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YOLUMK I.
GKEtiHBOItOUGII,X. C. SVTUIM)Y, SRI'TKMBER 12, 1829.
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ergy adequate to prevent universal devastation. Some
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the blow, others will sdand in absolute vacancy, pe
trified with consternation ; while more will
"Grin horrible a ghastly smile to hear
Their famine shall be filPd, and bless their maw
Destu'd to that good hour." Mifton P. L. Book II.
"Knowledge is power." A hare glance, at the con
dition of learning in this State, is suflicient to charac
terize it for impotency, and show the tendency to ar
istocracy. There is nothing like a system of educa
tion, extending to the means of the common people.
There are, indeed, a University; and various Acade
mics, established by law, and fostered by the hand of
"government ; but these, instead 'of being ol general
utility, are acces-ibie nulv to the rich. In tne-o tin
son's of the wealthy, lnv void soever they ma be ol
genius, are carried through certain forms and Karri
; i . to foe vain ol Ineir acquirements ; ol which they gen-
v-tive rents tor each succeeding pub- 1( , , 1 . . . . . .i
a r orally hav e enough, to enable them to cheat their poor,
iter length in the same proportion. iiir.U- j.ciVilm.lrs o it of thmr s(,,all piopertv, (he
ir itions to the Ivhtor, on business re- , f - , . ,..,:...., u... 1II;V ...J, s. Wliilsl
lative to the paper, must be. -ost-paid. or they J t,e State Ins hinds to lavish m vj.iu nawrantrv. and
attended to.
COMM I'.VICJ TIOXS
Fur the (irvA-usharaugh Vitr'n,t.
NOR'HI-CARMI.INA, N... III.
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Legislative e.iact'ioeuis. ikii- ( 'u-i.m
lce, all tend to ile a'.M'M lieoo'i i(
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:i - ai.il i ii. i' l'i ii
n fit,' w, ;m1
vainer attempts, at internal iinproveme4it, not a itn
is expended to disseminate general knowledge, but
indigent genius, like poor Foiydore.
.'An iw. 4aJUom-tiUiuuU-uiimxu . ... ....
Ami w.,4t. ia hwoBtuosa ami Ahctl(.'i,t aif."rHtJeurAjl.,.
Auv on" ol the above evds, considered alone, would
m in i Miiiicieiit atlliclion to he borne by a popular
Skl.Ail II, ivhl, It tl .Ifeii ,ut,. uklllilii i. lull., 'iti-ii i.i.l, A.i
j t. red; ess their own grievances ; but our catalogue is
yet incomplete To cap the climax, we hat to add
in ci il, lor winch the annaU of tin- world can luno-li
no enu il ; we mean tlie curse ol having anion --t o
SELECTED.
"And 'tig the tad conifilaint, and almost true,
. iVttate'er w write, we bring forth nothing new.
AN ORATION
delivered at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, June 24th., 1829
according to the annual ap.iiiimcut of the two Literary
Societies, belonging to the t'nhersiu , hv ' William
Hoofkh, A. M. 1'roK ssor of Ancient Languages in tlie
Uni ersity.
J(y r r.s pn hd .lurfintce. I had hope that lliis an
nual ollii.c oi addicssii.g (u would have ahvati fal-
len upon one oi the alumni of the College, whose
polhtical standing, or who-e spare in the eve of Ins
countn, would leue atlracted public attention and
curiosity, An annual appointment whu h would thus
draw within lln .- silent and se pifsted precinct.- some
ol our di-tin.;uislied cii.cn.-, might confer H'tn a I im
portant hem-tils' on the in-lilulion, b aw-ikeuing
aliesti in their hoom ihe recidlectious of o dh, and
brightening the links whu.h bind them to their alma
matter while to I he youth, recei ing their c,1ii( ation,
the piC'Ciue and the adi i ses of such visiters would
be received as a mark of attention, highly flattering,
y lilted to ui.spuea noble emulation. 1 need feel no
fortification of pride in inlorming of tlie audience, that
if the first wishes of the young gentlemen making the
appointment could ha v.r been gratified, you would
tiav'elratfftf ttiis-ntay-fosijme
destfnginsheii mker frt- loai Mr 'Iwojtf
the members of the University have had one elected !
ttom llicii -bou . io tultd a task-winch seems more -rat v,-
fully and appropriately committed to a st ranj-ci.
