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HlS€l' 1. AN * -
For the Western Georgian.
A FRONTICE-PIECE FOR AN ALBUM.
Come look at rity Album, but learn ’ere you look,
That all are expected to add tomy book;
You may quiz it and welcome, but the penalty
To leave a few stanzas for others to quiz;
You may read if you write, but allow me to hint—
I will like it the better, if it’s ne’er been in print.
Not that I’ve objections to Byron or Moore,
Or gleanings from Scott’s inexhaustible store;
Then write, there ia peril for him who refuses,
Set to work—mend your pens, ask aid of the muses.
Thoseout of my Album, I’ll never forgive,
They’ll be out of my good books as long as I live.
Write epic, epigramic, or lyric,
Write verses heroic, or verses satiric;
If grave, there’s in all earthly volumes a lea.,
To receive the sad overflowings of grief,
If gay, let your humour in poetry shine,
I ’ And book it, yes book it, and let tube mine.
A. E.
the queen and the duke.
RORY o’-koork’s version.
An ex-Scotch member, a grave, religious,
matter of fact man, Major Cumming Bruce, at
a political dinner a few days ago, stated that
the Queen having been interrogated respect
ing her matrimonial views,by Lord Melbourne,
sharply answered that there was but one man
in the kingdom she sighed for, and that was
the Duke of Wellington! At the time of the
Catholic Bill we remember its'being announ
ced by the T6ry organs that the Marquis of
Dotiro was to be the happy man; but the Duke
was not then a widower. As the version of
Maj. Bruce is rather succinct, we copy from
the Chronicle the following detailed account;
TO DANIEL O’CONNELL.
Kino- Arthur reigns in England,
In Ireland reigns King Dan,
The Queen in Windsor Castle,
Dethrone them if you can.
Honored Sir, —Our bread is baked black;
and your fine spickulations about master Jhon
ny go for nothing. The match is made, sure
enough; Counccdor Prate is drawing up the
marriage articles, and the Queen is to be mar
ried o’Michaelmas morning to the Duke of
Wellington. I seen an empty coach and four
rowlin’ away from the Castle this mornin, with
nothing at all in it barrin Mr. Hudson, and
they told me he was fly in’ post to letch up the
Archbishop of Exeter to tie the happy knot.
() wlrra slrue, if a body could a thought she d
fancy so ould a boy as that, ’tis yourself we’d
a’ put in nomination for the state long ago.
Now, don’t go for to suppose that ’tis wan
tin’ to ampose upon your iimosense I am. Not
a word o’ lie in it. I heard it from a conserva
tive, and by coorsc, you no it must be true.
There’s one Cummins, a High Lander, up
nt the Castle, a runner to the Walley de Sham
of the King that was, and now a sort of super
numerary tay-boy of the buck-stairs; he was ;
put into the sarvicc by a na’heral first cousin
of his own—Squire Bruce they call him—who !
had a power ot influence in the ould times (I ,
darsay you knew something about him in the
Parliament House.) This Chap—not squire
Bruce, but his cousin Cummins—is all and all
with the Queen’s under housemaid’s deputy’s
assistant’s own maid; and that’s the lake the
whole murder came out through, jist as I am a
going to tell it to you. j
Ono morning last week this Miss Emily
Mugs, Sawny Cummin’s Dezdymonia, was in
her turn down on her marrowbones, bright,
nin’ the bars of the grate in the Queen’s Board
o'.war—a sort of a drawing room —where she
houlds discoorse with Lord Palmston and the
rest of the ministhurs; when who would walk
in but her majesty and the master of the band,
Lord Melbourne himself, to give awgents to
one another upon the affairs of th© nation.
They talked about Lord Hill and the army,
Sir James Graham and the navy, and Father
Crotty and the Church; then passed some re
marks upon the King of France and his protes
tant daughter-in-law, the King of Belgium and
his Roman wile, and the Queen of Spain and
her hay then of an Uncle, but yourself was the
biggest troppick they handled that day, and if
your cars worn't hot enough on both sides of
your head, it must be bekuse they’re too well
yuste to that kind of basting by this time to
make any account of it. \\ hen the council of
war was finished, and the Queen stood up out
of her throne, as much as to say “Get out ve
Whig,” his Lordship axed if he might make
so bold as to trouble her with u few questions
on a very delicate sutyect.
