The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-05-20

they cease for a nation, its course is run;
when they are accomplished for man, he
will have fulfilled the mission which God
has allotted to him upon earth.
In this conception Of history no people
have existed wholly without a meaning
the rude carvings of the savage ISLANDER
upon his oar or club, like the rudimehtary,
undeyeloped organ in certain stages of an
imal organizations, was a type aud prophe-
cy of future Development in the unity of a
plant was the humble Indication Of those
mental conceptions which displayed them
selves in the full bloom and glory of Gre
clan art. And not only have no people
existed withouta meaning. but no national
movement has been without deeper signii-
cation than its merely national aspect; the
dreadful potent Of ,he Old French Reyoiu-
tion was no. a more goddess outbreak, the
result Of false philosophy in religion, mo-
rails and politics. however much this may
have had to do in shaping its course it was
the cry and struggle. though dark and
blind, yet the cry and struggle Of the trsest
instincts OF humanity, for light and relief,
against The unnatural and iRtoerable OPP
preston Of faithlessness, falsehood, cor
ruption, and abuse, which contemned and
Knocked all that is sacred in human nature.
Providence has given in that revolution a
lesson to rulers and people which may yet
prove prophetic with respect to those who
are too blind to read it Alright.
Ii is now our privilege, by the light of
past history, TO perceive and trace divine
plan--to see. that no nation can live only
for ltseli-how greatly does this fact In
crease aur responsibilities, BY pressing up
on US the conviction that we, too, have our
mission TO perform. And how much strict
er an account may be,exacted OF Us, since
| il is ours, not bllndly, but consciously to
actor the blessing or curse OF humanity.
The United States started upon their
career with the greatest advantages which
had ever been accorded to any people.
They started from the basis of advanced
cisillzatien. they had the example and les
sons of all past history. they had a political
training in their colonial growth, and they
inherited an Invaluable systemsof law and
constitutional principles from their mother
country. The development Of the bound.
less resources OF new continent invited
their. energies, and commerce courted their
sails with every breeze. With Law and
Freedom as their watchword. they were
looked TO as the refuge Of the oppressed,
the hone of civil aud religious liberty, the
political hope Of The ends of the earth. And
yet they have ANONYMOUSLY failed. as eye-
ry attempt TO preserve free Institutions
must fail when unscrupulous selfshness
supplants justice and equity, and demagog-
ism makes mockery oi virtue and states
manshlp. Our Conlederacy enters into lhe
great drama Of history possessing as, its
large inheritance all with which the old
Onion commenced its career, with the ter.
ri6le lgsspn of It's failure besides. To pre-.
snme II sas that, ii we also iail, the hope
ot human liberty, of constitutional freedom,
is but d. spalripg dream would BE- bias.
phemt against Providence, as though in is
infinite armory il possessed no other IN
slrument Tor realizing what il has implied
~ tie idea "f man. But in that idea i i'm
piirI the attainment Of sach freedom; and
we may veil aud reyerently ponder whether
w are MT entrusted with the lurtherance
lott. II our struggle is only for selfish in
dependence. in which when we shall have
achieved it we are 10 act over again among
ourselves the old hisiory Of the struggle OF
sectional parties tor power, then We are
inc, ,itably destined TO further disruption.
if not civil war. But ifw are true to our i.
selves, if We are not blind to the indications
cf Providence, we have the glorious, but
lawfully responsible mission Of exhibilng
Ito the world that snpremest effort OF ha-
lnanity--the fosndation of d political ,gf
ganizatlon. III which the freedom Of every
member il the result of law, i preserved
10y Justice, is harmonzed by the true rela-
ttions Of Labor and capital, and IS sanctifed
10y the divine spirit Of Christianity.
n isa truism--Sut truisms are the en-
lbodiment Vf universal iru,h-tLat man can