The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-12-25
From the Raleigh STANDARD.
"A HIDEOuS MARX. =

88 4 XIX Y H8
A little more than . year ago. and there
were no people in the world as we---not al
together free from faults or wants, but, as
compared with the most favored, il may Be
truly said that we were great people. Our
government was unlike any other, and we
proudly thought it The best. If there was
any real evil in it, il was, that every mans
surroundings were soepperior that he cloy-.
ed in the use Of them. and felt more like a
monareh TO be ministsred unto, than as a
citizen among equals.
But crisis came A faction triumphed.
Our strength was weakness And this great
country and happy people were severed in
twain. A line divides ID and them. For
time, there were those on both sides the
line, who thought the government equal to
the crisis that the faction was but as one to
two, aud that two were stronger than one
that the evil would last but for the night,
aud that joy would cone in the morning
that this, the fairest experiment of a free
government, had not proved failure, and
ought not to fail who loved the country for
its grandeur, and the government for its ex-
celIency; who were ashamed Of the worlds
taunt, that we had buasled for nothing; who
loved peace and its blessings. and feared
war aud its calamities. But, when the line
was drawn and there were two countries,
these same hesitated not moment as to
their position or duties. True to the whole
while il was one, as true 10 the half which
fell to them: patriots then. patriots now.
With the division came war what they ex-
pected. what they dreaded. What they would
have avoided But, when il came, no cheek
blanched, no muscle relaxed, no nerve un-
strung, no heart tainted. No. they face the
foe--spring to arms--rsn to the 6eld--dsre
the encounter fight The battles !; are joyous
ID victory. and undauntrd BY re,erses. Cen
erous people patriot citizens. brave sol
dlers
For time, on both sides this line. there
were thuse who said they lnyed the Union,
but il could not be preserved, and should
not be preserved, except in such Ipanner as
they, in anger. chose 70 preserVsalt. And
they, on one side and the other. were ene-
mics, and neither would preserve il as the
other chose, so they rent 1t asunder. FOR
neither ,cGs he true mother! That each OF
these factions should hate the other, eEciles
no surprise, except with such philosophers
as suppose thrt fellows in mischief ought 70
love one another. But that the faction on
\ this side should hate their neighbors on this
side--aho. although they losed the old I'm
ION once, love the new Union now, aud have
consecrsted themselves 20 ITS preservation
/ is matter Of asionishment 10 every ylrtu-
vus mind, and can only be accounted for
upon the hypothesis. that just as they loved
faction better than the old, 80 they love fac
tion better than the new Union-party bet
ter than country - talsehOod better than
ltruth-malignity better than amlability-
vice better than virtue. am led % these
remarks Nv the leading editorial of The State
Journal iii It's issue of Noy. 10th, 1861. III
the editor had said the same outside the
Journal, will not undertake TO say TO what
consideration il would be entitled. But il
is in the Journal, and the Journal is.
but ahat the Journal is. you must learn from
the Journal itself. Ii says:
"The State Journal came into existence
under peculiar circumstances, and at the
stormiest period Of our country's existence.
IL The party in the State who
stroye 10 stem the torrent OF Northern az
gression from its earliest inception 70 this
moment, brought tile state Journal into ex-
listence. Except in the failure
10 call a Convention Of the people 70 take
North Carolina out Of the old Union. and
unite her destinies with those Of her South
ern sisters, the principles which we advo-
este have received no poFalar reverse dur
ing our short existence"
/ II is then with the Journal as party or
gan that we have TO do-a party that has the
possession Of the government, which claims
: 10 have met with but one reverse, and 70
have the popular confidence. What. there
fore, is said By the Josrnal. Is said by that
party--by the goyernment--by almost every
officer in the g0yernment--snd - whimper.
ed by every one seeking Office, as means
OF success, and is believed By many who d
NOT know ils falsehood. Still, if thought
the party we're ashamed Of fit, as one Of those
things which impudense dares in those inie.
riors which superi"rs are semetimes obliged
to employ, would not notice u. But, y Is
apparent enough that what the Journal says
is but what the party feels and sanctions,
The editorial 20 which ] allude calls inc
opponenis TO the early secessionists /" the
watch and wait party" and says. !,
"watch and wait handed over the sou,tf
il tears aud chains TO the mercy o. th'
! North" A