The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1840-10-01

as1ssy 80 AA& MAFNa4t hcsl A11 NEtnf -
Der that they are pTopsgsisd BY men il
high favor with Martin Van BuFss. and
sheltered under his wings. l need no lon.
ger ask he question: 10 IL wonderful lhsl
The ladies' are wilh us. and lhai Il sIl oul
conventions. Of lsIe. &c behold around
us The blaze af beauty. and the waving
az hsndksrehiefsi Are we he degenfr.
ale sons Of ourehivalrous forefalhers, lhaI
re should fslier 10 ihe cause Of our
wives. our sisters. our mothers. our
d1nghep! Womsn. lovely womsnl well
msy she iremhle n these assaults upon
the fair fabric OF christianity: for II il u
The mild and ennoblirg Influences of chris
iisnily Thar she owrs all her aseendsnry.
all her exeellenee. III her dignity. Be.
fnfe the days AZ the redemption 81 man.
she had become the mere instrument Of
his pleasures. The mere bearer Of his bur-
dens. Bur from Ihe time Thai The Redee-
mer eondeseended 10 be born Of woman,
she seemed 10 borrow ray nf his dlvini-
~. and became The radiant Ink that binds
ns 20 angelic excellence and celestial or
ders. Beyond The pale Of christianity.
she 10 sull The doomed and degraded ser
siior of mans brutal viii; but wherever
iwinkling beam Of The star Of Beihle-
hem 10 found, she walks proudly forth
IN The sublime purity Of her exalted cha
rscier. Woman. woman! fond devoted
woman! in the hour Of prosperity her
smile redoubles our bliss; in The hour Of
adversely. minislering angel; in the
chamber OF affection. she smoulhs The
pillow Of expiring nslure--sye. and when
The manly trunk is riven and shattered D.
mid The storms and iempesis Of life, she
throws around il the silken cords Of her
affection. and like beautiful and luxuri.
ant vine. she clings 10 10 by 4 thousand
delicate iendrils. and clusters around IL
with all her ,erdant foliage. as IL she
sought 10 hide Tom the scorn and eoniu.
nely OF IN unfeeling world. the ruin
which bows her down and brushes her
10 the remorseless dusi--such 10 woman.
IL there among you q man born. the
son Of his n.oiher. whose spirit does moi
exult within him ss be strikes in such .
csusel
But morn breakeih in the East; and
that Eagle upon our banner. which VIII
liam Henry Harrison has so often borne
10 victory, aud whose gaze has been
glsddensd by the stars which have been
liz up around him. will spring with the
first rays of the morning from The green
hills OF Vermont: and wheeling onward
and upward in The land OF the Pilgrim
Fathers, will catch the frsi triumphant,
shout Of victory from So The cradle OF IL
berry," in old Massachusetts,; and ere
they have died away upon her exuliing
sense. she will be startled with the deal.
ening voice Of The Empire State. which.
louder than the precipitous tumull and
ierrors Of her cataract, will shake the
ERNEST foundations of The Union; and
with redoubled vigour in her wing and
keener vengeance 10 her eye. she will
catch up. and rear onward the reiribu-
tive ouicry Of the Jerseys, with her
smil.en star reminding on the plains Of
Trenton and Princeton and posing
herself for q moment, storm tossed and
iempestTocked, over the land Of the
CAROLS. the Pinckneys. and the low
ards; aud my own adopted land, good
old North Carolina, unierrified aud un-
subdued. ainging on. the banner Of def
snce. q, a time when state after state had
been lramplsd beneath the iron heel
Of the man Of the iron hand and Of
the iron will, she will wing her flight
until the voice you hear now. shall be
swollen with the Civilizations Of the de-
scendants Of Washington. Jefferson. and
proclaiming again. as Of old, in
The days Of our Wing ancestors on the
plains Of Lexington and at Yorktown. the
victory. When that same bird.
10 emblem Of your aspiring spirit. shall
90 careering on her way. and with one
wild scream awaken South Csrolins, like
smother Rip Van Wrinkle. from her Stun.
bers; and folding her rutlied plumsge for
J season. and dropping in The land Of The
Palmetto, Tor the departed chivalry Of her
IONS. she will speed EDWARDS again
through the Savannahs of regeneraled
Georgia; and then far away Westward.
through the land Of the dark and bloody
ground, and among the Buckeyes and
Hoosiers. she will rock and exuls amid
he tropical ,hunders Of the South; and
rom the field Of her lame at Orleans,
The will come ON the wings OF the winds,
he hsrbinger and herald of glorious VIC
DRY, to the dome Of our capitol, TO take
lcr customary place amid the stars aud
stripes upon cur Gag, floating wildly to
he breeze, with no such miserable mot.
o as 40 the victors belong the spoils."
But brightly enblszoned on its Iolds, a.
mid the earthquake voice of victory.
hose other words Of goodly suspice-I !
harrison and Reform--ihe Constitution
md the Laws-GoD, the Lord God. and
common country.