The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-01-22

lation at home, and repreach and con-
tempt abroad, as our portion, we shall
fall into anarchy and become prey to
enc, OF hundred tyrants.
God himself has set the warning
before us. in this Book, full of wisdom
to direct us in all things. Never was
Israel SO prosperous in arts and manu-
factures and commerce. as al the end
Of the reign of King Solomon. Ii was
united and powerful and happy. But
in the insolence of pride and Of power,
Rehoboam ridieuledt the Just complaints
of the more distant tribes. And there
issued disunion and st,ife-an almost
constant war Of mutual desolation for
two centuries and half. until weakened
and brought to contmpt, they fell an
easy prey TO the Kings Of the East.
And so il would be with us also, should
the sons Of Bichri, that blow the trum-
pet Of sedition, prevail to separate these
States, which God has Joined for good.
No, no, we viii not follow such men to
sueh an end. e as
Say not, there is no danger. There
IS danger; and | am compelled to say
that the root Of the danger is at the
North. II is found in that spirit of
jealousy and hatred towards our bre-
thren, here cherished, which finds its
food and expression in the columns of
our papers. the harangues Of dema-
gogues, in pamphlets and in sermons,
yea, which sends up the opprobrious
epithet from the pulpit to the Mighty
God, in prayer. II is found in the con-
slant insult and irritation heaped upon
them, from this quarter, in a thousand
ways, both public and private. And
most of all is it found in that turbulent
spirit, which over-rides all the provi-
sions Of the Constitution, and bids def
ance to laws framed to carry out those
provisions, and sets itself against God
and man, that SO it may indulge its ma
licious fury. These things were with
us, before the hateful cry Of disunior
was heard elsewhere. And when We
are thus driving our brethren away from
us, by that aggression which make.
wise men mad, it will not do to say thai
we meant no vil,-knew not the dan
ger Of our course. twill not do to rea
son that men will patiently bear al
wrongs and outrage, because by neeing
from these, they NAV fall into greater
evils. In all these things we are strik
ing at the foundation Of the Union. N,
force can hold these States together
when theEspirit Of brotherly love ant
confidence have given place to suspi-
cion and jealousy and hatred.
Let US then as men as Christian,
remember our duty in this matter. Lee
us praise God for his goodness to us
and show our gratitude, by cultivatine
the things that make for pease-by
strictly upholding to the very letter oul
own promises and obligations to the
Constitution Of our Country-be hon.
curing that sacred instrument in all its
provisions, as the true palladium of all
our greatness. Let US praise God, in
view of its excellence, as this year has
shown to us, when our great and good
chief could go down to the tomb, and
another take his high office, not only
(; without commotion, but without an op-
posing voice,-when what in otherla lands
would have been a revolution, was bu,
/ the pageant of moment. And when
!, we all remember the scenes and fear.
4 the last season, and look forward to tht
agitations Of the coming winter, let us
praise God that he has brought us safely
over one peril--that he has disposed
the hearts of our rulers to act iustl,
towards all and to fulfil the words ant
!. the oaths of our fathers. And let U!
bow down before him in fervent sup
plication, that he would continue t.
keep us and preserve us in all time tt
come.
i When see the hand of our God il
our mercies hitherto, | confess hav,
no fears for this Union at present.
cannot believe that he has yet ceased
to regard us in mercy. But it is to be
preserved by this means--by the deter
mination of all good men that it shal
be preserved--by their counting i
worth more to us than any fruitless in
diligence of malignant sentimentality-
by their rising in their might and maj
esty to frown down, into its nativedark
ness, all fanatical agitation against tn
solemnly guaranteed rights of others
, which can have no other effect than Il
tear from us our present blessings; ant
by their resolution that they will &C
justly and uprightly sustaining the law
, of the land, content, if there be evil
/. beyond their cure, to take, in this worl'
, of 'imperfection, that which is nearcs
4 perfect, and not, by vain grasping a
: shadows, lose not only what we no,
: possess, but character, self-respect an
5 justice, also"
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