Newspaper Page Text
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
erriCK IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING.
•AIM) TRI-WEEKLY fc WEEKLY.
VKKM9—Daily Paper, to city subscribers, per
annum, in advance - 96
Daily Paper, mailed to the country 7
Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ •• 4
Weekly (a mammoth sheet) “ “ •• 2
CASH SYSTEM.—In no case will an order for
the paper be attended to, (unless aceornpanied with
the money, and in every instance when the time for
whieb the subscription may be paid, expires before
the receiot of funds to renew the same, .the paper
trill be discontinued. Depreciated J funds]received it I
ralue in this city.
1 1 nrrmraiirr> t ii nnr*Tff [ r nr"~ l ~ i iiiCr'TkFfa^> j r nrtrfSMr-rgiiTM
Ecligious.
THE GREAT TRUTH AND ITS EVI
DENCES.
A SERMON,
By Rev. Chanaeey Richardson, A. M., of
e Texas Conference. —President of Ruthers•
ville College.
Without controversy great is (he mystery of God
liness ; God was manifest in the flesh, justified in
thp spiiit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gen
tiles, believed *on in the world, received up into
glory.—l Tim. hi. 16.
St. Paul, in this eloquent passage, an
nounces the most interesting, sublime and stu
pendous truth ever published to the world—
▼i* : That “ God was manifest in the flesh.”
This truth constitutes the absorbing theme of
Divine revelation to man—it is the vast hinge
upon which the moral government of the uni
verse turns —it is to the moral system, every
thing that ihe sun is to the solar system, the
center around which all pure and generous
affections in all created beings revolve—the
sourse of light and life to a benighted and dy
ing world, attracting to itself every eye and
every holy emotion in the universe.
The eyes of all Saints in all ages and in all
lands have been gladdened by its light ; while
their hearts have been cheered and warmed
by its life-giving influence. It is the truth on
which angel and arch-angel have from its ear
liest foreshadowings been continually fixing
their regards, and which in this manifestation
in the fulness of time inspired among their
celestial ranks anthems of bursting praise. It
will be the grand source of joy and felicity to
all the redeemed and glorified spirits, and
the prominent object of their contemplation,
admiration and praise to all eternity ; being
the embodiment of the august plan'of human
redemption. This is the truth of which the
Church is the pillar and the ground of which
every brti"chof the Gospel Church is a mon
umental pillar, bearing the imperishable in
scription, “ God was manifest in the flesh.”
This truth the Apostle declares to be without
eentroversy a great mystery. It is therefore
worthy of our most serious and mature con
sideration.
I. In the Mystert or its Principles.
11. In the Amplitude of its Evidences.
I. In the Mystery of its Principles. The
declaration, “ God was manifest in the flesh,”
is eminently descriptive of Jesus Christ, and
is by universal consent applied to Him. It in
volves,
1. His Divinity. He is God. I am aware
that an effort has been made to impugn the
authority of this inspired declaration, but it
has proved a failure. There are several
manuscripts, which read “ who was manifest
in the flesh ” —instead of “ God was manifest
in the flesh ” —and one that reads “
instead of “ God ” Os the iaskings in those
manuscripts, ilet it bo jobser j J.vthat the first, -
“who was rabnifest.’/if uikiaiical; the'
relative • who ” has. no antecedent;- the word
“godliness” is in the original, of the feminine
gender ; and the Greek for mystery, is of the
neuter gender ; whereas the relative “who”
is of the masculine gender; so that it cannot
agree with either ; therefore it can have no
antecedent. This most palpable absurdity
destroys the authority of “ who.” If we
read “ which ” instead of “ God,” its antece
dent must be, the mystery; for it cannot agree
in gender with “ godliness ” The sense of
the latter clause of the verse would then be,
the “ mystery.” which was received up into
flory. This reading makes the Apostle utter
most ridiculous nonsense ; and is consequent
ly inadmissible. There is a vast preponder
ance of evidence in favor of our English
translation of this passage. An immense ma
jority of manuscripts and versions confirm its
accuracy. The passage, then, stands in its full
force in proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
And if there be ons doctrine of the Gospel
of greater importrnce than another, it is that
of the divinity of Jesus Christ. For that is
the chief corner stone of the foundation laid
by the Prophets and Apostles, on which towers
in fair proportions, in moral beauty and
grandeur, the house of God, the church of the
living God -.—that is the tree of life in the
Christian Paradise, whose leaves are for the
healing of the nations :—that is the glorious
sun that illumes and beautifies the Gospel fir
mament ;—that is the key atone to the magnifi
cent arch of revealed truth; take it awey
and the arch tumbles into ruin. It is not,
however, expedient in this discourse to intro
duce the full series of demonstrations ofthe
truth of this essential doctrine of the Gospel,
of which it is susceptible. I shall, therefore,
content myself with a single demonstration
predicated upon the divine title “ God,” by
which he is designated in the text. Christ is re
peatedly called God. St. John says, “In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Wo d was God.” The lip
of inspiration pronounced his name to be,
“ Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God ,
with ns ; ” or more literally, “ The strong
God with us.” No other than God himself ,
dwelling with us in human flesh. The ,
Apostle Thomas, therefore, might well exclaim .
