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RALEIGII, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAllCII 13, ' 1S61.1 the STATE JOURNAL: mh if- From the Wilmingtonj Journal. ; Speech of Mr. Davis at TJialian Hkll-The i "Peace Congress" audits Failure ' In accordance with the general desire, Geo. Davis, Esq., addressed Liu fellow-citizens on last Saturday fcvenins, March 2d, at Thalian Hall, in reference to the proceedings ff the late Peace Congress, of which1 body he was' a member, giving his opinion as to the probable ' effect of such proceedings in tattling the distracted, .questions of the day.1 ' ' I. Although the. notice, was very brief, havicgonly ap . Avpeared at mid-day in the town papers, the Hall was . densely crowded by an eagjr and attentive audience, : among whom were many ladies. ' j I When Mr. Davis appeared on the stand a 1 8 o'clock, ' ; he was warmly received. After returning his ac iknrtwledCTnents for the verr kind rceention which his ' ' friends and fellow-citizens had gi yen him, remark-j ; ed that he was pleased to have an opportui ;y i "suu t . roiiting hU course; as a commissioner to the judgment J of the people-that he shrunk from nocrit cism upon ;, ' that coirrse, j bat indeed invited; and sought for it the niot rigid examination. He had endeavored to dis , ' charge the duties of the trust reposed in hjm faithful lv. manfnllv and conscientiously, and whatever might I ' be thought of his policy, he felt! that he hid a right to " rWnand tlw h;rliftsr. resnect for ibe.rnotivcs which ac- ' .tuatod him in ; pursuing that policy.t ; In order tai dace his own position, '-and. as he be : A liovnd tlio TviKifinn ft f IWth-Carolina. fairly- before his hearers; it might be necessary to refer to some of the antecedents ot the case. At a meeting; neia in me ' Town Hall, on the 11th day of December! last, resolu- . - tions were passed, drawn by himseit, (Mr. pms,j m : . which the ground was taken that the present crisis ouerht not to be suffered to pass away without sucn a satisfactory adjustment, upon ithe terms anjd guaran ' tees tobc demanded by a united South, as vill put at - I rest all disturbing questions at once and fo re vet. j ' . The same Ground bad been ! taken in subsequent " meetings, and the vroiet of adjustment, khdwn as thej OrLttenden i-resolutions, had been directly or inferen- i f jtially adopted by public opinion and by tlje resolution : ; -bf the' Legislature ot the State whjich did him the ho'rior io appoint him a commissioner, as something which ,NortbJC!iiroIina might "accept, and less than which she coultt not accept. - I ' : . i; 1 v ? When the crisis arising out of the last presidential election came on, and,indecd,.fir years before-, beheld ;' -the' belief that any adjustment, tp 1)e satisfactory) must .'v final and conclasive, and must forever put to rest .'.ail the open issues arising ouj; of the quest on of slaye ry; ITo do this it must strike at the root of the mat ter. ; It must distinctly acknowledge an( guarantee ('A ' prdj'krly in states, and extend to such property full ; afi I adequate protection, as to any other species ot property This the Crittenden propositions distinctly ; v - did-fiouth' of 36 decrees 30 minutes. Thte Sonthemf- V Cfimmissioners went to meet the Commissioners fromj' the irtli with the 'Constitution jof the U rr ted StAtes - iri one hand, and the interpretation of .thatiustruraentj : in the Jred Scott casein'tlieotlier. 'They siid-p'We ' . have tjie constitutional right, accjordhig to tl e decision '.: of. tirn liigliest tribunal in'the laj'id, to take tiirj slaves. . ' intofany part of the piiblic territories, anjl u demand 'protectioit for them there We Claini that we have a ..'constitutional right to carry them even in jo-Washing- ' .tun Territory, if we please ; but We wish In t to insistj ,' j- .upon ektreraerightSisVV'e do deijland an iln horitutivei r recognition aiid embodinient of the priic pie of the! ' Drc(l -ScJtt decision :so faraspr5r(y in spaces is corij cerhwl, uiider the Unitefl States, being wjllingto con'j cede to tlie Koi th all territories above -SjO le'grees30t i'qiniites,:'tut 'demanding distinct recognitor and pro- ; ' tectiort for our. slave projKrty below this jline." This distinct recognition of the right of property in slaves! - not ;inerely :is the creature of local municipal law, antl the duty fa) protcKct it like other property wl ereyer the! ' jurisdiction of the Federal Grovernment ends, was the vital 'tirincinle which Alnnp "vp vialn in t,hi iWt-t . v-te:nden 'resolutions. TThcPreanlutions did hdt chiim al that the South had a right to demand, biitthey eniTj f liodied a principle which lay at the root of! le matter,! i ;jind therefore the South Was willing; to take fhemj seeking for peace and for a final settlemejit. n .. Having 'thus referred to his own previbun position, . n'nd wliat lie ilif1itvn1 tn bn t.lm nnsit.ton ni the State so far as that could be inferreil from the resolution of ine Jicsisiaiure, appoinnns unimissionersj ue wouiq ':. now -. turn to the action of - the "Peace. Congress ..merely stopping to notice some objections rhich had V, been m:ile against that .body;, first, because t. sat with ' ! closetl do'rs, and second, becawse of the lfn ;th of time ,fwuHj maitmai memmtn Went Mva been itjramaiiip'd in -session- tiiM. felkjVHfaZbjiA ihfl :;' poserl to talk for effect, and the excitement the pub4 j uc miuu oeen lncreased.wliile at the same tiine' speech i os iieLivered or committals early made, being reported - and spread to the world, mmht hamper the ludsrmenU and control the action of members in spite of any ar , J t gunients of 1 considerations that might besi bseqnent- i,y nrougnt n tl:eir. attention. As regards the - lengt.H of time during which the Congress. "remiiifc!' in-ses .i F"n, he could truly say that to his colleagues and toj himself this -protracted session was the occasion of se-i ; f iou inconvenience and even loss. But t ; there to'exhaust every honorable means leF'had gonef t(J obtain at . iair,.an honornhleand a final settlement di existing? i - - difliculties. He had done ko to the best. ot iJis aoiu . ties, and had been unsuccessful : for he conlffl never ae-i ? f jeept the plain adopted by .the -Teaee Congrdss" asconi sisieni wiui tne nguts, the interest or the dignity of .iNortn-vjaroirna. JNevet! I - . ; . . i.i . ,i ., ' :: . ,ji i sij nap peueo mat me otlicr luiir icrinmission- ers fromiNorth-Carolina were e mall vrdindid on nost questions the responsibility of giviugthe fcakting vote ,viiwnny. u not, aiways, nevoiven upon mm. liethere fore felt.that the greater obligation resteo upon him id Igiycja lull and candid statement of hoW. lj hachmeti that reiH)nsihiIity. . - . The session had been a protracted one. rf" the resolutions had been scanned, critic Every word sen, weighed inn, I .,.1 I 1. . 