The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-04-13
Bad Feeling in North Alabama.

From the Columbus Ga,) Enquirer, goth alt.
The telegraph advised us on Wednesday
that President Lincoln had appointed Hon.
George w Lane, Judge Of the Federal Dis
trict Court Of Alabama. We are not advised
whether Judge Lane was an applicant for the
appointment, or whether he will accept it now
that it has been conferred upon him. But
We know that he lives in North Alabama,
and that in that overwhelming Democratic
region there is still a strong manifestation not
only Of repugnancc but Of factious opposition
to the Government of the Confederated States,
and it is for the purpose Of recognizing and
has been made We have heretofore endea-
vored to ignore this disaffection in North Al
ALBANIA, but it seems to have now taken such
definite form as to require notice. We there
fore note the nnin,us of two recent popular
meetings in that section, reports Of the action
Of which are. now before US. AT Athens,
Limestone county, on the 18th inst, an adj
journed meeting re-assembled, at which res
olutions sustaining secession and the govern
ment Of the Confederate States were offered
and rejected, and in their stead the meeting,
BY vote Of l39 to GO, passed resolutions de-
mandng that the Constitution Of the Con-
fcderate States (then ratified by the Conven-
ton Of Alalama should be submitted to the
people, and declaring III favor Of reconstruc-
ton whenever the non-slaveholding States
give suitable guarantees, etc. There may be
nothing factious in this, but the Athens
Banner Of the Goth, reporting the action Of
the meeting says the people Of Limestone
have no idea Of being deprived Of the privil-
ege Of reconstruction, whenever suitable
occasion arrives, than they have Of snrren-
dering their rights as freemen to the fifty
four secession delegates Of the Convention
who assume to be the State Of Alabama. 49,
This looks like rcbcllio,ls opposition, and re-
pudiation Of the authority Of the Convention.
Still more revolutionary were the proceed
, ings Of the mseting held in Frankfort, Frauk-
lin county, on the 22d inst, ond reported in
the Tuscumbia North 44lnLmnuirn The res
outions adopted by this meeting approve the
course Of their delegates in refusing to sign
the Secession Ordinance; denounce the refl-
sal to submit the ordinance to the popular
vote, deny the right Of secession, declare the
Union perpetual, and announce that they will
not Willingly give their support to the State
OF Alabama in her present stand, but will do
all that we can to the contrary also that
our Congressional nominee, if elected, is to
| represent Us in the United States Congress,
and not III the so-called Southern Confedera-
cy.' There can be no question that this is
faction and revolution; it is refusing to sub
nit to law AMI authority ana recognizing al
legance to foreign power We, and the
members generally Of the party with which
we have been associated. always acquiesce in
the decision Of the State, expressed in con
, stitutional and legal manner, however much
we may be oppoSed to the policy before its
adoption. History must do the Wing party
the justice to record that it was never party
Of faction or violence but always submitted
peaceably and with good grace to popular de-
, cisions aud the laws Of the land We rejoice
) extraordinary political connections furnish
E no exception to this rule There arc mem
bcrs OF our party who colfelemn the action OF
the Convention anl the Congre ss-some. per-
haps, who look forward hopefully to recon
structlon under proper guarantees; but they
know 10 medium but the ballot box. and
cheerfully acknowledge allegiance aud per-
form their duties to the new government -
, Very different seems to Be the feeling in
, many parts of Democratic North Alabama.
! In view Of these manifestations, is not the
new Government pursuing a very unwise
policy in still adheriug to old party divisions
IN its appointments to Office and dispensations
of official favors? Why prescribe the Whig
party, which manifa,ts no faction and recog-
nize worthy Of confidence or favor only d
party that furnishes so many factious NAL
contents?
4 INTELLIGENCE from Bnenos Ayres to the
5th Of February states that the civil war has
again broken out in the province Of San Juan
Il appears that Iirasoro, its Governor having
rendered himself obnoxious to the people,
he was murdered BY mob on the 18th Nov
i General Urquiza then sent body Of troops
4 from Mendoza, under Colonel Saa, to arrest
the murderer; but the latter having extern
porized q government under DR.. Aberasfian,
refused, whereupon battle ensued on the
10th Of January, and they we're put to the
sword. Saa then attacked the city Of San
Juan, with force Of seventeen hundred men,
wen disciplined The place was defended By
about two hundred, who we're speedily rout-
ed San Juan surrendered after y Ehich the