The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-04-04

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he knouleslge be has airady. be MI
cone o. Ike IN haneSi nan and teIl yon
that Haw River runs inio nc e0unfy IN
de south q then0rih western corner, and.
passing diag0nally arEpss. runs 0ut six
tren o. eighieen miles east 81 de south
western corner. leaving more territory and
much greater population On lhe east side
4 die division Be central. and - great II :
division line be pui Eine miles from His
borough; and be VIII further lell you lhzi
q large majority Of lhai population i in
favour Of division.
Il Vas distinctly stated " Wig. thai
he western people are opposed 70 paying
= tan 10 build a court house any where
else than on the banks Of IIaw River.
ives, sir, the eastern bank. If il suits The
convenience Of Old Orange besi;l and yet
his song is 0Uer Ha0 RiUer. orer Halr
Rirer. have no objection 10 the tune
or the measure; but would beg leave 70
suggest new song, or perhaps an old one,
which may be sung 70 the very same tune,
itadfr EiiisbOrongh. under I.lIsbarongh.
Why j. il, when plain and unpreiend-
ing citizen Of the county has the fmness
and Independence 10 come out and ex-
press his opinions Of public men and mea-
sures, that lie Is mounted and rode, booted
and spured, around Orange county; that
he is denounced as designing, disappoinl-
ed, an ambitious seeker Of his own selfish
interest. No man can complain when
his opinions are publicly expressed that
they are openly and fairly assailed; but 10
those who deal in such epithets, and at
tribute such motives. il may be said. Judge
not lest We be judged.
Docs Old Orange think as he says, that
no county Is respectable unless il be Of the
respectable dimensions Of 0rangel Does
he mean 10 be nnderstood, that if our rep
reseniatives be instructed to give their but
FIVE votes for division, that their effect
win be counieracied by his irresistible in
auence in The General Assembly,
Your correspondent finds il quito as ca
sy To make declarations as TO sustain ihom
BY proof. Where, l ask, is the incoRsis-
tency Of Wing because he said perhaps
il was somewhat awkwardly expressed
that candidates for Congress should talk
about the business Of Congress, and cap
didaics for the State Legislature should
speak Of state and county matters! And
il he chose to make the county division
question Of paramount importance, who
can gainsay him! Why did not Old Or
ange moct the position Of a Wing, with
out scnselcss appeal TO party names!
Ii was the division question which so cc-
cupied the whole field Of his vision, thai
he could not, or would not, see that Con
gress alone has the authority to make ;
United States Bank, pass Tariff laws, &c
and that il belongs TO eur General Assem-
bly, exclusively to take care Of the interes
, Of North Carolina; and that members, o
would be members Of that body, ough
not to be eiernally ding donging in tn
! ears Of the people federal politics, thereb,
. making the States mere puppets in tn
, hands Of the Federal Government. Whol
. tho Presidential election comes, a Viii!
will vote for Henry Clay, or any bod.
else that suits him. lie desires ever,
question TO be decided by its own merits
Can any ono show the improperly of lay
, ing aside the madness of party strife, an
uniting Wings and Democrats to promot
, every interest, and especially the grea
, farming interest of the state, and divid
> Orange county too! Does Old 0rang
| think that there is neither honesty nc
t, patriotism among the Democrats! The
e are good deal like the Wings. Call
!. Whiggery, and they 60 it. Call it d.
mocracy, and they go it. The Democrat
). arc true men in a real party fight. The
A proved themselves SO in 1912, when mos
people supposed their cause desperate, an
!, wondered that they did not give it VI
= But what tended most to lessen tho vol
der was, that in tho last hour of the col
\ flict band of immor.als, commanded b
J. one Capt. Division, in the very centre
|, the Wing army, surrendered on conditic
that single wing officer should march o
a with the honors Of war; the rest were ;
killed.
n have been considering lately, Mr.. Et
r tor, which was the more important que
IS ton, to tax the pcop.l to build fine house
:. or to divide Orange county; and have
4 most come to the conclusion that there a
q more important questions than the SIM
matters Of hewing wood and drawing "
IN ter all our days for the town Of Hillsb
rough.
IT. Ii the North Carolina Legislature h
III properly considered it, and had appoint
IN men who did not live in Raleigh to sup
intend the building Of the State Hou
N, we might have saved enough, or neal
enough Of the $4,000, which | belle
/ that huge hewn stone monument OF TO
cost us, to have built us the Penitentia
that you so scnsibly and earnestly pr
upon that body.
no Will your correspondent, Mr.. Old
re, ange, be kind enough to tell the hon
ost yeomanry of over Haw River, why it v
nal that the last County Court Of Orange,
~ 10Y tho chairman refnsed IN mt the oll