11. " ' . - . ' 1 ft ami uuuyiuu, uotu in committee ana in tuii conven-i jtionor congress. Five distinct and separate times, hi ie shapo or anqthcr, the true vital priiici ile of thej prittinden propositionsr-the recognition of jpropertyt n slaves,'; had been brought to a vote, and fi ,'e distinct! kid separate times it had leen voteil dowr o1 erwhelm-t ingly. y there is no sbch recognition in.the most im 'portant and nnt debated section of the reportof the lyougres, xnown as tlie Territorial Section. That sec tioil provides: first, that in all the preseijt territory of ine united btates, North of, the parallel of 80 decrees uimuwa i-i. xuiiu lauLuue, luyoiunrary service ex cept m punishment lor crime, is 'prohibitdd. In all the present territory South of that line the .skihsof per sons neid jfa service or labor, as it now exlstshallnot W changed What is meant bv statis ? i. The North Admits ofi no status of shivery, save as the feature of jocal municipal law. Now the only slavtert thus ex- : isting in the territories South of 36 degrees' 3i) minutes' 1 f in iewiuexico-aua in me indiau Territories, grant-f j; .ed.by treaty to the Cherokees and other Indian na !. ipns. Thenumber of slaves in New Mexico;1 even ' ' yitK the assistance of a. strong slave code, is merely : .nominal and notheld permauent residjen ts. Gm gress .has not yet submitteil this propositi, m to the ; States, but even supposing it badsubihitttllit, it could tt "Ot embixfiod into the G nstithtion of the tin tclStates ' for at lenst two years, and lxfore that time,! tl ,e-Repnb--' ,. lican Coiigross -will have aMitJtcd tlieWN f slavery J fin Nevelexico. A bill to that e fleet has a! n ad v 'miss. fd one branch.- Ibit reinark again, in refire ice to the : ndian territory, !wnv the use of the worj. 'present'' icomei in and, operates. Although, in'the course of . uungs, inis valuable and lertilc region.. Iviitsi West .of tlie tite pf Arkansas, eminently adapteil to th Th. ployment 'lof slave lalor, and of great inAn rtai ie em- inuixlrrflnv tn the South, must eventuallv revert to the Iinitel Shit, , -,V ! and become territ jry thereof, it is not "prese it" terri- iory of the United States. j ; l this section goes on further to pro ride that Oav shall be passed by Congress or t ie Territo I v, V 1 rial Uguilature to hinder or . prevent the aking of . 5 .; i such persons fronrany of the Slates of this h.itm I said Territory, tior to impair the" rights-arising from i said relation, but the same shall ile subject fo judicial cognizance in the Federal (xurte according tb t fie course -iOf The cominon law' This locks fair enqu:h, yet it k perfectly illnsory 'and Morse than illjiujfy and : ; meant!. to - be so. What is meant by the cwnmnti law? What. common law is referred to? The Fed eral ourts have no common la w; juristliction, Ulthoiudi questutns involving common law may com up before them from the! States where such law l m Joree. What common law, then ? the Knglish common law or the Northern common law the-common :1a w wldeb they assert is opposed to Blaverr the comriinn VW .which, 'says that freedom is national, and slavery "lo cal? Bv whom is this common law lJ AiTniJn; terediri the Territories of tlie Wilted Statet?? Wk- : by Black Republican (Uirts. appointed by Blact Ee ; publican Presidents. Tiiis was exactly the aid irstandr mg of the Republican m ambers of the admittelit by some of them; and, to show this mdre fully a proiosiliou offereil to the effect that in the appoint- L;i -r :..,j.w,wi nthr ffieers for" any territory or merit ui i'-ici' . , i u i grritories porth of 6 degrees 30 minutes, it should fce required for their confirmation that a majori of c.ALr from non-slaveholding States should vote, for feuch confirmation ; and that in territory -or temtones d south of that line, a mamy oi oeu.i0 holding States should be reqmred to vote for the con firmation of such officers, was voted down ; thus show ing the determination of the North tc- place slave LZV in the territories at the mercy of ; Republican 'officers, providing them at hand with a power to in- U ftemret away all rights of .the owners of such proper- terDret ta.y & P.nt ntrpn 5f the mmmoTi law save civil reme- V . . . .u" r. 4k KrliTtirn lrirlnanTiny dies, it has nopenaiuea iur uc wlv.t - l Jor stealing of slaves ; and the conrte a one, under the Icommon law, even if, by a favorable! interpretation, 'they mi"ht enable the owner of a slave to maintain ji icivil actfon against an insolvent, irresponsible, worth less slave-stealer, that would be poor satisfaction and less protection; and according to this section, no power on earth can give this needed protection. . f ?"'For this section he could not vote. It deprived the South of everything, and gave nothing. North-Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi voted j tog Jther, and against it. ' . . - . I The second section virtually prohibits the acquisi tion of any new territory, North-Carolina voted againsttfiat, though caring very little One way or the lather. ' L ' e . I The third section provides against any future amendment of the : Constitution being construed to interfere With involuntary servitude in the States or he District of Columbia without the consent of Mary and'and of the owners of slaves, or in the dockyards in slavehldidg States, or with the inter-State slave trade. For this third section, North-Carolina, Vir ginia and Missouri voted, as also for the fourth sec tion, to which we refer the reader as found elsewhere in to-day's paper. In the confusion of voting, he had made a mistake, "and telegraphed to the journals here that North-Carolina had voted for only lone of the pro r.Uirvns while in fact she voted for two. Against tKa fifth Keetion he voted also, upon the jrround that if the present Confederated States remain separate and maintain their, independence, . a man moving a slave two yards across an imaginary line from South Caro- r - , , i l " : 1 x. Una into Columbus or any otner ooroerjcouniy, mi-nt lie held guilty of piracy We would have a beautiful I state of things under that system'! He could not vote for nor support the sixth, section, because it makes lr- repealable much that he regains as wrong ana op- 1 . 1 1 1- a. J.1 C U i ; " pressive ana aegracung u uie ouutii. j ! The seventh section reads inus, .aim is, u possiuie, worse than anything else in the whole affair: v Sec. 7. Congress shall provide by law that tlie tlnitetl States shall pay to the owner the full value jof his fugitive from labor in all cases where the marshal ; or other officer, whose -duty it was ti aiJrest such fugi tive,-was prevented from so doing " by violence, or in timidation from mobs or rioteus assernblages, or when, after arre-sted, such'fugitive was rescued by force." and j the' owner thereby prevented ant obstructed m the ,v jmrsuit of his remedy for the recovery! of such fugi tive. Onigress shall provide by law for securing to tlie citizens of, each State the privileges and immuni ties of citizens in the several States, t r'The effect,, and no doubt the object, 'of this section is to promote, encourage and facilitate the graduaLaboli tiohizing of the Iwjrder States. ; Congress is to buy up tlie negroes, ; making the South pay half the cost of-' despoiling herself. A, of North-Carolina, has a ne-i gro' spirited off ta IJ:)ston, and when he tries, to get; him,, a mob prevents him, and North-Carolina, from ; whom the negro is stolen", must be taxed equally to I pay for .him. with Massachusetts, whose abolitionists j have stolen him iii violation of the; law and the con- stitution. -: ' ; '. : '' ';.' i ; ' i The closiug sentence of this section is most peculiar-j ly noteworthy, because of the object in view, which was plainly avowed in conference. That object wasi to allow Northern free negroes to come to any. point' South, and there claim and exercise all the rights of j citizenship, j In order to test this, an amendment was (Jffered, making it read that " Congress! shall