The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-10-09

moderzng the anoses Of the Convention Of l7e7. By
has wisdom and alor he had given 70 his coun peace and
Independence he had ALREADY discharged all that due
70 her and his generation would have risen up and called
him blessed had Ms abors closed with the resignation Of
his military command. But God had still nober work for
hn 70 accomplish and IL ordered that he should
provide r the sovereignty Of his county. but place her
path OF honor and happiness that may be prolonged 70 the
most distant generations. 80
On victor. unsurpassed In modern song. s.tst.sF 4
Each year bings fsil Is milEnas yet long y
Time and hs generations shall roll
And . The whole conbaei countless throng
Compose q mind Ike thine though al n one
Condensed iheir arfd they would not form sun
Its very true that we have no such high mission upon
earth fathers had. So much the greater obligation up
on US. then clearly fulfil it II is impossible that in
country like there shall be real and imposan diff
feenees OF interest We by many degree of ati
tade and longitude. When the beams Of the early morning
are just breaking upon Oregon City and the Bay Of San
francisco, the has mounted already than three
hours high upon Boston, Leaving shore upon the
OF the Atlantic Of thousand leagues and advancing with the
rush Of population and the setting three thou
sand miles Of mountain river plain and orest-oyer every
square inch Of which FLAG flies supreme, 6nd
Eagle screaming. and asserting dominion throughout twenty
degrees Of latitude along the Great South Sea- 1t the
est stupidity and folly not to be certain that such
tent Of territory, among people Of active intellect.
there shall not be grave dserses Of opinion upon almost
every subject Bat these not necessarily fatal
Coniederacy Those Of who have travelled in rail
aud steam boats viii recoec to have been somewhat
led at first by their jar and shudder but in no long time their
other advantages completely reconciled the slight in
convenience, and meanwhile whred upon
with rapdiy which put to shame the clouds aud the wind
As Country speeds her citizens along untrodden tracks
OF peaceful glory oustrppns in her bright career all
cient and modern competitors his must be captous and
minute mind that afford him leisure among these thou
sand blessings OF home liberty and religion, to calculate
whether she varies from her by the monh part
degree to value the exceeding accuracy of those
metaphysical faculties which distinguish and divide
hair, twixt and northwest sideD We make up
minds to anticipate disputes with brethren, and
prepare ourselves beforehand with that temper which
they should be conducted We must pay frequent visits to
the Of fathers and consult their spirits upon the
difficulties which surround The TO the sincere
inquirer will be in vain. So long can reproduce
in breasts their thoughts and feelings the Republic
will be safe. The times may demand of US to speak plainly
and with rmness the dictates of liberty were never
yet reconcabe with submission undoubted injury
and he who inquiries for such response from the mighty dead
Of our Revolution, will inquire in vain II am asked what
practice is that nice medium Of rmness and compromise
which should be esorted to upon such occasions give
complete or, trust satisfactory my
dence, by reference to the pages OF Inspiration hope
that to hem would appear unwarranted neglect upon
part il did confess that however upon days such
this there much matter for boasng and congaulaton
there still for meditation and humble thankluness to
the Gyer Of all Good, for having distinguished history
with series of providences the like of which challenge
any country to produce. And may say specially, that
unable to solve the problem here presented what is
the proper degree of submission which sovereign and high
spirited State may make to another common cause other
wise than BY the formula given the New Testament Do
to others you would have them do to you In carrying
this fully there be fear of degradation upon
sde Of ladvised and fatal rupture the other know,
fellow citizens, that take you all with me, when assert
that the Christian Religion is at the deep foundation Of every
political privilege enjoy and that according its lessons
followed despsed, will civil liberty rise to per-
lection, sink into nothing Above all, should avoid
hasy counses. To engaged in controversy anger is
hardly better than folly and in their results they general
y the How. Ibeseech you, how shall answer at
The bar of postery if aragned upon charge OF having dis
solved this Union in &c Of hasty considered and unca
led for i'll tempeE When Cop gave Solomon wisdom, he
added thereto "largeness of heart and up my
meaning better than By quoting remarkable passage
from speech delivered by Edmund Burke in behalf Of
colonial rights in the British Parliament: "MAGNANInITy
POLITICS sELDox WISDOM, GREAT EN-
LITTLE MINDS GO TOGETHER"
Fellow citizens, you have kindly lent me your attention
while endeavpred with confusion fear to trace the
foundation Of this republic in the compromise Of important
principles and the surrender of dear rights You have recog
nzed trust that in the preservation among our people Of the
spirit which gave life to Cpnettuon is ony hope OF
preserving the Const elf and may not indulge the
belief that you resolved in all questions Of
general dispute and difficulty to consult and abide by the
Oracles Of the Revolution few words more, and shall
have DONE ~ s-sf
The period of three quarters Of century which includes
history many respects of the most remarkable
in all time. 1t has witnessed tremendous oyerhrows OF en-
pes revolutions in opinion less important, advances IN
science that unpaaleed and there no department in
which the mind has not advanced from conquest to conquest
as with the steps of giant through which it does not
stand ready rejoicing like strong to run race We
ry difficult is it for living in this blaze of the nineteenth
century, realize the situation of men who lived within the
last hundred years. 1--WE hardly conceive the reya
sion should experience suddenly carried back o
the condition Of the pararchs of the Old Thirteen Fancy
their rude cabins ny scattered through the dreay wilder
ness the small patches of hacleared and halfted land
around em the solemn silence of the boundess wood
broken but by the echoing strokes of the follow through