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BY ALBON CHASE.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1840.
VOL. IX—NO. 17.
POETRY.
From ibf Dublin Renew.
Tiie Xipliliii' H 'ii!c.
FROM THE FUF.NCH OF I.A MAUTINE.
When tliy song 'mil the silonnc anl beauty of night,
AYingrl hunt of my solitude ! thrills,
How little thou knowest the glow of delight
Thy minstrelsy round thee distils!—
How enchanted my ear by thy singing ;—
How I touch not a leaf all around ,
How mv breath to my bosom is clinging,
'Dial I mar not the magical sound,—
How a port, whose lyre cannot waken, like thine,
The loftier accents of song,
Repeats, as thou ttourost thy wnrblings divine,
To the fields and finest* along!
Hut the star of the night, if to listen.
O'er the mountains she loves to delay,
From the branch, where her mellow rays glisten,
Thou silently (littcst away.
Ah ' thv strains upon earth are too holy to fall,
And to lie iven sublimely tliov (low—
An oseoaec of harmony blended from all
Tli rt is niiisie above or below :
The v.dle.v of shadows and slumbers,
The blue skies that over it shine,
The cave with its echoing numbers.
And the trees, have a voice,—it is thine!
From the murmuring surge—from the rustling of
leaves—
From the sound, in the grotto of stone,
AVIien the azure below from the cleft rock receives
Kverv drop, with a musi'-al moan—
From the voice which the night-hreeze, in sighing.
Brings out front the forest all o’er—
From the sound of the billows, in living,
'Mi 1 the ree ls on the murmuring shore —
From these—from their music of sweetest delight—
lie who made thee bath made thee a voice :
And thou poorest it forth to the groves every night,
And the groves in its magic rejoice.
Ah! the scenes and the (lowers so enchanting—
Kverv leaf, every breeze-shaken bough—
Can a voice to their beauty be wanting I
Their voice—ii is thou 1 ii is thou 1
That voice which is heard by the angels and me,
With mine,s.veetest melodist. Mend ;
For alike Heaven hearses—but sooner to thee
The ear of its mercy will boo l.
For thine are the songs that betoken
Peace, purity, (of ii.igs divine ;
Hut ours are h\ our wailings are 1 roken ;
We breathe lei'to weep and repine !
J.orrl ISyrotFs i*i:sy«*r.
Waltni ixirii in ilixlrcxs of uv.nJ, after Icariag th'
Juror lie scene of bix ymlb.
Forget lliis world, mv restless sprite,
Turn, turn thv thoughts to Heaven!
There must thou soon direct thy flight,
!; errors are forgiven.
To bigots and to sects unknown,
llovv down beneath the Almighty's throne ;
> hint add.css thy tiem'di :g prayer ;
He, who is merciful and just, .
Will not reject a child of dust,
Although bis me rue.*: care.
Father of Light ’ Jo thee 1 call,
My s >u! is dark \\ ilhin ;
Thou, who caret maik the sparrow's fall,
A vert the death of sin.
Tlmu. who eanst guide the wandering star,
Who eahn'st the elemental vva-,
Whoso mantle is yon boundless skv.
M v thoughts, my words, my crimes iorgivc :
And. since I soon must cease to lire,
Ins run me how to die.
MISCELLANY.
Weodeu Lcgtcrd Soldiers.—A Tale.
