The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1838-09-20

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al KaorVilis, WsdatSdly. .iHsHh I. 1888.
FsltOu Citizens: ! accept your invita-
lion. not so much 10 parIase Of your hos.
piIaliiy. as io thank you. in great since.
fiiy. for your continued confidence and
support. You have been to me an imPe-
neIrable shield against calumnialors aud
enemies.
After an absence Of twelve months.
with but liIIle inlermission. l am again
among my constituents. Thanks 10 a
kind Providence and to mine enemies. |
am in good health, ready and willing IN
converse with you on all that has passed,
and is likely 10 happen. My political
enemies sought to destroy me; they fan.
cied il an easy task; more Of life was left
than they or supposed; their unjus, al.
lacks revived energies, which |. myself.
believed were extinct. and, To all appear
ance. they have renewed my ,ife's lease
for some ten or twenty years.
am not only here. but in good health;
and although the two las. sessions Of Con-
gress were among the mos, laborious
have ever served. ! have no want oil
health TO plead for any deficiency you
may liud in the performance Of my off.
cisl duties. | am grateful 10 Providence,
and proud before you in the belief. that
have not been that simple au,oma atom
which, by the official organ. | was repre-.
scented to be, capable only Of saying yea
or nay TO the different questions present.
ed 10 the Senate for decision.
The iabors OF Congress, both al the
called and regular session. have been ar.
duous; and although bu. few laws, Of a
general nature. have been passed. yet il
has moi been from ina,lenIion to the great
interests Of the country. There was a
continued struggle between the Execu-
tive and Congress: the first wishing to
obtain an unl,mhel discretionary power
and control over the moneys belonging lo
the public; the latter anxiousIy endea
voring so TO provide as 10 have them safe
ly kept and secured, in such manuer a:
to make them applicable a. all times ,c
The wants Of the public. 10 the oppo
sislOn in the House Of Representative:
the credit is due Of preventing the money
ed power from being. in due form, adiet
10 the other powers of the Executive.
Shortly after | entered your service il
The Senate, the great controversy com
menced which e1ded in gushing the iher
incumbent, and placing the late Chief Ma
gisra,e in the Executive Chair. Til,
principles f'r which you and | contend
ed, and which we successfully maintain
ed. ought never TO be forgotten, and can
not be tho often required to. We con
TENDED that the powers Of the Executive
were too great, and ought 10 be reduced
and limited by law: that The expenditure
oil the government were extravsgant, ant
fought 10 be reduced: .ha, it was a Grim,
in the President. or any officer under him
TO use his Official station TO influence thu
people in elections: tina. all monies whicl
came into the Treasury beyond .hps
which were necessary to defray the eco
nomical expenses Of the government,
ough. to be returned to the people, VIII,
were the true and legitimate owners: an
we solemnly pledged, ourselves, in tn
, face Of the civilized world, that if W
. could obtain place and power, re.reuch
/ ment and reform. should be the order q
the day; that the Augean stable should b
! thoroughly swept on. and cleansed.
Il Emblena,ic Of what we intended to &C
; complish we chose for our motto The broom
, no. one of the common material, but tn
! Hickory broom. Hickory when young,
: of all descriptions. Of wood the mos, tougi
i. strong, aud durable, bnt when old an
,Uorn, eaten, the most brittle and worti
3 less. Confding 10 the sincerity of OF
D professions, the sovereign people, .hroug
the ballo. box, placed our political friend
4 in power, and. after a most solemn an
formal renewal Of our pledges. we con
meneed our operations, and. for the CIR