The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-04-16

bS The Raleigh Register, we are grati6ed to
see, is striking the Black Republican Administra-
ton some timely blows. The course of Lincoln
and his party is fast lessening the numbers of
Union men in this State. We hope soon to find
the Editors of the Register taking decided stand
for secession. The Register of the 10th, speaking
OF Llncolns war preparations, says:
Weeks ago it at least semi-oficially given out
that Fort Sumter was to be evacuated Was this
trick of the administration to throw the authorities OF
the Confederate States off their guard and to lu the
Border States into belief that its would be
pacific 1t so, the trick has been signay
ted The troops at Charleston have never been more
on the gun uiUe than they the present moment
and If the administration attempts a reinforcement
war will begin, and every Border Slave State will be
forthwith the side of the South There will be no
more delay 10 what is coming, for the fact will be
patent that there is between the Northern and
Southern sections of this country and Southern
man will stop a second to consider what side he
should be found. In the present uncertain of
affairs, realizing of the misforunes of
itself Confidence is entirely DESTROYED and thousands
OF men are being reduced from condition of afuence
or comfort to that of poverty and distress If the ad
mnstration designs to the South, let the issue
be fought out and settled once
The Register also says:
If anything could add to the disgust with which all
decent men regard the John Brown Administration, it
would be the character of its appointments. The
craven Burlingame, who was spewed out of the
mouths of a massachusetts constituency has re-
celved first class foreign mission and the abolition
villain Giddings has been appointed Agent on the
Northern end of the Underground Railroad in other
words has been appointed Consul General for Canada
The next appointment presume, Will be given
of John Browns sons
The Richmond Wing, another old Union paper,
is talking up pretty strongly for the rights of the
South and for maintaining the independence of
fh, 10 fo1o Eel -. IL. ID
lister in North Carolina, and the Wing in Virginia,
the secession cause would increase rapidly.
PIRATES.-President Lincoln and his Cabinet,
in setting ahoat vessels of war for the purpose of
committing depredations upon the people of the
Southern Confederacy, subject themselves and
their understrappers to the penalty imposed upon
pirates, and if they caught land or sea, in
their marauling expeditions, they will certainly
meet pirates doom. They had better not prowl
about up this way
sElg~ In regard to the rumor that secret agents
had returned from Europe and reported that Eng
land and France had determined not to recognize
the Southern Confederacy the New York Tribune
an abolition paper, says:
!" 1t is altogether improbable that any such agents
been sent, the simple that ample
possessed by the Administration of learning the
intentions of France and England without employing
agents, it has been well known from the be-
ginning that the shareholders possess hold whatever
the sympathy respect of any part of the civilized
world. Their ony possible allies Ashanlee, Da-
honey. and the Democratic politicians of the North.
A NICE PLACE To VIsIT.-1he editor of the
Newbern Progress has been on visit to Whining
ton, and gives sub pleasing account of his trip
that Wilmington friends need not be surprised
find their towninvadcd soon by few more edi-
tors. Tie Progress says:
'On the banks ofthe narrow, muddy, sluggish Cape
Fear, somewhat owe a hundred miles below Fayete-
rlle three miles abUe the Dram Tree and far be-
low Point Peter, thee stands small town, of some
II 900 5000 Inhabitants, known Wilmington.
They smaller than and that it used
to be sickly; but account of Improvements, made
within the last tweny years, it has advanced until it
ranks in commercial Importance, architectural beauty
and other evidence o material wealth among the first
towns of the State neither Newbern or FAYETTEVILLE
being much ahead Oft.
u By means of two rec tickets and the courtesy of
conductors and landlrds by the way landed Will
mington Monda. evening at or Whereabouts.
Hadn't been there fOIsOme time and don't know that
we shall go again SON, for last days there
than our first. We knowd every body, every
body knowd u.s. and s. it all the time-come, take
a smile Lemonade soda oysters beef-tongue-
lemonade with grass il it-dine with me today-sup
my house-and so hey went on, and really if we
had torn ourself really believe should
have been there yet
And then amt theypigh over there on politics-but
just polite and friendy though every man
alderman a membeof Congress. Gentlemen over
there don't fall wleach other because they don't
all think alike the crsis land therein sorry
to say people are unlike them.
And to business tere is some done at Whining |
Saw the steamshpNor Carolina but did not go
aboard of her. Learnd the line doing well. |
There large numbr of vessels in port and the
wharves were active We learned from friend, a
commission merchant tht business very good for
the and that the ressure probably not felt
severely some otter places"
When the Wilmingta, Char. & Ruth. Railroad
is finished, the people u this way will learn more
of the people of Wilmington, and we are certain
that the acquaintance wi be agreeable and ben
efcial.
THE SOUTH ON THR DEFENsIvE.-Has the
South casks the Richmon Dispatch) ever robbed
the North of one dollars ,orth of property? Has
the life of single Northen man, in pursuit of his
constitutional rights on buthern soil, ever been
sacrificed? Has the Soth, either in the press,
the pulpit, or in Congressever proclaimed hostili