This is the heading which might appropri
ately he given to a pleasant little fiction, which
certain whig papers are industriously circu
lating, in order to extol the virtues of t'.icir
magnanimous and kind hearted nominee for
Hie Presidency. If we might behove these
prints, General Harrison is the personification
of all that is valiant m war, wise in council,
skilful in diplomacy, accomplished in scholar
ship, disinterested in patriotism, affectionate in
social intercourse, and lofty in the private rela
tions of life. How such wonderful endow
ments of virtue have so long escaped ihe ob
servation of the world, isastuiishingin theex-
trome, and reflects more severely upon the
proverhi.il stupidity and ingratitude of man
kind than any other incident oil record, llis-
•ory stands aghast at the baseness of the Athe
nians, who thrust into prison, Miltiades the il
lustrious hero of the Chcrsoucsns, of Lemnos,
of the Cyclades, and of Marathon, because of
Ins failure in the reduction of l’nros, but what
shall be said of the American people, who have
had among them for neatly seventy years one
of the greatest of human beings, a veritable se
cond Washington, a soldier who has never
been defeated, a statesman without blemish, a
politician of perfect purity, a citizen of sur
passing virtues, a man of commanding talent,
in short, an individual in every respect a pro
digy of valor and attainment, without having
discovered the fact till he is just about stepping
into the grave. As an instance of his generos
ity take the following incident, which wc pub
lish entire, because we have a long time pro
mised our readers an “interesting story.”
From the. N. Y. ]s>". Cabin.
‘Arc you personally acquainted, sir, with
CSencr.il Harrison.’
‘ Begar, sare, I have dc grand satisfaction, to
have de plaisare. sare, to have do grand intro-
ductiong, sare, to de brave hero and citizen.
I make you introductiong, sare, to dis gentil-
tomme vv.':0 v i!l tell you dc grand story of the
old fcjhenerall and dc wood )cg soldiare. A
foi1 it is ver good.’
1 With great pleasure, sir I will relate it, 5
said a very respectable looking gentleman in
black, who I afterwards understood was a cler
gyman. It was in the ye„r 1820, if my mem
ory is correct, that 1 was travelling in Ohio
with the view of purchasing a tract of land
for my son, when I fell in with a gentleman
who was a stranger and whom 1 found a very
intelligent and agreeable companion. A thun
der storm drove its into a near log cabin a little
distance from the road side, for shelter, where
we found a house full of children, a sick and
very interesting looking woman lying on a
humble but clean looking bed, and a young
pretty maiden sitting near. The husband and
father, with a wooden leg, and a deep scar
across tho brow, was bending over the lied and
pressing the hand of the sick woman between
both of his. His eyes were intently fixed on
a young infant, apparently a few months old.
The whole group had been indulging in tears,
and I saw one stealing from the dark and daz
zling eye* of the young damsel, ns she sat lis
tening apparently to some tale of woe which
her father told! Their tears were suddenly
wiped away as we approached, and were given
a cordial welcome.’
‘You seem to be in distress,’ said the stran
ger, my companion.
‘ I have faced the enemies of my country,
said the host, as he swung his wooden leg
around to close the door, and I have felt all the
pangs and privations of a military life, but all
this was nothing compared with what I have
sullered to-day.’
Stronger. Pardon me if I ask the cause ;
for I will relieve you if it lies in my power.
Host. My wife is afflicted with an internal
disease which renders it dangerous to move
her ; yet for a debt which 1 cannot imtnedia'e-
!y raise, the man who is agent lor another, de
clares it I do not pay it before to morrow at
twelve o'clock he will seize what little I pos
sess, and turn us all out to the mercy of the el
ements. lean neither raise the sum Ly that
time, nor obtain a shelter for my poor wife and
children, who must perish to gratify the malice
of a man whoso heart is a stranger to mercy.
The whole family melted into tears as he
concluded, and even the soldier himself, who
had laced the cannon’s mouth, could not re
frain from weeping.
Stranger. You have fought the battles of
the country ! May I be inquisitive in asking?
Host. Oli! yes, I fought under the brave
IIarrr.m at the Thames, and in other battles.
I speak ol him with pride, for 1 have seen his
sword glittering in the thickest of tho fight.
Stranger. Would you know him were you
to sec him ?
1 *°st. (gazing in his face) You resemble
him very much. \\ ere lie to know my sntier-
i'tgs he would instantly assist me. 1 have
seen him do several generous deeds.
Stranger. Where did you lose your .leg?
Host. It was shattered by a ball at the'glo-
rious battle of Tippecanoe.
