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Tarborough, (Edeconibe County JT. C.) balurduy, August G, 1844
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FOR THE TAKBORO PRESS.
TO
Why stay on this polluted earth,
When in heaven thy inferiors restl
Co up and reap thy share of mirth,
Not keep this heart forever distressed i
True, none thy beauty dare to cope,
Vain to attempt or presume an effort:
Tho why bereave a breast of its only hope,
Vhen that alone was life's support!
"Why take a heart and not one return!
Is not exchange fair dealing!
And this face be doomed with spurn,
While this breast its pangs concealing.
Is thine image to another as dear,
To cause heart and breast to sever!
Alas! alas! it seems I hear,
The echo of thy request never.
JUVENILITY.
THE LAND OF LIBERTY.
As Teddy wis trudging along in the road,
Just fresh from his home on the edge of a bog,
May:be squinting to see where the voting-house
stood.
He was bit in the leg by a slip of a dog.
So smarting with pain he stoop'd down to the
ground.
To get one,, of the stones that seemed scattered
around;
But the poor fellow found them as tight stuck to
gether.
As the nails of his brogues were fix'd in the leather,
And is this a free country, quoth Teddy, aghast,
Where the dojs are let loose and the stones are
tied fast! :
By the powers, it's myself that am bold for to say,
then.
There's more freedom for dogs here than freedom
for men.
FOR THE TARBORO FRKSS.
ROCKY MOUNT CELEBRATION.
4th July, 1S42.
Arrangements having been previously
made, to celebrate the Anniversary of A
merican Independence, a very lai'grj and
respectable auditory, assembled at the
Falls church, at an early hour in tH mor
ning, where thanksgiving was offered to
the decrees of Providence, for the boon of
liberty bestowed upon us" thiough the
achievements of that day, by hymn and
prayer from the Rev. Win. Bellamy. The
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
was then read by C. Harrison, and the A
merican Declaration by James M. battle;
after which, R. R. Bridgers, Eq rose and
addressed the. congregation about forty
minutes, in which' he travelled over a very
extensive field of historical events, giving a
Very expanded view of the hardships and
trials endured by the early settlers of our
Country,' and the c'ouseqent events of 1776
in a style th';( ship we'd deep research, and
a mind welf s!ored with fiierary lore, that
could not fail to entitle him to rank among
the learri'ed of the age the intervals being
filled by national songs and airs, by gentle
men whose kind services were offered on
the occasion'.' The congregation' was then
dismissed by Rev. Win. Bellamy, premi
sed by a few very appropriate remarks.
A procession was then formed by Col. B.
D. Battle, Marshal of the D.iy, assisted' by
Col. J. E. Lindsay; and1 marched to the De
pot, where an elegant dinner was prepared
for the occasion,- by .Mr. Howell Braswell.
On motion? of Col. tf. D. Battle, Chas. Har
rison was made President of the Da'y, and
Messrs. It. BWn, Wm. A. Pope, J. K.
Harrison, M. Weston, James George, and
Jno. F. Tompkins, Vice Presidents;' Af
ter partaking of a Sumptuous dinner, the
table cleared, and when set, the following
Toasts were drank.
RiEGt7t'A1R TO'ASTsl
1st. The day we celebrate: May its an
nual return- be always hailed by a people
free, prosperous and happy.
2nd. The memory of Washington : Sel
dom has it been the lot of man, to go down
to the grave so universally beloved.
3rd. The memory of John Adams,
Thos. Jefferson, James Madison and James
Monroe.
4th. The heroes and sages of the Revo
lution. "Hdw Sleep the brave who sink td rest,
By all their country's wishes blest."
5th. The union of the Slates: Cemented
by the blood of patriots, consecrate 1 by
the devotion of a free people, may it en
dure till time itself shall cease.
6th The President of the United States
and Heads of Departments.
7th. The Governor of the State.
Sth. The University: May it continue
as heretofore to shed light, to cheer and
gladden everv corner of our land.
9th. North Carolina: Earliest at the
cradle of freedom, the last to forsake the
citadel of our liberty.
10: h. Agriculture, Commerce, and Ma
nufactures: The heart, the arteries, and the
veins of our country.
11th. Gen. Lafayette: The man who
left the blushing vinehills of his delightful
Fiance, to volunteer his service in defence
of our country in an hour of weakness and
wo: May his name be held in ever grate
ul remembrance by every true American.
