Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1861-03-29
From the Wilmington Journal.
IADKIN, March 10th, 1861.
EDrroRs WILMINGTON JOURNAL

ED1roRs WILMINGTON JOURNAL
Well. the mountain has laboured, and
by the aid of lying partisan ''telegrams'
aud Federal Southern presses OF free soll''
procIivities; 10, and behold a oc00len pro-
seny has been brought forth, which has
already been seized upon by the North
ern press, as proof conclusively that North
Carolina does not considder herself ag
grievec.
What next shall be done2 Why,
we s1DD0se, that the next step will be to
convince the people of North Carolina,
that their truest interest points to the for
nation Of the "Observers" middle repub-
lie, and that they should attach themselves
thereto.
We understand, however, that the Sen
ior Editor of the paper spoken OF, (and 1t
is OF him only that we speak. for the 81 un-
iors" are reported to be more Southern a3a
their sentinlents,) has said but little OF late
OF this, his once favored .Sbantling," and
that he is now laboring might and main to
convince his readers that they should ac-
cept as a peace offering, the shameful and
insulting propositions recently submitted
by the "Peace Conference"
True the Editor in question finds him.
self sustained to some small extent by
two of the Commissioners of n. Carolina,
an6 particularly is he fortified by one OF
them In the speech made at Goldsboro',
on his return home. lie is there quoted
by the Goldsboro' Tribune as saying:
'<But if nothing could be done, that the
border slave States, with the border free
States, form new Constitution foI them
selves" *
How any statesman of the least preten-
sions to forecaste, to say nothing of true
CI/1 3oSf2/
society could for single moment harber
such sentiment we ale really at loss
to determine.
Now, we can readily appreciate the
motive that might prompt or recommend
TO the Southern States to accept the
''Peace Conference" propositions as a fl
nality hoping that they would lead to the
return OF the seeding States, and TO the
Reconstruction of the Government; but
upon the assumption, that they would not
return we can command no language
sufficiently. respectful to reply to
the proposition that North Caro-
lima should be separated from them.
Separated from the South fer what p
WY should we now be called upon
to thrnst assunder the tie of united inter-
ests (arising frorsa the saneness of institu-
4hons) that now binds the slaveholding
States more closely together and stronger
and more enduring than any mere politi-
cal principles whatever 2f -. -
Does not the highly respectable gentle
man referred to kaaoao this or, knowing it,
are Aas sssnrroundings" such that he does
not fully appreciate the insecurity arising
FROM tile rupture of this Southern sstie,o
which can alone give security to the "do-
mestic hearth, . for the simple reason, that
in union (of the SouthJ there is strength Z
What would we do, yea, what could we
do, separated from oEr Southern sisters,
so far as slave property and family socse-
ty are cencerned2 Nothing; but. speedily
fall victims to the John Brown ssraids'
and the Abolition incendiaries OF the
NORTH s. 49, 49, s..s.sss.zss fz.8eg
Citizens of North Carolina, Danish, and
.foreuer Danish, all ideas of q Md lle repnb-
lie, for IN the geyyr nature of things, your
own prosperity as we'll as security can on
ly be found In Southern Confederacy
Entertain no sears that it will be too v eak,
too lmpotent to protect you, for as com.
pared with this middle republic % viii