Stranger. Well, my brave fellow, make
your mind easy; a hair of your head shall not
he injured. A on now see your General before
you, and as you have fought lor me and your
country, I will now protect you and your fami
ly at the risk of my life.
A sudden blaze of joy seemed to run from
heart to heart; the soldier clasped Gen. Har
rison in his arms, while the children pressed
liis hand wish alfcctioii.
“ We shall be saved from ruin/’ cried the
pale vile.
The General found the owner of the pieecof
land on which the soldier lived, and never rest
ed until he made the poor fellow a right to it.
He also discharged the debt, and a happier
family I never beheld.”
Not wishing to destroy the interest of this
touching narrative, so touching indeed, that
one almost “pokes his finger into his eye, and
begins to cry,” we are bound to say with the
Rochester liaily Advertiser, in which wo find
the original story, that the anecdote is a line
one, but that the author, unfortunately for its
truth, has told too much. The “glorious bat
tle” of Tippecanoe was fought on the 7th No
vember, 1 SI 1, and the battle of tho Thames
was fought on the 5th October, 1813, about two
years afterwards. According to this, the poor
one legged veteran of Tippecanoe, must have
met the firings of the. Savages and British on
the Thames, as a goose meets the “ pitiless
pollings of the storm,” on one leg. Goldsmith
makes l.is old soldier merely “shoulder his
crutch, and show how fields were won,” but
our modern writers place their worn out he
roes in the midst of battle, toelny about them
more vigorously than ever. “ We know,” says
the Advertiser; “that the American people
are celebrated for their bravery, their humani
ty: and their endurance of hardship and toil;
but we never before knew that they were so
cruel as to compel cripples to do duty in the
army, to make one legged soldiers invade a
foreign country. Nor "did we ever hear of
men wishing to serve our country as a com
mon soldier two years after their legs were
shot oil' m some previous engagement. We
advise their papers and the “ truth telling”
party to revise and correct their stories so that
hereafter they will not take a man to the bat
tle field upon crutches or wooden legs. Next
wc shall hear of the blind men fighting in our
armies, or the headless doing military duty.”—
N. Y. Evening Post.
American Gems.
"Wc notice in a late number of Silliman’s
“Journal of Science,” (which, by the way con
tains a fair proportion of first rate popular and
practical matter,) an article on the above named
subject, furnished hy Mr. Taber, who is, we
believe, a working jeweler, and resides in Phi
ladelphia. lie that r.s it may, he lias given a
very interesting account of several of the prin
cipal of our native precious stones, and we ap
prehend that some of the details will be as new
to most of our readers as they have been to
ourselves. There are reasons for our being
all comparatively ignorant as to this whole
subject. One is, that scarcely any attention
has yet been paid among ns to any branch of
mineralogy. Science in general is not so much
in vogue with us. We are loo busy for much
of it, just as wc are for the Fine Arts. And
this gem-lore, particularly, is an impracticable
consideration. It is. in fact, one of those same
fine arts. And moreover, so far as it is n trade
like other trades,—so far as there is a real de
mand for it,—the American branch of the bu
siness labors under great disadvantages as com
pared with the foreign ; with the established
trade, for example, of Bohemia and Oberstcen,
which it seems arc considered the principal
marts of Europe. Mr. Taber himself says,
there is one serious difficulty in the great differ
ence in. the cost of labor between this country
an’d Europe. Lapidaries are at present but
few in number, some of whom import polished
specimens and even metal jewelry for the very
purpose of breaking up and remodeling, them.
Stones ready cut for jewelry, may be imported
from Germany, at one quarter the cost of po
lishing specimens furnished in New York. It
is also true that the facilities are not so great
here for their manufacture ; there is a want of
enterprise in .this branch of the arts; but “ the
investment of a comparatively small capital
would soon give it another complexion.” With
this little preface by way of apology for the
general want of information on a subject in it
self certainly attractive, we proceed to avail
ourselves of a few of .Mr. Taber’s data. The
[country will be seen to possess somatrcasurcs
in this department which we presume most of
our readers would hardly have thought of.
