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-V. ' SI ' t THE IHEDELE EXPJiESS, TERMS OF 'ADVERTISING. , Cm-Dollar wjuar&for th4 firs week, and Twenty-five Cents for every week thereafter Sixteen lines or le will make a square . lXshicV'onsnade jft' fkvor oif'iangjTiai- te5M.AUowalT;:iC!7 O' - jt J One eqnan,-7..r..f.dTc pu-pi9. . $A.OO Two Hviare.V4jX)p;y 10.00 14.00 Three nare,, IKOO 15.00 . 20.00, When tlirerona are not jriven hov oflea rUBLTSTTED WEEKLY, r. P." DRAKE. EUGENE B. DRAKE & SON, Editors and Proprietors. . i Fainily INfewspaper- -"Devote! to jPolitics, ;A.griciiliuie,."Manufaires, Commerce, aiid IXIxceUnjoxT&i eaiingr TERMS OF THE PAPER, voi:in. Statesyille, N. C, Friday, December 9, 185a $3 a Year, ta Advance. No. a. to insert an AdvtxtLeQijjeut, ijvv ill le publish- , ct until ordered oui. . . . . ,; 111 ;.-. s: ' .1 I If r: ft IiOTe Me Much and oye Me Long:. nv JIR.S. M. V. TICATTJ)Na,t 'Lot ihc little, love mc Ibnr," . That jnay do for book-and song, Bat fcfi woman's fond heirt never ! Slid lves deeply, and forever. . Love me muc amljlove me long, Ifc the burden of lier pontr. Truxtin;: all her soul's devotion , . .On love's wild, uncertain icean Hoarding dream, nor hope,: nor prayer, JJut vfnr linage inin:k'8 there. Thinkcst thou elic e'jr can be , ( Content with any lePi from thee? Little knows he woman's fieart. Wlio deemw lier half ccm(nt with part r Conteiiit with a divided treasure t Wooed by rule and loved liy measure. U Love me much, and ove me loiig, Id the burden of her iknig. JiOve her wholly love her ever Love her thus, or from h4r sever, Ere lqr heart has twined kround thee, Ere flije enrse the hour sle found thee, "" Eire to breathe tliC Avord farewell '" he to her like funernl knell. , The Piidden love may burn to wate," And sudden vows reeut (jheir J.ute ; 4S0 let t be. ere thou dostjbKng i A coolj and cautious ufl'eringv ! . Love me much, nnd lovc ihe long," ' Th the burden of her ion. r. . i--And in your poverty or yalth-L-." Or in taur si'kness or in. Jiealth : . Ilirh on the pimiaele of fame, ( r in the lowest depths of! shainc. Where thou art. tbeit'.will she be, Clfingin" fondly still io thee. Let noj icy Ciwitinj stealiur , O'erycur lieart, conjeal feeling. Fear y ii not to trust too iiueh, Wonuijii Mhrinks from jealous touch. 'Lviiietru.tiii!rly aid long,' 1 Is the burden of 'her ong. f i , Such 1 ic love that '.she wqtdil rain ; ; , All cooler feeling cotnorf ip vain, . r, coi iin-,'. breaks a blis.ul ppell. Anil true love wetp.. her ljist farewell. Ltve me deeply, lovej ine long,. I a ! t lie burden of hcr(onir. , When Biope .vonng, anrljj life i new, . And pk-n.mires many sorrows tew,- vvc liglitlv meet, and 'i.rlitlv inrt, Witl 1 1 lanv.a loud and laftliftil heart: Hi i 1 ... R4 1 mejnory nnngs, m atter vear?, rret, reinorpe, and bitter tears. r tl o Tri'ili-ll Kxii-osf. rs. Edit iis: A feU- days nnce, I ac- cidentaflly diflcoveml ainoing boiiio of my a; pers tli loliuwing effusion truth as which Pwtrv The A re kvrtaiiilv contains' as 1 nuch oveiv rins, Avitii aill tiieir curia" 1' , 1 hi t t nought but fleeti'tid shadows. O, And lint ; ( ! Tee tlier chaps may lijug the girls ivcold. IViitik the idovs, (.) : n jrrow the nieadoxts. O; And Whi I me greener srow the pillows. O, e other fellows bur the girld m i ling the widows, ( ). ti I'aradisc was tilled with spice, I hoi Delu lions fruits and flowers rare. Still dani left ft and Irnni choire - Because there were no ividows there. Greeib rrow the meadows, O, And greener grokv the willows. O, 1 was uui crearen an riiinirs else But love, that made t Fi 4 widows. O. Prospects of the "Onion. copy a juilicious article from the Jlaltiinore American on the present gloomy prospects for the continuance of the Union. Whilst ve fervently join1 in-the pr.aycr of tlie American for its perpetiiityAve confess that we are less homeful than tliatjpaper. Extrem ists only arc heard, jin both sections. In viey of the great outrages perpetra ted uppn the South, j a regular sys- tcm of stealing our property ; in view of the fact that the whole North either assists those who perBetrute this great wroni or at least stapd by and do not assist J 0' prevent or jto punish it ; in view o the daring invasion of Virgin ia, anuj the almost universal sympathy of the iNorth with the bold bad men who uiidertook it hw can Southern men feel otherwise than deeply indig nant?. It is not surprising that some of themost intemperate give express ion to ?uch feelings, in language both violent and insulting; whilst even calm and moderate men feel too deeply to rebuke such expressions. ; The most they can do is to