to him, “My Lord and my God.” And this \
exclamation was the spontaneous language of i
conviction. St Paul represents the Father as ,
sayrng to the Lord Jesus—“ Thy throne, O t
G..d, is for ever and ever.” St. Paul speaks ,
of “ The doctrine of God our Saviour ; ” He
whom ha declares to be “ Jesus Christ our
Saviour;” using also the phrase “ The kind- {
ness of God our Saviour.” These clear and
forcible citations present irrofragible proofs
that Jesus Christ was truly and properly the ,
Supreme God.
liul to make the demonstration of Christ’s \
divinity complete and above all cavilling, the t
pen of inspiration has called Jesus God in (
connection with epithets, ihat confine its mean- |
mg to one Supreme and Eternal God. Ho is f
styled the true, the great, the only wise, the j
roiffhty, the supreme and ever blessed God. (
He is called the true God. St. John de- j
dare?, “ And we know that the Son of God |
is coma, and hath given us an understanding j
that we may know the true one, and we are in |
one, even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.” Here
the pronoun “this” (meaning this persor \
has Jesus Christ for its immediate anteced dJ ft
as must ue obvious to every persen. / eBU «
Christ, therefore, is called the true God.
He
is denominated the Great God. di nn |,
a »-*SLP«". -for ,h« bi „ Md
«nd the glorious appearing of lh „ J
ond our oo.iour i. r Cbri.. * *^£3
° a ' Saviour Jesus -
A. G?e*: t J Go U !!-• ,
from several eV,dent 1
tn res 1S «« appearing* to I
Script r Ihe To~ ‘J* '
w *>rld Thi« n«oo a Savtoor of the c
-.Jto^}ofef“'r G 'o3” d j - d * e ■■ i
He i« styled the only win® God. Says St. b
Jade, “ Now unto him that is able to keep <
you from falling, and to present you faultless c
before the presence of his glory with exceed- £
ingjoy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be t
glory and majesty, dominion and power, both '
now and ever.” 1
Christ is designated the Mighty God. The i
evangelical prophet Isaiah predicting the com- I
ing of the Messiah, says, “ His name shall be i
called the Mighty God.” i
He is denominated the supreme and ever
blessed God. “ Whose are the fathers, and of <
whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came I
who is over all; God blessed for ever ; ” or '
more literally, “Who is God over all blessed '
for ever.” No criticism or argument can <
evade the force of this inspired declaration,— ]
Christ is God—He is God over all—He is God I
blessed for ever. These several passages of i
the living Oracles teach the divinity of Christ
with the clearness of a sun-beam. For if
they call him God—the true, the great, the only
wise, the supreme and ever-hlessed God, then
he must be very and eternal God, “ The
everlasting Father.” It followsthnn, that Jesus
Christ was “ God manifest in the flesh.” This
declaration involves
2. His Humanity. He is God manifest in |
the flesh. The doctrine of the proper humanity
of Christ was denied by Marcion, Valen
tinus, Apelles, and many ancient heretics.
But that Christ had a real human body, and not a
mere human shape, is amply sustained by both
the Old and the New Testament. Isaiah says,
“ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you
a sign : Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and
bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Also in reference to the same glorious person
age he proclaims, “ For unto us a child is horn,
unto us a son is given ; and the government
shall be upon his shoulders, and bis name shall
be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty
God, and Everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace.”
Again the same Prophet declares, “There
shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Be
hold. the days come, saiih the Lord, that I will
raise unto -David a righteous branch, —and
this is bis name whereby be shall bs call
ed, The Lord onr Righteousness.” Zachariah
declares, “Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts,
saying: Behold the man whose name is The
Branch; and he shall grow np out of bis place,
and he shall build the Temple of the Lord:
Even he shall build the Temple of the Lord ;
and he shall bear the glory.”
Now it is undeniably evident that all the e
passages, also numerous others of a like char
acter, refer expressly to Israel’s promised Mes
siah ; and it is equally manifest that they in
volve the true humanity of that Messiah. In
deed, the language of the prophets is too ex
plicit to admit of any other interpretation.
Far indirect reference to the glorious Messiah,
whose divinity is so clearly proclaimed by his
exalted titles, they call him “the child born—
the son given—the rod coming forth out of
the stem of Jesse, and a branch growing
up out of his roots the man whose
name is the branch, growing up out of
his place.” The Evangelist John affirms
“ That the Word,” who was in the be
ginning with God, and was God, “was
made flesh and dwelt among us. Says
St Paul, “Who, being-in the form of God
thought it not robbery to be eqnal with God ;
But made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him tha form of a servant, and was made
in tkh likeness of man, and being found in
fashion as a man, ho humbled himself.” For as
much _aa the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part ofthe
same. “Concerning his son Jesus Christ our
Lord, which was made of the seed of David ac
cording to. the flesh, and declared to be the son
of God’ with power according to the Spirit of
holiness.”
