smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

the Aharleston Collrlsr says:


The sensation mongers engaged for the New
York press, who seem to be paid according to
the job in lying, continue their fabrications con-
cerninS the forts at Charleston, and otner top
les designed to stir up civil strife.


The position of South Carolina has not been
taken by stealth or under pretext, and those
who know her and her sons should feel assured
that while she shrinks from no consequences,
she will not wage war under cover.


She claims before the world, and the States
lately connected with her in Federal compact,
the right of peaceful secession, as necessary
and undeniable adjunct of Federal compact
While claiming such right and asserting It
openly and before the world, it would ill-becone
her to inaugurate war by premature or unneees-
sary violence.


The New York press has done more than any
other agency to promote and compel the sepa-
ration of the South, and its Satanic conductors
are determined to carry on the game of false
hood
Year: 1861

Governor Ellis deserves tho thanks of all
good law-abiding citizens for his refusal to
listen to the suggestions of that ertraordi7aary
committee who visited him from Wilmington
ON Tuesday last. They proposed that he should
do no less thing than to authorize the selzing
of Fort johnson and the other federal works in
the State, SO rumor has it, and we arc disposed
to credit it. But Governor Ellis knows, as
does all sensible men, that SO long as North
Carolina remains in the Union, to lay violent
hands on single piece Of federal property
would be treason. Though we have but little
if any hope of the Union being preserved, yet
we desire that the people of North Carolina
should be loyal as long as they remain in it; and
we believe in clinging to it as long as We can
possibly do so consistent with our safety and
honor To have seized the forts in the State
would have been going far in advance of South
Carolina, because they declared themselves out
first, but We should have been guilty in such
an act of the most attrocious treason to the
Government whose protection and benefits we
are still enjoying and Of which we composed a
part


We are glad that our State is slow in some
things. We are glad that she is slow to COM
NIT treason against the federal Government; !;
we are glad that she is slow in the matter of
secession; we are glad that she is slow in
abandoning her rights under the Constitution,
but We could wish to see her little faster in
the work of preparation.


We hope kbat, should other committees
visit tile Goverfsor for such an object, he will
treat thera as he Sid the fast patriots from the
Cape Fear Region" when Revolution COM
mcnces, if,commence it zslpst. it will be time
TO seze tae fortifcatiops-sush a thing must
not be thought Of while North Carolina sus-
,tains the same relation to the Government as
she does atpresent.
Year: 1861

The outward show Of observance of the re-
commentator of the President on Friday was
pretty general in this place. The Churches
were open and the attendance at most or all of
them large. We have heard the discourses of
Messrs. Long of the Methodist E. Church and
Watson of the Episcopal Church spoken of in
most fattering terms. We have heard several
members of the latter gentleman's congregation
express desire to have his discourse PUBLISHED.


The ministers Of the other Churches in their
a manner very satisfactory to their audiencies :;
so we learn.


We could rot attend Church on that day on
account of indisposition in our family.
Year: 1861

We condense and compile the news which
reaches us from the North and the South re-
lative to the present alarming condition of our
National affairs, but bad as it is, the fact that
there is set of telegraph agents and news
paper correspondents at Washington City
whose object is to increase the excitement and
alarm which already exists, for base purposes,
is undeniable, and hence we caution the public
to be extremely cautious how they receive
sensation items, especially ifsent by telegraph.


Here is specimen which we find in New
York paper of the Ord instant, which we know
tn he false
Year: 1861

PRosPERoUs.-The proprietors of the Will
mington Journal speak of constant accessions
to their Daily and Weekly list. Glad to hear
it. Messrs. Fulton & Price arc energetic and
Industrious men, they make good paper and
deserve their pecuniary prosperity
Year: 1861

WHAT WE ARE MADE OF.-The following
is an article by Oliver Wendell Holiness


If the reader Of this paper lives another
year, his self-conscous principle will have
migrated from his present tenement to an-
other, the raw material even of which are
not yet put together. A portion of that
body which is to be, will ripen in the corn
of his next harvest. Another portion of his
future person he will purchase, or others
will purchase for him, headed up in the form
/ of certain barrels of potatoes. A third frac-
ton is yet to be gathered in the southern
rice field. The limbs with which he is then
to walk will be clad with flesh borrowed
from the tenements of many stalls and pas
lures, now unconscious of their doom.


