The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-01-19

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wsih Say people Struggling tar lil~Eiy Hp"n /
ar rnnIiIems. NH % llie fnll ss'rHl ~ !.
that dnrrine. aud w.lI nesrf ag'se 70
l0fre my nations az liberty npon any pro-
plr a, tI.r poinl 81 The haynnr'. MI nr'
yer agree an = ps.l.ry uhirh hes.ss s'ul
prelexi .fiasins jasIire. Liberty and human
rights, when nndsinr4lh he whale lies ,
purpose Of plumber and Tubl'ery-a saf 81
The sirang againsl the weak--and ihnsbrirs
dawn npan Us Inc Judgments 81 ilTasrn,
uIlIrh il is impossible fnr US ID esrapr. /
The principles af justice are as eternal as
the heavens. and their disregard his peter !
fAiIrd under any circumstances 10 bring
bi ter sranrge nPan ans nation that has
violaled them. I. fr. ane. drsire M !
surh misrhiff for my country and isn.t !
no policy will be adopted BY ~ wLirh
will tend 20 such q result. ! appeal
strongly 10 my Southern friends 10 war
against This proPasanhism.
Tlele j. a progresSslown~srtl h well
! as upa arsl. There i a progress hack.
wand as well as lnruard. There 10 nos
Thing just. and haly. and true IN il,ss
world that has mol been sought 10 be
crushed down. BY lie rharioi wheels Of pIe-
! gress. Mshomei Plearhed prog e.s. Tie
earth has been drrnrhed with bland and
whilened. with the bones ofil.e slain under
the war-cry of progress. Napoleon slew
his millinns under The plea Of prrsiess.
And his j. progress. -N"l The pr.'giess
, which Ispprorr. am lnr lhal beneso-
lent. that wholesome progress which
grows uui nf wise and sound policy. thai
great henevolencr far which kind Feelings
! and impulses we're ordained. which makes
/. every man look 10 his Government as his
/. protector and friend,
Sir, I believe The parry with which, | am
associated sdol'l these views. and feel 4
1 pride in believing that the incoming All
: minisnalinn vii. sustain ll,ai pnliey. |
1 irsl that through ~ The length and
! breadth nf The land there well % ioiili
II such a manifestation rf Indignation al any
attempt 10 ,niermeddic with or ovenurn
tire institutions al nrighburing nations. ~
shall make il uiirIly oIl"us ior any mantle
:. srek popular favor by raising this war cry
! 81 progress.
d | am willing to be called behind the
age; am willing that it should be said
/. that have learned nothing from pro.
:. gress, q One thing | have learned. aud
:. that is. that the eternal principles Of jus.
IS ticc can never change, and that crime,
). WHITTIER national or individual, must
q meet its reward. No man can sin
d against physical or moral law with,
IL out feeling and suffering the punishment
,e thereof. The same is not less true oI
!, nations. and whatever party may rise
4 into power upon the principles Of oul
u own aggrandizement, or increasing oul
i strength upon the acquisition Of the ter
,e ritory Of others, will bring with them.
re- curse and calamity, let il come wlei
IL it may or under what auspices. III,
common sense OF mankind rises in re
,e bellron against it.
n. cannot conclude my remarks with
g. out expressing my qualification at the o
pinion delivered by the Supreme Cour
NJ within few days past. conceir,
lie the eminent and distinguished Chic
SC Justice God grant him many years I,
l. live who prcs:des over that tribunal
| has spoken authoritatively as to one lay
L. upon the subject of our interference
IN with the concerns of adjoining nations
III twas decided there by that court tha
Is contract to supply American citizen
rs with provisions and munitions of wa
g to aid a people not yet independent j
I'd revolutionary movement was null an
IL void, contrary to the laws Of the Unite,
i. States, and could not b. enforced
II shall take occasion Ia have that opni0
i. printed and circulated among my pea
lie pie. 1t is one Of the best document
= that could send to them. 1t was
We high conservative doctrine, and jus
such as expected Of man who ha
n, the nerve under all circumstances t
I'd do his duty, who owes his present pc
l. sition to having always done his duty
II and WIN has maintained, and is AWAY
10 rcadyto maintain, his position asa strlc
il constructienist of the constitution
IN say to my friends of the plantation
=. States that conquests aud territory ar
he no compensation Tor war none NOR
ne Interested in peace and the policy who
he would secure il. And whilst war mu,
ne be met when just and right, it shuul
le never be provoked.
III We are producers and war destroy
IS the sale Of our productions BY destroy
= ing our commercial relations. Non
y. would sufi,r calamties more than tn
d plantation States, and we Of all me
- should adopt i policy which secure
is peace by doing justice, which doe
ID right at the some time that right is dc
Sc manded. No nation and no inIiyi,lua
LI evrr pro!i fol nv an uniuSt and needles