12th. The Constitution of the United
Stales: To politicians, what the Bible is to
divines a text book.
13th. The Fair Sex: Guide us by means
ve know not, lead us by ways we see not,
govern us by laws we feel not, add com
lortsto life we cannot, abandon tliem ever
we will uot.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By the President of the Day, C. Harri
son. The rising generation: May they be
distinguished for wisdom, temperance,
prudence in all things, like brothers, and
transmit to succeeding ages our form of go
vernment, pure as it came to us from our
forefathers.
By 1st V. Pres't, R. Bunn. Our State:
Though styled "the Rip Van Winkle of the
Confederacy,"' the first to awaken to the
people's grievances, the first to assert the
people's rights: ..,
By 2nd V. P. Wm. A. Pope, The Mi
litia of the Stats: May the efforts, tn'is day
making, render them what they are de
signed to be, their country's best reliance
and defence in the hour of danger.
By 3rd V. P. J. H. Harrison. Nash,
Edgecombe, and Halifax: Their sons too
gallant, their daughters too wise, to be
bachelors or old maids.
By 4th V. P. M. Weston. The Orator
of the Day: May his career be as eminent
ly useful, as his efforts to-day were elo
quently sublime.
Mr. Bridgers rose and responded to the
above, as follows.
Mr. Chairman: I had hoped, when the
duties asssigned me by your Committee had
been performed, my part had been done.
1 thought not, no, even a whisper came
pot to my ears, that a call would be made
for me to address this audience again.
Fain would I decline it; prudence bids me
do it; a consciousness of an inability to res-
!pond in a suitable and becoming manner,
and a regard lor my own individual feel
ings, under other circumstances would jus
tify the, decline, But after the allusions
just macfe to mySelf, Silence would be im
possible; nay, it would even be unpardona
ble, and the pantomimic response often
given on occasions of this sort, would be
but a poor return for your kindness; an in
adequate requital for your liberality and
generosity; an ungrateful and indifferent
'acknowledgment of the distinguished hon
or you have conferred upon me. But why
diead the call? For to suppose those feel
ings of partiality, and kindness, that bade
me come in the first instance,' capable of
judging, ifi the second,4 haihly of the mai
den efforts of one just now entering life,
would be illiberal, it would be a fear your
past conduct would not justify; a charge
that years of mingling m l he cares of the
world had eradicated from your memories
the recollection that yourselves have been
once yVungarid destitute of experience.
I hope then my inexperience in public
speaking, and the unexpecedn'esc of this
call, will be a sufficient apology No, Mr.
Chairman,' 1 beg pardon for the sentiment.
The tongue of gratitude needs no apology;
the feelings of the heart fib studied embel
lishments" of oratory,' nor decorations cf
fancy. They have a language of their
own; a language as extensive as creation,
as unlimited as space; a language common
to all animated nature; appreciated as well
by the glittering insect that sports in the
evening sunbeam, as the mind that darts
throirgh' spa'cS a'ffd plucks knowledge from
the ends of creation. To express them is
to be understood. A meie inarticulate
cry? a simple exclamation of the heart will
be appreciated.
Allow me, then, Mr.Chairman,' through
you to acknowledge feelings of deep' grali
'udeand lasting obligations to' the citizens
of Rocky Mount and its vicinity for the
distinguished, though unexpected, and un
merited honor, they have conferred upon
me; unexpected, because I was compara
tively a stranger to them;' unmerited, be
cause rriy life had been marked, by no act
either public, or prWate, that entitled1 me
to it. But still ii has been conferred, and
let the cause be what it may, this tribute of
respect shall be duly appreciated; and the
recollection that they were the first to hoist
Hag on my feeble bark of life, shall be the
last to fade from my memory; and when
the tide of time shall have drifted it to the
entrance of waters from which it can ne'er
return, in imagination I'll waft myself
back to the very spot and in the sweet an-!