Dul the i.tilure oi tiieir appln atmns in ntln r ipctrn
having devolved the duly upon me, I t-hall be happ.
il I am able, in some It ;hl degn .', to lullil wishes ot liu
ted peace, and the exclusive ownership ofan immei.se
territory, should have allbrded them the most proi
lions opportunity of making an experiment, how a na
tion could reed under so free and popular a gov
ernment that the experiment lias succeeded, and
that during that half century we have had nothing to
do but to grow and spread as rapidly as amplitude of
room and exuberant " o' plenty and incessant emigra
tion could make" If lhee"' things compose mm h
a rare aggregation of political blessings, as may well
awaken tears that we have already had more ihan
one share of good among the members of the human,
family , and that we must now expect our due portion
of those nnf n lnne- w hich have fallen to the lot of
all other nations. We are now in the simplintv and
inncence nt y outh. Necessary industry vet keeps our
manners incorrupt. Overgrown wealth has not vet
introduced enerv aimg luxurv with its train of vices.
Our citieus, thinly scattered over the spacious conti
nent, enjoy, on their extensive farms, all the ease and
plenty they eould w ish. They are not tempted by
des;n rate circumstances to aim at
revolution : tneir
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I ... i i" i- i i i i . i "v..i7 'inr in, vi Muni in on nunoi oi inai.ni
a hi nun i i iinn:, hi ;i nxuini i iikhii, m niei ! tin I I 'in - ,
w ils are not sharpened to crime h hard necessity , and
the rude collision of multitudes struggling for the
sairievbjccts. H hat:anwe expect in reserve for
us better than is already. in our hands ? Ought a na
tion to desii e more than that a vast majority of its i op
ulation should possi s an c:iy compeleni and the
sij.c:,.ciijoyriient of hie, libel ( v nd. proper) v t ( '.n
vre wish ur lKrptior more unrestrained freedom of
th'oiigld a nd ac tion j for lighfeV f a V , Tor Hio re" nnd is
tui Ind repose f Shall we v aiue it ' at a cheap rate
that our youth are mt -c-ahV4 out to -hed their blood
in fnieigu battle, that we know nothing of invad.ug
armies passing through our land, e.nhiig panic hcfor
them, and leaving Carnage and desolaiion ai d nmnr
ning in their r' ai that ( verv citii n has the fh r-
I cui.enship, and doomed to absolute, ticnahlarv
sl.ivi ri. Slavery ! whit a solecism in a i'i e "ou in
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mc.mpovc. -i-.m ..i o, me m . i m .,oi prop- ( , Alw,utc s,averv , iiow iIm.
Sition : bolder, peiln,-, than 'ha 'ever h.ei ha- nr ., (1;4 ..J. n ,.e . ..i :.c
lion oi null iij ki iiiiuvi iiiininiiuiic i oniiin in iiiui-
ther ! how Iimorliylng is the possession of1m h cop-
lleieditirv s: lie, ! It i not e-
ho!;h ib.it the unhappy lave mil-: drag I he" galuiig
aided concerning this I Tate : but il I art sustain tin
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assertion, me sooner u .is m ine, inrnem t;iti. snonei (ro uVe,. ;UK)t,er
we ojaK me mre-spen uiai nas uunerio no mil is a
witH the magic of eiichanlnv i,', the in,oi" l.i.i-I, -hail
be to arest the imineul devastation, or to eilvct
a safe retreat from its enn-suming intlueuce- He liiat
follows the current, glides caidy. but is often over
whelmed, and sinks iguomenii-usly ; "w hil.-t he that
stems the current, engages m toil ; but vv 1 1 - 1 1 r h
gain a place of-.alety', or is liomr- away by tin torrent
he is covered .with gWy. Ld ai. -tirst make a despe
rate essay to meliorate our condition here, w here we
iriiiy guani the sabred ashr- of our reveml -a?iretfrs,
and w here all our early a-socialidns bind us as with a
f hain ; should we be unable to attain our purpose,
flight will he a dernier resort : for "a prudent man
forseeth the evil, and hideth 1 1 i 1 1 1 s- 1 1". '
In our sober attempts at lefoim, I w ould to Ilea
ven, that a majority of the -nihabihmts of the Slate,
could eflect it, through the medium of (heir Legisla
tive Representatives, liut in "o: sequence of a fatal
defect in our Constitution, the Hcpie-ciitalive. instead
of being proportioned to the number of inhabitants,
is chosen by anarbitiary division of the State into
counties; and, instead of being chosen by the. male
inhabitants generally, we see one Branch of the Le
gislature elected by a privileged order, viz: freehol
ders. Here begin our just complaints, and here are
sown the lirst seeds of aristocrat .
