The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-10-23
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WHAT THE LATE ELECTIONS MEAN.

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Ia almost every city. town and hamlet.
allSyer the North, We hear VI boa6res. ~.
lutes and rejoicings over the result oi,hc
receht elections.
The following extract from speech Of
Mayor Hoffman, az an enthusiastic Ue,no-
cratic meeting At Tammany Hall, Ia the
city OF New York, shows what the late
victories are understood 10 have accom-.
plishcd
" The result III these elections, in nv
judgment. will be the safety Of the nation.
II should be received by the Democracy &c
New York city and Of the country in all
moderation as the sign Of The times. midi
eating that the great people 81 the country
arc putting ,hrr finger vi warning upon
the Radical disunionists. Ii should be re.
cciSed as 4 declaration that ibe Moderaie
Conservative men Ut the nation are 10 rule
the nation. The extreme men on every
side must, for the time being, stand aside.
While the great mass Of the Conservative
men OF the country come up 10 save II. II
is ~ be received as the declaration uT The
American people that the party whose
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the country, 10 increase its debt and tara.
,ion. 10 overthrow It's President and sub.,i.
lute 10 his place . revolutionary President,
Is 10 be put down under The lret The great
patsiotic American people. l, j. 10 be re
eeised as the declaration Of the people nc
The North that The policy insugurAled by
that party Al the South 10 place black men
over white men CANNOT be aud will n.t be
sustained. LONG continued cheering
/ n i % be- received a. declaration thai The
people II the North arc not willing within
the states oil this Union that there should
be negro Judges. nrgrn magistrates, neg-o
ljuror., nrgfo Legislators, negro Congress.
msn--S iauL, cheering -,ta, the power aud
uobsy u this gosernmen, Is M, 10 be used
10 MAINTAIN within tile Limits III len State,
Al anviprnse Ut lalll,un> u dollars ~ army,
the sne purpose II which u 10 elevate the
black man aDu.e the uhlir man. lchesrs.)
1 That II within tile limits Of the Soaiheru
STATE, the black man j. entitled 10 the n.
ercise Of III right u suffrage. he is q, ~
govern hinsell. 10 lake care II himscll,
aud dors moi need standing array u pro-.
irct him lhst il the olayk men III tie
>uulh humbrring hundreds ol thousands,
arc 6t IL walk up u Tie pals AID su1s
down the while men. lhry dO nut nctl 4
frrcdnaa's Baresa ~iih millions ~ dol.
Iiars At ~ back 10 educate. lsrd. and take
Gaze u them. Laughter aud applsnse.)
/ II j. 10 b. taken a. tile declaration VI the
people of he Amrrean continent. tnat dsb.
AID iasailaa must bs reduced; ih.t there
must BE- 10 increase nt the paper currency |;
~ more eorrup, officials 10 cerrupi inc
people. Great applaa,e.) II j. !" Us ~.
ccl,sd a. he declaration II the Alnsncan
people that tic American Cunsutnlivu is
- be The saprsme Ia~ uf The iand--tas.
plauscj and tn, 10 Fsmp Congress shall
pass Laws abich The, snail declare 10 DC
superior 10 lie Constitution 81 Tie country.
,Applasse.) At the same lime Il i. u BE
Ipceel,ed - the dee laIaiieu o. the American,
people ma, there snail be under all c,resm-
stances iallhlui adherence ~ The AMER.
can people and American Government 70
every one VI those obligations secured
during The var or The pfescr,alipa u the
American Cni"n."