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POETRY.
From the I, on Jon Hsptiat Magazine.
Thf Timplrr Dcfcatrd.
Matthew iv. I—lo.
’Twas on the desert's drearsomc plains,—
llic Curly ilavs were past,
The days of prayerful solitude and unremit
ted fast.—
When, subtle as m Eden's bowers, the
prince pf darkness came.
And and ired befoiu the Lord us all, his impi
ous speech to frame.
” Art thou tlie Son of God?—to these un
heading stones we tread
Speak with the voice of sovereignty, and
turn them into bread.”
But meek thine answer, gracious Lord, that
man is not to live
By bread alone, but every word the lips of
wisdom give.
Then turning from the silent waste to Sa
lem's busier site.
lie bore thee to the loftiest ledge that crown
ed her temple’s height;
“ Art thou the Son of God?—Spring forth
from yonder airy points,
‘Tis written, ‘ Angel-hosts shall keep the
man whom Clod anoints.’ ”
Melhinks—ns with unwavering step, thy
foot those summits trod,
And thou didst breathe the mild rebuke,
“ thou shall not tempt thy God
Melhinks I see the lost one shrink, con
* founded at the grace
That beamed upon thy every word, Lord t
of our helpless race !
Yet once again,—Far up the steep he led
the toilsome way.
Where mountains huge and spreading vales
their vaiieil scenes display.
“ These will I give tltce, power and pomp.
rewards and wealth unknown.
If limit in prostrate awe wilt bend my sov
ereign sway to own.”
Insulted God !—’twas all too much ; indig
nant at the guilt
That would dethrone the King of heaven,
whose hand creation built;
Who re aretl those mountains, spread those !
vales, and gave the stream its How,
In righteous wrath thy justice spurned the
daik defeated foe.
I/ord, when the prince of darkness comes,
and would prevail on me
Thy providential cate to doubt, and cease
to worship thee.
May I, retreating from the throng that
crowds life's billowy shore,
As in the desert’s loneliness, my burdened
soul outpour.
Titer# own to thee tny feebleness, my wa
vering faith renew.
And ask foi strength to bear me safe the fie
ry’ conflict through j
Then, armed with energy divine, returning
grateful thence.
The insidious traitor I will meet, and bold
ly hid him hence.
Battersea.
OBIT U A K Y.
On the 13th if Feb. in Texas, the Rev.
George F. Heard, formerly the Baptist
Munster of I Ins city, lie was hmu in
Greene county, Ga., and a graduate ol
Franklin College, lie moved to the West
about two years ago, and died as he had
lived, a faithful miiiisier ami believer in the
Christian religion.
Died, at her residence in Poweltnn, on
tha 20th ult., Mrs Mary Rumsill, Consort
of Mr. Jol>n Itudisill, in the , r i3d year of
her age. She lias lilt a kind, a tier inmate
and bereaved husband, and eight children
and numerous warm hearted friends to
mourn their irreparable loss. In ibis alllie
tivo dispensation of Providence, one of the
best in thu society in which she lived has
been removed. She had fm twelve nr thir
teen years been a member of the Baptist)
Church, and if an exemplary life, a pious
and godly walk ami conversation entitle
one to the favor of Heaven, then she must
have been peculiarly favored.
Mrs. Itudisill was kind and benevolent,
ami whilst sliu was devoted to the interest
and the happiness of her family, which bail
secured ft out it, a conjugal ami filial alloc
lion rarely to he met with; on the other
hand, she exerted herself, at all times pos
sible, for the relief of the necessities of the
poor. Her disconsolate family and friends’
must long mourn the bereavement which
they have sustained, but they, at the same
time, must now feel the assurance that her
happy spirit is inhabiting one of the bright
est of those mansions which thn Saviour
has prepared for the just and good.
M. J.
•• Our dying friends couio o’er us, like a
cloud,
To dump our brainless ardors, aiul abate
That glare of life which often blind* the
wise.
Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth
Our rugged paths to death j to break those
bats
Os terror and abhorrence nature throws
Cross our übsnuclei way, and thus to make
Welcome, as safe, otir port from ev’ry
storm.”
Elieabetii Eason, the stibjcrt of this
obituary notice, was horn in G ues county.
N Carolina, on the 20th day of Feb. 1703.
and depat led (his life at the residence of her
son, F, Eason, in Henry Cos., Ga., on tin*
22d iay of Fell. 1814. Having lived 81
years and two days. The deccas and had
been a res peeled and pious member of the j
Baptist denomination about forty-six years. I
She languished 22 days ami flights, and
what is truly remarkable, she was seldom
heard to utter a moan or complaint during
the time.
The writer of these lines was silting by j
tier brdi'!o and remarked to the old Lady.
j i hat the patience of Job had long since
become proveihial, but lie believed that her
patience was greater titan Ins. All ! said
site, I suiter a great deal, to he suie, but
tvnal are my sutler!ngs, compared lo those
of tlie Ofease.l -Saviour / who died for poor
sinners amt 1 humbly hope for me. She
fully believed Iro.u toe first day of her af
ll.clion that she woutd the ; and said she
wished not a ‘-tear o'er Iter grave to he
sited”—that site was ready and willing to
go. Slie observed llial she hail lived a long
tune in thu woild—fiad outlived -many of
her Iriand* anJ nearly all ol her relatives,
who she had good reason to litltcve were
then m Glory, and she wished to see them
—site trusted she should see them, and with
them her blessed Jesus. Site retained all
Iter senses entire, down lo the last moment
of her existence. Her mind during her af
fliclioti was lucid, and at times seemed su
per-human ; entirely abstracted from earth,
anil fixed oil heaven and divine tilings.—
Many times was she heard to exclaim, glo
ry to Jesus, I want lo go. L don’t w.slt in
slay any longer I She continued in this
frame ol mind much of the time during her
alil.ction, and the name of Jesus, formed
nearly the last accents that quivered on her j
aged dying lips. Her patience and resig-1
nation were without a parallel in the recol
lection of all that saw her, and there were
many that did. She mildly, though sol
emnly observed to several young Ladies
who came on a visit, when I uni dritil, /
want you to remember , that I have pui.l a
debt, you've oil got to pay ! She repeated
many sublime a.id pathetic pieces us poetry
—seeing a relative considerably affected,
she softly repeated,
“Why do we mourn departing friends,
And stiirt at death’s alarms ?
’Tis Inn the voice that Jesus sends,
To call us to his arms.”
I ask. what lufi lei could have witnessed
the death of this O.d Mother in Israel, and i
said, there is no reality in Religion? I
Yes—
Religion! Wluil treasure untold,
Resides in that heavenly wind.
More precious than silver or gold,
Or all that this world can afford.
Aged Mother, adieu ! Thon’rt gone to
join your kindred of the skies, “ where
years of long salvation roll, and glory never
dies
Then cease, O, cense, yc brinp tears to flow.
Since Death ’ the crown of life.
| “Were death denied, to live would not be
life—
Were (lentil denied e'en fools would wish
to die.
Death wounds to cure ; wu fall, tve rise, we j
reign !
Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies.
Where blooming Eden withers in our sight.”
• Might Thought a.
Mnulmniu Mission.
ODITt'ARV NOTICE OF MRS. CAROLINE
It. SIMONS.
By n letter from Mr. Simnus under date
of Manlinain, July 14’ we have received
further particulars of the decease of his la
mented wile. She died on the morning ol
Alav 1. on hoard the ship Caml ihar, in I
which she hail taken passage from Uomhav
tor Calcutta. while lying at anchor ofl'Tcl
licherry. Her remains were interred in
the burin’ ground of the English church,
the services being performed, on hoard and
at the grave, by one of the German mission
aries stationed at that place. I’lie funeral
was attended by tlie olfu-ers, surgeon, ami
gentlemen passengers of tlie Gandahat. and
by the civilians and military gentlemen re
sident at Tellieherry, and many of the na
tive population.