The inspired penmen represent Jusus Christ
as eating, drinking, seeping, walking, work
ing, and as being wea?ty—as groaning, bleed-,
ing and dying upon the cross. Perfect man
hood, therefore, embracing body and soufl was
assumed by the Eternal Word. Hence we
are told, that our “ Lord grew in wisdom as
well as in stature —that his soul should be made
an offering for sin—should be poured out un
to death—that he should see of the travail of
his soul, and should be satisfied ; and hence
his capability of that sore amazement and sor
row unto death, and numerous other acts of
grieving, feeling, rejoicing, desiring, willing
and loving ascribed to him by the sacred
writers,
Therefore, when we read that God was
manifest in the flesh—that the Word was made
flesh—partook of flesh and blood—came in the
flesh—had a body prepared for Him, we must
remember that the whole human nature is in
tended. It follows thenwith the clearness of
noon-day that Jesus Christ is very man as well
as very God. Another principle of the truth
involved is,
3. The union of true divinity and perfect hu
manity in L-hrist Jesus, He is emphatically
“ God manifest in the flesh.” The Divinity
being an object entirely above the grasp of
the human miad, a full comprehension of the
mode ofits union with flesh cannot be expect
ed. For who can launch out into the unfath
omable deep of his perfections, or travel
across the unlimited spreadings of his life-time,
er Walk the circle of his dwelling place ? Who
does not feel his highest energies quail before
the immensity and Magnificence of Divinity ?
It is sufficient, however, for all practical pur
poses to maintain the general .ruih ofthe Union
o r the Godhead with the manhood, against its
numerous enemies, who have sought by all
the arts of subtlety and sophistry to overthrow I
it. “We must not,” says a learned author, j
“ with Arius, deny the Saviour to be truly
God, because he became man ; nor assert
with Apoilinaris, that he was not really man
because he was aiso God. We must not
with Nestorius. rend Christ asunder, and di
vide him into two persons ; nor after the ex
ample of Eutycbes, confound in hi- person
those natures which could be distinguished. 1
These were the four capital errors, which, in I
the earlier ages, harrassed and distracted the
Christian Church on the point of the incarna
tion ; and in opposition to which, the fo
most ancient councils of Nice, Constantino
Ephesus, and Chalcedou, werlfSjHled. V *’
ever was by them decreed, either in S
tion of chiristian belief, or refutation o ■J* c * ara *
may all be combined in four wo Jf »
perfectly, iudiviaibly, distinctly;- , -j’
perfectly man, indivisibly one pe God,
two natures. distinctly
Within the compass of w’ • . ,
affirm that all the heresies v 1 tru,y
son of Jesus Christ, (wlu i ,. tOU ? h Per
in the la ter days, or in * her the £ have risen
may, with great facility W age heretofore,)
themselves.” St. Pr . brought to confine
carnation, says, “F A’, 1 , 0 speaking of tbe in
itio nature ofar ,J r . TsI ,y u hel0 ° k “°* h,ra
seed of Abrahp he . 100k 11 on him the
keth not hold _*?’ ° r . moro ' I tera ,| y-“He ta
the seed of hut. ha taketh hold of
lake to i j Abraham.” Christ did not under
take n * angels, consequently he did not
race -P on “ ini theirnature. It was the human
whom he undertook to redeem and save,
. jnce he look upon him man’s nature —came
in the line of Abraham’s posterity, according to
the ancient promise made him. He took, or
assumed, the manhoodinio union with the God
head. As the reasonable so ui and flesh consti
tute one man, bo God and o lan constitute one
Christ. The soul is not turned into, nor com
pound with the body, yet th eytwo, though dis
tinct in nature, form one mi in. Neither is the
divinity turned into a comj »ound with the hu
manity, yet they two, thougl 1 distinct in nature,
form one Christ In reaper t both to man and
Christ, the natures are pres* trved without con
fusion, the person is entir* : without division.
The doctrine of the union of divine and hu
man natures in the persoi 1 of Christ, most
beautifully and forcibly harn ionises two great
classes of inspired description s of Jesus Christ;
one class teaching his diviui ty, the other his
humanity. The Scriptures describe him ar
rayed in all the attributes of -divinity, and yet
iieing raised to a kingdom and glory-—reigning
on a throne, and yet being anointed with the a
oil of gladness above his fellows—to be God, e
and yet by a human birth to be God with us— s '
to be supreme, and yet a servant —to be equal 81
with the Father, and yet subordinate to the j!
Father—to be greater than the angels, and yet '
made lower than the angels—to be the Crea- a ;
tor of all things, and yet manifest in the flesh— n
raising himself from the dead, and yet being
raised by the God of peace.
Now these very different and apparently t
contradictory statements respecting Christ per .
fectiy harmonise with the great truth that, He
was God manifest in the flesh; but they are 1
wholly unintelligible and utterly irreconcilable c
on aay theory, which denies to him a real and t
personal divinity on the one hand, or a real
humanity on the other. 1
Chronicle ano Sentinel* 1
AUGUSTA, Gr A • 1
*
SUNDAY MORNING , OCTOBER 6. 1
- - -■ -■ , - i
MESSRS. STEPHENS & TOOMBS.
