The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-10-03
No. 2Oe2.
Correspondence between Ex- Speaker Orr
and Hon. Amos Kendall.
Ex-sPEAKER ora TO HON. AMOS KENDALL.

hAerEahLh oih 10 HON. AMOS KENDALL.
Anderson, s. c., Aug. Ig.
My Dear Sir: have received your favor
OF the 9th inst. Your age, experience and
ability, entitled your opinions to great weight
on every rejecting mind, aud regret 10
learn from your letter that your dissent from
my recommendation that the honor and safe
y OF the South require its prompt secession
from the Union. in the event of the election
OF black republican to the Presidency. You
say your mind is equally clear that the
south has long had peaceful remedy with
IN her own reach, and has it still, though i'm
pared by the recent conduct of some Of her
sons. You would greatly oblige me by
tall exposition Of your opinions upon that
point, as well as the remedy to be resorted
to BY Us. should the government, in Noyem-
Der, pass into the hands Of party whose de-
clared purposes is to destroy our property.
amounting in value at the present time to not
less than three billions one hundred and iifty
millions Of dollars.
Can Il be prudent, safe, or manly in the
South to submit 70 the domination of party
whose declared purpose is to destroy such an
amount oil property, and subyert our whole
social and industrial policys
In giancing at the evil and remedy, I in
yile specially your attention.
]. 10 the persistent refusal of many of the
Tree states, and to large bodies Of men in all
Of them. to execute the fugitive slave law.
2. To the untiring efforts of fanatics who
come to the slave states under the guise Of
preachers, teachers, &c., in inyeiglng away
our slaves, and TO the general sympathy with
their neiarious purposes, eyineed by the ia
ciities furnished them by the underground
railroad in spiriting away our slaves beyond
the reach Of their owners.
5. To the raid Of John Brown, and the
sympathy which his well merited execution
evoked.
4. 10 the recent insurrectionary move
ments IN Texas-projected and carried out
by abolition emissarles, where the incendia-
~ torch OF the slaves, lighted by abolition
traitors, has reduced to ashes one million Of
dollars worth Of property, and where the
timely discovery Of the hcIiish scheme alone
saved the lives Of thousands Of men, women
aud children.
These are the natural and necessary re-
suits OF the teachings of black repubIcanism;
and 4 we have such developments under an
administration which professes to guard our
constitutional rights, in the name Of Heasen
what NAV We not expect when great party
takes the gOyernmentand its machinery under
us control. ayowing openly its purposes TO
be the extirpation Of African slavery wherever
il exists
Is It wise, five do not mean to submit Ia
such consequences. to allow black republi-
can President TO be maugurated, and put him
10 possession the army, the navy, the treas
ury, the armories and arsenals, the public
property-in fact, the whole machinery of
the government. with lis appendicitis aud ap-
performances: II the South should think IN.
on this subject as do, no black republican
President would ever execute any law with
~ her borders, unless at the point Of the
baynnet, and over the dead bodies Of her
slain sons.
| In your letter you isay that you have not
taken me TO be one Of the class Of men In the
south who for years past have been making
aud seeking pretexts lor destroying the Un-
ion. YOU have not misiudged me nor my
designs. ! have profound and abiding az
ieetion for the Union Of our fathers. and deep
i u deplofe the existence of the causes which
are rapidly tending 10 its destruction. Du-
ring the Whnle ot my congressional career,
sought 20 iranquilize sectional strife. When
iirst entered the House, the abolition party,
headed By Giddings and WiIm0t, numbered
eight; Ten years have rolled away, and now
that party Is majority Of the whole House.
Is q not time that the South should begin to
look 70 her safety and independence
trust that the impending storm may be
iSertcl that Uur rights and the Union may
Jr saved; that lratsrnal regard may be re.
'ioeedi aud that our country may 20 on in the
highway ol prosperity that il has so success.
tally ttad Tor the la.,t seventy years. This
IS the aspiration Of ms heart. and yet am
painfully impressed with The conviction that
i will never be realized. am. very truly,
YOUR friend aud 0belient servant.
JAMES 4. ORR.
liVS ANS ksshAtl. wishnstoa, d. Z.