provide j by law for securing to the free while citizens of .'each ' State,1? etc' ,. The amendment was rejected Ty an 1 overwhelming vote, and the words " free; white" were "not inserted Further, in order still more fully to test the matter, Mr. Davis arose in his place, and en- quired of one of the Commissioners from Massachu setts Mr. Crowningshield, we think if he consider- ' ed free negroes citizens of Massachusetts ? His reply . was " Yes, certainly." " And under this yon would i insist that, when coming to North-Carolina, for in i stance: these people, not so considered bv us. should' ii.v t; in tjn'u tK , A . : r iiinuiiui tica ut Oiiiz.eilsjlfJ) r" "jCertainly." So that in fact all our police rcgula t'us excluding free negroes from other States for re quiring that free negro sailors shall be under certain restrictions in our ports, and in fact all laws of this t kinUlramed tor our j own protection, and necessary thereto, would fall to the ground. -That is exactly what the North mean's by this last sentence of section? seven. But evert this Franklin Substitute, mean as it is, iieLepLie ;is ii, is,, jiiihseu oy a minority yoie at last. f Three Northern States' didnot -vote on! lfall finally. Thevvote of nine given.;forx the 'tiling was a decided minority of the Congress, and even at that its passage vas'.an. accident." "lit could not have rjassed but for the accidental Absence of Mr. Fields, of the New York j ueiegaiion, wno would nave turned the Mate against I z l : i. 7 . i . : . i i ,-m.r '-! ii i - . ii. vy.tui nis ueicgauon. iur. f teias being absent, there was a tie in the New York 'delegation, and thai dele gation did hot. vote. Further, the. U. S. Cougress has refused to take up even these useless and emasculated propositions or to recommend them to the States for action. ' - . ' , ' But it might be asked how, on most, if not all of the -propositions,- North-Carolina,, Virginia and Mis-!' souri were found voting- with New York, Mnssachu4 setts', and perhaps other Black Republican States in opposition to them'. He would answer; that although they were so found, their motives were verv different T,he dissenting Southern States, voted against the -pro'-". poseu ainenuments io cue Constitution on; their merits, -and because tliey regarded them lis; wholly, inadequate,' if ' not worse. The Republicans who voted against thern did so !ecause they were opposed to aw amend ment or even appearance of deserting the Chicago (jiuuumi. me vuuiuuiiii, .as. explained 'by the J vMiKfigo piaiiorm, is gxd enough iorThom so theyJ said in elfect' t ' ! f 1 ' . - Terms more satisfactory the North will never assent to, or concede to lis, in the Union. And every South ern, member of the Conference stood firmly on one thing the : Crittenden projet, or the Virginia plat-' form, the North mthave yieldtnl, but the South did' not stand firm in demanding her rights, and now that, after a sort of way,-this Franklin Substitute has been -agreed to by a portion of the South, neither the people nor the Legislature, nor the Representatives of the North will ever hicve a step from their position.' It had been. urged. upon him to vote' for this thing under protest:- He didn't believe in voting wrong and shield ing himself behind a "protest." He was asked to. vote'for'this thing so as, although he could not assent' to 1 he might let it still go before' ihe people of the State. He did not regard it as any settlement he 1 coiild not vote for it as any setdement he did not! think, with; his views, he could honestly vote to lay it j before the people of the State as a settlement for it ' wasfno settlement, lnt a snare and; an illusion. ' ' ' I Mr. Davis re-stataV and summed this up, by em phatically 'declaring that the South could never nec c' obtiiin any better or more satisticb)ry terms while she remains in the present Union, and for his part he could never assent to the terms contained in this report 'of the"Pftiee Congress, as in accordance with the honor, or the -interests of the South Never I r ' , " erything show wl the spirit T tlie RepublicansA 1 hey; hail passed the nvist. oppressive tariff; that had ever been heanl of. They would tax us to death to protect and build up themselves, arid at the same time pay the agents , of the underground Railroad-for run ninir off our nerroo tTm- vn,:i ii . . . v". luiiiuuton, op pressed by a tanll of forty ier cent, and pect to hold her own with Georgetown or Charleston ' y, tlu) tun oj, uie ionicuerated States, with ten icr cent. ;duties? , 1 No arrangement had been made none would be made. The, division must 'be made on the line of slavery. The South must go with the South, and not with any new-fangled central Republicor as the 'toil--end and victim of a Free Soil. North. ':'. - We have j so ; far cndeavorwl to report ''accurately as possible, from memory, the substance 'iif Mr. Da vis' remarks, or at least' the principal 'points' of them If m any respect we have misrepresented his position we shall freely Correct the error as n'a w,,. tion is called to it. Owing to the importance of the' isubject and the gravity of the occasion, we have de( voted more space than usual to a sketch of this very nble and eloquent address, which occupied a little bver an hour m the delivery, and was loudly applaud fed at ditlcrent ioints m its i progress and .also at its close. '.: When Mr. Davis baa . concmaea, lion, o.o.- r i i n T-r i-l T Perkml moved that the tbapKS ot tne meeting be ten dered to Mr. Davis for the ablemanly and patriotic manner in which he tad discharged the duties of his frrrri "Wri-fh jT.n irvl i r. a 1 POSltlOn aS VULLU"1''"5' iviu7uhiuihii The motion was enthttsiastirjally rarried.-' ; ' We ought perhapsj to remarK, betore concluding, that we understood that Messrs. Reid, Barringer and, Davis, constituted the1 majority of the North-Carolina commissioners, and Messrs. Ruffin and Morehead the minority. We did not understand that the genllemen composing the minorjty desired to vote for all the pro positions as wholly approving them, but we think as signed as a reason for being willing to give them a quasi approval, that they wished to see what their people would do with them. JHis (MrJ Davis') rea sons for not yieldirlg to this pressure have already been stated. 1 . . !. 1 All through the centre and west of this State tele graphs were sent and assertions made, that all was satisfactorily settled and this was done to affect the elections, and they have done so they may even have defeated the Convention, for the present, but the truth will yet come out, and the force of circumstances be felt. M r. Davis is ho fire-eater. He has always been a consistent Union man a member, of the " Union Party. " He has come to his present conclusion be cause he has kept ais eyes smd -ears open, and what he has seen, and heard have forced him to it. Others are coming and wi sition will be futile I contiuue to come until all oppo- ( From I the Richmond Examiner, j Stephen A. ' Douglas. j Mr. Douglas' burns his ship. ' It is no longer worth his while to preserve even the appearance of-a line be tween himself and '. jincoln. For the last ten years he seems. to have had two strings to his bow;' he would be candidate of th j South if he could, and failing iti that, fee would be master of the Black Republican party in the North. The first cord is broken, and he boldly draws the second. The summary of his speech