Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-16
From the Lynchburg Republican.
Tf2e EoEthWsst Question.

Our able contemporary, the Richmond Enquirer in a
serbs Of articles the subject of the Northwestern
States, being in immediate cry oc peace and the for
nation O! new C0nederacy, has justly laid bare to
the geZe Ut the enthusiastic, teH par phs
OF whitening sarcasm how betooed The ect
tie small politicians CT the day a Northwestern al
arce and assurances Of the free navigation Of the Mis-
sssipp is pleasant enough picture to contemplate
and all it lacks make it al object of cur tender re-
CARDS is it's want OF reality, We have waited patient
IT, but in vain to hear from tie delegations
which runOr has time and again, in tbs last four
months, from Ind and Illinois, sekiug our aid
to help them throw Of the Lincoln yoke, 10 receive
them into family OF States. II any such delega-
tons have come the retcence OF the government and
public officials is without parallel in that such i'm.
portapt embassy Les been well kept secret.
Il seems to strange that If the feelings of the peo-
pie OF the Northwestern Stats, the war, have
dergone hange auy extent that this changed senti-
ment has found its way to the troops from that
| ton 1t Is true have had Tumors OF disafection
among them, but madam tumor is, after al but myth,
and sometimes she syren that leads destruc-
ton Jut in this instance the good Sense Of people
have placed the right estimate upon the reports from the
great Northwest" and cur government remains alive
to the Importance of keeping all their energies bent
upon being prepared for the assaults Of the common
enemy, whether he come from the great Northwest
Or the small Northeast. We do n0t douot that great
change OF sentiment has OVtrtaken the bengated deni
zens of Hoosie,dom They dreanpt Of easy conquest,
and an LumbliDg of the "Cston Lords' OF the
Mississippi Valley, whom whilom they supplied
with cabbages, potatoes, plows, and such notions,
accompanied with many bendngs of the supple hinges
Of the knee They awake to find it all dream, and
to learn that their hard task masters their breth-
rem Of the New England Safes AS the Yankees
say they feel rsled at tie discovery, and finding no
hope for open navigation of the river, and that they
are growing sensibly poorer IN pocket AID labor
every day, discomfort seizas upon some, aud these
some would like TO see the way stopped and trade
sumo It's sway. obtain the latter result they would
De content to live under any government despotlc as
Lncoln's patriarchal the Indians, For what
.he Heosier Tor States Rights? Free trade is
his motto, in apples "irg oos, cabges aud taters."
His pork he sells in Cincinnati or Louisville, where it
| is packed for the South.
Oar Northwestern enemies will become allies in
the process of time it is probably working that way
new but the friction Of this has not yet caused the
reaction necessary to ripea The fruit. We have only
wait, and time will drop these Northwestern States
into alliance friendly reighboriog naoa, just
when broadhorn commences to float down the Mis-
issppi river from some point the Oho, it finds the
end OF its slow Journey at the levee in New Oceaus