The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-10-15

emit IA disturb the Compounds,
TIE Fugitive Slave Lac can neither
q reached nor modified during bis
,dminiEtrati9n. The Administration
stands on the platform Of It's own acts .
md the solemn declaration Il fhe mess
ne. and BY these il Is prepared 70 stand
y fall.
Talk about Surrender. then. 10
both idle and unjust. Mr.. Fillmore.
like his predecessor. 'neyer s1rren-
ders., The abstract Fight 10 talk and
seold, even if conceded % the enemies
Of the Union, both North and South.
could not alter az affect the nobse POI
sition q the President. Rail on ];
thou canst NOT rail the seal from OF nv
bond The Presidents -nosit:On is on
the platform cf The Constitution and
the laws. and until. by some act Of his
conIradicting all his former acts. he
comes down from that high eminence.
he cannot be accused Of surrender
We again repeat Whist the common
sense and common observation Of eyery
candid maa will readily coacede, that
the only infallible standard BY which
to TRY a public or = private man. i his
acts. loud professions Of peculiar
sanctity never increase the confidence
of discerning men in the character OF
an individual. but father produce sus-
picion and distrnst. The man who.
without ostcntation. leads life of in
tegrity, is the man in whom people trust.
So with politicians. We have had a
/" Northern NAH with Southern prin-
ciples." but his Southern principles
turned out 10 he Southern 'pottage,
for which he sold himself as readily as
Esau sold his birth right, and then, like
Esau, repented Of his bargain. and
sought 10 kill the brother who had
saved him from political starvation.
Now, We will 10, initiate the b;gotted
and uncharitable spirit in which the
Democratic Journals assert that their
own party is the only reliable champion
Of Southern properly, when i, j. well
known that the Wings Of the South
own as much slave property as Demo-
Gratis, aud are therefore equally inter-
estcd in It's security; nevertheless il
cannot be denied that the last Demo-
cratic Administration, il tried by its
own acts, did not prove Itself As relia-
BILE 4 guardian of Southern rights as the
Wing Administration by WHICH il was
succeeded. The Democratic Admin
istration acquired the half Of Oregon,
but it signed territorial bill for the
new acquisition containing the Wilmct
proviso. But did ever any body hear
from the friends Of that Administration
that il had made a surrender 10 the
Wilmots Of the North: We think not.
1t was also under its auspices that a
colony Of Northern soldiers and agri-
culturlsts was planted in California By
Col. Stevenson, which colony, at might
easily have been anticipated, has PROV
ed the nucleus Of free State on the
Pacific. .tnd why is il that the Will
mo: prCviso was not applied to that and
+nthar now terr,taries- Because IL was
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ton, which is now accused OF sur.
render BY those who saw no surrender
in the signature to bills containing that
very prorisD by Southera Dem 2cratic
President. Tire same Whig a,lminis-
tratioa has given its sanction to the
most stringent Fugitive Slave law pass.
ed since the foundation Of The Govern
ment, and has declared that it regards
the Compromise containing that mea-
sure as "a final adjustment The
Southern Democracy exait to the skies
the Sor;iicra Democracy because thr-
II CT taer representatives voted for the
Fngit,sc slave bill, vet they profess to
have 30 confidence in the President.
who fear!cssly facing the Earr:caHe Of
Northern sentiment, made that bill
law.
I" Let US Judge the Administration
by its acts. The man who has exhib:-
ted in his deeds exalted courage. en-
iarged patriotism, GlisNcrying fidelity
to TIE American Constitution, deserves
to be trusted, and not only trusted but
admired, BIZ his couatrymcn