The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1875-06-16

great debt ofgratitpdc fosuch sbenehctor,
hegase way utterly to sensual appetites,
feli into liabits gross indulgence and BY
repeated. conspicuous. sndrgusaally indie.
cent acts of drunkenness, tnxdS1n impossi-
bio thus 20 tolerate him sny lvngsri and
then be waa kiodt ; and torboripgly AZ
lowed to leave TIE service b Resignation,
Instead Of being tried ana cpshiefed. and
made incapable Of q ever serviu & sgaib
And yet With tbs history behind hini, thi.
man iss talks Of be pscuniary sacri6cess
he made in becoming President OF the
United States. aud asks for new aud higher
fasors on TINT account. - u y go
! After his fesiguatioa, he tu,nblsd about
the world Tor several years. trying 10 earn
bis own living hy bard work and by manual
labor. and all 10 vain. getting drunk With
OCCASION and without, despkedandd istrusted'
everywhere, until ut hast he brvpght up y
Galena. where bis money loving aud bard
father employed him nomiimlly 20 clerk
10 sell the leaiherhe dealt ins giving him,
more Us charity than rs senl pay, apitital
allowance Ut AROMA year, liz lived there
the life loxfer, until 10 the hour Of her
areat trisi bis; country forgot bis old unr
Iaithfulpess, and ouce more took him ia
hahd, making him M officer again. sbd open,
ina ubsto him hem chances aud new pos.
sibilities. 7 si'.,'N \ 49, b
That be uvailsd himself pf these pos
sibiIities aud rendered valuable services. is
j great credit TO him but neither he nor
any other man should ever forget. that even
In this, be sues all to his country aud
every Iittle. II anything. 10 himself and
that ID every step she heaped uponbim re-
wards and rompensaiioss exceeding his
utmost deserts. Hour by hum, day by
day. she paid him not merely with bonors,
but with money Ear beyond everything
that in the wildsat iiptoxica,ion, whe,her
Of alcohol or Of snbitioa. he could sver
have Imagined for himself. Ills wrsiched
shameful past she magnanimpnsly over
looked bis ingraiitude she never rsst ~ "a
him the genuineness u bis new glory she
never questioned aud finally. trusting
everything 90 hims hoping everything from
him. she Bot only made bin General Of the
Army. but put him ut the head OF the
| Government. Aud ibis he Dcs speaks d
as d sacriaec % bis part aud sacrifice IL
nancy z - VT = s1t'ii 'Filssh 9a'f@eh -
But even then. N This nee aafiutf d
power aud authority. his mean. narrow
nature eould moo keep the level % his high
duties. Once more be disEraced bis com
try. initiating the vie essmflc Of corrupt
rulers, aud making the public trust suesp.
! 10 enrich himself. bis relations. ssd his
fsyofites /; Jet tina people issaiy sss6.ed ia
him still further, nskiss him President far
0 secgsa time ssasd be 40 once improved
tais neu election 90 obtain ahsscsh dark
intrigue riiha sersilc cessScss . agublina
of the s#lsry Cor which he had agreed q
J.seFve s-aud the great s1m ssich he TINS
indpeenfly ssqnired, be mas perhaps reckon
~ balancing ia some degree bis loss Of
/ mohey from sonsenting 10 be- Prssidept.
Az any rate. be does nCt inelsds N 10 bis
catalogue Of sasfihcgs, - ...,,..,. .,..t
!. And nov, siter this unprecedented CO.
| reer. 10 which llis county lissbesped every
kind Of hencst urvn him. deserved and an.
deserved, from the leass % the greatest ;
when the people. detecting ., iss, his abase
of their. Indulgence. manifest IN unwilling.
ness 10 elect him President fgf third tern
Irc again sfpeals fta nee elections. still
prssifg ofthe sacri6eeshe has made--alssy,
meaning money, Cor that seems 70 be III
suprsuss iaca4-in con~eDtips % let them
saiss ban. he euce fuithiess and Dismissed
/ officer. the dissipaied outeast. the hopeless
burner II Galeas. 20 the bishest military
and pciAissl ssstiyn, ssd 70 0 memorable
place IN tbe records of history aas"si ~
l 5ltisr-usf painful 10 the mind that man
who. in sriss % svcb anteeslents. has been
| szsllsd 50 hish, shcBId yet prove himselI
.inorally 90 srussnp,ible but u onl, en-
1 forces sssw the fsmilhr lesson iAsi the soc.
cess a she svl5,er does ses % necessity
imply the exizG,cg ofgvJ wyral qualities
| IN haws and tLss military tslruss sud poll.
teal ambition rsHy be sscwDsgicd D
| syariess greed, and fnercrnary meabness,
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