The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-01-20


uhaeh 80 haze stnes WitpeasE4s in Tsrsasil
90 measrF AMI faTrr in u,s sfiflemrnl, u
ouf difseRarra sid BllisF laoMeFs. s
Ascending 20 ny ppiuias, a parties
are inasresard i asapliRg d ! ne a. pnliry
mhsrh wlll Nth rrslAiaiy disrni.HgAe -
from tae alEairs u Mrxira. ard aEpij Dc
rreas sseriGrrE &C nsrn and nanry, snd
Inc maay elher rSils N 9hirh tlls mar
exposes a.. I.st ne saY, % ny friends
una snppos lie Administrator IN lleiT
poliry. thai Il 500 persist. and IL praee BY
samar g..,sf fsriune should not he obtain
sJ. de war vii 70 ~ INN wear % yeaI,
snd 300 wlll II utirrly orruhrown = :
panT. Ds yna not zee mat Sc elierts. IN
IrGrrrnce 70 or lmenial slfaiss. Is ndnre
ysm inla . course u policy dlrrcliy ennIra-
~ 10 that whieh you have Pn'Iessed %
suppafl. and n favor nf thai which YOU
have charged your opponents uith sup
pOrlingl Yaa hare ever PraGsssea N OPP
posr. ~ . party. national debt. and
rhsssri yoHr epponruis with bring IL
aiv..rsies. BIN what. I ask. are lie e.
frrss az me MAJ in tllis respect IL il mi
10 create an immense national debt. gIealeE
than that ulich lie parry 10 Sllirh you
rre opposed ronld possibly hase cealed by
any other policy. Ind they heen IN rowerl
This campaign. on which you loak 50
lishtly. viii add 10 Il a sum more Than half
~ great a. lhe sniire dehInfIhe Revsluiion.l
Yau have hren opposed 10 tie extension
81 the patronage o. ihe Executive. al least
in pr,lesslan. liui this war Is dong more
TO rRlaree his patronage than any nlher
policy whirh your opponents could have
adopted. You prnfrss ID he IN favor Of a
metallic currency. do you not see tllal,
with the increase 0f stocks and treasury
notes, you are IN daHgeruf being plunged
again into The lowest depths of the paper
system! You. a. = party, have advocated
the dormine Of free trade. DO YOU not
see that. hy the vast increase at Tie ex.
pendiluTes of the country, and the heavy
interest which you will have TO pay on The
public debt. YOU are creating a n-cessiiy
ol increasing the duties ON Imports 10 The
highest point that revenue will admit. and
thus depriving the runniry OF all the prac-
teal behetiis of free trade. and preventing
the Government from making any maleri-
al redurliOn, until the whole debt il paid,
which cannot be exported during this ge-
neraliun! What could your opponents
have done more, or even a. much, 10 tie
sIroy system Of policy which you claim
10 distinguish YOU from them. aud TO es-
iablish that whirh YOU alleg" TO he the
reason why they should be excluded from
power. Has not and viii mol this war
policy, IL persisted in. etiectual!y and Il.
nally obliieraie the line of policy which
YOU have insisted upnn as Distinguishing
YOU from them! Why. then, 10 save your
selves from such a result, DO YOU hesitate
10 adopt The course Of policy ! have sug'
grsrcd. as the only certain means Of pre-.
venting these and other evils. and the dan
ger 10 which oar institutions are exposed!
The, pride of opinion may resist. know
the difficulty, and respect il, with which
we yield measures that we have advocated
even when time has shown them 10 bt
wrong. But true magnanimity and The
highest honor command that We should
abandon them when they threaten TO b.
injurious instead Of heneficia 10 the coun
try. II would do gres. credit" the party
in power 10 adopt The policy now, in re
ference Ia the war. ni taking indemnlt,
into our hands, by assuming defensive
position. which, u can hardly be doubted
they would have done when the war wa
recognised, IL they had foreseen the diff
rui,ies and dangers TO which il has led. ]
would be a noble sacrifice Of indlyidua
pride to patriotism. ~a *s.
In assuming that the only alternative !
between the policy recommended by tn
President and the adoption Of deienslv
position. have pm, out Of the question
the policy Of taking no territory. | has
done so because believe the voice OF tIl
country has decided irreyocably again:
it, and that to press il as the ALTERNATIVE
would render almost certain the final adoE
tios Of the policy recommended by III
President, outstanding the disaster
whichait threatens. Let me say 20 m
friends on the other side m the chanbt
(for as sush regard them, for politics
differences here do not affect our pc
sonal relations, that they have contribute
by their course 10 fix the deierminatlo
not 10 terminate The war without SON
suitable indemnity in territory. do NJ
refer to your vnte recognising the existent
of war between The Republic Of Mexif
anil the United States. | well know III
YOU voted with view 10 furnish hmm
dia,e supper, To General Taylor and h
army, then surrounded BY, imminent d."
ger. and not with the intention Of rcco
nising the war. aud that YOU demonstrate
and protested against that interpre,ai'
being put npon your votes. But sinre
passed, and the war was recognised, most
you have confined to vote for approprI
lions to prosecute the war, when The o
ject'of prosecuting il was avowed TO
10 acquire territory as an indemnity. Mo-