The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-05-08

lion banished from our national eouAril-
house. and harmony restored; bul Ne uaIn
Inc Norlh NOT 10 expeel us 10 submit.
We are quite - Erm ia oar resistsncs -
hey are 10 their eEcIosehment.
That we nay stand vindiessed. and
have lhsl justice 10 which We sfs entitled.
i. is hoped that you viii publish This let
Ger. and The proceedings Of ihe Conventions
or II least The Address. pamphlet copy OF
which send goa; and least lhe Mss
should be lofl, il Is published in The pa
pers OF this place. from which, in thai
event, IL nav be exirseied.
Your obedieni servant.
w. l.. SHARkEY.
COMMENTS BY THE INTELLiGEACER.
When we said. on The fsl rereipi OF
Judge Shar keys Litter. percriving II 10
be addressed 10 The Editors Of slis paper.
aud subscribed with his proper name. that
we should publish il with pleasure. We
expressed The sentiment which, II 70
knows 10 erery one who knows us. - ma
iural 10 us. Of willingness 10 allow any
one, who supposed his arguments 10 have
been mislaled or misunderstood BY 10. 10
put himself right in our columns. We
are sorry 10 be obliged 10 confess that ihs
sentiment Of pleasure. which We aniiei-
paled in the publication Of this Letter.
has been turned 10 one nearly allied V
pain on the perusal Of il.
IL is impossible that we should not feel
regret 10 see gentleman Of Judge Shar-
keys high standing descend from the dig
niIy of his station 10 cast impulaiIons on
the motives Of an adversary in argument.
such as can find no other justification in
public opinion than the heat Of coniroser-
sy, and would mol be tolerated from one
counsel IN anoiher--we will moi say in The
High Court in which he himself presides
but in any Magistrates Court in lhs
country.
We publish his Letter, nevertheless,
having engaged 10 do so. willingly leav-
ing to the judgment OF the Public mol on
ly the merits Of the public question dis
cussed between us, but of the manner in
which il is discussed on either side.
Az 10 the light in which We shall be
viewed by those Southern Counrymen"
who are so blinded by zeal that they can
see no merit. and scarcely any honesty. in
those Of the same Southern country who
differ from them in opinion upon any great
queslion-snch as that Of dissolution Of
the Union, for instance, as = possible re-
medy for alleged grievances--we are We
ry Indifferent. As for the body Of the Peo-
pie OF the South, who are undoubtedly
sound upon that question, we have the
happiness 10 know that we enjoy their
confidence To an extent which Ellis all our
ambition. We shall take care not 10 for
felt il by any misconduct OF ours, IN az
fairs which concern their lives and their
property for The present generation, and
the destiny Of their families and their pos
ieriiy forever.
With these brief remarks we wish we
could suffer the Letter Of Judge s. and the
/" Address" from his pen TO 60 without
comment 10 our readers, being moi only
willing but DESTROYS 10 spread before them
every thing that can shed light on the ORR
gin, the motives, and the merits of the
Nashville Convention project.
But there is one point in the Judges
Letter to which mere self.defence requires
us to advert. We have established the
comparative innoxiousness Of the Hart
ford Convention by the indispulablc re-
cords Of history, showing that all It's OBJ.
jects, presen, and ultimate, were wifhin
the Union, and Submissive 10 the Con-
sfitufion. With regard to that Conyen-
tion, reversing The position which The
Judge assigns 10 us, we say that ,cejudged
the history Of that Convention by its acts
and aroUals, and not By ,chaf Il did NOT
do, and did not auo,o aud tina, we have
Judged the Nashville Convention project
BY the aUowaLs Of its authors, and by what
they proposed to do. II was not necessa.
ry 10 60 beyond those avowas and that
proposed action, when we had them from
their own pens lying before us, in the
Proceedings and Address Of the Mississip-
pi Convention, and in the Speech of the
Southerner, who spoke as for the whole
South. when he declared the existence Of
a general discomfort in the South. under
the influence Of which the sentiment had
become almost universal among the Peo-
pie that they could not remain In the Un-
ion with honor.
The Judge can find no justification for
turning upon us, as he has done, in any
allusion to himself personally in this pa
per. No reflection has been made by il
upon has integrity or his motives. We
had no reason to doubt them. When he
could bring his mind to the conclusion
that Mr.. Madison's language in the Fe-
deralist" would justify an organization Of
States for armed resistance upon any
ground short Of actual encroachmenls
By the Federal Government on the State
Governments" il cannot be a matter Of