“The lust letter that I received,” says
Mr. Simons, “was written with a trem
bling hand at Bombay about April 15:It.
as she was goingon hoard ship: This a
larmed my tears, and prepared me, in some
degree, for receiving the intelligence of her
death. 1 indulged the hope, however, that
the sea air might possibly effect a favorable
change, ns it had done before. And such,
at liist, was the result, Shu was much
better at sea than she had been at Uomhav,
and Dr. Sinclair, who attended her on
boatd, cherished tlie hope that she might so
far recover as to reach Calcutta and thence
embark lor America.”
The letter alluded to, after describing the
severity of her illness, and staling the im
probability of Iter ever seeing her husband
again in the flesh, gives suggestions in re
gard to the departure of her children for
America, and hot solicitude that they mav
be placed “where they will he brought up
in the fear of God.” It s oaks, also, as |
well as previous letters, “of the kind alien
lion received from the missionaries of the
American Board at Bombay, Rev. Mr. A!
len. Rev. Mr. Hume and .Mrs. lln me.” at
whose house sire and Mrs Howard had
been entertained, And commending Iter- i
self* ‘to all the dear brethren and sisters. Qit j
Maulmuin] each bv name,” she added, “I }
hope my highest desire is, that Christ mav
be magnified in my body, whether by life
or death ”
The following was addressed by Mrs.
Simons to Mrs. Howard, on the 28th of
April, when attacked with the symptoms
that shortly after terminated in death.—
“G >tl only knows how much 1 have suffer-;
ed for four months past. How you and 1 j
have been cast nil’ from every depend.nice, i
lo trust entirely in the Lord. We cannot I
he reconciled at once, hut since I left Maul- j
main. I have had deep religious experience. |
such as I never before had. Tell Mr. Si
mons how 1 wish lie was here, to pray with
me, Tell him I try to look to Jesus, and I
have not now any fears about dying.” Her
thoughts then adverted to her sons, eall ng
them by name, with most affectionate
yearnings.*
‘.Mrs. Simons was the daughter of Mr. j
1 Amos and Mrs, Ruth Harrington, of East j
Brookfield. Mass. She left this country |
for Rurmali in December, 1832. in compa-j
or with Messrs. Brown and Webb and j
their families, and was married to Mr.
Simons at.Matilmain in June following.— j
‘ Os Iter children four were living at the time j
of her decease: throe had died.
j Mr. Simons alludes, in tlie course of his
, letters, lo the circumstances attending Mrs.
Simon's embarkation from Mnulmaiu. “It
! was expeete.t by us that tlie slop in which
! my dear wife embarked, Oct. 11), would re
i turn in three or four Everything
seemed at the time in lavor of her going.—
: Tlie season o’ tlie )ear was the best; the
cholera wa.-nig here, and carrying oil’
multitudes ot me natives; Capl. Wilkinson
and Ins lad) were professors of religion, and
the charges quite moderate. -Nearly nine
months have now elapsed, and no doubt the
long absence from Iter family, and the great
expense iucuired with little prospect of re
covery, were tlie cause of much anxiety,
and contributed to p>-eveiii the anticipated
results. Hoiv true it is, •t he way ol man
is not in himself; it is not iu man that
walketh, to direct his steps!’
“1 trust 1 have found succor, in this time
ol bereavement, in com mi; ting myself and
family to Him who lias never failed to ful
fil Ins promises to me. Thus 1 have been
enabled to encourage myself in the Lord
my God, and to say, ‘The Lord gave, and
the L ud hath taken away, and blessed be
the name ol the Lord!’ Not uiy will, hut
i thine be done.’
! ‘So Jesus slept:—God.s dying Sun
; Passed through the grave, and bless’d the
bed.
