Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-04-18
What Good VIII Secession Do :

/ IL
mond Enquirer, furnishes few What is true
of Virginia is relatively true of North Carolina
| Some people say, granting that the North NAL
treats u.s. how will secession mend matters p? We an
swer,
l. 1t will save to Virginia $35OOOOO per anauna,
now paid in tariffs to the government of our enemies to
help in furnishing them with the for destruc-
tion which sum, If transferred by secession to the
southern Conederacy, would make total difference of
81 100000 per in favor of natural friends
aid would be enough to defend Virginia without dol
lars tax more.
2 1t will arrest the freesoil tendencies and practices
of 1000 federal Ofice-hoders in Virginia, who now
have, in their federal salaries motive to be utaithfu
to their State and of twice or thrice as many as
pirants for Office.
3. 1t will exempt from the government of our enc.
mics. Some object you secede because threatened
with exclusion from the Territories whereas secession
fixes that exclusion forever" We repy-ths is not
oniY right Stripped of this by oppression we cast off
the oppressors yoke even at the cost of leaving this
right behind forever in order to escape the loss of all the
rest We entered the house OF pretended friends, and
are robbed there OF our purse. We break down the
door that is barred to detain u.s. and without
our purse in order to save not purse but clothing,
Jewels watch, life, honor For they who took one will
surely grasp all.
4. 1t will stop the " underground railroad" Some
say secession brings Canada r to the Ohio river"
We say Canada is practically the now. Who can
re-take fugitive from Obio?" Dut meantime, the
Ohio has the prete1t for meddesomeness, and the
liberty for entering State unquestioned in his claim
of common citizenship Secession aCW take both a1Oay.
5. It will ensure against the horrors of civil war.
Now the wolf pauses, hesitatng between his thirst for
blood, and fear OF his victims strength Let Virginia
throw all her might and glory the side of the South
and the wolf will decide by his cowardce, and sink f.
nally away
G. Otherwise, war will surely come So threaten the
Northern papers, pulpits, Senators and President 1t
the haucnation OF cowards to hope aught else
her
natural allies crushed, that her turn may last
or to fight in the Union" If she chooses the last
then,
First. She must pay one war tax to enable her enc
mics to cut her throat and then tax herself with
second tax to enable her to protect her throat
Second. She must fight under the charge Of treason
against the Federal Government, whose existence she
acknowledges and yet resists and with halter await
! ing every patriot who is captured.
Third She fOrfeits the gallant support OF her natural
friends of the South whO if she threw in her lot with
them, would aid to defend her, and Tighten her burdens
10 men and money, Thus
I. Should come, secession would rally to the de-
fence of border thousands of the chvarous sons of
the South, whose veins full Of Virginia blood and
the venerable mother of States and statesmen woald
be fenced in by her stalwart and generous offspring.
g. Secession will prevent the emigration of tens OF
thousands OF Shareholders, Virgina's most enlightened
and energetic sons and of hundreds of thousands OF
slaves sensitive property which will utterly refuse to
abide the treacheres OF Black Republican rule The
labor OF a State is the wealth of the State.
10 Secession will thus avoid the throwing of the
burden of our State debt of $36000G00 upon the
Shareholders and the WesterH counties a weight which
would grind the people into poverty and the State into
reputation
IL. Secession will make Virginia the Empire
State of the South" aud fix the New York of the
new empire on the Chesapeake waters
II. Secession places in natural alliance, along
side of those who have interest and common
blood instead OF leaving in abhOrrent, unnatural dis
honorable and criminal conspiracy with natural
saiants and revilers, against the kindred people and
rights OF the South The heart of Vrgna cries out to
go with those WHO flesh OF her flesh and bone 0
her bone" Who of Us bas not son or daughter 0!
nephew grandson brother sister cousin in ht
South?
13 Secession offers the best hope for restoring JUS
and equal union by giving to disuniOn nOw inevitable
strength which will compel the North respect it, ant
will create necessity powerful enough persuade then
to restCIe Union Ou mOra liberal terms
Here bakers doZeD,' of good reasons wb,
Virginia should secede at once Let the people read
ponder aid urge their Legislators to the act.
From the Richmond Examiner.
Grapes
We learn that the SUbmsSlOnists of the Border sav
States are getting excetdlugl unhappy and wolfish
hungry at the tardness of Lincoln in throwing them
few scraps and crumbs, from that abundant table
which be has been teeding his flock of Black Repub
can hounds hyenas acEas, bufaos and catamounts AM
wolves for twenty days more Whenever a luck
Abotionist dog like old Giddings or Burlingame O
Clay, trots Oft waggng his tail with lat slice in hi
mouth, the Submissonlsts lick their chops with any
thing but cheerful aspects, and whine in most disma
and discOnsolate manner.
None Of the good offices, it seems are to be given
the poor Submssioniss If there are any tough mar
bones, bits Of grste fragments OF crust t
by the hungry carpet bag herd from the West, the
; will be swept out Of doors, and Mr.. Abraham, Mrs
Abraham, together with Master Bob and the younge
Children will look through Of the windows of th
l White House, and laugh consumedly at the Submis
sion scramble" The will be intensely enjoyed b.
all the fat, sleek Republicans who have been feasted
l. the first and second tables. What snarIing swapping
growing, husting, biting and scratching there will
t over such refuse "spos watchmens places, lea
; consulshps starveling posofices tdewaters places
marshalships, and the like.
e Would it not be pleasant sight to be present whe
the submssionsts from the Border slave State prosta
themselves before the throne of King Kangaroo and pr
up their humble petitions for Office, and to hear thes
IL abect creatures boasDg OF their ignominous agenc
Il III handcuthng and selling slave States to Abotio
e Republic? The evident scorn and contempt in whic
v the submissonists held by Chase and Lincoln
:; really refreshing. They give good places to sue
e. bold, daring Border slave State Republicans Bai
Clay and Bates, but they regard the poorest scrap
e good enough for timd, skuking submissonsts. IT, k
Walpole, Lincoln believes that every has his prc
evidently thinks that the copper coins of his domr
a. ions will do Tor his provincial subjects.
'9 But as we have heretofore said he is provoking
u slow 10 distributing sxpences and pennies among
admirers in the slave States. He is keeping them tC
long blowing their fingers in the cod after they ha,
a. a. performed their portion OF the contract Their afe
~ lioDate esteem for Lincoln, and their faith in Sewar
may stand in moderate amount of neglect and starvato
q but even famshed Submissionists become dangerot
~ !, after while. ln the name of humanity, we demand
q speedy free and fair scramble for Ill the loose co
II pers and fragments of loaves and fishes which are
thrown to the ofceseekers in the border slave State
!. Curiosity is on tiptoe to find out how the g. thir
/ pieces are to be distributed
a. .. SHOCKING Aco1DENT-The dwelling of DR.. JCt
e kinyown in 4adSin county, n. c. was destroyed
fire on the night of the 9th ult and five negroes tv
of them children pershed in the flames. One of the