The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-02-20


our national affairs. There may be occasions
al forays, such as occurred at harper's ferry;
but those who engage in them would be treat.
ed as traitors by the national and State gov
ernments, both North and South. But Sc
cesslon places the seeding States 10 direct
conflict with the general government An
energetic abolition President, who might
think he was doing Gods service to abolish
slavery, would want no better pretext 10 EN-
ploy the army and navy OF the United States
recruited 10 any desirable extent from
the lords Of New England and Canadian alb
oationists, combined with the free negroes
throughout the United States, and the slaves
Of the South. to come down upon US with the
oslensibe object Of crushing out a rebellion,
whilst their real object would be TO crush
out slavery.
II may. perhaps. be thought by some. that
in this ! am appealing TO the fears Of the
South. Far otherwise. Southern men are
devoid Of fear. Not lew Of them neither
fear God nor regard man. They have not
enough Of that conservative quality to pre-
vent them from acting rashly. Had it been
otherwise there would have been no seces-
sion. The union OF these States would have
been maintained in their integrity. and by
the exercise of wisdom and 6rmness, all our
grievances would have been redressed, and
all our just rights better secured in the Un~
ion than out Of II. and our beloved country.
instead Of becoming by word and hissiug
among the notions Of the earth, would have
gone on as heretofore in career OF improve.
ment that would have commanded the won.
der and admiration OF the world.
But suppose the secessionsts should sue
coed in detaching the whole Of the slave
States from the Onion, and uniting them ~ a
Southern confederacy. what then will they
have gained in the way Of additional securi.
~ Tor their slave property! We shall then
constitute an isolated slave coniederaey, with
the acknowledged right Of each member TO
secede at pleasure. We shall have turned
our backs upon one hundred and fifty thou
sand Of our friends in the Northern States
and made them our enemies. We shall have
abrogated the fugitive slave law, and thrown
OF the shield and protection Of the Constilu-
tion Of the United States. We shall be ex-
posed to line Of fifteen hundred miles Of
free.State frontier. with no natural barrier
against the escape OF our slaves into land
from whence they will never return. We
shall have pulled down with sacrllegious
hands The glorious temple Of liberty which
was built upon the tombs and cemented by
the blood Of our fathers. We shall cause
the hearts Of the lovers Of liberty in every
cline and quarter OF the globe 10 quail and
faint within them in view Of the sad failure
Of our model republic. We shall have done
all Of this without adding one iola to our a
bility 10 hold on 10 our slaves, that we did
not possess before we dissolved the Union.
On the contrary, we are eIhausting our re-
sources in making preparations to repel Ell
Their real or fancied invasion, as If conscious
in our own bosoms that We deserved the
wrath Of Heaven or the ayenging sword Of
our enemies.
But how will our slave nation be viewed
and treated by the balance Of mankind 7
Will the Northern people desist from their
efforts 70 abolish slavery Will they find
any difficulty in getting up crusade against
us, embracing nearly the whole civilized
world Shall we not be placed under the
ban. not only Of the Northern States. but Of
England and the nations Of continental Eu-
rope What will become Of the Munroe
Doctrine, IL We attempt TO add 70 our slave
Territory in the direction Of Mexico or Cen
trsl American Shall We not be hedged in
and confined 10 our present limits, by the
combined energies and opposition Of all the
enemies Of our peculiar institution While
al this will be realised in its toll force. an
other process will be going on. The impos
sibility Of holding slaves in safety IN the Dor.
der States would cause hem 10 be sent South.
ward, and thus these States would gradually
become abolitionised; while the eoncentra.
tion Of the slaves in the Southern States.
combined with the impossbility OF acquiring
additional Territory for slavery expansion,
would Ultimately Africanise the cotton States
Thus abolition would triumph over slavery,
all brought about by the madness aud folly
Of secessionists.
IN the foregoing remarks We have lef, out
Of view the perplexing question connected
with our postal arrangements; the payment Of
the national debt the division Of the public
property; the navigation Of the Mississippii
and many other questions which this genera
ton may NOT hope 10 see satisfactorily ad.
justed. We have left out Of view The desc.
laling wars; the blood aud carnage; the
sacked cities; the ruined commerce; the
psraIized agriculture; the grinding taxes
WINCH VIII sweep uko uesvhauhe Oiuauu
over The sunny plains and green sasannss o.
the South. a scourge from which nothing
short of the hand Of Omnipotence can
shield us. Every day since the commence
ment Of the secession movements has beer
iraught with imminent peril 10 the pesce o.
our country. Surely il there be set Of men
upon the face Of the green earth who deserve
aud will receive the execrations Of pcsterity
they are the Black Republicans Of the Noril
upon the one hand, and the leaders Of The sc
cession movements IN the South upon th'
other.
One word. fellow. citizens. IN relation 4
our proposed State Convention. There be
ing no conceivable business for such con
seniion 10 transact. save only 10 thrust Norl
Carolina out Of the Union. ] am opposed Z
convention Tor such a purpose, now an