The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-03-10

il may succeed in he laudable underiak
ing. And Ne would aid. in The languag
Of our President, lhal eve hope The dal
is noi Car distant when Ilillsborough vii
h. a celebrated Cor il Literature, as
nav Is Cor The sllubriiy Of is climate an
the 5eaIly Of is scenery" -
"The Loco Eco papers aow 9dmi
that Mr.. iIenc'. iheif s~,.'i.ia.e Tor u"
vernon, was al old Ls'eralls'.
L'aieigh Register.
The Los<foco papers admit no suclI
tbing. = Uasiurgioa R,p, 5iicaa.
..vne I.ocp Foco papers have admit.
Ia. and have EXPIRE s!y yindicale,l Mr..
H.ary On the gioanl that these opinions
we've entertained BIZ him IN early boy.
hood Every Loco Foco paper in The
state. itIaay b., has not made The adalis.
sion. 81 tina, somr Of them have done so,
We has e,idsare on iile."
HafigH hfgisfer.
Ware happy IN being enabled 10 re-
lieubOlh oar Loco and Wing friends
fral any farther doubt upon this matter.
N Henry himself has answered the
qsiion. Ia his speech before the peo-
i las, week he said:
1T was my fortune in early life 10 b
,rown among men OF Federal politics !;
u! guardian was one &C them. Honor
able and higll-mindetl and good men !
believed them TO be; | believe SO now. |
loved and hanord them. And was ii
strange that they should have given f.
deral bias to my politics! But pro-
phet arose IN the land. Andrew Jackson
touched the federal scales. and they fell
from my eyes; and stand redeemed, re-
generated, aud llsen,hralled. | support
Cd Andrew Jackson Tor the Presidency
throughout, and Mr.. Van Buren, for his
successor. ] fought the great battle OF
1910 in The Democratic ranks against
Wing hnmhuggery; and ask il this is
not enough To establish my claim 10 De-
morrarv."
Now il would appear from this, That
Mr.. Henry was Fcdrralist until he was
pretty well gtown-a lad Of some thirty
five or forty years Of age. About this
time, having attained to wears Of discre-
ton, he began TO aspire TO higher hopes,
the accomplishment, Of which be lancied
might be more easy it he could get rid Of
his federal notions. Fortunately tie way
Was opened for HIM. Andrew Jackson
touched the scales, aud they fell from
his eyes," and the cure was perfected.
probably, by an application of the famous
sPeeiacl"s which Major Jack Downing
used 10 tell us Of. His imagination was
fired by the magnifircnce of the scene
and he thought to raise himself into high
places by arranging himself under the
banner of so potent leales-anl he be-
came Jackson man.
But though Mr.. lIenry's confession
shows that he was a Fcderalist up to that
time, We have nothing TO prove that he
then ceased TO be Fcderalist. II is mo-
torIous that many leading men in the
jackson party continue to this day avow-
ell fedefaIists; and il is equally notorious
Tint many of General Jackson's warm
Parizans left him, because of the strong
Federal doctrines contained in his " Pro-
cIamatioa' aud the " Force Bill" II
may be added, too, that some men, whose
habits Of thinking have led them to look
rather deep into matters. have though;
that The eagerness with which the Gene
fal was won't to assume the response
billy" did not argue any great love for
Democracy. We can say, then, if the
scales were removed from Mr.. Henry's
own eyes, Ghc certainly did not remove
thsm from the eyes of his hearers. IIo-
no'ahlc and high minded AMI good men"
he still believed the Fel,ralis,s tube, and
he repadia.cl none Of their doctrines.
Ba, he supported Andrew Jackson for
the Presidency, anl Mr.. Van Bnrcn for
his successor, aud loagh' the great battle