Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-08-23

NORTH AND SoUTH.-In the midst of that convnls;ve
political agitation which disturbs our country we
are extremey anxious that readers should carefully
distinguish between the right and the wrong as they are
respectively illustrated by the friends and the opponents
OF the South None of US distinctly oresee the issue
OF the hour And while shall cherish the most rigid
and sacred adherence to the Union we cannot be in
sensible to the TACT that danger threatens it, that f the
constitutional rights OF the South assaed by a
party sufficiently formidable to subvert them sedefense
Will leave the South without alternative and seces
sion or submission be the only condition presented by
the republican party to the Southern States The pre-
sent aspect opotca affairs relatively to the republican
party, is that of people driven to extremity in their
deliberations and resources to devise WAYS and means
to resist the impending rule of remorseess tyrant Men
IN the North and men in the South who differ almost
rreconciaby on all great national measures except that
OF slavery feel the necessity OF union that the
representatives. OF republcanism may be defeated, and
the country delivered from the per of their domination
The tyranny OF repubcansm has natural relation to
those VINO desire to secure and WELD it. The faction
or party who resort to this fanatical agency do so al
most exclusively for the purposes of political power
10 acquire this power senseless wanton wu crusade
is organized against southern institutions and southern
rights and this wicked thing is set I'D as political
virtue till Its adherents likely to be sufficiently
numerous to establish it political despotism exact
ing SUBMISSION OF the Southern States or driving them
to secession as an alternative and scattering desoaton
and ruin throughout the land The contemplation of
such result is most deplorable-nay, horrible And
the possibility of such thing looms up like black and
demoMacal Judgment upon people who, with all the
elements and means of happiness and prosperity within
their reach INDUCED the lust of political power at the
cost OF every other good Let the issue be what it may
maintain that the South is not provoking it, There
is no disposition in all the South to invite disunon
secession or any other schism On the contrary the
torbearng spirit OF the South will endure until republ
domination menaCes the ultimate defensive resources
OF the Southern States.
1t proper and just that we should bear in mind the
fact that in all this contest the aggression is of the
North against the South The South is never aggres-
sivet is exclusively defensive. This truth is not only
denied totally ignored by republicans, but in their
fatuaton they insist the contrary without fact
sustain them The southern States are wagng no war
fare against the North they simply defending theu
selves against the policy the North as directed against
them From one extremity OF the southern States to
the other you will not find who would express
desire that any free State should change its policy and
become slave State. Yet it Is significant fact that
the free States closed territory to the citizen of the
South with his slave property while every slave State
is tree to the citizen of the North with his property
This inequality is always existent and ALWAYS against
the South and while this the case republicanism is
anxious to acquire power that it may domineer at will
over the rights and status OF people already
equal position in their interstate relations to the North
When we come to regard the policy of republcanism
aVOwed with respect to the territories of the United
States we besOme sensible OF the gross inequality
1t contemplates What termed congressional inter-
ventiOn" has widely different meaning as employed by
republicansm and democracy. The republicans insist
upon the right of congressional Intervention to eTde
slavery from the territories to prohibit it entirely This
necessarily excludes the southern citizen from the soil of
the United States, and which he may have contributed
to win by his money, his blood and his valor. The
opposite to such intervention would be, congressional
enactment to force Slavery into the territories literally
to exclude those who do not slaves But this could
not be. All the South demands is the right to enter
the territories with slave property in common with the
North there to pursue CIVIL social aud political interests
unmole8ed and upon equal grounds with the nonslave
holder until the territory the author
ty OF State by the adoption of a constitution and adj
mission into the Union. Then if the vote of the people
is prohibitoy and slavery is excluded, the STAKEHOLDER
must withdraw from the territory surrender his pro
perty. This is subordinate position, beyond doubt
but arises from the peculiar notions which prevail or
the subect and is rremediable. Such inequality O
personal status necessarily attaches to the STAKEHOLDER
any country in which slavery is not national institu
ton. But to this inequality the South submits Anc
if it not for the incessant and formidable at
tempts of northern fanatcism and political ambition tt
assa the rights and privileges which belong to this un
equal position and in fact to subvert them entirely
there would be whisper of disunon in all the land
and the harmony of the nation would be undsturbed.-
Is it the North or the South, ask, who will be re
sponsibe for disunon, should such calamity attic
the nation ?-Baltlmore Sun.