Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1861-04-26

For the : entinel.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 3, 1861.
Ma5s2s AIsrAuGI & >IrE~: presume, by tlis
time, mat Tie good people cf " Carolina like ours,
are beginning to see how they have been deceived
bj fanatics OF tie North snd the leaders Of the
clsi-sec.sss9a party of the South. First Were
trii By eur arti-secession leaders to Walt until
Congress sIionld meet then for the proceedings Of
the Committee of Thirteen; then for the Commit
tie of T!irsy-three then for the Peace C,nfer-
eaoe; and lastly for The Inaugural Now we have
waited and tl,:,t patiently bnt am sorry
saY, that we have waited G:ly to be d5ap pointed.
Congress assembled, and it DID nothing that was
evel satisfactory enthusiastic leaders
III he so-c,l9ed Union purity, n-uch less to the
friends oi the secession movements. SG:il it was
na.ie~t something be DONE and that
&. early day or tile Cotton States would at least
secedr il rot all the border :llve!iolding States
This was cvdent to ALL and all felt that secession
Ievolution, and probably civil " II, was i,nni-
aent- The Black Republicans bad majority il
the !I,u-e Ct Representatives, they had trumpeI
III elecIng tlseir candid for President, and ali The
evils that threatened the destruction and downfall
of ocr glorious republic resulted from the odous
principles which the leaders of the Black R,,iJub-
c.n purity avoweG. They had raised the storm by
mt:ng attacks upon the South and her institutions,
ami they alone conii quiet it. This clear
that tbs friends of the Union hoped and altell for
them To makS some arrangements, that would aty
tle ieaFs OF the South, AID that might lead To
settlement, but this hope was net t. be gratel.
hot one Of that malicious and undign!e! party IN
8 either liouse could be induced 70 propose con-
slerision OF this important question. Still
uuion friends plead with the people 70 hold on and
to be not to take any steps that would lead to
separation OF the border siaveholding States from
the free States. What next? Why We had q
committee of thirteen which after prolonged exer-
tion, resulted in doing nothing that indicated a
settlement of this vexed question, and finally pI o.
Claimed publicly to the world that they never
Could agree upon Anything that would restore
peace to distracted ana already divided coun-
II try. Then, in addition to all this we had com
mittee ofthirty three, every Union stump orator
i from Maine to the Gtlfof Mexico WIS preaching
to the people what this committee was going to do
! DID it succeed in proposing any measure thai in
the least indicated settlement2 No. In til E
mean time, through the wire workings of our
Southern Union leaders, and the trickery OF Sew
a-d and his Black Republican clan, we I'D what
NFas called Peace Conference. The object of this
Peace Conference to procrastinate and keep
the people in suspense until after old Abe should
be iEauguratei. would say in Justice to the gem
flelnen who composed this Paac. Conference. that
here many eminent men il il DISTINGUISHED
pot only for their talents ana patriotisn bat also
or their great public deeds. TIess eentIem men
ere from ali the political parties of the country
pd aud new and people we're anxiously Look
3hg and Whiting for some peaceful solution Of our
lticuties In the meanwhile, State after State
Pad seeded, until States had severally declared
themselves no longer in the Union, ard Texas was
pdiy advancing to the same Independent posi-
4on North Carolina and Tennessee both declared
lrongh their representatives IN their respective
tate Legislatures that thing short of Crtten-
ems resolutions their substance wonld sat sly
e border slaEeholding States So the onion
pbmissonists leaped upon this as a hobby to
el public sert.ment against secession call
Pon every intelligent reader say whether snch
as not the ease. | viii notoc the action of the
PACE Conferences more aE length, in my next com
pnication, and will enueayor to show how sadly
friends Of the Union party have either been
ceived themselves, or tlaey have Intentionally
1csicsd an imposition upon the people to crafty