The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-05-08

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sentiments
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Governor Briggs responded 10 this Toast
in his usual feliclious manner. He began
BY sayiag ihai what had been uttered
By those gentlemen who bad preceded him
had disarrsnged ali the stock OF ideas on
which he had meant 10 depend. One
thing. however. was forsunaie-ihe ioast
he had 10 preface was one that would re-
commend itself. for the grasping reapers
had taken all the corn away and proven
ted his cleaning. Far back in an early
age, a Mosbilish WOMAN went into dis
tani country 10 CLEAN, and the lord Of The
dominion gave command 10 his reapers 10
-. l.i..I ..... h.a.l. (ox h. H.
wished his predecessors had done The same
towards him. Laaghier.) lie had been
surveying The fields. and they had left
him nothing. Notwithstanding This CON-
plant, His Excellency contrived 20 man.
nfacinre very interesting speech from The
scaniy material left him. A most inter-
esling part OF il related 10 one Of the We
ierans upon the platform-Jshnsihsu Hsr-
rington. On the evening before the bat.
lie of Lexington, he went home 10 his
mothers house. Al one O'Clock in the
morning. he being in bed al the time, his
mother came 10 him add aroused him, say
ing" Jonathan the regulars are out.
and you must get up and do something
something must be done :" That Jona-
than. then boy, stood before the assem-.
bly, that day thai was tho boy TO whom
The mother spoke. What could iha. youth
OF sixteen dol He got up and blew the
lille fife 10 rally the clans. Mothers Of
Massachusetts do you hear that! The
regulars were the embodied power Of The
British Soldiery; and yet. in the dead Of
night, mother said 10 her young sou
the hope OF her old age" GET up; some
thing must be doner' Loud Cheers.)
That boy was in the fight at Lexington.
He saw the array Of the British army
saw their guns and heard the rafting oil
the armor-heard the words" Rebels,
disperse!" The heart which now beats
in the feeble bosom of that old man fell
MI those things. Thank Heaven he was
here. with his bother and his companions
in arms who had fought on another 6eld
He had gone out TO Concord and 10 free.
dom. His party marched up 10 the
bridge. and that arm Of his helped 10 sus.
tain the struggle. Well did Samuel Adams
say. speaking OF that day Ii was glori
Gus .moraingi" His Excellency conclud.
ed by giring the following toast:
72e 1911 of April, I775-snd tho prophetic
exclamation Of Samuel Adams, when he heard
the guns en- that morning." oh what gloriou,
morning is this !"
Loud applause greeted the toast.
The next toast was regular oAe, and
was rap,urously received:
The President Of the United States and on
National Union.
The chairman, after some preliminary
observations with reference 10 the RICH
which Massachusetts had TO recognition
nv Great Briiain. and the evidences Of ,ha
recognition, as seen in various instances
among others that shown on the mon
ument TO Lord Howe in Westminster Alb
hey, in London, where the genius Of Mas
sachusetis Bay was represented, conclud
ed by giving the following toast, whicl
was received with that liberal enthusiasm
which characterizes our enlightened pco
pie:
EagLand-Ov Mother Country-Wc hay
cause to speak well Of our stock. The reaso
why the Essex and MiddIesex farmers could fror
o.
West of England blood in their veins. We hs
halfof Engand..to sympathizc with..us through u
War; and our fathers could afford to part wit
Old England, for they had established Ne
England in the West
The band then played the "Qucen'
Anthem"
The following volunteer toast was rea
by the Chairman. II was the productlo
OF an eminent member Of the Legislative
body, although laid to another party pro
sent-an Englishman--who was innocer
oil all but participation in the high ar
probation with which il was received
which we are assured all the old country
men present also joined heartily:
When Jonathan Harrington got up on Il
morning Of the battle Of Lexington, he did so !
the call Of his mother; but relative also get U