The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-10-20
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GrSTLrnrN: I have had lhs honor TO
receive yours Of the 18th instant, tender
ing 10 me and my distinguished colleague,
Mr.. Mangum, Barbecue, proposed
70 be furnished at Henderson, on such
day As We msy designate, as a iesiimoni
al Of the regard and appreciation Of the
Wings Of Granville, Warren and Frank
lin. thank you for the TOO partial and
apprecia,ing terms in which The personal
feelings Of many ofyour Committee have
prompted you to convey 10 me the inyi
iation Of those you represent: and beg
Won TO assure them Of my deep regret,
that my ayocaiinns both private and pro-
fes.ional lafter long absence from home
deny me the leisure necessary for such q
meeting al any early day, and therefore
compel me most unwillingly 10 decline
il. With no portion Of my constituents
would have more gladly met al the fes-
live board. and freely commune on the
present state of our public affairs, than
with those Of Granville, Warren and
franklin. No where are there more
firm, true.hcaried, intelligent aud patrio-
tic Wings. men whose honest and disin-
.eresled approval is most gratifying to a
public servant, as it iuriifies his own con
sciousness Of adherence 10 duty in trying
circumstances.
You, gentlemen, have not undervalued
the embarrassment and difficulties which
the majority in the present Congress
have been forced to contend. Opposed
and assailed on every measure, from the
burial honors Of the lamen,ed Harrison,
to the highest question Of national policy,
BY powerful aud faclious party. who,
though they left 10 their successors apub-
lie service costing on an average % mill
lions Of dollars per year, exclusive OF the
pcculalion and enhancement se frequent
under Mr.. Van Buren's Administrator
and a revenue system yielding less than
Ia millions, refuse Ia raise the means to
supply the deSciency--,hough they left
funded debt Of 81 millions bearing int
rest. and Government engagements Ia the
amount Of 90 millions more, will not pro
vide for their payment Though they ha
biuually borrowed monies for ths Govern
ment during period Of four years, clamor-
ed most loudly before the people, when
loans became necessary TO fill up The va
euum they had created. Though thus op.
posed and assailed, the Wings, as party.
have carried through both Houses Of Con-
gross, every measure which they proposed
for The relief Of the country. But our op
ponents have found in the detection Of the
acting President an ally, making the mi
nority more powerful than the majority Of
Congress. Although as yet The fact is at
tempted to he concealed, he has become
theirs to every intent and purpose, Of par
~ benefit and advantage theirs in SYM
pa;hy, in defamation Of the Wing party.
in the dispensaiion Of patronage and the
use and abuse of his vast powers of ap-
pointmsnt and removal-theirs in every
thing, except for his own honor and adj
vancement. tie cannot be their candidate
for the succession; they spurn the very
idea. But he will be used to the utmost
extent of appointments, removals and We
toes to promote the election of their
candidate. Had the republican Wings
sf the present Congress been pursuing
the desperate game Of party policy Of
which he has accused them, they would
have left him in the hands Of his new al
lies, to get through term to which he
has accidentally succeeded. as he might.
But they have felt that their duties to the
country remained to the extent of their
powers. however much he has failed in
his. They have proceeded 10 the enactr
ment of measures DENIED necessary for
the public interest, regardless Of what he
nigh, spprove or reject. Yet, SO freely