The laws of the Slate allow so many appeals,
shifts, and tvesions ; so many delav.-, and such an ac
cumulation of costs, as, in cases of litigation, to give
the rich a decided advantage over the poor ; the art
ful knav e over honest simplicity ; and eventualh to
detler the lawyers and ofheers of the courts. The
profession of the law is tlie high road to wealth and
prcfermeit.
Nature has interposed obstacles to our infernal
commerce, as well as to our external. These obsta
cles are not insuperable, nor indeed very great ; but
owing to ill-concerted plans, and cxtravigance in their
execution, an immense sum of money has been squan
dered, and nothing accomplished j -the subject has
fallen in to) the long sleep of death, having lost its
breath, popularity ; and nothing less than a miracle
can resuscitate it during the present generation.
Next the Banks. The Legislature, in chartering
the Banks, produced a hideously rapacious monster,
which forthwith sprung into enormous magnitude,
refusing control; and from the contemplation of which
(he stoutest hearts recoiled.
"Hie spelunca fuit vaito submota reccbsu,
Semihcminis Caci facies quam dira tencbat,
Solis inaccessam radus ; semperque rerenti
0xde tcpebat humus ; foribusque affix a supcrbia
Ora virum tristi pendebant pallida tabo. "
Virgil JEn. Lib. VIII. v 193.
Here was acave withdrawn deep under ground,
In which dire Cacus, semi-man was found ;
No solar rdy could here disclose his form ;
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nt Kr('"na with recent slaughter aye wa warm ;
The heads of men, fix 'd to the cruel diior,
Appended, grisly in their clotted gore. I'oL.
Under the mask of law, the vilest frauds , have beei
perpetrated i the country has been ravaged, and tli -epoiled.
W hilst these things were transacting behind
the scene, our feeble, temporising Legislators, though
are that things were not right, stood aloof from
investigator!, permitting themselves to be put of:
with equivocation and ialsehood. Even i.ow- when
the hope ufflougpr 'collecting a rich rtvenue is losV
anu ticrmfigircmaiiDr, ata-imrtniiiiiTD-njn-grfiiipriP
pillage the whole State, it is doubted, ah. with good
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hen representative on tin- o. ion, and u 'A .vciiHiieiu io nioi.,i(;r in iu....Miy a.-i
compensate this noble, auditory for the favor of their 1 l"Un ,Um 10 m P ' "'""' bul a
.p J pHlance in requital that he -IkhiIi' he able thttK to
1. .1 i.i ii i - i-j- ii .1-. i
accumulate wcniin an nis me, aim iepieatu u as ne
n'tiiiiiiigh life, tie is destined
o .- e i! I'll l i ll to
his posterity , lor generations indeanitij ei; to his mi
agiria'.ion. - .-
- To recapitulate : tlt se aio foe evils whn. ii we dr
p'ore. and ol" which we vcn'omi; 1. iin . i d rej.-i'e-enta'ion;
. the opnre inn of the law, ari-in.
). the want fi-,tet nal i imi-
hoin the delay ol jnstu
merce ; 4. the fraud of the banks; d. tlie w ant of a
system ol education which slut! ete;;d l( every child
in tire Stale; &. at -A ab-ovr ,t;, tfi - ei-'enreof slave-
ai-d perhaps to
and more ab-
ry. To expatiate on these -,m;erts ;
digress oceasnmally to lighter lojiek,
stract speculations, is the ilesig-, of
To i.
VL'JKK.
iMO.
Vox rj: B (iHi: r. .v v no koijc it ' a -fp in t.
In rep y to live editorial remarks in the Mil
oi ine i atriot, to "a toi respoiidtnt, m refusing to
correct the typographical errors found in the series of
numbers over the signature of "Enquirer," "Corres
pondent," the writer of said series makes the follow
ing observations :
I. That it appears quite "ungenerous," in the Ed
itor, to have imposed on his "Headers" a bundle of
mailer that, he could afterwards, with so little dilli
d nee, insinuate was not Worth their -perusal ; thus,
in. iking a concession of betraying that good faith,
which, ail patrons of papers have a right to expect.
J. Thai il appears no less"ungenero!i.s" to his "Cor
respondent," for the Editor to refuse a correction of
those fundamental errors in type, by which the "Au
thor's" meaning has not only been "perverted," but
in some instances, entirely destroyed ; especially ,
when they "were sent to him, in proper order; and
thus his "Readers" are left unable, lairly to judge,
whether they were "deeply interested" in the com
munications or not.
