Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-01-10

HANOVER,
Differed in the Senate Of North Carolina Wednesday,
December l9H 1860.
Mr.. Hall offered the following resolutions
RESOLVED, That North Carolina is devoedy attached to
the Union of the Constitu onthe Union OF fathers
and still hopes thai may be restored and perpetuaed
Resoed hOlceue That unless by the 4h of March next
the lust OF exclusive Northern sectional domination shall be
quieed and reaction N pubic sentiment at the North
upon the of slavery shall have taken place,
lection OF rights under the Constitution in this parcu
lar and all Others 1t will be the duty OF Norh
ling with her sister states Of the Southto
seek her safety out of the Union
Mr.. Hail then said Mr.. Speaker by is 1t that In
the midst of period of uDeXampled physical prosperi-
ty 10 country, amid the full development of maeri-
al well-being, when fields are teemng with plenty
whitening every the refining Influence
of the arts and the practical benefits of science
being disseminated far and wide capital seeking invest
ment and labor meeting its reward our flag the harbin
ger OF peace and good will to all the nations of the earth
it floats every cline, and churches vocal with
praises to God for his gOodness-why is it, that if
by magic the scene has shifted, and there is pre-
seuted to stricken gaze the narrowing picture OF
men of different sections of the same country, who
should but reflect upon each others cOuntenances the
smiles of fraternal love- scowng at each other 10
almost deadly hate, commerce FRUSTRATED currency de-
preciated, the of industry parayzed public conf
dence gone individual credit suspected and grim want
and pale terror they stalk side by side amid the ruin
that surrounds tim?
1t is, sir, because the slumbering apprehensons of
storm, the mutterings of whose thunder have been
wont to shut to- has burst upon in its fury
the drop which was to make cup overflow, has
been emptied into it. 1t is because the narrowing
vicop, long fought against has at last fixed itself
upon the Southern mind that the slave States of this
Union are to be henceforth practically excluded from
exercising any controlling influence in the policy of this
Government; that the wand of power has passed for
ever into the exclusive grasp of dominant section
whose Interests require system of legislation adverse
them that irrepressbe conflict has been Inaugural
ted under Federal auspices which to end in the abo
tion of domestic slavery, institution which they re-
gard as great moral, social and political blessing
which interviewer in the very fbres of Southern
cety and the very yitals of Southern weLbeng, and
which, when it goes down, if go down it must will go
down in sea of blood Believing thus, the Southern
people have assumed an attitude of resistance to the
Government This has impaired faith in its stability,
and hence the disastrous picture which have feeby
deaVored to portray.
Now sir, shall endeavor to show that this appre-
hension n the Southern mind is not merely the false sug
gestion Of one lillian L. Yancey and his coadjutors
but that it is based upon sober truth and sad reality
and that in pont of fact for North Carolina to acquiesce
in or tamey submit to the menacing administration of
Abraham Lincoln, would be alike fatal to her interests
and her honor and in doing shall state the case as
between the Northern States and North Carolina alone
and speak from the record as now made up between