The very organs of speech with which he
is to talk so wisely, plead eloquently, or
speak so effectively, must first serve his
humble brethren to bleat, to below, and for
all the varied utterance of bristled or feath-
cred barn.yard life. His bones themselves
are, to great extent in posse, and not essc
bag of phosphate lime, which he has Or
dered for his grounds contains large part
of w1at is to be his skeleton. And more
than all this, by far the greater part of his
body is nothing at all but water-the main
substance Of his scattered members is to be
looked for in the reservoir, in the running
streams, at the bottom of the well, in the
clouds that float over his head, or diauscd
among them all.
Year: 1861

The wealthy farmers of Hatfield, Mass, are pre-
pairing to raise large crops of tobacco the present
season notwithstanding the facts that the tobacco
market is flat and there is likely to be a better de-
mand for corn next fall than for the weed.
Year: 1861

FREE MASONRY IN THE SoUrH.-At convoeatloh
of tho Chanter of ROYAL Arch Masons OF the State
of Georgia, which closed it session in Augusta, on
the 2Gih nit. the following resolution was unani'
mously adopted: That the Sonnexio9 heretofore
Masons of the State of Georgia and the General


Grand Chapter of the late United States of America
ne and the same is hereby dissolved"


The ladies of New Orleans held fair last week
and raised $4,000 for the cause of the South
Gods sun never shone upon braver or more gen
erous people than those of the Crescent City
And the women are as beautiful as the men are
brave.
Year: 1861

VERMoNT.-Senator Foote is here, urging
upon the War Department the acceptance of
two Vermont regiments, which are enlisted for
the war and which are now in camp, fully
armed and equipped, and ready to march. In
addition to these two regiments and the one
now at Fortress Monroe, the State is organ.
izing four more. The Legislature appropriated
one million of dollars for the war. Senator
Foote says that every man and every woman
in Vermont is ready to enlist, and that the peo.
pie will spend their last dollar, before they will
suffer the old flag to be struck to any enemy,
foreign, or domestic.
Year: 1861

STAGNATIoN OF BUSINESS IN NORTH CARO-
LINA.--Busness Of every kind has become
dreadfully dull in North Carolina since the
passage of the secession ordinance. Several
papers have suspended publication. The Will
mington Herald says:


"We have been compelled TO suspend the
publication of the Herald with this issue. Our
reasons for so doing will be anticipated by
every one acquainted with the condition of bust
ness in the country. There is nothing doing
in the way of advertisements, and collections
are next 10 impossible"
Year: 1861

We most earnestly protest against
a party assuming to be for the Union
par excellence whose principal organs
use such language as the following
And we, IN like manner, protest
against the idea now advanced by the
same sheet, that if we cannot subju.
gate the Southern people, and hold
their States as conquered provinces,
that we must "let them CO." Let lis
make them stay in tho Union, but
give them their COnstitut onal rights
Read the disunion extracts from the
leading Republican organ:


II the Cotton States unitodly anc
earnestly wish to withdraw peacefully
from the Union we think they should
and would be, allowed to do so. Any
attempt to compel them by force to re
main would be contrary to the prin
ciples enunciated ir the immorta
Declaration of independence contra
ry to the fundamental ideas on whicI
human liberty is based IN. Y. Tri
bune, Nov. 1860.


If the people Of seven or eight con
tiguous States shall pretty unanimous
" resolve to secede and set up fo
themselves, we think they wouldd
so, and that it would he most -unwis
to undertake to resist such secessio
Year: 1861

The following are among the reso.
lptiOns adopted by the Few York De.
mocratic State Convention:


Re8OJyed, That the Democracy Of
this State will sustain no war nor
countenance any peace tending to the
sepal alton Of these States and that
they will regard any attempt to pre-
vent this conflict into the emancipa-
tion of the slaves as fatal to all the
hopes Of the restoration of the Union.
ResOIUed, That it is the duty OF the
Administration, initiating the patriot
ic spirit Of the people, to abandon the
narrow platform of the Chicago Con


Yeution, which stands condemned by
the sufrages Of nearly two.thirds OF
the people, and step forth upon the
broad platform of the Constitution; to
expel corrupt men from office, to ex-
ciude from its councils the advocares
Of separation Or abolition, and to re.
construct its Cabinet so as to conform
to the altered condition Of the country
End to command more largely the pub.
lie respect and confidence.