re rain themselves from the ue of irritating language. fit thej North, on thej other hand, tho' there yas for a week or two a general condemnation of John Brown's wicked utragp, that soon' pajssed away. Pub lic opihion against tjie South and its constitutionally guardnteod institution proved too strong! foil the continuance .of tho first impulsive and right feeling. It might possibly have been otherwise if the natural feelings of Southern peo ple could have been suppressed, or - vented in. language Uss irritating, and m some respects uniust. lmt outer ness hro has called and hostility there, seems but Jiftla hope The jiwerican cite forth bitterness until now there for the future. s the example of Endand, where civil wars have all end ed witnout separation. Unfortunate ly our jcase is different from that of England.- She"had ino suchTast ex tent of territc-ry, or such dirersity of ciunate; ana ot pursuits, ana especially of institutions, in respect to which, a fanaticism fiercer than ten furies has sprung up. Consequently her feuds were npt sectional, as ours are. There are otlier peculiarities of the contest here, Avhich it would be imprudent to state, pit whicn are ipparqnt to every mind, and which render; it impossble , to allay the strife until the Torth shall cease to wa ge war upon the South- Illisccllnncous: and of that we confess that we sec no hope. Instead of that peace and those acts of good neighborhood to which the South is entitled by every law, human and divine, not a . finger is raised, scarce a voice is heard, against the dai ly open and avowed outrages upon pur rights. It'is impossible that this should continue without a disruption. And we! have no hope, as we have said, that it will cease. Vhat may be behind disunion, we cannot tell; but we anticipate nothing good for either section. It seems to us! the sheerest folly to hope for ih creased prosperity or greatness fox either. Yet if every Southern man were as fully convinced as we are, that disunion will be a dire calamity for both North and South, still we could nojt hope for a long continuance of a union under a state of opinion and act ion and even a system of laws at the North which tolerates and legalizes a J daily robbery and outrage.of the South. Ili-is not in human nature "to stand such things. J So little is known at the North of the real feeling at the South, thatAthe idea of disunion is universally treated as ridiculous.: Some, like the bragga docio General of the N. Y. Courier aiid Enquirer, even talk of "whipping the South into obedience ;" ..but the most common feeling is, that disunion is only an idle threat. It was so once; but it is no longer so. The first evi dence we have seen -of an awakening from this state of false security, is fur nished by the N. Y. Times of Wednes day last. .That paper publishes a let ter from "its Virginia correspondent," giving a gloomy account of the state of feeling in that State. It is manifest that the correspondent is no Virgin ian, i.but some fanatic from the North; arid that whilst he exaggerates his pic ture of the Virginia panic, much that h writes iabout crime, the trial by jury, religion, infidelity, &c, is applicable only to the great cities at the North ; and has no foundation as applied to any Southern State. But there appears to have been enough in the picture to arouse and alarm the Times. It says, and says truly r "The Harper's Ferry invasion has shaken the confidence of the South in the good faith of the North to its basis. The people of Virginia regard it as on ly an indication of Northern sentiment,, the first of many similar inroads upon th'eir p6ace. They construe the speech es and lectures and Abolitionist demon strations of sympathy at the North, as proof positive that the movement is substantially approved and endorsed by the Northern people. Why, they ask, is Wendell Philips applauded when he lectures on this subject ? Why are Garrison and Douglas tolerated in their appeals for aid to Brown ? Why dees the North solicit the commutation ' f his sentence, and why are no meet iib's held to denounce his crime and to qajll down vengeance on him and his accomplices "i This is the style in which they reason, ind it is perfectly natural under the circumstances." Indeed it is natural. And well may the Times,add, "We are not surprised to! find it impossible to convince the Virginians that they mistake entirely the temper of our people and magnify immensely the perils to which they are exposed. V It will indeed require something more effective than words to fasten such a conviction on the South ern mind. " The Times says that our enemies "are few in