The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-11-11
EXTRACTS
From the speech Of MIR. billiard.

There is A class Of fictitious compositions
in the English language in which the story
is told in the character oil somebody 10
search OF something-C9lebs IN search OF
wife, Japhet in search of father, the travels
of an Irish gentleman in search of religion,
are instances in point. am not IL search
Of a wife, or Of father, or of a religion,
but am in search of party. Laaghter.l
| take it that | am by no means the only
man in that predicament. take II there y
a respectable body Of political outcasts ami
Pariahs who are somewhat IN the same con-
dition. Under what flag they once served.
and by what name they were once Called,
il matters not now to inquire. | do not
mean TO name the name Of the Wing party
except incidentally and occasionally. Ii it
be dead, will not disturb its ashes if it be
asleep, will not disturb its slumbers. But
If the Wing party be dead, take It that
Wing principles are not yet dead. APP
plause.1 Ill would it be for the country and
the State if il were so. l take It that there
are some thousands of voters in Massachu-
sets, perhaps same hundreds within the
sound o. ms voice, who 10 yet hold substan-
tally to the principles and the creed which
we're al the Wing party; VINO are national
Nv feeling aud conservative by instinct ;
xhoSe patriotism grasps nothing less than
Tie ghoIe coGa:ry, and who mean to submit
10 tie LAWS Of the country which have been
pronounced constitutional by those tribunals
upon whom the organic law Of the land de-
salIes tie trust Of pronoancing them 70 be
~. Applause.
Vow there are three parties which spread
olt 10 u their arms Of in,itaticn-the Ma
i've American party. tie Republican party,
and tie Democratic party. My friends,
Iatend to speak to yoa in all frankness upon
this occasion, and when ] say that there are
some Of US who yet hold TO the principles oil
tie Wing party, have said that We cannot
see our va, quite clear TO give our hands e
the creed Of any one Of these three parties
IN It's entirety. Could we take the creed o.
taese three parties by picking and choosing
BIZ selecting and rejecting, We could make !
set Of principles and doctrines 10 which We
could give our assent; but We cannot take
any one Of the three entire and unadllte.
rated.
But do not hold il to be the duty d
eyer, citizen to Join himself to some par.
ticular flag, and 70 give his entire counle
NMNGE w a pal ttAAAdt &C. VI A&0NtAa1h1 =
expeditions IL political doctrine, but ! d
Hold il % be every mans duty 70 vote To
somebody in National and State elections
Aud the question nov is, for whom shall v,
vote We, once Wings, deprived Of oul
natural parents and projectors, naughty 1t
tie orphans that nobody can loye-Wher'
shall We 90 in search Of a temporary guar
dian: That seems to be just the question
before us.
pass to tie consideration Of The question
0f the removal of Judge Loring and III
repeal Of the personal liberty bill. You an.
Know very well that Gov. Gardner stand
committed one way on these subjects, an
he does not expect 10 ret the vote OF an,
man who thinks Judge Loring ought TO b
removed, OF who thinks that the persona
LIBERTY bill ought TO be kept upon the statut
back. I put these two measures tUgethe
because they are really expressions q III
same principle. And What is that princi
ples II u this--that Massachusetts, ma
t,rte upon III citizens divided allegiane
INSTEAD ii double one; il forces ever
.sbieet 10 say whether he will be cit
al n Massachusetts, Or a citizen Of ID
rsitel states; whereas, every citizen Z
it.aehu.stts j.. and mast be, also citi1e
~ the United states. Tie personal liber
bdl pots the State Of Massachusetts, in q
attitsde Of direct hostility 70 the Genera
Gjseruinet. 50 does tie removal Of Judg
I.,riny. The position Of Massachusetts,
iu,, this: il treats the General Goyernmef
- hostile and foreign nation, whose Law
may be resisted BY force whenever they COZ
n.et With the public sentiment Of The STAT
nesd nat say TO YOU that this isa false doc
tines thai il Is wholly Inconsistent with
siuhd constitutional relation between q
d aersl Government and the several Stair