The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-02-03

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Herald Of Saturday:
In 1920. the American abolitisnists. pure
and simple. numbrred about one hundred
Thousand persons. In lS4D. wnen they
ran Mr.. Birney far President. the aboli
tienlsts pollrd seven Thousand votvs. In
1874. wit, the same candidate, thew psll-
Ell sxty-tw0 thonslnd .y0tes. In lS48,
they intern ngIed with the Frees.ilers nd
stse, Van Blren three hundred Thousand
so,ss. From thai time lorth the pure aDo.
l,tion sn'rs is 30 mixed up with the Free
sol vote AMI the Republican vote thar we
cannot ger Al It with much accuracy. Still
we believe that one hundird thou sand is a
lar estimate oi the number nf true rad cal
AhollIoni,rs who have followed hr Il = Of
Gatr'snn and Philips, and VII. are enllsl-
~ - share in the credit ~ The Abbiilian
wnlk anil in the gl"ry ~hicl, now crowns
Their labor. In this aumber we include all
,uch sli ~"men as Greeley aud such young
wsmen AZ Tiltan..
WHAT these one hundred thousand Abu-
litl,nlst> have accomplish Il may be stated
in x,erv few words. They have accom- i
plished he pre-en, war. They have wnrk-
rd lar u thuty years, apd here IL l.. they
have wrecked q powerful. peaceful aud
happy country. They have. srrs,ed bro
ther against bro'her. father against s.n.
children againsi pareats. They have file
The land wlth widows aud nrphsn,. They
have transformed the country intoa vast
graveyard. TUE, have she'd an ocean oi
slos,f. aid squ.ndrrsd mountains of mn
nsy.. Tnry have m,ir the air heavy with
the shrIrk, ~ Their wounded, the .rpan. u!
their dsIng. aud The LAMENTATIONS IL. the IL
mnurners. Thes have devastated the fell.
aud plantations o. lbs South. AID drsttsyed
.he c.Iamrrcr oi the North. rhey have
given check TO the progress Of cl,iiix4
iinH anil democratic institutions. from
which IL will take wars 10 rsc,,er. All
this they have accomplished ia thirty wears.
One hundred thousand 6.nds, let leo.r
iran th1 Invest he'll. and inspired bs the
must nlernal malice. cou Il Rot have sc.
e'snpli,ird more mischief in ihr same
space II time. | thi~b snything T. re.
Jais ever. lsi The Ab ,liiioni,is rejoice
u the desire % raise a mnaumrnt ~ per.
pstuate thrre'n- nbrance of their trlumph,.
snrs butte field, vii Iurnl.h them with
ensash hamin skulls f,r p,rinid, .sad
Wendell Pnillip. or Beecher would b. ea-
y tso hdppy 10 deliver the address at The
LAYING OF the corner sksll
During this abslitian war. at least on.
haHdred thousand men have been killed,
aud fnur hundred II ,u>and bs,e beea Dis
sbled Tor lite; thus half a M ll,oa have
been subjected 10 Jrsii. wounds. and 10
sickness WORSE than ~vsads. ia the arm e.
IT both sides. What smnunt OF human
misery has occurred beyosd anil behin,.
the armies We shall not now inquire. To,
fmoont sf property DESTROYED daring the
sar nav be- roughly estimated al Eve hun.
,irod NIL sns oI dallsrs. The injury 10
actei upon our commerce. aud carryi Z
tlaie may b. stated AZ ane hundred mil.
lisns OF dtllsrs. This is rather under than
over ,lir.nark. Ter The rebel Mifiit asser,,
tnat ie alone has DESTROYED eleven mi!iisu.
VI dollars sorh Of ships and c,rssss. snd
SemIes has certainly DESTROYED mnct
mnre. TIE W.r debt of The North anI
Snath smou'lts 10 about i've thousand NIL
lions OF doVars. II the war e.d. by III,
sbolltinn ni siaSery. We shall have TO keeI
standing army sf a .liundied ihansand
men. and.suppWt two or three millions O
in,lissnt negroe. 10, se,rr.l years.
| liut We viii leave that probability oul
of the account, aid will aso refrain fron
e.unating the mtllioGs aud billlan. nf dol
lars which the how lmprded industry %
the country wauld have produced had mol
the abol,'Imisis caused this ws,. We wisl
10 cnnhnc ourselves IL facts and figures d
ndisputaOle alihrn,irity --and what dc
these Facts and figures SHOW Estimating
the white population sI III, United stsie,
10 1860 at twean six millions. aud thu,
is within a lev hundreds of TIE oihca