New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-22
n. Witness tho following contrasts:
Democratic Couaties.
Wig Counter.
Ga.. A..


IredelL l9l 1873 Lincoln...... 708 90
Montgomery. 81 80 Martin 80 C.s %
PasaGotapk l59 426 Meckenburg ,4B 20
Randolph Is 2466 n. Hanover. ,lsl 2lU
Stsuly ~ s. 763 Nash ........ 9S9 ~
Watauga ~ 13O ODsIoW.----' ooi ,oo
Washington .238 dlS Simpson,. w 90
Wilkes IL 1850 Wayne ......l I'D "a;
Yadkiu. "a 400 Warren ..-.- "f ID
,6yybio O. 2762 1853 i6Dem. Cos 16 1873 I. J07
Union maj 1886 Secession MAJ --I''o-o
A few old Wing Counties, mainly in what
was Clingman's District Burke, Buncombe'
Rutherford, &c.), have followed that paltry
renegade into the slough of treason, as they
had previously followed him into the camp OF
Sham Democracy; but the general fact that
the Wings of North Carolina resisted while
the Democrats favored Secession. remains in-
dsputable Especially in old Guiliord (the
only County of the State that gave an anti
jackson majority in 1882, and in glorious
Iredell, Wilkes, Randolph, &c.-so long and
bonorabIy represented in Congress by Lewis
Williams, the friend and counselor Of Madison,
Monroe, and John Quincy Adams-the MAORI
ties rolled up against even allowing Conven'
ton to meet were overwhelming.
The Secessionsts were bafiled, not sub
dued, by this popular verdict. They redoubled
their Vaccinations, and, having the State Gov
eminent completely in their hands, not without
success. When at length the boInbardment
and fall OF Sumter electrified the country, and
the President called officially on all the I'M
seeded States for Militia wherewith to defend
the Capital Gov. Ellis insultingly refused, and
called instead the Legislature Of his State to
prosecute the work Of Secession. The Legis-
lature met on the LIST of May, 1861, called a
new Convention forthwith, had the election on
the 18th, at which Secess.onists were generally
chosen without serious opposition, assembled
the Convention on the Goth, and rushed the
State into rebellion at once. The Unionists,
bullied oyerawed. COMPOUNDED, made no serious
opposition. and the election was about such q
farce as the Border Rufiisns were accustomed
TO enact in Kansas.
Gov. Ellis has since died, and Henry 7.
Clark. President of the Senate, succeeded him
pro tenn. 1t was early reported that Gov
Clark was at heart UDiOnst-that a consd-
cradle proportion of the Legislature, then in SEES
sion at Raleigh, cheered the news Of the cap.
ture of Fort Hatteras by the Union forces,
&C., &c. More recently, there have been
vague reports of Union risiDgs and spirited
conflicts with Rebel forces in some of the old
Wing strongholds above indicated; but the
only yeriication of these to our mind was an
exulting Rebel bulletin Of " Confederate vic
tory" over a gathering of Lincolnites in that
quarter We deem this conclusive as TO the
fact that a rising in favor of the Union was
attempted there probably without success.
That North Carolina never heartily enlisted
in the Rebellion-that she grudges the sacri-
fees and sufferings it has imposed on her
that her acting Governor shares to some ex-
tent tho general sentment-that lie and she
would rejoice over the restoration Of the
old flag aud the old times-so much We
Judge probably true. That she will hence
forth do more than she is constrained
to for the Rebel cause, We do not be-
while the Rebel main army remains unsubdued
in lower Virginia, is scarcely credible The
reports which reach US from her coast of
serious differences between her Executive aud
the jeff. Davis despotsm-of the ordering
home of her troops now fighting in Virginia,
and of her probable secession from Secessla-
we take at very largo discount. That Gov.
Clark may have declined to indorse the
levy en- massc ordored by JEFF. Davis, and
minated that North Carolina could spare
no troops for service elsewhere is far more
plausible We judge that all that the Confedera.
cy can expect from the old State hencelorth is
permission to retreat across is breadth unmo-
Tested. But the Union strength Of the State is
nearly all in the uplands, wnere it is sur
rounded and commanded by Rebel authorities
and forces; while most of the seabOard region
is given over to Cotton, Turpentine, and sia'-
cry. and thus fully saturated with treason
Not TIL the Rebels are well whipped III VIZ
GINA is there good ground for expecting az!
decided Union demonstrations from Nor'n Val
DINA.
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