Newbern weekly progress., 1861-06-04

We thank an esteemed friend for calling our
attention to the following which appeared in
the Richmond Examiner.
The race in Secession between Virginia and
North Carolina has been spirited. The Old
| North State took short cut and beat the Old
! Dominion by three days. She elected Con-
yention unanimous for Secession about the
time Virginia submitted her own tardy Ordi-
nance for popular ratification. Her ConVen-
ton met and unanimously seeded on the goth
! instant: Virgiule voted herself out on the 29d.
1t was fair race, in which Virginia came out
second, North Carolina first. The latter State
| has another claim to the palm in this contest;
| she had no Northwest, and presented nowhere
any front of detection.
North Carolina is doing nobly, too, in her
! contributions of soldiers for this war. She
has endeared herself to Virginia for all time,
| by the alacrity with which she is now rallying
| to her aid and to her side. The world has not
! furnished two such instances of popular una
nmity and zeal as the people of North Carroll
ma and Virginia are presenting IN this Crisis
| of the South not only in their voting upon
the question of Secession, but in their enlist
| ments and preparations for the war. North
Carolina is called the State of Rip-Van- w inkle;
and it is charged that Virginia "never tires
because her movements are habitually so very
! sluggish but in the last six weeks the first
| of these great States has relieved itself from
| these imputations of laggardness. None OF
the States of the South have surpassed 1t at
any time in the vigour and zeal with which
| they have enlisted in the cause of Secession.
North Carolina has many claims to conspl-
| cuous rank among the States of the South
like Virginia, she has been great fountain,
| from which has flown constant streams OF en-
| igration to the West and Southwest. She,
! too has.been a mother of States and states
men. Tennessee, the State of the Volunteer S
| is peculiarly the daughter of North Carolina;
! and there is scarcely a neghborho0d in the
whole of the New Southern States which does
not embrace her citizens AMI their descendants
among its population.
North Carolina was not behind in the Revo-
luton. Her Declaration of Independence at
| Mecklenburg preceded that of Congress by a
year and six weeks. Though Tories from all
the colonies sought security in the secluson of
| her Western districts, yet these very districts
gave efficient aid to the patriotic cause when
the war was transferred to that quarter AS
the campaign of the North was virtually decl
ded and ended at Saratoga, so was the cam
paign of the South virtually settled at King
Mountain. Here two North Carolina regi-
ments, one from Virginia and another from
South Carolina met the flower of the army of
| CORVALLIS, under Ferguson, and utterly des-
| troyed 1t. 1t was this signal catastrophe which
so crippled and embarrassed the British Gen
eral as to drive him ultimately into that long
retreat which terminated in the surrender at
Yorktown. The victory of the Revolutionary
! fathers, which ended at York town, commenced
at Kings Mountain, where the battle was
fought on North Carolina soil, and won in part
by North Carolina rihemen, under the brave
Colonel Williams. True, Virginia was there
in the persons of William Campbell and his
| noun taineers from our Southwest; but the
victory belonged to North Carolina full as we'll
as to any contestant for the glory Of that day.
AS Virginia and North Carolina thus stood
shoulder to shoulder, and thus fought side by
side in the Revolution, so they stand and will
| fight now in the struggle that is upon both.
| In the political contests of the country these
| two States have at times been somewhat cs-
tranged from each other by the different poti-
cal creeds they have espoused but this has
only been the case in our latter days. In the
great struggle of '98 and 80, and in the
times of 1912 and IA, they were not thus sepa-
| rated. There was no more abler or more truS-
ted advocate of the doctrines championed by
I Virginia than Nathaniel Macon, and the friend
| ship which existed between this noble old Ro-
man and our own eccentric John Randolph
was typical of the cordial relations then cheer
ished by the two States. The wars of jackson
and Clay brought on partisan estrangement
between Virginia and North Caralina; but
this estrangement died with the combatants in
that quarrel. In these latter times Vrg inia
and North Carolina have stood together in firm
and cordial alliance on the two floors of Con-
gress and there are no statesmen whom our
people hold in higher respect for talent, worth,
and fidelity, than Reid, Bragg, Clingman,
Branch, Ruftin, Winslow, and Ellis.
Cut off by narrow sandbars and dangerous
coast from the ocean, North Carolina is forced
to send her trade to market through Virginia
and South Carolina, and thus loses much of
that individuality which an independent COM
merce would give her; but there is no State
where education fourishes, industry prospers,
and moral worth and independence abound
more generally or in higher degree, than in
this same Old North State. There is no ally
whose support and assistance will prove more
valuable to Virginia than that Of this sterling,
staunch and unwavering old neighbor Com
monWealth.
Hampton ROads-Interesting Facts.