The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-10-02
AZ HiIisbo'oush. on he 9th Of Jrb 1850.
rY sAnUEL r. PHILLIPS.


FEILow CITIZENS:
IT affords me very sincere pleasure to make one Of
large assembage of American Freemen, engaged in
commemorang the birthday Of their country. 1t thus
twenty-five hundred years ago. that the citizens of republic
Rome joined in sacrifice and pur6caon and congran-
ation upon the APR to which tradi-
ton assigned the honor Of giving origin to their city, With
the memory Of their early heroes and Of the foundation Of
their free institutions until after nine hundred years Of pros
perty of cruelty and degradation ruled their fallen
fortunes and having nsaed their by elecng his
horse fill their proudes massacy decreed that his
birthday should thereafter be celebrated in the stead Of that
of the Imperial City, With the best auspices Of and
of religion have renewed the solemn under these
western skies; with worship pure, liberty well ba
anced and rich heritage of Heroic Memories, that
il for this poor human nature which sometimes breaks
down within us. might trust i shall continue until nine
times nine hundred years have rolled this Earth and all that
il inherit upon the very latest time in the which the
heavens shall pass away with great nose and The elements
shall me with fevent heat the earth also and the works
thereof shall be burnt up"
cannot but esteem il happy for all that the
FOURTH Day JuLy firmly fixed in the affections Of the
PEOPLE believe that long they remember with
pleasure the words and deeds OF their fathers they will
bring themselves to throw away to underyalue the great
legacy which these have bequeathed cannot believe that
long the proud memories of this day are equally che
rshed in Massachusetts, and North Carolina Georgia and
Pennsylvania-that Massachusetts, aud North Carolina,
Georgia and Pennsylvania willing to sever the bonds
which have enclosed them to their joint prosperity and go
ry without interruption for two generations believe that
whatever may peade the world OF pocans
however asprans from the North, and asplrants IRON the
South may in SANDER and deacon even had the great
men of the country been false the Republic they have
been true had the ustrious Senator from Ken
lucky the brave and good from Michigan and the wise
and eloquent of Massachusetts, come shoulder to sou-
der to the rescue the People, claiming this as exclusively
their government and recognizing the fact that the sun in
his revolutions of six thousand has never looked down
upon twenty millions happy and SO ee would not have
failed the institutions to which they have given existence
and strength Ii is day Of experiment and political adj
venturers dnnng into ears that this liberty we ENJOY
is not necessarily connected with any part OF this system OF
States that its fife does not reside exclusively IN the arms
the heart or the head that they will insure against any
bad threatened by the separation OF these parts
That luck which certain class OF the community pro-
verbal NAV their madness from deprvng liberty
of its existence but that the country can lose no
member hand foot nor eye, without being essentially
weakened and deormed Some excitement prevails some
wegrounded apprehension exists put the .eeng general
that we do by any change which we may
make that it is thing pull down. and altogether anot-
er to build up and that however readily put out the
l;obt we have no one can tell whence shall get the Pro-
methean heat which shall that light relume wanon child
with hachet may in few moments destroy the oak which
required the rain and of two centuries to bring Its
ent perfection;
a thousand year. scarce serve to fam . State,
An hour may lay il in the dust and when
Recall, ts Writ back and vanqush time and tate !!
am conscious fellow citizens that there glows within
me but little of that eoquence whose spell is wont to detan
YOU upon such occasions this have power to summon
those sentences which have heard the past ms
tory Of our country described catch that spirit OF pro-
phecy which exa her future to and spendo
hardly of this world In the absence of ability to attempt
higher things hope shall have your consent to consider
some of the facts which made the American Revolution.
we would arrive the perfect stature Of admiration tor our
fathers we mustbetter acquant ourselves with the de o
their deeds and designs and in the mean tme we snail DC
refreshed by contemplation of true sublmitythe sublmy
and eoouence of lives abour conquered disappointment
nbued despair of moderated ambition, and selfgovern-
ment better than taking city, We very much deceive our
selves bv calculating the height to which fathers glory
reaches from the emnence upon which are standing we
do them Injustice by looking around upon this continent OF
States these unsurpassed political institutions, this noble re-
lpous liberty this have made us like to the name
o the great men which be in the earth and then imagining
that uih all this in uew they entered upon that earu con-
fest Read their history and learn that they were nesed
with no such prospect Deprived OF their rights as
Freemen their humble prayers to the BRITISH inrohe M
heard repused from every hope encompassed with tos;
,Sb yson n their ranks and despair in their hearts; in
suited tramned upon betrayed-they set their lives IN
Je for their liberty and resolved that they must fight! 1t
~ nlv after that considerably progressed that they
dtm;ned TO strike higher blow for Independence ony
after that fight had ended that they looked forward 20
manent Union Through the dark dark nga tney Shrugged
IN that deep morass escape dangers winch lay oehhu J
lost their foothold wounded their teet piunged
lessly into bottomess CULTS; still they straggeu
But it was only after the mire had been e1 Dehnu s 2
had surmounted the rough and difficult hill oeiore e nu
the morning mist and cloud had broken away .ae u's
were rejoced by the magnificent prospect Oh nl Yay %
plain bathed in the golden light of the Sun OF Freedom.
that long lowering day. which passed over anu
Adams from September l774 June 1905 how sid ater
nate hope and deep despair Happily we have
records ots events but much that of the highest