, 1862-12-29
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

I. Correspondence Of the New York Tribune1
NEwBERE, N. c., Dec. IS, 1862
Not one man Of any prominence has yet
been induced to take any position for tho
Union; and understand that, with but one
SOLITARY exception, nobody who was citizen
Of the state when the rebellion commenced,
has thus flr undertaken to mike q Union
speech. In Tennessee and Virginia we hear
Of lawyers, politicians, and others, rho have
been conspicuous heretofore, coming ont
earnestly and Internationally on the Union
side. am sorry to say this is not the case
bility that it ever will be. I do not know Of
single Shareholder, q man Of large property,
who is Union man, except from very evi-
dent considerations Of profit or convenience.
The non-Elayeholders are generally disposed
untitled by infirmity or age, enlist quite will
ing1y- These men, however, dislike Governor
| Stau1y and his policy, and insist upon the
| ha1ehest measures toward the rebels and their
| sympathizers.
These non Shareholders, or "white trazh,'
| as the ncgro-1rlFers call them, and who com
| pose four -ffths Of the white population Of
| North Carolina,a are easily made info Gee-labor
nen, one speech being sufficient to convert o
| whole community. They are generally down
| On the negro as well as his master, and desire
| his deportation out of the country; but they
heartily wish the slayes were all free as the
| first necessary step to getting rid Of them.
| They readily appreciate the argument that the
| unpaid, compulsory labor Of negroes keeps
| the wages Of white labor down to a starvation
! point, end that the evils Of this competition
bly, would, be diminished by emancipation.
| The negroes, if freed, would be no more nu-
ulerous tlan now, even if they remained here.
| Slavery keeps them in the Southern country,
Tlen, too, the slave Is compened to do days
work every well day he hgs; if not obliged,
| he probably would not work half 80 much,
and 90 the poor white man would have bet
ter chance.
| Persons who have been engaged in procur-
ing volunteers for the North Carolina Union
companies very soon found that no progress
whatever could be made by using the stale,
commonplace Union talk in their addresses
but free labor harangues, denunciatory Of the
slave oligarchy, and exhibiting the benefits
which would result to the masses from its
; dreds. And one reason why these native na'
t1onal soldiers fight so desperately and well
is their intense hatred Of the slayeholding
| aristocracy which they now see Las Away
maltreated and defrnuded them.
The attempt to suppress the tree labo
movement by placing it under the ban OF tn
, Administration, and prohibiting the publica
! ton Of the proceedings of the meetings OF
| gan1zed under the auspices Of the Free Laho
Association, has created considerable excite
! ment here and occasioned no small indigna
i ton. In this attempt Gov. Stlnly has mad
d ! one Of the greatest mistakes Of his life. Th
+ leaders in the movement, hoTeyer, are me
I of nerve, who know well what they are doing
;, and who have counted the cost and measure
: all the difficulties lying in their way The
L know the arbitrary and irresponsible poWt
Of the Military Governor, but they fear neitht
y repatriation nor the NeWbeFn Rastll'
9 They hare opposed to them not only the e1
tire JEFF Davis Confederacy, and all its tfeacl
T. erous and crafty adherents inside our line
but, in addition to this, President Lincoln
representative, with an his patronage hj
S steamboats, and his railroads; but all thes
i obstacles do not appall them. Gov. Stanl
It denounees their sentiments as <swicked,n II an
e their followers as ssbad men, In an artic1
e in the Ncwbern Progress, severely reprobatin
n the doctrines announced at the Beaufortmee
=. ing, which article was written at the instig:
: tion Of Gov. Stan1y, he says: We did nt
IS come here to establish Free Labor in Mort
\ Carolina; nor is this the ayowed policy Of tl1
u Administration"
It The Free-Labor men strongly oppose orde
d ing any election for the remainder Of th
is present Congress, because they feared it woul
e afford the President 4 preteKt to,cxcnpt I'll
Il rich lands and thousands Of slaves within I'll
d limits of this district from the operation
t. the confiscation and emancipation acts. III
e petitions which they signed were for the ne,
It Congress; and they were told only few da1
+ before the appearance Of the Governors pro
d lanlation directing an election for Jan. I, TIL
u | none would be at present ordered.