The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-03-25
North Carolina,

cred recently speech Of immense length,
to the people of North Carolina. upon the
issues Of the day. 1t is an argument
against the party in North Carolina-and
we jnge from the admission in this speech
that the party is very strong in numbers,
if not dominant-who desire to have
State Convention called, for the pur-
pose, as Gov. Vance says, Of seceeding
from the Southern Confederacy and re-
pudiatiug the whole thing" His grounds
Of opposition TO this are chiefly these
three: Firstly, that It would be useless
to secede from the Confederacy second
ly, that it would be dangerously; third
ly, that 1t cant be done. ''H'.' ..e'.i t#
"Now,' says he, "pcrmH me to ask you what
it was that got you into this scrape Why,
you all know that it was the fact of your seocs-
sion in the, first instance. Suppose. you were
sick of typhoid fever, and had been close to
death door; and, becoming convalescent, the
physician should grayely inform you that the
only plan to effect your entire recovery, would
be to take another spell of the Internal fever
Would you not think he was fool [Laug
teri Secession was tried aftcI it had been con
sidered for period of forty years, and the whole
country understood it as completely as I'm. ab
straetion could be understood. We were prom
iscd it should be peaceable. What is the result
Why, it has been everything else. 1t has in
volved us in war that has no parallel upon
the pages of history. Do you expect to find a
remedy by repetition Of the dose that brought
youto bed p ,rI % ,..a. r.u
Gov. Vance demolishes the keystone
Of tho Southern Confederacy, the right
of Secession. in very unceremonious
style. e5. .a,ra. .a s....
u can assure you, my fellow citizens" says
he, "that secession from the Confederacy will
involve you in new war a bloodicr conflict
than that you now deplore. "But,p you may
say, Mr. Davis and his Government will not dare
to make war on u seeding State, because the
right Of secession is recognized in the Constitu
ton Of the ConfGderocy. So it is, my friends ;
but you see by the time you have thrown off
heUonstitution, you have gotten from under
its obligations andsworn you would have moth
ing to do with it. Do you expect the Confeder
acy to be bound by document you refuse to
recognize as affecting yourselves? ? So soon as
you announce to the world you are a sovereign
and independent nation, MS matter of course
the Confederacy has the right of declaring war
against you for sufficient cause, equally with
the right she holds of declaring war against
England, France, or Holland. This right is in
hcrent in all soveregntics' H.,......
Gov. Vance appeals to the fears Of the
people. lie shows them that if they re-
solve to leave the eff. Davis concern,
the whole State will be made field of
battle aud blood. Gen. Lee, he says,
would sends down his veterans, who
would fall merci!e essl " upon State which
had abandoned the So2th while, he
adds, "Old Abe would send lis troops
here also, because we would no longer be
neutral and so, il you will pardon the
expression, we would catch the devil on
all sides" The extent of the disaifec-
ton prevailing may be judged from the
glimly facetious remark Of this rebel
Governor, that if every man in that coun
ty (Wilkes) who chad used abusive Ian
guage toward jeff. Davis and the Con
federate Government were to be put in
fail, he would have to address his entire
audience through the prison bars" And
the following question and answer which
occurs in the course Of the speech, will
exhibit the deep and irrepressible longing
which prevades every part Of the State
snow. what is it you desire above all other
present earthly good Voices "Peace," peace
1--WE all want peace.'l know you do"
1t was in great measure the geograph-
ical position of North Carolina that car
ried her out Of the Union into the Con-
federacy, and it is the same accident that
Keeps her in the Confederacy. If she or
her population had existed, or could now
be transferred, weas ef the mountain or
mort of the Potomac, the rebellion within
her limits would have besn very limi-
ted affair.
The wyandot Election Case.