One of these is the Chrysophrase, “a very
pretty second-class gem of a pea or apple-green
color,” much valued by jewellers, and used
even in tiaras and aigrettes. It is the same
stone mentioned in Revelation as the tenth
foundation stone of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
In some countries it is worn as an amulet.
This also is true of the Amethyst, which is
another American gem. This is used most ex-
ter.sively also, and even in royal crowns, such
sometimes is its beauty; and it is also men
tioned in Scripture, being appointed, in Exodus
for the ninth stone, in the high-priest’s breast
plate. A lighter use of it is for “ acrostic jew
elry,” so called. In England, as Mr. Taber
observes, when making a present of a ring or
broach, they have a delicate way of expressing
a sentiment; that of arranging the stones in
setting, so as to spell a word, a name, or a sen
tence ; for example, the initial letters of the
following stones, when combined, will form
the word Regard,—Ruby, Emerald, Garnet,
Amethyst, Ruby, Diamond.
This, together with some word or name, is
made up into a half-hoop finger ring. When
a sentence is desired, the stones are set entirely
around the finger, or a large centre stone or
glass lor the hair, or for a breast pin. The
imitations of this stone are so perfect as readily
to deceive, but on close examination small
globules of confined air, can be readily per
ceived ; “ the best method for the unpractised,
is to have recourse to the file.”
We possess also the Yellow Q,vartz, or
“ Bohemian Topaz?—closely resembling the
topaz,—very transparent, and in great demand
for seals, pins, bracelets, »S:c., and easily so
cut, as to imitate the rose diamond with the
star and pavilion faces, &c.
The White or 1 lock Crystal is more com
mon, and we have the Lest descriptions in
abundance. This, in transparency and polisli,
is second only to ihe diamond, and is the base
of all the inimitable gems. Opticians use it
for spectacles, ns less trying to the eyes than
glass. It is also harder, and not so easily
dimmed. Madagascar and the Alps furnish
much of it, but ours appears to be as good.
Our Brown Crystal, or Smoky Quartz,
again, is quite equal to the best Scotch. Mr.
Taber speaks of splendid specimens from Lan
caster County, Pennsylvania. lie says he has
seen it, in England, cut thin like a garnet, and
painted and backed with garnet foil, which it
not only imitated, but excelled the finest vine
gar garnet he ever saw ; and to render the il
lusion more complete, a hole, is sometimes
drilled in the centre, into which a turquoise is
inserted ;—this being the expedient resorted to,
to fill up the holes in real garnets, the finest
and largest of which come drilled as heads, to
avoid a heavy British duty. “A large centre
of brown crystal encircled with aquamarines,
set transparent, or without a back, has a verv
pleasing effect.”
The Precious Garnet, or “ Carbunclea
rich blood-red, is highly valued and much used.
Found abundantly near West Chester. Capi
tal engravings have been made on it.
And the same on Chalcedony, of which
more varieties are known than of any other
stone. It abounds in New-York and Pennsyl
vania, and some of the samples are “very
choice,”—mottled with huff’brown, on a semi
transparent ground. Used for snuff-boxes,
seal, pins, c.
Jasper is much like it, but always opaque.
It resembles also the Scotch Pebble. This
stone is mentioned in Holy Writ. It is found
very good at Hoboken, and bears a high
polish.
Corundum is much the same as Emery, and
so used. Very hard.
Ilypcrsthene, very soft. Used chiefly by the
French, and much with us. Found in the
Brandywine, and in Massachusetts.
The Spindle, crimson or rose-red,or pink:
very beautiful and used in line jewelry as the
Spindle Ruby. Professor Sillitnnn speaks of
“ fine” ones from Orange County in this State,
and from New Jersey.
