The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-04-09
LIGHT WANTED.

his con- u.unication, {" Wilmington n c., March
Both, 1861 is in search of information for "him-
self and Others" and calls upon some OF the seces-
sion editors to answer query as follows: what
benefits the people of North Carolina will derive
by going out of the Union and joining Southern
Confederacy z" Being one of those to whom the
nterrogatory is put, and feeling specially called
upon, inasmuch the question comes from our
immediate neighborhood, we will undertake to
answer it. and name some Of the "benehts" which
VIC think the people of North Carolina will derive
by going-NoT out of the Union, for there is
none,-but out of an alliance with abolitionism,
and joining the Southern Confederacy.
The first and greatest benefit they will derive
will be the consciousness that they are free from
the despotsm which an abolition enemy would
erect over them-the proud consciousness that,
although they had patiently borne repeated viola
tions of their constitutional rights, and had sut-
fered gross injustice and wrong for the sake of
preserving the government founded by their
ancestors, they still possessed the spirit OF indie
pendence and the love of liberty which they had
inherited, and we're unwilling to surrender these
and their honor for the sake of peace This, we
say, would be the first and greatest benefit the
people of North Carolina would derive. Another
benefit which they will derive, will be a guarantee
for the perpetuation of the institution of slavery
within their borders. A great deal has been said
and written about the Z" doom of slavery in North
Carolina if she cut loose from the North, but We
never yet have seen one argument to show that
secession would accomplish any injury to the inst-
tuition in this State, and defy all the Northern
Government men and newspapers in North Caro-
lima to proce that it will There is now no assur-
ance that slavery will be perpetuated in the Border
States. On the contrary, there is every reason to
apprehend that it will, in the course of a few
years. be abolished in those States and that, too
in foot1x, al InIa
some of our beloved brethren of the North wish
no1c to make emancipation condition precedent
to a continued alliance between the North and the
Border States The secession of seven slave
States has served to whet the appetites of North
ern phanthropsts, and to make them more
camorous for the feast for which they have so
long hungered. They seem to be indisposed to
restrain themselves until it is served up according
to the original plan. They are unwilling even to
{" watch and wait" like the Standard urges their
victims to do, although they are fully aware that
the preparations for the feast are rapidly pro-
crossing.
The experiment of keeping slaveholding and
non-slavehodng States united, as equals in COM
mon government, has failed. The alliance only
acts irritant to the fanaicism of the latter,
and, long it continues, every expedient in the
way of legislation will be resorted to by them to
force slavery to the wall, and, if constitutional re-
straints imposed upon legislation, this fanati
cism will break down the barrier and find
" higher law to justify its conduct.
The Border States have experienced the truth
of this, and unless they are Indifferent to the les
sons of experience, that best teacher,-and re-
gardless of the declarations of their Northern
enemies made recently as at the Peace Confer
ence to which they were invited it must be appar
ent 10 them that the institution of slavery is not
now and never will be, permanently secured to
them while they remain part of the Northern
government But if North Carolina untes her
destnies with those Of the Confederate States, in
which slavery is the corner stone of the social and
political fabric she will have nothing to fear from
the interference of abolitionism. Aside from the
protection she will enjoy member of foreign
government, able and willing to protect itself, she
will have wide territory between her and the
aggressor. If Virginia secedes, this will always
be slave territory if Virginia does not secede, it
will be slave territory for number of years at any
rate, and conservative territory for many years
more. She would be safe, therefore, as one Of the
Confederate States, whether Virginia seeded or
not, as far as the institution of slavery is con-
cerned. And if the protection and perpetuation
of slavery is " benefit to the people of North
Carolina-and who will dare to deny it will
they not be more secure in the enjoyment of this
benefit citizens of the Confederate States, than
as citizens of the Northern abolition despotism
But there other benefits besides the meal
cuable one of slavery, which the people of North
Carolina would derive by ''gong out" Of the
Northern abolition despotism and uniting with the
South. Retaining every thug which she now has,
she would begin and active career Of pros
perity. She would be enabled to throw off the
yoke of commercial vassalage, which she, in COM
mon with the other Southern States, has so long
worn for the benefit of the North Her manufac-
turing and mineral resources would be developed,
her commercial power and wealth would be ncreas-
ed, and her agricultural interests would be greatly
advanced. 1t is now acknowledged by all the lead
ing journals of the North, and corroborated by
those of Europe, that the effect of the Morrill, tar
if will be the channels Of trade to the ports
Of the Confederate States. New York is irighten-
ed out of its propriety at the prospect. And the
result will be nearly the same if that tariff is
repealed By an extra session of Congress, for-as
can undcr6u the North for the trade of Europe, |
whatever may be the tariff adopted. /
These some Of the benefits that North Caro-
lima would derive by going with the South. The |
choice is offered to her. between vassalage and in
dependence, between free labor ana slave labor,
between poverty and wealth, between her enemies |
and her friends. Which will she choose?- Va
mingtOn Herald.
DEs@ The Richmond Enquirer says ''Mr G. A !
Hall, Black Republican and Wide Awake of
Washington, has been appointed special agent of
the Postothce Department for Virginia and Mary
land. In this capacity he has pretty thorough |
control over all the mails in both States. He can
open any mail bag at will, direct subordinate post
masters circulate oholitiop and Glop,