The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-01

afed with want. in hurried moments.
divided betnixt the exartisns ii cruel
task master and the attentions spon a
diving parent on bed NJ straw. This
lis no sketch Of fancy. n II siub5orn
! fact.
wish not 20 be nisandersfood. II
j. not 10 be expected. or desired. that
intellect shall fraiernize with iyno-
rance, OF virtue with vice. A uasunl
iincougruity iurbids such association.
, Pebble opinion needs no refornation ia
this respect Hat the reformation
which is needed. and which we are led
10 hope Is silently working It's way, is
this-that the pursuits Of hpnest labor
shall no longer be bar to the highest
social position; and stimulus thus
given to the laboring man for the cuI-
tiyation Of his intellect. and develops
ment. for the common good. Of mental
resources that might otherwise remain
dormant; aud by holding out to him
the rewards Of virtue. the paths Of vice
and dissipation may be summed. These
annual festivals Of agricultural and me-
chanical industry, are working a pow-
erful, though imperceptible, moral in
fluence in this respect. For the time
being, they break down all the artifi-
cial barriers with which man has heds-
ed in his lnrdly self. Our honors aud
. rewards are to the inost worthy. Ho>
nor digniori should be our motto. We
have no use for droncs in our hive.
Industry and labor are the elements
our success. IL we are to effect any
thing Cor the good Of sour country. or
the welfare Of our felIow-men, it must
be through the agency Of these great
sources OF human good.
When we look abroad, and take a
survey Of the industrial enterprise Of
the world its influence upon the des-
tiny of our race; and the prospects and
promises held out by the future--we
have cause. not only 10 be proud of
our country, but to thank Heaven. that
we can lay claim to a title no less wor-
thy than was that Of the Roman. IN the
palmiest days Of his country's glory,
that Of AMERICAN CrzEx. We have q
country extending over "a degrees OF
latitude, and "a degrees Of longitude
suited to the cultivation OF. almost e.
very product known to agricultural
! wealth !; with comnercml marine, Sc.
cond TO that OF Great Britain aIonc'
! and promising soon % exceed that /;
with manufactures " all the ussf'a arts
equal TO those oil any country ana
making a RAPID progress IN the oraa-
mental also with literature, which.
J Tor nation IN ITS infancy, 's unsur>
, passed, and which Is extortlng the re-
luctant tribute Of admiration from the
most rlgld critics oi Europe; with
! mountains ana rivers, anu lakes and
, prairlcs, whose vastness and grandeur
excite feelings Of suoiiml.y and poetic
awe; with the Language oil Shakespeare,
and Milton, and Bacon ;.with the law
of Coke, and Mansfield, and Black.
: stone; with the religion Of Luther. and
: Cranmer, and Whitfield, and Wesley;
. with arms not only hallowed by tie
J, blood OF revolutionary martyrs. but IL
: lustrated since by the glories ofa Per-
ry and McDonough on the water, and
, of a Scott, Jackson and Taylor on
J the land- situated in the great high
t way between Europe and Eastern Asia
! tho seat Of those vast stores Of COM
mercial wealth, which Tor centuries it
g has been the object of commerce to
e reach by the shortest ronte-is 1t a
8 dream of fancy to suppose that, in the
designs of Providence, We are the des-
: tined agent for ciyilizing the worlds
: 10 come nearer home. as North Ca
9 rolinians, we have no cause to feel
! ashamed. but rather to feel proud of the
{ position we occupy. in the great drama