“Oh, by all manner of manes” says her Ma
jesty, “you no I necd’nt answer any of’em if
I’d rather not.”
“It’s what I was going to say,” says his
Lordship, “that considerin your Majesty is
your own misthress, as well as the tnisthress of
the world, and—and—”
“And what, my tninislhcr,” sa\s her Majes
ty sharply.
“And in fact,” says he, “you arc arrived at
a Queen’s estate, with fine castles, palaces,
and parks, coaches, horses, servants, and ga-
Irores of every thing to make a family comfort
able, and housekeepin* asy; I was tlonkin* that j
your Majesty might be think tn,’ maybe, of sha-
Tin’ the throuble with somebody to your’.ikin’.” I
“Ah, then,” says the Queen, looking verv
arch at the grey hairs in his ministhership’s
whiskers, “What the dickins put that bright
idaya into your wise head’’’
“W hy,” says he, ‘-if 1 may make so free, I
first thought of it when I hcerd vou calling
yourself Queen Hc.'arta the First/'
“And what of that?” says the Queen, rising
herself up as stately as she looked that day in ;
the House of Lords, and striking the table with ’
her knuckles three times, like a double rap at ;
a hall door—“ What of that my Lord?” says
she.
“It’s very bould of me, sartinly,” says my
Lord; “but it struck me at that present time,
that you did’nt mane it should be Queen I icto
ria the Last."
At this her Majesty set up a laugh that
: would do your heart good to hear it, only for
what came aftherwards; and—-“A e nincompoop
of a man,” says she, “is it in earnest ye are?”
“Never was more serious in my life,” says
he; “and what I would beg leave to no in the
behalf of that is this—is there any person, in
case you would take a likin’ to him, that you
think’d answer to go partners with-you —any
ijintleman I mane, that you could find in your
i heart to make Queen of England along with
y outsell?”
With that the Queen looked grave again—
though you might still see the laugh twinkling
like a diamond in her rogueish blue eye; and
—“My Lord,” she says “do you spake to me
now as my Prime Ministher, or (and the smile
broke out once more in spite of her) am 1 to
understand ye as my coortier?"
“Ah, then, murtheralive,” says he, “d ye
suppose that I am sitch a jackeen as to think
the like of thai?”
“Well,” says she, “sense you ax me the
-question I’ll be at a word with you. The ould
Duke of Wellington is the man for my money;
and as soon as iver my uncle comes from Bei
jam the whole matter will be as good as settled.
Cut I'll not forget you. I’ll send you a green
ribbon, depend upon it, and if you mfe’.ike the
color, you can frank it on with-my lovin’ com
plimehts to our friend Dan O’Connell.”
It was my Lord’s turn now to ax her Majcs.
tv was she in earnest?
“’Pon my honor,” says she, “there’s my
hand and word; and if you don’t believe me,
wait a while. If any body else but the old
Duke hands me out to dinner nt the Lord May
or’s I would’nt say th at there’s a woman in
England nose her own mind for three weeks
o
together.”
All this while, Miss Emily Mugs let on to be
scrubbing the bars, unknowns!, but you may
be sure she had one of her ears (and that same
not the shortest of the two, I’ll go bail) cocked
out from under the bordher of her cup; and at
tay in the evening Sawney Cummins was put
in possession of every particle of what passed.
This is the way the secrets of state get
wind. I hard it’ from Mr. Cummins, who
wrote it of? by express to his cousin in Scot
land, telhn him he might prent it, or make a
speech of it, or to do any thing at all he plasOd,
barrin to hold his tongue about it; for it wa?
the dyentickle words out of Her Majesty’s own
sweet hps, God bless her! And, sir, you may
now take the same liberty with the story by
ritin Mr. Cumminses name or Mr. Brace’s (il
you think better) upon the back of it, and sen
ding it, like a bank note, as a ready penny all
over the world.
