The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-03-09

(.aughter.) And so amid all my polit lcal
Shortcomings | haze preserved honesty
enough hope, to tell you what conceive
TO be true about the condition Of the coun--
try, the aspect Of It's civil and military af-
fairs. the prospects of the future, and the
duties that devolye upon US in the accom-,
olislment Of the work before rs.
A people who have been afflicted as you
have been afflicted; people who suffer as
you suffer; people whose gallant boys
have been slaughtered as yonr sons have
fallen on the battle e-feid whose darlings
now languish in Northern prisons wives
whose husbands are wasting in far distant
camps weary months OF listless inactivity,
while the weeds choke the scanty harvest,
and the children pine for the presence and
support Of their natural protector; and
men, who, in feYerIsh anxiety. await intel.
ligence which each succeeding mail may
bring Of The slaughter Of their pride and
support Of their declining years-all are
liable TO reach out. with the spirit of a
drowning man. TO grasp any passing straw,
which, for the moment. may keep their
heads above the roaring food, losing sight
meanwhile Of the firm, though perhaps dis
iant shore which calm, determined and
persistent eaUrt will a,suredly enable them
TO attain.
La consequence Of this continued suffer.
ing which experience had not prepared the
people To endure with the fortitude pos
sesscd by some nations who have been nlr
tured to the shock Of arms, certain dis
content has per,aded aud funeral gloon
, hung over the community. engenderIns, !
| We credit wide rumor throughout tn
!, State, notlou that We must have Con
+ ventlun-lhat we must secede from th
Southern Confederacy; that we must re
: pudIa,c The whole thing and 90 back al
: ,lo our first work over again.
Now permit me TO ask YOU what Il wa
| that GOT sou into this scrape. Why, y"
{ all know il was the fact ot your sccessiu
. in the FIRST instance. tApplause.
) Suppose you were sick ui typhoid leve
E and had been close 10 deaths door and bs
coming con,alrseent. the physician shoul
graSety inform you that the only plan
i rltcc, your entire recovery. would be
i take another spell Of the internal lever
Ill Would you not think he was a fool
+ lL4nghter.) Or suppose a surgeon shuul
! say 10 4 soldier with ball in his leg " VI
1 dear fellow, don't see how il y possib
!. Tor yau TO attain relief unless call for
a musket and put another one in the oth'
leg" That would be curions surger,
81 would il not: Would system based {
" The same principle be less absurd wien al
Il piled to the healing Of the body polite:
/. Seccssion was tried after il had bee
e considered for period oi forty years. az
.. the whole country understood IL as cou
,p pletely as an abstraction could be unde
IN stood. We were promised II should
as peaceable. What is the result! Why,
= has been everything else. II has involy,
a. Us III war that has no parallel upon q
v pages Of history. DO you expect TO 6Hd
Is rcmedy by repetition Of the dose th
in bruught you 10 bed u You will pardon q
y for fanny illustration Of 50 ser,Vusa ~
." icci. but 1 am somewhat like the old lad
at who. in COMPANY with her "old man
ch used 10 ,isit ! ccantry store kept by o
il. N jor Smith (as there sre no Msjors a
We no smiths IN this section. there is no da
e. ger Of identifying him.) The Major ks
-e- some dne samples Of wet goods in the G
a lar, Ia which he treated his customers I
ust lore displaying hisdry goods up stairs !;
,ol h, kacw, as YOU 40, that man IN e
Ia. tain state Of .xhilarsiiun ima2ines be c
om buy tso or three sovnties. TO say noihi
10 OF goods aud groceries. (Laughter.) a
fc. the aforesaid old couple we're about
Nv best customers he bad. On one occasi'
nd, after repeatedly going up and dswn stsl
lly they rot 10 such good hnmor. that VT
px- they started home the Major could bar
or, lift them on the ssddle--ihs old lady
bin hind 10 the gaod old-fashioned style. !
lin was in cxstaeies with the Major. lie
10 " the finest storekeeper she ever seed in