The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-06-11

other wishes 10 compare opiniOns With
ne % moral o. gogernment aaiira. be
can have the pleasure 81 doing 20 IN
respectful private or public debate Al
aay time and place be may choose. il
matters not how learned, rich or hodpr-
able he mar be. l wish TO say to those
who are unacquainted with me, that
nv opinions are BY no means conceal
ed ! and 90 far Is laws are concerned
10 popular governments, they are lines
prescribed between virtue and vice,
saying TO all " thus far shalt thou 70
and no father.v and be who dares TO
cross that line should suffer the penal
~ BY the immediate execution Of the
law; that none are 50 high and honor
able as TO be above its reach, and none
so low and mean as to be beneath It's
notice. nc those laws are too stringent,
let the people, through their represen-
tatises. repeal them; il they are TOO
lax, them amend them. Itdoes not re-
quire greater plenitude of power 10
repeal than to enact a law, and hence
m Republics the people themselves can
make laws to suit themselves, SO as to
produce the greatest good to the great
est number. without bowling the SUBJ
missive knee TO any self-styled modern
Pharaoh or dictatoriaI Democrat. As
a citizen Of the county, and as q well
wlsher Of the prosperity and happiness
OF my fellow citizens, cannot refrain
from entering my most earnest and So
Tenn protest against all lynch or mob
law. IL is inconsistent with the digni-
ty and morality Of rational beings. and
partakes largely Of anarchy and beastly
passion. Let mob law once become
popular, and none are safe. No man
is without his friends, and If the mean
est may be lynched with IMMUNITY the
most honorable will soon have it in their
turn. Ii appears to me that the editor
OF the Democrat (from the drift of his
paragraph just alluded to) is anxious,
in the buoyancy Of his youth, to have
glorious war at all hazards. Ifhe can
not create broil between the northern
and southern sections of his own coun-
try, or create rebellion in Cuba, he
will try his hand at engendering strife
between the slaveholding and non
slayeholding citizens Of his own State,
by probing the private recesses Of Sc
cluded citizens and pointing them out
as objects Of scorn and contempt. |
can assure the gentlemen he can arouse
no such prejudice in me. l look to
the peace, prosperity, happiness and
contcntment Of all, and shall, while
l live, endeayor to promote it with
out classification. Suppose my friend
could create such prejudice, wha,
could he gain BY it? Does not his in.
telligence teach him that the latter
class outnumbers the former more thar
four to ones Can he not see that i
men are to be prescribed, Kissed at, ant
even mobbed for opinions sake, tina
it will bring OH this southern countr,
calamities more dire than If attacke,
by the north and all the armies Of Eu
rope combineds Ii my young frien
has not patriotism enough to abstain
let decency suggest the propriety. An
last though not least, with respect I
my friends annoyance by the frogs .
Egypt, as his senior friend would ad
wise him Of the propriety Of examining
those "most secret and sacred places
Immediately; the probability is that tn,
!. yermin which have assaulted him are no
frogs, but the kind that next vexet
Egypt, and now as then much NOR,
numerous, as well as pestiferous thar
the frogs. He is probably as mucl
mistaken in the name Of the vermin al
he is in the name of the man on tn,
Free-soil Ticket, and if SO their i'm
mediate removal will conduce abun
dainty both to decency and repose.
Most respectfully,
i JOHN STAFFORD.