Rest here, blest saint! till fiori Ilis throne
I he m iming break, and pierce the shade.’
•O tvliat a blessed thing jf is to lie a
Christian.’ J hese last used
at I,inily worship nearly twenty years ago
by the late venerable lather Mercer, near
I'hiilips’s Mills, Ga., and they made a last
ing impression on my mind, coming from
thu depths of his heart.”
“My dear biother,” continues Mr. Si
mons, “l wish to open to vuu the feeling
of my heait. If I know any thing of them,
nothing gives me greater plesnrc than to
| hear that the kingdom of Clm-t is imwea
: mg, and that all who profess allegiance to
I the Saviour, whether ia Ghri.-lian in heathen
! I mils, are faithful to their engagements.
I By lit same vessel which brought intelli
gence of the dea h ol my beloved wife, tve
heard that aistei Comstock an I sister Dean
w ere no more. Here, then, are three, who
were endeavoring toy ut/d the engagements
they made with the Lord when they cs
paused Ills blessed Cause, whom ho fias
‘•ceil pleased to remove in one month from
their scenes of labor to their rest. And
there are others hard at work, under similar
engagements, but nearly worn out, who
may also he called home before any will he ;
;mi the ground ready to take their places,— I
; In your letter to the mission ton serin to :
speak discouraging!)': that although the
hinds are in a more promising state than
ihcy were, they arc far short of the imme
diate wants of the stations now occupied
and that men are wanting. When I hear
these things: and see so much to be done, I
am at a loss to know what is the nature of
the engagements entered into with the
I.ord Jesus Christ by tlio members of the
thousands of Bap; is teh inches spread through
the States of the Union; who can hear the
cry again ami again, ‘Come over and help
us,’ and not exett themselves to the e.r tent
of th ir ability that tlie Lord’s treasury
“.)’ l>o full; nor stain) waiting fe* laborers,
Im their Lord's command,'Go work ill my
vineyard,’ My feelings, nml I may say
the feelings of all engaged in the missiona
ry licit l , •• re strong on this point. We wish
to hear that the friends of the Redeemer at
home arc doing m ire, and praying more,
that the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ
mav speedily come.”
lirnt.il Tyranny.
Tito following is ;m extinct from n re*
view of a German wmk. in the Foreign
Q larierly, upon hordofan, n province ol
.Mehcnici All’s dominioiis. Tito character
ol the Dellerilar, or governor of this pro
vince. is illustrated by the following acts of
brutal tyranny. —
“A peasant, who complained of having
been robbed of a sheep by a soldier, was
blown from the mouth of a cannon lor trou
bling the Dfltertlar with so insignificant a ‘
complaint; a servant wlm let I stolen a
pinch out of the Defterdar’s suulT box, was
llogged to death; a man who had boxed his
neighbor's ear, was punished by having tbr
flesh cut away from tile palm of his hands;
and a negro, who having bought some milk
refused to pay for it, and denied having
drunk it; ha I his stomach ripped open, to
ascertain whether the accusation was well
founded.
In his garden, the Ueltcrdnr had a tame
Finn, generally confuted in a cage, hut
sometimes allowed to follow Itis m aster a
bout in Itis walks. This animal had bppit
taught to fly with the utmost apparent fe
rocity at every stranger who appeared, and
the favorite amusement of the Dcfterdar
was to look oil and enjoy the terror of his
visiters, when suddenly attacked by the
lion.
On one occasion, eighteen of his domes
tic servants, in paying their customary com
pliments on the festival of the Baernm. in
timated that they were all sadly in want of
shoes. He told them that their wants
should he supplied, and on the following
day actually ordered eighteen pair of iron
horse-shoes to he nailed to the feet of Itis
poor dependants, who, in this condition,
were ordered to tepair to tlteir several avo
cations. Mortification ensued almost im
mediately with nine of them, who died n
inid fiightful tortures, and then onlv did
the ruffian allow the survivors to he unshod,
and consigned to the care of a surgeon.”
