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the sin is traceable to few ambitious dema.
gogues. He trusted and firmly believed tnat'
in short time, the present rebellion would be
crushed out, and that peace once more Will
reign throughout the land.
REBELS LOOKING FORWARD TO RECoNsTRUCs
TON.
At the Southern Commercial Convention,
on the 18th ult. series of resolutions was
offered and laid on the table, the object OF
them being as follows:
l. To place discriminating duty of twenty
per cent on all foreign goods imported into the
| Confederate States through or for account OF
Northern parties, ior perioa OF zen years, .u
| Northern exchange or bills payable there, for
| similar period.
3. Recommending our banks and merchants
| to make all our cotton produce bills accepted
payable in Europe, at least to the extent OF our
| foreign impOrtations.
These resolutions, writes the Memphis
AppeaFs correspondent, who iavors them
strongly, were known as the "direct trade
resolutions" and were postponed in the
business committee and passed over from
tima to time, until it was too late to debate
them. They were, however, called for by
the convention in the last hour Of its session,
and would have passed but for the argument
put forward by Gen. Duff Green, as chair
man of the committee.
| The position taken by Gen. Duff Green was
that these resolutions were so fatal to North
! ern commerce with the South so destructive
! of all hope of New York ever again participant
| ing in the impoi tatiOn of our goods, in our
| wealth, through the discount of our cotton bills
| and the cOntIO oil OF our exchange, that to pass
them would be to prOOng the war. That the
| direct trade resolutions, in fact, would make
any adjustment with the North impossible and
| p event any reconstruction Of the commercial
| and financial connections between the North
and South. These views, suddenly put for.
ward had great weight with the convention.
All debate being cut off by nature of the mo-
ton with which Gen. Duff Green closed the
argument, the direct trade resolutions" were
tabled.
So even Duff Green, the South Carolina
fire eater, desires reconstruction of the
Union! The Palmetto people whom he
represents are not SO full of secessionism,
after all Very well. AS men grow older
they are apt to become wiser, and the same
is true OF communities.
THE UNIoNIsTs IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Union men OF Hyde county, North
Carolina, held mass meeting at Hatteras
Church, on the 18th instant, to denounce
the rebellion and express their love for the
Union. A long declaration of grievances,
reciting the outrages committed by the reb.
els, Was unanimously adopted. 1t concludes
thus:
They have suspended the laws and their
execution. without warrant or necessity, and
permitted the prevalence of anarchy aud dis
order.
They have COMPOUNDED the legislative, execu.
tive and supreme judicial powers of govern.
ment which ought to be forever separate and
distinct.
They have permitted the interference of per-
sons from outside our boundaries in regulating
our internal government and police, the right of
which belongs solely and exclusively to the
people of the state.
They have welcomed armed invaders from
other states to assist in the subjugaton of our
citizens.
They have secretly promulgated, and in some
instances openly proclaimed, their purpose to
confer official honors and emoluments. and Pc
culiar privileges, upon certain set of men
separate from the community; to restrict the
right of suffr &c to few and to substitute
life tenure of public Office for the term fixed
by law.
They have practically annulled the cardinal
axiom of popular government and initial pos
tulate of our Bill of Rights, that all political
power is vested in and derived from the PEG.
pie only.
Wherefore, from these tyrants and public
enemies we now discover ourselves, socially
and politically, forever. And with full and
lively sense ct the responsibilities which our
action devOlves upon US, and reverently in
voking the aid and guidence of Almighty God,
we pledge to each other, for the maintenance
of this solemn compact, our lives, our fortunes
and our sacred honor.
MARBLE NASH TAYLOR,)
CALEB B. STOWE, Select Com.
VIM. O'NEIL.
Hatteras, Hyde County. N. c., October Is,
1861.
THE CONTRABANDs.
1t is stated that General Wool, at ForS
tress Monroe, who had some one thousand
eight hundred contrabands' under his
charge, has refused to let General Sherman
have any portion of them for the naval ex>
petition, stating that he has none to spare.
They were wanted to perform the services
of lahorers in throwing up entertainments
and perhaps afterwards to be the nucleus of
negro brigade, which Gen. Sherman is
authorized to employ.
The Washington Republican says that
General Hill, who commands the Confeder~
ate forces on portion of the North Caro-
lima coast. has made arequisition upon the
people of Craven county, for two weeks
labor upon the batteries, of oDe-iourth of
their slave force. General Sherman vii
not be less decided or successful in calling
for whatever help be wants when he lands
upon the Southern coast.
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF VERMONT.
The first message of Governor Holbrook,
of Vermont, was sent to the legislature last
week. 1t treats very largely of the war,
and gives a free account of the military
movements in Vermont since spring. The
following is a summary of what the State