Newbern weekly progress., 1860-10-02

| er be realized. am, very truly, your friend
and obedient servant, JAMES L. ORR
Hon. Amos Kendall, Washington, D. C.
Mr.. KENDALLS REPLY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10
Hon. James L. OrT-My Dear Sir: Your let
ter Of the 18th ult., reached Washington while
| was absent in the North
Though L did not contemplate when | wrote
you on the 9th ult., anything beyond limited
private correspondence yet having no opinions
on the Portentous condition Of public affairs
| which have motive to conceal or am ashamed
to avow, [ cheerfully comply with your sug-
geStions.
You quote from my former letter the declar-
alton that my mind is equally clear that the
South has long had peaceful remedy within
her reach and has it still, though impaired bv
| the recent conduct of some of her sons and
you ask of me full explanation of nv opin-
ions on that point as well as " the remedy to
be resorted to by us-the South-should the
government in November pass into the hands
of party whose declared purpose is to destroy
| our property, amounting in value at the pres
ent time to not less than three billions one hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars" You ask,
. can 1t be prudent, safe or manly in the South
to submit to the domination Of party whose
declared purpose is to destroy such an amount
| of property and subvert our whole social and
| industrial policy?
In subsequent part of your letter YOU call
, my attention to certain grievances endured by
the South, and conclude your commentary
| thereon as follows, viz:
! "Is it wise, if we do not intend to submit to
! such consequences, to allow a black republican
| President to be inaugurated and put him in
| possession of the army, the navy, the treasury
the armor1es and arsenals, the public property
! III fact the whole machinery Of the government,
: ItC ,+c o,,Jo Tf+I,o
| South should think upon this subject as | do
no black republican President should ever exc
! cute any law within her borders, unless at the
/ point OF the bayOnet, and the dead bodies
/ OF her slain sons"
l Shuuder at such sentiments coming from
one whose sincerity cannot doubt The time
was when $50, 600 men rendered their services
! to the President to aid him, if necessary in
executing the laws Of the United States; the time
will come when 200, 600 will volunteer for a like
purpose should resistance be made to his le-
gltilnate authority, matter by what party he
may be elected.
There seems to me to be, in the course re-
commended to the South in the event of Mr.
! Lincoln's election to the Presidency, fatuity
little sort of madness. Would you pull down
| the canopy of heaven because wrong and crime
exist beneath it? Would you break up the
| earth upon which we tread because earthquakes
sometimes heaveit and pestilence walks its sur
face? This Union, sir is too precious to the
people it protects, North and South, East and
| W est, to be broken up, even should black re
publican be elected President next November.
Should the attempt be made, an united North
! and three-ourths of a divided South would
! spring 10 the rescue No, no, the remedy for
the evils OF which youjustly complain are to be
found within the Union, and not among its
! bloody ruins.
admit that the grievances which you emu
l>o .
ern are not without responsibility for their
existence. The general sentiment of the country
North and South, at the close Of the revolution
airy war was anti-slavery 1t has changed in
| the South, but remains unchanged in the North.
There however, it has been reused to unwon-
ted activity by the prcachings Of fanatics and
the denunciation of political demagouges, aided
mot a little by the arts, the language and the
yiolecc of Southern disuionists
1t is needless to give in detail all the causes
which have brought the politics of the country to
their present deplorable condition. Suffice it to
say thot you have long had in the South small
party ct able mon whose aim has been to destroy
the Union that preliminary to their main
design, they have sought to break up the demo
cratic party that their means for accomplishing
this end We're to act with it. and force upon it
every possible issue obnoxious to the general
sentiment of the North: that they have dragged
after them the true Union of the South. partly
through their fears of being considered laggard in
through ambition for political distinction to make
the democratic party as odious possible at the
North, they became the advocates of slavery on
principle, justified the African slave trade, and
denounced the laws prohibiting 1T. BY these
acts, and frequent threats of diSunlOn, they ena-
bled the enemies of democracy in the North to de-
nounce them pro-savery men, and to all this
they added occasional taunts that they were no
more TO be relied upon for the protection of South
ern rights than their opponents BY these means
J the democratic reduced before
presidential election to a minority in most of the
Northern states and in the residue had the utmost
difficulty i'll maintaining their ascendency. In
! the meantime, the union men IN the South had
measuraby ceased to consider the democratic par
ty friendly TO the Union and the union senti-
ment in the border slave states, whose interest IN
its preservation is preeminent, sought expression
! through the American party. 10 such an extent
had the democratic party been weakened by the
insduous policy of their disunion allies that they
had the utmost difficulty in electing an old practi
cal statesman over young man who had nothing
| to recommend him beyond a few successful
| plorations of our wilderness territory.
! There We're those who foresaw that longer affi-
liation with Southern disuniOnsts would inevita-
bly, destroy the ascendency of the democratic
party, and feeble and fruitess effort made
to induce the President to lay the foundations of
his administration on the rock of the Union, and
cut loose from those who wer seeking to destroy
it. For reasons, no doubt patriotic. but to me in
| explicable, the reverse of that policy pur-
| sued. The support of the Lecompton constitu-
ton. winch the country generally believed to be
fraud. made the test of democracy one lead
! ing democrat after another prescribed be-
cause they would not submit to the test. and as
if to deprive Northern democrats of the last hope
of successfully vindicating the rights of the South
an act of Congress was passed for the admission
of Kansas into the Union at once, provided she
would consent to become savehodng State,
but postponing her admission indefinitely if she
refused.
In your published letter you justly condemn
the seceders from the Charleston convention,
who, you think, ought to have remained and pre-
vented the nomination of candidate who is OBJ
noxicus to the South: Do yon not perceive, sir,
that the secession part of the programme
for breaking up the demonacratic party? And
is it not palpabIe that after vacatng their seats
at Charlston, they went to Baltimore for the mere
purpose of mue effectually completing the work of
destruction by drawing off another detachment?
/, sir, entertain no doubt that the secession was
the result most desired by the disunionists; that
the object of the new issue then gotten up
merely to perform pretext for secession, and its
adoption was the last thing they desired de
signed
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