Newbern weekly progress., 1860-11-20

| IT good L.
Then, why should }Se break up the best govern
ment that the sun IN its circrlit around the earth
| ever shone upon, merely because we have been
defeated in a Presidential election TCheers
Let US rather rally with renewed energy and
dauntless courage to the performances of our du.
| ties and rescue the country from those hands in
! which it ssould never have been placed
| My tr!:-n6s, did not come out here to make a
| speech only made my appearance to acknowl-
| edge the rompliHent of this enormous crowd
| You have filed ME with gratitude. and | reioics
| the more at the spirit hich animates YOU believ
| ing that il means the Constitution and the Union
! rather than a personal compliment to me-
After Senator Douglas had concluded, the null
| titude sent out upon the air three deafening
| cheers, the band struck up a patriotic air, and
| the people quietly retired.
THE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
We deplored, the morning after the Presi-
| dental Election, the triumph of Northern sec
| tional party organization, as the greatest ca
lamity that ever befell this now unhappy coun-
! try,-for what we now from the South
we foresaw to be its inevitable sequence. SEC
| ti0Ha}iSm North by eCery lar Of nature must
| produce &ecti0nalism, South. We said proved
demonstrated all this almost every day for
three months before the election, but, as
! "Union savers" we were sneered at, and de-
| nounced and our warnings were deemed to
| be merely political talk " and hence were all
| in vain. 1t is beyond the power of conserva-
| tive men IN the North now Ito save the Union"
No public meetings, no profession of theirs
would DO the least good. All we can do is to
| beg our alarmed Southern countrymen to pause
and TO stand by us who have so faithfully
stood by them and their constitutional rights
in the Union. Only one Northern State how
ever has even this right to address the South
and that is the State of New Jersey, the old
| battle ground of Washington, where, in Tren-
| ton and Princeton, he struck blows that cleo
| trtcd the Colonial Union,-for all other North
| eTn States in joining the sectional organization
! appear as inimical. to the South and as suspect
in all petitions they may have to send up, or
remonstranccs they may have to offer.
| DeploIable and alarming as is the news from
| the Southern States the Republican party in
! the North, flushed with victory as it is and
! greedy for, and inexperienced in Federal pow
CT, is yet in no temper to appreciate the crisis
TO say nothing of such speeches, as we have
from Senator S>1mner-the rumors we have
from Springfield, Lincoln's home, and such ar
ticieS as we have from 'the evening Post" and
'>New Torl Times, all go to show that the
! Republican Party is utterly ignorant of the
South. and Of the deep revolutionary causes
there at work. These people, and these Jour
na}iSts. in consequence of the twenty years
thrcatnIng, demonstrating we have been
having from the South, have not the least idea
that crisis is impending there, or ifit is, they
,
powder and ball. They ignore the fact that
for the first time in the history of our land, a
sectional Party has seized Federal power, in
aYowcd hostility to the whole South and that
even the forewarnings of the Father of his
Country in his Farewell Address, have not
had the least effect upon that Northern Party.
They confound the cry for salvation' now
raised in the whole South, with the mere g No
Tariff cry of South Carolina in 1882. The Re
publican mind in the North, in short has not
the least idea of what is gOing on South, or
1ch0t the South 01eanS,-and it will not begin
to comprehend it till the cry of Bread" or
| 'BloOd2 is re-raiSed in our streets, when thou
sands Of our labOrers are thrown out of employ.
For our own conservative readers,-not for
our Republican and yet incredulouS readers,
we feel it our duty to say that, in opin-
ion, we are on the very brink Of Revolution,
and in the midst of a crisis, just exactly like
that which preceded the shedding of blood at
Concord and Lexington. But one life lost in
this ''confict," now arising beyond the flourish
of ec01ds now spreading into the dignity of
nrn,s,-and a million of bayonets will be brist-
ling from the Susquehannah to the Rio Grande
with consequent and inevitable civil war in
such cities as st. Louis, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York, k,-where parties will divide,
some North and some SOuth-all ending in
''conhcts' among themselves, the one against
the other.
Parties of course in such a crsis as this, will
cease to exist as they are, and reform in other
shapes-but it is our duty now everywhere,
North and South, to try to stop this Revolution.
Alas, We of the North, who are not Of the
Northern Sectional party, powerless! We
have exhausted ourselves in heroic efforts, here
in New York city, to save our country from
the Revolution, and our power is spent. What
ever we say now is answered by the thousands
and tens of thousands of majorities against US,
Il.
not only without authority, but without infu-
ence in the State. Our very efforts now ''to
save the Union would only bring down
the old Republican ridicule upon our heads.
The Republicans now have all the duties to
discharge An organ of thcrs-the Evening
Post-calIs upon the Federal Government to
use Force First, there is a great doubt whether
anv law now exists in this country to bring Ged-
eral Force against State Force, or if there does,
whether it would amount to anything thus
brought against State But can Force be any
remedy? so the South are right when they
say: ''We have not been having an election,
but subjection" "a Government is not es-
tablished, but conquest created" "We are
su6ject8-citizens, no more"
The Republican Party, in order to arrest the
impending revolution, must satisfy the SOUTH
that it as g a Government that is created, not
conquest that the people of the South
are yet 8 citizens" not &" subjects" The Union
Men of the North are powerless to establish
such important facts. We cannot say, even,
that this is Government in which the States
are equal, and have equal rights,-for, as we
understand the Republican creed, this is de-
MED. We cannot promise the South even the
execution of Federal laws, obedience to the
Federal Constitution as expounded by the SUI
preme Federal Tribunal Only the Republi-
can Party can do all this. What they will do
remains TO be seen,-as the crisis increases
South and reacts upon the North, and thus dis
pels Republican incredulty.-N Y. Express.
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