Thi’ end of “Great Men." —Happening
to cast my eye upon some miniature por
traits. 1 perceived that the four personages
who occupied the most conspicuous places
were Alexander. Hannibal, Caesar, and
IJnnnpnrte. 1 had seen the same unnum
bered times before, but never did the sensa
tion arise in my bosom, as my mind hasti
ly glanced over their several histones.
Alexander, after having climbed thediz
[ zy heights of ambition, ami with his temple
hound with chaplets, dipped in the blood of
1 countless nations, looked down upon acon-
1 quered world, and wept that there was not
another world to conquer— set a city on
■ fire, and died in a scene of debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the astonish
ment and consternation of Rome, passed
die Alps—after having put to flight the ar
mies of this “mistress of the world,” and
stripped three bushels of golden rings from
the fingers of her slaughtered knights, and
made tier very foundation quake—was
haled by those who once exnlungiy united
his name to that of their god, u'ud railed
him “Hannibaal,” and died at last by poi
son admmisteted by his own hand, unla
meiited and n wept, in a foieign land.
Cscsar, after having ( coiiquered eight hun
dred cities, and dyed his garments in the
blood of one million of Ins foes, after hav
ing puisuetl to death the only rival he had
oil earth, was miserably assassinated bv
those he considered his nearest friends and
at the very place, the attainment of which
had been the greatest atm of his ambition.
Bonaparte, whose mandate kings am!
princes obeyed, after having filled the earth
with the terror ol his name, alter havin';
deluged Europe with tears and blood, and
clothed the woild in sack-cloth—closed his
days in banishment almost literally exiled
Itotn the world, jet where he t-outd somc
tinies see his country’s banner waving o’er
die deep, hut which would not, or could
not bring him aid.
Thus those four men who, from the pe
culiar situation portraits, seeme.l to
stand as representatives of all those whom
die world rails “great”—those four who
seterally made the earth tremble to its cen
tre, severally died— one fry intoxication,
die second try suicide, and the third by as
sassination, and the last iu lonely exile,—
“How are tlie mighty fallen!”
Death of Another Missionary. —Rev.
Mr. Dyer, missionary of liie L union Soci
ety, eminent for Ins improvements iu lype-j
cttiti ;g, and seemingly nulispciisihle at t.mj
present time in missionary opeulious, ha*
been suddenly called to his home, lie was
at Macao, and hud lelt to join his wife and
family at Singapore, with little prospect ol
recovery ol health. The missionaries at
Hong Kong had j ist recoiled the fact ol
Ins departure and tlie feeble hopes of his
restoration, when tidings of his death arri
ved.
11. C. Taylor. —The Cleveland Herald
states that the grand jury ol Lora u county,
have |i hi till sixteen lulls ol indictment a
gainsl 11. G. Taylor, late editor of die . hei
hn Evangelist, to most of which it is under
stood he will plead guilty.
Comfort for some of us. —lt's no sin to
he ugly, hut its rather inconveuieiit, says an
exchange. .Still some I.ke it. Miralieau was
proud n| his extreme ugliness; he valued
hiinsel! as much on being the ugliest man in
France as on being tlie best orator, lie was
so ugly, that the bin s used to stop him in the
street , and ask Inin if his face didn't hint
him?
Lite is too short to he employed in selfish
acts; and lie whose highest ambition is to
gratify self makes life wretched nml dies
unlamented, with none to rise up and call
him blessed.
UEoRGIA, Gwinnett County.
Whereas, brother Richard Philips is de
sirous of traveling and preaching through
the middle p trl ol this Stale this year, and
from his limited acquaintance in that coun
try, we take this method of informing till
that it may concern, that he is a regularly
tndained llapt st minister i'll good standing,
amongst all his acquaintance ami orthodox
in lliu faith, and calculated to advance the
cause of Ghrist on earth. Ami from our
long and personal acquaintance with him,
we can safely recnUimend him to the |J.ip
ttst dcnoiniiiUtion and all who are fricndlv
to religion.
