Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-25
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Thanksgiving day passed off pleasantly and vas
very generally observed by the business communi-
ty. Services were held in most our city churches
DR.. Hawks delivered eloquent discourse in Calva-
ry church, 18th Avenue. It was more in the shape
of . splendid Grafton The church was densely
crowded with the most wealthy and aristocratic fam
lilies of the upper part Of the city, who listened at
tentvely to one Of the most eloquent pulpit efforts
OF the times. The Doctor had evidently prepared
himself for the occasion. He dwelt with great force
upon the tendencies of the times, politically and
morally. He considered that our citizens were cul-
Pably neglected. in the proper discharge of their po-
He gave fearful picture of political corruption
and degeneracy, and declared that Gods judgments
overtake the wickedness of nations as
of Individuals and the happiness of all was involved
as members of corrupt political body. He also
alluded to the fulflment of the Judgment pronoun-
ced against the Jews, and which would as surely
fall upon all nations who forget God. He alluded
to the moral corruption which pervaded the politi-
cal atmosphere of Washington, and depicted the
depths it had reached by the support given to its
gambling hells by members of our National Legisa-
ture, whose votes were often held by the successful
keepers of the most fashionable farotables.
We cannot in brief space do justice to this bril-
liant effort of this learned divine.
As your readers already know the Doctor is
native of North Carolina, and graduate of Chapel
HILL He has been all his life long hard and ndefat
igabe student. He is excellent linguist and can
readily translate Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French,
Spanish, German, and, believe, Italian also. He
possesses fine library He is very fond of histor-
cal research and of the study of ethnology. He is
also member of various learned societies, and Pre-
sdent of the Statistical and Geographical Society Of
New York, and is also a member of the Ethnologi-
cal Society of this city He possesses two full length
ancient stone statutes from ruined temples in South
America, probably the only perfect specimens of the
kind which exist in any part of the civilized world
He designs to have casts taken of them in the plas-
ter of Paris for presentation to the British Museum
He is, it is said, also engaged history of North
Carolina How he can find time to do so much, has
always been a marvel to his friends.
Few persons perform the intense and long
continued labor he endures. He is now, probably,
little turned of fifty years, vigorous and active in
his mental faculties He is little bald and slight
ly inclined to fness of habit probably induced by
sedentary habits. His eyes are those of the bright
genius order, the color of those of the Duke OF
Wellington and which common with dcs-
cendants of the Aborigines of England, viz Of a
dark, soft and expressive hazel gazelle color
The late Mr.. Upshur of your State, had such eyes
in perfection We have seldom seen such eyes with
a we'll formed head, and educated mind, unaccom
panied with brilliant genius. Though many ex.
amples of blue eyes, ana genius combined, can be
given; yet they not constant as in the other
cases. The Doctor is simple and unpretending in
his manners, and cordial and affectionate in his in
tercourse, and the favorite of all who know him."