New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-13
REBEL OPPRESSION AT THE SOUTH.
Precautions Against Slave InSurrectlons'
poiNcs OF THE FRIvATEERs.
DISSENTIONS AEONG TIE REBEL LEADERS
Fran Our Special Correspondent.

over twenty miles an hour-the average on these
roads being about fifteen. The Marlborough where
! stop, is the principal hotel and the best patron
ized 1t is quite stylish house, OF handsome archl-
lecture, apparently newly built, with ample accom-
modations, elegantly furnished, and well kept. IL
is great piece of barbarty. however, 1t strikes me-
that passengers getting up early to take the o'clock
train to Weldon, are obliged to 60 without breakfast
till they have ridden some forty miles This is the
capital city of the old North State, as well as Of
Wake County. The population cannot be more
than five or six thousand but it includes some OF
the most distinguished citizens Of the State as the
Hon. George +. Badger, who has fine residence
near the State House; B. f. Moore, Kenneth Ray
nor, III. W. Miller, and w. w. Holden, e'litor OF
The Standard perhaps the ablest and most senslbly
conducted paper in North Carolina. The State
House is really fine structure, Of massive granite
masonry and erected at cost Of balf million dol
lars Near it is the North Carolina Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb tasteful edicc Of brown fr,estone.
In the distance is seen the State Insane
Asy Ium, 10 which the Union men in the Legis'
lature Last Winter used to propose to adjourn
when Secession became, as it often did, I'M
moderately rampant. This Commonwealth dis
pens,s with Penitentiary. In the center Of
the city is a fine park, containing nearly fifteen
acres. Three political papers are published here,
The Standard, Register, and State Journal,
beside several religious and literary periodicals.
There are several manufacturing establishments
on the Neusc River, a few miles eaat of the city,
among them the Raleigh Paper Mills, which pro-
ducs n very excellent article for newspaper use,
ard now supply nearly all the journals IN this
aud several other States. These mills formerly
sent considerable quantities of paper to the
North The soil seems 10 be chiefly reddish
clay, and there are a number of highly medicinal
mineral springs in the vicinity. The city has
rather commanding site, being surrounded by
Gordon of valleys, and might be easily rendered
deieosibIe arnnst attack. The Executive man.
sion ia called tho 4" Governors Palace, but there
are many private dwellings much more
"palatial."
This county went by nearly two thousand ma
joriiy for the Union in February last, and do
not believe the sentiments of the people have
changed much since. | hear nothing of the in
sensa,e cry, "on to Washington" This i' one
Of the most enlightened and liberal sections Of
the State, and has until recently tolerated con-
siderable independent thinking in political mat
ters You VIII doubtless remember the famous
WAKE County Workngmens Association" Of
which Messrs. Busbee and Frank j. Wilson
were the leading spirits. This association
brought forward aud made popular the question
of ad yslOrem taxation, upon which the OpPo-
,ition party, with John Pool as their candidate
for Governor, came very near revoutionizing the
State last August. Mr.. Busbee published a
Douglas paper here during the last Presidential
campaign.
Breckinridgc's majority in this State only
sts, out of nearly 100, 900 votes. Though Doug
las had but 2,70l supporters at the polls, Mr..
Wilson immediately issued a prospectus for a
new paper to be devoted to ad valorem. Douglas,
and political independence generally. Freedom
of speech will yet reassert itself in good old
Wake, and the influence goiog hence TO the rest
of the State will one Of these days efectuslly
rake old "Trip Van Winkle from the drugged
slumbers of disunion.
Il
no real unanimity for Secession anytoherc South,
and that the general absence, where the rebel
lion 10 most dominant OF active and noisy oppo-
siion to acts of hghhanded treason, is only q
compulsory or prudential silence. This passive
ness and non-resistancc should not bo ,misinter-
preted into sympathy or scquiescence, even where
there seems TO be actual cooperation. !" "Dscre-
ton is the better part of valor." Mons lives,
property, aud social consideration are something
10 them, no matter how loyal their instincts.
Secession has been active and aggressive from the
start, while Unonism in the South is passive and
stands on the defensive The fomenters and fl-
plcmen of the rebellion are very few, and much,
perhaps nearly all, Of the seeming concert aud
encouragement on the part of the masses is only
a hypocritica and hollow echo of this malignant
partisan leadership, and not IN honest express
sion of individual opinion or feeling.
People do not, as general thing, like to
stand out in conspicuous isolation as targets Of
censure and reproach, and be prescribed or tn
booed on account of their views. Politicians
everywhere of course, consult popularity and pre-
fer blowing along with the current to being over
borne by it; they wish TO stand as well son
the goose" whatever it is, as their rivals, and
to give them no advantage by confronting pre-
yaling and plausible prejudices But there will
be calmer hour, when argument will be needed,
aud passion give way to returning reason. 1t Is
better 10 "bide the time" with patience than to
risk evcry thing by even an honest haste. Con-
tlrmon have confessed TO mo their undimlnished
nIlnrhninnf 10 Ihe Ilninn and lrclared that they