The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-09-15


ola meeting held a Grifiis's store on lhs
shird inst. fsr she purpose. ia Is said. q
"eanyiag on. die slh resoIuiioa sdapsed
a.s Democratic meeting held Al M.Czy's
slors in Msy last" To these proceed.
ings are attached . series ef resolutions,
drawn up by . committee appointed BY
shs chairman, consisting of Joseph Ba-
ker. Alexander Mebane. esq. and Dr..
Daniel A. Montgomery; bat wha, action
was had on the resolutions in the meet
ing. The paper does not say. In this re-
specl. The record, Is submisled % ss, Is
singulahy defective. A committee is APP
pointed 70 draw up resolutions 70 express
the sense Of the necting-and retire Tor
the purpose. /" .9ifer nhieh a call was
male Cor The reading Of The journals and
circular, when a discussion arose be-
tween DR.. Montgomery and Drs. Micha-
el and Samuel Holt, ihe two latter pro-
Tossing 10 be the authors Of The resolu.
lions making The charge agains. the for
mer;" all which il appears was done dur
ing The absence Of The committee appoint.
ed 70 draw mp The resolutions which were
70 express he opinions II Me Eoefi.g.
The discussion having closed. The CON-
mi.iee return. and through their chair.
man Dr. Daniel A. Montgomery (.he son
Of DR.. Vim. Montgomery make their re-
port. What effect lse discussion had
upon the meeting Is noi stated; nor does
it appear To have been deemed =, all ne
cessary 10 take The rOfe of the meeting
upon The preamble and resolutions sub
miiied. The whole having been concoci,
ed and determined beforehand. could not
be effected by ihe evidence or ihc argu-
msns adduced. The preamble and re.
solutions express the opinions oflhe COM
mi,tee. and IF course. we suppose, they
are 10 he received as the opinion Of the
meeting!
Thus il appears, that the verdict which
we are called upon to publish was drawn
up BY the party Interested, and very
adroiily erammed down the ,hrosis Of the
jury, without even asking "by your
leave" And farther. we are very mo-
dsaiy asked 10 charge honorable gentle-
men, who have presided as chairmen and
acted as secretaries at respectable meet
ings Of citizens, with having penned
base and corrupt falsehoods," and to
huH the same "down the foul ihroats" OF
1.-The more efficient and reckless dems-
gogues" yourselves among the number)
"who propaga.ed them!" And al this
without one particle Of evidence being
furnished TO show tina, any portion Of all
that we have "propaga,ed," or assisted
to propagate. in relation TO the piliful cir.
culss issued by Messrs. Montgomery and
Hawkins in 1870, is not strictly trre---for
this is the matter which has brought out
these unwise friends Of DR.. Montgomery.
Our readers will recollect that. in May
last. a resolution was adopted at a Demo-
cratic meeting held at M.Cray's store,
citing those who had charged Messrs.
Montgomery and Hawkins with having
made, in their circular, garbled and UNI !
true statement, for the purpose Of Willy |
ing and degrading Gen. Harrison in the |
eyes Of the people, 10 appear at the tax
gatherings at John s. Turrentine's. the
Shallow Ford, and James Hutcheson's,
with evidence TO sustain the said charges;
OF, failing to do so, they would be consi
dered as dishonest and undermining"
slandcrers. The persons who put forth
This resolution were reminded at the time,
that all the required proof had been ex-
hibiled in The columns of the Recorder,
and consequently was already before the
people; aud if the friends of DR.. Montgo-
merry desired TO relieve him from his I'M
pleasant prcdicament, il was their duty
q produce rebu,iing testimony; that their
all for reproduction of the testimony
llreaty exhibited, was mere bravado and
cluster, only exposing their own weak
less.
Now we knov that there were on The
round at each Of those places, gentle-
men who had in their possession ample
eslimony 10 substantiate every word, aud
| would have been produced IL il had .
esn called for. But no one manifested
.