Year: 1860

by pure just and elevated principles, to disclose
| in as limited space as possible my own private


opinion as it now stands IN relation to party poll
tics hence I will venture to deiineate briefly my
sentiments as it best behoeves me, with the most


perfect assurance that these remarks will not elicit
any censure from parties unc0ncerned. And per-
form the task simply because feel it my duty.


which / Justly owe to the community and my fell


low citizens in the county of Onslcw, as the time


is not far distant when the truth must be revealed
| Therefore deem it eXpedlent to let them know
few things through the medium of the public
press


But as warning to my feilow-citizens in the
county of Onslnw who, / have no doubt, will make
this detestable curse the very paramount induce
ment in lenuing their sufrages 10 the respective
candidates i'll our next political campaign and as
there seems to be unusual number of political
aspirants in this county deem it both essential
and prudent to exhort them to abstain from sins-
ter principles Be stimulated by worthy and up
right motives in casting your votes in next
election, and without respect to personal friend
ship or party politics support than man, who in
/ yotfr most humble Judgment is best capaeitated
| to fulfill the responsible duty incumbent upon


him, and who in your opinion will advocate con-
stitutional and conservative principles.


| For young in the cause as l evidently am,
am wise enough to know when You sow the seed


of d;sCord you general reap corruption. am
competent enough TO see its previous effects and
damnabe Influences it has already created over


the minds of the people OF this Union, and if per-
sisted in, civil and contention is inevitable,
dissolution q


overthrow of domestic happiness Tran
| guilty, happiness, influence. success and pros
perity will to exist, ANAL ganlation will en-


sue and lend strong arm and loud voice, to damn,
discrace debase and degenerate free, indepen


dent and enlightened people below the scale of
| the brute, and the inevitable consequence will be


that in the course OF two or three centuries we


will be regarded and locke upon by other nations
as a poor deuded and illiterate people. And


hile the North seems to manifest every mark of


friendship and kindest feeling toward us by hold
! ing Union meetings and delivering similar speech


es, it is all done for perfect blind, in order to


make themselves more secure and thereby render
themselves a better ard frmer clue our rights
| and our domestic happiness In the next attempt
We are two we'll aCquafnted with the principles
of Northern fanatics and we know that their sole
object always has been and Will continue TO be to
abotionize the South. 1t is an innate desire OF
! the larger portion of those abOlitionts and one
! which they have cherished from their infancy,
and | cannot that if slavery was abolished at
the South that they would acquire very superior
advantages from it. The whole fact is they have
not sense enough to see that they are endeavor-


ing to build trap to catch themselves, for certain


ly commercial interest is centered upon the South,
and Just deprive the large manufactures of the
New ENGLAND States of commanding staple,


cotton and they would fail to the ground without


any external force, and still there is not but very
few, North of Mason & Dxon's line that wonlt


rend the air with exultory acclamations if they


could only see dawning in the future that day,
|
with and themselves substituted in the place of
our slaves to till the rich and fertile soil Of the
Southern country.


Their very manners and principles go to sub
stantiate and confirm this palpabe truth and show
that they are still ready and willing to skulk in
the abode of degradation and contempt their re-


naming days, perfectly resigned to their inevita-


bic fate. And rs the constitutional and conServa-
tive men of the South, have already espOused one
lofty principle in respect to this matter | think
that they should spare no pains to unite in one
continued and glorious effort to carry it directly
into execution. Let them abolish all sectional in
tercourse between the North and South, encour-
age and support home manufactures, and deprive
them of tbs privilege of dabbling in the slightest
degree in our domestic and commercial affairs and
show them that we are no longer the recipients
of their bounty, for am sure that we are as ca
pablo of establishing direct line of ships be-
tween tho Sorth and Eta"~pe eho 10. I't'r arI
confident that if you will refer to history you will
evidently see that sicker kittens than we have


been readily cured, and it principally the
fighting men of the South who administered
the medicine. Never yet have | espoused the
principles of any party but have always gone for
that which was just. right and eluitah e, and have
always conscienciously supported those measures
which deemed best calculated to promote the
best interests of my county State for | have
always labored under the most perfect convic-
ton of mind that strict adherence to party poll
tics would involve this glorious confedcracy in
perfect chaos of misery and destruction and have
always acted the broad prncl pie, first to be
[ am right and then proceed with untiring energy
to carry out that which my own humble Judgment
dictated the most etfcacous and plausible,


But however, before conclude, should con-
slider I was doing injustice to myself and every
else If to omit offering few remarks
in upport of one very important subject and it
is this: That while every heightened and feeling
citizen, both in this and other counties of the
State, continue to entertain respect for themselves
and for the welfare of the community at large.
and while they manifest an interest in both
ty and State, they should all unite in strenuous
and glorious effort to devise sufficient means
for the extirparion of all free negroes from the
State. For there is curse, in my opinion,
that is calculated to immoralize and injure COM
munity in more vital and serious manner than
that malignant and despcable called free
groes; for surely prosperity and happiness cannot
reign where free negrodom is recognized to be a
virtue. 1t is an indefatgable fact that you can
have nothing, and raise nothing, nor live with
any satisfaction where they are, and especially
if they reside contiguous to large plantation
they always exert a bad influence over slaves.
and IN fact they generally looked upon wher
they are perfect nuisance, and abom-
inatlon to society. / would deem it the most
beneficial thing for the State at large If the State
would adopt resolution to forewarn all such
persons to leave the State, and appoint def
mite time for them to take their Departure and if
gone at the expiration of that time they shall
be put mp at public auction and sold to the high
est bidder, and the money appropriated to the
Common School fund for the especial purpose of
educating the INDECENT classes of society for it is
highly necessary that every one, both rich and
poor, should receive the benefit of education,
it matters not what his station may be in society,"
for those persons who blessed with only mod
crate circumstances evidently strive harder and
with more zeal and energy to acquire an educa
ton than those who afforded the fairest fa-
cilies, and besides they generally turn out to be
the most intelligent people we have, because they
can see the benefit of good education and they
how Ijlo and,