Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-23

it fOun Wish now TO ADVERT 10 one more cause
of the present hostile state of sentiment towards at
the North which, by way of paation, has been styled
/" the influence of few willy demagogues on this gues
ton of slavery No doubt that has been something
let us enquire how much We attacked the back
with good-natured, conciliatory SLAP and My dear
Sir have patience while, and you will all is right.
By and by there will come another mighty reaction J!
Do you not notice tie tremendous Mass Meetings
the vox populi can accomplish, and how the Union is
loved North? Be very easy, my dear sir your rights
shall soon be acknowledged, to extent that will
prise you For it is only at BEST few hair-traned
enthusiasts of no consequence who have been conspng
against you and the willy demagogue has been using this
sentiment to ride into power. You need entertain no
fears justice will certainly be done you at last"
The very expression, Messrs. Editors have been in
search Of viz " Has been using this sentiment" 1t
appears them they are tsing-those willy demagogues-
and not creating that sentiment and SUCH indeed is the
fact The sentiment has long had existence and is ready
to their hands The pulpit has created it the public
lecturer has created it nursery and resde misrepresen
tations have created it the professor In College and
Academy has created it and Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe has contributed most copous materials for its for
nation And your willy and aspiring demagogue mere
y touches chords already strung and in une and they
respond to his skiul hand. They make the music he
expects and he is sent to any place be may aspire to
the Legislature, the Governors House, the Halls of
Congress-not because he has created the Abolition
votes to elect him, but because he has drawn them, al
ready made, to his support lie certainly musters the
Black Republican strength but what more has he done
than to give discipline and concentration to swarming
host to achieve victory? The voters it is evident have
long been waiting for the beat of his drum when that
heard they rally to his support and the work is done
This after candid examination of the case, appears to
be the amount of his influence, and nothing more.
All the reasons above instanced Messrs Editors have
been represented to many, why the Union must
of necessity continue wish to notice one more, urged
at the North and shall have done examining the pre-
servatives of the Union This last reads thus" The
Union must be preserved" If any State be recusant
she must be whipped into submission to the law of the
land lis the plain meaning of it. Andle one, or any
number of Southern States, undertake to secede, OF
course that is the antidote to apply and the Union will
be preserved would rather not discuss this last method
of saving our confederacy, tor have heard several
worthy gentlemen OF my acquaintance assert roundly
that the home of Washing ton and Marion would not
like such remedy and in truth, gather as much from
their past history. shall, therefore, have to dismiss
that method of saving the Union without further COM
ment. 1t does not bear to be argued upon.
This is, perhaps the proper place to consider mode
of opposing the fanaticism of the North, which pc
cuiar to the South, and which has been adopted for
long time amongst US. [ not certain can do it full
Justice for it is most venerable remedy and has been
applied with some success quite number OF years.
But diveSted of all the rhetorical ornaments under which
has usually presented itself before the public believe
in few words it would read as follows q" If northern
aggression upon domestic institutions does not soon
cease shall be compelled to resort to that ultimate
remedy for all wrongs, secession. Now, as these
aggressOns haze not ceased, nor from all have been
able to discover WILL but every agency of aliena
ton and distrust has been piled with progressive indus
try and success forced to the conclusion that the
time is drawing nigh for the adoption of that measure
if the South meant what was expressed.
The South, Messrs Editors, has usually been denom
mated the Hotspurr of the Union and Freeaers when
they have attempted to assert heir rights. But
not perceive this to be have observed this section
have been patient of wrongs and forbearng under a
sorts of abuse and aggression. have seen the South
remain passive even under qualifications of the grand COM
pact where State legislation has hwared acts of congress
and the Constitution once. have further observed
that the South has the public domain heetng from
its grasp by northern management the most untraterna
that can be conceived and Offering but few eXpoSUla-
TONS and those not violent on the OF so grevous
wrong And all this, toO Messrs Editors, when much
of that public domain had become the property of
Government solely by Southern lberaty. They have
the increasing power OF their adversares, with
promise, that discover of Its abatement Yet all
this while they have sat compacent and gentle as suck
ing doves because these gentlemen of the ever
protested dispositions the most pacific They have, we
are assured designed hostility against U.s. only to cir
cumscrbe little the extension of slavery. They medl
tate attack upon only gradually to compel US to
emancipate slaves, all very kindly and parentay be-
they, dwelling in land of great refinement and
learning in all sorts OF things, have arrived at much
better understanding of interests than southern
brains could possibly attain. Nothing further, learn,
from their intentions than shed blood only if
sist and it becomes necessary for them strike in self
Defence then it must OF course be done yet not willing
| ly but in than i'll anger, and merely TO
carry out so benevolent enterprise the liberation
of oppressed humanity" The negro is, they maintain
as White man as any OF U.s. II you but go under the
outer cutice. The sun, they admit has been little IN
kind to his complexion and the natural scent OF him is
not quite agreeable 10 Ang lOSaXon nOsrls. But upon
the whole ne is the equal US ALL intellectually, morally
and should be politically. His only fault, If it be One
is, that he guilty OF IL skin not colOred like
But then his color is beautifully black and that kind OF
pigment being favorable to freedom any other, he
is surely entitled to as large measure of liberty any
other man. Accordingly, with much zeal, they set about
putting him footing of perfect equality with the
white.
Men of this persuasion observe usually invite Alri-
their tables and otherwise show their contempt OF
unphiosophica prejudice by introducing it to their
daughters and families in general.
This is the midest phase OF those doctrines which we
have been compelled to listen owlth how much weari
of the fesh and what an infnity of yawnng, no
one can tell But the South has endured it ALL most
heroicaly for the sake the constitution and the exist
ing state of things.
Another tenet of abolitionism more warlike in its
vein has, to be sure, somewhat aroused sumberng
energies. 1t is this The negro has a natural right
to freedom and is entitled to kill his master, if
ry, to berate himself The gentlemen protesting this
phase of abolitlonsm have made startling advancement
in the higher law creed They would put the TORCH the
sword and the rifle in the hands OF the slave, and bid
him STAY and be free. They would burn cities and
towns, expose wives and children to the uss and
crueltes horde of exasperaed barbarians and then
all meek and resigned to caamties, brought about
solely by their agency, call this the righteous retrib
tion Of Heaven" They would see our old men butch
ered our matrons and daughters violated and while the
negro satating his vengeance, by every species
ruthless brutality naugurate such savage atrocities by
singing psalms to the Prince Of Peace When oul
| whole beautiful
ton and ruin, and they pousy express it, the time
of our fear had come" they would devouty clasp the
hands and thank their God that the gores of the potica
millnum had at last dawned upon their sight So say
that benevolent friend of freedom and Africa Mr. Josh
ia r. GiddiDgs.