Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-02-21

use hard words towards each other? Look at the avow
ais of Lincoln ard Company, aud there will no longer
be any for wonder at the course OF those who can
see nothing to expect at their hands.
V1RGINIA-It is somewhat remarkable that in the
face Of the announcement that Virginia had wholly re-
pudiated secession and agreed to hold on to the North
since Wall Street aud State Street'fred guns IN her
honor on that account and she has been rckned upon
as wholly discovered from the Southern States we
say it is somewhat remarkable, that in the face of all
these things the persons best qualified to form and ex
press an opinion with reference her future course
speak of her joining the Southern States and that at
distant day. as foregone conclusion the certainty Of
which is now much greater than at any former tine
But it is he very papers that couhseled ching
and waitng-tryDg Lincoln and all that, now, since
the State has apparently adopted that course see It's u
ty-sae that there is nothing to be waited tor-
that Lincoln and bis friends have already committed
themselves to a course Of action which Virginia Is
pledged to resist Gentlemen who have travelled through
VIRGINIA. and who before the election in that State
ALWAYS contendGd that size would not any posi-
ton of resistance confidently assert that she Will
Circumstances asserting their force and no where
more strongly than in the " cid Dominion" Old Ken
lucky too viii ye yield to their force We can blde our
time SIS to this but at the time tie benefit OF an
early movement would have been inCaculaby greater
united South might have made united country, and
would certainly have saved from much OF the panic
and crisis as well as from the effects of any future at
tempt at coercion or subugation the part Of Lin
coin and the modern Radetzky," as somebody has
dubbed General Scott.
I;r,1- +lo+N In lnyynph tCOp
before he is many years older, in view Of the difficulty
Of raising money for The purpose of enforcing the
laws as the phrase is. Perhaps he will find that bis
assertion that there is nothing wr0ug is lar from correct
in the way in which he it to be understood. He
will probably fod that there is much that hurts his
cause although be sneers at the South and says it il
consoling circumstance when we look out there is
nothing that really hurts anybody Nobody is suffer
ing anything" etc
Egzg~ The haItigh Standard comments at some length
On an article from the Wilmmgton Journal copied into
the Raleigh Stute Journal We do not mean to make
any extended reference 70 this article Of the Standard
and only alude to it for the purpose of making
tion The Standard asks, Nhere did the Journal get
its cue? From Raleigh? From the State Capital ?'
Now the evident tendency ard we presume purpcst Of
the last two OF these questions, is to convey tie impress
sion that did ct Our cue trcm Raleigh All We Can
say is, that this impression, however entertained or
however sought to be conveyed, is wholly erroneous.
AS instance Of this, may remark that the Stan
dard speaks of Judge Person and Mr.. Avery, not as
giving a cue certainly but still in that connection
NoW, we have neither seen nor heard from either oil
these gentlemen, otherwise than through the public
prints since the Legislature assembled The same will
apply to Gov. Ellis.
This is trjle perhaps but the remarks of the Stand
ard frequently made, might, if passed in silence
create the impression of the existence of peculiar
plot plan programme, concocted somewhere to which
we were parties. The Standard is wholly wrong 10 this
10 the Editors Of the Wilmington Journal:
GENTLEMEN: The Secession in the county of Samp
son have obtained the consent OF Dr. Thomas Bunting and
Robert A. MOsely to them Delegates in the
ventiOn, if the people will elect them AS circumstance
render it impossible for respected counyman William
s. Devane to suffer bis name to before the people fol
that appointment you will confer favor by publ shng the
above furnished. The skies Frightening in Samp
and you vii! hear good report of the 28h.
Hoping that all Secession men will have their eyes open
ed to the importance of the issue presented trust tina
no will suffer his personal ambition to lead him
peril the by permitting his to be in opposi
ton to the choice OF the people.
Another point would like hear from you is, " vii
there be necessity tor the Legislature during the
Convention in case the state secedes and
member of the Legislature his constituent
to advantage member of both bodies 2"
These questions should like hear from you on
as your paper has wide circulation. SAMPSON.
We cannot see any necessity for the meeting of tn
Legislature during the session of the Convention Ger
anly none that could arise out Of the action of suc
Convention. 1t may be necessary for the Legislature
to be called together to pass laws required to give prac
teal effect to the Ordinances of the Convention ote
such ordinances haze been ratified by majority Of tn
people but as such ordinances could not be submitte
to the people until after the Convention had closed it
abors, we can STE way in which there can arise an
necessity for the Legislature to meet during the session
of the Convention in the State secedes, other
WISE
In plain terms, time for the submittal of the actor
convention to the people and for the decision of tb
people thereon must intervene between the session
the convention and any session of the Legislature, whic
its action might render necessary.
If we right in our answer to the first question, til
contingency contemplated in the second cannot arise
Members of the Legislature if candidates for the Con
Venon, may not have sufficient time to for tn
latter body.
Aas~ The following gentlemen have been appointed
by the Legislature Justices of the Peace in and TO
the county of Onslow, viz Daniel a. Humphrey, E
w. Mattocks, Richard Canada, J. T. Whitehurst, E
Walton, E. W. Ward, Stratton Burton and James M