The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-01-25

secret crusades, compared with which an O.
pen invasion by foreign enemies would be
blessing. believe, however, that not one
cent has yet been given TO set on loot--or
even to encourage when proposed - any
plausible enterprise fur the benefit Of the
slave.
In the providence of God some of these
people have been placed under my care.
My responsibilities have pressed heavily up
on me ; nor have failed to seek from God,
aud from the wisdom Of the wisest men, a
knowledge Of my duty to them. | am no
politician, seeking to make capital of this
dangerous subject. arm Christian, seek
my 10 obey God in all things. And willing
to make great sacrifices, to reduce myself
and family to comparative poverty, if could
Improve their condition. have twice made
osertures to men Of influence and wealth at
the North--once publicly, in a correspond.
ence with DIR. WayIand. and once more pri.
sately-and ! have, in all sincerity, invited
one, or two. or Fifty, to manifest willing
ness to part with even pittance Of their
wealth, aud then to show me what could be
done to promote the happiness and welfare
o. these slaves. But not single response
have ever heard whispered. While wri.
ting the first Of these propositions there was
under my roof IN Carolina violent abolition
Isl from New England, man Of great wealth.
| read the letter TO him before il was sent.
aud he expressed his astonishment at nv
yentsring on such step; but neither he nor
any other man has intimated a willingness
to part with money, that the negro might
be rescued from what they profess to regard
as deplorabe abyss of misery.
Yet the South is denounced for not at
once lmmolating four thousand millions of
property guaranteed to them by the constitu.
ton; Tor not at once abandoning to weeds
and brambles millions Of fertile acres; for
not breaking up their entire social system,
and either driving their servants from their
comfortable homes. 10 become vasabonds in
other States, which will again drive them out
oi their borders--or else harboring in their
midst hordes OF Disconnected, indolent va
grants, utterly unfit for freedom, who would
certainly be exterminsted, unless in nero
they were again reduced to seryitude. BE-
cause they will not do all this; will not in
filct this suicidal wrong upon themselves, and
Try this fatal experiment upon the servants
they lose-because they will not thus ruin
their families, and desolate their hearths and
homes, and all this in violation Of their best
convictions of duty, they are to be the OBJ
Jects oil incessant calumny, TO be pillased
and murdered in cold blood by their own
leliow-cItzens. VIM are heroes and martyrs
tor doing this butchery.
/ Il. Mo-, h.l..y. ,I,.t ,ba n,a..l:..sk.. r.
KIND master is, at this time, grea, blessing
TO the African. Ii emancipation is ever to
take place, it will be gradually. aud under
the mud. but resistless influence Of the Gus
pei. Whether slavery be an evil or not, we
at the South did not bring these Africans here
I'VE protested against their introduction.
The true friend Of the African is at the South.
aud thousands OF hearts there are seeking 10
know what can be done for this race. There
must be some limits to human responsibility,
and man in New England has no more right
to interfere with the institutions Of Virginia,
than he has to interfere with those 81 Eng.
land or France. All such interference will be
repealed by the master. but il will prove inju.
rious to the slave. Dr. Claiming was regard.
ed as leading aboitIonIst in his day but
could that noble man now rise up, he would
stand sghast at the Madness which is rife
everywhere on this subject. "One great
principle, which we would lay down as im.
moyably true, is. that il good work cannot
be carried on by the calm, self-contrOlled,
benevolent spirit Of Christianity. then the
time for doing IL has not crne." Such was
his language, when opposing slavery. Were
he now living. the delirious spirit Of the day
would denounce him, as it denounced Mr..
Webster, and now denounces you aud every
true patria. Nay, even Mr.. Byecher is
abused as not truculent enough.
Jesus saw slavery all around him. Did
he seek TO employ force lie said All
power 10 heaven and earth is given unto me,
therefore, 20 teach, go preach he gospel"
No language can express my love for this
Union. others speak Of the blessing. il con.
ters; regard the Union itself a. tie great
est blessing and other advantages chiefly
70 be priced becaase they corroborate and
perpetuate the Union. Hitherto have smiI. I
ed At III croAking about disunion now feel
that the Union = 70 imminent danger. Tie
tocsin Of rebellion is heard from many quar-
tiers. Il i written IN the book % Genesis,
tnat Wnen heOecca, IN danger u expiring,
cried % God 10 know the cause Il the strange +
panss by which her frame was conyulsed, i
the angel replied. Thou earliest two hos
tIle nations 10 thy bosom" Unless Heaven
interposes, this land must be rent and torn
BY two nations burning with the fiercest hos.
lility. and engaged III fra,ricidal and most
horrible warfare. | rejoice that there are
yet spared Us suine Iuen Of the old reyolu.
tionsry stamp; men with hearts like yours.
10 SOUND the alarm ere il is too late, and TO
rally to the cause Of the Union al who are
worthy % be citizens Of this glorious Repub.
&c. With great esteem. my dear Sir,
an sincerely you're,
RID. FULLER.
Baltimore, December 10, 1889
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