Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1861-02-26

An esteemed friend who still clings to tie
Union and hopes for restoration to peace alId
former greatness and grandeur, calls our attcI
ton to the following items:
RECoNsrRUCTIoN.-Wc have already callcj
attention (savs the Vicksburg Whig) to a tcst
vote, taken some days since, on Il proposition
looking to the future reconstruction OF the Fed
eral Union on more perfect and equitablcDa-
sis A still more decisive vote was given last
Saturday, which would seem to indicate that
Mississippi does not despair Of a reformation
of the Republic. Mr. Elicit, Of Claiborne,
who has recently jumped from conservatism to
the furthest extreme of radicalism, offered tre
following resolution:
Resoiccd, by the people of the State of Nj
sissippi in Convention assembled That the re
construction of the Union Of the United States
of America is impractical and unadvisable, and
that hereafter Mississippi ought to confederate
only with States having similar domestic III
stitutions 10 her own.
motion to lay it on the table was carried
yeas 45, nays 90.
'REcoNsTEuCTIoN"- For the present at least
we rcpudiatc this term. We strike it from ur!r
vocabulary We viii have none Of it. Re
construction" What does it signify but t:.e
Union is dissolved the Republic destroyed, Che
nation extinct What does itassuinc but that
we have a country no longer? We are no1
vet prepared to grant this assumption We
not 'Feconstruction," is or should be still ID:
watchword Of every genuine lover of his coun-
try. Words are sometimes things and th!,
word Reconstruction" now flowing 50 glibiy
from the lips and pens Of prvcipitators here, J.
that hideous thing DIsuNIoS; nothing les
Let patriots shun 1t as they would shun t.
abyss to which it points While We are i2
boring generously and manfully tOr the 81! d.
ton of our country, let Us not thwart and s-a
tfy ourselves by saying or implying that -
have no country to save LuHtSctLc JOurHrl
The object Of the pc oplc Of Virginia, t.
pressed by their Legislature and by their vi.
at the recent election, is, If it can be done hos
orably, to restore the Union OF the States, an
preserve that Union for all time to come. IL
object Of South Carolina, as expressed by Ao~
Legislature, her Convention, and as far as So
know, by her people, is to ctfccsually and t:sa.
! " dissolve the Union, and render its rcconst~;.
/ ton impossible Certainly The two States lls.y,
/ nothing in common OH that score. They a.
wide and far asunder. The example, purposes,
! designs, and objects OF South Carolina arc all
opposed for the present, to our rights, fecliaga
and interests.-4ter. Gazette
4 letter received in Washington from North
! Alabama and parts Of Georgia represent great
reaction in progress against the secession move
Inent. So strong is this feeling in come sections
that they arc said to refuse TO acknowledge the
secession ordinance, and keep the stars and
stripes flying. The same feeling prevails ii
portions of Mississippi and Louisiana ard the
/ question naturally arises, viii the Southern
Confederacy use coercion against It's refractory
subjects:
\ letter from Georgia member Of Congrcss
was shown around the House of RcprescntiYes
to-day, in which he deplores the reaction il
the popular mind in the Gulf States, and fear,
its increase ifa compromise is effected satistac
tory to the Border States.
In Mr. Stokes's district, Tennessee one couu
ty gave, 5, 700 for the Union and G75 for scces
sion; and even at Memphis, which was sup
posed to hc not bed Of secession, the Unioi-
men have elected their delegates by ma.
jority of 400.
Adelaide Phillips assumes the r0te OF the
Witch Urica in the new opera in New York,
and the critics praise her acting and singing