Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-04-18
Submission or subiugasIon.

Seward amused the Confederate COmmlssloners-puled
wool their eyes, assured them that the policy OF the
Administration was peace and at the very time
the whole resources of the government being used
concentrated and directed to the preparation of the
chinery of upon the Southern States that have
had the audacty TO believe that the consent of the
governed had something to do with the right of govern
ers to rule over them and the merty to act upon that
belief.
Finally as the Confederate Commissioners say and
the facts prove Mr. Seward after parying and talk
ing peace long as it suited him. threw Oft the mask
and in substance replied to the demand OF the commits
sioners for information as to the objects of the wake
preparations going on that they were intended to ope
rate at the Souh-ha they are intended to bring about
submission or failing in that to the work of
subjugation.
Congress will probably be called together in very
short time, perhaps in few days. and constituted as
any Congress that Mr.. Lincoln will now summon must
be, there will be difficulty in obtaining the passage
OF any law the grant of any powers that this present
Black Republican administration may seek for or de-
mand for the purpose of coercg subugatng overrun-
ing the South.
And the wild hordes of that section will to his
PHILADELPHIA, and westward to Kansas and Nebraska
will Join in the hunt against our ethren OF the seeded
States. While their blood is flowing, shall North Car
DINA and Virginia stand idle spectators of the unequal
contest Shall Kentucky and Tennessee fold their arms
in sublime indifference waiting for their more Southern
brethren to sink exhausted, watching and waiting for
their own turn to be devoured by this Northern ana
conda of Black Rpublcansm; for remember that this
is not war simply against the States Professionally re-
presented by Jefferson Davis and the Montgomery Con
gress 1t is in fact neither more nor less than the IT.
repressbIe conflict" against certain institutions and
certain rights wherever they exist
Suppose Lincoln succeeds in efectng the ruin and
subugaton of the States of the Southern Conederacy,
where will we be then .? Where can we turn? Placed
with triumphant and reckless abolition mob on one
hand and ruined abolitionzed and free negroized
gion on the other, we will have Hayti with all it hor
rors brought to our own doors
The border States may yet avert this. They could
have crushed this attempted subugaon in its very in
ception nay in its very first thought if they had only
taken firm stand at first and at once
What shall we do now? We beg of all men to
think over this thing seriously. 1t is serious matter
it involves the discharge of holy enough duty to ent
tie it to consideration the Lords day. North
Carolina must act She cannot stand still Think of
this. Put old party aside; say 10 your own hearts
whether you will consent to see the plains of the Con
federate Saes-he homes of your brethrenoverrun by
the locust hordes of Black Republicanism-the preo
rian bands recruited from the of the large cities OF
the North--the of-scourings dregs Of artificial
civilization.
There may of course be in the armies of the North,
which the Northern extra session of Congress will
thorze Mr. Lincoln to call out and employ good many
sincere and conscientious fanatics. There may be
mistaken men who think it their duty there may be
and there will be all of men, with slight excep
ton. The Horace Greelys and the VIM. II. Stewards
and the John p Haes and the Joshua Giddingses and
all the bowles and freedom shriekers who have ad-
vanced themselves to power and station by riding this
hobby, will not themselves. If they did, the wounds
of bleeding country would be halt avenged by their
DEATH But they sit quietly at home while they launch
their hordes against the South. They howl and rant
in their cabinet offices, editorial sanctums or consular
bureaus while they ince others to do their bloody
deeds
The thing is with the Southern States that have
not yet acted Will they permit the Southern Confed-
speedy ruin inevitable, will they, by locking their
buckers together with those OF their Southern brethren
secure the safety OF both? What response does North
Carolina make.