The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-02-13

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oui far ilself. with fear and trembling. JUS
= each nan must seek righteousness ~
himself Of God. The adairable law oI
Providence Is manilrsi in IN is matter:
snd II i. that wheh > nation becomes Fl
Tor f. edOm, m pouer ran hinder il from
being Tree. Such is The defensive signr
Il . rue Liberty! Equslly true i il. a
course. a almost the converse Of This pro-
position, l,ai 20 nation ~hieh can Be sub.
ined. eilllfr fnm within or from without.
IS in consilion 10 be 4 commonwealth.
We may incorporate alien States. 10 The
deterioration ofour On good government:
hut We eannnl render them ri for il.
Whatever We might ronfer upon them Of
good order. would have o. be n come
equal sacrifice ofour osn II ne Honld
hald them 10 Us On terms IL equality. then
we must descend. IN order 20 raise them.
And II i sill. uorse il ne are 10 hold them
~ matters; Tor, polilica'ly alleasl. aud ex.
iernally, il not socially, a free people must
he their own masters only, not those 81
Other subject communities. Territories
acquired will but constitute. after al, an
apanage. a ief, adep-n,lrncy Tor tlleir ru-
lers, nj Tor them. and farm 10 those ru-
lers . power sure 10 be used 20 the De-
siructicn nf domestic liberty. The grea.
ter the extent oflhis sort ol subject domln-
ion. the more woull il management, con-
ided Of necessity TO our Government, and
ctieily 10 the Executive. render that Co
vernment independent or ourselves.
Ills. therefore. with h lrrur and alarm
that se have Witnessed Of lac the o. ms
of that lnsi of aggrandiztmenI which
appears 81 widely 10 have infected the pub.
G mind. To us, manifeslly. there can
be no greatness a that sort. eacen, Al lie
price Of direct popular sacrifices lhr seye
rest, uncolnPensa,ed by any popular gain;
while either the success or The defeat Of
such attempts by prniracled wsifare or in
c"nquesis maintained by large standing
armies, can only ind in The lnss Of our
own freedom. Like the dog at the sEa.
dow in the fable, We shall have caugh, al
Empire and los, Self-governmeui.
But We have heard, too, with still grea-
ter surprise, as coming al one time from
men bearing leading part in the Admin
lsiTation, and rs coming at another time,
we are sorry 10 say, fIom our own friends,
another kindred theory Of war, viz. tina,
we need a war, 10 re.uni,e the country, 10
give employment 10 the idle and the mis-
chlerous. and to Obstinate. rs touIa,Ioes
sweep away plaques, the wide corrup-
lion, the rule Of abandoned and incompe-
tent men, tina, have settled over every
part of public affairs.
To those Of our opponents WHO we
Sncw will turn Il deaf car to any warnings
u ours. II is needless for us to address any
argument against the folly Of desiring war
or the sake ot lis excitement, or of the na-
ronage and the emolumenis which i, will
place al the command ofthe party in power.
Il they be determined, however, with or
sit',ont cause, to get up war with some
oreign Power, we recommend to their
Representatives IN Congress, forthwith
md without a moments delay. to provide
or the raising of an army of loriy or City
thousand men, and appropriating as many
millions of dollars for building sicam.fri.
'ates and floating batteries. Even this
'atlay Of money. TO be-in with, would be
ut drop in the bucket compared with the
asst expenditure in which "a war thus court !
d would inevitable involve the United
'tatcs.
As those others, friends Of ours. whom
dependency over the triumphant i'll around
g, the sight on all sides of public virtue
nd ability detected and forloru, has
ri'en 10 place their thoughts upon such
esPcrate remedies, we can only bid them
emembcr what has been already said of
re sure tendency Of war to strengthen
mat Is already t" us far too strong-,he
Executive power. Besides, il revival of
airloiIsm. re-ascendency of worth and
'ient might be expected on one part. on
he other we have to fear wide and well.
'unGed dissension and disaflection. Ina
ord, if there might be something medi-
nal IN an honest war, there can he M
ealing virtue in one of Injustice and fol-
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