The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-22

bsfss the whis s,.s- csrss..i~.. wsaus-a.y,
Fskssg ~. 1854.
Ma. PRxsssxxT:--I cssld ast feel
otherwise than honafed by che call
which has b<en made spon ase. shall
not trespsss long. however. On the pa.
tienes OF the Convention. The hsr-
is~ny which has ekaracterized the pro.
eeedingS Of this body. and the deter.
sunlation Of purpose that appears Ia
have animated every bosom. will. I
trust. 80 forth to our whis brethren
throughout the State - harbingers Of
victory. and arouse them oses saore to
aetisa-
Sir. ~hen shat illsstrieus Captain
and noble patriot. ~hp has spent long
life in the service sf has country, and
has never ku,wn the monenf he would
mt. with aiacrity. have sacrificed that
life for her safety and her honor. who
carried the Eagles of that Country tri-
uInphantiy throsgh one Of the most
brilliant military campaigns REGARDED
ON the pages Of history. was defeated
for the Presidency. not so much By the
efforts Of his enemies. as BY the wounds.
1.-The unjust ard ungrateful sounds.-
inflicted upon hin. ia his own psliti-
cal household. we ~erc most kindly
and graciously informed. eth an AR
too. of joyous delight and splemn
mockery. BY our adversaries, Ahat the
Whig Party was dsad-pEAp, and some
we're charitable enough to deny il even
the poor privilege of decent burial! IL
was indeed To all Of us.--at least to
those who were fsrtsnate enough TO
have soRe little of vitality leit.--a
subject &c most sad and melancholy
reflection. looming over Us like q 6t-
ful dream. that at one fell swoop."
t.s whois Whig Party, composed Of
nearly one million four hundred thou
sand voters Of the country. who were
tue 10 its cause, had been swept from
existence and consigned to the land Of
spirits! Most premature annihilation! |!
For how comes il. that 50 many Of those
gallant Wings, whs we're thus uncere.
Inoniously transported By the Demo-
cratic CHARoSs, athwart the waters sf
the dark river. have found their way
back to this land of strifef | see a.
round me many from the East aud from
the West, bearing the honored wounds
of macy well fought field, d,--still flush.
cd with health aud full Of life, ready
and eager to enter again into the con-
flict! Why, sir, hope do not in
trude nor arouse unpleasant recollec-
tions, BY asking Uhence came they ?
How is It, that they have been able to
rc.cross the awful STyx and escape the
vigilance Of the irightlsl Ccberases Of
DemocracyF Did they bring with
them the Tyre Of Orpheus by which
these watchful sentinels were lulied
to sleepl Knight ask, too, what right,
after having been once stripped by our
i aisersaries Of this "mortal coil have
any of as to hold seats in this hall, de.
dicated to the use Of the bring and not
the movements Of the dead? beg our
friends to scrutinize themselves to
examine whether they really have the
flesh and muscle and bone Of human
beings, or be but the shades Of evan.
csceat spirits. Are they in reality
men, living, breathing. hoping. aspir-
Ing, acting MEN. or are they but the
ghosts of what they once were, come
book "to scar the eye-balls" Of Demo.
cracy. and will they "doUn at its bid
ding."
Really, sir, this process Of coming
to life again after having been so expe.
ditiously dispatched, is indeed pleas
ant in the extreme! 1t brings back SO
many delightful "reminiscences, which,
though mingled with some sadness, ne
vertheless give delicious redolcnce
to the memory of joys that are past
II enables old friends to meet again
on terra firlna, who in the land of spi-
rits NAV have been widely separated
1t is evident that our Democratic
friends do not like this way the Wings
have Of not staying dead. They may
well exclaim with the poet
.Ths times have hsen.
Thstwhen the bsans we're ou,. The man would die
And then an end: but now they rise again y
! Such things are well calculated, nc
doubt, to disturb their equanimity, to
make them start from their seats, and
forget their accustomed well regulated
propriety. Itis too muchlike the ghost
Of the murdered Banquo taking his
seat as guest at the banquet OF the
guilty and affrigh.ed Macbeth. lisa
yors, too, somewhat, Of the mysterl'
Gus appearance Of the hand. during the
feast Of the naughty Belshazzar. which
wrote upon the wall the prediction O
his downfall and the destruction Of hi,
kingdom!
But, Mr.. President. in all serious
ness and candor, what have We wit
nessedl During the last Presiden
!. tiaI camDaisn. the alarm was spreat