The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-06-04

may ssureFa, On 81 leEse ihs hFsi day II seF
tsulsi ri, % disPrlss ana risFa Isars4hly 70
ihriF respective sbgJrs- And q moIs0EeI Eara
al persons uhOnsOrssr against aiiing. al~stlhg.
or comionins. The perpetrators e he Aforesaid
ireaSoasiAe acts; ami 40 require IN sfEirrrs and
Uihrr ei:izrns. aecOnlias 10 Ihrs respective luiirs
and The law ofthe land. 20 e1ert shrir uinos. en-
drasors 20 prevent and surPress such dangerous
puaceediss.s
The SECOND Proclamation WAS dated the 25ih Of
September. 1874. and save The intelligence that
The milaia summoned INTO srrsice frsm The states
Of New Jrrsey. Pennss lsania. Maryland and yir-
giaia. had oheyed bis call with greli sacriiy. and
thai q farre sufficient or the emergency was al
ready in motion towards the soene of DISLIKE
tim; eIhorting = al individuals. ofiicers and
bodies of men % contemplate with shh0rrence The
measures lending directly or indirectly 10 those
crimes whirh proiuce this resort 20 military rorr-
riOn; 70 check. in thrr respective spheres The ef
forts Of misguided or designing men TO substitute
their misrepresentation in the place Of truth, and
their disconienis in the place Of siable govern
ment; aud 10 call 70 mind that. as The people Of
the United States have bcen permitted. under
The Divine favor. in perfect freedom. afler so,emn
deliheraiion. and in an enlightened age. 70 elect
their own government. 50 viii their gratitude for
the incsiimable blessing he best distinguished by
firm rIertion 10 maintan the constitution and The
laws;' and concluding by again warming al
person NOT to abei aid or comfort. the insurgents
Aforesaid, as they viii answrrrhe contrary artheir
periIl;" and requiring I" all officers and other
citizens. as Ear may he in their power 20 bring
under The eognizance Of the laws al offenders in
the prenlises-'
In his message 10 Congress in November 1894,
Gen. Washington states that, the Proclamation Of
The 7ih q Apsl having failed 70 produce obcdi.
ence. he ordered the militia to march. af,er hay-
ing once more admonished the insurgents in his
proclamation Of the 25lh Of September; that as
commander-in-chicf Of the militia when called in
TO the actual service Of the United States. he Vi
siled the places Of general rendezvous TO obtain
more exact information, and direct plan for ul-
tcriou movements; and adds. IL there had been
room for persuasion that the laws were secure
from obstruction, that the civil magistrate was
allie TO bring the offenders 10 Justice, and that the
friends TO pNaoe and good government were not
in need Of his aid, he should have caugh, with
asidiy the opportunity Of restoring the militia 10
their families and homes, but succeeding in,elli.
gcncc tended 10 manifest the nccessit, Of calling
out the militia, il appearing that the malcyolence
Of the offenders was not pointed merely 10 par.
ticular law, but that spirit inimlca to all order
had aciua,cd many. He also stale. that every
appearance assured him Of an issue that would
rebound "a the reputation and strength of the
United States, and he judged Il most proper 10
resume his duiies.a at the scat Of govcrnment---
which be did, leaving the chief command with
thu Governor Of yirginia,-but adds, ii the state
of things had afforded reason for the continuance
ofhis presence with the army, il would not have
been wiihholdcn.
History informs US that the insurgents did not
venture to meet this force consisting Of aboui f.
len thousand men, aud the rebellion ceased with
out conflict.
Such was the conduct Of President Washing.
ton in the case ola resistance 10 the excise law
in Pennsylyanis aud now LET us review the
course Of President Fillmore in the case o, a re-
sisiance to the fugitive slave law in Massachu-
sctis.
hands Of the marshal, by the mob, on tho 10Th
of February, 1851. On the 18th the President
issued his proclamation, calling on all well dis
posed citizens to rally to the support Of the laws
of their country, and commanding all officers, ci-
civil and military, and all other persons, civil o.
military, who shall be found in the vicinity Of
this outrage, to be aiding and assisting, by all
means in their power, in quelling this and other
such combinations. and assisting the marshal
and his deputies 70 reeap,ure tho slave; and also
directing prosecutions to be commenced against
the offenders. On the l7lh Of the same month
orders were issued from the War and Navy De-
parlmrnts. commanding the military and naval
forccs in the vicinity Of Boston to render such
aid as should be necessary to enforce the execu,
/. ton Of the law. Our. readers know the. sequel
1.-The law was enforced il Boston, (aad that, too
without resort TO military coelcion,) to the
great discontinue Of the disunionists, who hat
! fondly looked to successful resistance Of Tho
law in that city as ahordiag pre,ext FIR the cx.
n ecution of their mad schemes.
/ An inquiry.herc forces itself upon US. How
/. docs il happen that Mr. vonahle should prcscn
so unfairly the facts in reference 20 Gen. Wash
ingtons course in regard to the rebellion in Penn
svlvania, when he led us 10 infer that he was s.
h well acquainted with them that he could cve'
) repeat his proclamation We arc left 10 lnte
either that he did not know all the facts, am
: therefore should moi have ccnsurcd Preslden
IF Fillmore as he did; or that. knowing them, ID
. .l,sso 20 q;vp thcm such coloring as would hes