Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-08-21
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From North Carolina.
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4ne pfinclpai man In the place.
Mr.. J. A. Anderson, the postmaster, who has
amassed handsome fortune by store.keepiHg,
still stands up for Lincoln, aud thinks he
would have made one OF the "beat of Presi-
dents II he had been left alone"
Great discord exists among the officers Of
the Confederate army In Virginia, and the
most alarming insubordination among the
rank and file. So chaotic and anarchial ID
the condition Of affairs that the whole or
RaAization may explode spontaneously at any
moment. One OF the chief cause5 OF this
lack of that military rapport and unity so
essential to success lies in the entire want OF
that homogeneousness and sympathy which
distinguished prominently the armies of the
North, where, from the practical oblteration
of States lines and the intimate association
and intermingling of the people, 20 such
thing as provincial peculiaritiei and jealous.
les exist.
There are fierce dissensions among the
leaders Of Southern opinion, which cannot be
disguised. and will ere long break out viru-
lently. Pride alone resttains them for the
present. predict secession of one or more
States from the new Coniederacy, or a COM
plete disruption oil it within six months
Separation from the @. s. A. and indepen-
dent State existence is already favored here
as well as in South Carolina and elsewhere.
The JEFF. Davis league is, by its own funda-
mental maxims and the very auspices of its
origin, but rope of sand dependent for its
integrity upon the continued consent of its
several parts. The sristocrstic innovations
you hear of as contemplated, such as the re-
striction of the right of suffrage, cannot be
easily established The people know their
power, and are learning new lessons of their
| value every day. Armies are far less the
nurseries OF despotism than they are of radi-
cal democracy.
There are thousands of abolitionists in
North Oarolina, and this element has been
gradually and firmly growing for many
years The large and influential Society Of
Friends or Quakers is here as elsewhere
stoutly opposed to Slavery. The State has
numerous residents of German birth or an
cestry, who are instinctively for Freedom
John P. Hale received more votes for Presi-
dent in 1852 here than in Maryland. Some
years ago an anti-Slavery paper was pub.
lished at Salem, Forsyth county, where the
Moravisn missionaries have penetrated and
established Female Seminary. Revolutions
once inaugurated never retrogade The ac
Udlorea agitation which shook the State from
center to circumference last year. brought
the whole matter of Slavery and the pecu
culiar immunity OF shareholders from pro
portionste taxation, together with other spe
cisl privileges Of that class, under minute anC
elaborate discussion; and upon it the 0ppo
sition party barely failed to carry the elec
ton, and would have succeeded but for loca
and side issues. Usually, there has been Jht
largest federation of opinion and action il
this State, and the result has been a progress
i've and permanent development of free sen
timeut and liberal views. The people havt
great native good sense; their instincts arr
honest and conservative. The sons OF NortI
Carolina who have so numerously migrated
, 20 Indiana Illinois and other Western States
have sent back powerful reflex influence TO
free institutions to the State that rearet
them. These factors of movement and re
form cannot be destroyed. r
Notwithstanding the profit of cotton rails
ing and slave breeding in North Carolina
the slave-holding interest which is chief,
concentrated in about a dozen counties to
ward the eastern part of the State, has neve
attempted until recently to domineer owe
other interests. The western people, VIII
own few slaves, have been systematicall,
, concilitated by large appropriations for rail
roads; all property qualification for voter
has been abolished liberal school fund ha
been established; the sufrages of Quaker
| and Northern settlers have been sought b.
both political parties, and the non-slavehold
q. ing element has been in other respects ftudi
ously coUrted. The Pro-slavery argumen
has never been popular; and prudent stump
speakess and editors have generally refrainet
from urging it There has not been ths
constant indoctrination in the tenets of Stat
} Rights and the philosophy of Secession whicI
, has prevailed notoriously in South Csrolin
and Virginia.
The people of this State voted two to on
last February for staying in the Union Ii
May last the State was rushed out by
packed Convention. The ordinance was no
and never hss been submitted to the people
for the conspirsto2s well knew they woult
refuse Indignantly to ratify the treasonabl
! act. The mumurs OF remonstrance and dis
sent have not been and cannot be suppressed
J Thousands upon thousands of loyal men bav
organized themselves in Union Lodges, GOV
ering the whole State, and enabling them t,
perfect their plans and await. securely an,
confidently, the hour to strike a concertet
and effective blow for their deliverance aut
the redemption of the Commonwealth. Thi
: organization is immensely more nuunerou
! and formidable than was ever that fussy ant
j frivolous order in North Carolina known a
the Knights Of the Golden Cir;
: There are many Masons in North Carroll
na, who have not forgotten the indissolubl
7 ties Of their fraternity, and its solemn obi
cations. find, in some instances, Who'll
! Lodges, every member of which is a firm ad
herent TO the Union. The next snniversarl
of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen
dence, stained as it was this year by the pas
7 sage of the Secession ordinance, viii Witnes
, the institution of a new State Government
: snd the return of North Carolina to her al
Iegianee to the Republic with a full repre-
} sentation in both Houses of the Nationa
Congress. The services of a regiment Q
loyal North Carolinians will be shortly ten
dered to the Government, a majority Q
: whom, despite the insulting answer of th
5 late Gov. Ellis to the Presidents Proclama
tion, were anxious to proceed to the iefens
of the Capital in April last Thus viii th
r recuperative energy of the Union overcom
the evil forces of disintegration, and ult
mately restore the ascendency its benefcer
paternal Government over every State.
A Patriotic Woman.
s A lady of st. Louis publishes the follow
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