The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-12-01
BY REauFsT.l
From he Greensborough Patriot.

II H..
rnafsssiou the frauds Nv which the Lecomp-
Ton Bill was attempted to be forced upon the .
neople Of Kansas, we trust that the South.
ern.neople will begin to sec that the oppo-
pents OF the bill, so far from being chargeabie
with Abolifionism, we're the real friends OF
the South and the Union.
We wish that every voter in North Caro-.
dina could see and read this speech Of the
south Carolina democratic Senator. We
have not room in our columns for the whole
speech, and even If we had, our circulation -
TOO limited TO reach one-twentieth part 81
the voters of the State. We have, however.
taken occasion to notice this speech editori-
ally, and that we may bring said notice TO
the attention Of others besides our readers
we concluded 10 issue small extra.
Hon. J. II. Hammond.
This Senator from the State Of South Car.
olina, in a speech delivered at barnweii
Court House the eth October. speaking Of
The Kansas and Nebraska act passed BY Con-
gress four years ago, SAID: II,
IL made up nv mind then that this bill
was fraught with trouble and deluslon 70 the
South, and so expressed myself on all suitable
0ccssishs."
After explaining the two features Of the bill
he proceeded to saw:
But this bill with these features, neither
Of them Of any practical Importance, magni.
fed and exaggerated by orators and newsPs-
pers into great Southern victory, led the
South into the deluson, that Kansas might
be made slave State, and induced tito form
IN false and useless issue. which has kept
The whole country in tsrnoil for the last fosr
years. and gave fresh life and rigor 70 tie
-.9boiition party"
Here is the truth though late, It comes at
last. Never was there greater truth, sus-
tanned by experience and actual facts and OBJ.
seryations, than that the Democratic editors
and orators for the last four years in the South
have, by a false and useless issue, and mag
niied exaggerated assurance. held our people
in turmoil and deiueion, giving /" fresh life
and rigor 10 The Abolition parfy.a The cleo
ti0ns recently held in the free States prove
this conclusiyely 10 every candid mind.
II IS now admitted that the whole policy
IS delusion. useless, false, and the actual
effects and results prove. that thereby these
Southern Editors and Democratic Orators
have been giving aid and comfort" !" fresh
life aud rigor 10 tie .4bolition parry When
Mr.. Fillmore lett the Presidential chair, the
Abolition party was dead. The voice OF Ab,
oIitionism was hlshed-silent. Sectional
strife was ended. The cry with the good
and true men Of the two great Wing anC
Democratic parties from Maine to Florida
aad from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, wa;
down with the slavery agitation, down witt
sectional agitation and for the Inauguration
of this sound conservative national policy
promising so much peace, 50 much real ant
substantial good. Praises for Mr.. Flllmor'
were in the mouths Of all. His alministra
zion was pronounced " Washington-lke.'
In Two wears this " Wsshington-llke pol
icy was changed. and the result proves 70 b
nothing bat turmoil, false and useless delu
sions giving fresh life and yigor 70 the Alb
clifton party No political course based o.
falsehood and delusion. and which in actua
result gives life and yigor to our enemy, cal
be Of any good or service 10 the South, Q
tend 10 the preservation Of Southern right
or Southern institutions. All who, by false
hood and delusion, have deceived their South
ern friends and given fresh life and yigor I
their enemies. deserve the scorn and con
Tempt II ali whom they lave deceived an
deladed
Had the resolutions OF the two great par
ties, Wing and Democratic. passed in the
national conventions, against slavery agits
tian At Baltimore IN 1852, been adhered 4
as they were for two years, aud until ate
Democrat became President, by pledgiD
I0ysIfv 10 them, would sny sane man no
think Inst The Abolition party this day woul
have the lie and sigor which the recer
elections show and prove that il hass lila
this Washington like policy, set On foot %
der Mr. Riisnore's Administration, been pei
severed III, does ans man believe that an
Senator Ii any State. like William II. Sew
ard. would dare to ST n public oratoi
that tie issue now before tile people q III
Yrea. UaiDn is" whether the cotton an
rice fields III South Carolina, and the sugi
plantations af Louisiana shaa Ultimately
TILED ~ free labor, and Charleston and Ne
Orleans become marss fDr legitimate me
chaniise alons. Of whether tie rye AMI whei
field. 81 Massachusetts, and New York sha
be again surrendered BY Their farmers
tlase culture, and tie production II slave
and Boston and New Yofk become on
more markets fOr trade 10 tae bodies a
souls Of men"
These are tie hendi.h sentiments. ar
tksse are lie fearful issaes, Which the j.
false and delasiye pulley &c sectional agit
tion has brought about. By giving = lresh 4
aad rigor 70 tie .7Joiition purity" and viii
would nave been certainly crushed out Al
forever put down. had Fiiimore's policy be-
continued, 70 tie great JOY, peace, salst
happiness and prosperity of this great naiio
And these are the sentiments and issue
which X il The mission Of the good. wise, Al
patriotic men of al sections 81 this gre
country 10 PIT down. They, their sen
ments and issues. must and will be put doa
Bot Il never will Ur can be BIZ men, "
pander 10 sectional prejudice and erciteme
men who, 10 disregard 81 the sage adsicl
and solemn warning. of the Father Of
eountr,. refuse 10 cultivate fraternal fel
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