The Hillsborough Recorder

THE TAPPAN DISCLAIMER.

It is our duty to put the public right in relation to this deceptive document; for we are constantly receiving papers from distant parts of the country, in which the pretended recantation is published at full length, and in most cases accompanied by editorial remarks, intimating full satisfaction in the explanation. An Indiana paper now before us, itself decidedly opposed to the mad projects of the abolitionists, expresses its regrets that the opinions of Tappan, Cox, and their co-adjutors have been so misunderstood! Now, we tell this editor, and all others, that the opinions of these men have not been misunderstood. No such thing. They are perfectly well understood here; and those on the spot, who have heard their public speeches, read their almost daily publications previously to the late riots, witnessed their disgusting intercourse with negroes—their tea-parties of black and white together; seen these shameless zealots leading African wenches into their pews, and seating themselves between them—and read the advertisements in their papers—those, we say, who have known and witnessed all this, need no disabusing as to the real nature of that grovelling humbug—the disclaimer. To people, however, remote from the scene of their vile conduct, it is necessary to say, that the disclaimer aforesaid, so far from mitigating, ought to add fifty fold to the public disgust; for it can be proved, and has been most thoroughly proved by the pamphlet which we noticed a day or two since, that these very men, who have had the brazen impudence to put their signatures to this paper, have hitherto, and do now, in all their acts, maintain all the doctrines repudiated in the 'protest.' The disclaimer only proves the sordid cowardice of their natures; their paltry wish to screen their persons and their property from the natural indignation of an enraged populace. This is what it proves—and not a whit beyond it. They have merely skulked from the consequences of their own mad conduct: for with all their boasted devotion to the poor Negroes, and with all their trumpeting of a willingness to meet martyrdom, a more craven hearted crew cannot be hunted up in christendom. Every movement proves it. They hold their orgies in dark corners, and in the dirty obscurity of unknown alleys. For the salvation of all Ethiopia, they would not show their hypocritical visages south of the Potomac, where alone, and where alone, they can labor with even the semblance of success. Whenever Garrison has been here, he has sneaked about the streets like an unarrested felon as he is. Arthur Tappan is a man of substance,—and he has deemed it necessary to publish a denial of his amalgamation propensities, lest his silk establishment, where he sells his wares at some twenty-five per cent. extra profit to the faithful, should be disturbed. Dr. Cox has formerly enjoyed some literary and ecclesiastical character, and he 'disclaims' too. As to Lewis Tappan, he values himself for his veracity, as is apparent in his late passage of arms with the editor of the Commercial Advertiser, and of course he signs the disclaimer too. It is only necessary to say of this worthy, that he stands convicted of the most abundant falsehood by the unanimous testimony of some four or five unimpeachable witnesses. But to cut the matter short, we hereby inform all persons interested in the movements of the Amalgamationists, and that ought to be every man in the twenty-four states who does not wish to see the Union dissolved, that the 'disclaimer' put forth by the leading Abolitionists of this city, is made up of the grossest untruths; not untruths by mere implication, but made so by facts susceptible of the easiest proof, and by declarations under their own hands!

Cour. & Enq.