guish of past reminiscences will exclaim,
here she started, here her little sail re
ceived the breeze that first wafted it on to'
the ocean of active existence. '
It may notbe inappropriate, Mr. Chair
man, to introduce a few remarks here in re
lation to our individual State; those of the
early part of the day were national, these
shall be domestic and fireside in their na
ture. North Carolina was the first of the
United States to avow her independence,
and being freed from transatlantic alle
giance, the last to merge her State into a
national sovereignty. Twelve of the thir
teen United States had acceded to the fed
eral compact; she remained a separate and
independent nation. Two years on the
eminence of the back ground she stood;
closely observing the actions of her sister
States and examining the articles of the
federal compact, that she might know
whether they were "like unto whited se
pulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's
bones and of all uncleanness." Her senti
ments were "alequis latet error, equo ne ere
diteTeucri. Quicquid id est, timeo Dana
os et dona ferenles. She wished to know
whether the federal compact was, as the
woo Jen horse; filled with armed men con
spiring against her liberties, or as the palla
dium that was to secure lasting and perpet
ual freedom. Satisfied on this point her
course was determined. She became a
member of the Union. Her enemies 1
know traduce and revile her character for
her course;. charge her of wanting energy,
because lier policy was of mature reflection
and deliberation. , But the effects speak
for themselves. Opprobrious epithets cast
ori her for supposed tardiness of action are
already becoming terms of honor; and the
alembic of her political wisdom has sent
forth new spirits to animate a corpse that
was repeated lifeless. The name Rip Van
Winkle, in its transplantation to the soil of
North Carolina, has become indicative of
something higher, and nobler, than the
characteristics of the legendary hero of the
Kaatsk(ll mountains; and may Rip's rivals
never wish for the Appalachian heights to
administer a sip from Lethe's cup; not that
they need rest, and refreshment, but are
unwilling to be. longer henpecked by the
spouses, fraud, treachery, bankruptcy,
! speculation and fanciful theories. . Even
now would they forego the pleasure of
their friend's company and society for
j twenty years, rather than submit to the
'rebukes and ''household eloquence" of
their termagant wives. Thy wish to sleep,
and to let their old consorts die; to arise
'from their nap as old widowers ready for
getting married anew. But 1 would ask,
j Mr. Chairman, what has North Carolina
! done during her nap. She has constructed
I two of the longest railroads in the world,
built the finest capitol in the United States.
! and has reared nurseries of learning that
bluh not in comparison with the oldest of
our land with those that have been conse
crated by time and sanctioned by the pat
ronage of the great. An arsenal and mint
have sprung up as if by magic; canals open
ed, harbors improved, and Rip is not yet
involved in debt. Her credit is still un
impaired and her plighted faith equivalent
to her performed contract; nor has the re
fusal to discharge legal responsibilities
brought disgrace and infamy, upon her
iname. All of her bonds duly executed
have been duly paid. She has preserved a
uniformity of policy, whilst many of her
scoffers have had no policy save a policy of
ruin and destruction. Her road has been
the road to honor, and usefulness; her
ways have been, ways of pleasantness, and
all her paths have been peace." Her de
terminations were of reason, they were
marked out' in the beginning,' and they
have not been varied from; her enemies
have assailed her for this steadfastness of
purpose, but their darts have fallen' harm
lessly at her feet; she has always pursued
the even tenor of her way, and her spirits
have been ruffled not by the visionary
schemes of theorists and speculators;' judg
ment presides at her helm and fancy is only
allowed to play in the sail, and fall at the
foot of the mast. Industry and economy
have given plenty and happiness to her cit
izen; whilst indolence and extravagance, in
many portions of the Union, have depriv
ed the widow, and orphan, of their daily
bread. Other lands may pour out wealth
in greater abundance;' but none are more
fruitful in peace and contentment; nativity
in her borders is already beginning to be
hailed with delight in the land of the stran
ger, and the exclamation, 1 am a North
Carolinian, a passport to' profitable employ
ment. In the fir"st settlement of the "new coun
tries,' they were reproached with a want
of energy and enterprise; fortunes realizeu
by the rnere dash.of the pen were portray
ed to their imagination,, but they touched
not; they were scoffed at because they pre
ferred digging .their wealth out.of the
ground, to gambling for .it, in schemes of
speculation; but they altered not their
course. And where are they now? . The
storm of adversity, to the ruin and degrada
tion of thousand?, Has swept over the U
nion; ''the rain descended, the floods camp,
the winds blew," and their fortunes ''fell
not;" but of their scoffers, tlieir fortunes
"fell, "and great was the fdl. In support
of these statements, I appeal to the people
of the South" generally. Visit the fireside
of her emigrants in the wastes of the far off
West and South. You will oftener find
them surrounded by the comforts of life
than lhoe from any other Stale, and sel
domer will you see their plantations desert
ed, their movable properly sequestered or
'run to Texas;'' and hundreds of honest
creditors and unfortunate suret ies left be
hind, to pay the penalty of their fraud.
