Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14
North and South CarOlina-The
Difference.
A writer in the the world from Il

A writer IN the the world, from the
neighborhood of tie Yadkin, N. G. says;
The way in which the two States have &C.
ted in the present crisis is Characteristic of
each respectively. South Carolina hurries
together a convention which declares the
State out OF the Union. in forty days after
the election Of Lincoln, without waiting to
hear from her people in their primary capa-
city at all. North CIroliua, being threatened
Denounced and reproaCheI for her inertness,
by her fiery sisters, the cotton states, adjourns
her legislature at Christmas time, that the
members may go home and get the minds Of
Of their constituents upon public matters
And should 4 convention be called under
outside pressure, as perhaps it may be, you
may be sure that the legislature will take
good care that the acts of such conventions;
before possessing any validity, shall be rat
ified BY a vote OF the people.
Dsunionism and secession, ! am told, are
popular in some portions Of the State, but
here the current is set strongly the other way
Il s 4.h CdroiIna could hear the Scotch
blessings which are bestowed upon her in
this quarter. for her rash and precip itae ac-
lion, she would not feel very highly flstteled.
South Carolina requires a good sound thrash
ing; a severe one. Il wish says. another
that a,ditch could he du, about South Car
dina, and that she could be quietly floated
of into mit-ocean.' lift were constitutional
~ permit it, says third, 1 should DO mighty
clad tina: South Carolina would go ont of the
ORION and stay out. She keeps US in an ev-
erlastlng turmoil. These cotton States need
no: make such hula baloo about the election
Of Lincoln, for they elected him by breaking
up the Democratic party If my old
state is going to tag itself on to South Car
DINA, says a fourth, L will move out OF it,
i wish South Carolina were sunk says a
another.
Such is the open talk Of the people in this
region about the pugnacious, impetuous little
State which through convention, has de-
clared herself ccck-a-hoop oat of the Union.
seized the federal buildings within her terri
tory. appropriated all the Minnie rifles and
cartridges found in the forts, and invoked
her southern sisters to follow her example,
Such is the popular response Of North Car
dina to South Cardinals invitation to the Sc
cesSon feast
FRUITS OF SECESSION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
The public press and your Charleston cor
respondent; doubtless, keep You advised OF
the state OF things in the republic OF South
Carolina Ii il well known that the people
have already had bitter loretaste Of the
fruits of secession. In my position, separa-
ted only by the two counties Of Iredell and
Mecklcnburg from South Carolina and some
times uy only one of these, | meet a great
deal Of cnnfirmatory evidence of the ruin
,,f ihn ,ii..,,lrgtpn E,r
years the people Of western North Carolina
have made Il productive business By carrying.
-four, bacon, WHISKY, apple brandy, tobacco.
and other caHSumuJtes into South Carolina,
AS that state gives herself 50 exclusively to
ottun-raising that she does not be2iu to make
sufficient meat bread or liquor for tie hungry
and thirsty population. These waguners, re-
turnin. from South Carolina, give dismal ac-
counts Of the state Of things in that eXplo-
siyc republic. They claim that the real peo-
Pile are Union men, and that the Union men
are u majority in the interior Of the State. at
least; that sle people want peace nnion and
no secession, and that they would have these
but Tor the fact that the power is not in
their hands. The government Of South Car
Olina, it is well known is an aristocracy.-
The mass are governed by few who exer-
cisc over them almost despotic power From
what | car learn anOut that state, | predict
that if South Clrona attempts to stay out Of
the Union six months the masses Of the peo-
pie will rise in their might and compel the
,icmago!ue leaders to come to terms and let
the state remain in the Union. Men lately
returned from that state say that the people
have no money, and will soon be out OF ev-
crythiug to eat and drink many of them
upIns that they will soon demlnd to know
tine reason why from their sel!-appointed
masters.