The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-08-28


might have upon my own Judgment a.
% The propFicly 81 any particular eouFfe
for certainly he general opinion ~
the State IN which 4 man lives is emf
tied 70 great weight and influence. ana
to have considerable effect upon him
must saw that acknowledge no r;ph,
in the Legislature Of North Carolina IA
exercise the Papal authority OF absolv-
ing me from my oath. or to transfer m.
alIesiance-to turn me over 20 Barbary
from the United States. and make ,n..
simply citizen Of hers Therefore
should hold myself al liberiy-yea
bound BY every consideration Of dufy
to myself and country. BY tfzt inieer;-
Nv which binds me to maintain and lu,.
fil the oath have taken-to consider
for myself, under any supposed cir
cumstances, whether case existed Of
unmitigated oppression or Of dangerous
and obstinate usurpztion, which coasti-
tates a known and understood excep-
ton from the general duty Of submis-
sion to a government. and justifies the
oppressed in falling back upon the ma
tural rightof resistance and self-preser-
Walton. To my own State | owe love |;
lowe obedience, but not blind and un-
limited obedience. | owe her large.
and grateful. and devoted attachment.
She has generously honnred and adyanc-
ed me beyond any merits Of my own, and
has thereby added force to the claims
which she always had upon me as her
native-born son, whose ancestors on one
side, for four generations, have lived
and died upon her soil. Sir, acknow-
ledge these claims. feel all that CRATE
ful and devoted attachment, and hope
to be ever ready to prove il by more than
words. But | cannot forget that she i
but one State of the Union, and that the
whole Union is my country. These are
my sentiments, and upon these must
act until, BY adequate reasons, am in
duced TO change them. Hence you will
perceive, Mr.. President, that, looking
upon the subject in the light do, hold
ing a supreme allegiance to be due TO
the United States, disowning all right,
under the constitution, of secession,
and perceiving no reason in any propos-
ed disposition Of these questions to JUS
tify or excuse disunion or any form Of
revolutionary resistance, l have but one
mode Of defence-but one mode Of re-
sistance-but one remedy. That have
mentioned. II is legal, constitutional,
orderly, and. applied as propose, il is
Just and fair.
With regard to the pending amend
ment, as | have already indicated, I
would prefer California in her full size;
but If gentlemen think--if gentlemen
representing Southern constituencies
think-it will be more acceptable To
theirpeople to have California admitted
with mutiIated limits, and to have a
Territorial Government established up.
on that portion Of the territory which
may be withdrawn from her jurisdic.
ton, l am ready to vote for il. l dt
not think tits a matter Of great impor
lance. think the only effect will b
that we shall have two free States upor
the Pacific sooner than we would by ad
hitting California with her present
boundary. That is the difference.
shall vote for the amendment, but an
personally not solicitous about its sue.
cess or failure.
The Slave Trade In Cuba.-On The
very night preceding The landing Of ID,
late Cuban expedition al cardenas, a Larry,
vessel came quietly up TO the wharf ant
landed 600 nagrocs from the hold, poor
miserable, halfsiarved shadows Of men
who hid been torn from their homes ID
Africa and introduced into the island b,
The consent and 10 the great profit Of iht
Captain General Of Cuba. Shortly afie
This occurrence bag containing abou
$4,000 was found at the door Of ih'
Captain Generals sleeping room, which
las there appears no acknowledgment
for The same IN The published reports q
the receipts by The ireasury--we presume
went Ia swell The already large pile .
savings 81 Condo Aleoy during his very
econan,ical administration. Now. ihes,
facts we lean from highly inIelligen
citizen lately from Cuba, who was in ih'
J, vicinhy Of the transactions when they nc
CURED. and they have been substantial,
confirmed by the statements Of others
They are facfs notorious TO all Americans
and foreigners in Cuba.
i NJ O. Delta, Aug. 2.
i Death from Handling a COrpse-The New
ark Advertiser has The following letter dat
ell Boonlon, July 20lh: Our village ha
Il H. a