Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-02

Md LA ~ grew weary W MAKING money ny
the slow process of traffic with her daughters;
& she determined to get itin a more summary
wav---5y virtue of her authority. According
" she issued her orders that we should all De
taxed, This was a direct approach to the seat
of your sensibilities, and of course you be-
came desperate. You called upon us all to
unite with Won in resisting her eXactions.-
The other sisters responded promptly TO the
call but what was [ to do ] was very
Young, and very weak. Father OGLETHoRpE
had with difficulty saved my life from the Span
ism sword. My mother had for a long time,
as have minated, kept me poor, by comm
ing me to the silk business, instead of letting
me choose nv own occupation. l was sur
rounded by Indian tribes, numerous ana war.
like. Your importations of 6 feshand biooo
had by this time increased upon me 10 rathel
an alarming extent-and of course | was IN
no situation 10 throw off parental authority
and meet the inevitable consequences. Wlthal,
was Just beginning to gain health q strength.
NV affairs were intrusted to the supervision
of JAMES WRIGHT, a most amiable, excellent,
prudent man, who left nc no ground for COM
Dlaint. As for the tax, il did not hurt me: for
the plain reason that had little or nothing to
be taxed AS for tea, not one in hundred of
my children ever used it and most OF them,
believe, had never seen il. To espouse your
cause under these circumstances, was, ii seem
el tome, to sacrifice everything and TO gain no.
thing. And yet to stand by and see you fog
ged into submission, to unrghteous exactions,
was abhorrent TO every principle OF my ma
ture / did what you never dol sacrificed
interest TO principle and joined you-l say
Joined you: for YOU were the only one OF the
family who had come 10 blows with our moth-
er. The rest of us were foolishly hoping for
Il compromise; but you took the better course.
Convinced of the business of your cause, you
resisted oppression at its first approach; and
you did well, as the event clearly proved. In
cases of doubtful right, compromises are ex-
cellent things; but where there is fragrant in
Justice, cruelty and extortIon on tie one hand,
and clear right on the other, compromise is
no better than reward to iniquity for IFS dar-
ing, and a promise to double the premium at
short payment when it becomes doubly villa
nous. He is a fool, or suicide, or both, who
tries to appease the bloodhound by giving him
a lap of his blOol; and man bereft OF every
moral sense, is but a bloodhound with human
sagacity You did right, therefore, sister
Mass, in resisting oppression IN hmone, tho
1t seemed desperate adventure at the time. =
My support of you, ruined me for time
We conquered and having severed the con-
nexion with our unnatural parent, we were
now all, by common consent, at liberty TO
manage our own affairs in our own way
Not one of the sisters dreamed that she had
any right 10 intermeddle with The domestic
concerns of another. Withal, these were
days of decency and courtesy, which protec-
ted each from the intrusions of another. That
such was the general understanding at that
Io1rorJ Inv he
fact, that when the social compact was form
ed, two of the sisters refused for a time to
unite in it; and during this time they were
considered by all as entirely independent OF
the rest. This was "he Government of the
People, as we learn from high judicial au-
thority, which three millions could not enforce
upon four hundred and sixty thousand, and
which eleven communities could not enforce
upon two! beg you TO remember these
things for future uses. Absolved from mater.
nal authority, we agreed TO hand together fol
the common defence and general welfare. Tc
this end we drew up articles OF confederation
in which we confided to deputies chosen by
us all, the management of our foreign rela
lions, and such matters as were of general In
terest; while we reserved to ourselves individ
ually the entire management of our local con
Germs 1t was in settling these articles tina
YOU and divided for the first time; and a:
we have never agreed since, beg leave Il
submit to the Judgment of the world the point:
of difference between us, with the course o
us both in our opposition. You were TO
clothing the Deputies with powers to force
US to a perpetual union, and to revise, if no
to direct, all our household movements. Yol
supposed there would be perpetual tenden
ecv in the sisterhoed to fly from each other
and you would have made the Deputie
81 achippers in" TO us. Indeed, | think woul'
hazard nothing in saying, that you woul
gladly have adopted the Old L.adys system O
government which we had just thrown off,
Nor have scruple of blame TO attach t
YOU on this account. They were strang
views, to be sure, under the circumstances
and in point of consistency, in perfect keepin
with your views ever since but then the
were sincere, and therefore they received fror
me the most liberal indulgence-an indulgenc
which would gladly have repeated, had yo
afforded me an opportunity like favorable
within the last fifty years.
On the other hand, believe that the ties G
friendship, kindred, and common interes
would keep US together in love and harmony
without the aid of drivers thong-our chi
dren intermingling and intermarrying, coul
not conceive now we were ever u l1ll Out-
Nor could see, nor can yet see, the propr
ETY. of keeping any sister in the family, VIII
might wish to leave it, Ny dread was of tn
Deputies Power knew to be self-sustar
ing and self-increasing. All history had prove
this. My plan, therefore, was to clothe tn
Deputies with Just power enough to discharg
the trust conhded to them, and no more. M
plan prevailed; and one would suppose
rather, one would hare supposed, that yo
possessed modesty enough to await the dec
sions of experience, upon the questions {
difference between you, and a large ma orit
of the family. Not you, however. That you
Judgment was not considered authoritative
seems TO have been considered an ample apo
ogy to YOURSELF at least, for laying aside a
modesty, all courtesy, all decency, and all col
sistency, when you slept into tine confederac,
As you could not have the articles cut to su
your patterns, you determined to stretch the
TO it; and accordingly you have been for siA
ty years, engaged in the singular employmel
of fitting your rejected suit to the Deputie
and then abusing them most numerically, fl
wearing tor to speak without figure
YOU have ever been laboring to increase Il
powers of the Deputies, by construction al
yet ever complaining, most bitterly, OF the
abuse ofpower. Counting out WASHINGTON
administration, about which there is a sanct
~, which none of us dare invade, YOU hay
quarreled with every other save one ;and tn
one every body else Guarreled with 1t w;
but recently your son John cried out, "W
have heen under slave domination for fort