Newbern weekly progress., 1860-12-04
WEEKJ,Y PROGRESS
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. !, 1860.

Tho Newbern Progress blows over a so-caiieoi
Union meeting to be held IN onsio" eaio
,oaatino being called by f. u hoonce' ine
young man who as electoi oh 'ne ~:
3v;ol-of rot "a votes in his own county. InlS
1oho1 S ,on MO bcIieve amuses himself talking
about the journal. Ihe o'"
-WiI Journal
We made the publication for Union Meet
min Onslow at the request of several promi-
nent and respectable citizens OF the county,
and called attetion to it in very brief way IN
orr editorial column, and for this we are ridl-
c,,lod nv the Wilmington Journal. As be-
tween that paper and Mr.. Koonce we have
nothing to sav-suppose Mr.. koonce can take
care of himself and of course the journal can
do the same We made the publication at the
request of number of our patrons VINO GER
tainlv had a right ask to us to make IL, anu 'he
assertion that we 'sblowed" over it is as gratul-
tous as it is unfounded.
And has it come to this, that county meet
ing cannot be called in North Carolina looking
+o tho welfare of that Union under which the
,,or+;c;nators were born and under which they
have lived. without their being ridlculed and
twitted bv the half dozen diSunion papers IN
North Carolina, not one of the editors OF which,
we believe, were born in the State, and some
ofwhom are not natives of the country at all !?
We are willing that foreigners should come
here that they should vote, own negroes, hold
office. govern u.s. and do everything which a
native may do, but when they attempt 10 lead
in measures intended to break up the Govern
ernment we must enter our protest 1hey
may enjoy the benefits OF the Govern
ment but they must not destroy it. But for
the great influx of foreigners into the Northern
States the country most probably would not
he in the fix it is in They have helped to
keep up the fanatical fires at the North and
have swelled Abolition majorties until that
entire section of the country has triumphed
over conservatism And while this condition
Of things exists at the North we see the same
class of naturalized citizens leading on
the sectional column at the South. Who are
the editors in North Carolina that have de-
clared in favor of Immediate secession regardless
of consequences and whence came they? Is
there single son of our soil among them?
We think not Most,of them have been either
transplanted from the North or from Europe,
and while we make no war on them and while
we respect them as much as we do other citi-
zens we do think that they should follow, not
attempt to lead. Natives are supposed to know
as much of Republcanism and republican in
stitutions, and to be as fully alive to their hon
or and the honor of the South as foreigners Of
only few years growth.
The Journal is fond of harping on the mea-
gre vote received by Mr.. Douglas in this State
In this we wish it much joy, but has it had the
candor to tell the public that it's pet, Mr.. Breck
inridge, the embodiment of the principles which
it has been advocating Congressional interUeo-
ton and DisuniOn was repudated by a ma
iority of the people of the South on the 9Th of
November the popular vote of the South
is against him by 100000 to 100000?
We have just seen gentleman, perfectly re-
liable, who has been through Onslow within
the last few days, and he assures US that many
of the largest Shareholders in Onslow with
whom he conversed are strong Union men
they are opposed to submission to wrong but
they are much attached to the Union and think
that other and further efforts should be made
to preserve it. For this, however, we suppose
they will subject themselves to the ridcule of
the Journal