The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1877-08-29
CONFIDENCE rs GONE.

| We make the following extract from wha
the Atlanta Consultation characterizes as
great speech delivered on q Commence-
ment occasion at Americus. Ga. by John
u. Seal. editor Of the Sunny South.
j A Gaelic sage once said. ..the world diet
three times; it died in time Of plague; i
died IN time Of general war; and it died
ichen men broke verts,l contracts. IL j,
therefore dead now; for at no time was
there 50 little regard for obligations Of any
kind. md verbal agreements are idle
worda. Confidence therefore is destroyed
at its very root.
Upon this subject, and upon others akin
TO 1t, the orator speaks as follows:
Confidence between man and man is well
nigh gone. No neighbor is willing to trust
his neighbor, and the old AbraLs mic hos
pitality once 50 Characteristic o. the south,
is allnost thing Of the past. Greed for
money. selfsLuess and laziDess, have taken
possession Of the people. and for neighbor
TO cheat neighbor, or brother to slay broth
er. is the order Of the day. Ii seems like
that ominous star in the Apocalypse has
!allcn upon all the fountains Of our social
system aud turned them 10 wormwood. Il
Us all wrong. my counirymen. Sel6shness
Is crime before high heaven and the judg-
ment of the Almighty will be visited upon
u. No man liscth TO himself. You are
your brothers keeper. Love thy peighbur
rs thjsclf. for upon this and one other COM
nlandmeut, hangs al the Law and the Iro-
phets. Jehovah smiles upon such love.
The two brothers who we're rescuing their
aged psients from the fires of yesuyius
were saved while the others around them
persisted. III
y wicked and perversc generation Be.
Cause you haven't lands. houses aud ns.
groes. yuu must hate your neighbor and
cheat him il you can; borrow hIs money
aud 20 into bankruptcy. Men who were
supposed 70 De good mon have recently bor-
rosed i've aud isn thousaad dollars from
cur banks tho day before they announced
their failures. Ne wonder there is no con-
hdenee. There 10 % telling whom to trust.
beeause you haven't plenty Of gold. silver
aud groenbncks. you must drink and steal
aud make vagabond Of yourself. Because
you ean't SIT IN the shade and grow rich 10
TWO, hye Or ten years on cotton, you must
blame the Almighty. because you can't
hang about the street corners and bar rooms
aud drink aud smoke aud at the same time
aecumulate stocks aud bonds. you must
wear lugubrious counteuances aud mediate
suicide. Because you cant lounge in ease
aud dress IN purple aud 6ne linen anu lux.
lrate in all the pleasures and vices of the
lge. and, rs Shylock says, Make money
breed aud grow'--becanse you once had
property and have none now. Jon must con-
'lude there Is no God and nothing Cor you
o do but to drag out a miserable existence
md dream Of what you once we're and what
iou once bad. like the Israeliies signing
or the melens, cucumbers and flesh pots Of
Egypt. You must let your dwellings, 90 70
destruction. your barns and fences fall down. |
'our stock die Of hunger, your families suf-
er for food. your fields grow up in weeds,
'our schools. colleges and churches Ian.
'uish, tho widows and orphans Of the land
tarve. and grinding poverty brood like m
incubus over oil this fair aud God-favored
ection.