Beryl. Found “splendid and perfect,” the
Professor says, at Iladdam, Connecticut, of late-,
—discovered by Professor Johnston, of the
Wesleyan University at Middletown ;—larger
than the emerald. In Chester County, Penn
sylvania, crystals of it exceed eight inches in
diameter. The Professor says, in New-Hamp-
shirc they exceed a foot, and weigh 2U0
pounds.
The Red Oxide of Titanium, Sphenc, Zir-
can, and Jade arc .also found, but little used.
Also the Tourmaline, iu Maine, in the utmost
perfection, “ without a parallel,” the Professor
says, “ in the world.”—Jour, of Commerce.
Anecdote of a Goose.—At the flour mills
of Tubberakeena, near Clonmel, while in the
possession of the late Mr. Newbold, there was
a goose which, by some accident, was left soli
tary, without mate, or offspring, gander, or
goslings. Now it happened, as is common,
that the miller’s wife had set a number of duck
eggs under a hen, which, in due time, were in
cubated, and, of course, the ducklings, as soon
as they came forth, ran with natural instinct
to the water,"and the hen was in a sad pucker,
her maternity urging her to follow the brood!
and her selfishness disposing her to keep on
dry land. In the meanwhile, np sailed the
goose, and, with a noisy gabble, which certain
ly (being interpreted) meant, leave them to mv
care—she swam up and down with the duck
lings, and, when they were tired with their
aquatic excursion, she -consigned them to the
care of the hen. The next morning, down
came again the ducklings to the pond, and
there was the goose waiting for them, and
there stood the hen in heir great (lustration.
On this occasion, we are not at all sure that
thegoose invitedtlie lien, observing her mater
nal trouble—but it is a fact, that she being
near the shore, the hen jumped on her back,
and there sat, the ducklings swimming, and
the goose and hen after them up and down
the pond. And this was not a solitary event •
day after day, the hen was seen on board the
goose, attending the ducklings up and down
in perfect cotitentcdness and good humour
numbers of people coming to witness the cir
cumstance, which continued until the duck
lings coming to days of discretion, required no
longer the joint guardianship of the goose and
the hen.—Dtiblin Magazine.
Animal Sagacity.—Wolves hunt with
great cunning, and concert warlike stratagems.
A gentlemau, walking in the fields, perceived
a wolf who seemed to be watching a flock of
sheep. He told the shepherd, and advised
him to set his dog on him. “ Not so,” answer
ed the shepherd ; “yonder wolf is there only
to divert my attention, and another wolf lurk
ing on the other side, only watches the mo
ment when I shall let loose my dog upon this,
to carry off one of my sheep.” The gentle
man, willing to be satisfied of the fact, prom
ised to pay for the sheep, and the thing hap
pened just as the shepherd had foretold. Does
not so well concerted a stratagem evidently
suppose, that the two wolves had agreed to
gether, one to show, the other to hide himself?
and how is it possible to agree in this manner
without the help of speech ? A sparrow pos
sessed himself of a swallow’s nest, the swallow
called for help to expel him; a thousand swal
lows flew immediately to attack the sparrow,
who, being covered on every side, and present
ing only his large beak at the strait entrance
of his nest, was invulnerable, and made the
boldest assailant repent his rashness. After a
quarter of an hour’s combat, the swallows dis
appeared ; the sparrow thought himself a con
queror, and the spectators judged, that the
swallows had abandoned the undertaking.—
Not at all; they soon returned to the charge,
and each being provided with a little of that
tempered earth of which they make their nest,
they fell all at once upon the sparrow, and in
closed him in the nest to perish there, since
they could not drive him thence.
The Last Yankekism.—A Yankee some
two or three years ago contrived a way of ma
king covered buttons, by just compressing an
edge of metal and so in one moment threw a
thousand women out of employment. Anoth
er Yankee by a different application of the
same idea, has contrived to put on buttons
without sewing, and that too, so that they can
never come off The invention is only appli
cable to metal buttons, and chiefly to those for
suspenders and straps under boots. The but
ton is made in two parts, the eye being a bolt
with a large head. It is pul through the cloth
and a hole in the button, when a single blow
rivets the two parts together, never to be sepa
rated. The thing is admirable; and already
the man who was fortunate enough to gc-t pos
session of the thought, is making his fortune,
with more orders on Land thnnffic can supply.