Hy order of Mount Moriah Church,
G. W. MORGAN, C. Clerk.
March 3d, 1844.
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ANIT
DUMB.
It is with much pleasure we inform our
readers in the Southwest, that Mr. S. T.
Potts of Louisville, .Miss., lias employed a
Teacher to teach the deal unites in his own
family anti wil take pupils at $lO per month
for board and instruction. The School is
to open on the iiisi of March. The terms
are very moderate. We hope that this af
flicted class will avail themselves nfihe op
portunity afforded of se< uriiig access to
many sources of information and enjoy
ment.
BIBLE AGENCY.
The Executive t ommittec of the Bap
tist Conventinu ol the Slate of Georgia have
engaged the services ol Rev. S. E. Gardi
ner as Bible Agent under the patronage of
the Convention. The Commut.-e hope
that all the Irieiids < film Bill e cause ill tlm
■ circle of liis Agency, will give him their aid
in forming societies and collecting funds
Jirst lur the wants of their own county, and
afterwards of tlm destitute in other counties
m die Siate. The Committee have already
ordeied and received a supply of Bibles and
Testaments from the American ami Foreign
Bible Sttic.elv, which will be furnished to
societies and agents, only for cash, ai cost.
B. M. SAND..RS,
Ch. Ex. (’mu. Guo. Bap. Con.
NOTICE.
THE Managers of the Book Depository
of the Columbus Association have ordered
on a considerable quantity of Sabbath school
hooks. Adjoining Associations can he fur
nished hy applying to brother Estis of Co
lumbus or brother Adams.
JAMES PERRYMAN.
BORDt RS & BRUCE,
Attorneys at Law.
Hamilton, Harris Cos., Git.
A. L. BORDERS.
Feb. 16, 1814. w. w. BROCK.
BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS.
I HE Executive Commille of the Geor
gia Baptist Slate Con veil lion have received
‘r*m die American and Foreign Bible Soci
ety, two hundred and fifty Bibles and five
hundred i estaments, which are deposited
at Dr. W. H. J urpin’s Drug Store in Au
gusta, to be disposed of at Cost lo Bible So
cieties. Sunday School agents, or other be
nevolent associations for the disltihutiim ol
religious hooks. Bibles are at 41 cts. to
S2 33 cts., and Testaments at 11 els. to 69
cts. a piece. jhe agents of all benevolent
Societies can obtain them at those prices
lor cash, by exhibiting a suitable certificate
of their agency. B. M. SANDERS.
Ch. Ex. Com.
F• S.— Orders from School Agents with
the money will rgreive prompt attention.
J . J. Burney, ol Aiadison, Morgan
county, the piesenl Treasurer of Mercer
University, has taken charge of all the
notes anil other funds of the Institution, aim
all persons having settlements to make with
the i rcasurcr, will please direct llietr com
munications to him.
B. M. SANDERS.
NOTICE.
I HE Churches composing the Rehoboth
Association are hereby reminded ot die Sab
bath School Couvemt n, to be held with
toe Baptist Church in Macon, on Fndaj
before the third Lord’s day m April. Earn.
Church is requested lo send two delegates
and as many more as com eu.em. A lull
attendance is desired. Brethren Irom oilier
Associations are cordially invited lo lie pre
"i-m J. K. KENDRICK.
to 1 11 E AFFLICTED ANdTen-
FOlil UNATE.
The Legislature has made ample provis
ion lor die education of die indigent Deal
| hid Dumb, between the ages ol ten aim
j b-rty. As Commissioner, appointed lit
j die Executive to carry out this immune de
sign, I hereby call upon die parents amt
guardians ol such unfortunate pursuits to
entrust them to my cute, that 1 may convey
them m t ie Institution at ilardor.l, Conm c
dcut, and superintend their education there.
