The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1877-08-15

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They are both native Georgiaps. tine was
= Confederate General, The other vas Vice
President OF the Southern Confederacy.
Stephens is 10 noseRse radical, but mo-
derate man in his yiews--a conservative n
the tone aud temper Of his mind. lie is
not always right. but who is? Toombs is
IN extremist ordinarily. just now bis views
collide with the other extremists because lie
is for peace, for reconciliation, for justice.
Hoo soon meas opinions become Of no
olt'e u they happen 10 be against you.
Another case Of 'doxy'--ortho and hetero.
We propose TO encourage all men to do
right Stephens and Toombs ara right
now. May they always be so.--Wil Star.
We asked the above question, the point
Of which any consistent reasonable Southern
man will readily see. Stephens Was al-
ways right ut the wrong time. lie Jagged
to the rear when bis services we're wanted.
lie rushed to the front when the battle was
lost and could not be restored. lie was
peace man when lis position and his duty
constrained to be for war. and he was the
ablest exponent Of the principles which led
to the war when the practical failure Of
those principles had been irretrieyably de-
cided BY wager Of battle. lie wasa Grant
man when Grant troi most heavily upon
PROSTATE South and he il Hayes man
when the honest sense Of the South rebels
against the recognition of his Legality. Aud
as for Toonbs, it is because he is an ex-
tremist ordinarily that we value his opin-
ion as Of no weight. Just here the Star
attempts very boldly to couple US with ex-
I.tremisln; but the attempt though ingeni-
Gus. il not ingenious. The STIR and the
Ne,es both fythe same colors. They faunt
themselves ~ the peculiar champions Of
peace. reconciliation and justice. We will
make NO attempt to out-herod these jour,
mails. We are for peace. and reconciliation
and for justice, and for the life of US we
cannot SEQ that it is better obtained BY fall
ling down and worshipping Hayes and for.
getting the Illegal tenure Of bis Office than
it is BY adhering to the principles adyocat-
ed BY the Democratic party in the last cleo
tim, the hearty eo.operation in which the
Star and Nescs will not forget or deny.
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The time is no; far distant when the
South will derive most solid advantage from
the Northern troubles. Capital is tho
most sensitive, = if the most heartless Of all
things, and is timid to cowardice in the
presence o. mob. Il i no new experience
Stree the war that striking laborers have
held capitalists IN terror aud jeopardized all
the prosss Of largo Investments and costly
improvements. J
Millions wsreslOst By the great strike,
not only b actual distraction Of property.
but BY tho ruinous suspension Of mlnufac-
turing operations and capitalists will hest
tate TO replace what is so..rerilOusly..st the
mercy Of mob violence.
The South has offered every inducement
10 climate. IN production. in favorable To-
ealities, 70 encourage the enterprises Of
Northern Capital. But the South was pro-
nOunced too unsafe. Now. We venture 70
predict that not tx months will e,apse. be.
fore every nook and corner Of the South
will be explored for manufacturing sites.
for the opening mp Of business. and for the
application Of that energy which has an un-
safe field for i, operations 1t the North.
The day Of Southern prosperity i coming.
There are no mobs here. There can be
none. 10 the nature Of its people. There
can BE- none, from their scattered popuIa-
ton.
We congratulate Virginia, not upon the
nomination the Democratic Convention has
made for Governor. because, out Of the
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