The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-09-02

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,ag 90 en- Ihe present ease. The President
has not only offended morslity. which he
may regard ~ snail matter, bot hss
sssn eamminsd blghdsr.
"The course lhe pfssideni should
have ppr.aed l. pl,in and obFioas. Ga
Issralng the state II things on the frontier.
tie snIieal condition Of onT army Of &c
rupsI'On, he! should haze demanded oI
Congress Iis Te,nloEeemenis and supplies
ueressary Co Ie;Iese u and secure Ihe rUr-
pose Tor whirh Il VAS sv0wedly sent 10
the RIO Grsndr; and. il he believed q pro-
pr OF necessary, 10 have IN sddiuOn laid
Iel.Es Congress Toll aud Huihiul state
meat Of nm relations wah Meaica, IN
slsd'ng al the unsdjasssd romplsiD's, past
a~d present, Ee had sg.insi her. aeon.
p.nled ~ the Recommendation Of decls.
T,iIon Of ~ar. lie would then have kept
w5lhIu The i,mas OF h;l duty. proved him.
.rk IaarL cnn.tiiItionaI President, and
IA the responsibility ai var or no war.
n Congress. the only y st-makiag poaer
knawn 81 tie lave. Congress. alIer ma.
lure drlrberaion. might or might moi have
declared wat--mos, likely would not:
bur wheIhsI 80 or not. the responsibility
uGiid have iesui,sd siih IL. and nn Lame
Nuuld have attached 10 the Psesideni.
Unhsppily. this course did 1ni occur
70 the President. or vas too plan and
>, npie 90 meet his appreciation. AZ u
lea'iul. IL CoDstes. del,beta'ed. IL night
refuse 10 declare war. and - If deiermin-
sd 10 have war 81 any rate. he. presented
u Congress. not the true issue whether
war should or should not be deelared-
bu, the false issue, whether Congress
would grant him the means al p'osscpiiHg
swsr. wsged against us By foreign pow
sr. Ia the true Issue. Congress might
have hesiraled-in the one actually pre-
.enud. there was no roam 10 hesitate, u
The Official announcement nj Of Tie President
was TO be credited. and hesitation would
have heen criminal.
e by declaring that tie war already ex'
islrd. and by The act az Mexica hcrs'lf.
the President relieved Congress Of the
responsibility III The var. BY throwing u
90 NJ ico. But since he esnnot fas,en
il on Mexico--ir war did not already ex'
isl, or il 80, By our act, and not hers--i'
necessarily reccils upon himself, and he
mu.l besr..,lre responsibility ol dong whs
the Consultation fotb.ds him To d''--o
making wr wiihou, The intervention o.
Congress. Ia effect, therefore, he ho'
hampied The Constitution E,der his feet
sci a dangerous prssedeni. and By ih'
9G iai publication Of a paiPabts false
hood, Hllied The national honor.
Ill i. with no pleasure tia, We spea'
thus Of the chief magistrate OF the Union
for mhose Iteration 10 his high and re
sponsiJie Office zee ourseires coitd. Bu
whatever may be our attachment TO par
", or the respec, We hold to be due fro
all good criizens 10 the civil magistrate
we cannot zee the Constitution violated
and the nauon,l honor sacrificed, whet'l
tr by friend or foe. If I'm good moives
bad, without entering, feeble though il be
our stern and indignant protest" ..