I promise all interested, that those placed
tinder my care sh ill receive every attention
in my power—that I will go in person w ith
them to liartlord, and see their wants well
provided lor, according to mv best ability.
Those inclined to” avail’ tin mselies ol
this noble charily ol the Stale are request
ed m he at my house in Clintim, or at Mrs.
Husnu's ll.ud in Millcdg-vide, by thu loth
ol April next, whence they will proceed in
a lew days lo tlie North.
I appeal to the Iricmls ol humanity to
aid me in this business. Many of the poor
lor whose benefit this advertisement is made
may nut teat! die papers of die day. Wtl
you not go to them, explain this matter, as
sure them that their children or wards shall
he no expeuee lo them, anil dial the Com
missioner will do his utmost to promote
their comfort and improvement.
J. H- CAMPBELL,
Com. of the Deaf and Dumb.
Clinton. Jatr. fi‘, 1814. 2m
I 01. lt Mouths after date, application
will he made to the Hcrt’orable Interior
Court ol (hoe no county, when sitiim> as a
Cimrt of Ordinary, for leave to sal] two
tracts of Land in said county, belonging to
part of the children of ‘Thomas (J. Janes,
late of said County, deceased, fur a division
ABSALOM JANES, ~t
WILLIAM F. JANES. ‘ ~ ,
HENRY A. GIBSON. f Ax *•
GEORGE W. WEST,]
Jan. 8,1814.
PROSPECTUS
OK THE
SOUTHERNSAEB.UII SCHOOL ADVOCATE:
,'i l ire-aide Companion for the Families
of Hap lists.
The subscriber has been solicited hy a
number of friends, to undertake the publi
cation of a work under the above name,
and arrangements have been made for its
appearance by the first of Mav next.
No pains will lie spared in endeavoring
to make the Advocate of real use to the
cause to which it is devoted, and to snpplv
in some degree, the place of a Teacher in
such families as are deprived of the advan
tage of Sabbath Schools. Whatevei may
have a tendency to establish and encourage
this blessed Institution among Baptists;
that may he important to the present and
future welfare of children and youth ; and
that may lie influential in implanting princi
pies of morality and virtue in die minds of
all. shall find a place in its columns: and,
besides, it will contain such articles of a
general nature as may interest and instruct
its readers.
A specimen number will he issued in a
few days which will ha sent to all who
may desire it.
TERMS.
The Southern Sabbath School Advo
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Dec. 20. 1843. Whitesville. Ga.
DAV I D A VAS ON ,
Attorney at Law.
Albany, Faker Cos., Ga.
April 26. 1843. ly
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History of the Aboriginal Tribes of America.
I he Board of-Matfagers of the American
Indian Mission Association of Louisville,
Kentucky, desire lo publish as soon as prac
ticable, a history of the abmiginul tribes of
America; by which they expect to correct
: many erroneous impressions which have
j been made on the public mind in regard to
those people, by unfaithful, or uninformed,
or superstitious writers. Advantage lias
too frequently been taken of die facility to
believe that there are traits in Indian dispo
sition. peculiar to their race, such as an un
conquerable aversion to civilization, an in
flexible attachment lo habits of hunting and
w ar, hostility to Christianity, Ac. A true
history of the Indians will demonstrate that
they possess no innate propensity that
would not he developed in a iy other race
■>l men, even our own, if placed in similar
circumstances; and that nothing more is
wanting to insure their elevation to the high
est state of improvement, than the means
and opportunities of others.
I tie Board desire to satisfy the public
that, as a noble race of men, as the original
owners of this country, and as a people
greatly injured by the settlement of Euro
peans on this continent, they deceive a
prominent place in the histoiy of the na
tions of the earth, and are entitled to the
means of improvenv nt. It is believed that
the public, when correctly informed, will
readily extend to them tlie hand of he p,
seeing that there is nothing mystical in re
lation to means, nor doubtful in regard to
results.
