Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-24
RALEIGH. N. c.. WE'D
The War feeling at the North.

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The war feeling Of the Northern States has been
thoroughly aroused by the attack on Fort Sumter
and President Lincoln's proclamation. The New
iork Hera4, the Ezpress, the Albany Argus and
Ae@as and scores of other papers heretofore with
inc south, have taken position with their section
and with the fragment of government" which they
say remains. On Sunday last the mob ranged
through Philadelphia assaling every body and every
thing which at all favored the South. -Ht
We have no space for details, but we say to our
readers that from New York, Philadelphia Boston,
Chicago New Haven, Worcester Providence, and
from every locality in every free State the notes of
preparation for WARRIOR sustaining Lincoln's pro-
clamation are waited to U.S. ...t
The Philadelphia Press gives the following Incl.
dent, which contains volumes.
"a curious Incident which we have omitted to
uanscrlbe, occurreOat the Arch street Theatre on
Saturday night. A feversh audience at this place
listened with as much inter est as could be expected
70 Edwin Booths rendition of the character of Rich
saeu. There is passage in this play which had a.
local bearing two weeks ago relative to the policies
OF peace and war. Richelieu speaks as follows:
Remember my great maxim
- first use all means to conciliate-
Here the house was passive and unaffected.
h.chet'eus confesse,r here interrupts with: "Fal-
ing in that?"
Mr. Booth raiser. himself to his loftiest height,
ana pointing his lger to the breathless house said
-AAA me,ns to erush,"
The applause that followed knew no parallel du-
ring the evening. 1t was not the actor but the SEN
preston in Inc play:
"Put ay Tho sw,rd Statoe mo ba s.v.d r;,h,,
which III almost invariably applauded, was listened
TO Wild ne utmost apathy"
The Albany argus and Atlas-the organ of the
Demo ;racy Of New York-says:
What in this conflict of nationalties is the duty
Oh the citizens of the North? Their duties lie
nere their position places them, where their ale-
'.iance holds them, with their own people. In the
disnegration of the .Confederacy, loyalty to our
State is left to U.S. citizens of New York and the
field is a wide and honorable one. We have duties
also to our confederates of the North and duties to
what remains of the existing Federal government"
The same paper in the same article declares that
1.-THE cannonading in the harbor of Charleston sound
ed the deathknell Of the American Union" 1t says,
| "hencetorth zee are two nations" The Argus and
Atlas has heretofore stood firmly by the rights of
the South, but it goes with its section in what
| 6oiuS ~ AtIdA COulllCC over the RUNS OF the
| Union.
War is terrible evil. We know in imagination
what 1t is and We pray that it may be averted from
the country. We have desire to see the Northern
people humiliated or injured They can injure us,
and we can injure them, but neither section can be
conquered. What madness in both sections or in
either section to fight But if they o have so, We
must meet them. Sadly and sternly will the people
of the South confront them in the field of civil con-
fct, where liberty perishes when it appears tc
triumph, and where despots are made; and if the
idea of suTugation or conquest has at all seriously
entered the Northern mind, the people of that sec
ton may rest assured that that conquest will be &C
compshed only when every dollar of our money ha.
been expended, and when every life has been Offered
up as victim 10 the demon of fratricidal war Rea
son may yet save both sections but passion, if con
suited and obeyed, will conduct the whole countr,
4 to one common ruin.