We are requested to state that these gentle
men will Address the Citizens of Richmond county,
at the City Hall, in Augusta, na MONDAY next, at
3 o’clock, P. M.
The Rev. Ireson L, Brooks, of Soutttl
Carolina.
The communication of this gentleman w»a_ ,
sent in several days since, and would have ap
peared at the time, hut for a severe indisposi
tion uuder which we were laboring at the
time, and which prevented our accompanying
it with the necessary remarks.
The Rev. gentleman sets out by staling that
we “presented him to the readers of the
Chronicle if Sentinel in rather an unfavorable
light.” To this wa reply: we presented him
to oar readers as ha presented himself to the
meeting in Appling ; we desired “ nothing to
extenuate, or set clown aught in malice;” and
upon a calm review of the matter, after read
ing his letter, we cannot take back anything
we then said. He says that, by italicising our
remarks in reference to how he came to be
present at the meeting, we “ insinuated that his
representation was insincere.” Most assuredly
we did. It was not, however, at the sugges
tion of Mr. Shockley, who introduced him to
the meeting, but from his own remarks, wa
learned that he was there by accident. Mr.
Shockley spoke very low, and we were at
some distance from the stand at the moment,
and consequently did not hear distinctly what
he said. Mr. Brooks, however, left us in no
doubt as to how he happened there,. and we
venture to assert that nineteen-twentieths of
the people there, who heard hia remarks, were
under the impression that the gentleman had
never heard of the meeting before he reached
the village. Such was the very frank and ap
parently candid manner in which he made his
statement. Wo doubted his statement, for we
believed that the Rev. gentlemen had made it
convenient to be present on that particular
day, because it was the day of the meeting; and
his own admission in fals communication'
proves that wo were correct in our suppo a j.
tion. For he says that he “did select that
ktime to go up on my o«her busimSJT*" r
The Rev. gentleman was at 3ee«t fcuilty of
suppressing a part of the truth, an d we com
mend to hia consideration Pharaoh/„ ra buke to
Abraham for a simitar offence, j n Genesis xii.
18 and 19.
Agaia, he says, “ you tell jrour readers, with
apparent emphasis, that I ad vocated the disso
lutionof the Union. I supp use you concluded
that this sentiment, together with my being
from South Carolina, would render me quite
odious to such of your subscribers (if there
any) as are submissionists.” Submissionists.'
Submissionists ! If by submissionisls he mean* i
a people who are advocates of law and onfor,
who will submit to and abide by the consti
tuted laws of the land, then the great mass of i
the subscribers to the Chronicle if Sentinel may
be called submissionists ; for w e believe that
they are essentially a law-abiding people, and !
opposed to mobocracy. But. if by the asser
tion, the Rev. gentleman means that as a class
ofpeople, they would submit to anything that
was clearly wv Qa g and unconstitutional, the
insinuation « utterly unfounded, and be asserts
that ah, w hich he knows nothing.
But how the knowledge of the fact, that he
| was from South Carolina, was to brieg odium
, on iiim, we are at a loss to divine—unless it is
I the fact that a majority of the people of that
State have heretofore rendered themselves ri
diculous, not to say odious, in their gasconade
about the questions that have agitated the South.
If so, we are glad the scales have falleu from
the eyes of one ofher citizens, and ho# an see
how the citizens of other contiguotlft'States
look upon him.
He complains that we did not report his sen
time-jts on disunion correctly. We stated that
advocated a dissolution of the Union as a
remedy for the ills and evils that we labored
under. We cannot be mistaken in this; and to
be sure of the fact, we have submitted our re
marks to several friends who heard him, and
they all agree that we reported him correctly.
One word in relatim to the California ques
tion, about which he thinks he confounded Gov.
Crawford, and "thepeople laughed" at it. Want
of perception is sometimes a source of happi
ness, and this is one of the instances; for we
venture lo say that Mr. Brooks was the
only man present that did not know that the
people were laughing at his ignorance of the
subject on which lie was pretendiugjto enlight
en others—nay, there was scarcely a reader of
the Chronicle if Sentinel present, but who could
have informed him precisely what Gov. Craw
ford did, namely that he only carried out tbs
view? and orders of Mr. Polk’s administration
in reference to California. But for fear that
the Rev. gentleman may never see the docu
ments, we will give him a few extracts from
hem. And first, from President Taylor’s mes
sage to the House on the 24th January, 1850 :
“On coming into office, I found the military com
mandant of (die department of California exercising
the functions of civil governor in that Territory ; and
left, as 1 was, to act under the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, without the aid of any legislative provision
establishing a government in that Territory, 1
thought it best not to disturb that arrangement, made
underlay predecessor, until should take
some action on that subject. I therefore did not in
terfere with the powers of the military commandant,
who continued to exercise the functions of civil go
vernor as before; but I made no such appointment,
eonferr 1 no such authority, and have allowed no
increased compensation to the commandant for his
services.