number, and ut terly contemptible in position and in fluence." If it were so, would not the great majority put a stop to the steal ing of Southern property by these tew and Contemptible rogues, instead of al lowing theni to precipitate upon the country disunion and civil war ? Would they not take some steps to prevent ; the invasion of a Southern State, eith er by a John Brown gang or by pro posed resetters of John Brown ? When a band of filibusters is preparing to leave our shores to perpetrate an out rage against any foreign country, the Executive and Judicial powers arc put in motion tb arrest it. But here are, filibusters of the worst sort coming to a sister State with the very worst and most ferocious intentions that ever firdd human bosoms, and what says or what dojjs a single one of these united sove-j reigrities to prevent the wrong or to correct the wrong doers? ' , As' the Richmond Whig well asks, j'lf two thousand persons can be as sembled in Boston one night to sym pathize with old Brown and raise mon ey , for his family, why cannot two thousand persons be assembled in the same city the next night, to denounce' old Brown and his murderous foray if there be the number of conservatives' there that we are told there are? "And. so In regard to New York and all the uiuqs jiuu uciguuui uwus mi me iui iu. A conservatism that is wholly silent and inactive,, what is it worth to lis? What is it worth in the wav of rebuk- ing Abolition fanaticism, and presery- 111" l IIC VJ1UUI1 i. Since the above waa written, the Times of Thursday has come to hand, in iwhich we find further evidence of awlakening to the momentous nature of jthe impending crisis, in the follow?. ing earnest . statement ot the duty of the .Northern , States themselves to put down any attempt from, their borders toiresciie ohn Brown and his gang : "We think that the authorities of the Free States owe it to themselves, and to the whole country to tlefeat any ; such attempt that may be on foot, and to exercise special vigilance for its de tection, if we Ara bound to prevent armed invasion from our shores of the territories of a foreign power, we are unller tenfold greater obligations to prevent any forcible, interference:, on the part of our people, with the ad ministration of justice, in a sister State. No other State in the Union can rightfully.' interfere with her au thority in this respect: and any at tempt at such interference by forcible means should be arrested and punish ed with the, utmost vigor. - "It is not easv to estimate the dis astrous effect of an armed attempt at rescue upon the peace of the country. It would, as a matter of course,be met with armed -resistance, and the two sections might find themselves sudden ly and hopelessly plunged into a state of actualwar. For passion, stimula ted by blood, is fearfully contagious ; and no such collision could take place without rousing, in the hearts of thou sands," the unreasoning spirit of resent ment and revenge. We have very lit tle fear of any disunion of these States, to be brought about by a calm reflec tion and on a careful calculation of consequences. But from such conflicts as would inevitably grow out of an armed attempt at the rescue of Brown, it is impossible to say what bad results might not arise. If there he therefore, in any Northern State, within 1 the knowledge actual or possible, of its authorities, any such movements as those which have been denounced to Gov. Wise, we regard it as a matter of the highest duty to put forth every possible effort for their suppression." This is the language for the occas ion. Let us see if it will be heeded in proper quarters. -Fayetteville Obs. Savin? the Country. Jc sjs fc !S And to the Star and oth er ultra Democratic journals, which are trying to increase the excitement now prevailing, seemingly for the pur pose of bringing about the result dis union which they' pretend to deplored we would say : Cast the beam out oft thine own eye, before you make so much talk about the delinquences of the Opposition party. We recollect that no longer than last year, several leading Opposition journals in Geor gia, and elsewhere, urged upon the South, without distinction of party, to make Senator Hammond the candi date for President, because, though he was a Democrat, he was a man who cared more for his countny than he did for his party. But what Demo cratic journal seconded this move ? No one, so far as we know. What Democratic Journal ever offered to support any loyal and patriotic Whig, in order to save the Union ?