Mr. Cummins took the unsure of Lord Mel
bourne’s phizage, in two minutes after the en
terview was over, and d’ye think but the chin
was exactly four inches farther off from the
forehead than it-was going in, afore he popped
the question.
M r. Cumminses name is enough to make the
world believe anything. It’s remarkable nice
he is about what he gives out fo> fax. Major
Longbow being in Untie ofhis by the moth
cr’s side, made him a big sight too particular
for a gentleman thatwears a sword by his side.
i The Newspaper. A newspaper taken in a
family seems to shed a gleam of intelligence
around. It gives the children a taste for rea
ding—it communicates all the important events
' which are passing in the busy world; it is a
never failing source of amusement; and fur.
nishes a fund of instruction which will never
be exhausted. Fvery family, however poor,
if they wish to hold a place in the rank of intel
ligent beings, should take at least one news
paper. And the man, who is possessed of
property sufficient to make himself easy for
life, and surrounded by children eager for
knowledge, is instigated by the vile spirit of
cupidity and neglects to subscribe to a News
paper is deficient in duties of a parent or a
good citizen, and is deserving of censure of his
intelligent neighbors.
America known to the Ancients. The Amer
ican Monthly Magazine, published at New
York, contains a brief notice of a volume, un
der the title of Antiquities Americanae, com
prising the result of many years’ investigation
by the Royal Society ofNorthern Antiquaries
at Copenhagen. upon the long disputed point;
whether this country was or was not known
to Europeans, long prior to its discovery by
Columbus 1403. The work was recently pub
lished at Copenhagen and has been received in
the United States. It is an imperial quarto of
480 pages, printed in the otiginal Icelandic,
with Danish nnd Latin translations, having a
historical view of the voyages of discovery
prefixed in English, illustrated by numerous
sac-similes of the lamed Skin Books of Iceland
and copperplate engravings, exhibiting proofs
of great labor and research bestowed upon its
compilation, and bearing ample testimony to
the fact that America was known to Europe
ages before the time of Columbus, and that
portions of it had been visited, especially in
Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The cele
brated Writing Rocks at Tiverton and Ports
mouth, R. 1. and opposite Dighton, Mass, are
described al length, particularly the last men
tioned, the inscription upon which is explained.
These monumen’’ are presumed to have been
erections cf the middle ages, and the one near (
Dighton intended to commemorate the occu-i
punvy of that region by North men near tfte
eomropneemenf of the eleventh century.
The reviewer adds; “Our readers will re
collect that the January number of this maga
zine for 1836, contains a plate and description
of a human skeleton, found in a sitting posture,
at Fall River, Mass, in the immediate neigh
borhood of Dighton Rock. On the breast was
a curious plate of brass, and the body was en
circled with a belt composed of brass tubes.
There were also found arrows of brass, thin,
flat, and triangular in shape. No satisfactory
account has before now been given of this, or
of the hieroglyphics upon the rocks. The
body was undoubtedly one of the Northmen
who came over in these expeditions, and was
probably buried in the condition in which it
was found.”
NOTICE.
THE Sheriff’s Sales of Paulding county, will in,
future,be published in the Western Georgian.;
j Also, the. business of the Clerks of said county.
BARNABAS PACE. c. o. o.
THOMAS A. CHISLOMN, c. s. c.
THOMAS DUNLAP, Shff.
Feb. 24. G. 4t.
NOTICE.
15HE Sheriffs Sales of Forsyth county, will in
. -'future, he published in the Western Georgian.
JAMES ROBERTS, Shff.
Feb. 24. G 4t. _
GEORGIA, FLOYD COUNTY.
rSIAKEN up and posted by John L.
~JL■ Russeau, living near Barnetts Mi Is,
one ILy Horse; both hind feet white up
to the fetlock joint; the left fore-ioot
white; some white hairs on his right
thigh; five feet two inches high. Appraised to thirty
dollars. January 24, 1633.
A. PATTERSON, Cleik.
' G. L. Huggins, J. y.
March, 3. 7. 4.
lEFI Will Sne Yoti.jj]
WTOW let me tell all those that are indebted to me
fW this is the last time I will ask them for money.