The same idea was applied to eyelet-holes not
long since, and at once the ladies were reliev
ed from a great deal of labor, and could belay
themselves much tauter than before. Let the
Yankees alone, and in a little while they will
have strawberry pickers, and whortleberry
rakes, and all such things.— N. Y. Mercury.
House of Napoleon at St. Helena.—
Mr. Bennett, a traveller whose journal has just
been published iu London, gives the follow
ing account of the lust home of the Emperor
Napoleon :
“ The house in which the chosen Emperor
of the French lived and breathed his last, is
now in the possession of a St. Helena farmer,
who treats the. building with respect, iu an in
verse proportion to the extent of his agricultu
ral improvements. When I visited this vene
rated edifice in the early part of the year 1833,
it lore the appearance of a respectable cot rage.
A small plot of garden-ground, enclosed by a
woeden fence, and a few steps, conducting to
a portion covered by a light verandah, occu
pied the front of the dwelling; while the inte
rior consisted of a billiard-room, and drawing
room. consecutively disposed, and a third
and more interior apartment, communica
ting on either side with a small closet, one of
which had served as Napoleon’s study, the
other as his bed-room. The sacra aurifames
had been spared the first apartment, or billiard-
room, which, furnished with a table and chairs,
was employed as a refreshment room for visi
ters; the drawing-room, in which Napoleon
expired, was more dilapidated, and contained
a threshing and winnowing machine, profuse
ly pencilled and chalked with names of per
sons. Now, also 1 the floors of all the rooms
were broken, decayed,.and scarce safe to tread;
the drawing-room was filled with manure ; and
the rest of the building devoted to stabling, or
something worse ; the whole presents a scene
of filth and ruin that would scarcely bear in
vestigation. Many rustic impediments, also,
cast in the way of easy access to the building,
ufficietitly evinced that visiters to the spot
were rather tolerated than desired. But few
relics of the garden behind the house now re
mained, beyond a portion of the quick-turf en
closure, a tank or fish-pond, and a solitary
peach tree; which last was at this time cover
ed with its delicate blossoms, as if in mockery
of the surrounding desolation. Tho “new
house” erected for Napoleon, but which he did
not live to occupy, is a large and handsome
building, placed but a short distauce from the
old residence, and so sunk in a vale, as to leave
but little more than the roof visible from the ap
proaches. It was until recently, the Governor’s
country residence ; but is now occupied by a
chaplain, and partly employed as a church.”
The Great Arctic Problem Solved.
The long mooted geographical problem of a
Northwestern Passage to the Pacific. Ocean
from the Atlantic is at length solved—there is
such passage. The honor of this discovery
belongs to Messrs. Dense &. Simpson, of the
Hudson’s Bay Company. -In 1837. and again
in 1838, they attempted to complete the explo
ration of the northern shore of this Continent
by desceudingCoppermine, which empties in
to the Arctic "Ocean, in longitude about lit)
west, and from its mouth proceeding eastward
until they should arrive at the westermost
point reached by explorers from the Atlantic.
In both years they skirted along a great extent
of coast, though much impeded by ice, but
failed to accomplish the grand object of their
pursuit. Now, at length, their perseverance
has been rewarded. They have ascertained
the Boothia is an island, and that it is separa
ted from the main land by a strait from 8 to
10 miles wide, which connects the Gulf of
Boothia (partially explored by the Fury and
•Hecla) with the'Arctic Ocean in about latitude
6S 33, jand longitude 98 19. The entire pas
sage from the mouth of Coppermine river to
the Atlantic, (extending near 50 degrees of
longitude) lies to the southward of latitude 69.
-—jour, of Commerce,
POLITICAL.
