The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-12-01

means were used to murder him in the esti-
nation Of the Southern people. He was to
be borne away upon the angry Southern cur
rent dashed into fury by delasion and decep-
ton, so far from all public considerations
and sympathles as never to have IT in his
power to explain the force and fraud mem
toned BY Mr.. Hammond to his friends in
South Carolina. So much is there OF these
Lecompton frauds, that time is required to
read, study, and understand them. But
their history win be written. They will be.
come memorable part Of American history,
and in it there will be much Of biography.
The South Carolina Senator shows common
dable forecast in telling part Of il in adj
vance. When it is said and shown, as it
surely will be. that the Lecompton Conyen-
ton was called without the authority of law
that only one half the counties Of Kansas
were permitted to send delegates to this mi.
nority Convention that, Of sixty delegates
thus unfairly elected, only twenty eight
were for Lecompton-and yet, by adjourn
ment and juggling, these twenty-eight dele
gates acting as a majority Of a quorum, went
out and sent Lecompton to Congress for the
Constitution Of Kansas. against the known
wishes OF nine tenths Of her people, and that
President Buchanan and his political friends
attempted to take advantage of these circum-
stances to force Constitution on the people
of Kansas, The half ,cM MOI be fold The
swindling and prejuries by which these
most disgusting as well as strange scenes Of
force and fraud" were perfected, will also be
told. And when they are truly detailed, as
m osi assuredly they ,riH be. then will it appear
in the North, il not in the South, what the
. President meant by the Green amendment,
. and what he meant when he said in his spe-
. cial Lecompton message in substance, that
! the surest and quickest way to get clear Of
slavery in Kansas, was to admit her under
the Lecompton Constitution.
The Missouri Compromise is repealed and
can never be restored. The nation j. com.
i mtted to the policy Of non.intersention,-
that is. let the people Of each territory when
: they come to form for themselves State
Government. freely and fairly determine
!. the question of slavery for themselves. X
/ make this a useful and peaceful policy, The
rule must be fairly and honestly observed il
I all cases. To claim its observance on the
! part Of the free States successfully. we mus
Z fairly and honestly conform to it o. the par
e Of the Slave States. Suppose the South b.
n fraud. had forced Lecompton on Kansas. ant
e bv the same system Of force and fraud,
n portion Of the settlers, anti slavery in senti
,e ment. in Northern Texas or in Arizona
!. should under similar circumstances, get "
N Convention. choosing delegates from par
!. Of the counties. frame and present Ire
IN State Constitution 70 Congress for tile ad
i. mission Of State, when il was well know
IN that nine tenihs Of the people were slay
s, owners or pro slavery in sentiment, VIVA
j. Southern man, the question thus reversed
>. would dare 10 vote 70 admit Southern pro
i slavery people as 4 State under an anti-slaye
10 nv Constitution Whenever Congress sha
II force under any circumstances, an antislatt
IN ~ Constitution on pro.slatery people, fhe
~ indeed, will the rule uf mn intervention
a repealed, and gone. The South. il she e.
in poets to be proStted bs this rule, shoul
ri strickly adhere 10 il herself, and then 81
I'd may fairly and justly demand us observaac
ne on the part OF the esnrth. She should tak
.. no p,rt in setting precedent thai NAV
en used against her. We have right 70 a
40 Northern men 10 vote for SLAVERY Const
10 tuition for pro slavery people. IL Hfy ,ci
i, do This, and ak to be excused from forcing
IL lpro-slayery Constitution on an anti slaves
on people, We have no real cause nf complain
4. Whenever Southern politicians ak moi
g. than tiis. they give fresh life and yigor
the Abolition party"