For if they do not call on N. Yarbrough of this place,
by the 10th day of March next, and settle my demands
they may expect to pay cost.
WILLIAM K. BRI ERS.
■Rome, Feb. 17 satf.5 a tf.
LAW.
THE Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts
of the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts
of Cherokee and Benton, tn Alabama. All business
entrusted to their care, will be promptly attended to.
LUMPKIN & WRIGHT.
Rome, Feb. 2. 3. ts.
WAL.DIE&
NOVEL AND IMPORTANT
Literary Enter pise—Novels, Talcs,
Biography, Voyages, Travels,
Reviews, and the news of
the Day.
IT was one of the great objects -of “ Waldie’s Li
brary,” “ to make good reading cheaper,” and to
bnng literature to every mans door.” ThPir object
has been accomplished; we have given to books wings,
and they have flown to the uttermost parts of ■our vasi
continent, carrying society to the secluded, occupa
tion to the literary information of all. We now propose
still further to reduce prices, and render the access
to a literary banquet, more than .wo folds accessible;
we gave and, shall continue to give in the quorto li
brary, a volume weekly, for two cents a day. We now
propose to give a volume in the same period for less
than four cents a week, and to add-as a • piquant sea
soning to the dish, a few columns of rhe shorter lite
rary matters,’and a summary of the news and events
of the day. We know by experience and calculations
that we can go still further in the matter of reduction,
and we feel that there is still Verge enough for us to
aim at dfleriug to tin increasing literary appetite, that
mental food which it craves.
The Select Circulating Library, now as ever so
great a favorite, will continue to make its weekly vis.
its, and to be issued in a form for binding and preser
vation, and its price and form will remain the same.
But we shall in the first week of Jannary, 1837,'issue
a huge sheet of of the largest newspaper of
America, but on paper; filled with books
of the newest and most entertaining, though in their
several departments of Novels, Tales, Voyages, Tra
vels, &c. select in their character, joined with read
ing sueh as should fill a weekly newspaper. -By this
method we hope to accomplish a great good—to enli
ven and enlighten the family circle, and to give to it,
at an expense which shall be no consideration to any,
a mass of reading that tn book form wcnld alarm the
pocke'softhe prudent- and to do it in a manner that
the most sceptical shall acknowledge, •• the power
of concentration can no further go?’ No book which
appears in Waldie’s Quarto Library, will be publish
ed in the Omnibus, which will be an entirely distinct
periodical.
TERMS.
Waldie’s Literary Omnibus, will be issued every
Friday Morning, printed on paper of a quality superior
tonny other weekly sheet, andofthe largest size. It
will contain,
Ist. Books, the newest and best that can be pro
cured, equal every work to a London duodecimo vol
usie, embracing Novels, T ravels, Memoirs. &c, and
only chargeable with newspaper postage.
2d. Literary reviews, tales, sketches, notices of
books, and information from •* the world of fetters,” of
every description.
3d. The news of the "week concentrated ton small
empass, but in sufficient amount to embrace a know
ledge, of the principal events, political and miscella
neous of Europe and America.
The price will be two dollars to clubs of five sub.
bribers, where the paper is forwarded to one address.
To club* of two individuals. five dollars, single mail
subscribers, three dollars. The discount on uncut,
rent money will be charged to the remitter; the low
price and superior paper, absolutely prohibits paying
a discount.
On no condition will a copy ever be sent until the
payment is received in advance.
As the arrangements for the prosecution of this
great literary undertaking are all made, and the pro
prietor has redeemed all h.s pledges to a generous pub
lic for many years, no fear of the non fulfillment of
tie contract can be felt. The Omnibus will he regu
gularly issued; and will contain in a year, reading mat
ter equal in amount to two volumes of Rec's Cyclope.
dia for the small sum mentioned above.
Address post paid,
ADAM WALDIE.
46 Parpenter St. Philadelphia. ;
C O 1 K T C A J, E V DAK.
SUPERIOR COURTS'
January.
Ist Monday, Richmond,
2d “ Chatham,
February.