3. That whether the "Readers" of the Patriot do,
or do not take a deep interest "in the several num
bers of "Enquirer," the, writer feels well assured, that
the positions, and doctrines held forth are correct,
and that the most shrewd insinuations cannot over
throw them.
4. If the Editor had suspected his "Readers" would
so lightly esteem the several numbers of "Enquirer,"
that they would not "AVperuse them," for thev pur
pose of seeing where the "Author's sense was per
verted," by a ws-application of the letters of the "al
phabet," that, it would have been more just to his
"Headers," as well as to his correspondent, to have
relused the publication of said numbers, at first, on
the ground of their want ofrnerrt, than, after publish
ing them, without a single hint of their being excep
tionable, to make the pitiful excuse for not correc
ting the Vi.s-prints, that he believed "but few of his
Reaih is "would" take the pains to review thrtU"
li. That the writ er of this article has' Xvritten it,
with a full expectation, that noca syllable of it will be
published in the Patriot.
A Correspondent.
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Advantages of Promptness. A merchant whose
policy-expired at l-S o'clock, called at the Insurance
I Luce at half past 11, and obtained a renewal of it.
At 1 o'clock the sau.e day his store and goods were
reduced to ashes ! This circumstance occurred at j
aic late destructive hi e in Augusta. (Jeorna What
v-0Ttld have In-Come f that.ii lim's loitu lie if lieliad i h;
thought it "would do welbalfcr dinner ?'" rJS
The subject to which your attention is respectfully
solicited, is one whiih 1 know must be acceptable to
every American ear : The I'rosi'ECT Of OCR com
mo, CouviiiV. If their is any topic which, more
li.m others: is selected as the theme oftho.se who aim
e:t;ur by the voice or the pen, to captivate the hear
ing and the hearts of this nation, it is-the .splendid
anticipations of it future destiny. (J,n these we all
l.-ve !o , i v i ' 1 . a:.d while wc lose ourselves in fond
; ropneens of our country's fortunes we find a sooth
ing obuvion, or at least allevatiou, of.auy chagriue
winch her present imperfection may have inspired,
ho far the effect is happy. But it may be doubted
whether the American citi.ens, by indulging too san
guine hopes of the future, is hot led to depreciate the
value of his present blessing, and thus to deprive
himself otthat fulness oi 'contentment and gratitude,
which is ca'lcd for by the already auspiuoiis ris.iit
ol our government, under the smiles of providence.
This ditsalislactiou with the present, and this
longing after some good in reserve, is to live in posterity-
is to iiike imi-svlve auviou, tbat ihe-v- mnv
be exempt fiom anxiety, lull should a e taste with
.indifference the sweel fruit which a bounlenu-. heav
en is now dropping into our lap, or thrust them a.-.ide
with disgust because they are not as large or as lus
cious as we imagine might be yielded by the-same tree
when brought to a higher stale of cultivation ! And
are we sure that the hi In re is to surpass the pn (-nt'
Are we sure that our country is not now in its me
redian of happiness and glory, and that no subsequent
age will be a prosperous as this Let us take a
view of our j resent condition, and indulge in some
peculations on what we have to fear and what to
hope, from the revolution of v ars. i
hen we compare the history of our ceunlrv since
its attainment of independence with that of all other
nations, w e see so much ot national enjoy inent with so
little alloy , that our very felecity begils suspic ious
and alaiin. Our condition appears too happy to he
lasting. Ve are ready to apprehend that a longcoi.
tinueuce of such untroubled existence is more than
any one nation ought to expect from (he favor of hcav.
