The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-06-27
COL. HONE IN LOTISBTRG.

For the qualification Of those Of our
readers who have moi had an opportunity
OF hearing Mr.. Hoke, we copy from the
Wing Clarion the following notice Of his
speech at LOuisburg. We understand that
the Colonel tells his anecdotes remarkably
well, and consequently affords his hearers
much amusement; those who have failed
10 hear him have doubtless, therefore, lost
a great treat, which can only be partially
made up by the notice from the Clarion,
though written in that merry editors most
pleasant style. II May perhaps be unne-
ccssary to say that Mr.. Ioke has one
speech, which is delivered with little va
ration, anecdotes and all, at the various
places Of his appointment. The Clarion
commences thus:
Last week We said some clerer things
about Dir. lloke-we had not heard him
then. We we're present at his great out
porting Of Neutrality-suspicious. at Louis
burg on Wednesday last. and now desire
TO take back much Of what We said last
week, lie is not The man We took him
10 be, lie does not Yillily Mr.. Graham,
j, is true. But why' lie cannot, Mr..
Graham is sans rsprOdehs. There is no
great merit then in not assailing one who
is invnlnerable, and known TO be so.
There was this merit, if merit it be, in
Mr.. lIoke's effort at Louisburg. But
when we have said that, we have gone
the length Of our string,
Mr.. Hoke opened his speech by aver
ring that the principles of the Democratic
party were "clear as the noon day SUM-"
Ills design was, d" coolly, calmly and der
liberately TO discuss the principles of the
Democratic party" and commend them
to the Judgments of the good people then
and there congregated. lie then forth
with took up the Hhig docirinss-and
his acts at least, proved that these Demo-
cratic doctrines so luminously set in the
heavens, consisted entirely-en'ireiy, in
very lame, feeble and uncandid criti-
cism on those of the Wings. The only
affirmative position he topk for Democra-
cy, after AL his boasiiag, was, that Texas
ought TO be notc annexed TO our govern
ment. That democratic principle" he
made as clear as mud. Hoke, Polk and
Texas was the Democratic iaith-while
the Wings Of the old North arc supposed
TO be rather more in favor Of Graham,
Clay, and the United States. 1t seems to
us, that the effort of Mr.. Hoke alluded to,
was entirely unworthy of himselE-it was
most certainly unworthy of his reputa-
ton. He surely had undervalued the in
tellectual cndowments of his audience.
A speech of three hours, before such 2
crowd as he had, needed not to have been
half made up Of anecdotes and monkeyf-
cations. The people went there to listen
to discussion of Democratic principles.
Mr.. Hoke told them in the outset that he
was going to do that thing. But the speech
was made up of attacks upon the Wings;
deiectable jokes, about Bob and the bug
on his mammy's bonnet, and how he stole
his mammy's seed cucumbers; little Ell.
lick, the bobrtail goat, that found himself
in bad company; the old woman that
chuned her butter and scandalized heI
neighbors, and how the old man kissed
her because she was industrious and
churned the butter so well; how he KEEP
kissing her because he could net help it
he loved her SO; how eels get so usen te
being skinned that 1t does not hurt 'em
how the old Dutch WAGNER went to Phi
ladelphia with six horse team, and like
to have had quarrel about the meaning
of one per cent and two per cent ant