The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-03-20

found IN All The States Of TIE North.
lie depl0red agitation up0n this sub
leet-he was soFTy to say there was too
much Of il IN certain quarters. Mode
ration. the exercise Of much moderation
was required. II was the duty Of con-
seryatiye men Of all parties to unite In
their efforts 10 calm and moderate the
exasPerzted and bitter feelings that had
been thus engendered. and to come to
the discussion Of this question deter
mined to settle il alike Just and homo
rable to both sections and thus TO give
to the country that repose she had here
tofore enjoyed. and which she now 50
much needed. There was no country
upon the globe so prosperous and hap
py-none that enjoyed. in as high de-
gree. civil and religious liberty-as the
United States. He was proud Of his
country. Since he had been abroad,
he had had reason to be proud Of her
for, with the exception Of Great Britain,
the people of no other Government
knew anything Of liberty. And he was
frank to say that he had returned home
much more Of a conservative than when
he left.
The writer regrets his inability to
report the Resolutions, not being SO for
tunate as to procure copy Of them I;
and he fears he will not be able to give
from memory the substance Of all of
them. But this defect will no doubtbe
supplied in due course of time by a
full and accurate report of the procee-
dings Of the Meeting By the Secretary,
so soon as his leisure will permit him
to copy them out. There were some
FIVE or six Resolutions, the writer thinks.
The first declared that we are de-
yotedly attached to the Union; the Cd
recognized our rights under the Con-
stitution; the Sd declared the Union
could only be maintained by defending
and preserving these rights, (among
which was our honor y the 4th insisted
that the North had made divers aggres.
sions upon our rights, particularly in
not surrendering our fugitive slaves
the 5th approved Of the Nashville Con
vention, and the propriety Of sending
Delegates to District Convention to b.
held, the writer thinks, at Hillsborough
The 9th was, Resolved, That the Chail
appoint Delegates to represent
Granville County in said Convention.
In regard to the Nashville Conven.
ton, General Saunders said, whatever
may have been his opinion in regard tc
the call Of the Convention in the frs
instance, he thought now that it wa,
better for North Carolina to be repre-
scented therein. That the Convention
in his opinion, would meet, and that il
was best for the moderate men, of both
parties, to get possession oft; otherwise
rash counsels would prevail. He apo
logised for the loose and desultory man,
ner, as he said, in which he had submit
ted his views on these questions to thu
meeting; that. being Unexpectedly wait
ed on by the Committee, he did not fee
at liberty to decline the invitation of I
people who had heretofore honored hin
with their confidence.
/. Mr.. Kerr being then introduced
said, like his friend Gen. Saunders, h
had been most Unexpectedly called up
on by the Committee. But for the yer,
high regard for this people, and the vas
importance to the whole country Of tn,
matters they had assembled to consi
der, he should have asked to be excus
ed. Though, he said, he had no oppor
tunity of arranging any course Of re
marks, he had opinions, and very decid
ed opinions, upon the subject before the
meeting. He had listened with very
great pleasure to the remarks of his dis.
tinguished friend and there was but a
single matter in which he differed from
him; and that was in regard to the
Nashville Convention. He was wholly
opposed to it. He saw no good that
could result from it, and he apprehend-
ed much mischief. If the Convention
was to meet to devise plans for dissolv-
ing the Union, then it was Treason
he knew no other name for it. fit was
for the purpose Of consulting together
to protect Southern Rights and to pre-
serve the Union, then it was useless
that could and ought to be done at home
by the people in their primary assem-
blies, justas the people have here assem-
bled. 1t was the duty Of Congress to
settle these questions-the people had
sent them there for that purpose-they
were responsible to the people. Ifthey
(Congress) desired to know the views
Of the people, the proper way to ascer-
tain them was for the people to meet
together among themselves, and express
their views. He believed that Conven-
ton originated with men who were desi-
rous of keeping up this agitation; that
the most, if not all, of this excitement
was produced by the agitation kept up
between the ultra men of both sections
of the Union-the Disunionists of the
South and the Abolitionists of the North
in Congress. 1t was game that one
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