The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-02-19
Prom the Boston Atlas.
THE FRrITs OF WAR.

THE FRUITS OF WAX.
"Whrn the great Frederick came ta
the throne OF P.u.sia, III i,ther ha pie.
psred snd equ,pprd i"r him an army Of
hundred thuu,snd men. Meeting, sLOri-
~ alter. he Austrian Minister. the laiIef
s.rd TO h,m: Your la'hsr has gwen you
4 g,e.I army but our tfoops' have seen
tie sulf. ynnrs have not" "iWsll,
welt" said Frederick, Il will give them
an opportunity TO sre the welt" FTsdrF-
,rk then a!ttd. in hls mrmoH, al had
some excellent oil pr, tensions 10 al Aus
u.aa PtoT,nre. which some Ut NY snct s.
Inrs had owued. Que or two bund'ej
wears hetou; and | cent 81 ambassador
% The Court &c Vienna, stating my claim,
aud presenting full expo.iuon Il my
RICH, To lhe psovInce. The same day my
amba,.d,r vas ,eceiyed IN VIenna. tn
tered StlPsla With my army" 81 YOU
see thai Gu tie very dly lis army entered
S,'es,a, he give notice to tie Court OF
vienna. that the Convent IN for the JUN,
Occupation Oi Sits,a We ended"
JoLH 2. Adams Speech.
Character Of Frederick. "a tyrani
,thuni fear. without faith. without meT-
cy; irrit,tlr esen To lcroc,ty: enjoy ins tie
pain and humiliation Of o,hsrs."
Motives of his sudden Har on Stii-
sid" The King oi Prussia, the ANU
MachIavel. had sliesdy IulIy determined
IL commit the great crme 81 violating his
pI,ehied filth. by robb,ng he sIlv whom
he sSs bound 10 defend, and by plunging
all Europe inta long, bloody and des".
l,,iug wal; and Ill ih,s fo no end what
er, except that he might extend his DO
u,iutons, aud see his name 10 the g'-
zrttes. To quote his owu words Am
b,llnn, intere,t, the desire nf makinp peo.
PIE talk about me. carried The day. aud |
declared Tor war. THIS was in The Win.
Ter al 1891"
Progress Of The Uar.--Bu, for this
beginning Of war, il is probable that the
re,c~ OF Ill Europe might have been pre-
served. Now the whole void sptsug to
arms. On the head al Frederick Is all
The flood which was shed in war which
ragged % years. with soOe suspension al
hoslilaes. End IN every qnarier of the
globe. III, Sc are The Two French wars,
before the American Re solution.
TIA, the Prussian aonarch might rob
the Austri.ns Of the province Of SIiesia,
black men fought on The coast of Coro-
andr: and red men scalped each other
on Like Ere; the men OF NeS and Old
ENGLAND sho, each other around the walls
of T.ewis,nwn, Nova Scotia, aud savages
murdered or carried into captivity m' n,
women and children, from HsverhilI,
Drrrield. Schenectady aud Wyoming.
Tue allied armies ovtTrsn Prussia.
burnt cites and villages, and devastated
the Country. Every six h man in Prus-
s,a had persisted. frederick anticipated
the rum Of his throne and nation, h s
sleep was broken, his fee haggsrd, the
grave was his rtluge from misery and
dlshonor. and he Carried The poI.on in a
sm III glass case. lie wroie t. his friends
-. have no resource left, all is lost. |
will no. survive The rum OF my coualry.
Farewell forever"
But The King recovered hope and push
ed on the war. not caring what extent Of
property was destroyed, or The pursuits
Of c,il life suspended. so that lie did but
make head agaiDs, The enemy. As long as
there was a m IN lett in Prussls, tharman
might carry a muske,; there were still rye
bread and potaIoes--thers were still lead
and gunpow der. and still Frederick Tough.
on. A, thus time he wrnes, II am no
SAINT, and should die content, il first |
could nA CT portion of the misery which
! endute."
! Result and Policy.-In February 1863,
the nations signed Peace. The contrl-
buttons levied on Prussia by The invaders
had exceeded hundred millions OF dol
lars. Near IL, 900 houses had been burnt
10 the ground. The traveller passed a
SUCCESSION of villages in which no, a SIM
ple inhabitant remained The frlds were
uncullisared-the focks aud herds bad
been swept away. The very seed corn
had been dssoursd in the madness Of hun