Ist Monday, Stewart,
“ Floyd,
Paulding,Thursday before
2d Monday, Clark,
“ Bibb,
“ Macon,
“ Randolph,
’• Cass,
34 “ Walton,
“ Crawford,
•• Early.
•• Cherokee,
4th “ Baker,
•’ Jackson,
•• Meriwether,
“ Forsyth,
“ Upson,
Lee, Thursday after,
March.
Ist Monday, Cowet.ia,
“ Lumpkin,
“ Pike,
“ Sumpter,
“ Taliaferro,
2d “ Columbia,
“ Fayette,
•* Greene,
“ Laurens,
" Madison,
“ Marion,
'* Monroe,
*' Morgan,
“ Gwinnett,
“ Union,
Gilmer, Wednesday after,
3d Monday. Butts,
Elbert.
DeKalb,
“ Hall,
•* Putnam,
•• Talbot,
“ Murray,
4th “ Bullock,
“ Cobb,
“ Dooly,
Newton,
“ Walker,
“ Washington,
•• Wilkes,
Effingham,Thursday after
Arr.rt.,
Ist Monday, Warren,
“ Wilkinson,
’• Campbell,
2d " Carroll,
“ Dade,
'• Camden,
“ Hancock,
“ Harris,
“ lienry,
“ Franklin,
•• Montgomery
“ Twiggs.
Tatnall, Thursday after,
Wayne, “
3d Monday, Emanuel,
“ Habersham,
“ Heard,
” Glynn,
“ Jones,
•• Muscogee,
“ ‘Oglethorpe,
“ Pulaski,
Mclntosh,Thursday after,
4th Monday, Scriven,
•• Lincoln,
•• Rabun,
•• Jasper,
Tat fair,
•• Houston,
Troup,
“ Liberty,
Irwin, Thursday alter,
Bryan, Wednesday alter,
May,
Ist Monday, Burke,
„ Appling,
Ware, Thttrsclay after,
2d Monday, Chatham,
•• ’ Lowndes, ;
j 3,1 •• 'Jefferson,
•• Thomns, 1
i 4th “ Decatur, i
UNITED STATES COURT,
Sixth Cirruit for the district of Georgia—James M.
| Wayne, Circuit Judge—At Savannah, Thureduy alter
i the Ist Monday 3d Mr»y--Mu.i.ei»gevili.e, Thursday
1 after the Ist Monday Bth November—Rui.es day, the
I Ist Moiiday-s in each month, dpon which days all writs
I are returnable to lhe Clerk'S office in Savannah.
1 District Court—Jeremiah Cuyi.br, Judge—ln Sa
vannah,2d Tuesday 13th February—2d Tuesday Bth
May—2d Tuesday 14th August—2d Tuesday 13th No
vember.
LAW.
fTBAHE undersigned will attend the Courts in all the
B Counties of the Cherokee ■Circuit, Habersham
and Raburn of the Western, end Cobb of the Coweta
Circuit, and also the Conntiea of Benton and Cliero.
kee Ala. All business directed to their address Cass
ville, Ga. w ill receive prompt and punctual attfntion-
WILLIAM IL STEELMAN,
JOHN W. 11. UNDERWOOD.
Feb. 10. 4. w. Gnto.
GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY.
ERE AS Robert Allen applies to me for
▼ W Letters of Administration on the Estate of
John Gilbert, late of Jackson county, deceased.
Theas are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors, to be and appear
tt my office within the time prescribed by law,to ahew
cause, if any exist, why tail letters should not be
granted.
Given tinder my hand at office, this 22d day of Jan
uary, 1838.
JOHN CALDWELL, o. c. c. o.
Jan. 26. 2 30d.
Male Rights Hotel,
CANTOV, GEO- jiug
subscriber respectfully inform* 1"* friends
■ and the public, that be has removed from his 010
stand upon the west part of the public square to the
house formerly occupied by B. 1 Johnson. He as.
sure# those who may favor him with a call, that noth
ing will be wanting on his part to render them com
comfortable. His Table and Stables will be forntahed
with the best the country sfforda.
B. F. DANIEL.
Canton, Jan. 13—1 —wGw.
June.
Ist Monday, Baldwin,
“ Richmond,
August.