on the 6th, in the Senate,' to be found in to-day's pa per, will satisfy" the public of the fact. He is open in praise and defence of the Inaugural, its principles, and its plans : he e xplains and supports Lincoln's po sition on the floor of the Senate House ; and at the Inauguration Ball he made a public parade of his close connections ami social relations with the , new dynasty. Since his menace of coercion at Norfolk, and his declared ddtermi nation to assist and aid it, no -observer lias doubted but that he Was gone forever ; and through the entire' winter he has been the most dangerous and unrelenting enemy the South has had in Congress. Yet despite of i all that, we were not nrennred for these exhibitions. We thought him a man of stomach, too hot and spirit too high to , be the courtier of his own- conqueror and to grace the triumph of the Black liefclublican who beat him. ' Even an Otho would not follow the chariot wheels of Vitellius dip the Ouirinal Mount. But the chances of the sue . cession and the tte of heir apparent seeni to have been a! sufficient Halance fori his struggling pride, an he has now deliberately taken possession of the place which, Seward left vacant when translated from the Senate to the Capinet. . He is gone forever, and his tauuehost Southern friend must say, " Never more be officer of mine. " No man in ourl time has bad friends more sincere and more devoted than those of Mr. Douglas in this State. He had gkeat abilities and he had also the advantage of. being unjustly reviled aud ignored; and heiice he had passionate admirers and defenders. No one who failed to get it, ever possessed Unter chances fo r the Presidency of The whole Con federacy than he nee had. He threw them away, he destroyed his friends, he dissolved the Union too, and ruined alike his country and his character, wnen he accepted the nomination of a Rump Convention anc gave way to the wounded pride ot a beaten candidate But, in fact, his decadence was ot longer date, the point of. his aberration was elsewhere,- and the cause of it anything but sentimental. T.Uve all tne iN'ortn em statesmen of every party; he calculates where he ought to feel, andbelieves his hcafl abetter guide than his heart in a scene of this world which is simple to him who will follow the last, but infinitely too-com plicated for t e intellect of Napoleon itself should it attempt to find vay unassisted by instiucte of; honor and faith. A few years ago he invented with his head a wonderful! combination. The Missouri Com promise, though always regarded bv sound ' statesmen as au outrage audi a flagrant violatiou of the Constitu lion, had been so, long acquiesced in, that perhaps a that it should restU-ather than again inflame the pas sioiis of 'Jhe country upon that question. Douglas, howevrer, in his datculatioas for the Presidency, intro duced the measure of a repeal of the Compromise, and the reader remembers the indecent altercation in which' it involved him with Sumxek, Chase, and other Abolitionists, as the father of that proposed re peal. He found, however, that the Abolition measure had, in the meantime, mostj wonderfully increased in Illinois and.othei Western and North-Western por tions of the-coiydry, and was not only likely to pre ponderate in the next Presidential election, but even threatened scriouSsly. his return to the, Senate of the h n itetl States, under these circumstances he aban doned openly and shamelessly, and without a plausi ble pretent, his trieuds . aud I all his former positions, and united with the Abolitionists to destroy the first and natural fruit of his owrj measures, the mtroducr tion ot Kansas as a stave State, Since then-he has been purchased, and made a tool of by his superior in art and audacity, by Seward,-' who would have used and then have abandoned . him, had not the Revolu tion come, as it now as, like the fall of the trap on a group pf self-seeking mice, jor like the advent pf the lurks to the disputatious Greeks of Constantinople!, or the Deluge, which ended! all marriage, and giving in marriage, to finish their fancied importance, and to conclude the volume of their bargains and intrigues, From the X. Y. Day Book. Mr, Lincoln's Cabinet. Yv ith the exception of Seward, Chase and Cameron. the cabinet is .nod remarkable for any peculiar taleut or ability.- Mr. lihnr, ot Maryland, is the son of F. 1 s Blair, who holds on to life apparently for no other reason than to re fenge himself upon, the Democratic party. . Mr. Sn ith, of Indiana, is quite unknown nationally Mr. Welles, of Gninecticut, is a fossil of a past generation, wno, .together with Bates, of Mis souri, seem.to have been exhumed by Mr. Lincoln as conservative appendages to a radical adminis tration jV " : j Seward," Chasd and Qimcron are marked men, each .in a peculiar liueL Air. Seward, started his political career in this city over thirty years ago, his 'first office being btate beuatjr in ,1830. In 1831 he was defeat ed by the late Win. L. Marcy, but in 1838, was sw cessful by means bf one of the most remarkable and as touudiiig frauds ever practised, upon The elective'fran- cnise m any country. V oters were imported into this city from Pennsylvania, who, disguised as "pipe lay ers," (the Croton pipes were' then being laid in the city) it was chargfod, voted and turned the scale in Mr. Seward s favor. Be this as it may, the persons" charge eo ts participators m thatattair, are to-day the boson! friends bf Mr. Seward, and it is generally bleieved that no persons stand i better chance for favor from him now tlsau tlrese very individuals. "Sticking to his '.trieuds is evident y onefeaturef in Mr. Seward's char acter. . As for the balance, it may be summed Hp. in , the description tl i at Horace r Greely gave of -him a few years ago, when; ie said "that in all of Senator Sew ard's long public career, he never knew him to vote against any scheme of public plunder." i. Mr. Chase, of Ohio, is an original, out-and-out anti- slaveryite. lie was one of the founders of the Old Liberty j Party, headed by James G. Birney, and is one of Tlie most u traand uncompromising of his par ty. There has U en a great fight to keep him out of the Cabinet, but tt seems that the radicals and the conservatives hav ) lth been listened to by Mr. Lin coln, audi that both Chase '-.and Cameron are to o ni- ' . ' : y. ; ' '.. - ' : '' The latter is a i ian of great energy of Character, of doubtful p.'litical v irtue, and is generally supposed' to lean to the side. of moderation and peace. If the Cab i net shall lie -constructed, as it seems now almost sure it will Ik;, one of 1 wu things is absolutely certain. There wijl either l. a terrible explosion in the Cabi net or in the country within the next thirty days. It is now pretty biljidly hinteil that Mr. Sewanl has been all along ju;t as much opposed to giving any new guarantees to theoouth as any one, and hisVote in the Senate upoa postponing the Peace Conference, and in opposing itjj submission to the people is proof sufficient of this. It will be seen that our W ashington correspondent, wl o is likely to be much better0 in formed, than! the o rdinary letter writers, says the same thing. It would appear, then, that Mr. Seward has i nly been assuming a show of conservatism and mod eration in order to 'Jgain time. j Widely, however, as we differ from Mr. Seward, i i we think he lias acted wisely in rejecting that misera ble abortion, as Ex-President Tyler calls it, the Peace Conference ropotriuon. Infinitely better will it be for the good of the country that Mr. Lincoln should de-v. velop his policy under our Constitution, as it is, than to change it into such a contradictory document as these ; amendments -would render it. For, whatever thatpol- ' icy may be, it must tend in one direction or the other to a reconstruction of the Union. It mnst and will either drive, the border States into the Southern Con- ederacy, and in, four years time unite nearlv if not quite all.! the Northern States to it or else it must be such a policy as will amount to an abandonment of the j avowea designs oi the liepubucan party, which .will, j in due time, allow! the North opportunity to rally and ' convince our, brethren of thottmth, by acts and not Words,, that we of jthe North are determined to do them ustice. !.