The North-Carolinian., 1860-01-07
7ETTEVILLE N c. SATURDAY, JANUARY Z, 1860

- The following eininently conservative, and
national views take from that sound Demo
cratic paper the Laurence Sentinel of Lawrence,
Mass 1t is cheering hear such views from a
section SO bitterly opposed to the South:
LET THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH CONSIDER THESE
THINGS.
Our country to have fallen upon perilous
times. The demon OF disorganlzatlon stalks through
out the land and threatens to corrupt the integrity
of the Union and bring confusion and destruction
upon the noble "experlment of the revolutionary
fathers. Now then is the time and occasion for
temperate counsels and the exercise of wise and
Discerning patriotism. The frame work of free
government was constructed by our noble-heartsd
sires in the infancy of the Republic, who threw
around it every bulwark which human wisdom and
foresight could devise. 1t remains with their de-
scendents to perpetuate the rich inheritance by
their intelligence and firm discretion, consign it
to wou destruction by their rash inconsderateness
and fslly crisis now ranendss aud it behooEas
the patriotic -niracd tu siew 1t wish discerning
eve and meet it with well-weighed Judgment and
resolution.
j The late debates in Congress show fearful de-
gree of evaporation the part OF the South 1t
Is not mere passion and excitement which tempor-
arily rues the tempers OF men and then passes OH
and is then forgotten. We see deeper feeling
prev ailing among sober, thinking statesmen and
men who love the Union and have stood by it with
true hearted devotion through storm and sunshine.
They speak not the language OF threat and tanatl-
cism but theirs is the terance of matured con-
vction and meditated, dispasSlOnate reason. A
speecb like that of Mr. Curry of Alabama, means
sonething, it not raving or hot-headed 1t was
calculating and spoken in all soberness; and 1t
told the North that the South was for the Union
and the Constitution, but if she could not sustain
her equality in the Union if her rights guaranteed
by the national compact were to be neither re-
spected protected, Men separation was her only
recourse. Such is the settled sentiment OF the
Southern States and no man can censufe It, 1t Is
the ONLY ground that independent and spirited
community could shouM assume.
The Republicans are laborng to throw odium up
on the South because Southern threaten to
dissolve the Union in certain emergency. But
our friends will bear in mind that even murder is
ustifable when committed in self-defence, and
perhaps the South may plead the same unanswera-
ole principle. She says that the national triumph
of the sectional sentiments Of Seward-republican
sm would amonnt to subverslon of her equal
rights and independence-that therefore she would
then have to make an election between virtual sub
lection and disunion and when driven to that ex-
tremity she prefers the misfortune of the latter to
the disgrace and moral slavery of the former
Should this calamity befan nation, and,
under circumstances such as above Indicated this
Union should be dissolved by the act of the South
impartial history could not do otherwise than justi-
fy the deed.
What is it that has brought upon the nation the
dangers of dissolution and made disunion the topic
Of common conversation and serious discussion and
apprehension 1t is because political party has
been organized upon the single idea of anti slavery
slavery question 5fdT l ;.s7 ot Ae
ance with the constitutional duties OF the CITIZEN
and instng into the public mind the contention
exciting faacy of the 6 irrepressible conflict
Doctrines like these are not barren of fruit, and
we find them maturing into acts OF notification and
rebellion. The black man is enrolled in the militia,
in open and confessed notification of the Constitu
ton of the United States. Personal Liberty Bills
are enacted whereby the sovereign law of Con-
gress and of the Union are disregarded and dehed,
and tho duty of the Individual as citizen OF the
.Stute is made to conflict with his duty as citizen
of the United States These things flow from the
teachings OF the hig cher aw,' and IN this ao@y the
misled people ottAe North ore almost snsensabty,
aoorhing disunion in spite OF their ud-lnouthed
pretcnsions of loyalty.
And where and what is the remedy! Is not the
way of duty and safety plain and clear? The pow
to correct the errors from which we suffer is IN
tbe7people alone. With them it is to wipe out the
treason of the personal Liberty" laws and other
unconstitutional enactments of like righteousness
which sully the statute books of Massachusetts.
Vermont, and other Northern States 1t is for the
patriotism of the n rth to rebuke the anarchy OF
the 'higher law" and the seditious dogmas of the
"irrepressible conflict" and annihiate them at
once and forever. The Republican party enacts
the Personal Liberty Bills-it nuifes the National
Constitution and acts of Congress by admitting the
negro into the ranks of the enro led mi!ita-it
cepts the higher law the rule of political
duct and makes it a penal offence to execute IN
good faith the compacts of the Bond of Union
and the requirements of the laws OF the land-lts
highest, chief aud most accrediated lawgiver has
! proclaimed that szauery must be abolished or the
Union be dssotued From these false teachings our
venom is to humble and overthrow the party from,
which they emanate and by which they upheld
When this is done the nation will rest in peace and
the old fraternal spirit will once bind every
section in happy, prosperous and magnificent
Union.
An elaborately prepared return states the mum
Der of ships of war Of all kinds-ne- of battle ships
frgates, corvettes, and sloops, surveying and small
vessels gun-boat>, tenders, &c.-possessed by the
various civilized nations of the world, follows
England 6 o6, France AS Russia "a, Sweden 311
! principally small vessels,) Norway 143 Denmark
+ 120 the United States 79, Holland 139, Belgium Z
Spain 81, the Two Sices l21, Austria 135, Portu
gal 81, Sardinia 2S Prussia 30, Greece 26. Turkc y
40 Brazil 27, Peru Is (; Chile, 3, Mexico 9.-A. I.
Enquirer.
TIE LAST VICTIM THE CONFIDENCE GAME. "A
| friend who the scene of action informs us
a man named George ID. Wiley (of Georgia, be-
I lieve) swindled at the wharf, while waiting te
take passage the steamer for Mobile, being on his
way to Claiborne Parish Louisiana, out of abou
$4,000, by means of the 'bali game" and two forged
checks on the State Bank of Louisiana. 1t was the
old song two confederated thieves wishes tt
bet with the other dead thing !" borrows th'
money from Rusticus and gives worthless checl
as security. Montgomery (Atd) Nail
~ ABE LINCOLN, the Black Republican oppo
nent of Judge DOUGLAS, in his last contest for re
election to the Senate, delivered speech at Cncin
fDati viii he aftar ad