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

our ordnance, from the mountain howitHsr
TO the great Brooke gun that hurls defiance
to the iron clads, is unsurpassed, aud we
make more rifles than we Can use. y
To show you what has been and can be
accomplished, provided we have falthin our
selves, will tell you little Of what this
State has done on her own hook. When
came into the chair now occupy and fill
with SO much grace and dignity Ga laugh
there were not five hundred suits OF cloth.
ing to be found in the Quartermaster's De.
partment. Now we have sixty thousand
suits OF ready made clothing awaiting the
needs of our troops. We have thirty thou
sand blankets, shines, &c. In fact. our boys
have 50 many gond clothes that under
stand they trade them of for liquor some
times (laughter) Will YOU set a limit
to our energy after | tell you among a hun
dred other things that ~ the little town ot
rarboro, in This State, are made cases o.
keen, glittering. surgical Instruments, re
curing the highest degree Of mechanical
skill in their production. They will com.
pare favorably with the best specimens Of
European manufacture. Almost every man
see here To- DAY is well clothed in the pro-
duct Of our lonms; and the ladies', God
bless them, look in their homespuns pref
tier than they ever did. We Will soon be
commercially independent Of the whole
world. We had originally, including the
States we claim. a population Of eight mil
lion white people and four million blacks.
! Now we number not more than five million
white people. How many troops do you
suppose Abraham has sent dawn against
us: In April 1861 Lincoln called Tor
seventy thousand mrn. One month
/ later he called for sixty-fnnr thousani.-
From July to December (the old fellow be
gan "a ret scaredl he called for iive hundred
thousand men. In July 1862. he called
! for three hundred thousand: IN August
/ 1862, for three hundred thousand: in 1861.
he drafted three hundred thousand, and
has daft now pending for i've huntire,.
thousand more; making in al about twn
million aud thirty nine thousand men lie
has called for IL send down upon ns-al-
most Il IL as MANY soldiers as we have men,
women and children in the Confederaey.
Their locality i about ~ questionable. il
they base all started South, A. the passen.
-ers on The train at smash.up described
tby harkey who was illustrating the diIfer-
ence between stage-coach and a railway
accident: III lie stage turn over ..dsr YOU
liz, If de.cars runs od where j. you -
lLaughter) Where are those im,neasr
masses: II we have actually whipped and
-. ka.L ,.a n,.It;o, g.fNta.. 49, :.
encouragement 70 nope We can drive all be
can possibly send against u. But il these
two million troops have never been raised
there is encouragement 10 believe Mr.
Lincoln is trying TO scare Us back b. max
ing show oil strength that does net exist
aud that the North j. just about as tired d
the war as wesre 60 the view 10 encourag
ing from either standpoint.
But we know there have been immense
numbers hurled against Us. Three hundred
thousand troops armed, equipped and fur
nished TO the highest degree that skill and
wealth Of the United States could supply
Surprising, in this respect. any army thai
} ever took the field IN Europe-and unier
seven different commanders have tried q
march from Washington City TO Richmond
ant over half OF the way furnishing watel
!. facilities for transportation. and they arc
precisely where they were two years ago
No nearer Richmond than they we're al the
start. And the bones Of Yankees tia
bleach on the plains Of Northern Virginia
{ II Piled in row. would make McAdamiz
! Ell read from Richmond to Washington
!; over which the artillery Of the Southern
, Conlederacy could roll between th: twr
!; cities. (ipplause) We know the. not
withstandng all tie immease leYies md,
. recently at he North. Gen. Meade Il
J afraid of Gen. Lee. and skulks within
his Notifications. II he makes no more
progress towards Richmond than he has iol
. some time past, lie will not reach The goa
J of Yankee hopes before twelve O'Clock OF