The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1838-04-13

luiusss Inc innnenee 81 the Institution.
The known principles and pnliey or The
Opposition. and The ulleT prOslfali0n OF
The Administration party, and The sbsorp-
ion Of ours. would have LED 10 these re-
suits IS certainly a. We exist.
! nos appeal. Senaiors. % your can
dor and justice. aud ask. could |. having
all these Consequences before me. with
my known opinions aud that Of The party
10 which | belong. and 10 which only 1
owe fidelity, have acted differently from
what ! did! Would not any other course
have Justly exposed me 20 the charge OF
having sbandoned my principles and par
~. with Which ! am now accused 80 ua-
justly! Nay. would il not have been
worse than folly-been madness in me,
IN have taken any other! Aud yet, the
grounds which | have assumed in this
exposition are the very reasons assigned
IN nv letter, AMI which the Senator has
perverted most unfsirly and unjuslly into
the piuful. personal and selfish reason.
which he has attributed 10 me. Conhr-
native Of what I say. / again appeal TO
the record. The Secretary wlll read The
paragraph marked IN the EIgefclI letter,
10 which, | presume. the Senator alluded.
/" IL som y saw this STATE Of things.
! clearly perceived thai very important
question was presented for our determi-
nation, Which We we're compelled to de-
eide forihwilh-shsll we continue our
joint attack with The Nationals on those
IN power, "a the new position which they
have been compelled TO nceupyl Ii was
clear. with our joint forces. we could Ut
ierly overthrow and demolish them; but
il was not less clear that The victory would
enure. not 10 us. but exclusively 10 the be-
nett u our allies aud their cause. They
we're the masl numerous and powerful,
sad The point ~ assault on the position
which The party 10 b. assaulted had taken
in relation 10 the banks. would rave graf
~ strengthened the settled principles and
policy Of The National party, aud weaken
ed. in The same degree, ours. They are.
and ever have been, he decided adso-
Gates Of a national bank. and are now 10
favor Of one With capital SO ample as TO
be sufficient 10 control the state inslita-
lions, and 10 regulate the currency aud
exchanges Of the cnunlry. 10 jpin them.
with their aTowed object, in tie attack To
overthrow thnse IN power, on the ground
they occupied against bank. would. Of
course, not only haze placed the Covers.
menl and country IN their hands without
opposition, but would have committed US
beyond the possibility of exlricslion, fur
q bank. aud absorbed our party in the
ranks Of the National Republicans. The
fret fruits oi the victory would have been
an osershadowing national bank. with an
immense capital. NJ; less Than from fifty
TO an hundred millions, which would
centralized The currency and rxchanees.
and with them the commerce aud rapital
Of The country, in whaiever section the
head Of The institution nigh, be placed.
The next would be the indlssuluble un.
ion Of Tho political opponents. whose
principles and policy are 50 opposite 10
ours, and so dan erous to our Institutions
as well as oppressive to Us. -.~.
now ask. is there any thing in this
extfsct Whlch sill Wattant the cans,ruc.
lioa that The Sena,nr has ouempiej 10
force on III Is II no, manifest that the
expression Oh which he fixes, that the
victory would enure, not to us, but ex.
ciusivelv 10 the benefit nf he Opposition,
alludes no, 10 power or place, but 10 prLa:
cipie and pulley! Can words be more
plant What then becomes cf all the as
pensions of the Senator. his reflections
abou, seIfshness and the want Of patrint-
ism. and his illusions and illustrations to
give them force and effect! They fall to
The ground without deserving notice,
with his groundless accusation.
But. IN so premedltated and iudiscri-
inmate an attack, il could not be expect
ed tina, nv motives would entirely es-
cape, and we accordingly find the Sena-
tor very charitably leaving il 10 time 10
disclose my motive Tor going over. Leave
| il to time 20 disclose my motive for go-
ing over. |, who have changed no opin-
ion, abandoned no principle, and desert
ed no party; |, who have stood sill, and
maintained my ground against every diff
fculiy, to be told tina, il is lel. 10 time to
disclose my motive! The impulation
sinks TO The earth with The grnundless
charge on which il rests. stamp il with
| scurn in the dust. I nick nm The DART.
which fell harmless al my feet. | hurl
| il back. What The Senator charges on
me unjuslly. he has actually done. lie
went over on memorable occasion, and
did no, leave il 10 time to disclose his
motive.
The Senator next tells Us that boreza
character for stern fidelity, which he &C.
companied with remarks implying that
had forfeited i; by my course on The pre-.
sen, occasion. II he means by stern e.
deity devoted attachment to duty and