Ist Monday, Stewart,
“ Flovd,
2d " Clark,
“ Bibb,
“ Randolph,
Cass,
Macon,
3d '* Walton,
“ Crawford,
“ Early,
•• Cherokee,
4th “ Baker,
“ Jackson,
*• Emanuel,
•* Upson,
•• Meriwether,
Forsjth,
Lee, Thursday alter,
September.
Ist Monday, Pike,
'* Gilmer,
Taliaferro,
" Coweta,
“ Lumpkin,
2d ** Columbia
“ Madison
“ Morgan
" Laurens
“ Monreta
“ Fayette
" Greene
’* Marion
winnett
„ Union
3d .. Elbert
•, Butts
•. DeKalb
•• Hall
‘‘ Talbot
*‘ Murray
,* Putnam
,* Newton
~ Cobb
~ Walker
«, Bulloch
1, Dooly
• I Washington
** Wilke#
October.
Ist Monday, Warren
“ Wilkinson
“ Campbell
Montgomery
2.1 Hancock
Franklin
Camden
L Twiggs
Dade
Henry
Carrol
Harris
31 Emanuel
Oglethorpe
/ Habersham
,‘ Jones
,* Pulaski
,* ll< ard
Muscogee
4th \ Scriven
Lincoln
H Rabun
« Jasper
<• Telfair
o Houston
•• '1 roup
November.
Bulloch, Wednesday be
fore (he Ist Monday
Eflingham, Friday after,
the Ist Monday,
2.1 Monday, Jefferson
3d <« Burke
•• Applying
Warp, Thursday alter
Lowndes, Monday after,
Thomas, Mon. thereafter,
Decatur, “
- 4th Monday, Camden
i Wayne, Thursday after
; Glynn, Mondtty thereafter
; Mclntosh, Thursday
; Liberty, Monday, **
1 Bryan, Wednesday “
®r. A. PATTERSON
BEING permanent!}' located in Rome, Floyd V
comity, tenders bis services to the
generally, in the practice of Medicine and its collate
ral branches.
Rome, Jan. 13 —l—ts.
I»K OSF EC TILS
OF THE
SOUTHERN REVIEW.
F|p.O be published nt Washington, quarterly, in ah
B Bvo No. 0f275 to 300 pages, price $5 per an
num, payable in advance. The place is chosen, not
only for its facilities of information, literary and politi
cal, but as that at which the Southern States can bo
united upon the undertaking, with the greatest ease,
and uith the completes! exemption from all Statu or f
Party jealousies.
Os the matter, throe.fourths (say 225 pp.) sliaii enn'
sist of regular Reviews, making about 9 of 25 pp. each.
These must, as literary works at least, return as age.
neral rule, somewhat towards that older method, now
almost forgotten, and give a regular analysis of the
book reviewed, if i,t be of any merit. In Politics and
Upon Occasional Topics, there maybe a greater liber,
ty of deviating into mere disquisition.
In this portion of the Review, there will be gi en,
in each No. a paper historical of the Politics and gen.
eral eVents of the day; to serve as a Historical Regis
I ter. Its execution will a’ways be committed to the
■ strongest hands only; and its purpose, to give a unity
and consistency to the Public Doctrines of the Review
such as can scarcely be so well effected in any other
matter.
Occasional Retrospective RevieWi Will also be cm.
bodied in this part of the platl, with a view of favoring
in a certain degree, the more curious studies; or to re
vive the knowledge of important books, forgotten in the
confusion of modern learning.
Writers will be led, of reytiiar purpose td give their
papers, wherever the subject will permit, the form of
a service; in order not oily that they may thus afford
a completer body of information, serve, also, to reprint
apart, for popular circulation; a method that will much
augment both the reputation and usefulness of the Re.
view.
A body of Miscellanies (sav some 50 pp.) will forrri
the subordinateland more amusing part of the Journal.
Its contents will be somewhat Various; but will, for the
most part, consist ot short Literary Notices; Biblio.
I graphical Articles; a critical list of New Publications,
foreign and domestic, and general Literary Intelli
gence.