- -Not one. No, according to the spoilmen, the Union is always hi" danger and it is always necessary for the opponents of Democracy to give up their most cher ished party ties, for the sake of sav ing it; but this is never asked of their friends bv these "sensation" iournals. Oh no ! that would be, in their opin ion, giving up the greater good to save the- less for Democracy, to .their short sighted view, n always worth more than the. Union. Their battle cry is always loud in favor of the "Union," but louder still in favor of Democrocy. Pet, Intelligencer. A Female Hethuselah. Recently, we" have seen frequent instances recorded, wherd human life cxtende'd considerably heyond the Scriptural boundary. On no occasion, however, have we learned of a more extraordinary Case of longevity than one which yesterday came, under our own observation. We were invited by an acquaintance, to accompany him around to th2 rooms of an artist, where an old colored lady old aunt Betsy a family servant, was having - her picture taken, after having passed the respectable age ; of lzz years. She had not been around town for 30 years, and had that morning requested our friend to take her in his buggy, that she might see all the improvements She has complete possession of her mental faculties, and her intelligence is remarkable. Extreme ' age had made but little impression upon her physical powers.- With the slight aid of a cane she could walk with consid erable activity. . She is a little deaf, and requires specs to see distinctly at least she used them while admiring her own likeness,.1 .The old lady is re markably eheerful and happy, in her disposition much disposed to talk of .old times in'Virginny, and her conver sation is " lively V arid agreeable. She has a constitution and .a temperament which may easily defy ten or a dozen years yet.' She says she has raised twenty children of her own, and two generations, of her young white masses and .misser- CapJirafdeau Dem. Davidson College. The Trustees of this Institution met in Charlotte on the 24th inst., and elected Alex.'McIrer, Esq.; of Car thage, Moore county, to fill the chair of Professor of Mathematics, vacated by the resignation "of Maj. Hill. 4- Gh. The St: Louis papers,are urging the erection of a'moriuriient to the memory of toi, Uenton. , - -j - t Encourage Your Own; If recent events and the - lowering i signs of the times, do not impress up on the South the vital importance of encouraging its oivn industry in every department of enterprise, we may as well give up all hope of its indepen dence and even security. It is now undeniable that the South must here after look alone to itself for aid arid comfort in the conflict which looms up in the future. It must depend up on the development of its own resour ces, and build up withih itself those elements of strength which have given thcnon-slaveholding communities their capacity for mischief, but which we only desire as a means 1 of protection arid defence- .., ' V . ' - ' We should have: no doubt tf the fu ture if wc could see some evidence of a universal and deep-rooted determina tion hereafter to withhold the supplies from the exchequer of the enemy, no matter to what inconvenience it may put ourselves. When we see such a spirit as that which was witnessed in the South in the early period of the troubles with Great Britain, a resolu tion to encourage only articles of home production, even to the articles of clothing, and which induced the peo ple of Boston and other places, to forego the luxury of tea, it will - then be evident that the South is in earn est, and has both -the self-denial and the sagacity to work out her own sal vation. But as long as we continue to purchase from the North every ar ticle of furniture, of clothing, of shoes for servants, household and agricultu ral implements ; so long, in short, as our manufactures and, commerce are in their hands, our children sent to Northern schools, our, school books and other books manufactured by Northern authors, arid our plqasure seekers traveling in armies every sum mer to the North, and spending millions-among those who are secretly sneering at the prodigality by. which they profit ; so long the South may expect; to be a province, made such by her own selt-inuulgence, and treated as such bv those who do not believe mf that she has the self-denial ever to break her bonds. We should rejoice to see some genT eral movement inaugurated, by which a $eries of practical measures would bctdigested and adopted, having in vid- the entire exclusion from use of any article of Northern manufacture, clofhing, furniture, iicc, which can be made within our own limits, even tho' it snouiu compel our people to be as simple in their wardrobes and in