The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-04-15
LETTER FROM THElH0N. WILLIAM
~ @Af& A, GRAHAM II at@ f4..
Hillsbotough, April Let, 1858.

nttsoofOugns dpftt teti iSoos
EkNrLEsES: Your letter of the Goth
ul,. ,,inyitins me 10 visit Rutherford and
address the people on the issues pending in
tho approaching election, arrived here dur.
iny my absence from home and since tny
return, with an anxious desire TO accept, |
have delayed an answer until this time,
hoping tha, il might be in my power to do
90, aud to appoint day. '' .:
4 a But regret 10 inform you that appoint
siSenls have, bsea already made for me.
vhich, ~i,hA lev engagements OF business,
will consume the time tili tile days OF elee.
ton.
Ibeg the people Of Rutherford and The
sdiaesnt counties 10 belisve that there 10 no
part OF the psps:stion Of the Stale. with
whom, 1 should take greater interest in cen.
terriDg ON the present state of the country,
than laenssIsss; aud il time permi,tsd. !
shsuld not iesl at liberty TO decline COM
pliasce with their wishes. o' '"'~'
The Convention, called Under the autho-
rity oi Congress, aud which has sent out a
proposed Constitution Tor the consideration
uf the people, has besn vefy sparing ia its
allowance sl time. With an injunction 10
the Act. that not less than thirty days
should be given, the Convention, BY its ac-
uon. would appear 20 have understood this
as an intImatlun, that no ninre than thirty
days should be permitted iur the dshbera-
tons vi the people. on an instrument,
which this body VAS more than sixty days
in framing, and which, if carried into ef-
feet, will make revolution ia almost eysry
essential festure Of the State government.
The Conyentioa OF 1855, called by the peo-
pie Of the State under an act OF their lrgis-
Ia,ure, aud which proposed few amend.
snen., of the old Constitution. allowed four
uunlhs iron July 10 Norenber) for the sI-
sminstion Of these amendments by the peo-
pie. beiors they we're required 10 vote on
their ratification or rejection. Such was
the example Of Macon. Gss,onsand their
great eonpesrs; such was their care and
anxiety, that the Contitution. the funda.
mental law. in all its parts. should have The
approval Of the sober sense Of the people,
aud, u not approved. that their work shouId
be rejected. And had the recent Consen-
tion .prungsfrom the people, as did that
had 4 majuriiy Of its me enbers been IN SYM
rathy with and dependent on the comma.
niuss thsy.professsd 10 represent; had they
expected TO be governed by the regulations
aud 10 bear the burlhsns they were making
provision 10 impose OF others, 4 like cxfen-
sion oI time. and regard for the deliberate
Tsse of the people. might have been er.
pscied irem them. But. instcad Of being
the servants ol the people. in the ordinary
sense Of popular representatives Of the
whites, who have alwass exercised the pow.
ers ii government heretofore. they were iaI
mote the servants Of that majority 10 Cot.
gtess which called The Convention into be-
ing. upon basis Of constituency never au.
ihorized by the governing authority Of III,
State. aud more ,olicituus of appreciation
in that quarter, than among the free whit,
people al home. But as Ii 10 compitca,.
aHatrs and confuse the pepuhg mimi, eacl
clce;nr. in adlitiap "a svting Inr ot agains
the Constltatian, IN t,seauired, AZ the sam,
tune, to vote for sohe forty or mIte off
GERS under the State government and fo
meubers Of the Legislature aud Represcn
tatl,es in Congress. A negative vutc il
this contlltian Of the matter is prompted
not only a. a rebuke fur the denial u Tim,
necessary for proper understanding ol III,
changes proposed, as we'll asIto cut OF th,
many new. unnecessary and expensive Of
fees II is songht 10 establish.
On looking intu the. Constitution oflsrer
{ r adoption. the objections are 50 hume
F"us and decisive, that il is impossible I,
Jarticalarize them oil in the brief space q
aictter. ! am gratiiied 10 see that this ,asI
!. beng we'll performed in the discussion
oI the public press and olally. | beg Ieav,
10 bring TO your attention one Of these Oh
icctions. which, so far as | know, has no
yet been publicly commented on.
Article vi, section 2, reads as follows;