The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-11-23
4 BLAST FROM GEORGIA.
Letter fi0m Han Mr. T00mbs % JEFF
ferson Davis

1aefH<azsfe1lftls tsa-- MOVE trS4
r. a. fdEfsr ~ a. Asgmsss rckrsairk and
lSafisef.
Sm:-col. jefferson Davis having
assailed me N letter 90 ese GaAill,
ahich has been published i'm the news
papers 81 this State, makes al proper
that ! shanld address the biiclhroash
the same channels. lshslI saw. nothing
81 this 6askiil. except 80 much as NAV
be necessary 10 elueidate the eoniro-
yersy with the Secretaryof War. NV
accounts with him have been setrIed.
He has twice ebtruded himself upon
public meetings which | have been in
.yited 70 address At the last meeting,
Tor having previously held up his la
ther and mother, in his native State.
Nermoat, 10 the Indignation of the PEG
pie; for having impieusly declared that
God had killed Gen. Harrison and
Gen. Taylor for the benefit az his par
az; and Tor his utter disregard of all
truth. felt constrained in his o~n pre-
scnce to give him severe but well
meritsd casiigaiion. have heard mo-
thing more Of him since this meeting.
until he turned ap in this correspon.
dence. under the protection of the War
Office. There shall leave him. The
letter from Gaskill to the Secretary Of
War is not published. bat II seems
from The account given Of it, by him
and the Secretary, that I am charged
with having denounced Jefferson Da-
Wis as disanisnist sitting in the coun-
ellis nf the nation.r and with represent
ing him ashaving advocated. in speech
delivered at Philadelphia, the. constitu-
tonality aud expediency Of building
the Pacific Railroad with the resources
of the Federal Government. The first
charge seems especially 10 have excit-
ei the ire Of the Secretary, and he re-
4sl. Il u language which demands Of
me an appropriate reply.
What was said by me ON the occa-
sion referred 20 "was not done in
corner.v but was said to a public as.
selnbly Of people, therefore. the truth
If the charge could have been easily
ascertained. The usual course pursu-
cal by gentlemen ghe may feel them.
selves aggrie,ed qader Such ,circum-
stances, u fo,enSuire If the person who
Is alledged 70 have made an offensive
charge concerning is truth THAT Of
staggering braggarts and cunning pol
troons, Is To ipdalge ip vulgar epithcts
zad argumentative personalities. just 50
Tar as may nat .copplicatc them with
frlsehood, il the charge should prove to
pc untrue. The Secretary Of War has
caosen to pursue the latter COURSE
whatever other advantage this course
may have, it is not to be commended
fur its ,chiyaIry.
The only aIIusion which { made to
the Secretary pl War, having any. re.
whalIx dilI..-.---. zs-.Taostg 70 That az
legged. I arraisned Gen. Picrce before
the people, for befraying die Con,pro-
mise and Us fJipds. in the face OF all
his projections, by bringing its enemies
into p0wer- To sustain this charge.
I reviewed the position sf each mems
brr oil his Cabinet, aud showed that not
one Of them Vas identified with tIiat
great measure, and that the fidelity d
each Of them toit might be Justly ques. z
toned. ! stated that Col. Davis had.
il The Scnate, sgted against It's leading
aeasufes-pnited with its enemies, :
md cpposed il at holne, and was beat
- by Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, main
' ON account Of that opposition. II
hen proceeded to show that the policy /
= the government was Just such as, /
night have been expected from such a 4
sa,binatiop. irhatits aninating prin- /
Iple was the "cohesive properties Of /
'e public plumber 10 which all we're )
lvIted who wauld Join and support the i
oalitiop, whether they were FreesoiI. e
=. Disunionists, or Compromise men. 1
These were the positions which Ii
cry where maintained during the late I
nvass. and unfortunately for the G.
untry, the government was constant ii
furnishing additional evidence for
err support. II was union with the HI
emies of the Constitution and the "
nth that | Denounced. I consider "
slovalty to the Federal Union, itself o,
fHtue when compared to the scrviIe u,
seness of conserving to and main ia
ming q coalition with the Buffalo "
&c Scifers>;--Traitors, who for the fu
I five years, lhavc been openly vim
atins the larSeny Of our slave pro- Oh
rty, backing hcbs to resistance Of IN
institutional laws passed for our pro- ltJi,
ton, and exciting them to the nur 81
q those % ouA citizens who at ral
!ptcd 10 recover 3cir nruperty nm =,
lrtIssm. And IN the Ywesf arcn -. y.
sSyef lower dce and the Al 4
1e,on have r7o1(red it. Not III
w men TO their az
emf pretest ~
b. being On
\pp sewer pa
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em. 10 u
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