Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-01-03

D9@The news yesterday afternoon was exciting in
the highest degree and telegraph from Washing
ton came through about O'Clock, our office filled
with eager faces evncng their anxiety to learn the de-
tails
We are sorry to say that these anything else than
encouraging There appears to be no longer any prob
ability of adjustment between the warning sections at
the National Capital while the pillars of the Union are
evidently shaken that it is nearly impossible for the
General Government to borrow any money, and in
fact its employees in nearly all departments are unpaid
The fancy little experiment of ignoring the existence
insulting the feelings and despising and threatening the
rights and interests of the southern States has proved
to be rather dangerous indulgence 1t has cost US all
enough God knows but the worst of it is falling upon
the heads of the dupes of Greedy Seward and company
The coerconists will find themselves rather deficient in
the sinews of war.
We must await further Developments and this will
not take very long now, rapid is the march of events
We need not watch and wait much longer to know that
have already watched and waited too long. In times
like these opportunity resembles time in having only
foreock and being bald behind. If permitted to pass
we can seldom never seize upon it again We fear
that this great has already been committed The
have ezerted most powerful influence good has been
allowed to pass while disappointed aspirants vented
their spleen, rabid partzans willing to crafty
their preudces at the expense of their State The time
when could have been procured easily and at fair
rates. is also gone, or nearly So We don't think they
can actually be got now without sacrifice, if at all.
The country is convused from end to another We
the very of boodshed in the waters of neigh
boring State, and our Legislators seeing Christ
mas suppose and will not be about until next
week, and then may not act They will perhaps, watch
and wait How long will people be content to be cant
ridden? How long be cajoed into blindness to their
truest and most pressing interests? Not always and
there will time when the necessity of action
will be pressed upon them with such force as to sweep
away the ney devices of those whose obstructveness
now, like their Southern Rightsm in former times are
both shams-unrealities. hen coercion comes if n
Carolina has not State policy, thousands of her people
will act without her guidance. This ought not to be-
The State ought to be prepared with the policy and tie
means of action.
The Executive of the State of poweress and
can only advise the excited citizens not to move in adj
vance of the State. We must watch and wait while
troops from Boston and New York garrison our forts
and command the entrance to rivers.
Mr.. Holt the new Secretary of War, Or the acting
Secretary pro e, is ascertained to be for coercion
This fact has set many parts of the southern States in
blaze 1t has flown the wings of the telegraph, and
the most serious complications may pc apprehended
Rightly wrongly, Major Anderson has the unenvia
BILE honor of having initiated this movement towards
active hostility The wealth of Asia and the genius
Greece, all required to erect the Ephesan Dome
the vanity of coxcomb applied the torch that en-
veoped it il ruin.-Daaly Journal, LIST inst.