The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-05-25

THE STATES TO BE ABOLISHED.
Senator Brownlow writes:
Had | my way would so reconstruct
the Government Of the United States as to
form strong central government here in
the District IF Columbia, and organize the
States as 80 many colonial corporations, as
absolutely dependent upon and subject 10
the will Of Central power at Washington
as are counties to States. Thus would
wipe out and extirpate the whole theory and
pretcnce Of State sovereignty, to which we
are mainly indebted for the late rebellion.
While only speak for myself, believe
that Congress and the Country are hooking
in the same direction.
w. q. BRowNLow.
Washington, April 25, 1870.
Congress and the Country looking in
the same directionH' That Is emphatical-
" true as to Congress aud the Radiod par
ty, of which Brownlow, Summer. Butler and
others are the embodiment. We have all
along charged the Radical wing Of the Re-
publican party with this design. and that
old political re- te, grownlow, now lets
1.-THE cat out g bag Can men who
claim = be conservative Republicans, like
Chief Justice Chase, Tour candidate for the
next Presidency as he was our choice, in the
Convention that nominated Mr.. Seymour,
Gov. Walker, Of Va, ext. s. Senator
Doolittlc, and other Republicans Of like
calibre, affiliate with the Radical Repub-
licans Of the Brownlow stripe? They can
not and will not. To the credit Of Gov.
Walker be it said he cut loose from the
Radical Republican faction Of Virginia last
spring and carrying with him all the conser-
vatiye element Of Republication in Virgil
MIA, coalcsced with the ConservatiycIparty
of Virginia, and snatched her from the
iron grasp Of Radical dcspotism. Let no one
charge the Walker Republicans Of Virginia
with .'radicalism,' for they are far from it
fully as much 50 as any of the extreme
Conservative gentlemen in North Carolina
who think that our garments smell Of radi-
calism because We draw line Of distinction
between Conservative Republicans and RAJ
ideals. BY the term conservative Rcpub-
liean'' we mean one who accepted the re-
construction acts Of Congress in the begin
ming in good faith, and voted for theiradop-
ton. but who repud iatcs the doctrine Of ne
gro equality and who endorsed negro suf-
frage, &C., only because Congress required
it and there could be no getting back IN
to the Union without il. This class Of Re-
publicans endorsed the, reconstruction acts
Of Congress, as remarked above, at a time
when many Of us stood opposed to them
We 1.-THE seniori opposed coming back into
the Union upon the conditionsstipulated By
the Peoples masters, lfor masters we
had and still have in Congress- To secure
reconstruction these conservative Republic
cans affiliated or voted with carpet baggers,
scallaWags, &c. They carried their point,
and VIC gave in''-there was no use in
kicking against the laws Of the land. And
now. even at the risk Of being called .Radi-
Gals, we draw line ofdistinction between |
conservative Republicans and Radicals. |
But stick pin right here: The cause for
mutual cooperation q the two elements Of
Republicanisrn being settled Or removed.
We maintain that conservative Republic
dams cannot cooperate longer with Radi-
Gals. In Virginia they are cooperating
with the Conservatives on ..libcral'' plat
form. VIII not all conservative Republic
cans in North Carolina do the sane? Can
they endorse the radical doctrine above NJ
promulgated BY Brownlow? Will they not
tacitly endorse Il il they pull in Radical
harness? And would it not be well for
Conservative gentlemen to invite the CO.
'peration Of conservative Republicans BY
'greeing TO share the honors and emOlu-
ilents Of Office with them, rather than de-
lounce them as Radicals, simply because
hey accepted the situation in the out-start
md supported the rcconstr uction actsi--
We. suggested, some time ago, a Conycn-
keEsl' Conservatives and lsepub-
ef cpalcsjrg. but some
brains limited
radicalism. =
mcd
+. Phillips
Ct thepco-
nhlow Radi-
~. III.