Anew era in ihe history of these hither
to imlnriu .ate people commenced, imdoffbf,
with the adoption of the policy of assigning
t” them portions of eountry sufficiently ex
tensive for them to flyby, among them
selves, the benefits of civil government, and
the institutions ol religion and literature.
The success of the experiment of a perma
nent residence under auspicious circum
stances. so far as it has advanced among the
ninety ihotistanrf in the Indian Territory,
adjoining tlie States of Aikansas ami Mis
souri, hrsni-h as will, it is hoped, promote
the establishment of other Indian Territo
ries ; and the benevolent ate experted to
press forward in the work of Indian reform,
wiih redoubled diligence and energy, until
the most remote, or most degraded horde of
red men shall he blest.
In this great enterprise, the want of the
history under consideration is already sen
sibly lelt. During twenty-five years resi
dence among the Indians,’ the undersigned
was not imhflerenf lo the subject of collect
ing materials for such a work. To those
already in possession, the hoard ol mana
!>cts t.ave diiected him to add such other
materials as are available, with a view to.
publication.
The request is, therefore, respectfully
and most earnestly made to every me who
may esteem the matter worthy of attention,,
to furnish, as far as practicable, such infor
mation as may be useful in ibis undertaking-,
such as brief historical sketches of wars,
war-parties, sulfeiings, cruellies, kindness,
degradation, improvement, superstition, re
ligion, manners and customs, traditions, and
interesting anecdotes of any suitable kind.
I he Indians have given names to many
of the water courses and mountains n£ nnr
country. Information is very desirable re
specting the original pronunciation of: -Ac
name, its meaning, the circuiiisraiwe* hi
which it originated, and the tribe to whose
language the word belongs,
lion. Lewis eass, late minister to-France,
than whom not a man on the continent is
better acquainted with Indian affairs, has
generously assured us of his favorable con
sider. t mis in reference to this work. Sim
ilar assurances have been given by Rev. S.
II- Cone. D. I)., of New York, and the co
operation of Rev. B. Manly, D. Tt., of Ala
bama. is expected.
Tuey who will please to comply with
the i uegoing requesis are desiied to for
ward their communications t*> the under
signed, in the city of Louisville. Kentucky,
stating their names and places ol residence,
that suitable acknowledgements may he
made for their favors.
Publishers of public journals throughout
tile United States, in Texas, anil in the Brit
ish Provinces, would confer a great favor
if, for the promotion of the design, they
would give this notice a few insertions.—
And lieie it is respectfully suggested that,
io many instances, ail eligible mode of ae
tion would be for the narrator to hand his
matter to the ediu>r of a newspaper, for
which it would form an interesting article,
and the printed paper could be forwarded
to the undersigned with diminished cost of
postage, while, at the same time, the fact
of its appearing in print might remind oth
ers of what they also might do hy furnish
ing interesting information.
The size ol the work has not heen deter
mined ; but it is believed dial tolerable jus
tice to the subject cannot be done on less
than twelve hundred octavo pages!
Isaac McCoy,
Cotresponding Secretary, and
Agent of the American
Indian Mission Association.
Louisville. Ky.. Feh. 1. 1844.
PREMIUM TREATISE.—SIOO.
Ihe American Protestant Society
offers SIOO for the best original Treatise on
the •• hijlurnee, bearing und effvtts cf Ro
manism on the civil and religion* liberties
of our country to consist of not less than
one hundred pages, 181110, to he furnished
hy the first of May next; the Society to
have the liberty of using, at a fair compen
sation, those Treatises woi thy of publica
tion. that may not receive the premium.
The Rev. Gardiner Spring. D. D., Rev.
Thomas De Witt. D. D., and Rev. Thom
as E. Rond, will award tlr premium, to
whom the manuscripts, with a scaled en
velop of the author’s name, may be address
ed at this office.
llemak Norton,
Cor. Sec. of the A. P. Society,
142 Nassau street.
Npw York, Feh. 18. 1844.
LAW BLANKS^
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