The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-04-28
From the New Orleans Picsyane.
POLITICAL QUACKERY.

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POLITICAL QUACKERY.
We have all heard Of the quack doctor who
undertook to heal every disease with the same
remedy. II was penacea for "iits;' and.
whenever patients we're brought TO him. he
a certain cure ifhe could only throw
them in,o's fis." He 60, thriving practice.
it is said. By persuading everybody that had
any ailmen, that they we're going to have
/" Cts" aud that he was the only man 10 save |
them. ~
We have in the South good many poi.i-
cal preachers and teachers Of similar con-
yulsive school.
They will not allow that there is any poll.
teal or social question worth thinking q
except the negro question. and in their par.
tic ular way, or that there is any way oil
dealing with j, but under their direction
Every malady Of the State, or disorder oil
the times, is resolved into some premoni'
tory or symptom Of Abolilionism; and ne
infallible nos,rum is disunion. Setting oat
with This idea, they are very dogmatca'
on signs and symptoms. Everybody VINO
does no, think with them On every branch oil
any question sprinsing out Of the slavery DIS
cussion--and sometimes on questions not pro-
perly connected with il at all--is getting the
Northern disease, and mus, be treated Tor
"fls." Eve,y man in The Northern States
who is not in favor Of the admission Of Kan
sas with the Lecomp,on constitution is an Abo'
litionisl without grace.
Every man al The South who is 10 favor Of
The admission Of Kansas with the pra-slavery
constitution is al Abolninnisl. 100, il he thinks
thai Kansas will nevertheless be free State.
Every Southern man who opposes the admis-
son Of Kansas, because he thinks II was not
fairly made. and tina, i, cannot stand, IS not
much better Than an Abnliiinnist prnper.-
Gov. Wise If Virginia, Mr.. Bell. Of Tennes-
see, aud senator Crittenden, Of Kentucky, are
almost Abolitionists on this ground, and 50
are great part Of Kentucky and Maryland.
They are sci down as badly diseased and ln-
durable unless they can be ihrown into hts
Oder questions II grave momen. and wider
Consequences, affecting the whole Internal and
social sia rs within a STATE, and requiring The
most delicate handling and full investigation,
ARE dealt with in The same summary aud dicta'
,orIal STYLE. IL some quarters The revival oi
The ,lirecl slave trade IN Africans from The
coast, il affirmed 10 be- a necessity Tor The
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10 be, under the present power oi Government
II i pressed wIih an insisting aud pre>uinp'
nous lone, which Announces thai whoever dis
senls will before long be classed as an Abol.
iiOnis,.
In snber earnest there is a great deal io'
much OF this s,sirm u brow bearing and ORA
guanius. this hurrying up Of duub ful issues
aud extreme measures, aud because they &c
notofitty and snmrumes only no,oflety--de
manding hem To be received as tests, and
Illuminating dvnu6e iaiions against all WIN are
not convinced, or Who ask lime 10 think. The
Sou.h gains nothing ~ dignity d character
Or force 81 isiiion by This intolerant iarcinI
of issues, which cannst command the assent
Il large e-ssrs among .ui selves, and paradin:
The inesi,.ble differences ~ ra,lIesl dissen
siens. Il j. a prrilous abuse 81 words
where word, are substantial hiags, 10 brIns
such phrases as are hiPpatiy ar snsr,l,
thrown about between Sou hern uIen. lntD The
discussion of questions among ihrmselSe'
when ihey can have No appicaIon bui one o
Genuinely and 80 effect but Iha d irrllatlon
Ilmakrs hem, a. respecs others, mere can
words, which lo,e their significance when up
, piled to our real eHemirs, on real and practi
cal issues. 81 which there are enough arrayet
agains; u TO need our wsichful aud und yi,let
care, and The compact resistance Of unlle'
! hears aud councils. II Is wprse Than folly 4
bring lie aciics d hostile camps into The c"n
: lrn,eIsIe. about sociai questions within ~
Souh. and asdaciausly sligmatrze as alien
; aud enemies, those Of our own peeple. wis
: will not belie,e their own CONVICTIONS Of VIA
/ Is wise and beneficial to the Soath. 10 orde
ta.lollom new lights. held lorII n tempe
Of lntulrraLir ,licia,Ion. Il is "a her 81 iie n
zane Character Of liit ipiestine discard shic
: lfr6sared the fall Of Jerusalem. wien its .,
l,abiani. we're fercely struggling with eae
p,hrr wiillia the ei.y. While Titus aud BIS l.
gions we're assaulling the walls. II We rhu
these discords. We can command better 10
ture 10 good cause; but the pracllce 81 th
!, lContai.ses must be discarded.
The charlaans may throw Us into the dc
I, sired liis." bat their panscea Is quite 4
: likely ~ kill a. cure.
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