The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-05-07
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Correspondence q file Ralsigh Rtgistv.
Oxford, April 25lh.

/. Correspondence q file RGtigh Register.
Oxford, April 25ih.
Ma. EDITOR: Gov. GRAHAM was at
this place on The 2lst inst, according 10
previous appointment, and opened the
campaign with one Of the happiest adj
dresses il has ever been our fortune TO lis
| ten 10.
I The number Of persons in attendance,
considering how busy a season il was with
the farming portion OF the community, was
quite large-indecd, much larger than we
anticipated, aud comprised not a few of
our Democratic friends hereabouls, which
we were highly gra lied TO see. 1.
! Il would swell this communication be-
yond any reasonable limits, 10 give you even
a synopsis of his speech; and you must
be content, therefore, with merely brief
statement Of the principal topics which it
embraced. And first in order was reln-
tation Of The charge, that, while member
OF the Legislature, he had incidentally OPP
posed giving the election Of Governor 10
the people; and il is difficult to conceive
of any thing more conclusive and unan.'
swerable. lie showed, in The first place,
that admitting The charge to be true, his
opponents were completely esiopped from
preferring il, inasmuch as some Of the
Chief Apostles of their faith, members Of
the Convention. OF 1895, were equally cul-
pablo with himself, as appears by their
votes Of record upon the journals; and. in.
the second place, that il had really no
foundation in truth, as he proceeded 10
show. n - b.. d ssss -. 80 &C. ~ =
The nextthing noticed was, complaint
which he understood bad been uttered in
certain quarters. that as the agent OF lie
state, he had bid too much for the Raleigh
and Castor Rail Road, which it was al
legged, could have been Dough, for much
less sum. Ills reply to this, must COM
mend itself 10 the appreciation OF every
man who has a.spark Of generosity in his,
composition, and was not only honorable
10 him as an individual, but every way
worthy of the position he occupied, and
the capacity in which he acted. d lie didn't
attend the sale, he said, as a mean and
heartess creditor would constable's ven.
due, 10 buy up his unfortunate neighbor's
property at the lowest price for which it
could possibly be obtained. No-he felt
, it due 10 the honor and dignity of the
state, whose agent he was, to do as hc.was
authorizedb by the act of The Legislature Gre
ating his agency-and that was, TO bid for
he road what he should be satisfied il was
worth, provided it did not sell for more
than the amount it had been morigaged to
secure. But, independently of any consi-
deration of this sorl, he denied that the in.
terests OF The State had been in the least pre-
JUDGED by the purchase, as it was made.
For the state had no other means of Sc
curing itself; and having got all that the
company had, he could not well see how,
if the amount bid had been less, it would
have got any more, as the intrinsic value
of the property would not have been
thereby in the slightest degree enhanced.
Having disposed of these matters, he
then took up the Tariff, and the Sub-Trea-
sury bill, which had been passed by the
House of Representatives during its pres
ent session, and pointed out in most lu.i
cid, mastery and statesman.like manner,
the mode Of their operation, aud their res
pective bearings upon the revenue, COM
merce, the price of goods and labor, and
the value of property and also exposed,
doubtless to the no little confusion of a
portion Of his auditory, the gross inconsis-
iencies Of the Democratic party and their
representatives in Congress relative to the
former. But it would require some one
much better skilled in political economics
than profess to be, 10 do justice TO this
part of his speech. @ 81. &@. 1s
Our Democratic friends, who were pres
ent on the occasion, expressed themselves
greatly pleased; and they could not well
have been otherwise, for the Governors
remarks were in the best imaginable spi-
.rit, and were characterized throughout by
the utmost degree Of courtesy and canior.
And this seems 10 me to be one ofthe main
features by which all his popular addresses
are distinguished land from which they de-
rive their peculiar charm. Nothing ever
e aaTa.