Ask their neighbors who they were, or fol
low them across the waters of the Sabine,
and enquire for their native land! Seldom
will they respond, I am fiom North Caro
Una.
In point of commerce, commercial ad
vantages and facilities, it must be confess
ed, and regretted, that she is much in the
rear; but so nature has ordained, and man
cannot alter. For general intelligence and
learning, her reputation is about equal to
her neighbors. In talent she is excelled
by none; the halls of legislation, the pulpit,
the bench and bar prove it beyond gainsay.
You will find many of the biographei
of the distinguished politicians of the dav
commencing, "he was born nt or in ' -',
in North Carolina;" or, his parents emigra
ted from North Carolina in the year .
Five or six of her sons are at this very mo
ment, one of whom presides over their de
liberations, to be found in the Senate, and
in the House of Representatives propor
tional to her population a great tr number
than from any other Slate in the Union
She boasts of two of the most distinguished
pulpit orators of the day ; the eloquence of
one of whom, upon a visit not long since,
to Europe, was so great as to induce the
enquiry, "can it be possible that he is an
American." She claims the natal spot of
three Chief Justices of other States, besides
countless numbers of inferior judicial offi
cers, and still has a Ruffin, Gaston, and
Daniel at home a Swain at her Universi
ty, a Badger and Haywood, a Strange
and Henry, and man others at her Bar.
North Carolina, Mr. Chairman, is an inter
estingand fruitful theme. Hence I shall
hope to merit your indulgence for my di
gression, and in conclusion permit me to
offer a sentiment in behalf of old Rip:
May she sleep away her life, in years,
twenty to the nap, and each one to come
be as profitable as the oue that has been.
By 5th V. P. .I.George. The old Noith
State: With plenty of choice women, na
ture's choicest gift, we'll forake her never,
but defend her ever.
By Glh V. P. J. F. Tompkins. Gen.
Washington: The first in war, the first in
peace, and the first in the hearts of his
countrymen.
By the Oiator of the Day, R. R. Brid
gers. To the Revolutionary soldiers, the
surviving few: May they live longer yet,
enjoy a greater happiness still, in the hour
of death be as happy as their lives have
been great; and after their departure from
this vale of wo, be as blessed as their ac
tions were noble.
By the Clergyman, Rev. W. Bellamy.
Christianity, not Nazaritismi Ttetolaism
to the shades, temperance arid thankfulness
for life.
By the assistant Clergymafi, T. L. Cos
ter. Civil and religious liberty: The most
lovely of the fair, harmoniously may they
live in thee U. States,' and never die.
By the Marshal of the Day, Col. B. D
Battle. The steam engine, it moves with
the speed of thought and the power of the
whirlwind: May it nevtr stop its career,
till it has run out of debt, and drawn a car
freighted with a forty horse power of divi
dends. By the assistant Marshal, Col J. E.
Lindsay. , Na.h comity:' Tlid' her means
be small, her .spirit is strong; and the fame
of her "South Side," is co-exttnsive with
the limits of the Union.
By James M. Battle. Our Navy just
ly denominated the right arm of our de
fence: May its steady increase be not im
peded by any penurious policy of the Gov
ernment, but liberal appropriations be
made that it may grow with the growth of
the nation, & strengthen with its strength'.
By R. H. Battle. Woman:
She neVr with traitorons kiss her Saviour stung,
She ne'er denied him with unholy tongue;
he when apostles shrank, could danger brave,
The last at his cross, the earliest at his gravei
By Jesse Mercer. American liberty
purchased by the sacred blood of our an
cestors in their sWrn and manly resistance
io oppression, guarded by Constitution and
secured by Union: May the price of it's
attainment prompt us all to transmit it un
"impaired as a legacy to posterity.
By Dennis Sore.y. The Fathers of th?
Revolution: We thank them for our heri
tage. : .. r
By Tho. j. A. Cooper., The:blaze qf
liberty thni first cast its light on the Uni
ted States: May it continue until it illumi
nates lli whole woild. . j
By Joshua. Wilkinson. The emigrant
sons ami daughters of North Carolina r
though absent,, not forgotten: May they be
as prosperous anu. contented as those mey
leave behind the,in. .
