The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-02-27

eminent. the wosld's best hope and oar
own. Instead Of This eternal system af
complaining. We should bow oer knees in
gratitude 10 Him who esve us these
blessings. and who. sometimes fear, Will
uike us with judicial blindness a. He
did his chosen people Of old. That we
have difficulties sometimes 10 encounter
is but lhe common loi Of humanity,
individual a. well az national. Bat
when these rome. LEI them be adjusted
in . proper spirit Of compromise. and The
future may bring us al thai The fondest
aspiration can desire. This petition asks
Ne 10 take measures 10 dissolve this Un-
ion peacsabiy. Il proIesses to come from
the followers Of William Penn. The great
apostle Of peace; from q poriion Of Tho
most respectable Society OF Friends,
whose high moral qualities no man appre-
ciaies better Than do. But what kind
af proposition Is thisi To dissolve
this Union pesceablyl Isay il with al
proper Difference 10 The petitioners, but I
say il emphalcaIIy. that he who expects
such result is either already in an
insane hospital or ought TO be placed
there. He who believes thai such COT
eminent as this. with It's traditions, iis
institutions. its promises Of the past. iis
performance Of the present, and ils hopes
Of the future. living in the hearts core Of
almost every American. can be broken
up without bloodshed. has read human
nature and human history 10 little purpose.
No. sir, the Gordian knot that binds
Us together will never be severed hut by
the sword. 10 talk. then, Of dissolution
is TO talk Of war. Both are inseparabIy
connected. and The evil day that brings
the one will bring The other. And what
kind Of war will il BET Such war,
sir, as this world has never seen. The
nearer we have been as friends. the moro
deadly will be our feelings as enemies.
II will have all the elements of civil
war ofsn intestine war. Wherever the
border may be. il will be marked by
blood and confagralion from one end of
il to The other. Far lie il from me 10
weigh the injuries that each portion
might iniliet upon the other, and then
. rike the balance Of evil with ma,hema,i-
cal precision. IL is enough for me 10
know that rulnous would be the hopes
OF both. And where is all this TO endi
II jealousies and fancied rival interests,
or real grievances. are TO divide Nc inio
two confederacies. where is that division
10 stopi Similar causes will exist-they
are inseparable from human nature-and
we shall finally be reduced 10 Stale
soyeIeignlies, and may read our faie in
the fate Of the Greek republics 80 yividly
portrayed by the ancient historians.
A Distinguished Correspondent Of the" Nation
al Intclligencer" writing from Louisiana presents
still stronger view Of tho awful consequence
that must attend Dissolution:
st-s Parish, (La..) Jan. g. 1850.
Editors Of the National LaieiEgeneer.
am reioiced 10 find
you, as | doubted no, that | should find
you. the steady and unAinching friends
Of the Union Of these States. Have the
gentlemen in Congress calculated tho
length and the breadth, the heighth and
the depthdof the evils which. they would
bring on our devoted country by the
disunion which they speak so lightly Of!
Shall we dissolve our society into its
clemcnisi Shall we put out all the lights
ofihe past. and grope our way through
revolution, along with France, and Italy,
siana is bound to the States of The Norh
west by thousand ties, any one Of which
is indissoluble. But what shall we do
with the Navyl What with the National
Debt? On which side Of the border will
be Western Virginia; which MARYLAND;
which .Kenlucky; which Missouri I The
truth is. dissolution OF the Union is
Anarchy. Il is not in the wit Of man 10
present a plan for quiet, sober, settling
down Of the people Of the United States
under any new organization. The effort
will be ru,nous TO our happiness. and dis
graceful 10 the civilzaiion of The age
Suppose. for an instant. that we had q
Confederacy ; is il clear that we
shall rid ourselves { that of which we now
complain The Northern par. Of our
Southern Confederacy-Maryland, ynpi.
MIA. and Keniucky--would be The manu-
States. They would advocate
a tariff Of protection a, the, first Con-
gress. The ire 6f South Carolina would
be aroused. Nay, more, the gradual re-
duction Of the slaves in these States would
soon give rise to an Abolition movement.
Another dissolution must take place, and
another; until some one State would stand
alone. the solitary champion Of The slave
interest. The evils complained or by the
South cannot be cured, even by the des.
penie remedy pro- osed.
| am delighted to ind in General Tay-
lor fast and Incorporating friend Of
Union. His name and influence are =
tower Of strength. | am glad that we have
the proof OF his calm inirepidi,y. his ster-
ling good sense. and his devo,ed patriot-
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