The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-05-16
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

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On moiion. lie meeting vas orrsnired
~ sppointing Jonafhan Cant chairman;
and J0ha Hob and Jesse CAST esq, Sec
resaries.
The object of Dc meeting being fally
and satisfactorily explained ~ he chair,
he pnacnaded % appoint Josh Hurdle.
John Cheek, WHlism Tzrpiey, Daniel A.
Montgomery. Jehn Han. William Pssser-
SCI. Frederick Blanchard. Jacoh Long.
and George Jordan, committee 10 pre-
pare resolutions Cor lheir cool, candid, and
dslibesie action.
Aiier retirement of one hour or more.
Daniel A. Montgomery, their chairman,
reported ne following preamble and reso-
lutinns:
Whereas. We. . portion Of the citizens
OF Orange county, and state Of North Ca
rolina, have this day met pursuant 70 mo-
ice, 10 interchange opinions on various
subjects Of public character; and where
e he nssr approach Of the period APP
pointed By The constitution, ior The selec-
hon Of some man 10 Gil the Office Of Pre-
sident and Vice President Of The United
States, also to ix upon suitable persons 10
represent rs in cur next State Legislature:
These important considerations renders
II the duty Of every citizen. who feels a
proper interest m the stability Of our ne
publican institutions and The welfare Of
our country, 10 examine the personal cha
racter, political principles. and public con-
duct Of those who ara apt 10 be brought
forward Cor such stations.
The high powers and vast patronage
with which the constitution has clothed
The President, even when unsupported BY
either Of the great political parties into
which the country IS divided, enable him,
as we now see, 10 exert q mighty iniu-
ence Cor good or for evil. History teach
6 Us that political parties are no political
evil, but are the offspring Of free govern
ment, and essential 70 the purity Of its adj
ministration. And whereas since the
days Of Adams and Jefferson the federal
wing party have invented and assumed
new names, fought under false colours,
and TO win their way into power have
exhibited every device which their cum
ming could suggest;-in their professions
they have been altogether and ever sana-
live; in their actions always fatal TO the
common interest Of our country.
These selfstyled wings in 1910, by
fraud, deception, and corruption, for the
first time in forty years, succeeded in
elecsing President by majority Of the
popular vote; and when they got the pow
er, instead of complying with their pro-
misses, and practising economy, reform,
and retrenchment, an extra extraordinary
and altogether uncalled Cor session of Con-
gress was convened at the expense Of the
people Of about one million Of dollars, and
some of the most odious measures passed
that could possibly have been promulga-
ted by a party composed Of such combus-
tible political creeds. LIST. They brought
forward and passed bill TO charter a
Bank; an institution odious to the people,
and upon which they have solemnly put
their seal of condemnation. Did they,
when canvassing for this high Office, tell
the people they intended to urge this pro-
ject! No. So unpopular was the mea-
sure, that their candidate for the Presiden-
cy and their candidates for Congress did
not dare to acknowledge il. Next they
passed Bankrupt Law, so unjust and
demoralizing that the very men who ere
ated it were, from the force Of public opin-
ion and indignation, compelled TO repeal
il. Not however until it had brought dis
tress and ruin upon thousands Of honest
citizens.
From March Al to March IS, a peri
cd of two years, with Wing majority in
both houses of Congress, they were in
session sixteen months, being two-thirds
Of the whole time, at an expense to the
nation without precedent.
These being two of the leading mea-
sures of the wing party, for which this
extra session of Congress was called, and
when they passed, their features were SO
indignant to the honest people ofthe coun-
try, that they blazed warm with threaten
ed ignition; and not long after they pass
ed, the match was touched, and the ex-
plosion was fatal.
l. Resolved, That it is instructive to
examine the professions Of the federal
wing party when out Of power, and COM
pare them with their course when in pow
or. When out of power they charged
General Jackson, when he moved the de-
posites from the old United States Bank,
with endeavouring to unite the purse and
the sword. In power, under the present
administration, they repealed the sub-trea-
sury act, which deprived the Executive Of
all control over the public money, and
placed them again in the very same con-
ditlon which they so loudly denounced
and in which they still continue. Out of
power they prescribed prescription; in
power, ere five months had elapsed, thou
sands were hurled from office, three thou
sand or more from one single department.