Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-04-04
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1861.

The hostage on this paper within the State 81 per
quarter, out of the State 81 cts per quarter.
CONFERENCE CONFERENCE CoNFERENcE and for
what? The Watch and Wait men in the Virginia
Convention want another Conference, although mani
testify all conferences have failed They want Confer
ence of the Border States somewhere other Virginia
tried Peace Congress- and the PeaceA Congress met
and what did it effect? Just nothing its resolutions
or plans, or whatever the thing might be called was
not even taken from the table Of either House of Con-
gress It was not treated with half the respect usually
accorded to an abolition petition. When it got before
the Convention of the State of Virginia it got votes
all told.
What is the use Of more Conferences and Conven-
tions? What is the excuse for placing the Southern
States in the position Of suppliants to the dominant
Free Sellers of the North Shorn of half strength
we can enforce terms we only ask for favors-
How low, indeed must the spirit Of Virginia have fall
len when she places her trust upon the moderation Of
Abe Lincoln and depends for her safety upon the good
faith of VIM II. Seward
How long can this state of things go on? What
does this course Of conduct really mean but submis-
sion in the fullest sense of the word To that it must
come unless indignant although tardy aroused peo-
pie throw of the yoke Of those whose decets have
or tried to weave around them net to hold them in
subsection to a foreign domination, for such domination
must that of the United States hereafter be to the peo
pie of the few Southern States still remaining in the
Union. We say any government is foreign to people
who live under it without having any power in shaping
its course The remaining slave States will have under
the new apportiOnment, something like AZ Representa-
tVes and the Northern, nOnsaVeholdiDg, FreeSoll
States will have about 49, The $50 will constitute
the House. and arrayed they and will be in solid
sectional phalanx, Of course, and will of course, do
Just as suits themselves. Some Southern men in name
may obtain favour under the Northern Government as
some Irshmen have done under the British by bdray-
ing their people, Political subserviency to aboli-
ton influence will be the stepping stone to political ad-
Varcement under the rule of section that sends the
aboitonst Burlingame, the Red Republican and Athe-
ist Shurz on foreign MISSIONS and gives consuhips to
the agents Of the underground railroad Giddings and
such like.
There are some Of the watch and wait ;" men, who
no doubt, think the present order Of things will last
their time old Metternich did in Europe, but be
allied that false aud unnatural position things could
not and did not last even his time out. Things move
more quietly with US here but they also move more
rapidly. If we would avoid divisions in our borders
and among our own people, if we would escape posi-
ton of colonial dependence and servitude debasng in
its influences, because holding out Federal honorS and
rewards the price of reachery to tie South, then
must escape at once from present unfortunate
political relations. This is the plain logic of events
when subjected to the tests of experience shown in
the history of all nations Shall we watch and wait
until untold horrors unbearable humiations are up
u.s. or shall we be equal to the management of our
affairs, willing to assert at least participation in
deciding our own destines
If Virginia, with the experience of past and the
tany of future failure before her, chooses at the bidding
Of certain political managers, to paer conferences
and all such now useless lumber we do hope that North
Carolina will have sufficient elIespect to keep out of
that scrape at least The Governor has no power by
law to appoint Commissioners to any such body and
we trust that no doubtful discretionary or constructive
power will De thought Of If Virginia is no longer the
Old Virginia of which her children had once so many
reasons to be proud let not North Carolina again be
quoted her serye follower when she does wrong.
Let North Carolina rather assert her independence take
the lead, and Virginia will soon follow and be herself
again. true to the South, instead of being mere out
post of the North negotiating for delay upon frivolous
pretenCes.
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