their houses as were the founders of the Republic. It is only by such a course that we. can build up our own strength, andj quicken the passive-conservatism of tie,i rce States into active meas ure? for the general good. Inconye nient ana enormous as sucn a course woild be at first, we should soon find out own mechanical skill so developed 1 t i.i. 1 ani strengthened, mat ere long we should be able to produce within our own borders any work of mechanical kiil in as great perfection as it can be found elsewhere in the country. Even if we are unable to accomplish direct trade with Europe, we can at least resolve to establish . our own manufacturing industry, and no longer to pay tribute to the -North for -any article which we can produce ourselves. But is direct trade an impossibility? m 1' " 1 T T" " 1 : ' liie time was when Virginia had 1 a large and flourishing commerce. In her central geographical position and the; railroad connections completed and in progress with the valleys of-the Mississippi and Ohio, she has great advantages for commercial importance. Look at her magnificent harbors and rivers. Were -they -designated by the Creator only for the accommodation of river-steamers- and: oysteNboats May not the Legislature of Virginia avail itself of these vast natural- ad vantages, these wide and deep arms of the sea that run vsp into the heart, of a territory chock full of mineral arid agricultural wealth, and blessed with a genial and glorious climate, and de vise some means by which we can break away from our commercial vassalage to the North, and trade directly- with . 1 1 the nations which consume our pro ducts? i The Enquirer suggests that the Leg islature pass an act to encourage di rect importation. "Let the - Legisla- ture lay hold of the domestic trade, and by substituting a discriminating tax and license law upon merchants, discriminate between merchandize 1m ported into ; - Virginia through the Northern cities; as well as" that pro duced at the North and sueh as isim ported from foreign nations ' into Vir ginia. The rate of discrimination is a subject of legislative discretion ; ought to be higlv enough gradually to change the bourse of trade. Upon changing the plan of the import trade everything depends. There ? cannot ... i v- ji-ji -iL- i out the lmnort trade is subiected to thej d an inueoenaeni; expon iraue witui same conditions." It costs twice the l f JivlL . Ti. Ii. x ' amount of freight from Virginia to Europe that it costs from New lorki raie the standard " of .apprenticesliipt to Europe, because the foraerbnnipip amply for 3;beiriedu- bIjf,n6 return cargo"; theVlatter is j cation, and elevate tthe inpra arid so sure of one, of greit value and little.; cTal position of the different craf, and bulk'; upon which the whole profits of the voyage are ma-deDispatch. '. An institution is the lengthened sha- now oi one man. The Working Men. The distinctions made by the arbi-! trarv rules of socifttv. arf fnivmloil in : a misconception of what constitutes , isociety ; and that rulewhich ex- eludes the workina man originates in a narrow and unfonnded prejudice and sheer ignorance of what society needs. Work is a part of man s curse, yet under the guidance of right principle it dignifies his being and is one of the Tichest benefits which he enjoys. With out if man grows up an imbecile b, eing. dwarfed in his corporeal, intellectual and moral powers. A condition, there fore, so essential to man's proper de velopment, ought not. to be made the occasion of his expatriation from the associations of the wealthy, the refill ed and the intelligent, but rather en title him to first position in the socie- ty of right-thinking communities. Again,, the necessity which exists in all, communities for working men, in order to the production of the ne cessaries, conveniences and luxuries of life, constitute them the most valuable and important members of society. Without them no community could long exist. They are the "bone and sinew" of society- upon their shoul ders rest the burden of supporting a community, and on , this account they are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of society. Indeed, they ought; to constitute society itself, and control and regulate public sentiment. It has, however, -been a complaint of working men, that, their vocations and devotions to labor render them, in the estimation of those who do not labor, a sort of under-class, and hence the provisions of law, as well as 'the rules of society, subject, them to hardships and injuries which they do not merit. V o grant, - as society is constituted, there is too much ground for the