Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-07
MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 6, 1862.


inha bitants of Babylonia, influenced by splr-
it ofarrosance and self sufficency and in direct
opposition 20 the teachings OF the Great Law
Giver, built tower near the bank OF the river
Euphrates on or near the spot where the city
of Babylon stood, by the aid of which they
vainly essayed to ascend, unbidden to the
Divine Habiation and pry into the secret
councils of the Deity. For this wicked ana
sacrlgous act the Almighty confounded the
tongues Of the Babylonians, and, not being
able to understand each other any longer, they
were scattered to the four corners Of the
then known earth.
So it is with the Abolition Government
North. They have set Up a religion other than
that written in the Bible, and are guilty of the
crime of ''taking from and adding to- to the
things written in the Divine record on which
heavy curse is pronounced. Through fanati-
cism, pride and hypocrisy they have feigned
more tender moral sensibility than ever
Christ Himself manifested when on earth
Slavery existed then in precisely the same
form it does now and that too, among his own
people, yet in no in stance can 1t be shown
that Christ 1ebuked slavery, while there are
many instances on record in which he exhortcd
servants to be obedent to tn; ir masters, even
to the extent of basing their prospect OF saliva
ton, in some degree, upon that obedience.
The abolitionists, however, magnify slavery
into the great sin Of the age an1 having failed
to convince the reason OF sensible men by ar
gument they now propose to enforce the truth
of their dogma BY the point OF the bayonet;-
the result is, their language is confounded and
scarcely three of their leading men can be
found who agree upon any one impor-
-tant measure Senator Hle has recently
made long speech in the Senate chamber in
w1ich he denounced the policy Of giving up
Mason and Slilell as one of the N pSt hunilia-
ting acts any government was ever guilty OF,
while others regard 1T as a trivial affair.
1t is very evident from thu tone OF the North
ern prints that great confusion and Disagree
ment exists upon that, as well as many other
subjects. The question Of Ehat is to be done
with the slaves they have stolen from US re-
Gently, is likely to be a source of great trouble
in the Legislative halls, ani it is reduced to a
moral certainty that if the proposition of the
Secretary Of War is carried out Of arm;ng
them, that all their now loyal subjects in the
border States will throw down their arms and
join the South, SO that the Go,tIess of derange-
ment and confusion rs to reign supreme IN
every aspect Of the case.
A more wicked government never has dis
graccd the pages Of history-ancie1t or mod
ern. The year which has just closed has
been a scene Of hurried marches, from one
outrage to another, and from the violation Of
one clause of international law to another, for
the sake Of gratifying the fiendish spite and
hatred they cherish toward the Southern peo-
pie, until the ancient land marks of national di-
plomacy and maratime usases have been well
nigh obliterated. All these infrlngemcnts upon
the courtices friendly powers have been made
matters of record by England and France
and day Of reckoning evidently is close at
hand.
Mason and SldeN have been surrendered, but
two grave questions have yet to be settled be-
fore England will cease her warke prepara-
tlons. Capt Wilkes has to be hunb!ed by
being reprirnandcl court martialled and
through that act the populous North diSgraced
by being forced to eat their own vomt and
those old stone-flled hulks that have been
sunk in Souther inlets have to be raised and
removed by the Yankees or Jonny Ball will
fight Aud in addition to all of which the
blockade will certainly be raised and that ri GIT
early. In evidence of which, just read the
following precious morsel from the New York
Abolition Tribune, written by its Yankee Ab
clifton correspondent in Paris On the position
Of France
TIE POSITION OF FRANCE
Paris letter Of the 9th Dec, in the 4. Y.
Tribune, says:
your correspondent must guess that in
the supposed case of an ,tBgioAmerican war,
France would begin with, and hold as long as
she could with polite advantage, the position
of an armed neutral, ready to act as mediator.
As mediator between gland and the United
States in the first instance. And then with
England, perhaps, as mediator between the L.
5. ~ and &. ). A.
It is worse than falsehood to deny, what |
know it is worse than patriotic to admit, but
what it is the disagreeabfe duty of reporter
to state, this passionateiy disputed, but reas-
onably indisputable fact, that the recognition
of the c. S A. existing nation by Eng
land and France is rapidly approaching dlplo-
matte recard."
In further vndication Of our position as to
the confusion of tongues at the North and Of
rottenness in Denmark, we give the following
significant piece Of intelligence in the form of
an opinion from the London Times Russell
man. He says the Yankee government will
hIa ,,pFar tIo ipl,t of national infamV