The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-10-24
70. IaoI.

ahks ANa4 y AAE ANNNA ~ w. VI tMAs AaNAs
lie has sci Il far away - the Wesi. AMI
made il so eireumslanilaily iliependeRl.
thai. il an The rel of Inc habiizble eanh
we're sunk. NE sliunld feel NJ serious cur
iailmenI nf orr ramiorls. The products
at the nhnle world are. or may som he,
found aiihin our confederate limils. lie
brought here frsi The .Iernesi. mnsi Telisi-
aus. must deisrmiue,l Representatives &c
Enrape's besi hlnod. brsi lsiIh. best INTEL
leci; mrn. ~. and somen. III is The mei,'-
er makes HE rhilh.l who. herau-r they
feared lind. feared m created powcr.-
who. hnwIng helnrr his absolute sovereign
~. wonld kneel 70 no lord spiritual or tenn
p0ral 90 eaIIh.-and Win. beliesing The
Bible irue, demanded lis sanction Tor az
law. To yonr Pilgrim Fathers lie highest
plare may i III be orrnrded: hul iorgeI not.
that about lie time ii their landing on
the Rock. there ram q, The mnulh Of the
Hudson men IL kindred faith and descent,
men equally loving freedom men from
the sea-washed cradle al modern consIi,u-
iional freed ~. u hose union 81 free burcil-
er cities taught u The lesson Of rOnle'le-
rate indypend nj soyereignlies. whose
slres were as free, long centuries helnre.
Mayna Charia. as the English are now.
and from whose line ofrepubllcan princes
/ Britain received The hoon Of religious -
leralion. privilege The States General had
recognized as primary article OF their
government when first established; m6n
Of thai stock. which, when Offered their
choice Of fav0rs from grateful monarch.
asked University men whose martyr
sires had baplized their land with their
blood; men who had flooded il with ocesn-
waves rather than yield il 10 higo,.,y-
RAM; men. whose virtues were sober ~
prose, cut sublime as poetry;-lhe men Of
/ Holland! Mingled with these. and still
further on. were heroic llnguenols, their
fortunes broken, hnilheir spirit unbending
10 prelate or prelale-ridden king. There
were others. land dash Of cavalier blood
told well in battlefield aud council;) but
those were the spirits whom God made
the moral substrainm Of our national cha
racter. Here, like Israel in The wilderness,
and thousands OF miles Of from The land
of bondage, they were educated for their
high calling. until, ia the fullness OF times,
our coniederary with lis Constitution was
founded. Already there had been salu-
,ary mixture Of blood, but not enough 10
impair the Anglo.Saxon ascendency. The
nation grew morally strong from its origi-
nal elements. The great work was de-
layed only by just preparation. Now
God is bringing hilher the most vigorous
scions from all the European stocks, 10
..make of them all one new mani" not
the Saxon. mol the German, not the Ganl,
no, the Helveiian, but the AMERICAN.
Here ihey will unite as one brotherhood,
will have one law, will share one interest.
Spread over the vast region from the fIigid
10 The iorrid, from Eastern 10 Western
ocean. every variety Of climate giving them
choice Of pursuit and modification Of tenn.
permanent, and ballo,.boy iusing together
al risalrics. they shall have one naiioual
will. What is wanting in one race will
he Supplied by the characteristic energies
Of the others, and villa, is excessive in
either, checkedby the counteraction ofihe
rest. Nay though for lime the newly
come may retain THEN foreign vernacular,
our tongue, 50 rich in enncbllng literature,
will be the tongue Of the nation, the Ian.
guage Of its laws, and the accents of IFS
majesty. Eternal God who sees, the
end with the beginning. thou alone canst
tell the ultimate grandeur Of this people
AFTER the escntful issue Of the siege of Ley
den, the Prince Of 0range and the States General,
grateful the heroic defenders of that city, Offered
them their choice Of an Annual Fair on a Unyer-
sy They chose the University; hut, struck with
the noblencss OF the choice, the high authorities
4 granted the mhoh. The University was eslah-
/ lshed in l575 and became the dina Mater Of
Grotus. Scaliger, Bgerhaayc, and many other re-
nowned men.