Spirit of the age., 1861-04-24
NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS.


Nogrn CAROLINA AS will be seen by u
Gov. Ellis noble response TO the Secretary y
of War at Washington, this patriotic good a.
old State will not furnish single man un- v
der the call and every paper in North Car
olna, so lar as We have seen, those fayoring Il
adhesion as well as those for a separation,
rclterate the sentiment. The Raleigh STAN
dard, thorough-going Union paper, says:
Mr.. Lincoln may call, but North Carolina
will extend no aid TO him in any effort to
coerce the Confederate State<." The leaders ,
and many Of the people Of those States have
crievously erred, but any attempt to cOeree
them, or to put them down by force, will
make bad infinitely worse. The soil OF
North Carolina must not DC polluted by the
tread Of armed men sent to make war on the
Confederate States. "
The Banner, of this City, a'sO Union,
says:
Instead Of two regime, IS" from North
Carolina, Old Abe may yet see ten times two
from that State in the City Of Washington,
unless. indeed, he resumes his Scottish High
land dress and joins his fugitive brethren in
Canada, via the underground railroad.
The Raleigh Register, also Union, re-
marks:
II must be apparent now that all the slave
holding States must unite in solid phalanx
TO resist the attempt Of the Black Republl-
can administration to subjugate them. II
will not do now TO talk oil a Border State
Confederacy, OF any other subdivision IN the
Ssas cteg9hs an4 E tohSSsnihs hIns9tn,s
the States which have seeded. Al the
slave States, then, should be united as one
man to repel the hordes OF Black Republi-
cans from their borders. That u united
South will come out of this conflict success
tully, We do not permit ourselves to doubt
Let us only be united among ourselves, and
although il may be after years Of privation
and suffering, we will yet come out of the
conflict with our honor untarnished and our
liberties preserved.
And such we believe is the sentiment of
the entire Press and of all Tie people of N.
Carolina
Gov. Ellis has issued his proclamation, con-
yening the Legislature on the lst day of Nav,
by which there is no doubt such steps will
be taken as will allow the people to take
North Carolina out from under the rule of
Abe Lincoln by the speediest possible mode
Fort Macon, near Beaufort, and Forts Cas-
well and johnson, below Wilmington, have
been taken possession of by North Carolina
troops, by order of Gov. Ellis and we doubt
not the Arsenal at Fayetteville has been or
will be seized by our State troops
Gov Ellis has called meeting of the Coun-
Gil Of the State on the 23d inst
Public Meetings
On Tuesday evening last, large meeting
of the citizens Of Raleigh was held in the Court
House, composed Of gentlemen of all class
es and shades of opinion, hitherto, for the pur-
pose of giving expression to their views as to
what North Carolina should do, and where
she should go, in the present trying crisis of
affairs. In looking around upon the large
crowd, we think we are correct in stating that
decided majority of the meeting consisted
Of men who have all the time been firm, un-
wavering, patriotic "UMoN" men. But now,
all seem to agree that the question is reduced
to the naked proposition of the South against
tie north, and which side aoiU zoe in North
CdrOiiad take. This meeting plainly and un.
mistakably showed that there was no differ
encc of opinion in that crowd-all were for
the South and indignant at the insolent and
insulting demand made upon North Carolina
to join the fanatcal hordes of the north in
cutting the throats of our brethren of the
Southern States Raleigh is true to the South,
and will be found firm as rock against all
attempts to assal any portion of the South,
come from what quarter it may.
The object OF the meeting was explained by
Hon. ID. NJ. Barringcr in a few pertinent re-
marks. lie was followed by John w. Syme,
Esq, of the Raleigh Register, who vindicated
his former positions with regard to his honest
and sincere desire to reconstruct and perpet-
uate our once glorious Unionnits pristinepu-
rity. But the hope Of doing this was gone
Lincoln had deceived, betrayed the Union
men of the South by his lying professions Of
peace, and now having inaugurated war, had
the eilrontery to call upon North Carolina to
furnish portion of the troops intended to
subjugate and humiliate the South. He could
hesitate no longer lie was Cor the South and
with tho South; and North Carolina must
aud would unite with the Southern Confede-
racy. Virginia had already seeded, proba-
bly,, or would to morrow, if the oi dinance was
not passed to-day.
Gov. Bragg responded at length to cal
made upon him, in an argumentative, cool
dispassionate review of past events, and a
straight forward expose of the present condi-
tion of things. His analysis of Lincoln's Wal
Proclamation plainly showed the call fol
troops to be a bald, unparalleled usurpatior
of authority, no where guaranteed by the Con
stituton or laws Of the United States. Ill
counseled the obliteration of all previous par
ty affiliations and predictions, and rejoicec
to be assured by the character of this meet
ing, that all middle walls of partition were bro
ken down, and that without division all stooC
shoulder to shoulder ready to defend Southern
rights and maintain Southern honor.
Ex.Gov Charles Manly being called on
responded briefly, but unequivocally. II
had been a Union man and clung to the hop
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