The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-10-10
From the Memphis Enquirer.
MR. DUNCAN'S LETTER.

The author Of this letter, one III the lar.
gest Shareholders in the South, is. now SUI
journirg at Saratoga Springs, New York.
lie resides al Natchez. Miss, and the letter
was written 10 his partner, A. MrWilliams.
Esq, OF the Parish Of IT. Mary, in Louisiana
DR.. Duncan has trayersed the United States,
his attention being especially directed TO
the present political complications. aud his
opinions are entitled TO the highest consid.
erarions. as cunning from one whose interest
on The subject Of sectional dispute, forbids
the possibility Of anything but candid judg.
ment founded on the real merits Of the ques
tim. The decision Of such man on such a
subject ough, to be worth that Of whole brace
Of electors engaged in desperate scramble
Tor Office, notoriety, or any Of these subjects
20 allutirg TO the imaginations Of the Young
and thnughilrss. We hope the papers ul the
country wall hand the letter around 50 thar
thuse most interested, that is. everybody ex
cept the politicians, NAV see what ,ubstan-
tIal settler on Southern suil aRd al extensive
owner 81 slave property thinks OF disuni"a
We copy from the New Orleans Balletn:
Saratoga Springs. y. Y.
August is, 1850.
DEAR Sra :-It is-most strange to me that
any cotton or sugar planter should, for one
moment, allow The thought IL disunion to
enter his mind; and yet there are too mauy
by far too many, ] fear--sho indulge IN
such thought. Any man Of sense and reflee.
iion cannot fail TO see that, after disunIon.
we would BE- 10 no better condition IN any
one respect; and IN almost all respects inf.
uHf ale
sumo more Than one quarter of our products !;
Tor under a southern republic. there would
be no premium collected for imports, but All
derived from direct taxation, at an enormon.
expense. lf Lincoln is elected, there will
he strong effort to dissolve the Union 10 tie
extreme South. without waiting to test him
By his acts. This would be mnnstrou., IN.
deed; yet there is great fear Il will be al.
tempted. II Is the split d the Democratic
party. and consequent bitter hatfe and vim.
dictlse denuneiation which nov prevade the
course Of both wings, that will secure the
success 81 Bell and Everett IN Louisiana. A
party that has shown itself incapable Of gov.
erning itself. surely ought not TO be trusted
With the government Of the countfy. Moth.
ing can prevent the election Of Lincoln but
the withdrawal Of both Breckenridge and
Douglas. or an uprising Of the people, such
% there was 10 1910, in determination 10
put down both parties.
There now j. much talk Of uninn Of three
parties 10 this State New York. and Penn.
sylyania, 70 run one ticket only; this will
carry the election into .he House. Its icon.
eeded BY all that neither Breckinridge nor
Douglas can be elected. and that neither of
them ran obtain a majority ia al of the
Southern Ststes. IN my opinion, there Is
but one safe course, and that is to abolish all
party distinctions. and tie people unite on
Bell and Eyerelta as Union men. ff they can
be elected, we might feel AZ peace. quiet and
harmony, with q total cessation of al sec.
tionsl feeling and strife for the next twenty
years 70 come. And with such an assurance,
Southern property would immediately rise
~ value. u there b.. no such assurance--if
there be prospect Of continued strile--pro.
perry must depreciate; many men will be
deferred from purchasing or investing in
Southern securities by the apprehension Of
this continued sectional strife, and this con
tinsd threat of disunion. God alone knows
what Is TO be the issue Of this strife. n the
Union Is to be dissolved, I, for one, would be
Tor selling out my possessions Immediately.
STEPHEN DUNCAN.
s~>.s-ss>e>.,->~.~>-,.
Miss Elizabeth Blair, Of Mansfield, Obio.
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