-'; :. . From the Warrenton New. j i Hon. Ii. O'B. Branch. Our able and faithful represeutative is doiny his whole .duty 'and leaving hisrnark amidst the, records of what we. fear w ill be the last National Congress of an i-uc ii ui ui iiuci luaii kjiiiio, , jir. orancn is member'of the Select Gmmittee f fice, to whom was referred the Prtsident's Message of the 3d of Febm- -T . t -t" ' - ary, and upfjii him; as the only Southern member on it, devolved the arduous and most important duty of upholdiifg Southern rights, against his' Republican and Northern associates. Well and ably-has he done it. The Committee ilias made two reportsone on the collection" of duties on imports in the seceding States, the other tjelating to the militia of the United States. These two reports were accompanied by bills which give ample; powers to the present and siicceed- ding federal authorities, lor a comprehensive system of corerclon.! One bill' empowers the President to blockade the ports of the seceding States prohibiting any vessel not engaged in the coast trade, to enter or depart, under the penalty of seizure and forfeiture, and authorises the President Co use the national navy, in aid of revenue cutters, in executing this law. (.The" iother bill authori zes; the President to call forth, the militia of all, of any of the States of the Union, and to accept tne services of volunteers! to any extent that may be required to . defend, and to recooer possession ot tne iorts, uocks, mag;izmes, asc, wnicn nas . neen, or may bereafterfbej unlawfully taken by ang com bination bf persons whatever. To this coercive system, Mr. Branch made a zealous but ineffectual resistance in the con'imittee-rcom. and. when the report and bills were presented to the Housed ttiey were accompanied oy " minority , reports, m which Mr. Branch protestetl against the measures. We regret our limited space will not permit us to publish entire, , or even make copious extracts from thesevery able stjate papers ; the one upon the collec tion "of duties on imports, covers the entire ground, and clearly demonstrates its utter inefficiency as a rev enue bill, audits! unconstitutionality as an act for co-, ercion, and both! reports display a thorough acqnain ! tance with all: the legal' and political points which bear on our" present complicated public affairs. We are 'gratified that jthe Representative of our Congressional District oocupies such a prominent position, and still :more gratifiel that he has proved himself to be able to the great responsibility thrown upon. him. Never had our .State mtjire need of that ability ,.;zeal and puri ty of purpose displayed by Mr. Branch,;and .we'. hope the day is far' distant that will see us deprived of his public services. North-Carolina cannot spare such .public TnCn,! particularly when revolution makes it ne cessary that our. .National and State Constitutions must undergo a thorough reorganization. Black Republican Idea of the Crisis. Mr. Stephens, of Pennsylvania, declared, in some remarks onjtne Navy Bill, that it was the design of his party, by means of that bill, to invade the South ern. States. alid. retake the forts. - An army and a navy of invasion, 'and a Military Despotism, are thus im pending over the head of the' South. If we want any further light upon the ultimate designs of the party5 which lias seized the reins of power in Washington, and is about to draw, the sword upon -us. we have it in a letter in a latq issue of the New York Tribune, from one ;j)f the editors and proprietors of that paper in Washington.;! He significantly asks : . ''Cannot ewi ybndy see how easy it will be, if hos tilities between , the sections arise, to, make the'destrtw lion v ' slacery the issue of war? We are in conflict on the question.) If we come to blows, it will be still about slavery, And what then is inevitable ? Why ; simplyj this, knd nothing more, and nothing less a aitb - ed- jjOv'whttner slavery shall go p or go dovvn. Tiie issue caniiut be, escaped.' This war will be waged to: crush tlie eggs of the reptile that has hatched the brood of traitors and revolutionists. " Uepe then, is the bold avowal by the man who ! made Lincoln President,' of the diabolical design of the Force Bill, : wiijch js notliing less than to. kindle the tires of another St. Domingo in the Southern States of thisjUuion: j There are thousands of fanatics ready and diige'r to embark in that hellish crusade. The I reign of Despotism is about to be inaugurated. The 1 recapture of the! forts- will be atoace attempted; the effort .will be m;lde to c(x;rce the Southern States back into the Unionl and Virginia, North-Carolina, and .Keutucky, have declared that they will resist coer cion. Rich. l)is. . ; i The FpuitTn of; March. This day witnesses the' j inauguratioii at Washington of ja Black Republican .! President! elected solely by Black Republican vote;, having a Black Republican Cabinet, and sustained by a Black Repub jcari Congress. Tiiis day the South comes under a dominion vvhich has been forced upon her by the Norifi ; this day she logins a servitude as involuntary a that jof Italy to .xustria ; this day in auguratesta, foreign irule as distinct' and complete as if we. had .been conquered by .'European bayonets, and- annexed to the th rone oi some continental despot. This day begins the Government of a Section, of a party. which deliberately struck the word National from its political platform ; whose Executive has de clared that there is an irrepressible conflict between Freedom andJSlavery ; whose favorite orator speaks of God himself , as " that ideal gentleman beyond V the clouds whose! Senators shout from the Capitol for. ' Southernblood, and whose soldiers aud sailors are preparing to hurl the bolts of war upon our gallant ; Breth:cn of the jGulf, whos-e tlag of Independence has been flung nobly and proudly forth to the free South ern breeze; This day, most odious of all the days in pur political calendar, when Section - and Fanat icism enthrone in tlie jchair of .George .Washington, the bmbodimentbf l11 that is narrow in their politics, yicioits n their religion, and vulgar in their manners, and calls upon tpie" ountrymen of Washington to :. j BoNv the Knee to Baai.! x '. -jr i f Richmond Dispatch of Moiulay. , "Emancipate your Slayes." Gen. Scott de f ; t deived--He is for the South. ; Special diipatch to the Richmond Enquirer. ! Washington March 3.-tt is currently' reported that the following piurport of a dialogue recently, oc curred between Dr. 