sher-
man. and others, Indicating the real designs of
the party, from which it thinks there is no
to hope for retreat.
The n Y Express also doubts the frankness of
the avowals of moderation, &c.
All this may be ; Int srLM both Houses OF Con-
grcss opp0sed to him and to snch dcSignS he cannOt
carry them into effect, # he urises to do SO.-Faycttc
riNe ObScrrcr
New York DETERMINED TO Fight IT OUT 3
The tone of the New York papers IS like any
thing else than striking of colors to Black Re-
publicanism. They avow their ability to save
the country from sectional triumph, and their
determination To do 1t. The Express (Whig) has
letters from nearly all parts of the State, which
say that friends are not at all discouraged by
the news from Pennsy lvania The very fact that
upon New York depends the issue, stimulates
them to redOubled exertions.
The Albany Argus (Demncratlc) says, that
q intelligence from All parts of the State tends to
one end-that New York can and will be redeem
cd and that by its vote Lincoln will be defeated
Disaffection and defeat in other States, instead OF
discuuraging the Democracy, has served to arouse
from the intelligence is that the Democratic ma
iority is to be increased the Republican major
ity diminished. Mr. Lincoln has none af the pop
ularity of Fremont; and that candidate. with all
his apparent success, was still in large minority
of the popular vote i'll the State"
The Democratic Journals in New York exhibit
great confidence in a favorable result.
From all parts of the State, says the News, we
hear good report confidence and determine
ton exist in every quarter, and the combinations
which have been made among the leaders have
been responded to by the people with patriotic
ardor and an uusefsh harmony which inspire
the brightest hopes.
HoGUE PARDoNED-W learn that Gov Ell
| lis pardoned Hogue, who was convicted some
time since in the Superior Court of this county
of the murder of Parish, and that he has let
| this State for GeOrgia.-St0nd0rd.
Ex-PREsIDENT FILLMORE AND SENATOR DoUG
LAs.-The Buffalo correspondent Ofthe Alban.
| On. W Argus and Atlds in giving an accoun
of the Douglas demonstration in that city
says: