The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1866-09-12

more irritable; the army becomes indis-
pensable toflocal government, and super
sedes It; the government at Washington
IS called to interfere in one and another
difficulty, and this will be done inaptIy.
and sometimes with great injustice; for our
government, wisely adapted to its own
proper functions, is utterly devoid Of those
habits and unequipped with the instru
ments which fit a centralized government
to exercise authority 10 remote States over
local affairs. Every attempt to perform
such duties has resulted in mistakes which
have excited the nation. But what ever
imprudence there may be in the metho d,
the real criticism should be against the re-
QUESTION Of such duties Of the general gov
ernment.
The Federal goyernme mt is uLit to ex-
ercise minor police and local government,
and will inevitably blunder when it al
tempts it, To keep half score of States
under Federal authority, but without ma
tional ties and responsibilities to oblige
the central authority to govern half the ter
ritory OF the Union by Federal civil officers
and by the army. is policy not only IN
congenial to our ideas and principles, but
Epre-eminently dangerous to the spirit of
our government. However humane the
ends sought and the motives, it is in fact.
course OF instruction, preparing our GO
yernment TO be despotic, and familiariz-
ing the people to stretch Of authority
which can never be other than dangerous
to liberty.
am aware that good men are withheld
from advocating the prompt and successive
admission Of the exiled States BY the fear.
chiefly, of its effect upon parties, and upon
the freedmen.
ID is said, that if admitted to Congress,
the Southern Senators and Representatives
will coalesce with Northern Democrats,
and rule the country. Is this nation, then.
TO remain dismembered to serve the ends of
parties? Have we learned no wisdom by
the history OF tie last ten years, in which
Just this course of sacrificing the nation to
the exigencies Of parties plunged US into
/ rebellion and war?
Even admit that the power would pass
into the hands Of party made up OF South
ern men. and the hitherto dishonored and
misled Democracy Of the North. that power
could not be used JUST as they pleased.
The war has changed, not alone insttu.
tions, but ideas. The whole country has
advanced. Public sentiment is exalted
far beyond what it has been at any former
period. A new party would, like river,
be obliged TO seek out its channels, in the
already existing slopes and forms Of the
continent.
We have entered a new era Of liberty.
The style Of thought is freer and more no.
BILE. The young men Of our times are re-
! generated. The great army has been q
school, and hundreds Of thousands Of men
are gone home TO preach truer and nobler
view Of human rights. All the industrial
interests of society are moving with in
/ creasing wisdom toward intelligence and
liberty. Everywhere, in churches, in Ii
terature, in natural sciences, in physical
industries, in social questions. as well as
in politics, the nation feels that the winter
i over, and new spring hangs in the no.
rzon, and works through all the elements
In this happily changed and advanced con-
/ diticn Of things, no party Of the retrogadc
can maintain itself. Everything marches,
and parties must march.
: hear with wonder and shame and scorn.
+ the fear Of few, that the South, once more
in adjustment with the Federal government,
will rule this nation The North is rich.
! never so rich the South is poor, never be-
fore SO poor. The population Of the North
is nearly double that Of the South. The
! industry Of the North, in diversity, in for
D wardness and productiyeness. in all the ma
s chinery and education required for manu-
/ featuring, is half century IN advance OF
. the South. Churches in the North crown
!. every hill, and schools swarm IN every
neighborhood while the South has but
/ scattered lighls. at long distances. like
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