'John B-. Wirt, of Westmoreland, and Salmon P, Chajse: Mr. Wirt asked, "upon what principles will the new cabinet administer the government?"- Mr. Ohase promptly replied; "On free soil principlesi?' Mf. Wirt enquired what, in that 'case, will Maryland and IV irginia do ?" . . Mr. Chase rcplietl with emphasis, fem'ancipate their slaves." ! Ii is Impossible tOrday to obtain any verification of the many imporbint rumors in circulation. Among these is one to. the; effect that Gen. Scott siys he has been grossly deceived by northern statesmen, who rep-r resented that Conjcesikions wouM be made satisfactory . to the Southern Stat!es. His steps to preserve public confidence aiuf qniet were taken wish that view, con sequently he ha been villitied I and abused by the whole South. He intimates that if his sword should ' ever be di'awn, it will be for the i 'South, i j ' ) ! -' fi The British; Peess. Surprise is. expressed in some quarters that -.the English press If oks with re gret upon a disTtiptipn of the Union,' and the Iindon Times, in a loiiifl and plausible article, counsels mod eration, and earnestly pleads for a settlement. This course does not surprise us; All the anti-slaveryites are now m favori of the Union, because ther hope to place the j government on the sideof anti-slaccry or nearo freedom. As (long as this ' government was ad ministered on thle di)ctriueS of the siipremacy of the white rac, so lng they denoimceil it as ,pr-slaverv, and the Constitution as a. league with sin. Now, when they have the opportunity to construe this Con stitution to suit .their own views, they all at once be come great frierids of the Union ! And the great, the . fearful danger of this question, to-day is that these ' traitors to American liberty, are appealed to the Ameri can love of Union to carry out these vile doctrines. The course of the! British press does not surprise us at all. It is simply on a par with our own anti-slavery press, which. ; frofn reviling the Union- for years, has just now,-for the first time discovered its value. A7. i. Day hook. ; Correspondence of the SUta Journal, , Sabpis, Pajtola Coustt, Mississippi. V 'j'" Xllarch.2, 1861. Livinsas I am in the midst of native sons of the OFd North State, a letter from this; nation may not be uniirKjresting to the ' readers of a widely circulated Journal published within the United States, :and at the metropolis of North-Carolina. : under this beiiei, and at the suggestion of many North-Caroima irienos, I sit down to write you a letter simplyj to give you all the news I can from this interesting region. . Well, first, let me assure you that there is no more J serious error now sanctioned by menj than the idea that we seceders are dissatisfied or uneasy. We be lieved we had been grossly wronged that our rights had been Invaded that there was; no safety for us in the Uiiiorf under Black ltepublican rule, and that the hope for us W-as in secession. We've that got,we are satisfied and tee are determined to defend what we've got. There is nodi vision of sen tiihenl in Mississippi now. .We are 'determined to sustain our State and our Republic land will never 6 subjugated, Everything is n iw going on j here smoothly. We are engaged in the ordinary avocations of life with a zeal that evinces at once our confidence ! iu our Government. As for soldiers tdj do our fighting, there is but one difficulty now, andj that lis to determine who shall have that ' , ! ' r 1 i ' ' 1. 1 glorious privilege. JJiore voiuuieer companies nave already tendered their services than can be received and the race is who shall get in first- : For . iustance, the regiment which includes this ounty lacks but one company ;i of getting in 3,nd there are three or four companies now applying to be enlisted: Mississippi is ready and her sons are eager for the fray. We love peace and; desire to preserve it if it can he done hon orably, but if war we must have,-) we are determined it shall bei a war to the knife, and the knife to the hiit. . ii : u; ' i ; ' . . y . - North -Carolina hasjbeert ' invited and her native sous out here have longed to see Iier join the glorious galaxy of Southern States, but as wo j claim the right ot thinking and acting Jor oursel ves we have no id-a of denying the same privilege to others. We believe Ja Southern Confede (company of all the we snau pe lnnniteiy oetter on in rac v. and iverV much desire the Southern; States, but: at the same time we totally deny; the right, of coercion and are determined therefore if other Southern States prefer the company of the Northern States to ours, to let? them go their "way . rVe want them, we invite them, but we will never beg or attempt to coerce them.j I do hope the Old North State will be true to herself, and leave the lead of Mr. Hilton ; Rowan ; Helper and join her Southern sisters. ; , , - j' .'-.'! J '. :' , Among the neighbors around mo here from the Old North Staie are Col. Norfleet.lv. Sledge a brother! 6f Mrs. Ruffiii Tucker Mr. Wm. D. Heflin a brother of Rev. R.j T. Ilcfliii Mr. Joseph F. Hobgood, for merly of iGra-rvme'county JNlr. formerly bf Warren county Col W. I II. A. Kearney, J. F. Simmons, for- merly of .Halifax county Mr. A. Mt Smith, formerly of Isorthampton county, and a liost of others. j . At Pope's Station, some twentv miles lielow ibis, I met a few days ago Mr. -Peugh, formerly of Franklin j A. B. Cansler, formerly a Representative in the Legislature of North-Carolina; frorii Lincoln county, Capt. BJ Moore formerly of Person j(who commands a fine cdmpany called the Panola! Guards) and a good many others. J All .are as sound as a dollar on the great question of the day and know no Whig, no De.n"iocra, nothing - but country! honor, justice and equality. ' Every man I meet expresses the most anx ious desire that North-Carolina should array herself side by side with Mississippi aud that her native sons may never when visiting Ler soil ki after years be " strangers m a strange land. . Gov. Ellis is much applauded for his manly and dignified course, while Bedford Brown and those of that ilk are universally condemned.) Clingman too stands .high .ov here and some of Henry Miller's warmest admirers have expressed is a subrriissiouist. r great sorrow that he I shall idrop you an occasional line'as circumstances will justify, and will thus enable vou to Keep your readers posted ui relation to their bid friends, who are now citizens of a different republic. R V. W. NOTICE. nPIIEREi will he a meeting of the citizens of JL Johnston county held at the Court House, in Suiith- held, on; Saturday, the 16th day of March next, tor the purpose. t torming and orp;ani7.ing a regular MlhllAKY (JJM1 AJN V, to be called the JUtlJnSTU. Kir LE COM PANY. The uniform will be sinade of North-Carplina cassitnere.! '' ' : . !' " ',- .1 j - i . 