...artled by the thunderbolt cast in their midst to alarm them, by Senator Clingman, when, at the middle of February, he telegraphed from Washington:--There is no chance for Crittenden's proposition. North Carolina must secede, or aid Lincoln in making war on the South. Finally, by pressure from without, and especially by the machinations of traitors nestled in her own bosom, the State was placed in an att...