The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-06-03

nd sensible. The two must be studied to-
,ether as parts Of one res gesfd; and thus
tudied, that of the Goth, instead 81 being
by, or found inconsistent with,
he sOth, receives from it the strongest COR
SPECIFIC OBJECTIONS.
Dir. II. next proceeded to consider these
/. Ii was said that the paper Of the 2oth
was not printed at the time, nor alluded 70
in the proceedings of the a0th.
Directly alluded to It was not, though rs
existence shaped the course OF action on the
3Oth. But the cause was the same that led
to no direct illusion, and to not printing. Il
was because the paper Of the Goth asserted
great governmental principles, involving
great national questions, even indepen-
dence; and though the men Of Mecklenbnrg
might entertain and ayow what principles
they liked for themselves on this subject,
and though they might desire to influence
the continental Congress. If they could. 20
the adoption and expression Of opinions like
their own; yet they felt that independence
was a national, not county, nor even
colony question. What they did was for
the constitutional Congress to judge OF, not
for the. people Of tie colonies at large.
Hence, they would not print. for It might
interfere with plans and purposes Of the
Congress to do SO; but they sent special
messenger Ia Congress ia lay their doings
before that body, through their delegates,
content to submit the great national matter
to their judgment and abide by their decis-
ion and on less than question which they
deemed national, they would never have
sent messenger to Congress. on Journey
which at that day was as long and laborious
and almost as expensive as a voyage 10 Eu-
rope now is. AT the meeting on the 50th,
there was no need Of allusion to the pro-
ceedings of the goth, for the same indi,idu-
ais composed both meetings and as the
action of the 10th was matter not for the
people. but for the continental Congress TO
determine, they preserved silence on the
subject which future events showed to have
been discreet.
.. But they did publish the proceedings
of the sOth. The reason was, they embodied
laws for The people. "a rule OF life for the
county. Hence, they printed, that the poo
simple fact Of their thus printing, shoW that
they never sent special messenger al great
trouble and expense to carry TO Congress q
document which they well knew Congress
would see in few DAYS in the public
paperss Now, as a special messenger Ger.
tainly was sent, and as certainly carried
some document, must il not have been some
other paper than that of the 30th and as
the messenger himself called the paper en-.
trusted 70 him "a declaration Of bdpei-
dencs," was it not probably that Of the 10th
already produced;
DIR. IL. then proceeded 10 say. that a. the
document of the 3Oth showed the men who
made il not TO have been fools, question
presented itself which il was difficult salts
iactorily TO answer on the part Of those who
affirmed. the document Of the 30lh 20 have
been the only one made in Mccklrnburg, in
Nav, l..5. That question was this: How
could men. not fools, suppose II was of the
slightest moment 10 the continental Congress
OF al the colonies IN America TO know how
Meckienhnrg county, in Nsrth Carolina
appointed her constables and Justices % the
peace, the extent 81 Jurisdiction given "a
the latter, The mode o. dealing with petit,
rogues and runaway debtors, with similar
matters: What did the continental Con.
gress care for all these thingsf
Il II is indeed quite possible that the mes.
senger may have had copy of this paper Of
the s0th. though there was no need ~ il
for before twenty days il was in print ~
Wilmington and in south Carolina, aud on
the 10th u June We know that Gov. Wright
of Georgia. sent newspaper containing il
to the British government. But il i re.
markablc that there j. no resolve among
those Of the 3nth ordering that paper 10 b,
sent 10 Congress, while IL Brcyard's frs
draught there il a resolution 10 send TIM
paper: and there was sense and reason IL
sending Tint. far on il was TO be founded n
application by unr delegates 10 the genera
Congress TO 10 for al the colonies wha
Mecklenburg had done for herself, ,iz: Dis
CLARE INDEPENDENCE
Well, the answer came back that il wa
deemed premature! What the continental
fongrtss Informing Meeklcnburg count,
that i WIS premature to make constable
and justices Of the peace, and to catci
thieves aud runaway rDgnrs away Ear or ii
settlement 10 the Wild woods, scattere,
around it. aourishing capital q twenty 10,
houses! Why, what did The continenta
Congress know or care about the temporar,
! local arrangements On subjects II this kind
There were q hundred places in The countr,
where that business MAS going on. Not
colony existed from South 10 North, wher,
the people we're not. IN the beginning
obliged TO take the business % government
into their own hands. and ertemporize som,
system u law. Wings we're 70 be protecte,
/ and tories watched and made powerless "a
harm everywhere. The general Congress
left all this 70 local authority. They neve
said that work of This kind was premature.
But il this document II the 5uth shove.
such action IN Mccklenburg a. was deemt,
By The continental Congress 10 he prcma
ture, DR.. II. next asked, in rlm was ii pre-