The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-22

The people Of North Carolina are
everywhere petitioning Gov Vance
to call State Convention, to discuss
and decide upon the future policy Of
the State: but the Governor, ina speech
recently delivered in Wilkes county,
refused to aceede to their demands.
We have not vet seen the document in
full, but have few extracts, as presen-
ted by the Cincinnati Gazette.
He SAYS that the object of the Con
vcntion can beno other than to provide
the means for seeding from the
Southern Confederacy and repudiating
the whole thing After indirectly adj
hitting that the convention party is
very strong, he opposes the project,
first, because it is useless; second, be
cause it would be dangerous; and third,
because it is impossible The Governor
is not complimentary to secession,
which, he says, has proved anything
but the peaceable matter that 1t was
promised it should be He compares
the sufferers to a man sick Of fever,
who, on becoming convalescent, tells
the physician that the only way to re-
coyery IS through another spell Of fever.
He asks the petitioners: Do you ex-
pect to find a remedy by repetition Of
the dose that brought you to bedT He
then goes on to say that secession from
the Confederacy would involve the
State in a new and bloodier war than
that in which it is now engaged de
claring in plain contravention to the
secession dogma that the right of re-
tanning a revolving State is inherent in
all sovereignties. He does not apply
the argument in so many words to
the revolt of the South against the
National Constitution, but in effect
does so by replying to the objection
that jeff Davis could rot coerce
North Carolina, because the Confederate
Constitution recognizes secession. He
says: So it is my friends; but you see
by the time you have thrown off the
Constitution, you have gotten from I'M
der its obligations, and sworn you would
have nothing to do with it. Do you ex-
pect the Confederacy to be bound by
document you refuse to recognize as
affectingyourselyes p He then appeals
to the fears of his audience, by telling
them that between the troops of Lee
and old Abe they would catch the
devil on both sides" He also observed
that if every man in Wilkes county,
who had used abusive language to-
ward jeff Davis and the Confederate
Government, were to be put in jail, he
would address his audience through
the prison bars" The spirit of the
crowd may be inferred by the follow
ing paragraph in the speech, as report
ed in the Richmond papers: "'Now,
what is il you desire above all other
present earthly good? Voices Peace,
peace we all want peace ] know
you do.
In this connection we may add that
the Raleigh Standard, which was, for
short time suspended, has resumed pub
lication, and its editor has announced
himself a candidate for Governor, on a
peace platform; and that means recon
struction, and nothing else.
If the rebels are driven out Of Vir-
ginia, during the present campaign, the
people of North Carolina will be left
free to act, by the time the election
comes off which is on the fourth Thurs
day in August next; and then Holden,
or some other good Union man will be
chosen Governor, with little opposition.
The rebels cannot make a stand in the
old North State; but must.retire to the
cradle Of secession, and there fortify
Gen. Grant understands the value Of
Strengthening our lines by advancing
the left wing to a position parallel with
Chattanooga.