The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-10-17
GOOD ADVICE.
From the Louisville. Journal

of the day. If the danger Of disnnion is not
already imminent. a br0ongation OF the sec /
tional strife can result ultimately IN nothing
elsa That sectional strife will not cease till
~e have peace ON the slavery question. Such
Deace can never come from mere party con,
Aicfa on the subject. II can never be obtain
I'D by party conquest. party victory IS
ALWAYS the signal Of preparation Tor a new
battle. Peace can come only from cessa-
tion Of the conflict. That il can and will
come from such cessation We have proof in
che memorable instanes Of the Monroe "era
Of good feeling"
Nei,aes vsn compromise be conquered
by party Conflicts Compromise means mu-
ru concession. Under the intiuence Of those
who have long had control Of public sentl-
ment, North and South, neither section will
fnake any express concession. The squatter
sovereignty dogma requires express cunces-
sions troni both sections, and hence that mode
.,fcemptomise is an utter impracticability.
I'm the 'nresent excited state Of the popular
mind. there can be no defined compromise on
auy part Of the slavery question, and per-
hans none such can ever hereafter be made.
We an know, that, if even the compromises
In the constitution were now to be made, i
could not be done. Besides, the failure OF
the souatter sovereignty dogma in Kansas As
= peare.e giving remedy must forever condemn
II AZ practical expedient; and its failure IN
obtaining electoral votes will prevent It's ever
again being adopted as party platform.
The slave question broke up the Wing party
then the American party, aud at last the
xreat harmonious unterri6ea" itself How
preposterous then to expect at this day any
agreed, we'll defined, specific compromise on
the subject. There is no feeling among men
of such power TO bind them together as that
of marty spirit and party affection. When
these fail, We may well believe that nothing
can conquer sectional prejudice,
The consolidation Of the South upon sec
sional issue has proven what all men Of sense
foresaw or should have foreseen thatit would
be. the most futile ofeXpedients. Its neces.
nary effect has been to consolidate and sec
xionaIize the superior numbers OF the NORTH
into mastery of the subject IN dispute. I'M;
con soIidation of sectionasm has resulted to
the nation at large in nothing but the destruc.
zion Of that lralernal feeling, which Is the
best cohesive lgament Of the Union, and the
ouly true basis Of permanent national pros
perIty. The gain 10 the North has been the
practical re-opening Of the African slave
trade. whilst the gain to the South has been
the opportunity for an abortlye eHort to make
Kansas slave State. Such must always be
the result Of consolidated sectionaiism. The
bullying Of section against section has ceased
20 have any effect but that of making the
bulIies riJiculeus. Neither the eighteen nor
.he fifteen States can be bullied or conquered
into submission 10 any deprivation OF right
on the slave or any other sectional question
Stop the fight, give the people time TO COO
down from the present tone 81 sectional e.
citement, and then everything mag be expee-
ted from their mutual icrbearance for the
make Of coneiliation. The proof OF this lies
in the fact that for sixty years the govern
ment was successfully and harmoniously ad-
ministered under the influence Of such for
besranee, slavery being permitted and pro-
tected ia all suitable climates, and prohibl'
ted only where climate imposed sterner IN
terdict than that Of law. Until the slave
question became a distinct party issue, 4
never obtained an injuriOusly disturbing IN
fuence over national affairs. Take i nov
out Of party politics, LEI cease for the pres
ent TO be the controlling party issue, aud We
shall restore a condition OF national feeling
which will not only permit but insure the
disposal ofsll practical slave questions, which
NAV hereafter arise. upOB principles OF mu-
tual cancellation and forbearance. This con-
dition Of NATIONAL feeling most certainly cam
not be brought about BY letting either Of the
sectional parties or the squatter-soSereigniy
marty obtain ! victory over the other parties
N the present contest. The only way By
which Che nation can put down sectionallsm
and conquer for itself permanent peace 90
she slave question IL BY defeating all three
Of these parties. That peace the national
heart Graves with an intense longing. TWAS
upon faith in the pledge contained IN the
Democratic platform Of 1859, TO :" diseon-
fiaue the further agitation OF the slave qges.
iion 10 or out Of Congress" that It's candidate
ia that year received tsrotes Of twenty.sey.
en- cut Of ihirty.one States. u was because
of the supposed breach d that pledge that the
Republican party 30 rapidly obtained such
enormous strength. 10 afford esen the re-.
motest chance u obtaining tue desired peace,
the government must be transferred 70 men
whs will faithfully carry out the principle o.
that pledge By ignoring for the present the
whole slave question as test OF party poll.
tics, and prescribing no man or set Of men
an account Of rational opinions upon tbstsub'
jeet.
Te vote for the TIVE men who have been
nominated 70 carry cot that policy requires
40 retracllon or Surrender of former opinions
and principles. II requires oniy the iprbear-
ing to attempt the enforcing ~ present pfiH-
ciples and opiniens 81 no political bearing
on any existing sectional interest, and for
which there can probably be 10 ptsctlesl use
during the next twenty years. When the
occasion does arise, hen every man will be
perfectly a, liberty, ubiramfaellsd BY his
present action. 60 vote as his opinion u eH
pediency and justice may then dictate, free
from the influence Of any party ties.
There never we're two men better ealeula.
ted than Bell and Everett, BY age. temper.
and past career, 70 LEAD tile movement toward