The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-06-06

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1t may be Of less Importance to determine
by what means this great spirit has been a,
reused and concentrated. Yet this is moi
difficult Manifestly whatever those means
were, they must have worked long aud work
ed deeply. Was it nothing thatin all parts
Of the country, and for years together, and
upon the most opposite pretcxts, the disco
luton OF the Union was constantly threaten
eds Was it nothing, that political corrup>
ton, grown gigantic in the land, had shocked
allhonest men Was il nothing, that stream
Of foreign paupers and felons flowed cease
essls into the bosom Of the Republic !? Was
il nothing. that millions of the foreign Pa
pists and foreign Inidels, inundating the
country like flood OF locusts, were openly
organized into political powers, directed
against the liberty, the religion, aud the ma
tionality Of the peoples Was it nothing
that political parties openly bought and sold
the support Of these fearful powers, contract,
ing always for such payments, in return, as
were the most humiliating and the most ia
tals Was it nothing. that the voice OF pa
triots, the power Of the press, the importun-
ties Of the pulpit were directed, each in It's
own sphere and for years together, against
this frightful and enormous wickcdness I
Was it nothing, that at length, men could
neither vote, nor speak, nor pray, nor teach,
without being liable to insult and violence
unless thew would do all in such manner as
suited the tastes Of foreign Infdels and Pa
pistsf Yes, verify, they we're deep causes,
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American people to that earnest and feryid,
but yet calm and settled enthusiasm, which
pervades the nation.
Nodoubt religion san element of this wide
spread excitement. But it is not the only
element, nor, with all men, the chief one.
Either of the other elements, by itself-or
this one by itself-ought to have been sufi-
cient to have saved the country from the pc.
ril which now demands the power Of all three
to avert it.
Because it is an element at all. they over
whom long DELAYED retribution is impending
scream at the bare mention of it, as the de-
moniacs did when they saw Christ approach
them. 1t is persecution for conscience
sake, in their view, that we hesitate to sur
render our country, our liberty, and our reli-
g.on TO the guidance Of corrupt men banded
with foreigners and what makes il perse-
cution is, that these foreigners happen to be
Papists aud inidels. Ii they had happened
TO be Chinese, or Mohomedans, the nation
would have revoIted much sooner. And vet
without reason; for We and our fathers have
an unsettled account with Popery, many cen
turtles old. At first it was the Emperor and
the Pope who trod us into the dust. Then it
was kings and bishops. who burned some at
the stake, and drove the rest out OF all lands
into this wilderness. Now it is priests and
mobs and demagogues. who have followed US
into our place Of refuge-nay, our last place
Of reluge-to renew here the combat Of cen
turtles, in form at once more degrading and
aud more likely to be fatal to US,
than in either Of its preceding forms. Shall We
be driven into the Pacifcf Shall we succumb:
Or shall we turn upon our relentless pursu-
ersi They have followed the lion to his last
den, and brought him TO bay. Did they ex-
pect him to die like stag in his lair;
The reyoi; of the country was wholly un-
expected BY those who supposed they hadal-
ready secured its final suhjugation and like
every other great retribution, it takes those
i falls on by surprise. II is not. therefore,
% be wondered at that they execrate with
peculiar horror the special means Of success
against them which their own perfidy and fe.
rOcity had rendered absolutely indispensable.
The country organizes itself for the great con.
lict which, to those who first embarked in it, /
seemed well nigh desperate, in silence and
without observation. That Is the way in
which all grand movements occur; even the
Kingdom Of Heaven does not come with OBJ
tryation. But the ,emagogucs, the priests.
he mobs, the foreign papists and infidels, i
re shocked beyond endurance, because the /
andful Of devoted men who first combined
0 save the country. f that were any longer /
,Ossible, did moi call the whole Of them into
ouncil For what: In order TO be muir
cred or, Of not murdered, traducel, aud .
he very end for which they were willing to
e traduced, and, II necessary, murdered
tterly defeated: We're they called into cOun-
IL when their enemies bought and sold them
we're they notified when corrupt bargains
iere struck, in which the liberties Uf the PEG.
lie we're put up al an Infamous price, Were
iey consulted when the atrocious schemes to
reak up the Union Of these States were con.
ncted: We're they advised when the over.
lro sofpurnaiionality nfour institutions, and
our religion together. was deliberately IN
ertaken BY the Popish despots and prelates Of
.urnpe Was counsel asked Of them BY 70.
sigh Papists aud inlidels, when, throughout
" whole land, they cnnspired with the full
,sent Of denagagues TO overthrow the Pro-
slant civilization Of the countryf We're
le secrets Of tie confessional made known to
iemi Were the secret oaths binding every Pa.
ii ecelesiastic with unlimited allegiance to a
reign temporal prince submitted 10 their
rrutnyf The safety Of the State is the SUI
rene law. Aud surely tits the first necessity /,
State lhat Is endangered, and they who
0ull save 4 must consult, must combine. lf
Y perhdy and frrOcity 81 their enemies com
Il them 10 observe unusual caution, il only
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