The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-11-28

I Eaia d hrE. 49,
God has given Us position among die
nations Of the earth. and concentrated here
ne eiemenis Of moral power, upon the
explosion o. wise and benignant direction
Of which, The future dssiiay OF the world
seems 70 hang. OF what avail win be
our attempts 10 evanselize the nations. II
eursun sets in darkness! Then Iibeny
viii be lefi without home on earsh.
Then die friends Of freedom and or man
VII sink overwhelmed with utter despon-
densy Tor The sucress of any future exp, r.
imeni Then. the,last hope or the word
VII expire; and die night Of Ignorance.
and OF tyranny and oppression will roll
onward and onward in Us deepest gloom.
What, brethren, can prevent this caiastro-
Pie. Nothing but the influence of pare
Christianity, uprooting the deprared and
lawless. passions Of men, spreading over
their minds lis pure and peaceful influ-
ences. and giving a wise and benignant
diret tlDn to those elements Of moral pow
er which God has here concentrated.
Never since the birth Of time, was there
a,people thrown into q condition Of civil
sorieiy 80 favorable for the exeriion OF 4
wide spread and permanent moral influ-
ence as thu. Our country iiseIf-bcaut;-
ful and magnificent beyond any on the
globe; formed as the theatre for great names
and great deeds;.wiih history short, in
deed, but brilliant as that which records
the deeds Of Marathon, OF Thernopyln,
Of Salamis, and Platra--its inexhaustbIe
resources-itsnntold weaIlh--tIle race, The
genius, the language, the intelligence, and
the enterprise Of its inhabitants are each
singly, the clement of vast moral power.
But these are all combined in govern
ment, which is itself the concentration Of
public energy--cyery puisaron, every ac-
ton Of which is The expression Of the will
OF millions Of freemen, throsgh their own
chosen agents-their energy concentrated
and combined in expression. This is the
power Of republics like our own. When
Russia. with her millions of serfs speaks,
II is her autocrai's voice alone we hear /;
and beyond the brute force il yields, what
do we heed it,more than the voice of a
man like ourselvesi When this nation
speaks, il. is the combined voice of NIL
LIONS OF sovEREIGNs, speaking through
their chosen agents; andsit goes forth as
the voice OF great multitude. and as the
voice Of many waters, and as the voice
of mighty tmnderings; and no walls that
tyranny can erect will prevent its reyer-
berations striking on every ear, and wax
ing up to new life and vigor, those ener-
gies which now lie crouched beneath OPP
pression's iron arm, and rousing them to
a dcath-strnggle for, liberty.
Oh! il the moral.power of this great
nation were santifcd BY the grace Of God
and under the controlling and benignantI
influences of pure Christianity, what
might it not achieve! Combining her re-
sources and her energies, should she seek
her glory, notin the proves of her arms !;
not in the spoils Of the vanquished, and
the trophies Of victory; no, in her own ma
tional Acknowledgements; but in extending
the blessings Of rational liberty, Of civil
lization, Of the arts and sciences, and
above all, Of Christianity; and in elevat-
ing man-miversai man-to high state
OF moral and Intellectual improvement;
then would she stand pre-eminent among
the nations of the earth. Her walls of
defence, her towers and bulwarks, would
be the worlds gratitude. In paans of joy
1t would be borne to her ON the winds of
The ocean, from every continent and every
isle. The sun Of her glory would career
with unsallied brightness in her armament,
and mantle in light the dark cloud that
shall come charged with learth's final ru-
in.