The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-10-12


They approve Of the Presidents proposal
to invade Mexico in time of profound peace,
and to take military possession OF Sonora
and chihuahua, without proyocation or ex-
cuse, under false pretexts. and in pursuance
-of the aggressive, filibustering, domineering
policy which is so destructive of our true in.
terests.
They are in favor of Mr.. Mason's bill--to
give to the President, without a declaration
oi war by Congress, to whom exclusively the
power is confded by the Constitution, the
power at his will and pleasure to wage war
on Mexico, the Central American Republic,
and all the Republics Of South America.
They are content to make US more hateful to
our Republican brethren on this hemisphere
than we are now; to persist in the policy Of
bullying the weak which Pierce inaugurated
at Greytown and Buchanan initiated in Par
aguay to take the last step on the retrograde
path from Ciay's policy Of Cancellation to
Poik's policy Of conquest; and this at the
mere will OF the President.
They are willing to insult Spain by pro-
posing to purchase Cuba, which she will no
more sell than we will Washington to bull
ly her into selling by threats of taking it to
trust TO the mere discretionary keeping of
the President $4,000 900, to be paid BY him
TO Spanish officials on terms not known or
approved by the Senate, and liable in the
mean time to be so deposited as to accom-
Plush any political purpose the President NAV
oe weak or wicked enough to permit Such
is their confidence in his honesty.
They are anx'o1s TO add Cuba to the Uni
ted States, with its yariegated, mixed, AMI.
degraded population of alien race, at an ex-
pense OF $500, 900, 900, to be paid out Of an
empty Treasury. or to be saddled for gene
rations ON our backs, perhaps never to be
removed The beginning of a perpetual and
crushing debt like that of England-the in
terest alone slS, 100000 per annum .rr.
They approve Of his veto Of the agricultu.
raj and mechanical college bill of Mr.. Nor.
rell, whereby Maryland is deprived of the
proceeds OF twenty thousand acres of land
tor each Representative to endow her magnifi-
cent agricultural college just erected. while
every Western State has vast reservations
granted her Tor public schools, &C.; millions
OF acres are yearly given for railroads and
bounty lands. The farmers and mechanics
Of Maryland will be apt to think that the
Constitution which allows the one cannot
forbid the other.
President Buchanan dedicated the whole
power, patronage, and blandishment of his
Administration TO force on the whole mass
OF the people of Kansas constitution which
a paltry handful of men had made, and which
the people had scOrned and repudiated en-
masse. Ii is natural that Democrats in Ma
ryland should approve the government OF the
majority by the minority. for then only are
they likely to carry the State. The present
aspect OF the country seems to commend IL
to the favorable consideration Of all Demo.
Gratis.
They approve Of tariff with specific du-
ties proposed by the President, and Of a Ia
riif with adyaiorem duties prepared by Mr..
Cobb, his Secretary Of the Treasury, at the
same time.
They think he is right in proposing bank.
rupt law Tor the banks, BY which, in times Of
distress. pressure will be crowded into pros.
tra,ion. suspension into bankruptcy, crisis
into more cruel agony than heretOlore-a
policy likely TO commend itself TO our mer-
chants two years after 1857.
They think it right that the expenditure
OF the Government should swell from $50.
10000 in President Ftllmore's last wear.
and s1i 100000 in President Picrce's last
year. 10 ssi 900, 900 in President Buchanan's
iirs', and TO SSS 500. 900 in his second year
--ior does i not all go in refreshing streams
among the iaithfuls
Such are some OF the public acts Of this Adj
There are others, not, perhaps,
intended to be public. but which adverse
late and family guarrcls have made public,
anI lssa
OF the Maryland Democrats! The inyesti.
eating committees have widened the bases
Of the Maryland Democratic platform.
But these things have destroyed it in the
minds Of honest men 10 Maryland, and
throughout the Union. Full two.thirds of
the people Uf the Union States, in my opin.
ion. are weary Of Democratic domination,
aud anxious TO expel them from power. So
were they in lSjG-and failed. A like fail
are will wait On like policy; and disasters
which no tongue can tell will plague US for
our folly.
Success is the highest Of duties, for by il
alone can we rescue the industry Of the eoun.
Try from its present prostration. the iron in.
teresis from depression, the manufacturing
Interests IrUm ruin, the mechanical class
irnm penur! by It alone can We adjust the
iatih inr tie protection Of American labor
from trrci.n ,ab ", our commerce against the
dangers VI coast and river navigation, the
peace aud honor ef the country against the
Cuban projects Of Democratic aspirants, and
the legalizatlOn nI the African slave trade
BY the repeal d the penal lawson tie stale
preicXt. 80 fatal TO the Missouri paeifiCation,
that they ace an insult to Southern men,
slur on slavery IN the States. By success
only can the Government be purgel Of the
corruption peryading il; the squanderiug OF
the peoples money stopped the morals and
character Of the nation fully represented in
the officers by whom alone the Government
speaks
How, then, can success be accomplished
In my judgmenLby the union Of the whole
bpdy Of those opp6ed to the administration
Of President Pierce and President Buchanan,
~ sume man OT ability and character, not
offensive 10 either tie North Or tile south.