Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-01-04

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sealed mystery from the Western civilizas
Perry, so important that Congress CONS
manded the publication of the diaries.
James Corchrane Dobbin, Of Fayetteville,
N. c.; was the (1a56) Secretary of the
Navy.
Commodore Perry, a great navigator,
a %sagacious naval commander, and a
man apt in special learning, was, never
theless, unequal to the task of giving
to the story of his cruise and the store
OF his acquired knowledge, the needful
classical attire. Perry chose Doctor
Hawks for the task, and Mr.. Dobbin,
gladly asserting to the choice ofa fellow
C~arolinian, gave the papers, of which he
was the official custodian. and with the
publication of which he was charged, lc-
to the hands Of Hawks. In the volume.
the papers of which DR.. Hawks
re-wrote. and which, published. is
a book almost the size of q
commonly known unabridged die
%tienary and. by multi-colored iitho-
graphs, LUMINOSITY illustrative of Japa-
nese life and art, there are many fine
examples of def skill in narrative, cou-
tinuous, didactic and romantic, Histcri-
cally, the North Carolinian. beginning
nearly six centuries before the cruise of
Perry, says, substantially, at least, that
Japan was unknown to Greek or Ro-
man; that the first knowledge Europe
received IF its existence as a great orr
entail empire, with distinct civilization.
was from the nomadic Venetian, Marco
Polo, who, after mastering the languages
of Tartary, entered the service (1295) of
Kubla Khan, the reigning monarch OF
the Tartars. Polo did not enter Japan.
but he heard and recorded many strange
things OF a strange people, which, after
returninr to Venice. he trutbfully told;
but alas! no one believed the queer
stories of the venturesome Venetian.
In the course of the cruise which
was to open Japan to the world, Perry
paused ut ST. Helena, the prisonsisland
of the vanquished Napoleon. B. fore
Hawks were the draf of the ground
and the house, Longwood, where the
great captive lived and died. That the
reader may note an example of outburst
and sw eep of Hawks as a writer, 1 will
not epitomize in my own language, ae /
have just done, but will freely re>pros-
duce from the book in question, page
10, an example:
IN view of the miserable buildings where,
man MAJ m resided saa and a' " here he breathed his last.
it is difficult to suppress a deep feeliog OF the
instability of earthly glory. The palaces OF
Napoleon in his splendor and Napoleon on
his death bed, are suggestions of reflections
which will tempt the thoughtfully silent to
moralize."
Few men born in America ever did
more literary work than Hawks. He
translated two volumes OF the 'Antiqui-
ties of Peru" He is the author OF
egypt and its Monuments" In So he
edited Appleton's Cyclop@ liza. He is,
also author oft'COmmentaries on Canons
and Constitution. )" also the Romance of
Biography" az vols.) and ''Auricular
Confession in the Protestant Episcopal
Church." With Rev. W. s, Perry, he is
author ofs.Documentary Evidences of
the Protestant Episcopal Church"
These and the portion OF his History of
North Carolina, also, other works,
which it is now needless that l enumer-
ate, give evidence of a man of wonder
full energy and Nor can we
appreciate his fecundity and brilliant
quality of mind until WI note that, air
most uninterruptedly, he was recto-
OF some parish and; for a part of his
t me, president of theUniYersity ofLouiss
lana, to the first presidency of Ntlchthe
was elected while rector of Calvary
church, New Orleans. He had previously
graced the chair OF divinity in Wash
ington College, now Trinity, Hartford,
Conn. S
In 1895 Hawks was elelected mission
airy bishop Of the Southwest, but he
declined the office. Unmagnanimous
suggestions, too painful to mention in
3oA.:I +o,,oI,~o 4ha Eeool oHairo ~ q
classical school at Flushing, L. 1T of
which Hawks had been the literary mas
ter. spiritual almoner and temporal head,
were so Unexpectedly urged as to grie-
vously offend when his name vas pre-
sented in candidacy for the bishopric OF
Mississippi. After triumphant vindica-
ton and election, he torewent the dig
nifty. Calmly and proudly he dissuaded
himself from posturing for the rite of
conservation, which rite 70. the same
b~ishopric, was conferred in 1S49, on his
friend and former theolo9ical teacher,
William Mercer Green. Later, Hawks
was chosen tor the bishCrric of Rhode
Island, but again, and for the third
time, LIE refused the rank OF supreme
diocesan prelate.
A critical survey OF the por rats OF
Hawks I never saw him-sho rs a head
singularly significant of vigorous vet
charming ely refined mental elemeuts. His
forehead, very high, was yet illusively
so from the fact, that frontal badness, as
if provided to exhibit q spl mildly
shaped cerebral conformation, rtceded
to scantiness of hair, which, in the pic
ture 1 most carefully examined, was
seemingly lightsome even to sickness.
There was a pleasing, rather quaint,
inquisitiveness of eyes. Th.re was
a slight elongation of the diaphragm
OF the nose, below expansive nostrilf.
However, the nasal Lgure was r al
classical above a mouth of marked
breadth, with relatively thinnish lips
Normally closed. there was a slight
compression of lips, from which, over
the horn face, there were lineaments OF
firmness, and, meekly. a consciousness
of moral and mental strength. Witht II
the physionomics of Hawks were psy-
chical-spiritual illuminations-unmis-
takably a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
God and mans =
The central point Of interest in the
historical works Of Hawks to North
Carolinians is a portion OF a history Oh
North Carolina. By Kingsbpry and
others, with scholarly and patriotic in
terests in the history of he State, the
fragment from Hawks Is said to be OF
rarer merit than any previous or subse-
quent volumes for the conservation OF
our annals. q
Hawkes. History of North Carolina
beginning with Raleigh's charter in
1854, pauses, an unfinished work, with
the concluding pages of the second
volume. The second book, detailing
the rule and close of the proprietary
government, leads the reader against