Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-09-19
From the Charleston COURIER.
,ttcI of the Right Rev p. N.Lynch BihOp Of South
Carolina, TO Archbishop Hughes, Of New York.

CHARLESTON, S. G. August 4, 1861.
Most Reverend Dear 81, The mails are 80 COM
petey paryzed that it is hard to get letter from out
side the Confederacy Papers are scarcely even sen
That however, Jeffrson would think blessing, the
ground that he who is simply ignorant is wiser than
the that believes error" paragraph, which has
gone the rounds of the Southern papers, states that your
grace has spoken strongly against the policy of the
Government of the United States fraught with much
present suffering and not calculated to attain any real
advantage. What change has these States
since wrote you long letter last November, and even
since have had the pleasure of seeing you last March
All that anticipated in that letter has to pass
apd more than looked for All the hopes cherished
last spring of peaceful solution have vanished before
the dreadful realities of Wha still before Us
Who can say? Missouri, Maryland and Kentucky are
nearer secession than Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee were four months ago. Missouri is
battle field. think that President Davis, after the
victory at Stone Bridge, will probably throw column
into Maryland Kentucky WILL ere long be drawn into
the struggle, and the United States will. IN less than
months, be divided in two not unequal parts, mar
shang hundreds of thousands of men against each other
This war is generally dated from the bOmbardment
of Fort Sumter. There we fred the first gun and the
responsibility is charged But, in reality, that
responsibility falls and should fall those who render
ed the conflict unavoidable The South years ago, and
hundred tinea, declared that the triumph of the abo
lition aniSavery policy would break up the Union
They were in earnest. When that party, appealing to
the people the Chicago platform elected their candi
date by every free State vote Excepting New jersey
which was divided South Carolina seeded, and other
States preparing to do They were in earnest
Yet the people disbeieved it, needed it not at the
ballot boxes so Congress needed it not at Washington,
and stood doqgediy on the Chicago platform endorsed
by the people This consummated secession. The Con-
federate Government formed The Goggei Obstlna-
cy of the Black Republicans at W ashn2 ton last win
ter made all the SOuh secessonists. Still there was
peace The new Administration protested intention
to prevent it. Peace gave time and time can work
wonders. The Confederate Government did not put
much faith in those professions. The hallucina
ton as to their power which rendered the Black Re-
puhicans arrogant and impracticabe in Congress-
would it was apprehended, lead them to attempt to
crush out secession by force And nothing LETT IN
done to be prepared for this event should it occur.
! Meanwhile Commissioners were at Washington to ar
range peaceful sep ,rao1 Favorable intimations
privately given Them and they had hopes of sue
cess. Nine Governors, h0rever, it is said, put the
screws to the Cabinet, VII n resolved policy,
and, as silently as they made warike naval pre-
paratiOns, Then, after month, the Commissioners
refused admission or dismissed and it plainly
announced that there would be negotiation. At this
time other facts coming to light here in Charles
ton, where our batteries had for month ST.
ently looked Fort Sumter. During the time of
peaceful professions two special messengers Fox and
i LamOD) from President Lincoln visited Fort Sumter.
Before being allowed go thber they gave their word
of honor to Governor that their object really
peaceful The hotel conversation of the latter very
frank it is said Gentlemen here supposed that Presi-
dent Lincoln before ordering the evacuation wished by
these personal friends to see it WERE personally and
not smp 10 learn through official channels how mat
tiers stood in Fort Sumter When time rolled by with
out such order, aud it rumored that the Cabinet
had succumbed to the pressure of the Governors, the
mails were stopped to and from Fort Sumter. Among
the letters seized from Major Anderson to Pres
idept Lincoln, discussing the details of the plan of re-
! enforcement forwarded to him from Washington by
these messengers. Our authorities were thus made
of the breach of faith towards Them and of the
details of the plan itself.
Then came the special messenger of the President
announcing that he intended revctuaing the fort quiet
ly if permitted forcbly, if resisted then the account
OF the sailing of the feet from New York. I he fort
at attacked and taken without waiting their
arrival he attack moi made until the offer of ne
gOation and peaceful arrangement bad been rel cted
and until the United States Government in the act
OF sending armed force. But is of little use now to
Inquire whom the responsibility properly rests
have the u.s. with all its loss of life and long
train of evils of every kind 1t is the latest perhaps
the strongest instance history gives u.s. guam 2arUa
S0pIentlG regur rnt1lduS Here was country vast
pOpuIOus prosperous and blessed in all material inter-
ests, il any country The South producing Cotton
tobacco sugar. and naval stores for the supply
far as needed, of the North and Northwest to the value
Of perhaps $50O000O0 year, and exporting to foreign
countries 600 the Northwest producing
chiefly grain, and supplying the North and the South
and when the European crops failed, having, as last
turing and supplying the South and the Northwest and
struggling to compete with foreign goods abroad and
doing the trading and of the South and the
Northwest.
Could the material interests Of all the sections be more
tremendously aud advantageousy combined than in this
Union, where each free to deveope the fullest ex
tent those branchs of industry in which it could excel
and could draw from the others those products which
needed but could not produce well as cheaply as
they could. Even child could see the vast benefits tC
| al cO-On No not "
all material Interests the country prospecting to ar
extent that intoxicated and astonshed the world
We claimed to be pre-eminently sagacious in money
matters. The Yankees believe ranked next after thu
ri Chinese in their keenness ~ business vet thew esne
caly, with uncomfortable blindness, have originated
fOseredand propagated fanatical party spirit which
has broug about result foretod from the beginning
both North and South, tie inevitable consequences
of its success
/ Taking up anti-slavery, making it religious dogma
and carrying it into politics. they have broken up tn
Union While 1t was merely intellectual opinion
they might discuss 1t as they pleased they might EN-
brace it as they did any other ism Even their virulen
and misrepresentation scarcely needed provided
~ they did not obtrude them upon at home. We a
Catholics, might everywhere smile at this additional at
tempt to reform" the teachings of our Savior
And the ProtestaLts South. could have churches ane
associations of their But when they carrie,
t. it into politics. gaining one State Government ae
another and defining their especial policy bv unconsti
tutiona laws and every mode of annoying and hostl
action and fnally, with increased enthusiasm and in
creased bitterness carrying the Presidential eection il
triumph, and grasping the power of the Federal Govern
ment what could the South do but consult its own safe
by Withdrawing from the Union? What other protection
70 had they? The Senate, which had still Democratic
majority? They had seen the House of Representative
pass into the hands of their enemies and each session
lie increasing majority there The Executive had gon
for four years. Their majority iu the Senate wa
dwndng FAST while the Territorial question not few
of the Northern Democrats unsound To the Su
preme Court? spoken in the bred Sc6t decision
But the Democratic party in Convention would no
sustain it, and the Black Republicans acouted it, am