Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-12-13
How They TnIk.

We have before US sundry papers from the North
leading papers of the opposition partywe mean the
triumphant Lincoln party, and they have pretty much
all resumed the bullying tone which distinguished them
during the Presidential canvass.
That moderate Republican paper, the Philadelphia
North American of Thursday the 5th inst talks thus
about coercion treason, and so forth =
The danger of permitting men to be drawn on in crime
bv an apparent relaxation of law and seeming release
from the penalties incurred by such acts have marked
the recent of South Carolina IS now very great
This growing belief in the possibility of Selling forts
of closing rivers and harbOrs and of putting up the
framework of southern confederacy is in part due to
the fact that the great majority OF the people feared
false representation so much to be unwilling to step
forward and declare what the inevitable consequences
would be- partisan Executive Is IN power, who Will
not do his duty and partisan presses at the north prefer
to incite revolution if they possibly can Restrained
by decacy the leaders of the victorious party IN the
elections are not willing to assume to speak Tor the gen.
era public at once and the state OF affairs has an as
pect of relaxation and license of which the extremists at
the south are determined to make the most 1t is now
our duty to arrest this easy sliding into trouble even at
the risk of being falsely represented 1t is our duty to
say that the Union must not be broken up by violent
hands, that hundreds of thousands WILL If necessary, de-
vote their lives to its protection and maintenance The
mouth of the Mississippi must remain to the Unlon-
The coasts of the Gulf and of the Atlantic must never
harbor hostile fleets however small. The whole CONT
nent belongs the people of the north well as to any
immediate residents in any part We have bought the
SOIL have paid for and defended it, have maintained
large expenditure it in the interests OF civilization
as well as in the more limited of prOpretorshp
We cannot give up to the slave trade to the unbr
died schemng of fibusers and freebooters against ev
cry assailable part OF the EARTH
For the first time we learn that the people Of thu
North own the soil of the South-that they bought
paid for it or have defended it. The North and thu
South have alike bought the territories acquired b.
purchase while the North has appropriated to hersel
the exclusive benefit of the greater portion Of SUCH
The threat addressed to the South by the Editor of tn
Philadelphia North American will be fully understood
by those who recolect the Roman frmness J" display
ed by that gentleman while Sheriff of the city and coun
ty of philadelphia in 1874, we think it was.
We next open the n. Y. Courier and Enquirer of tn
9Th and we find there all manner of dicule against Sout
Carolina. It says, in effect We willing the S0ut
should try to get any concession it pleases but W
warn them that they will get none. All talk abOu
guarantees is bosh The North has just triumphed an
will not abate jot or title She is big and feels he
keeping, and General Webb no longer breads the mi
hogany stocks of Duff Green's pistols.
The New York World, the ultra moderate Republ
can paper recently started upon christian principles
the commercial capital of the country after deprecatn
resort to coercion if possibly avoidable, takes tt
ground that the general government has the same rgf
and is under the obligation to enforce submisso
in State as in a territory the jurisdiction
this respect over South Carolina over Utah.
The New York Tribune is, as usual, half rational an
more than half insulting 1t says, let the Souther
States 60, but let them take care how they go. II
Tribune, as the turnkey of the new administration
really more arrogant and insulting than the most ope
advocates of coercion.
A gentlemen who has just been North tells us ths
there is no realizing there among the people, of tt
actual state of feeling at the South. All is looked upo
as mere bra7ado.