Resol0ed, That while we admit the
necessity Of summary process of mar.
tial law among insurgent populations
and within the lines of military op-
erations, we protest against the as
sumption that any power except the
representatives Of the people, can suS.
pend the privilege Of the writ of ha-
beas corpus, for civil offences; we pro-
test against the assumption oil the Ex.
ecutive power to establish system o.
passports; against the rights of the
Federal Government to organize sys
tens Of State Police; against the as
sumption of Federal Executives to re
: press the discussions of a free press
! by the refusal OF mail facilities, il
my way except By the decision of th


civil tribunals, and that finally w


protest against tho doctrine of Presi
: dent LincolE's message that the State
r derive their authority from the Fed
0 eral Government, as subversive ofth
Q fundamental doctrine OF America
D liberty, aa.u ).
Year: 1861

Once, in q Sabbath-school, a very
little girl repeated the twcnty-third
Psalm very well, and so pleased a
visitor who was present and heard
her, that he kindly took q shilling
from his pocket, and said, "This is
for your lesson my child" The child's
eyes flashed with delight on what she
never perhaps had in her possession
before ; and she claspcd her hand
tightly over her prize. Now," said
he, further, Il see great many
shops open in this quarter, though it
is Gods day. You must, Oh no ac-
count, spend that coin in any of them
to-day, but keep it till tomorrow. Un-
derstand, ] shall not be with you to see
you, but there is one who will see you
break the Sabbath day. The child
was silent, but yet looking up in the
speakers face with a dark, thought.
ful eye. "Who will see your" he
asked, after a pause. "Myslf uW
see me,' said the child in an instant,
and with a gesture of pride. She did
not know how noble her answer was
but she gave it clearly and promptly.
She would disdain to lie or to disgrace
herself, though it was only in her own
eyes. That was the simple answer,
full of truth and honor. Of course
the visitor expected her to rcply-God
VIII sec mc-perhaps, after all, it
came to this, that God was so at home
in the poor little heart that she knew
no difference between His eye and her
own eye. Can each child who reads
this say SO. Is God at home in your
heart, and making it so pure and holy,
that you think it the most solemn
thing to say, when you are tempted
to sin, as the ragged child said, "My-
sci wW see me-"
Year: 1861

| Gentlemen Of the Senate


and Muse Of Representatives:


The Constitution requires that


shall state to you the purpose for


which you have been convened in Ex


traordinary Session.


When, Il little more than year ago


your regular session closed, the whole
country was in the enjoyment of peace
and prosperity. At home, life, liberty
and prosperity were secure, and
abroad the title of an American citi.
zen was claimed with pride, and full
assurance that it was a sure guaran-
ty OF respect and protection to all
who could make good the claim. To-
day civil war is upon us, and wide
spread conspiracy against the Gene
raj Government. which we now know
has been maturing for years, has been
developed, and the whole country has
been filled with the din of arms. On the
one hand, and from one section of the
country men who should be loyal citi-
zcns, if benefits conferred by a gov
ernment should make men loyal to it,
are mastering in armed bands with
the intent to dissolve the Union, and
destroy our Government, and on the
other hand, partially from the same
section, and as one man from the 9TH
er, our loyal people are rallying
around our Union and our Government
and plcdging for their maintenance,
what our fathers so freely pcrilcd to
secure them, life, fortune and honor.


In this emergency Iowa must not
and does not occupy a doubtful posi-
ton. For the Union as our fathers
formed it, and for the Government they
formed SO wisely and so well, the pco-
pie of Iowa are ready to pledge every
fighting man in the State and every
dollar Of her money and credit ; and
l have called you together in extraor-
dinary session for the purpose of ma
king that pledge formal and effective.