complaint -but it is not a ne cessary or natural condition, ai'ising out of men's vocation,, but has grown out of a class of causes for which eve ry individual is more or less responsi ble. - The sober sense of society is not op posed to work or to working men. Leisure and idleness are contraband in all well-regulated circles. No man is esteemed the more because he is a gen tleman of leisure or an idler. None are so worthless, and hence none are so little entitled to the consideration of community. But there are other considerations to be taken into account besides work and idleness Work, of itself, can in no sense lower a man but the surroundings or associations of labor affect more seriously the posi tion of working men than labor itself. We do not confine the term work ixft men to that class of laborers who perform manual labor. Everyman is a working man whose labor is direct ed in a legitimate vocation by his own intellect, to the maintainance of him self and his dependents, and the ac quisition of a competency or of wealth. Idlers or what is worse gamblers non-producers of all classes, appren tices or slaves are not included -ft& the obvious reason they produce noth ing for the corporeal, mental or moral works of man by their own hands or their own intellects. Now every workixu clergyman, physician, lawyer, editor,, , merchant, farmer, miner, manufacturer, mariner, clerk, officer or mechanic, we call a working man. Every man who pur sues diligently any lawful vocation is a working man. Yet, the positions of these several laborers among mankind are very different. Now, LAppR. can not be the cause, "nor can the vocation in which they labor control the mat ter. In any good-society a mechanic or mariner is as well received all things else being equal as a clergy man, doctor, lawyer, merchant or far- mer. And -why not : wnat oetter are they than he ? It is not the vo cation, but the other surroundings of a man, that gives him consequence in society. Wc know that fops and flirts think otherwise, and treat better per sons than they arc, lightly, because of their vocation but are they society ? a .A tlfl . 1 - . . Do they control the soher thoughts of society : If so, how rotten it must be. The truth is, if mechanics or others labor under disability in society, they are greatly chargeable with jit them selves. If trodden upon or j slighted, they haTe shown a willingness to sub mit without complaint, or a disposition to remain underneath. Xet them hold up their heads, and by virtuous lives, highmoral bearing, and by their in telligence and worth in society, "which their position opens to themand how il -T TIT A soon'woula society place xnem niner ently. ' . ::' -- " ' ' Perhaps, nothing in North Carolina so-deeply affectsfthc position -of me chanics, as the lack of a properly 'TCjM ulated apprenticeship system, and the low standard of intelligence -hich pre? vails amoncr them. .The prevalence of j intemperance and the flows -moral and cn KtnndnTrf which nrevatis esne - r.v""""-; v.TT, . 1 uiw mnn' ronrnftvmeri'mefihanics . J.""x?J-r; v-v nr-T Z4 have been the ruin of thousands. IVt mechanics ; and laboring men a mighty change, will soon .v-PjOme over the piiblic.inindt--ir. fth 'm ""r"; t ' T 'jr ' ' ''- -1 jTliBfandereVia like the chanpteonrhe destroys bwireyy dart of hid tongue. , Prayers for John Brc'Vn. On the eff ening of Mori hilab the 14th j he huroh of . nf T.irom1iir 1 SAO Vin i the ruritans (Dr. Cheevcr in the city of New York, occurred; one of the 1 strarirrest isnertneles Vvor wlnod' m this country.. Seventy-five "or eighty t were assembled there to inv. ke the aid i of Almighty God 4n beh talh of John i e fSath of a 1 Brown, doomed to die the felon. Aind who U .Tnlin .tt&wn ? A "the paper$ daring the lastibntkha've, teemed with his historv, pa.;'! and sent, with Jlie particulars oMiltis trial, j I and with every incident t' ;at might j Uhrow light on his chai-acttCi and Ta- reer, it seiems idle to ask tht jquestion. 1 Everybody knows who and ihat JolTn Brown is.! i His great crimes bJa.on ed to all thp world. He iamurJer- -.'ex and seditionist, and he glories -in me name. A lut wnat he ha uone is nothing to f.vhat he contemplated do ing. He sought, to overcrow this Governmenft, and to imbrue ithe hands of thousands of slaves in "tH blood of their masters. And good ftrien, sane tnen, are praying that God -may inter pose to save him from the gjjdlows and start him again in the madj jwork ?of midnight invasion, and the ,; shedding of innocent blood.. Surety, this is strange. , ' V If the prayer-meeting in Dr. Cheo ver's church were an isolat ed occur rence it miht pass unriotic8. ' Mur derers alwatvs; have sympa'tf Szcrs and the more Ijirrid the crime tif stronger the sympaithy. - It was eveso in the world's liiSlory'; perhaps itjfs well it sliould be iso. Mercy, be ever so unreasonable and mis-direcjd, is bet ter than no; mercy at; ajliBut the prayer-ineejtings for . Brow are but one of a thbusand symptoi that tell the sad story of a state of cril discord and interscjctional enmity Mich bodes no good to the country, leaking al lowance for excitement, of passion, at the Soriih, and for fanaticism at the North, amj hoping, nay, .confidently expecting! that reaction which sooner 1 I T . 