The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-06-15

so now? We are now, from the highest to
the lowest. a God-fearing. Christ-worship-
ping people. No man now.a-days would
dare risk high social position by recon.
mending to Que young men the works OF
voltaine, or by presenting to their libraries
the metaphysics Of Hume. How much we
North Carolinians owe to Joseph Caldwell
the other world only can reveal. All honor
be to the man Of the strong will, and pious
heart, and far.reaching foresight.
But it was not merely because Of this con-
trast between the past and the present that
this Commencement was remarkable. 1t
had its own attractions that were powerful.
without being compared with what had been
heretofore. Our University is the only
Southern institution which has been honored
BY two visits Of the President Of the United
States. President Polk came to honor it
twelve years ago in company with his college
mate, Judge Mason, of Va, then Secretary
Of the Navy, and now our Minister to France.
Mr.. Polk graduated here in 1918. and du-
ring his visit Mr.. Buchanan was Secretary
Of State. Now Mr.. Buchanan came as Pre-
sident, bringing with him Mr. Jacob Thomp-
son, Secretary Of the Interior. MIR. Thomp-
son was born in Leasburg; he was prepared
for college BY Mr.. Bingham in Hillsborough.
and graduated in 1881; he had strong mo.
tives to pay the home Of his youth a visit.
But the Presidents visit was purely COM
pimentary one, made. as he stated, because
Of his heartily felt and long cherished re-
spect for the North Carolina character, and
for the influence of its University, whose
conservative tene he had watched with in
terest for many years. The President reach
ed Chapel Hill on "Wednesday. JUS. in time
10 meet at Governor SWANS dinner table
the Trustees and Faculty, with the Senior
Glass and their Parents and Guardians. The
President and Mr.. Thompson we're Cover
nor SWANS guests. Every body who met
with the President was charmed with his
simple, unaffected. candid ways. The young
ladies' and lie got on especially well togeth-
er. Mr.. Thompson is too we'll remembered
amongst us yet to need description. One
point in Governor SWANS welcome TO the
President is interesting to your readers. In
showing that Mr.. Buchanan had an ances-
trail rs we'll as an official and personal right
to this welcome. he told him that North Car
olina owed to Pennsylvania three very inn
portant elements Of its population, viz: the
Quakers, the Luiherans and German Re.
formed. and the Scotch-irish. and that the
latter were the principal actors in the Reg.
ulatinn which was the true beginning OF the
Revolution. Moreoyer-and this was "a
most il not to all new fact-that the few
who ilocked IRON beyond the mountains and
defeated Ferguson al Kings Mountain. and
thus virtually ended the Revolution. were
Regulators who had taken refuge in the val
ley of the watauga from the fury Of rryon',
vengeance. That matter of the Regulation
has never been set before the people Of our
State in its true light, and the social position
and moral worth Of its aiders aud abettors
have never yet been properly appreciated,
Il il most earnestly 10 be hoped that Gov.
Swain will pursue the suggestion he thus
threw out, and yindicate the claims Of our
forefathers to be considered consistent and
intelligent defenders Of their rights and lib.
critics. President Buchanan j. descendant
Of the Scotch Irish. He is proud u his origin
and thinks none the better Of any one whG
undertakes their influence, or forsakes theii
faith. His visit to chapel Hill was one oil
unnixed pleasure to him. IN social way,
and he declared DR.. ilooper's address to be
as full of genuine wit and delicate humor a,
any speech he ever listened TO. This opin.
ion he declared publicly, ashe gave the prize
for excellence ~ composition, among the
Saphomores, To the successful competitor
Nj. z. E. Wright of Memphis, Tennessee
The prize was the first two volumes Of DIR.
HAWKES. History of North Carolina. While
the President praised the power which wa,
thus IN Mr.. Wrighfs hand, he went on "a
endorse another uf DIR. Hooper's positions
viz that the great, the crying, the desolating
curse Of the country was the use Of iHt0x
eating drinks by our Young men. Mos
earnestly did he warn the young men around
him of the dreadful consequences of indul.
gence ia this seductive habit.
Besides the interest which the President.
visit, and his genial sympathy with what
was passing arnund him, added TO the exer.
cises of the late Commencement, DR.. Dog.
gets sermon 70 the graduates, and Mr.
McRae's address before the Societies, we're
each 10, its own sphere. memorable discus.
sions. DIR Doggett took occasion. from Paul,
experience at Athens. 10 show that the world
BY il wisdom cannot hnd out God that man
must have power more potent than that of il,
own philosophy to purify his affections and
control his will that the gospel, which the
brilliant. talented. highly educated. and di.
vinely inspired Paul 81 Tarsns declared "a
be the power u God unto salvation. was
worthy Of the apprehension Of al men and
that The most gifted Of our youth should feel
themselves honored by being commissioned
TO preach il To their fellow men. Perhaps il
Mr. McRae had been the Governor and
Judge Ellis the Orator, the President might
have been allowed TO fulfill his earliest in.
tention. and have honored the address before
the two literary societies Of The University
by his presence. But Mr.. MeRae's friends
did not have The arranging Of the programme.
and they can only regret that many were
thus prevented from hearing very brilliant,
classical. acute, and learned essay, whose
tendencies we're TO arouse every youth in
the land 10 a proper sense Of the response
biliiy resting On him, and 70 4 consciousness
Of the power he held 10 advance the higher
interest Of his fellow men. His object was
TO show that quiet unobtrusiye talents, which
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