The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-09-10
From the North Carolinian.
MR.. HAYWOOD OF NORTH CAROLINA.

MR.. HAYWOOD OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The brief career of this gentleman, has been
marked by reputation far from enviabe His
conduct in the early part of the Session, gave
promise OF career, which has been abruptly and
not credilably maintained. For our own sake we
could ave wished it had been otherwise. Even
II Mr. Haywood had been guilty of the treachery,
dark nd premedtated. as has been charged
against him, we should have regretted it, for his
own sd he, and that too of the noble State, whose
confde'n ce he would have betrayed. The effect
of his co nduct under any circumstances could only
have be en- to defer for a season. the passage Of a
Law, so irrecOncileable with his ideas of political
ProprieiJr, as the Tariff Law of 1896 The ItI
clpe inv rolved in the passage of that Law, 10
longer epends for its final and complete esiaN-
tablIshm snt, on the pleasure Of any indiyidu
however distinguished. It's passage in the pat
Congress. is TO be attributed to the intelligercs
and enc, 'gy of the West, that young but gia Hs
brother OF our Confederacy, obedient to the sub.
gestion" of truth, and supporting the weight Of
principle with steadiness that never waivers.
After some delay, Mr.. Haywood has given to
the pu bl ic his exposition Of the motives which
induced him to adopt course of conduct, the
recollecti ons of which still survives as having
produce one universal feeling of surprise and
astonistIn tent, Immediately followed by one M
broken ointment Of indigns ton and contempt
| criminal, as TO do what Mr.. Haywood did, could I
bat natuJa lily produce in the minds Of intelligent
men, one the other Of two opInions--either that
Mr.Hsywt ,od was traitor so deeply dyed that no
| never coul be trusted--or that he was so weak
Of purpose, that his folly was dangerous as if no
were treacl ferrous. Either opinion was sufficiently
coDdemnato Ty, to cause the unhappy victim who
was subjec ted to its influences, to feel that his
life had sed TO be of use honor to himself or
his felow-n Ien II was bat natural therefore, that
Mr. Hayw, BOD should endeavor to escape from
sentence, eli Their weakly or barshly incurred. And
TO this task he has set himself at work in a long
and labored communication, which has appeared
in the colo INNS of the Washington papers. 1t
would be ask, that would bot poorly repay the
labor of our readers, if we should transfer to our
columns. Mr.. Fl. 3 defence. Truth lies in nut
shell and Il rat conn lication, which can only be
evolved in so long communication as Mr.. Hay.
woods, in iself developes consciousness OIL
doubt and OBJ, curily ones position, is itself,
in legal psrla nee, prirna .faeie evidence of gu1'
One would at least suppose however that the ar
gnment conta ined IN so long an exposition mu''
needs be con vincing. The surprise therefore
must be great, when we are made TO feel, thai
after long an toilsOme search, our industry IS
still unrewsrd ed; and anxious to find an excuss
for his conduct and sufficient grounds for his reg
loFation to publ &c confidence, we are still compel
led TO admit III at MI. Haywood has not made ou'
his case. VIII, ,ther considered az man or Po'
litician, he has failed and sgnally so, in excul'
Pating himself. As man no has throughout ths
whole progress IF the Tariff discussion, exhibited
an INDIGESTION, II ost strangely in opposition to IN,
position ne main tained in the Oregon debate