The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-12-14
EXTRACTS FROM
The Message Of Governor Wise,

taI import which stafes us in the face, and
OF which | must speak plainly to you, with
the hrn and manly purpose OF meeting dan
ger, and with no weak and wicked design OF
exciting agitation. That danger exists, OF
serious magnitude, there can be no doubt IN
the minds Of the most ealm aud rejecting.
and the way to avert it, in ali cases, is to
march up to it and meet it front to front. II
il has not grown too great already, it will
retire from collision; and it it has grown
strong enough already for the encounter, it
had better be met at once, for it will not di.
minish BY delay. believe in truth, that
the very policy Of the prime promoters of
this apparently mad movement is purely
tentatiye to try whether we will face the
danger which is now sealed in blood. five
stake the dare the aggression will become
more and more insolent; and, Il we do not,
that ii viii either trucke or meet Us in open
conflict to be subdued and, 10 either event,
our safety and the national peace will be
best secured By direct settlement at once
the sooner the better.
For series of years social and sectional
differences have been growing up, unhappl.
", between the States Of our Union and their
people. An evil spirit Of fanatirism has
seized negro slavery as the one subject OF
social reform, aud the one idea ot its aboil-
ton has seemed to madden whole masses Of
one entire section of the country. II enters
INTO their religion, into their education, into
their politics and prayers, into their courts
Of Justice, into their business, into their lie,
rislatures, into all classes OF their people,
the most respectable and most lawless, into
their pulpits and into their presses and school
houses, into their men, women and children
oil all ages, everywhere. 1t has trained three
generations, from childhoad up, IN moral and
social habits of hatred TO masters Of African
slaves In the United States. II turns not
upon slavery elsewhere. or against savehold
ers in any other country, but i especially
malignant and yindictise towards its own
countrymen, Tor the very reason that It is
bound to them by the sanction of consede
rate law. To set up that law to i is TO en-
rage il by the sight OF the law, because il il
bound by il. II has been taught by the 4
:beism of higher law (" than that OF
regular government bouad by constitutions
and statutes. Ii has been made TO believe
in the doctrine of absolute individual rights,
independent of all relations Of man 70 man
ii conventional and social form; and that
each man for himself his tie prerosatHe 10
set IN his conscience, ms viii and his judy
insnt over and above all legal enactmen;s
and social Institutions. Il has been nfame-,
by prostituted teachers and preachers and
presses 10 do and dare any crime and IL
consequences which may set mp its indlslda-
al supremacy over law and order. Ii has
been taught from the Senate Chamber totrust
10 the fatality Of an irrepressiDle conflict"
into which ii is bound to plunge. lis anti
Christ pulpit has breathed naught but insar-
feetinnary wrath into servants against their
masters, and has denounced our national
union as a covenant with death for recOgniz
ing property ia slaves and guaranteeing TO
II tie protection IL law. Ii has raised con.
trbat,ons in churches TO furnish arms and
money to such criminals as these 10 make a
war for empire Of settlement in our new
territories. Ii has trained them on the from.
tier and taught them the skill of the Indian
in savage warfare, and then turned them
back upon the oldest and largest siayeh0ld-
ing State 10 surprise one Of lis strongest
holds. It has organized in Canada and IRA.
yersed and corresponded thence To New Or
leans and from Boston 10 Iowa. Ii has es-
tablished spies every where, and has secret
sgents in the heart OF every slave State, and
has secret associations aud underground
railroads ]" IN every free STATE. Il enIisls in
fuenee and money At home and abroad. Il
~. seui romforters and councillors and syn.
esthy. ard would have sent rescue 20 these
a.sassins, ru5bers, murierers aud traitors.
whom II sent To lelon's graves. Ii has openly
anI seeretlv threatened vengeance on the
execution Of orr laws. And since their Vi.
olatlBn il has been deGaniiy proclaimed aloud
that " instruction i ne hsSson IF me hour y
mo, Of slaves only, but al are 70 be free to
rise 20 against fixed government, and no
government i 10 be allowed except Ole
aUtrays common sense of fis masses" arid no
protection IS 70 be permitted against that
power
Til. i. bat an ePitome, p's;n and untaf.
Bi,hed, without exsggefatigu. Wat is this
BIZ. anarcly Mat does il mean but Gun.
f5.ivn wurse c8Hl0UHdad," AMI tic over.
,hfog 0f 80 rights, Of al properly. Of all 20.
ssrumeat. Of III religion. ii al faie among
mgui NuthiH. but msl Fiji tan rGie anI
mistuit 81 lh .urh sentiments. 4. tiiese. There
tan be ~ compromise aith them, no tolpra.
fuu II item In safety IL aith seil.rf.peti
They ugst be met ani tfBshsj. u thes vi
crush -. o. or union viii ngu.sIAvehgldln.
states cannot continue.
For quarter Of century We have beef
persuaded 70 fgiDssr, AID patiently 10 val
i9f tas aaking sDd the working u The rnn
ssrsaiise element. 10 our sister states. VI
have bofne and iprboriie, aud saiied 10 vain
H- know that Sc have many SQUAD sinsef.
friend. IL the .si4FehpidIuz states. I
nav b. last tiIey are rgst ngmtrgu, lar VII
aJHOr ba aeis.t .Irb wrong. a. t.tse bu
nisb5G % lie df.grl.sd ta4' tie ron.sf,a
tive elements az p4sstf. wt.l.t the iabdl
tal afe artfrt, snd iNs iHttHerar last dHHu
is4ng. whti.t tie latter are increasing II
nambsfs and i1ree. Be- 4sse s Tie xvi
dcnte tth the tonsefatta elements BE-.
most powerful. - We lapk y t4s .edaai
and colleges. 10 ihe pulpit. ani elezF. an,
churches aud egngrt gatign-. e. the pEHss
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