Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-06-05

WHEN, over year since, the people of this State
to demand that North Carolina should
take her place in opposition to Lincoln coercion, and
side by side with her sister States OF the South and
when in obedience to this CALL her Convention, on day
sancted by the proudest historical racoections gave
form and expression to the public demand, by unani-
mousy passing the ordinance that severed the connec
| ton of the State with the now despotc and hostile
States of the North bad fondy hoped that the voice
OF partnership for time hushed, the intrigues Of
politicians suspended, the moutbing of demagogues
sileuced That whatever dfferen,e s might have pre-
viously existed, this great decisive irrevocable
step, promptly taken, so unanimously agreed to
would have harmonzad them all-that the fires o
patriotism would have burned with sufficient intensity
to have fused all into united mass that all would
have been Secessonsts, and all would have been Unen
lists Seed ssonsts TO sustain with heart and soul, tn
position the State had deliberately ard unanimous,
taken-UDion to stand together united in the main
tanance OF this position, so assumed by North Carroll
ma, in ceasing to be member of the Fedea al Union
and in allyng herself with the the Confederate States
/ of the South.
Ia this ford hope thousands of true participated
Upon the altar of public safety they willing t
offer up their former preiudces and prepossessions
abrogate party lines and forget party divisions They
were sarguine enough to believe that all were in
uenced By the motives and actuated by the same
| feelings. That they over-sanguine requires nc
proof to render the fact apparent to q Il the duest
comprehension. They ought to have remembered that
human nature is trail and fabia while they knew that
they claim for themselves no immunity from common
end weaknesses that the trail Of the serpent will
ho e
patriotic hope. But remembering all this, they cannot
regard the serpent otherwise than serpent ne
gect their duty to detect his Wiles, point cut his man,
ouvres and defeat bis Vaccinations
That attempt is now making, with some measure
of success, 10 bitter party feelings in this State
is fact deeply to be depored but impossible TO be de.
ne1 From all responsibility for any ouch attempt or
for its injurious effects. skirts, at least are clear
We have seduously avoided anything that might have
the slightest tendency to bring about such result
Nay, we fear that We have carried avoidance of
State matters too far, in anxiety to keep from be-
ing mixed up in elcctoneering squabbes yet we
have not escaped Genuncaton from those Who for their
purposes, are engaged in tie unholY work which
have sincerely deprecated and 90 sincerely depre-
cate. While laboring earnestly TO do justice to
all, to give to the public the earliest and
most reliable information, to give honest
aud Independent support to overtaxed authorities in
their ecrs to achieve independence to cheer the
spirits of the soldiers to incite those at home to do
everything promote the comfort Of their brethren in
the camp, we in common with all who heartily sus-
tain and sympathise with the movement tr our indie
pendence, denounced "destrucves" by some who
doing all they to bring our struggling govern
ment into dsrepute to depress the feelings of the sol
dieEs and, uoder the guise Of peculiar friendship to
awaken feeling Of discomfort and sense of injury in
the ranks. We are denounced as Secessionsts when
all have seeded and this too By those whose own names
stand affixed to the solemn act by which the State
of North Carolina dissolved her connection with the
Federal &C, ernnent, but who busy, for their
own purposes IL endeav0urng to array the paope into
two opposite camps, assuming to themselves the name
of Conse ,atives willie they denounc all who do not
join In With their schemes and promote their ambitions
"desructives Their conservatism connects itself
with what has passed away-with government whose
representatives the South are such men as the
Infamous Butler, the contemplate Johnson, or the
plausible, but perfdous Burnside. Their destructive
directed against those now i'll authority by the
will OF the Confederate States and Of the several States
if they will have US to be destructives" takes an op-
posie direction as does also our conservatism"
But we are proud to sag that the number of these
persons is limited and say it with equal pride and
caudor that their present position is not one resulting
from former party associations If indeed party in its
legitimate sense, be the proper term by which to Ces-
nate refer to- the factions organizaton which, for
selfish purposes they are striving to get up tle fac
tious feelings they are aborng to create We see and
recognise difference the main and only essential
issue that OF Southern independence between true men
OF whatever former name association and we never
By reference or Otherwise knowingly make any. In
fact all of good sense must now recognise the ap.
Pile ability to present position of the often quoted
remark OF Patrick Henry in years gone by, that it is
too late to recele and that submission at this point
would be only another name for absolute ruin.
We are proud also to say that the spirit which we SO
much deprcate has found its DEVELOPMENT in yerv few
indeed of the papers of the State of any former party
and in the few which have exhibited symptoms of being
more less acuated by it, still fewer yield to it voun-
tariy Or from selfish motives Soma are so preiudced
that they cannot help themselves They display ner-
vous irtabity uncOnscousy against certain Objects as
bull will become excited by looking at red mantle
Our contemporary Of the Fayetteville Observer not un-
frequently affords illustrations of this fact Ct which
recent instance afforded in the way in which it
pitched into statement of the Journal that it was said
Burnside had stated that Hon. Edward Stanly was to
be Governor Of North Carolina under Lincolns ap-
pointment. This statement made for public in
formation, and in no spirit of partzanship il was
made in tone of regret and SURPRISE coupled it is true
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