1 It is desirable that every man io thtf county, favorable to forming the Company, will comejfbi ward that day, and, if not join jthe Company, contribute an amount to help de fray tlie je$penes ot lorininj;: the Uotnpany Smitheld, Feb. 2'Jnd, 1HH1. AUCTION S OK 30,000 Yards Cloths, Cassimeres, I ( I v &C &c, Af., Ol'' 1 VIRGINIA MANUF ACTURE, VA. IX IIICHMOND, The C UENSTIAW "SVOOLFN COMPANY, having en tire confidence that the superiority of Iheir Goods will be appreciated,.and vvishingthem to go into immediate use and consumption!, will sell, at auction, in one of the new stores under thb Spotswood Hotel, I 'ox wkbxESDA r, urn da r of march, isci, all the (3ods of 'their manufacture, which mav then be on hand, consisting of about 3G000 YARDS StN(iLE Asn DOUBLE-MILLED PLAIN Alio FANCY CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, DOE SKINS, ic, Ac, of about 100 diffkrent styles ASDPATTERSs. Sanif les of most of the' Goods c aii be seen at our oIBce a;ny time prey ious to the day of tile : and we trust, as this enterprise seems to merit sucels, that the sale will be attended by the trade of the far South, as well as In VirginiaJ 5 iTERMS Under $100, cash ; from $100 to $500,!4 months ; and on all sums over $500, 6 months cred t, for approved negotia ble paper with an allowance of one per cent, per month discount for cash. I t CRENSHAW & Cf., Agents. CRENSHAW WOOLEN COMPANY, i RICHMOND. VA. Will be added to the 'above sale, at the same time and place, a large lot of -j . J , j . DOMESTIC COTTONS, consisting of various qualities of BROWN SHEERING, manufactured ' by our SHIRTING and OZNAIiUIIGS, Factories in Petersburg: i LYNCH A CALLENDER. Ao-enta. ETTRICK'S & MATTOAX COMPANIES. Feb. 27, 1861..- .." , . 26 5t ADMINISTRATOR'S XOTIck f he undersign-ED,- having at February Term, 1861, of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Wake county, qualified as Administratorj on the estate of the! late' Jos. K. Marriott, Esq., gives notice to all persons indebted to the estate of his intestate, to come forward and make payment ;. and- to those haying claims against said estate, to present them within tho time required bv law. "'ii j i I JrtHN C. (MARRIOTT', Adm'r. "In he absence of the undersigned from the City of Raleigh, Qdknt Blsbke, Esq., my Attorney, is authorized and will attend.to any business relating to the above estate. J. V. MAKKIOXT, Adm'r. Feb. 27, .1861. 26 8t NOBTH-CAROLIM MILITARY INSTITUTE, ;. ' - ; chArlotte, n. c. -' . THE fourth Session of this Institute will be gin 1st March. Applicants will be received at any time, but the beginning of the session is the most suitable period. - - - j. ; '. ; ' Facpltt Major D. H. Hill, late Brevet Major U. S. Army, assisted by two graduates of West Point,, two of the Virginia Military Institute, and one of the University of Virginia, ; ' 1 ' : - Terms $29M per month, to include every thing except under clothes. Feb. 16. 22 2m THE WILSON SCHOOLS, wilsox, x. a. GIRLS IN SEPARATE BUILDINGS, FOR BOYS AND! Bf MR. AXp MRS. RICIIARDSOX, aided by a full and able corps of assistant teachers, in all Depart ment;. . - : I . " -- j - Departments fohr Preparatory, ( Academic, Collegiate and University or Art, with a Regular Course of study in each. '"-'.' . - - -. The ensuuig Session will be re-opened for the admission of pupils on THURSDAY, 10tb day of January. 1861. Promptness solicited. ? b or a Catalogue! address the Principal. Feb. 16, .1860. -j j -'" ' ; - '-.. . 5Asw wtf. : A TEACnER' (WANTED tp take f barge of the 1 JLAl LA A 1 1U. j JH 1L1 i AK l and JSA. ALi Sl'llOOL, located at Carolina Citj, -Nt C. Thorough Classical and Mathematical Dicipline requisite. A fine opening' i here presented for a pleasant and and permanent 'situation. Early application should be made to i i - - t l Dr. E. L. PERKINS, SecV. Jan. 26, 186L ;.J ' ,. 17 tf HTAJOR GENERAL- 7th Division. JLtJL We are authorized and requested to 'announce MAJ. EDWARD CANT WELL of Wake a candidate for the above office. Election held 27th April, 1861. Mch.8, 1861. 29 tf Of toe JOHN SPELMAN, PRINTER TO THE AVEDNESDAY, 3IARCU Terms of the State Jon J i We beg to remind our frieiids that our Ioht ;; 1 ducted on the cash system. s The ch ;ii,,st ',iu r - . Tkrms. : ;. ' ";' Semi Weekly, per annum....... Weekly....... .-. ..'.'.. ...:'.;.':. .:: g Clubs, 'six copies. Clubs of ten and upwards, cash;.. .. l 'HI -b fHV Lincoln's Inaugural. We continue the opinions of the press .to ti elusion of other matter, on this all inijKr aiit.(.let. tiou of Black Republican policy;.. If t - M. e L'lve i i ion of every newspaper we have seen that has i pressed an ' opinion up to the hour of Writiiif , ', , ... ' . .... .. i a , o -jT( .1 ine ,1'f in subsequent numbers. . 1 OPINIONS OF THE ?.T0RTH-CAR0LI.N A PKK: From the Raleigh Register. From Mr. Lincoln's lips were to fall words of no I mentous import than those of peace or war, ,T1.,,.C... ? have tallcn, and'what is th eir import t.Whntv&HVn.,.: confess that there is some diversity of opiiHon uj,(ni suDject, we nave reiucianiiy come to tne conctu.-. m ft, ,f -I- pose, it, jinsteaa ot aoing so, ne naa aeciarwt; his iintii'' to call an extra session of Congress, and subm it to their' consideration the grave issues before the cuui.try a i J- it. - Va l . ... Ii .a i. IB: tney are, we veriiy ociieve ine nappiesi, Cdiisc . a ?l L l; . . 1 1. ? ., f 11 would have resulted from such an avowal,! and bloodshed have been averted. The .word ' uu war and ' used by the President, necessarily implies ( ' . .,1 " ' . on U)P representative ot the government, will not Only hold on to S the property now in its occupancy, but will retake tiat which has been wrested from it bo, war y il Wiria, mt only for the retention of Fort Sumter by th jovh ni'nent but for the recovery of the other Forts in Charleston har bor, and also for the recovery of the Navy Vard and Fiit Barancas, in the harbor of Pensacola, as will as all (h Forts and Arsenals which have been seized upon by (,e seceding States, andthus will begin a war which- will spread from South-Carolina to the Mexican horder, not this be ciercion in the broadest sense of the word, and can any rational man doubt that all the Bhiwholdiu. States will sooner or later be embroiled in the war? 1 From the Warren ton News. There can be no mistake made in construing th now President's language, it is bold candid, and to tlin pur pose, he is determined to maintain the Union at all. Liz ards, therefore, a conflict between the Federal authorities and the seceding States becomes inevitable.. - The Suu llights men. North and South, will never accept , or endorse the political maxim, that th "Union is' a perp-tuilv," a fiolitical trap, which all may enter, but which none can cave with life. This is the old time federal doctrine of "consolidation" revived, which w as once j defeated, and .which must again be resisted to the death, independent of all recent, causes' of deadly, quarrel. Uy the Southern States, the right of secession can never be given up,: as it U ,the only mode of peaceable escape from the misgo'vern'ment .' of a tyrant majority. The intimation relative to the iSupreme Court is unmistakcable ; the new President directly asserts it. as an unfit tribunal for the de cision or political questions, liiciramcrs oi tne i mutitu tion thought otherwise, but the assembling of the lirst National Convention will be the sigual for aboli.hinjr r ' re-constructing it. The Northern States hve the iow r, and will exercise it, and with the destruction of tlie Su preme Court,-vanishes the strongest of our bonded de fences against a tyrant Congressional majority. He says truly and candidly : . 