“ With a view lo the faithful execution of the
treaty, so fitr as lay in the power of the Executive, |
ind to enable Congress to act, at the present session, 1
with as full knowledge and as little difficulty as pos
sible, on all matters sf interest in these Territories I T
tent the honorable Thomas Butler King as cearer’ of m
Jespatches to California, and certain oflfcers to Cali -
fornia and New Mexico, whose duties are particular- “
ly defined in the accompanying letters of instruction si
addressed to them severally by the proper depart- t*
m.'.nU.” 11
w
Can anything be plainer than this 1 but to ei
make the matter plainer, if possible, and show t(
that Mr. King had no hand in it, (and, by the 0
way, Mr. King has positively denied that he 0
did, over his own signature) we'give an ex- e
tract from Gen. Pxrsifer F. Smith’s letter r ,
to the Secretary of War, dated, San Francisco, [
June 20,1849, which settles the question en
lively: h
“ Under the hope that some act of the last Con- i]
gress had provided, or at least defi .ed, the govern- ■
memos California, it was thought prudent to await ll
-intelligence of the close of the session; and then, if n
nothing had been done at Washington, to put in ac- h
tion the macfßnery of the laws already existing here,
and at the same time propc-e to the peeple of Cali- v
fornia to form a State constitution and present it at the C
next session ot Congress, when their admissien into
the Union as a State would at once solve so many dif
fixities, and, while it removed a cause of disagree
iSfH? at hom* would give them an opportunity of ll
le,twisting for themselves. r
“The steamer Edith has been sent to Mazatlan 11
and, on her arrival a
revenue law
‘Title election of the
o®?ero under the existing laws, and recommending
ttmhe same time, the election of delegates *oa con- s
vent ion to form a State constitution. Mr. King ar- 1
rived at the time these proclamations were about be- 1
iug i. -ued; and it was matt *of great congratulation !
that the government, by anticipation, approved of the *
latter measure. Every means will be used to give ;
the people of California an opportunity of oxpressing 1
their wishes on this point, and of bringing the matter
to a happy conclusion.”
rrj t
With tbeae extracts we dismiss the subject, and 1
the Reverend gentleman—at a loss which to (
commisaerate moat, his want of perception or i
his excessive vanity ; for we have rarely, if
ever, seen a man on belter terras with himself;
and, if we mistake not, he has presented him- 1
self to our readers in a more unfavorable light ,
than we did. But of that they are the best 1
judges, and to them we submit the matter.
Qovi Quitman’s Proclamation.
As a part of the history of the times, we pub
lish the proclamation of Gov. Quitman, con
voking the Legislature of Mississippi in extra
ordinary session, to take into consideration
what action the State will adopt in reference to
the late action of Congress on the territorial
and slavery questions. We opine the Legis
lature of that State was elected with reference
to no such contingency, and their action upon
the subject will have little influence in or out
of the State.
The L.ord in his Wisdom permits much
foolishness about these times.
Proclamation.
■r John Anthony quitman, governor of the
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
r h>ereas. The people of Mississippi have re
peatedly, in public meetings, in popular con-
T ®’ation», and by Legislative resolves, claimed
f .nd asserted their equality of right with the
other States of this Union, in and to the free
use and enjoyment of the territory belonging
in common to these United States; and have
frequently and publicly declared their fixed
at all hazards, lo maintain these
: rigb*!, so ssafentisl to theiiv freedom and equal- <
«*y- -
Andtehereas, By recent acts of Congress
the people of M issiasippi, in common with the
citizens of all the slaveholding States, have
been virtually excluded from their just rights
•a the greater portion, if not all, of the vast
and rich territories acquired from Mexico ia
i the late war; and thus, by unjust and insult
icg discriminations, the advantages and bene
fits of the Federal Union, have been denied to
them.
And iohtreas, The abolition, by Congress, of
The slave trade in the District of Columbia,
v’rtd other acta of the Federal Government,done
and threatened, leave no reasonable hope that
the aggressions upon the rights of the people
of the slavehelding States will cease, until, by
direct or indirect means, their domestic insti
tutions are overthrown: Now, therefore, that
the proper authorities of the State may be en
• abled to take into consideration the alarming
state of our public affairs, and, if possible,
j avertthe evils which impend over us ; that the
i State may be placed in an attitude to assert
her overeignty, and that tho means may be
pt'wided to meet any and every emergency
wnicb may happen:
-I, John A. Quitman. Governor of the Slate
of Mississippi, exercising the powers in ms
wwted by tbe Constitution, do hereby convene
the Legislature nf this S;ale, and do appoint
Monday, the eighteenth day of November next,
for the meeting of both Houses at the Capitol
in Jackson, tne seat of government of this
State.
Ir testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the State
to be affixed, at the city of Jackson, the 26th
of September, A. i)., 1850, and of the sove
reignly of Mississippi, the thirty-fourth.
By the Governor:
J A. Quitman.
Jo. Bell, Secretary of State.
“Another Failure.”
