The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-03-16

choice in the matter.
Good old Bunyan who wrote the Prl-
grim's Progress, by Macauley pronounced
the greatest allegory in the English Ian
guage, places the Valley of Humiliation
just enc short stage ahead of the Valley of
the Shadow of Death. There is deep
significance in this figure. When great,
gallant and glorious people, with arms in
their hands and able to protect their rights,
humble themselves into the dust for the
sake Of ease, or do any other act whatso-
ever OF humiliation, they are just in adj
vance, my friends, of the valley OF the
shadaw of death. [Applaused.
The moment the enemy find the people
Of the Southern Coniederacy have laid
down their arms, and the living barrier i
removed from the path OF their conquest,
they will increase their demands, they will
rise IN their price more rapidly than the
merchants in the South. where we cant
telegraph fast enough TO keep up with the
market. Laughter.
II you have with one of yonr neishbors a
suit in court and wish to effect compro.
mise, and he finds out you have no witnesses
SUNNI ond, he will nonsult you. But II you
take him aside and say. John. this suit
has been going on long time; am nigh
lty tired If il, and know yau are. can
make you pay the costs. you know can !;
| have all my witnesses and papers. ready,
and if sou have anything To say for com
promise am ready 10 talk with you"-,here
is hope Of coming TO terms.
Ii you want 10 negotiate with a rufhan,
YOU must hold your weapons in your hand.
II you would regotiate with brutal and
unscrupulous foe, do not disbaud your
armies; do not discourage them keep them
clo,h, j. fed-throw forward yourskirml,h
ers. draw up your battalons and regiments
in line OF battle-fnger upon the trigger
fplace Your cannon in position-loaded,
Iprimed-the gunners with lint stock abaze
then hold up your olive branch, and say
10 Mr.. Lincoln. I've want peace. what say
YOU: :" Ii he has nothing to say. then Gre,
~ the gods. fire! (Great appIause.l
i A good many people have gotten out Of
heart. Many men say it is not worth while
far our sons to be slaughtered any longer ;
that the enemy have gotten the advantage
of Us ]: they have got numbers; they have
wealth, they have got munitions Of war /;
sooner or later the weak must come down
before the strong. and we had better make
terms while we can, and 50 on.
Fellow citizens, we do not know what
we can do until we try. There never was
war upon the face OF the earth, that has
been, 10 my opinion. so badly managed /;
but we have notwithstanding, accomplished
| wonders. Every body told Us when the
war broke uut, il would not last sx months.
Many Of eur politicians assured Us they
would wipe up with a pocket handkerchief
all the blood that would be spilled Well,
Il imagine most Of them have wiped up with
I. pocket handkerchief all they have or are
Likely to spill. A voice. center shot .
Why, the Confederate Congress a, Mont
gomery provided for . loan Of only fifteen
million dollars. The Secretary Of the
Treasury could not imagine what he would
do with so much money. lie must fee
J. greatly relieved now that there j, no danger
|, sf the surplus remaining on his hands. No
= EFFORT was made TO employ the best basis o.
. credit a people ever had, our cotton. II
sur army had been dependent on the direc
. tive intelligence Of the genersl government
alone, We weuId have no troops 10 the field
There never was people in such CONNER
|. cial vsssslage as were We 10 the people o
, the North. About every thing we had
except honor, cane from the Yankees. !
+ yeu called to see lady, YOU found he
u dressed from head to foot in Yankee goods
z the furniture was of Yankee make; th'
broom which swep, the hearth was Yankee
tie wood On the Gre had been cot with !
Yankee axe. having Yankee axe handle
Il But turning your attention 20 yourself yo'
would find that from the hat that YOU ha,
0 on TO the shoe pegs in your Yankee shoes
/. made BY some cute" fellow who /" calcula
/. ted" as he drove the pin, pegs through