The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1838-03-30

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the following note in a late number Of tie
Raleigh Standard. Ilhad no. altogether
escaped our observation. but other mat
tiers claimed our more immediate alten-
ton, and il was permitted 10 remain I'M
disturbed on our desk. The note being
very slort, We viii insert il here entire:
COMMUNICATED.
!Wr. EiifOr-please inform the Edi-
tor Oflhe IliilsborOugh Recorder. that the
friend Of Mr.. Van Buren,. VITO toasted
Mr.. Calhoun. at llie celebration in the
county Of Orange. on The eighth of Janu-
ary. is not sick Of Mr.. Van Buren's adj
m,nisIraliOn YET, but hopes he will hold
his Office for the term Of 8 years. Nei-
ther was il his design TO nominate Mr..
Calhoua a. candidate for the Presiden-
cy; and the Editor must have known il,
because Thomas II. Benton was toasted
al the meeting as candidate for that Of
fee. Neither are there ilrO-fhirfs OF that
section Of the country opposed TO MIR.
Van Buren's administration, As represent
ed by the Editor OF the Recorder. Ii he
had said there was about one in fen who
are so opposed. he would have come
nearer The fact. hope the Iiillsborough
Editor will correct this error, and make
no more such mistakes.
"OSE OF THE PEoPLE."
ANY person who will take the trouble
TO compare this note with the few brief
remarks 10 which il alludes. will see that
the writer. either through ignorance or
a perversiiy of intellect, has totally mis-
apprehende1 the whole matter. We had
observed in different parts Of the country
many signs II the waning popularity Of
Mr.. Van Buren,, and in some quarters
had seen what we thought to be indi-
cations of desire TO foist Mr.. Calhoun
upon the party a. candidate for the next
presidency. Il was for the purpose OF
showing the utter futility Of any hope Of
effccting an arrangement Of this kind that
our ? marks wer' made. We knew that
some of the sdherents Of Mr. Van buren,
were well nigh sick of the multiplied
evils which his determined adherence to
a wild system Of " experiments" was
heaping upon the country; hut we could
not for moment suppose tina, the number
of Mr.. CaIhoun's friends would be at all
increased by tie fall Of Mr Van Buren,.
In proof of his we quoted the toast Civ
en- at Mount Wiling on the 9Th Of Janu-
airy; and concluded with The expression
of belief that the sentiment contained
in the toast was the sentiment Of two
thirds Of the Van Buren, party. at least in
this section OF the country. Now in all
this we should like to know what mis-
take We have fallen into, or what er-
ror we have 10 correct. "One Of the
People" cannot have read our remarks,
or he would not have permitted himself
TO occupy a position so perfectly ridicu-
lous. lie says that it was not his design
10 nominate Mr.. Calhoun for the Presi-
dency, and we must have known it =!
True: and did we not quote the toast 10
show that Mr.. Calhoun's friends had no
thing to hope here! Again he says
" Neither are two thirds of this section
of the country opposed to Mr.. Van Blu
ren's administration, as represented by
the Editor of the Recorder" We made
no comparison of the kind; we simply
said that the sentiment in the toast ex-
pressed the sentiment of two thirds OF
the party; or in other words, that at least
two thirds of the Van Buren, party were
ready to "spurn" Mr.. Calhoun. And
is il not so! %
Having displayed such an inability or
unwillingness 10 comprehend our few
plain remarks, proper estimate may be
placed upon his intimation that not more
than one in ten are opposed to Mr.. Van
Buren,. II is well known that at the last
election the county was very nigh equal
" divided; since then can "0ne Of the
People count any additions to his par
II. We know some who have made the
other tack; and we trust that the August
elections will show that the number is
| no. small. These blunders of "One Of
the People," as well as those of an Illus
trious prototype which we had occasion
recently to notice. may not be without eff
! fee,-,binEing men will thereby be in.