The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-06-06

"A 49, Anx hrCtf1Ns
Ma EDEToR: win YOU BE- Kind enough
20 leli ihr people az orange h.w IL kas
happened lailhCDgh yoa aid II me BE-.
ginning olIhls coniTovrFss thai sou ln0k
no pan and inIended 10 take nj srl IN Il. ]
that you have 80 managed Is 10 become
dsftnder general or Inc enurl house Com
missioners and esery one else about Hills
boFoughconreFnedin building new coun
house and deieslinga division of the coun-
~
Wan you further saw uhy you have
suppressed nv asleommnn catinn entire.
" and wall MI publish IL Ifyou viii not
give place 70 my remarks and give others
chance 10 Judge Of them as well a. YOUR
self, Jusl say GO, and lei Us distinctly IN
dersiznd whether your columns are open
10 The people Of Ihs eounHy As we'll a.
The town.
was NOT Al. High Falls. but you might
have seen from the resolution which You
published as adopted there, that nothing
y said about submitting me di,lsion ques-
ton, IN sny shape. 10 the people, but
merely requires a public pledge from the
candidates.
IL ! remember right. the Democratic
Convention At Hillsborough, in 1912,
met trst. bat would not commit itself un-
al the c"uise Of he v higs Was known.
The statement heretofore made by me
! know To be true. ID is this: I, Cor my-
sell, and as the o gan Of The Western PEG.
PIE, asked the court TO submit the gene
raj question. division or no division, TO
The people; but this was opposed by
PriPstly II. Mangun and John W. Nor
wood. esqrs.. who pre-, allied upon the
Court TO make the order Central division
or No central division. The order was
adopted by both the Conventions, and SO
went to tie people. Benjamin Hurdle
and James Nhiisitt, esqrs., we've present,
and to them ! refer. Then, sir. Il ask, al
whose instance was the central division
question put TO the people!
BY Publishing only part Of iransac-
lion, you give il altogether a different
complexion from The tueSase. This you
have done in your account ofvke court
house tax. The tx Tor the ordiAry
county purposes said was good; because
none voted against it, or objected 10 il;
but how in the name ofcommon sense,
can Il be said that the court house tax
"passed without dissenting voice."
when few minutes before. 80 OF The mas
gistrates present voted against fdaing HE
people 10 build a neC court house. This
was distinct and uneqniyocsl ex preston
of their dissent; and because immedia civ
afterwards II was " ammsnded" in along
with The necessary taxes for the year,
no which necessary taxes no magistrate
was disposed to object il is said to have
passed without dissenting voice."
Was it not one and the same question
from beginning to end, and was il npces-
sary TO take lnrty votes upon it! Such
qubbling is really unworthy of a man Of
candor and truth.
lrepeat, sir, that the court house tax
was not imposed on Orange county by
the consent Of the magistrates or the
people.
The declaration Of rights. upon which
is founded the Constitution aud laws of
North Carolina, say, that the people of
the State ought not TO be Jared or made
subject to the payment of any impost or
duty without the consent OF themselves
or their representatives in General As.
sembly freely giren. Another ar,irle of
the Constitution of this State, (Sec. A
says tina; the declaration of rights is here /
by declared to be part Of he Constitution
Of this State, and ought neUer TO be Uio-
faied on any preiencs.
You, Mr.. Editor. have brought the
Senate of the United States ,hump down
upon me, VIII oh you no doubt think is a
The constitution ufthe UniedE
States says. the Congress shall have pow
er to lay and collect taxes. &c. The \
congress, ! suppose, means the Senators
md Representatives from all the States.
Il would be abou, as hard for YOU to make
ne believe that the halfnf Dennis Heart,
with the lille finger Of the other hand
brown in) means the Editor Of The Hills
borough Record r.
Taxation without representation was
mainly the groundwork of the revolution,
md produced separ. lion Of the colonies
rom the British crown; and when we
the principles of our fathers we
nay well expect their skeleton hands t.
'e lifted towards heaven from the battle
ields of Brandywine and Monmouth to
invoke cusses on their degenerate sons.
Ii your correspondent, one Of the Is,
lad come out as lawyer and given US
ONE authority from the Supreme Court
1 the United States, or some decision Of
he Supreme Court Of North Car, lima, or
ven respectable argument on Consti-
ntional law, which seems 10 be quite
lenliful and profound about tlillsborough,
e would have been as we'll employed as
e was when wiring that beautiful, taste
il. classic and spicy letter which appeared