Those who, to crafty their mad
ambition, have brought upon the
country this great evil, seek to dis.
guise their true intent to cover their
purpose. They say that they do not
desire to destroy our government, but
that it has become hostile to them,
and they only wish to peaceably with.
draw themselves from it, which they
claim the right odo whenever their
interest or safety may require snch
action. Many loyal men, deceived by
their professions, and not pcrceiving
that peaceable secession is destructive
alike of the Constitution and the Un-
ion, were unwilling that any cocrcive
measures should be used to bring
them back to sense of their duty.
How are the facts Our goverement
is based on these great central, con-
trolling ideas. The people are the on
ly true source Of power. In the eXcr-
else of their power they have created
our present form of government re-
tanning in their own hands it's manage
ment and control They have honesty
enough to desire, and intelligence
enough to discern the right, and if
at any time they should by reason of
excitement or passion, misdirect the
action of the government, and do
wrong to any portion of themselves,
their honesty and intelligence can
be surely relied upon TO correct such
wrongs. These are the Fundamental
IDEAS of our form of government, and
when any section Of our country, or
any portion Of our people, alleging
Year: 1861

that wrong has been done them, de-
clare they cannot and will not rely up
on the honesty and intelligence OF our
people to right such wrongs, but will
right their wrongs in their own way
and by their own hands, they strike a


blow which if not arrested, will crum-
bic the fabric of our Government into
Year: 1861

The SrAR-SPANGLED BANNKR.-The N. o.
Crescent protests against the ignoring Of
the star-spaDgled banner and hail Colum-
bia," and says, justly enough:


The idea is common that these are North
ern hymns, set to Northern music. Hence
the manifestations Of dislike with which they
are frequently received when performed in
public places. Now, no impression could be
more at variance with historical facts. These
tunes and anthems of right belong to the
South; and as they are glorious tunes and
anthems, we should cherish end perpetuate
them, instead of throwing them back into
the possession of those who have causelessly
and wantonly become our enemies


These magnificent compositions first burst
upon the world when the whole country was
a slaveholding country; and like everything
great in war, peace, intellect and science,
which made our forefathers illustrious sprung
from one general source. Instead of aban-
doning, let us claim them as our own legiti-
mate property. They are proud portion
of our birthright. Our whole people have
listened to their swelling strains with unal-
loyed delight; and tens of thousands would
almost as soon fight for their retention as
they would for the protection of their section
so strong is their reverence for, and their
attachment to, the grand old tunes they have
admired and loved from earliest boyhood to
the present moment. ...
Year: 1861

A blooming young widow, living in one Of
the Southern States, which is strongly in
favor of secession, sends word through la
DIV friend to spry widower Of this city, but
who is not in very robust health at present,
that she !" is for Union" To which, he re
piled: sand 90 am /, but due regard must
be had 10 The consultation"
Year: 1861

The FOUNTAIN TREE.-A remarkable tree
formerly existed in Hero, one Of the Canary
Islands, concerning which the most marvel
lous tales were told. 1t was asserted that
this tree was unique, and supplied the in
habitants Of the island, wherein rain is un-
usual, with all the water they required: in
fact pure water trickled from its leaves to
the amount of several gallons daily, which
was collected in receptacles at the base of
the trunk. But, aided by science, it becomes
evident this was due not TO any special pro-
perty of the tree ITSELF as was inferred, which
was laurel, but to its exceptional position.
A narrow and deep ravine Glove the island to
its centre, extending from the sea to nearly
the highest point for five miles; and where
this gorge terminated abruptly, at the base
of precipice, the solitary tree grew, amid a
thicket of ferns and smaller plants. The
warm air from the surface of the sea, ascend
ing, by natural law, into the higher atmos-
pheric region, was constantly rushing through
this gorge, laden with moisture from the
ocean. This current Of air, abruptly stayed
in its ascent by the bleak wall Of rock, con-
densed its vapors on the local vegetation,
and especially on the broad, smooth leaves Of
the solitary evergreen. Thence the moisture
trickled down in sufficient quantity to render


its collection an object when the usual
sources of water were deficient. This singu-
lar tree, which was very old, was destroyed
| by hurricane in the seventeenth century.
Year: 1861

