The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-12-14

WOul0 say, 10 vote Tor MS pTtamOtS. Tie
believed fully in the right of simpressment
bysthis, and by all governments, but he al
so believed as fully IN the tight of the cit
izen to just compensation for property i'm
pressed. But while thus striking hands
with the gentleman on seine Of the points
he had made. there were others % which
he must d,sscat from him. He could not
approve the toae in which this matter had
been discussed. and depored such expires,
sions as that the government had been
guilty of !" roboery," and that the people
Of North Carolina were torpid aud needed
arousing The statement, too, that It was
not patriotism but feeling at despair and
a knowledge that they could abtaln M re.
dress tina, kept the people quiet, was some
thing he regretted, and he regretted too
that the gentleman had spoken of the Con-
federate Government as though il were. a
foreign power, aud had mentianed the
wrengs il perpet,ated. the oppression i
exercised. The President did not make
this government. nor did Congress. TWAS
our government. We hal made il and
with il We were nil bound up together. It's
, fortune. its fate were the same as our own.
Why then speak OF robbery, lawlessnes-,
strides towards power and despstsm?
Never in any OF his votes. speeches. or &C.
tions would he do one thing to wara the
blood Of the people against the govern
nent. The people require 10 Indictment
10 reuse them up. They knew their own
interest as well as. il could be told them,
and he would say if thu gentleman were e
70 to the house Of moarnlng-io where 4
widow perhaps bewailed her first bern or
youngest slain in the war-he wsuld find
the spirit one of quiet, faithful, due sub
missioa to what the laws and sad fate oil
war had added TO bitter lot.
He did net approve. It 10 true. every
thing the government bad done, but II wa,
our government, the Prcsldest was our
President. and there was no choice, save
between this government and oae other,
which he hoped every man in North Caro-
lima believed most detestable. fhs sys-
TEN Of schedule prices had been the occa-
sion Of many wrongs in the past. II might
cause many in the future. tie knsw thI.
from the state Of things 10 bis eva couaty
Of Cumberland, but he still could not - IN.
pathize with the gentleman's warmth
North Carolica was part OF the Colfsie
rate Slates--hsr destlay, her future wa,
the sane, aud how could she separate her
seifi
TIE do away then, 10 csnclusie.i he would
say, with what he could act ssree with il
the resolutions, he wauld nave TO strike
cut the second and third sections.
Mr.. Grissom sail une thing vas certain
~ evident, and that WI, that pa'riailss
was sadly waning II North Caroliua. an,
that whereas IN the beginning VI tn Sa
fifty Or sixty regiments eagerly '-DlgBteer
ed, il was new the case meB were a earn
est iE their efforts to avoid the field. Ra
this there was reason. aud he found il IL
the principles which lei to iDpressnent
Then too. as il Inpr-ssment were no
enosgh. We had ri,hlns system. aud wer'
even nov threatened with 4 suspension .
the writ 81 hg5tas corpus, with tie remova
from tie Stale Of tie Reserves. anl viii
the instIt1iIgn Of a political SupreHe CaUr
with appellate Jurisdiction.
Mr.. sharpe, 1t IredeIl. lollowed "a th
same side. declaring That tbs qge,t'oi VI
both calling and Ominisas q. III
resolutions declared. aud VII, not sag -
II il vas not Calling. what Wa, ne woal'
ask! lSsnsaii0a.) II no. eninisu.. rha
was, and 30 5eiug yliy nst say saf Ii .
were 30 lave a master wat m.tler VIII
that master wss.
Mr.. Calls.ay gave sane instances O
oppression 10 ~ county, saying his peupl
there hsi been dtsarmed by having theI
gaHs taken lran them, Though done ostsn
sibly for another purpose. w squirrel
were devastating the corn, and yet the gun
that might have kept then under were "
iug 10 piles useless, Tor d. so'era rent Ia
really no more use for them than a CO. b.
for side pockets. Lsughter.l