The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-09-15

has exhausted herseIf to portray its beauty. |.
its justice, its equity, and the generous en-
it gives TO all men. But the
right Of suffrage with the mass OF Americans
exists not, except on paper. II is not to be
do not mean 10 deny it--that
man can vote iar man as he pleases but Is
he MT punished for 50 doings Is he not
deprived thereby Of privileges or preroga-
tiyes that belong to him as man, ar as one OF
class Of meni Party has usurped the Go |
!, ernment. it cannot be- denied. aud Furnishes
ar prnscribes all men whose manly indrpend
enee or sense OF justice rebel, against the
tyranny Of the machinery Of that party.
Freedom 81 oplnion. free speech, Tree thought,
or free action are as post,sel, iorb dden here
AS in rurkrysr RUSSIA. Indeed. IS NOT party
under our management al u. dr.pntism u
the worst Kind s-because II is the hespotism
Of .pon,ible demagognes, instead oi the
known, responsible ,lesp"t Can We vote
even as We please, submitting 10 the punish.
ment or prescription Are not cauruscs
called, or conventions held, for which all the
puppets have been selected in grog. shops or
oar. rooms without the least reference 10 our
wishes ar wants, and at timps u"known To
US; aud unless We y"te Tor the e'liCt ot this
caucus. or The candidates they grind out, are
not our votes us much drown away as il w
threw the ballots upon the chimney tfes
A. for freedom Of choice then, we the pen-
| ple) have not the least, except between the
two generally bad or unfit men 1T the two
or three parties that have got central Of the
political mae Chimes. aud then " grind CUT the
candidates. We mast ,0te for these candl.
dates, or throw away our sotes; and II we
do not vote for each aud all of the candidates
u our party thus " ground out" We are eS.
cluded from That party, and deprived ol all
power IN it, though we may approve 81 all
lis moral and political principles. The right
ut suffrage, then. exists but as an abstract
right, and only "n paper. the bait Tor dema
g0gues, While, practlcally, We men, made IN
the image oil God. have become bur voting
machines or REGISTERS 81 certain rdlcts. The
BRAIN that Go,i gave u. T. think, o. the soul
10 inspire Us, IL thus made no more VI nor
better than our muscles Or bone..
Ii was moi until Tins century, and until late
in il, that the system 0t raucuses or c0nsen.
tions thus subjected the people. The first
three ashington, Adams and
leiirrson-wrre nominated by what Is same-
times called spontaneous combustion = that
is to saw, there WAS an universal pubic voice
calling upon them 10 be Presidents or csndi.
dates. Madison and Mnroe. il NAV also be
added. perhap.. we're thus selected ard named
ar elected. The Cnngrpssirn CAUCUS, II j.
true, stepped in after Jeiierson's electlon and
recommended candidates. Ii never dictated
them. a. DO now our polit.r.l y ,linual t.on-
sentions but Tor this mere recommendation
the Congressional Caucus was attacked n
1924 and exploded before lS2S. Ia len q
lit, however, III iniinurlr base system Of ma.
ehinery has been substituted because
members Of Congress were elected hg the
people, and were thas, III same degree. re
spunsiblr: while the National C"nvra innist,
are melodies, elected b, nobody. aad respon
sib. 10 nobody !; IN pnigt u lat, mere "tilce
!. holders or office seekers. VIM in, a. Il were
, 4 sriI-cuns.itutrd Polish Diet, divide III,
: sovereign orsnvcrri.uis among themselves
10 tive tnrm ol rich uaIees his irrespuusl
! hia- nari,Isss ssH sssa.t 5faiod. nattoust n,a
: chinerv q IS which nav sHbyr,t- az c01apt
: the Siatrs. aud increase. tie expenses of Gp
srrnment to provide tie material II IRE
ward I" far ser'irs rendered 70 nnm nation
from thlrtcen a.iliians pr annum IN 1924 d
J.. q Adams, IA. tnnn hundred millon
IN 1855, Indeed. ,neh are thr rsl> II thi
system. and such is - tyr nui over all bn
the nfiier-h,ldrrs, and even "yer them. no tine
We presume. woD!b defend il Tor m"mrnt
: + we euuld provide az even name better
. Bat can there be ans thing worst: Nav. cal
there be ~; tang ~ cnrruptlng, % drmaral
lLnss A ~ ~ iuitrtt--ll,r Cnancp u biftl
. even might tura ~ .nmsthing itlrprntlen
, ur .up,l. unN and item: bat thr chances 81
F, CorApniinn irnd tp drive fnm The fee leo
: pie Of the country al msniines,. al, .ulr
ppnirucr, al pdiriotlsm. even wh"n p1trtnt
: ISM Is Indispensable e Rrppblb', c.uiH
ned elI.tence