1.1 T I t or later follows every, social disturb ance, it is but too clear thatl dangers impend which may well filltfie breast of every cianservative manwjth sorest apprehensfbn. " If newspap are to be taken as correct expone of pop ular opinion, we vmav safelfl declare that neverj before were thefeple of the tAvo sections of the Republic so exasperate! with each othefnor was there ever, a time when the.Wnfidence of the most de'voted and steadfast lov ers of the Union was so shajvn. Looking to history for instruction and for guiiidance, we find th annals of every great nation rife wi0i details of civil strife, of commotion Jrnd con fusion lastiing for longer or smarter pe riods, and shaking the edifice of State to its very foundations. And all this happening time and tltee ;tgtin with out a permanent dismenibermve.at of the nation or d serious check to ts gener al progress. . The history ofErtgland abounds Avith much particuliVs. But if we take! encouragementlfrajn the fact that England has withstood so many and jso powerful disturbances, we must remember that herl govern- ment has always been and,t spite of repeated. oncessions to th people, still remains stronger than ,our own ever Avas. j The besetting weakness of the Republic a tooabject submission to the will bf the uneducateopulace -exhibits itself throughout e length and breadth of our land; arid wc a1r most give belief to the fear" that the experiment of the Americas Union will be as sipeedy in its fata termina tion as it was colossal, in jilpropor-. tions, and (glorious .in the. sublimity of the hopes it awakened in eery lover of liberty the world over. Jvhen the people . of one ' section arpraying Heaven to shield the men wb murder their brethren of the other faction, it requires no prophet to fopeteU a sud den, viJeiat, perhaps an irresistible strain up'oii all the ties that frind men in one polity and a common ;xlestiny . To us of Maryland, seeing jthe wide spread diffusion of -that falsel; sympa thy of which the prayer-meeting fpr John Brown is the exponent,: .there is l?w, 'i:i- r i, -i i. i., .i ? the nusguided philanthropy of the North and the- fiery ery vindictSreness of' the extreme South, the accident of teographi;al position makei our 'fair State the jtheatre of 'the bloody drama which must1 be enacted whenever the Iratricidalj step of disunion is'irTeyoca bly decidejfl upon. It is thf . par t of common' sense as it,is of dutjrand kind the gentle voice of - entreaty and of 'warning t our enraged brethren. We will notc ''peace'!.. soinphringly .as,,toexaggerate the darigeJaroupd us, out. we win, wimau earnestness and-sinceiity ceBity beg the two sections to wait yet .a little while and. tVke Ca counsel with us. The "lesn .of. calm , 1 -j nour in iiiiis iiiu iuusl ueyufc iukciv ' ...i.' i fiL t . ii. agamsi inc lesson oi iue yearg. juuuh.- i:-6L -i. n.i; ! s-rlL mg oach., wiany neruae iaic, back, how ccapeu, u overcome, now many tnumpis& oyer erf- emies tit home as ?,wel!f as"ibfoad, 3re'. have achieved iiicftrsf wlbeeame a nation Heriiemberinthishy we waklt abandon all hojiilrjow, and rush madly; into, that vortexsOi aisun ion and ofiankrchy whoseJepths of darkness ''T6lnoirmmd cftitht; Rcnieriibering too howtiTtea Jthe de- signs of wicked men ajnd" mistaken zealots are not only thwarted, but,' hi tKe"proyidencc of God, imade to re- donni to. h,s ?lor7 and c blessing of natl?ns whyhould ttc despair of good coming out of so strange! and so dis- ' lieartening a spectaclelts a prayer-'j dfrer likc Jo3&: Xt "ot S.lven lT. u3,t PCn?, !ue;int,en; tlons Him who shape3; the fate of ,. nations aecoramg to the accrces .01, llre.0,wrn wisdom, but wc cannot help pre-tiec.,m! tne.sei tnnejtor tneaisso-- ltttlon ylvor? . ivorcd Confederacr is riot yet come." way we know not, and by means": which we might deem despicable, , the path of our national progress, .now thick set with troubles, shall .be clear edof every impediment, and there shall be peact and brotherhood once more. t May God in -his mercy speed that bright and hallowed day Baltimore American. 