Newbern weekly progress., 1860-01-10
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. s, 1860.
The Sectional Party.

htIon and extin ction of slavery. though purely
sectional organization Tho advocate measures and
promulgate principles directly at war with the
sacred teachings of the Constitution, is Mt this
time the strongest organization in the American
Congress. Whatever the feelings of the constitu-
encles of these men at home may be, the alarm
ing fact forces itself upon that we have Black
Republican Congress-; Congress'that is determ-
lned to on the institution of slavery until
it is abolished or the Union destroyed, unless the
people of the South rise in their might and assert
and maintain their rights. under the Constitution.
at the point of the bayonet. Since the meeting
of Congress Southern members generally have
used every possible honorable expedent to effect
an organization. Democrats have voted for Wings
and Know -Nothings, and Wings and Know Moth
ings have voted for Democrats in their efforts to
elect q Speaker. They have shown disposition
to make concessions and compromises for the
public good, but where or when have we had an
instance of Black Republican voting for any
one ont of their party9
Gentlemen, North and South, who claim to be
conservative, may sing pnans to the Union until
they grow hoarse by the exercise, but we tell our
Southern brethren that the great Abolition Sec
tional party, whose one idea principle is war
upon slavery and slave owners. is gaining strength
both in and out of Congress every day. What
may be the issue of the contest now going
on for Speaker great battle is to be fought next
November which will go far to decide the fate of
the States of this Union for generations to come.
We think we are as conservative any man can
be consistent with honor and self respect; we
yield to none in allegiance to the Union. As
matter of individual interest would give up
everything and cling to the Union if we could do
so as equal under the Constitution, but if the
power of the federal government is to be used to
crush slavery and degrade slave owners, then we
have only to ask that the " irepressible conflict"
may commence and that we may be placed wherev-
er in the front ranks that the South most needs
We do not want to live to see the day when
the South shall make another compromise the
question of slavery. We say again, we would
not see the Union dismembered for a thousand
such raids that at Harper's Ferry. for in that
satisfied that only few thousands, at
most, were directly engaged, who had no coun-
tenance from the federal government though they
had the sympathies of the whole Black Repub
lican party. Nor would we make the election of
a Black Republican President, of itself, the cause
of dissolution, unless followed up by fanatica and
sectional legislation which deprived us of
rig hts under Constitution These arc po
sitons and we 60 farther than most of our intense
y conservatives on the question of the Union.
But unhappily for the South there is another
view to be taken of the future of country.
Our Union friends, South, have reioiced much
over the Union meetings north they cite
them evidence of returning sense of JUS
tice - that the north is sound. friendly to the
South. &c We would not give fig for all their
Union demonstrations if they 60 no farther. Find
ing that their trade with the South is falling off
and the southern orders being Withdrawn from
their manufactures they have become, all at once,
wonderfully alarmed about the Union. Honied
words of fraternal regard on the lips of North
ern men who never loved the South before, and
regret to see that many of the southern people
are willing to be duped and humbugged thereby;
but in all these Union demonstrations, professions
of love for the constitution and regard for their
southern brethren have any efforts on their part
been made to induce their Black Republican rep
resentatives in Congress to vote for a national
man for Speaker? Why do they not hold mass
meetings and instruct their Congressman to drop
Sherman and vote for q national man so that an
organization may be effected and the business of
legislating for the country go on? There would
be something solid i'll such step AS this; but no,
they are AS much attached to their abolition pril.
ciples AS ever but they deem it an easy matter to
throw dust in the eyes of the southern people, as
they have often done before, and thereby secure
the rich returns from southern commerce on which
they have grown so fat.
Right upon the heels of their Union demon
stration the arch iend and traitor, Seward re-
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him by some of the same $4,000 who participated
in the Union demonstration at the Academy of
Music only few days previous! What the en-
thusiasm of the multitude as he passes from the
great commercial center, New York, to his home
in the interior2 To our mind there is more sig
nifcance in the reception rendered Seward, the
great leader of the Black Republicans, by the
popuiace and authorities Of New York, than in all
their Union demonstrations. Seward can carry
and will carry New York by 10000 votes next
November Can our Union friends prevent that?
If he be elected President all the important posts
of the government will be filled by Black Repub
licans, the power of the federal government will
be used to abolish slavery and to degrade slave
owners and therefore say that the fate of the
Union hangs upon the issue of the next presiden-
tia election. If sectionalism triumphs over the
national candidate may prepare to defend our
section. our property and our rights under the
constitution. While We do not insist that even
the election of Seward would be sufficient cause
for dissolution, we feel confident that his as
sumption of power would be followed by such
acts of aggression as to make such course impera
tive for the maintenance of our honor. Let us
be prepared for the worst and determine, if driven
from the Union by denial flour rights by fede-
raj authority, to strike for Southern independence
and Southern ConfederacY. out of it.