Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1858-12-01
Rev. DIR. Hawks.

The New York correspondent of the Richmond
Enquirer gives the following sketch of DR.. Hawks
and of his sermon preached in Calvary Church, New
York, on Thanksgiving day:
thanksgiving day passed off pleasantly, and was
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, 4th Avenue 1t 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
tentively 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-
paby negectfu in the proper discharge of their po-
litical duties.
He gave fearful picture of political corruption
and degeneracy, and declared that Gods judgments
to overtake the wickedness of nations as
of individuals and the happiness of all was involved
as members of a corrupt political body. He also
alluded to the fulfilment 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 National Legisla-
ture whose votes often held by the successful
| keepers of the most fashionable faro-tables
We cannot, in brief space do Justice to this bril-
| liant effort of this learned divine
| As your readers already know, the Dooter is a
| native OF North Carolina, and a graduate of Chapel
Hill He has been all his life long hard and indefat-
igabe student. He is excellent lnguist, and can
readily translate Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French,
Spanish, German, and believe Italian also He
possesses fine library He is very fond of hstori-
cal research, and of the study of ethnology He is
also member of various learned societies. and Pre-
sldent of the Statistical and Geographical Society OF
New York, and is also member of the Ethnologi.
SOclety n He fyro G,llla
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, ha:
always been a marvel to his friends
Few persons can perform the intense and Ions
continued labor he endures. He is now, probably
little turned of fifty years. vigorous and active il
his mental faculties. He is little bald and slight
ly inclined to fulness of habit probably induced b,
sedentary habits His eyes are those of the brigh
genius order, the color of those of the Duke O
Wellington, and which so common with des
cendants of the Aborigines of England, viz of
dark, soft and expressive hazel, gazele color
The late Mr.. Upshur of your State, had such eye
in perfection. We have seldom seen such eyes witt
a well formed head, and educated mind, unaccom
panied with brilliant genius. Though many ex
ampes of blue eyes, and genius combined, can b
given; yet they are not constant in the othe
cases. The Doctor is simple and unpretending il
his manners, and cordial and affectionate in his in
tercourse, and the favorite of all who know him"