In Communications, the most compressed mode of
writ.ng will be every where required. Papers in
which the works do not bear a just proportion to the
information conveyed or the effect intended, will bn
either rejected, without scruple, or abridged, wliiiont
i mercy”
'l’o warrant this exaction, the Urtial rate of conipeir
ration to writers will be advanced to 2 1.2 dollars per
printed page; a price that will offer fair remuneration
to the talents and labor which we wish to secure.
Os this revival of a Review of the South, the pur.
j pose is. to give once more to our region, (now emin
ently needing it) an Interpreter and a defender ; thi
common Representative ot our Institutions, and of the
Mind itselfamong us. Such in that great Congrc-s
of Opinion, where the fates of civilized nations arn now
so largely settled, we do not possess and we Hava al.
ready suffered much for it. It io time to make our.
selves understood and respected thsro. The J .iiihhl
which shall do this, must combine the general strengh
of all who, throughout the South, love the country,
I and are capable of doing it intellected service. It mu»t
then be, not the Champion or the propagandist ot lo
cal opinions, but the friend of all that pursue the pub.
lie good. Into the vulgar methods of Polities, debas
ed by Partizan rancour, or corrupted by the imere*',
or overborne by the popular passion of the In.ur, it mti.r.
not fall —From it, the pride of the Nullificr must r«--
I ceive no diminution, the fidelity of the Unionists n >
! reproach : It mtlai 1.-.’ no vantage ground to either part,
j nor serve but as an equal field, where they will only
! contend which shall most advance the cnime of tl.n
‘ South, and of that older doctrine of Jeffersonian Statu
I Rights, avowed by both parties alike, and m>w the
I only hope of rallying and of rescuing the country.
To vindicate, then, our peculiar Institutions; to in.
bel with argument, lest presently we be forced to re.
hel with arms, all interference with ou. domestic con
dition, against the wild rule of mere Chance and Cor
j rnption, to up hold a Republican and Federative, a ad.e
--1 tinguished from a Democratic and Consolidating ad.
i ministration of the National affairs, from the iltsor.
tiers of the Central government. Where Reform is
hopeless, nnd even useless, till you have given your
selves stronger and wiser local systems—to drieet the
public view towards a home policy of the State, capa
ble, through itself, to confer upon us the blessings of
well ordered Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe
deral Power; from the delusiouol Party Politics abroad
to call home the wise nnd bravo hnve often raised
petty States into noble and prosperous Common wealth ;
to attach men. if possible, to their birth place, nnd
convert them from wandering and selfish ad venturer#,
into citizens, the lovers of civilization, to re.nnitnaie
public spirit, and give it purpose, as well as energy;
to hold, over parties nnd Politicians, the tribunal of a
Public opinion far different from that idle and corrupt
one, of w hich the new spaper Press is tlio voice; for
these purposes, to diffuse through the land, sound nnd
well considered public doctrines, with knowledge and
Taste, their natural allies, such will be the general
aim of that literary league, among the beat talents of
the country, which has been set oo foot in the present
undertaking.
Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to speak
i ao minutely. In general, it will of course strive to
| guide the popular tasie towards the best sources in
i knowledge, and the truest models in Elegant Letters.
Its judgments will however, found themselves upon,
the dent of his temporary renown, nor that of his birib
on thia or the other side of the Atlantic. Towards
; the few good writers, the want of cultivation has yet
permitted us have in America, it will know ft> be
respectful. But in Literaturs, as lately ill Trade, wo
shall insist that no man’s bad commodity be forced up
on us, ncder patriotic pretences. Upon all that school
of writained.
Upon the Literature of mere amusement, existence
enjoyed by this literary grass, which flourishes green
ly in the morning, and ia cut down and flung away be.
fore the night. Life ib <co short, Art too Jong, and*
Learning grown too prolific, for people to occupy them,
selves more than an instant with bad books, while
tush great bodies of good ones are at their command.
Professor of Anatomy, Mcdic/I College, S. C.
Charleston sth Feb, 183?.
NOTICE.
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All Letters on husiueas connected with their office,
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tended to.
WILLIAM R. WILLIAMSON, Sh’ff
R- roe, Feb. 2. 3. It.