The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1843-09-14

80 80 4ISNEat AEu anu
great sehleseasnls Of bis cnaniry men. ~
hai is arrsy 70 Support lhis prs iensions 10
Superiority.
Was here ever 90 wlse = nan So
lonon. 20 graf s'post s Ds.id. 90 brave
. warrior - Joshua. Who made ahe sun
stand It'll. % sneh PrasIlgs &C lea~ning
- RABBI Hen Hammsskend. vim ~rass
beyond the comprehension u al be
Teadersf" asked the lrsslile.
DID the world ever produce such q
hero a. Napoleon. surh posi ss Felrsire.
such trsgie writer's A. Csrarille and Ra-
cine. such aeamie one as Melsre. OF such
dancer ss vssuls!' cried the French
man.
!. Bah!'' sxtlsimed The Enelishmsn,
/. Whal do yos think Of Wellington. Mel.
son. sl'eaksreare. Barnn. Lorke. New.
ton. and ~ that snrt C Ihingl"
. They csn'i hold candle 10 Arme-
nins. ar Kant. or G.ll. or Schiller. on
Goelhel" said the German.
/. Nor 10 Julius Cesar. nor Scipio. MOI
Virgil. nor Cicero. nor Thousand oihsrs,
sho were al ny country though
they called themselves Romans" cried
lie Italian.
!" pshaw." said The Yankee. :. oil
your heroes and philosophers put logelh-
would mol make one Franklin, or hall q
washingion!'
!. Gentlemen" said the Greek, "you
may bnssi .. much - you will. but had
/, moi bern for Greek warriors, phi'oso-
pliers, poets and ssges, you would Al
hsse renamed bsrbarlans 20 Ibis day.
What think YOU oi Homer. and Echs,
lus, aud Saphncles. and Eunpides. and
Demosthenes, aud Milt.des, aud Demos.
themes. aud Milisde., aud Tnem,sio.
cles. aud ten ihoussnd others. whose fame
extends 20 the uitermost ends Of lhs
earlhi"
Who are ihese blockhesds taking .
bout T. ssked The Egypusn, The Chinese
The Persian. and The Turk, OF each other
!" Talking of" cried the rest. with ons
voice.. OF The lights of The world. ths
children &C immortality, The heirs d uni
rsrsai famsl"
/. We never heard their names before
and therefore they mus, have been rs,h
er obscure persons," was the reply.
But f yon come 20 The heirs Of Uni
verssl Fsme," eted the Persian
What are al these To the great herf
Iiustapd. and the gres, poet Fnrd"usi
who w,ote poe,iral history Of lrsk, il
twenty thousand coupleis!"
I" Dad any bndy ever read h!" asked
The Turk grayely.
!" We never heard OF either" answer
I'd all The rest.
Whit ,gnorsn, wre;ches!" mu,teted
the Parsian.
j. Ill Yah!" exclaimed the Chinese
!" HI, Yah! Your elder brother Loo Cheo
knocks head and worsh,ps. VIVA, do yol
say To the great Moon &c poetry. the ligh
OF the Universe, Kwsng Chung, lord Of Oh,
Celestial Empire. and head Of the world
who wrote three hundred volumes Of poe
try, in the Interpretation OF which ,hres
Thousand learnedpundils lost their senses
The whole universe is filed with hi.
verses"
=" We never heard Of him before," cri'
ed they all"
VIVA, set Of foreign barbsrisns!'
said the Chinese.
"And whs, ,hmk you Of our great pro
phet Mahomet!" aked The Turk.
/" Mashallah! his sword was invincible
aga'ns, the enemies Of The faith. and bi.
wisdom more invincible than his sword,
All knewledge is contained in the ko-
ran."
at may be, hut we have never read
it," SAID they all with The excepuun oil
the true believers. ~.
Dags! cried he, " may your heads
be converted INTO shoe brushes aud y our
eyes become blind as your understand
ings!'
As is usual in those cases, contention
Su"Soc"oo dtguUbfu's anu duu~V "oS ou@
swered by recrim,ns.ipn. Each being
unable TO establish his own claim TO SUI
perinr,ty. made himself amends by de-
tracing from the claims Of his opponents:
aud II had been true which they said
of each other. their heroes aud grea, men
would have been parcel OF miserable
creatures. unworthy the gratitude, or even
The remembrance Of PROSPERITY.
And this is Universal Fsme!' ex-
claimed an cid dervlse. who sat smoking
his pipe quietly in c'rner, without taxi
ing pat in the debate, "tp be sdored as
a prophet IN "ne quarter OF the word, and
abhorrsd as an imposier in the o.hers;-
TO be hero in one nation, an oppressor
in the eyes Of its ne ghbuurs,-to be held
an oracle Of wisdom Oh one side OF Ti>
yer, an apostle Of error on the other,--to
be venerated IN one place as the chaWpi"n
of liberty, and stigmslized in another as a
rebel AMI lraltnr;--and to be e,,hen un-
known to, or hated and dssp'sed by mnre
than oae half OF mankind. THIS. this Is
UNIVERSAL FAME!" &ta ~- !