The “Maes Meeting at Stone Mountain”
was a most sad discomfiture to the disunion
isie* -perhaps the most complete failure that
has over cowned the efforts of any party in
Geo gia, that attempted to get up a Mass
Mealing- All the reports we have from there
it ns overwhelming even to ihe most
ultra.
Aledleal College of Louisville, Kentucky.
Ti e vacancies of Drs. Bartlet and Gross,
in th.) Medical Department of the University
of Louisville, have been filled by the election
of Dr. Daniel Drake, to the Professorship of
Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Dr.
Paul F. Eve, to that of Surgery.
The course ofLectures wilt commence on
the first Monday (sth) of November.
Exchange papers in the South and West,
are respectfully requested to extend this notice,
as it is now too late for an advertisement.
Enlargement of the Capitol.— The Com
mittee on Public Buildings of the U. Slates
Senate,offer a premium ofssoo for the best
plan 'or the extension of the Capitol at Wash*
ingtort. It is required that the plans and es- -
timates shall provide for the extension of the
Capitol, either by additional wings, to be
placed on the north and south of the present
building, or by the erection of a separate and
distinct bui Iding, within tho enclosure to the
east of the building.
The new steamship Florida, intended as a
packet between New York and Savannah,
made a trial trip from the former port on Mon
day, and' her performances are said to have (
fully come up to the expectations of her own- j
ere. I
Mx. Webster and his Early Friends— !
Phe following correspondence, says tbe Balti
□ore Patriot, has been furnished us by a
riend at Washington. It will be read, we are I
are, by all our readers, with great pleasure fi
it ia a tribute to the patriotism of Mr. Webster, ti
vhich he may well cherish among the proud- n
3st recollections of his life. He is the man, too, jj
;o cherish it. How grateful must these words r
jfthanks and encouragement from the friends >]
of his early life fall upon his ear f They but ,
echo the general sentiment of the country in t
regard to bis great effort in the cause of the t
Union,to which they particularly refer, but still £
they are the words of the friends of his boy- £
hood days, and they awaken associations which t
it is always pleasant to remember. As such, ,
they bring with them a satisfaction which will )
more than compensate for any wrong he may j
have suffered, for any censure which others j
were disposed to visit upon him for what the (
country gave him praise.
Salisbury, (N. H.,) August, 1850. i
lo the Hon, Daniel Webster: —It has occurred ,
lo us, the undersigned, that white commendation ia
reaching you from all quarters of our common coun
try for your recent exertions in behalf of the Union
a token of rememb: .nee and grati
tude from the place of your birth, from tbe home of
your youth, and the scenes of your earlier profession-
would not be unacceptable.
mmnot ailow this occasion to without as
suring you of our unfaltering confidence and respect;
without assuring you that your old neighbors and
their descendants are as ready to perform their con
stitutional duties as to vindicate their rights; that wa
»re devoted to tho Union as it is ; that we adhere to
the whole Constitution; and that while we trust in
its protection, we will uphold its power.
Your recent labors to remind a distracted people of
the duties which they owe to a common country and
the blessings which they derive from ,a common con
stitution, are, in our judgment, as important as any
which you have perfc med in a long public service,
crowned as that service has baen with unsurpassed
ability and success.
To you, more than to any statesman of modern times,
do tho people of this country owe their national feel
ing, which we trust is to save their Union in this its
hour of trial.
We have carefully considered wha: you bare said
end proposed; and, as wt understand the matter, you
ore now uj on tho same ground as when, twenty
years ago, you crushed nullification.
Now, as then, in spite of local prejudices and fac
tions, sound constitutional and national principles will
prevail; and if tbe voice of general commendation is
occasionally broken by impotent censure, It will not
disturb you, because it must remind you that it is
faction, and not the Union, which is overthrown.
Respectfully, your friends and fellow-oitizone,
Erknrzbr Price, m Enoch Corsbr,
Abraham Burnham, Thos. Pettenoill,
Nath, Bouton, Hszek’h Fellows,
Edward Buxton, David Ames,
and one hundred and twenty others.
Mr, Webster 3 s Reply.
Washington, September 21, 1850.
Gentlemen : I have received your letter of lest
month, expressing your approbation of my public po
litical conduct, and especially of my efforts in Con
gress to settle questions which have long agitated the
country and disturbed its peace.
Happily, gentlemen, those questions are now, I
trust, disposed of, and better prospects open upon the
country.
