Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-02-05
From the N. Y. Tribune Of 23d inst.
The Confa 1fnn of Sseesss0i,.


The dabocal spirit of Rebellion not only encounters
US in the field but it has entered our legislative cham
bers, and, under the malign prompting of the
Democratic party, bent upon rule ruin It is tamper
ing with the popular loyalty One year ago, men only
murmured treason but success has opened their
mouths and filed their hearts with abominable political
devices We beginning to that about tbe worst
battle lost to the Union cause thus far is that of the
New York State Election Nobody believes Horatio
Seymour to.be friendly to the Administration or to
feel any honest sympathy with its embarrassment
yet he is elected Governor. The mob in Albany has
given us bitter ioretaste Of possible anarchy. From
the West hear OF schemes designed by the desperate
and disafeced-conspiraces tendng to fresh ruptures
and the final overthrow of the Republic. Wicked men,
even at the North beginning openly and shame
essy to daily with dsunon, and propose since disloca
tion has come into fashion, to multiply the fragments
Of our Institutions All this is terrible We bet
ter afford to lose fifty fights than thus 70 weaken the
morality of cur cause We can better afford to submit
to invasion, than thus to make disntegration familiar
to Constituencies We can better afford to let the
Slaveholdng soldiers bivouac in the Capitol than to
be betrayed into negotiations which are full OF danger
to daily with compromises which, with their adop-
ton, must precipitate into unmitigaed anarchy
Already, we begin to hear of Western Confederaces,
of New EDgand Confederaces, of Middle States trans
mogrf6ed into Middle Confederacies. Already, we
have hints OF new and tempting combinations aiming
at safe and convenient boundaries and the monopoly of
internal navigation. Already the coming Congress
casts its dark shadow before; and busy as the Devil
always has been in Washington time is coming when
he will redoube his activity in that uneasy seat of
endangered Government. Hitherto the restoration OF
the Union has been, with the of the people, mat
ter of sentiment but time is at hand which will not
be in the least poesical and when we must confront
public danger hardened into the most vulgar concrete
Gestemen who desire to be elected to Congress not
Patriots, but simply and nakedly anti-Republi-
cans, ant-Government men, cannot be supposed to
care much for the perpeuy of our institutions They
expect to fatten upon national troubles They
ghous who will little how cold the corpse may be,
or later they may fairly get their teeth into
it. They live, plot, spout intrigue, bargain and
scheme, solely for personal aggrandizement Their 10y
atty is limited by their own lives, and thought of
the veal OF posterity enters into their calcula-
tions. If, with the recognition of the Conederacy,
these mortal traitors could be banshed and with them
their whole brood of venal voters-if we could send
them to rest in the black bosoms of their Confederate
rends-if the honor, WORTH religion, intelligence and
wealth of the North could have but fair chance of
exercising their legitimate influence, We might consider
with greater cooness the of the Southern rea
son. But these men, after the accomplished dismem-
berment would remain-would still be with us though
not of us-woud be then, as they now, and they
always have been the ready agents of Slavery and the
paid pimps of the slaveholding interest. Establish
State upon the basis of Man-Owning upon this CONT
nent and the minds of Wood, Brooks, Seymour and all
that genus will gravitate toward it with all the force
OF bad nature. Given these men in power, and the
Northern Republic would be the bought if not the
born thra of the Davis dynasty ready in Cabinet and
Congress to do its dirty and demoniac work-ready to
catch its runaways ready to wink at the revival of
the African Slave -Trade-readv to Join ALLAN &c
against the moral of mankindready to promote
the Secession cf the West from the East-ready for
war upon New England-ready to make poor
shadow of Government in Washington as much the
tool of the Southern Confederacy as the Cabinet
of Charles II. the tool of the French monarch
Political chafferers in the sacred of Democracy
would sell themselves frst and next their neighbors-
There could be for permanence prosperity no
private happiness, and no public greatness.
1t may be said that eXaggerate this danger. We
do not think For the political power of the Con-
federacy would be in the hands of few men, who have
been educated 10 detest the Union and who would be
i'll satisfied with that partial success which left even
respectable fragment of the old Republic yet entire
Once fairly separated, they would begin to feel wants.
the existence of which they do not admit and they
would be only too ready to avail themselves of those
abilities which they have heretofore affected
to despise The great serpent of Slavery would
verse its trial. and look with longing eyes toward
North left at its mercy by the dssensions and the dis
affection of its children Our social freedom would
be perpetual aggravaton of the bad temper and eal
ousy which the inseparable aduncts of savehod-
ing. If we were prosperous, prosperity would be
continual 1ebuke Of that sin which has been called
the of all viainies - and if we were hopelessy
weakened by the dismemberment our cities and our
farms would be the cheap prey of every mad partisan
who chose to promote raid. Nor should we be with
out hatred OF slavery intensified by the OF which
it had been the fruitful mother and any effort to check
or to silence the expression of that sentiment would
bat complicate the public dilemma. We should still
have proslavery Governors, prosavery Senator'S pro-
slavery Presidents and pro-saVery Representatives
and the very existence of determined and uncoropro
missing opposition would drive them into disgracefu
dplomaces and intrgues, not to behought OF without
horror If speak sharply we beg the reader to be-
eve that we speak sincerely We have not, nor will
pretend have, any confidence in the public virtue
af MIA of +ho
Of the South and of the sins of the North-who has
ne words for the Richmond regime and foul words for
hs constitutional rulers-who would restore the
Union by muzzling discussion and b. declaration of
the sanctity of Involuntary SeIvitude, with allthe
s0emnites of act of public fath-Who feels it to be
a duty to anoogize for his own loyalty and for the
treason OF the public enemy-who is half this and half
that and not wholly, body, SOUL and spirit the honest
aud anquestionDg devotee of the Constitution and the
Laws-who wastes that Indignation upon the foes of
Slavery which he should naturally bestow upon its
fri nds-who is utterly without pity for the poor
and defenceless as he ignorant of that simple law of
labor which makes the prosp rity of the employer de-
pendent upon his justice-who is in short creature
OF shams and OF subterfuges, and participates IN public
affairs without ennobling sentiment or benevo
lent aspiration. Why should the poor hybrid, hall
democrat, pretend to any for human rights,
or be at all coy about selling others, since he is SO
ready to sell himself? tus to it that the triumph
of the Secessionsts does not open for him market.
Miss Sarah A. Lee has recovered verdict of S..
500 against Andrew Morse, in Maine Court, for
breach of marriage promise. Supposed to be the
largest verdict of the kind ever rendered in New Eug
land.
Gov Curtin, in his annual message to the Legisa-
ture of Pennsy gives the Presidents EmanclPa-
tion Proclamation wide berth. He refuses to touch
it.
KENTUCKY TO REsrsr-A reliable gentleman in-
formed MS vesardav evening that the report with re-