The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-01-26
Ggt JaIsboronsg 8etorSsr,
WEDNESDAY, &c, 1870.
GREETING,


GREETING;
With this issue ofthe Recorder my nams
appears with that Of Mr.. 7. G. EVANS, al
associate Editor and Publisher of this jour.
nal. II was with great reluctance that
IGNORED the publication Of the Milton Chro-
aicle--a paper ] had published for period
Of nearly thirty yearsto assume position
in Ito ME. i new and untricd field. 1t re.
mains to be seen whether the movement
was wise or Hnwise. But, come veal Oh
woe, the decd is done-and '.stand or fal
live or die--suryive or perish ~ Il run
the hazard of the die.
ltisusual, in greetings Of this kind, to bore
mankind with promises that arc rarely over
fulfilled. ! must be pardoned for declining
to make any.
i may be permitted the remark. that
w:il spare no effort to make the Recorder
worthy the patronage Of the public--a Gre
dit 70 0range and the adjacent Counties,
and 4 paper sought for out Of the State as
well as in it.
Locally, We shall aim to make it as enter
tainiig and useful to the people Of Caswell.
Person, and other adjacent Counties, as if
itwere published in the heart Of each, and
hope my old friends in those Counties
who have 50 nobly stood by me in the past
will sustain me in the future. May
heaven bless them all.
II may be expected, by those readers
of the Recorder to whom / am stranger,
that should Indicate or define my politi-
cal position. The political elements are
50 mixed IMPROVEMENTS have been so
ehangcd--that | really feel sat sea, with
out rudder or compass" Banned as am
by the 18th Article, perhaps | have no
right to cherish or express political senti-
ments. | am thoroughly reconstructed,
but not exactly harmonizedl The fault IS
not mine, however, but the Governments |!
am deemed too great sinner to be par
ionedl ! killed no one during the war |!
Never fred gun at Gen. Grant or any Of
his men! did visit our boys in Gen.
Lees army occasionally, but when they
commenced shooting L commenced s.getting
awayl" Tho if had once gotten mad all
oyer-like some Of the fellows did after the
war, (whoplayed-out the army behind fifteen
ringers. when ordered to eat an acre or
two Of dirt-there'sno telling what | might
have done! No, | burnt not grain Of gun
powder, and did my best to prevent secession
and avert the unnatural war-but it came
and right or wrong stood by the land Of
Of my birth and 'hurrah'd for ourside -
But what is the offence for which l am to-
day osalascea7 ] once held a threc-ccnt
Post Office.
Old political parties have gone up--Goy-
ernments Estate and Federal) are radically
changed; new order Of things has been
inaugurated-I accept the situation, and
plead for the Inauguration of party with
a platform liberal and broad enough for the
honest men Of all parties to stand upon, in
opposition to the dishonest and corrupt,
who are ''Leld together by the cohesive
power Of public plumber" Phe Virginia
platform, on which Gov. Walker stood. ra-
Their fills my bill. But propose to leave
the political status Of the paper mainly u
the junior Editor, Is ! an -sick Of politics
and considerably Disguised with parties and
jack-snaP politicians. I have no sympathy
with extreme radicals. and If | tread on
their toes in Iashing rascality and corruption |
found n Office or out-high places or low
plaecs-the blame be theirs. mot mine.
And now want every man in Orange
county, worth calling nan. to enroll his
Nmc On our subscription book. win you
do Il Respectfully,
G. n. b EVANS