Tho thirty-one American States stretch over a v*st
extent of country, running through several degrees
of latitude and longitude, and embracing many varie
ties of soil, siimate, institutions, habits, and pursuits ;
yet over all the Union and tho Constitution still stand,
every where giving protection and security, and every
where cherished at tbe present moment, with general
and warm patriotic regard. The interests of the dif
ferent parts of the country, though various, are not
opposite; flowing, indeed, in diverse channels, hut
all contributing to'swell the great tide of national I
prosperity. Undef the operation of the Constitution,
we ha’ve now beers for sixty years irec and happy;
civil and religious liberty have stood firm end un
shaken; popular education has received a new im
pulse and a wider spread ; and moral and religious
instruction has become characteristic of our age ;
agriculture, commerce, and manufactures have been
steadily encouraged and sustained; and, under tbe
blessing ol Providence, general competency and sat
isfactory means of living have every where reward
ed the efforts of labor and industry. And, in the
mean time, gentlemen, tbe country has attained to
such a degree of honor ami renown, that every patri
otic man, in addition to his own individual means of
enjoyment, derives a positive pleasure from parti
cipating in the reputation of his country. Os what
other country upon earth can this be said, with so
much truth? Who, then, w -uld undermine this
Union 7 Who would raise bis hand against this Con
stitution ? Who would scoff at those political and
social blessings which Providence has never before
seen fit to vouchsafe, in such abundance, to any com
munity of men ? Self love, our hopes for the future,
national pride, and gratitude to God, all conspire to
prompt us to embrace these institutions of our native
land with all the affections of our hearts, and to de
fend them with all the strength of our hands, la a
critical hour, and not without some personal hazard,
I have discharged my duty and freed my conscience,
toils very depth, in public efforts to maintain them,
limited only by the measure of my ability. And,
since these efforts are regarded as having contributed
something to the adjustment of dangerous controver
sies, and to tho establishment of peace and harmony
among fellow-citizens and brothers, I desire no re
ward but the cheering voices of good men, and the
approbation of my own conscience.
And now, Friends and Neighbors, I could pour out
my hearUn tenderness of feeling for tbe affectionate
letter which comes from you. Approving voices have
been heard from other quarters; other commenda
tions have reached me, high enough and warm
enough to demand, as they have received, my moat
grateful acknowledgments and regard. But years
comes from home; it comes from Chose whom I have
know, and who have known me, fiom my birth. It
is like the love of a family circle; iss influences fall
upon my heart as the dew of Hermon. Those of you
who are the most advanced in age have known my
father and my family, and especially that member
of it whose premature death inflicted a wound in my
breast which is yet fresh and bleeding.
Some of you were ray companions in the country
schools; with others I have part-ken in the sports of
youth, the cheerful labor of the field of agriculture,
and in the associations and exercises of early man
hood. I see on the list learned and now aged and
venerable clergymen; professional gentlemen and
magistrates, of my own age, whom I have long hon
ored and esteemed ; and others of all classes and all
pursuits in life. There are on the list, alca, not a few
who bear my name and partake my blood.
What I was in early life you all know; towards
what I may have done at subsequent periods for the
good of the country, you have ever manifested Buffi
eiently favorable and partial regard ; and now, after
1 have been called upon to act a part in a mors impor
tant crisis, perhaps, than any other of my life, your
kind regard, your neighborly recognition of former
times and former friendship?, and tbe affectionate
terms in which you express yourselves, make your
letter a treasure, precious in my esteem, which 1 shall
keep near me always while I live, and leave for the
gratification of those who may come after me.
Your obliged friend and neighbor,
Daniel Webster.
To Rev. Ebenezer Price, Rev. Abraham Burnham,
D. D., Rev. Wm. Patrick, Rev. Caleb B. Tracy,
Rev. Nath’l Bou on, D. D., Rev. Asa P. Tenney,
Rev. Edmund Worth, Rev. Enoch Corser, Hon,
Parker Noyes, Hon. Thomas H. Pettcngill, Hon.
George W. Nesmith, and others.
The Washington correspondent of ihe N. Y.
Tribune states that the Hon. T. Butler King,
of Georgia, has been appointed Collector at
San Francisco, California, in place of J. R.
-Davis, of Penn., who declined the appoint
ment.
Dnhloneoa Mint.—A. W. Redding hat
been appointed by the President and confirm
ed by the Senate as Superintendent; Robert
H- Moore to be Coiner; and Mathew F.
Stephenson to be Assayer, of the Branch Mint
at Dahlonega.
The ship Tarquin, Capt. Moody, of Boston,
from Quebec for London, with a cargo of
deals, foundered at sea on the 11th ult., and
the Captain and crew taken off and carried
into Halifax. The T. was insured in Port
land for f 17,000. <
■ ■ • - —>%
Academy of Richmond County.
Mr. Editor: —With those who, like the
writer, owe much of what they know to the
Richmond Academy, it id truly gratifying to
find that me Trustees of this venerable institu
tion are awake to the true interests of the com
munity in regard to education, and that they
have by a new organization, made this equal, if
not superior to any Academy in the South.
The four departments into which it is divided,
will enable each teacher to discharge bis duties
most efficiently, and the scholars 10 study to
the best advantage. Each class will be distinct,
and the confusion usually arising from the as
semblage, in the same apartment and under
the same teacher, of scholars of every grade,
will be avoided. The arrangement is certain
ly most excellent, and should ensure a very
full school, especially as the terms are exceed
ingly moderate, and the teachers are gentlemen
of acknowledged abilities. Tne election of
Mr. A. W. Church, (the worthy son of the
distinguished President of Franklin College,)
to the new department of Mathematics and the
Natural Sciences, cannot fail Tto meet with
general approbation. Richmond.