1 : "One section of our country believes slavery, is riht. and ought to be extended, while the other; believes jt j J wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the onlv ulv 8tantial.diBp.ute." , ! .' . I i . ' , Ji He might have affiled, a dispute which will never t i'ni j Bate, 0 long as slavery exists South, or the t.orth ha., ., legal or political pretext to interfere with it. . . -j. ' He pledges himself to use his power to "o'f,r.rt. . -vonxein" aorernment 'ttroiierti and to foltevt the Un.ti: im. port . . '. ... ' ... ) .... these are ominous words, ami mean coercion ni M bro.adcst sense. The. attempt to carry such: intention int i action, will inevitably result in bloodshed, for tlie si -nli States are not only determined, but also w ell prepared, tor a lone and desperate Vesistance.' Where will No, I h-(':i:-n- to collect the revenue, and to "hold, occupy and possi Croperty and places belonging to the goWnUuuiVVS lpody civil -Mrar will begin. We do not boliove. that t iv a a nupfiiiuarv frit PrASiHpnl T.infiilrt tc ai-nini W,.. r lina be found ? Quietl y pa3'ing Federal revenue, i inl -i' an j : increased tariff,' to assist in the subjugation of sistvr Soutli- j ern States? We hope not, nav, we are certain die will j ; not stand with folded arms, ahrf cold-hearted inaction, wit- iiracliip, (he DlOOfly COIlfllcl r tioutliem TtgKo nnoit 'j !' Northern domination, without sharing the danger aiiii tie- 4 j glory of the combat. "All compromise, rejected,-) cunteinY i: ; uously rejected, a plundering tariff enacted, w hich, in it . ;i self, affords, suirieent cause for instant sec'.'ssion. mi.air i thoi itative announcement from the occupant of the Kx'-eii- tive Chair, that, submission must coine' (irstj and .justice i' ' will be done afterwards. ; If these "overt acts? -nrfjiotaii. . centives to pwinpt and vigorous uct ion, we detjpair fd'eyer :; seeing anything considered' as such $hoH of Kehohani's w liij '.. j of scorjnohs. .f I ;' ' .. . '. ,'''',.'. ,'- j From ihe FayettcTille Car(dinian ': This important document has at last appeared lud'op imr people, ana .a? we nave all along told them, Ul'Mill) ll.l'l proa ed' himself, if not a statesman, at least firiiii and uwmi- promising in Ins tone. Look at one. sentence f lii.s lii.i'i- gural. ''the Union i vihrnl:c I 'shall take care that the laws of .the Union be faithfully': executed in all the Vf'e. Look again i ' the pni-f ros, ks?, ; conhded in me vilt be used to hold, omijiy Hnd all the propr:riy aud plnye belohijin'j tn the' novPruitn nt mer" to (rolled the, dtttie.n on import'! Tin ,lain words and unmistakable in their meauinjr. ' 1 1 is simple manned and fully for Mr.1 Lincoln to say there is . no' threat in thi. -The man is blind to all rcasfm and common sense, if be be lieves, ibr one moment, that carrying out hhs! pi I icy will not produce civil war. In fact,, if Mr. Lincoln -has said all th'is, after mature and deliherate thought, the future of our country can only be traced through blood sf linedtieHs, where victory must be given to the strongann hihI valiant courage of the South, or to the maddened and iiilrdel fanati cism of the North. ' j " " Clijldreii of North-Cawlina, it is not for the' purpose of' carrying through a political policy that we warn you now,, that you have "Watched you fiave Waited'' too long, too long!! Change vpur motto now. to " aim find pre pare." Yfiu are on the eye of .ci vil war. . Wei told you 'lone since we now tell vou to prepare for 1 tie korst.-.'V Whese is there hope ? Had Mr., Lincoln ret"onjinpnf1e4 any definite plan for the adjustment of these'jlifiiciiltie?, there might have been some reason to believe-that an ad justmeut could be made. lie has cautiously and studiously t avoided any recommendation, except that of a general Convention'of the people of the States, which under nociri cumstances can do us any good, but has in iU power tn sweep from the whole face of tlie slave States now 'in tho . Confederacy all of that species of property. , 7 Our readers can judge of this address of Mr. bneoli IhciDselves. The whole question is up, and the sooner our minds are prepared for it the .better. ' From the Milton Chronicle. tfi fillCstl'MI He T Lincoln 1 has shovn his handa hand lif ted aL'ainct ,tli decisions of the Supreme Court of the U. States, unless they j suit his Black Republican taste a hand that holds up th i Government as a consolidated Government, and to mak- if , such he avows his purpose to V use the power conlni'd t him." Does hejreally mean-tb do it? " j' '"... . I M 1 Now.f ho sUte Injd s-1 ded if the Union had not been broken if nol coercion threatened Mr. Lincofti's Inaugural and Mr, LincfJnlaiH-i self might be "stomached " for four years. Hut seven or eight Southern States have seceded ; six others have m maiued in the Union to save the Union, by securing all the. right that the South had a right to demand. These rights have not been yielded ; and are not likely to be given and the question is, shall black Republicanism hack d" " ; or shall it be backed down ? Above all, hhall! the eceilet I States be coerced ? Every border State man w ill unewer iDO, except perhaps Andy Johnson and a few other traitors. And whether in or out of the Union, they will defend the seceded States if necessary. - Will" it be necessary ? A'"' Linccdn had as well talk about darting straw agaitir-t the moon as to talk about recapturing the Fort-,, defrnh J i thoiic-h thev hi- hi- tin. tnmna t.nv ut 1 1n 'cnuiinarid of the i seceded Statpn ; a'nv atlpmnf tn ri.i9ntiin would cost .th I federal armv an awful whinnSnir in i-verv .it!ra"!rement, He 1 may succeed in collecting the revenul", by his nafl vt? sels casting anchor beyond the range of gunshot tired ftrti" land, as the South has no navy, as Vet. buf we hardly . think that he will attempt to recapture the Forts ; he iuay j try. collecting the revenue. '. i ; J ! His remarks about his duty tp- execute the laws 1 T" tect the public, property, Ac., arc no more Jthan even bod had a right to expect him to 'ay less we rdid n()t ,x'' from him; and in this he diflers not from Mr. buchanan. or anj other President. liiit his notions about th .". pfeme Court and the right of secession arp nion.-tiou.--Lwking, then, at LincoInra Inaugural, and a the defeat oi jevery hfinor able proposition offered in the ifeate . Coutei , enas and in Congress, for adjustment, we come to the con elusion that it nw become the duty of North-CaiehD., Virginia, and all the border States to 'withdraw linuKfli ately. We opposed immediate sccefsion, because wecli-fe-ircd 'a cftmpromise that would reconstruct the Union, a?' because we did not wish to secede while we had Comnii- Bioners in Conference trVine to effect an adjustment s.u' factory to the entire South. . We said wait uUtil this ton- ference adjourns able settlement. ns : if it breaks up without a fair and honor t, then accede, or wrist the Government tioi" , la .n.i n..T.cr,.L, ) aHionrned wiin1, i Lincoln's hands. That frmft.r.n n has adiourhed making such a compromise, and' hence the day for at ti" is.at band let us withdraw; or take the Government t , force of arms. The fact that the South has troop "f ,ru", ' ' it the North cannot be questioned, and while' the precipitators have lost nothing by trying toreconitim , the Union, thev hare satisfied these friends that thev done alb that nonorable men could do to save the L njo", , and now. if wa iu.rwHp. . u'o will rpfkin their- friciiuf'11! i and if fighting ha to be done, they ill fight for pur caust . t TTVum th VVpRton Spntinel.l H i 1 ! ThLa precious document ii at hand, and we will pril11' j i a . . . r . it 1 ti 4; t i I ! am- 1 UMri. r mm' v. x-3'
Daily State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.)
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