The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-06-23
From The Raleigh Register.

SAME sersE ss before. Cousin Billy Cum
berland discovered reading a Newspaper.
Enter Cousin Pal.
Billy Good mOrning-I hope you
rested well.
Pat. MOI the best in world, bu, better
than you eId, ] presume.
Billy. Why do you think Irssisd bad.
",
PAT. So anxious To hear the balance
Of my Orange "reminiscences.
Billy. What ! did hear. psslersd ms
more Than what | was to hear,
Pat. How did Ihs, poster you'll
Billy. Why, it 10 evident from what
you have told. that you did mol lake sell;
and il only confirms me 10 what I have
al along believed.
Pat. What is ,hsti
billy. That there 10 no ehancs for
your success. unless elect you.
Pat. You elect me. indeedi Since
I've been among the people, ! don't find
you such powerful saxilisry 40 you pre-
tended sou we're. You are rather o
clog than oiherwiss-I could give you
divers instances.
Billy. Well now--Givs ~ one. will
youi
Pat. I can do that readily. When I
found my attack on the Raleigh and Gas
ton Rail Road votes. did our friends an
injury. / lsfi that. and commenced an 40
sault on the vote in favor Of tho other
Rail Road: when sgery body broke out
in . DOWN. ish, laugh in my face. And,
afterwards. when | inquired what made
them laugh. va, told that you were 10
blame for the whole scrape-,hai you,
with the assistance Of your Democratic
Legislature in 1896, after il was evident
thai the Stockholders could not build the
Road, vested s6OO.OOO Of The Peoples
money in actual stock in tina, Road.
You sec this was not going security for
tha, amount. bus actually paying GU. the
chink.
Bily. Well, IL I and my democratic
Legislature did do so. didn't you aud your
Internal Improvement Convention in
1898. recommend tina, the last hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Of the same
should be paid before the Stockholders
complied with ihsir tsrm,!
Pat. Yes. I did, but you we're mem
Der Of the Conreniion toe, and voted foi
il.
Billy. | know that; but II was then .
Democratic measure, for Saunders and
Strange, and all the leading Democrats
were then in favor Of il.
PAT. But why 10 il not Democratic
measure nov!
Billy. There is reason enough for il,
because il is now unpopular. Nothing
is democratic. that is not popular. That
moment . measure becomes unpopular,
il is . Wing measure, and so continues
until il becomes popular again. when i. is
again Democratic.
Pat. Why you had as we'll call our prin'
ciples lima tic principles. srbjec, to the
fulIs and changes OF the orb of popularity
l thought principles we're ipamutable.
Billy. So they are while popular, bu'
no longer. The Fedsrsl,sss committed
The /" primal, sin" against The Constitution
by the establishment Of the irs, United
Safes Bank. The Republicans CON
mitted the secondal sin agains, 1t, by do'
ing the same thing. And now. we. De-
mocrst.. a rare compound Of odds and
ends. Of Federalism. Republic anism. aud
, all other isms-a perfec. Salmasundi o.
poliiics-ue cemmi, the tertiai sin by de
clsrIng every thing unconstitutional. un
less il 10 popular. Aud that is the true doc
, une. Ours is government Q! opinion
aud popular opininn is the Constitution
and IS immutlble as long as that opinion il
immutable. but changes with II. Th'
i,nmutab,ll.y consists in 0lUoys going 'h'
way popular opinion goes.
Pat. Wha, rope Of sand you maxi
US live under!
/ Billy, LIS The RICH, sor, Of rope
never hangs Denssogpe alias PaIoi'