Correspondence of the Chronicle If Sentinel .
Warh nctos Citt, Oct. 1.1850.
Dkar Sir: —Most of the members of Con
great have left for their with all the
powers of the great invention of Fulton, they
are hurrying to their families and iheir fire
sides. The scenes they hi’ve just left have been
of the most exciting character, yet I do not re
member ever to have witnessed *uch kind feel
ing before among the members at their de
parture What they have done will be judged
of by the country, and what they have omitted
to do will be charitably acquiesced in, on ac
count of iho peculiar circumstances that have
surrounded this session of Congress.
Your Slate may well be proud of her Rep
resentatives. Among the most talented men
in Congress, they exert perhaps the greatest
influence. The Speaker, the Hon, Howell
Cobb, has made for himself an imperishable
fame. His own party friends may denounce
him at home—prejudice may withhold from
him his just dues—but the services he has ren
dered his whole country will bo appreciated
and remembered. No Speaker ever occupied
the Chair under more trying circumstances;
none ever discharged its duties with more
honor to himself and more satisfaction and use
fulness to the Republic. lam not extravagant
when I assert the belief, that not one political
opponent in the House.- but approved his
course, and acknowledged his superiority.—
While many of his own political friends differ
ed with him upon the exciting topic of the ses
sion, they surrendered to him purity of motive
and an impartial administration of ids offi.-o
1 have never seen any officer of this Govern
ment receive such universal approbation—and
certainly no one ever occupied the position'
under a state of feeling eo inconsonant with
the hopes and prospects of successful legisla
tion. But it is not in the faithful discharge of
duty that Mr. Cobb shines brightest—his noble
determination to stand by the Union has built
up tytr him a solid fatric of remeatbraaco that 1
can he destroyed only with the Union itself.
The casual observer, perhaps, has no: ap
preciated his position upon the exciting sub
ject that for a time alarmed the whole nation.
If Mr. Cobb had been governed by any other
than patriotic motives, he could easily, from
his position, have kept his views to himself.—
He certainly had no indication from his own
party press in Georgia that his views would be
acceptable to his former political associates ;
and by making public his sentiments lie was
sundering ties tiiat too often influence men for
evil. He, however, believed the path of duty
led bin? to the course he pursued, and though
he might bo sacrificed by his party, he rose
above its influence, and to-day his friends may
rejoice in the fact that his name and his fan*#
are borno upon record in the hearts of ih&
American people.
As for the attitude of Mr. Cobb in Georgia,
with his party friends, I have nothing to do. H©
will no doubt be able to render to them at* ac
count of his stewardship. Rut, ns a Georgian,
receiving as he has, the universal praise of
both political parties, in ose c f the most) trying
positions of public life, I can but feel—and
which I am sure is shared by every citizen of
your State—-that commendable State pride that
should make us sensitive to the fame and rep
utation of her public men.
“ Ak Obsiryrr.”
For the Chronicle !f Sentinel.
Mr. Editor: —l noticed, yesterday, in?
your paper of Sunday, a reference to the
meeting of the 13th iust., at Appling, in which
you have presented me to your readers in.
rather an unfavorable fight. I suppose, whem
you inculpate a man in your column*, you
allow him the privilege of setting himself*
right. You say the Rev. Iveson L. Brookes;
from South Carolina, who happened by the
merest accident, of course, to be present , was
introduced to the meeting, and made a speech,
&c. As to your italicising say being there
incidentally—as the gentleman introducing me
suggested—as if to the repre
sentation was insincere, I will say, if it may
be satisfactory to you, that I wanted to see a
man of that county on business, who I ex
pected vv.vjfd be at. Court, and I had heard
that Mr. Toombs, to whom, with Mr. Craw
ford, a dinner was to be given at the Court
House on that day, would address the people
of Colombia county, and having heard Mr.
Stephens and Mr. Crawford, I wished to hear
Mr. Toombs, and did select that time to go
upon ray other business. But on learning
that Mr. Toombs wonld not be there, and
no tearing to bear Mr. Crawford’s sentiments
reiterated, I expected to dine at the tavern
and proceed homeward. I was, however,
about the dinner hour, politely called on by
the Committee of Arrangement, and kindly
invited to attend the public dinner, which 1
would have thought uncourteous to refuse*
I was solicited by different persons to address
the meeting, as I had been writing on. South
ern rights, and, though reluctant to appear
before the meeting as a speaker, a sense of
doty impelled me to advocate what I conceived
to be the cause of Southern rights; and on be
ing introduced to the meeting by a member of
the Committee, I made the speech to which
you have alluded, and “which,” you say, “was
well delivered.” lam glad; there was some
thing about it which was acceptable to you.
With this explanation. I hope you will cease
to consider me an insincere intruder upon
the meeting. You tell your readers, with ap
parent emphasis, that I advocated the disso
lution of the Union. I suppose you conclud
ed that this sentiment, together with my being
from South Carolina, would render me quite
enough odious to such of (if there be any)