Year: 1860




certainly new guarantees given for their future
safety equality and rights in the Union Waving any
discussion OF the abstract right of this movereDtof
our own approval dsapprova of it, one thing is
tain, that we cannot avoid being involved in its
quences when it does occur. Situated as we are we
must be affected by it. We must take cognzance of It,
We cannot avoid doing so even if we would. Placed
between two forces must yield to one and resist the
other, or resist one and yield to the other.


Suppose now, that six Gulf States, Cotton States,
anything you WILL determine to 90 out and do 60 out,
we will thereby lose twelve United States Senator's
leaving US wholly poweress in that body. We will lose
some thirty forty members of the House. leaving US
equally powerless in that body-permanenty irretreva-
bly, poweregs. Talk then OF Northern allies We will
have none The North has found already that Presi-
dent can be elected wholly without Southern votes and
in opposition to Southern wishes. How much SO
will this be the when the Southern minority is
shorn Of half its strength the Southern represen
tation will be circumstance to be listened to by
suferance, not of right We know little of this-on


different scale and with supposed brethren. The dele
gates from certain Southern States seeded at Oh ares
ton North Carolina did not secede, neither did Vir
ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky Maryland, Missouri,


Well, we met again at Baltimore. Whereas at Char
leston the forms Of courtesy had been carefully observed
at Baltimore, the Southern strength small that
it was deemed hardly worth while to treat the wishes
the Southern delegates worthy of being taken into
consideration. This in political convention Of sup
posed party friends. Change the thing. Make it a
Congress. Oppose to the Southern Senators and Re
presentatives, few in number-toO few now, but how
few after half their numbers have left -oppose to these
say their deadly enemies Of the abolition party
der the lead of Seward, and Sumner and Helper Sher
man, and all the other endorsers of that Infamous mar
and his book what then would be position? What the
position of our members and Senators How long couc
this state of things continue How long could our dele
cation remain at Washington a ag end, to bt
snubbed by the apostles of rampant abotonism The
thing could not 90 on Our delegations could not kee1
their seats Our people could not be content occupy thu
degraded position which they would be forced to occupy
aerriders to the chariot of abolition predomi
nance-tO be mucted by tariffs to build up the interests
Of their oppressors taxed for bounties on fisheries
to procure funds forward improvements in favoureC
sections.


From the nature of things then the secession of any
important portion Of the Southern States means vrtu
ally the secession Of all who really Southern, anc
the Northernization of all who are not. This will be
and the inevitable logic of events. The destinies o.
North Carolina will be cast with the South. I
I We cannot, then, shirk this issue, if we would. We
cannot evade its responsibilities we cannot avoid meet
ing its dangers and its difficulties. How shall we meet
them By denouncng our Southern sisters with whom
in the last resort know that our fate must be allied
Surely not! How, then ? Why, by endeavoring te
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can escape from having the responsibilities attendant
upon dlsunion forced upon Can we be the means
of obtaining fresh guarantees, sufficient to satisfy ht
minds OF reasonable in the cotton States and quie
their just apprehensons, and own? If We can dC
this then we will have done much iii we expect to s
quiet and thus dodge the responsibilities of position
! we reckon without our host. We cannot avoid meet
| ing these responsibilities if We would. If we fail t
meet them, they will assuredy meet us Car
| we meet them otherwise than by first endeavorns
to avert the threatened disruption? Failing in that d.
we not that are in the midst of them and mus
choose, and how? Between remaining as q despise
iag end of Free Soil COnederacy, or Joining our for
tunes with our sisters Of the South Could there be
moment Of hesitation between these two alternatives 2
We think not Then ought we not to be prepared
fully preparation this emergency? Prepared in fee
ing, and prepared with arms and discipline guard tn
honor and interests of North Carolina


1t won't do to ignore this question. 1t is upon u.s.
We must meet it, and it must he met not by sneers a
South Carolina, or Georgia. OR anybody else, but b
putting house in orderbeing prepared for any COZ
tngercy-usng all our efforts to secure Union on jus
grounds but, in the failure Of such Efforts prepared
60 with the Southern States, for if they co. we must
too.