The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-01-23
From The Newbsrn Progress.
OUR POSITION.

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We have all along said that, while The
North had sinned long and previously the
South was not altogether blsmeless. We al
the South had but little to answer for up to
the assembling Of the Charleston Convention,
but there and then we committed the hrst
great sin by suffering bad men to thwart the
will Of the people and inaugurate state 81
things which they intended and desired
should result in the election Of Black Re-
publican, in order TO give them the coveted
" over act" for dIsolying the Union and
since that time We have sinned and that con.
tinually. There must be return to modera.
ton, mutual forbcarance and common sense
before any settlement can be hoped for
Let as then quiet our nerves and reason 4
while.
We like the following from the New York
EJpress, which contains much truth and CON.
mon sense:
We MUST ALL Do PLIGHT
II wss wrong. ccnfes.edly wrong in the Re-
publicans 10 enact their Personal Liberty
bills, They are all owning Up TO il. all con-
fess IL, except the Wild men, the mad men,
the mere rraise.Gnd Barcelona. people
in the party.
II was wrong 70 organize mere geogra-
phical party against the th.--wrnng, all
wrong The fact that the Father d his
coantry expressly fure-warned Us all against
this ought 10 have put stop 70 il al the
start.
Il IS wrong. al wrong, TO use Southern
blnod and Southern money 70 scgure CON.
mon territory, and then 70 monopllze il all
for ourselves. The Republicans. IL Ibis were
business matter, matter OF mere copart
nership, aJo,ra ii Common. woul confess i
wrong, al wrong. II i hard FIR ihsm 10
say, forthwith, that 10 this they have been
wrong but nevertheless. they mu.t feel IL.
The South IS now getting all wrong. and
Il must take The back track, and start right.
To desert ! ,J00. 600 Of Us Ia the North. nhn
have been fighting their constitutional Battles
Tor 20 years, and who have been defeated
only because M,y presented two Democratic
candidates for the Presidency instead Of ope.
is wrong. all wrong. To contend that any
one turbulent little State has right to se-
eede from this Union, and break up the
peace and prosperity 81 50 other States,
without consultation with them j., II not a
eons,itutional srong,--as many Southerners
contend, nevertheless, a great moral wrong.
Passion, not reason, rules when men act
thus rashly and inconsiderateiy.
i Tie rights Of The South can al be athicy.
ed. and maintained in, and under the Con.
stitvtipn. Slavery is far more secure 10 the
whole Repablie, than IN the little miserable
Mexican. like States, that will spring up, and
take the place Of this Great Republic. TX.
.ggerstioa South. however. must. give place
10 fact. Il is bat lie, 10 say what many
pie, in order 70 inllsme their passions, THAI
llamiin, the Vice President elect, IL muat.
10. Il 10 not true, that even the Republican
people 81 the North, a. q mass, hate the
South. Thousands Of them but wanted Of.
fee. Thousands but wanted mere change
Of the administrative heads Of the Govern.
ment. Il il not true, that all u them are foi
Negrs Equality. A hundred thousand Re.
publicsns 10 New York State acted with u.
70 forbid the negro having equal suffrage,
&c.
The Federal Constitution is the only break.
water 10 the world against the snfi.slayery
sentiment Of EnglsDd, France and Germany
differentiation, the destiny Of fIayti and ia.
maiea, is certain 10 be the destiny Of the
large soclh. Western States, IL things 90 on
10 the way they are going. The Fedora
COnstitstion alone protects ihese States Iron
The fanstieism aud rapseity Of Great Britain
and France. These powerful European
States, VI they ever treat with them to deyour
them, a. they desovr the Spanish Ame.
rican States, the Beegms and Nahobs Of the
Indiss and the Msndarins of China.
Il Say nst,-we ofthe North "cannot keet
% the breakwaier.s wEcar WEcss!l Youl
\ miserable division between Douglas snd