The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-10-03


industrial policy n !.
Ina subsequent part Of your letter you call
my attention to certain grievances endured
by the South. and conclude your commenta-
~ thereon as follows, viz;
els it wise, If we do not intend 70 submit
to such consequences, ia allow black re-
publican President to be inangurated, and
nut him in possession Of the army, the navy,
the treasury. the armOries and arsenals, the
public pronerty-in fact the whole machinery
Of the government, with its appendicitis and
appertenances II the South should think
upon this subject as do, no black republic
can President should ever execute any law
within her borders, unless at the point ofthe
bayonet, and over tie dead bodies OF her slain
sons"
shudder at such sentiments coming from
one whose sincerity cannot doubt. The
time was when 1900 men rendered their
services to the President to aid him, il neces-
sary, 10 executing the laws OF the United
States, the time will come when 100000
will volunteer for like purpose, should re-
sstance be made to Ills legitimate authority,
no matter BY what party he may be elected.
There seems TO me to be, in the course re-
commended to the South, in the event Of Mr..
Lincoln's election TO the Presidency, fatui-
ty little short Of madness. Would you pull
down the canopy of heaven because wrong
and crime exist beneath it Would ynu
break up the earth upon which we tread be-
cause earthquakes sometimes heaye il and
pestence walks its surface? This Union,
sir. is too precious to the people il protects,
nj nd m
ken up, even should black republican be
elected President next November. Should
the attempt be made, an united North and
fhree.fourths Of the divided SoLth, would
spring to the rescue. No, no, the remedy
for the evils of which you justly complain
are to be found within the Union, and not
among its bloody ruins.
admit that the grievances which you emu
merate are hard TO be borne; buta few South
ern men are not without responsibility for
their existence. The general sentiment Of
the country North and South, at the close Of
The revolutionary var, was anti-slayery. II
has changed in the South, but remains un.
changed in the North. There, however. i
has been reused to unwonted activity by thu
preaehinss OF fanatics and the denunciation
of political demagogues, aided not little b,
the arts, the language, and the VIGILANCE 0
Southern disunionists.
1t is needless to give in detail all the cause
which have brought the politics of the coun.
try to their present deporable condition
Suffice il 10 say that you have long had in
the South small party of able men whose
aim has been to DESTROY the Union that, as
preliminary to their main design, they have
sought to break up the Democratic party
that their means for accomplishing this END
were TO act with il, and force upon il every
possible issue obnoxious TO the general senti
ment Of the North: that they have dragged
after them the true Union men Of the South
partly through their fears Of being consider
ed laggard in their devotion TO Southern in
terests, through ambition for political distinc.
ton; to make the Democratic party as obi
Gus as possible at the North, they became
the advocates Of slavery on principle, justin
ed the African slave trade, and denounced
the laws prohibiting il. By these acts, anC
frequent threats Of disunion, they enabled
the enemies of Democracy 10 the North Il
denounce them as pro-slayery men, and t.
all this they added occasional tants that they
were no more 10 be relied upon for the pro-
lection of Southern rights than their oppo
nsnts. By these means the Democratic par.
" was reduced before the last presidentia
election to minority 10 most Of the North
ern states, and in the residue had the utmos
difficulty in maintaining their sseendency
To the meantime, the union men in the South
had measurably ceased TO consider the Dem
oerstie party as friendly TO the Union; ant
the union sentiment, IN tie border slave states
whose interest ID is preservation is preem
inent, sought expression through the Ameri
can party. To such an extent had the Dem
ocratic party been weakened BY the insidi.
Gus policy Of their disuHion allies, that they
had the utmost difficulty in eleeting an old
practical statesman over a young man VIII
had nothing 20 recommend him beyond few
successful explorations Of our wilderness ter
ritofy.
There were those who foresaw that longe
efiilalion with Southern disunionists wO1ll
inevitably destroy tie ascendency 81 the Dem
ocratie party, and a feeble and ffuitess ellior
was made to induce the President to Lay III
foundations Of his administration on the rocl
Of the Union, and cut loose from those VIII
were seeking 10 destroy il. For reasons u
doubt patriotic. bot to me inexplicable, th,
reverse Of that policy was pursued. Th,
support 81 the Leeompton constitution, which
the country generality believed TO be fraud
MAS made the test Of democracy one lead
ing Democrat after another was prescribe,
because they would not submit to the test
and az Il 70 deprive Northern Democrats o
the last hope Of successfully sindieating th'
rights u tie South. an act Of Congress wa
passed for the admission 81 Kansas INTO iii
Un,on u once, provided she would become
slateholding state, bat postponed her admis
sion indefinitely IL she refused.
II your Published letter you justly con
demn tie seceders FIRM Tie Charleston con
sen,iOn, who, YOU think, ought to have fe
NAMED aud prevented the nomination Of {
candidate ahO i obnoxious to the south
Do you not perceive. sif, that lie secession