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Primary document
Title:
Address of William C. Hooper to the Dialectic Society, 1836 or
1837: Electronic Edition.
Author: Hooper, William, 1792-1876
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Caitlin R. Donnelly
Text encoded by
Caitlin R. Donnelly
First Edition, 2007
Size of electronic edition: ca. 12K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2007
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2007-02-08, Caitlin R. Donnelly finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Records of the Dialectic Society (#40152),
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Address of William Hooper to the Dialectic Society,
1836 or 1837
Author: William C. Hooper
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 40152 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in theUniversity Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in theUniversity Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
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Mr Pres. & Fellow Mem. of the D.S.
It is now just 30 years, I believe since I had the honour of taking my seat as a
member of this body, I will not say on this floor. Now the times are changed
— & the fortunes of your body have, I am happy to say, grown
& expanded with the other improvements of our University & of the age in which we live. It was in your old
chapel!, that the Dialectics of my day used to carry on their
comfortless sessions, on a naked dirty floor & seated upon hard coarse
benches — & doomed, in the winter time, there to shiver out
the long cold nights, without a fire — not like my more favored
fellow members of the present age, seated on luxurious chairs, the laborers of
the looms softening their tread on Brussels a gilded ceiling echoing to their
voice, while their Pres. like a monarch occupies a throne. The order of ages is
here reversed. The Poets tell us that in old times
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the golden age came first, & the age of iron afterwards. But in the
fortunes of this body the sires saw the hardships of the age of iron while the
sons are tasting the sweets of the age of gold. Augustus used to boast that he found Rome built of brick
& he left it of marble. Surely, if we may venture to compare small
things with great, a change not much less auspicious has taken place in the
comforts & external splendour of the Dialectic society. I hope
the revolution may be no less great in the more valuable & solid
improvements of talent & virtue, & that the sons may be far
brighter & worthier than their sires.
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