The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-09-25
4 yINDIcATIoN AND DISCLOSURE.

The public has long suspected that
some disclosure. like iha, G,rcshadowed
below. weuld be forthcoming. whenever
Mr.. Clay considered tho reasons for his
silence. whether a matter Of honor and
confidence, or merely self imposed, was al
an end.
We have received specimen sheet Of
Collpn's Life ofihat CREATES, statesman Of
our times; and al lis page'l50. vol. /, we
find the following passage: = ID
MAJ. Fnfci.
Numerous have been the occasions.
as all know. when Mr.. Clay might have
taken the popular hreeze, and been watt
ell TO the highest pinnacle Of ambition
when, too, as was thought and argued By
his friends. he might have done it with
oui eproach--when, indeed, il was urg-
Cd upon him rs duty 10 his country.
his friends, and himself. But always judy
ing for himself. as every man must do
in all cases of casuistry. which can be
settled only By the feelings of his own
heart, is answer has uniformly been,
when compelled by the decisions Of con-
science, TO dissent from o,hers, in such
debate: 81 had rather be right, than be
President. Ills magnanimity has, on
more occasions than one, barred the door
10 his advancement. In the case of the
notorious charge Of bargain for the
election Of Mr.. Adams, in 1925, it has,
for carly quarter Of century, been in
the power Of Mr.. Clay, at any moment,
10 prove by positive evidence that The dis.
honorable proposals were made By those
rho brought hr charge; but who, having
been spurned, and anticipating an arraign.
meni on the same count, were first IN
court, with a gross fabrication in their
right hand. But magnanimity, and that
10 a political opponent, who was himself
the agent in this transaction, has hitherto
kept the key TO the secret. In future
page Of this work i, will be unlocked
! The novel experiment Of developing
/ electricity from ST. am was male al Cas-
IL GHdrn. New York, on Monday. with
amoaster msch,ne, which is, remarks one
81 tie New York papers, 10 comparison
with other electrical machines, what the
Great Britain is 10 Terry bot. Iis pow
er Is so great that il Will Instantly kill an
OK. but may he so graduated that child
can receive the shock wit on, injury
This Is the only machine of the kind in
this country. there being hui one other in
the world whchls bnt one fourth the pow
or Of this. A single spark from the prime
conductor will ignite shavings. .a~+. ~
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LANp GRANTING IN GEoReiA,-The
Georgia Journal of the 9th instant says:
/ The last week at the Capitol has been
one of grea, excitement. TO the astonish-
! ment Of our citizens, at least four or five
hundred persons, from every section ofthe
4 State, on Tuesday last, presented them
selves to apply for revertedlands. About
four thousand applications were made, and
it took the Treasurer, with the assistance
of four clerks, near too days to receive the
money and the applications. When this
was over, the lists for the drawing had to be
made, and upon them ten clerksimmediate.
lily went TO work, and, by working night and
day, finished them, so that the lottery com
menced on Friday afternoon, was contlnu'
ed until near midnight on Saturday night
and it closed on yesterday about twelve
o'cloch Nj. Never before, in the same
, length Of time, was there so large al
amount ofhuslness disposed Of in the STATE
House. The grants arc now passing viii
great rapid,y, and willall in ten or twelve
j DAYS be recorded and ready for deliver,
TO the fortunate drawers or their agents.