The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-10-25

hssvsa bafn rkngingi nfer ke great Z
and ths god. darrd 10 And an ufirf-
ane~. There have been. N doabt. 1
-mnte. inglprions Miltsas.~ Hamp- !.
dens. chaiAans. Barkes. fanklins.
Henrss. wa>hingtans. IN Franee. n
Austria. Russia. Turkey and itaiy-
carrying tks sane sacred Fame VI pa
sriafssm In their hearts: but II vas
licked M there. CONSUMING str breasts
ia which II was imprisoned. and daring
cot 10 breathe itself forth for fear d
the dungeon and the rack. But hap
pier Car Il IL ~Ihrn the divine spark 10
lighted No in an Angio-szxon bosom
Yer 500 wears have the champions Of
civil asd religions liberty and the ora
eIes IL moral wisdom been pouring out
their hearfssirring strains IN the inn
mortal dialect Of SIDNEY. Locke. aud
Miltons and the consequence has been.
that the vsst mass Of precious thought
and feeling that has been glowing and
working in Tn thousand human minds.
during that long eriod. has been err
bodied IN the English Language-"ap-
pies Of gold in network 81 silver
hearts Of natures finest mould enhain'.
~ in amber far the worship Of future
ages. Alexander Of Macedon kept the
IIlad Of Homer in the jcwelled casket
Of Darius. Butsiuce the artof prlnting.
We need no other casket Tor the pre-
seryation Of our works Of genus than
the wide spread volumes Of the English
language. BIat out the English Lam
Kuage. and you would extinguish the
voice of liberty and truth and right
sousness. frmm,thc modern world. Oh.
how would the tyrants at the earth.
political aud ecclesiastical. rrjoicr. at
"a. putting out Of that light. At the
hushing Of that voice! In the age sd
Augustus il was treason to read the
noble bursts Of Cicero IN defence Of the
lib rites of his country and in Eng
lands degenerate DAYS, Charles III.
burned the works of Milton. and tried
TO seize his person. But thanks To
Heaven, aud to the Press, his instru-
went. the ETHEREAL prudncts Ut the mind
do not die with the bodies that cnshrine
TIM, but will live coevsI with the
spirits that gave them birth. Cnhappi
" there is dark side Of the picture.
As we shall ever rejoice that some Of
the proudest monuments OF genius and
virtue are immortalzed in our English
tongue. so We must confess with sor-
row, that the same consecrated lar.
gage will save from oblivion some OF
ihe poisonous prodrcts Of prsiligate
genius. Who but must wish that some
Of the poems OF Moore and Byron had
been written in an unknown ton, u
Tom Moore has made penitential con-
fessions on that subject. And well he
might, when reproycJ for his dissulute
muse by Lord Byron -" Quis tulerit
graccbcs de sedtione querentesf" lie
was escs asked il he had never regret
ted writing some ct his pieces. lie
honestly replied. Eyes, as soon as |
had daughter old raorgh to read
ahem!v What an instructive confess
sim the heart OF the father smote him
for providing matter 10 faint the purity
and wound the delicacy of his own
daughters mind; but felt no companc-I
tion for introducing the poison into ten
thousand other families. We have ell
heard Of heaps Of matter being destroy,
cd By spontaneous combustion. We
cannot help wishing there were such
destiny awaiting the eiiusions Of pol
luted hearts-that the paper trayersed
BY these pens tipped with unhallowed
tame, should have taken fire under the
touch, and scorched the fingers nf the
writer; o. that he should have found,
ON returning to his study, nothing but
mass of ashes where be left his in
een,linry poems.
but to turn again to the brighter and
more hopeful destinics of our language.
We are bound to congratulate ourselves
that Great Britain and the United
Safes, tine possessors Of ERglishtongue,
are already iva Of the most widespread
nations on The globe, and destined. we
h mbly believe. by their commerce.
their freedom, their energy and their
valor, TO influence the fortunes Of the
whole earth. Hence we may catch a
cheering perspective Of the splendid
destinies of our noble native speech.
As il is now read on the banks Of the
Thames and the Potomac, so it shall,
ia reYoi,ing time, be read on the banks
of the wolga aud the Yang-tse-K iang;
Of the Niger and the Nile; and kin.lIe
hitherto unknown raptures Of truth
and hope in the millions Of those dis
tanf hrmispheres. An electric spark
from an English or American bosom
shall shoot athWart the ocean, and Gre
ate Washington in st. Petersburg or
Pekin. With eyes watching for the
dawn of SO lllusirious a future. upon
our country and our language. we NAV