A recent letter from Jacksonville, Flor.
ida, to a gentleman in New York says. =


Secession, so rampant when we arrived
here in December. is clearly in it's de.
scending node. The custom house has
begun 10 collect duties for the State of
Florida. otherwise there appears on the
surface no evidence Of State Government.
The Presidents Inaugural made a little
excitement, but even that seems to have
died away. Union mer are as thick as
hops here in Jacksonville, though this
is the hot bed of secession in East Flori-
da. One OF the principal men in the place
told me to-day that if an election were
held in the State, two thirds Of the votes
would be found on the Union side, How
ever this may be, am satisfied by my
own observation that the fever is dying
out very rapidly, and unless some speedy
'stimulant be applied, there is great danger
of resulting syncope The Union men
here scout the idea Of any danger to the
Union feeling resulting from the rein
forcement OF the forts. The lines are fast
being definitely drawn, and most men are
for the one government or tho other,
squarely and implicitly. The Union men
publicly avow their sentiments, and l
think little time only is wanted TO en-
able them to carry all before them in this
State.
Year: 1861

Is the most dangerous Of Internal ma
chimes. Husband and wife should no
more strive 10 get it than they would
struggle for the possession of lighted
bomb-shell. Married people should
study each others weak points as skaters
look af,er the weak parts Of the ice, in
order to keep off them. Ladies who mar
ry for love should remember, that the
union Of angels with women has been
forbidden since the food. The wife ls
the sun of the social system. Unless she
attracts. there is nothing to keep heavy
bodies, like husbands generally are, IRON
flying off into space. The wife who
would probably discharge her duties
must never have asoul "above buttons.
Don't trust TOO much to good temper
when you get into an argument. Sugar
is the substance most universally diffused
through all natural productal Let mar
ried people take the Lint from this pro
vison Of nature.
Year: 1861

! have been 10th to believe what have
often heard broadly stated here, namely,
that the letters passing through the
Charleston Post Office were anything but
sacred. From circumstances that have
just come TO my personal knowledge, l
have no hesitation In saying that there
exists at the present moment Committee
within the walls Of the United States Post
Office, which has been organized for the
purpose Of supervising all Northern cor
respondence. The "high-toned" gentle
men of Charleston have stopped to tam.
per with the mails. That which, under
the law, is punishable with imprisonment
and hard labor. is. in spite of the law,
practised in wholesale aud reckless man.
ner.


DISTRESS AMONG THE WORKING GLASSES.


The working classes are getting into a
worse position every day. The demand
for labor is decreasing every hour. The
prices of provisions will be largely increas'
ed within The next week, and these two
tangible and very foicible facts are more
likely than anything else to bring the
natio lal troubles to settlement.
Year: 1861

ACharleston correspondent Of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer writes:


l cannot refrain from telling you what
came to my knowledge in very direct
way, respecting the former; i is well
know fact that Jefferson Davis and Gov.
Pickens have been continually cores
ponding with him. and happen to know
from one of the aids of Gov. PickenS, that
the last proposition made to him was to
resign his command in the United States
Army, and accent the position of Briga
der General in the Southern Army. My
informant, wLo is man with very high
sense of honor, and one who very much
despises the late conduct OF Generrl
Twigas, tells me that najo Anderson i'm
mediately and Indignantly rejected tie
offer, ant gave his correspondent to un-
derstapd that he had hoped that their for
rner knowledg ge Of his character as u SOL
dier would have pievenledan such prop
ositioDs from being presented to him.
The people here were very anxious, when
they discovered that there was "no back
down" in the Major to stop his market
ing supplies, and to commence starving
him out; but they have been continued by
the express desire Of jeff. Davis. who
was always on terms Of personal friend
ship with the Major so lately as this
morning his boat brought good supply
Of poultry, vegetables, and other Of the
good things of life.