B,y Robert Soey. ..National honor:
mighty stimulant, with which a people can
never become too deeply intoxicated.
liy Jno 4 F. Bellamy. , The Star of I3elK
lehein and the Star-span ulcd Banner of
America as the first directed the path of
the wise men of old to the monger of the
Saviour and alarmed a despot, 'so may the
last prove a galaxy , of .light (.to enquiring
millions both in the old and - new world
to trie
cradle of civil and religious freedom,
and a desolating constellation to blight and
iiirt Hie iiauviiy anu rtJgn ui lyiaun
every clime and age. . :.!.',. ;
uy .jou i iiigpeu. ,V!U fj:iciia uvf
maids a cold set:. Ala v. they be toasted
until they are melted together.
liy David liarlpw.
Man wants but little here below,
Nr wants that little long; . . M
Ma?j vyaritjS twddrinks every day,
And that is very strong.
Bv Wm. Huehes. Lei a full and choice
glass be quailed to, woman she' II tiot con
demn the wine but the vile evce??. , (.
By John V. Michel!; , ..North. Caroli
na the first ol thel3 to declare, may she
be tHe last of Jhe 26 Stajes to abandon the
principles of the ooslitutipn. . i( ,
By a truedover of Miss M . The
ladies of Battleboro': . Alay their walks
through life be as transcen'Jantly happy
and useful,' as. their, exquisite beauty so
eminently prognosticate. : j , .
By G fa y,. Armstrong.,. Our Republic?
a government jyf . checks, ,ano balances:
May it.ever preserve its equilibrium.
By tit ,r!pight, Edgecombe .county:
the first agricultural county ir the State:
May her neighbors profit by her ex
ample.;, , ; , . ,
By Dayid L. Bunn. ... Wealth and pros
perity to the tree of our liberty.
By J. G. Rice. May 4a memento of the
brilliant achievements,. of our ancestors iu
the days of '76, be perpetuated, through al(
succeeding ages of posterity, and may thej
genial rays of which, continue to animate
the bosoms pf all America's sons, and illu
minate the civilized world.
y,-zi:... ,..
May this day Ion? remember'd be.
And handed down to posterity!
By Jas. Taylor. The spirit of '76
with feeble means it achieved a nation's
freedom and, found he truth of holy, writ,,
that 'the race is not to the swift, nor the
battle tO:the strong." .. t
By H. Hicks. North Carolina:, May
she never be humbugged, try a ..foreign foe
as seme of her citizens have been by the
morn5 f::!tif.i;ilis. . . , . ; ,.
.. By John I horn. , The signers of jive
Declaration of Independence: Tlieir spirit
are gone, their bodies sleep in their graves
shall we their posterity ever forget, to
commemorate a 4th of July? Oh, no,' no,'
never! j . ; (l ... M,
By H. H. Williford.. The farmers of
Edgecombe the most independent people
on the face of the globe: May their harvest
this season be commensurate with their
ju.-t deserts.' , . . ; i. .. ,
By VVrighl Edmondson. Tne Proprie
tors of the Rocky Mount Cotton Factory:
May they always be rewarded as their en
ergy and industry deserve, and their sofvi
bility ever be as Fts foundation'.
By S. P. Jenkins. Cotton and pork
the husbandman's glory: May their priced
be such. as to compensate (is for our trouble.'
By N. J. Pi Urn an.'
Wine. and woman make a man smart.
The one makes his head ache, the other his heart
By T. ,M. Wilkins., The . fa,ir,(of the
gocd old North Slate: May God bless rjhe
and all with good husbands, and maygood
husbands .be blessed with good vvives,,and
ifti-n oh!" what a paradise this gooitf old
North State will be. r ,. .
By Joseph S. Battle. True genuine re
ligion in Iieari ami in practice, true genu
ine republicanism in heart and in practice
temperince in all things. .
Bv Peter W.Pope. The bonds of ived
ded bliss: May no change in so'cie! ever
repudiate them. . ,
By W J. Armstrong.' The Declaration
of In dependence -a noble proclamation of
freemen to the world, a light to guide the
oppressed of every age and every clime.
By James Ricks. To temperance let
us fill our glasses and think of temperate
men oh! that we could only drink and do
like them.
By Jno. J. Barker. Our guests: We
tnrlpr ihem ouf congratulations, and beg
! leave to express the pleasure we feel in uni
ting with ihem on mis occasion.
By J. B. Hunter. As brothers we have
met and so lei us part