The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-02-23

/ Of guarantee Of respectability Of blood, Of
purity and integrity.
We need not ask il the history Of any other
hundred families, taken as they come, of re-
nowned generals, Of great statesmen, of sue
cessful merchants, or splendid orators, or
eminent physicians and lawyers, can give
another hundred and ten sons to occupy po-
sitons as respectable as their own--neyer,
nor is there any approach to it,
Half of our successful" merchants die
in poverty, eventually, while their sons grow
up in habits Of ideness and early dissipa-
tion Gas is also the case, more or less, with
most Of the children of prominent men y
disease wastes their bodies, the disease which
originates from demoralzing indulgencies !;
while the mind ITSELF from the want of suf-
6cient stimulus to energy, dwindles to a
point below mediocrty. AS to the daugh-
ters of the worldly eminent, what becomes
of thems They devote Themselves to FASH
ion, and dress, and reyelry, and vain show /;
to be wooed ard won by men who grew up
without occupation, looking to their fathers
fortunes; or by adventurers, who live by
their wits-the end being, that most incon-
gruous Of all combinations, poverty and
pride, with that most bootless OF all ambi.
tions, to keep up appearances-than which,
more hideous, painful, and unsatisfying
struggle. no human being could ever encoun-
ter. In short, the rarest of all things in this
country is to find a grandchild enjoying the
fortune or position Of the grandparents--if,
indeed, there be any grandchild at all for
disappointment. fed BY want Of occupation,
grinds out the life, and quite early. too, Of
the children Of the world. A daughter Of
one Of the richest men Of America ten years
ago, herself the wife Of great man, has an
attendant, whose whole duty it is to keep
her from intoxication. Another daughter
drank rayenously her cologne water, for want
of spirits or opium, and died in lnfatuation.
One Of the most splendid women Of our time
degrades herself, at varying intervals, by a
regular drunken BOUT.
Thus it is, that we regard the privation
and the poverty Of the clergy as a means Of
lperpetuating the mental yigor, the real
thrift and position Of our nation. They are
literally the salt of the earth not only its
preserving principles Of to-day, but for fu-
ture time. Great reason, then, have cler-
gymen, and clergymen's wives, to bear their
! present burdens of daily labor and daily
stinting. Plain dwellings, plain clothing,
. plain fOod-and even that not over abun-
dant-may be their portion here below but,
besides the reward above, they will be hon.
ored aud affectiOnately remembered, wheu
they are dead and gone, by the very people
fSE ft,s MhSp lS they a6Ored and who allowed
is another and higher reward than human
. appreciation-the influences for good ar,
perpetuated in their children, bodily. men
l tai and moral, and this is the pith OF this ar
: ticIe. The straitened circumstances o
D ministers families give that kind of pratica
= teaching, that suitableness and preparation
J for practical life, in after years, which is S,
: necessary to success.
: Having nothing to look for, but the results
of their own exertions, they early learn {,
: be selfreliant and thoughtful, impressin.
r the whole character with manly dignity
I which everywhere commands respect. Ii
; addition, knowing that they must depend Of
J themselves, they at once begin those actiyi
: ties which ensure health, while BY stern ne
. cessity Of extremely plain fare and homel.
. accommodations, with the impossibility q
means to secure luxurious indulgcncies, o
!: the opportunities OF frivolous amusement
J and trilling recreations. their bodies groy
. up TO yigor and healthfulness which give tia
G power to mind which commands success i
a every department ofhuman life. In addition
: to all these, there are those moral teachings
e which tall as ceaselessly as the dews Of III
: sky, and as gently. from the earliest infancy
v moulding the character, and fixing thOs
a principles Of action, which so well sustail
: their possessors in lifc's conflicts, and whic
: elevate all with whom they come in contact
4 Take courage, then, We ministers Of th
\ word" You may feel straitened, and a
! times greately discouraged, "because OF tn
] way" through which you are called TO pass
I but look at the reward The afiectiOnat'
and respectful remembrance Of those yo'
once preached to, long after you are deaf
!. and gonc, and forgotten 1t may be, by th
! great world, but never by them--just as vol
now think with reyerential gratitude Gf tn
: |. men who were your early ministers. aud vii
: continue TO think thus, until lilies lates
hour! And then, what solid satisfaction j
. there in leaving sons and daughters benin,
you who shall perpetuate your Influences. an'
Hive out your principles for generations 4
come That compulsory activity, and tha
compulsory plainness Of living. aud tha
|, dearth Of amusement and recreation an,
q endowment" falsely so called, which YOU
limited means entails oh your children, thes'
are the things that will make them what yol
would really have them TO be--true men ant
women. They do not, it is true, inheri
from you millions Of money, but you entai
on them that necessity Of industrious aetiyi
", and that rational temperance, which ar,
al once the foundation Of human happiness
aud human success. Hairs JOurnaie u Health.