1 ' i&T- "H Arms and Ammunitions. Let no one suspect from our, bclli- gerent caption that we are about to perpetrate a blood and thunder arliclcf' to ; V " , .; Vf;T "ctv havoc and let slip the'dogs of war," for wc intend to do no such thing, but" 'I, disclaiming any pretension to the right of declaring war, to' make a few sug-' : gestions : as to the proper mode to bo A V ' . prepared for it whenever it unhappily ' "-. comes. . -. . ' -. i- -; - .' ,. .No matter how ready; the people of, the South are , to offer up their blood, : and their, liycsja.. defence , of jtjieir , . rights and property, it eannot be. do nied that they are at this .time' unpre " V; ; pared id go into a struggle Athicn at i ariy time may be forced upon 'thfita.' This want of preparation is attributa- fc ; ;; hie to the unwise and suicidal policy . of depending upon -the North for every J ; i manufactured - article. .. .;Tako' forvin- . ; stance that ajticlc upon which, ill, war,, , every thing else depends gunpowder. ' r There is not one: powder mill lin the ' Union, Southof Delaware, nor is there ' ; a manufactory of arms, ( or a foundry t for cannon, South 'of Ilafrperja ferrv, , . "T ! This is rather a bad state of'afTalrs ins ? j view of the "shadow' which' ".coming '" .; events cast before them,'f and it is one Avhich should receive the earnest at- ? j tAntinn nf t.lin Smith. t C ' ' - " : W ' Why should not powder be manufac- , tured in the South, as well as in - the North? The North has to import saltpetre and charcoal, 'jthe main. in-t gredients of powder, while there are , large saltpetre mines in Virginia, Ken tucky, and we have no' doubt in other slaveholding States, and1 wood enough '" to supply charcoal for the wants of the world. ' Besides being an article es-! sential to our defense, the manufac turq Of powder is a money making bus-, iness. We hear of the blowing up of Northern powder mills almost constant , ly, but yet the owners go to wprkre- , pair dam ages, an4 set, their xrorks a . going again, thus showing that 'with all its risks the manufacture of the ar-T tide is profitable. i - - t- Why, too, should the South not man- ' ufacturo arms ? We have all the me-' tals necessary , for making them, and can readily command the mechanical r skill necessary to theirconstructionf These things ought to. $e, looked Jto, J and our' State Legislatures could.ma-J .terially aid in getting these manufac? . turcs so essential to the South under '' way, by judicious bounties, arid other' friendly legislation. But what will be f the use of powder, and ball, and iirms; without efficient men easily tor bo 'got i together to use them ? j 5 v. And this bri n gs to, oujr attention the : militia system,, and particularly . that.,, of our own State, which is radically defective .. , ; Tberc should be in each county of the State. at least one efficient and well' equipped volunteer conrpany (the more cavalry the better,) and the mil1 itia should not only bej enrolled and-' oflBcerpd, - but regularly mustered-, at least twice a year, once in the Spring , and once in the Fall. ' . 'jt AVe have two excellent military acad emies in North' Carolina, which, are, flourishing notWj and bid fair to flourish , yet mdre vigorously. Let theni be (warmly encouraged, and others will L i i s',rt,, Mi, .uguiur .J more. ? These institutions will be -ex- cellent nurseries for officers for volun teer companies', and fori the militia iHj time of service. , " : ' ' - J t Lastly, there should be at least three, large arsenals or magazines of powders ball and arms, located, prie in the east, lone. in the centre and otie in the west, of this StafeV . L I ;' 'V' f"'!" : ' - We throw out 'these iiljrgestions for what they are worth; dome people. may not think them wqrth .-.any thing, but with such we, take issue, Te are, hy no means enamoarea ot ourpecu- liar plan, and doubt nj)t a f better onbj may dc suggested, anain we succeed in -eliciting a '"better, onje, s, our object hirig isVettaiiv will be attained. J One i - Ut-1,1 l any other planivouid, be better than ,u .- Jlfiw.U RaUigh Register. , fr . An Irishman engaged in fighting a duel insisted as he was shcrt-siffhted, he iKould stand sijc ' feet nearer' to his utagonist than' he?to i hirii. r If. ever you see, any-, totninon. .rasca . S l S m ' . ' ' 1 let as readily as yourscit into a nous you Tisu, go out oi it.uunieuisi -1 .1si i: -' ' 't ;. - 1 - 1 " . . i- . Mr-
Iredell Express (Statesville, N.C.)
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Dec. 9, 1859, edition 1
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