en; and we sometimes heave a boding sigb, lert our
reverses arc to be as. rapid and calamitous as our pios
perity has been early and bright ; and that thus is to
be equalized the: distribution ot providential gills,
which hitherto seemed to have been heaped upon us
with a partial prodigality. -That a people should
have been permitted to setile down in the bosom of
a boundless continent, without any tentorial limits
to stint their growth without any jealous neighbors
to crush or ci ipple their feeble infancy that thev
should have grown, in spite of impolitic legislation,
to the stature of mutjliood, and then have been goad
ed by increasing misrule to try -their stripling strength
against the gigantic might of the parent nation thai
they should have persevered in the unequal contest for
seven long years, and at length have gloriously tri
umphed that they should have escaped tlie usual fa
tality of revolutions, and did not find a master, ami a
ty rant in some one of the chiefs w ho led them to vic
fury that with a magnanimous calmness and de
liberation never before witnessed in any people, tin v
elected a council of their wisest senators to frame for
them a sy stem of government, binding the several
parts into one harmonious confedeiacv, making "e
phiribusluiuul -"that they should have adopted this
government with so marvellous unanimity (the usual
selfish and turbulent passions that might have been
expected to mar such a work seeming to lie dorm,,
or extinct) tlmi half a centmy ol almost uuinlt rrup-;
"-Jwdge-1 twimer-wattbm"rirrrrt ix)--rrpreKntr:-tlTc-lhi--
nt on account of his, health, declined the ap-
rdcases to his children ? These leal ores in our polit
ical coditiou seem to exemplify that image ofnaliotial
felicity, depicted by the expressive language of Holy
Writ, when in every pail of a land is heaid "the
voice of joy and the voice of gladness the voice of
the bridegroom and the voice of the br.de." Would
not every political economist and reformer of Euro e
think his country happv if it could just eiqnv what
ours has enjoyed for the last fifty years' Wmddhe
not consider his darling projects coi.siunaled, if he.
eould only reduce the complicates! and up; rt ssive
"establishments of the old world' to the simple modi l
of this y oung republic, ami leave man, as hi- i in A
ihenca, to the-free permit of hap mess, uuirHmme'led
by ! taxes and monopolies and presi ripttve ri:lits am'
privileged orders I Kuropo looks on with a ma inent
and with envv .it 'a nation so hie and vel so itanquil
so safe without the ovm awu.g i rese 'ceot milita
ry force at the spera do of a gov ermneni sii-tained
almost without taxation, and religion lloiiPshing with
out the succour oft he national arm, or the aid I 'he
liationaT piirVe7 I ler suhjecls who visit us, a 'd tra
verse our land, behold with admiration a i nplo
spread over a vast cinp.re, contentedly pursuing the
arts of peace, and, at its ' most distant extremities
gracefully, according spontaneous homage and obedi
ence lo the mild sway of a government, which lv s
to draw with silken cords, and to hide, till haielul
necessity reveals it, the strength which can enforce
lis requisitions.
Historians admonish us that nations, like the un,
have their time of rising, of maridian, and o! de
i line; and We are familiar with the comphriso of a
whole peiqde's enislance to the life of a --'.wU'
mdiv idual, which Ii is its youth, its manhood, and o ,J
age. It is natural lor eat h nation, wink it contem
plates the transient date and the convulsive dea'hs
of ils predecessors, to imagine that itself will ban
the wisdom or the good fortune to avoid the mnai
causes of political destruction, and to hope thd the
seasons of its glorv will be indefmately extended.
And must we believe all such expectations to he
merely the pleasing illusion of self love, destined to
cei tain disappointment ! Must we adopt the de
sponding sentiment of the' Roman pod
omnia fiitis
In pcrjus mere, tt retro sublapsa referri.
that all human things tend by a sad fatality to degen
eracy anil dissolution ' Must we in the cause of "ii
own dear country particularly, idu.it the henei (hat
the bright vision we have been contemplating .will
speedily vanish ? thai these numerous bW'sings iire
but dew drops w hu h silv ei ihe inoriung of our exist
ence as bright and as transient too? Shad wv by
uiifriedly analogies drawn from v cgt table and a;' .!
life,, where whatever is most rapid m growth so n est
runs lo decay presage,, from our early maturit , a
briefer term than ordinary of.iational duration ? No.
Let us rather choose to entertain brighter hopes for
liie destinies of the world. Let r iiibpc tha! lh- 'is-sous-drawn
from the melaiu In . r i ks of fallen
empires will not be lost upon tlit 'P cs ut geneuii on
l.et Us indulge the delightful lain I, (hat I he ticlivt
(qieration of the pies-, the con-equint dillusimi of
intelligaiii e and freednin, and ab(A e nil, Ihe kindly in
fluence' of Christianity , conlroling the passions ami
cheering the hearts of men, furnish a sicnrity for na
tional pi rinaneiice and improvement, unknown to
preceding ages. .
While, however, the American patriot' isglad to
ling to such consoling hopes, if is impossible bar lorn
not to feel some solicUide Mr a i mwt ufwUin
ijL?J. '.vllili .l1' 'lJ 1 "if"..' ll boiion.
I he tirsr danger whu h nrn 'i'snT- v iew and exTfes
the most di-'iluL appiehcnjioiis, ii juisum'j.n. When
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