The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-04-09

whea The galiing yoks q lyrsnis shauld
berome inieirEshle. and lie friieB 81 -
perslili0n 100 oppressive Eor loager ind8-
rance. the aggrieFrd might come hilher, -
10 he promised and. and bresfhe Freely ass
i've happily. We lEe u ; hn5 dislln-
guished alike for civil ahd religious liberty.
We live sn3sE government The most
mid and saMlaTy upon earth. And for
this ineslimsble pIisilege ne are indehied.
under God. 10 The patriotism, he suflrE-
inss and treasure 81 oar foHlsfAers- To
prosuse 4 they pledged . their lives, iheir
fortunes, and their sacred honor" Tke
struggle Was long and painful, but The en-
ierpFize was fally s~hieyed. And ihey
have been able 20 bequeaih 10 thfir sons
and daughters q kgaey which 10 % should
be dearer ihan life iiself.
II, therefore. We would prove ourselves
sons worthy Of such noble sncesiOs-if
any Of the spirit that inspired mems souls
in "76'' has come down 10 the presen. &C.
neFsli0n, then viii we guard with sleepless
vigilance ihal for which our fathers fought
and died.
| Whaieyer. therefore, threatens 10 be-
cloud our prospects. 90 tarnish our honor,
10 corrupt our blOOd-bought freedom, and
spoil the peace and happiness Of our peO-
pie, should be regarded by Us as DANCE
rous enemy; and we should meet that
enemy, as soon as discovered, AMI grapPle
with and crush il.
Such an enemy have are found, from
sad experience, in the vice Of inlempe-
rance. Nay, we have had no other enc
my thai has done US half The mischief
none that threatens. so much as iniempe-
rance, to blast the fair scenes around Us,
, and TO convert our beloved country into
another hell, the abode Of anarchy, and
fear, and misery and dezah.
Once, indeed, did Great Britain for q
7 time, prove herself an unnatural and cruel
, mother. She landed her armed forces on
our coasts, burned our towns and private
dwellings, bulchered our fathers and mo-
theirs, and filed the land with the Pilsou;
4 waiIings Of delenceless innocence. There
was then darkness that brooded over lh'
country darkness that might be felt
!: But after few years that storm was quel
J. led; our cruel mother was sent hom
g manned and shamed, and gladness agail
FLIED the hearts Of our people, Th
Of plague and the pesiilence have each visit
s. ed our shores, and spread sadness lhrOug
:" all our borders. But they have reache
,e their appointed bounds and again reliret
a. Not SO inlemperance More than
he century has passed since this steal,hy fc
h came among us, and still he lives an
thrives in his murderOus avoCation. A
= ready has he exiinguished the last spar
: !, of liberty in the hearts of thousands of oil
" people, and made them the miserab
~ slaves TO himself; so that they now hay
= no love for their country, they do nothir
n to promote its welfare. He has filled OF
Is prisons with host Of worthless wretche
re whom he has made so, and whom !
makes the better part of men feed. II
IS, has made us build hospitals, asylums, ar
ny poor-houses over the whole land, ar
u these are filed to OVERLOOKING. To pc
he pie all these places, he has not been col
ms tent to invade simply the ranks Of Il
IA, poor and unfortunate among men. II
nd has gone into the dwellings Of the rio
=, and the great, and sent cut their owne
!. from their carpeted floors and thousar
=, comforts, to starve in prison. He has la
oS his hand upon the young man of geni'
upon the middle-aged, proud Of the h
w. nors which he has fairly won in his pr
fession, and sent each of them back in
yer the dregs OF society, TO die unhonored, Il
dr. wept. lie has entered the sacred des
es- and dragged down the man of God fro
ng his high calling, and left him in the mi
ad Of the streets, an object alike Of pity al
ky contempt. He has entered the lami
circle, and made sad havock of domest
in happiness. The kind and gentle hu
ma band, the tender father. has been CONVEX
y. ed into being more ferocious than Il
- savage beast of the forest; so that 4
IS fond wife has shrunk from her natur
' &c protector, as from fiend of darkness.
INC the children, instead Of approaching hi
me with glad faces and prattling tongues, ha
IN fled from him with frightened looks al
shuddering hearts. A tax of hundr'
the millions of dollars is imposed upon o
BILE people annually to uphold this fell destrO
the er in spreading misery and death broa
ars cast over the land.
ire But let US fOrbear; for TO enumera
nv the evils is fruitless task. The paint
mr. and black catalogue of crime, Of miser
ho and of death, If fully made out, would b
- gin with the history of ardent spiri
- reach through all time, and down the lol
line of coming eternity.
ny And what is most painful TO every b
Sc nevolent heart, there seems to be no end
the this evil. If like the cholera, it had TAX
the off its thousands within few months, al
on then disappeared, it might still be regar
ted ed as trivial affair. 1flike the war wi
len Great Britain, it had scattered fire-branc
of arrows and death but for seren years, v
of might bear it without murnuF. But n