JUBGE COLQUITT’S
Stepty to the Bi'iCors of die Georgia
•Souniai aistl the t'Itr«uuc!c ami Sen
tinel:—
Gentlemen : Having been informed of the
unparalleled excitement that prevailed in Geor
gia upon the subject of the Presidential elec
tion, before I wrote my circular, I apprehend
ed that I should incur the displeasure of many
highly esteemed friends if l dared to think for
myself, and pursue in that contest the dictates
of an honest judgment. No one regretted
more than I the prospect of a division among
those who had been so long associated upon
those principles which 1 have always cherish
ed, and which l shall ever advocate, as the
best safeguards ofconstitulioual liberty. While
you are endeavoring to impress the minds of
your readers, in order to excite their prejudi
ces against me, (because I prefer the election
of Mr. \an Bureu to that of General Harrison)
be kind enough to tell them that, in doing so,
1 have neither repudiated, condemned, nor
abandoned, a solitary principle of the State
Rights party. But yon desire the inference to
he trade, that I have made a wonderful change,
because I prefer Van Buren to Harrison. Let
us see how this stands: Neither Van Buren or
Harrison is a State Rights man; both having
been oppose? to those political principles and
doctrines that brought the State Rignts party
into existence. The whole party was, there
fore, so longasit made our principles the test,
standing alike opposed to both. J, then, ns a
member of the party, was against Harrison as
well as Van Buren ; mid, if 1 should now prefer
Harrison to Van Buren, and support him, might
you not say what a wonderful change! Judge
Golquitt was. a short time since, opposed to
General Harrison, and it is now lor him to re
concile how tic is for him: Hy stating the
case in this way, you will perceive that the
Journal would be busy in giving reasons for
having undergone some slight change within
the last few weeks. And 1 should be glad you
would charge home a similar change upon
every State Rights man who gives his "support
to Harrison. You will, in this way, clearly
perceive that an issue is now made; by the
very making of which every member of the
party, no matter which candidate he may pre
fer, is equally made liable to the charge of hav
ing changed. 1 will refer you to the very ap
propriate remarks made upon this subject in the
editorial of the Georgia Journal of tho 28th of
April, ‘That a nomination of General Harri
son by the convention will produce the effect
of forming a new, to the destruction of the Slate
Bights party, must be evident to all who re
flect upon the subject,’etc. This issue, which
is a formal dissolution of the party, I had no
right to anticipate; and, when 1 learned that
it was at all probable, 1 labored to prevent, not
by endeavoring to get up Van Buren meetings,
as I understand is currently reported in private
circles, but by desiring the nomination of
Harrison to be opposed, that a split might there
by be prevented. Almost the entire State
Rights party responded to the resolutions pass
ed at Milledgcvillc last winter; and 1 think
yon will do me the justice to say that i have
been among the last to abandon the position
assumed by the pniiy. And yet you scent to
wish it understood that I have changed, while
the mass of tho party are consistent. I am to
be jeered for associating in this election with
our former opponents in Georgia, while those
who advocate Harrison would gladly embrace
every Union man in the State, who would
come to their help iu the contest, and trumpet
forth every acquisition from their ranks ns a
happy omen for success. The editors of .the
Chronicle and Sentinel, l suppose by way of
reproach, say that 1 am now associated with
Ccuam Emir Bartlett; and do the editors deem
it a reproach ? if so, they are entitled to its ben
efit ; for Cosam Emir Bartlett is the editor of
a paper in Florida, and has hoisted the Harri
son ling. But, gentlemen, apart from this, you
must permit me, in the spirit of kindness, to
notice a few of tho remarks you have been
pleased to make upon my circular and upon
me, which, if not so intended, is calculated to
affect my character. This l had no right to
expect, especially from the editors ol the Jour
nal, whose personal knowledge of mo, and of
my motives, enabled them to know that, in
their strictures, they were doiug me manifest
injustice. The frequent charges of‘retailing
slander, stating falsehoods, suppressing truth,
garbling to deceive,’ &c., with which your edi
torials abound, by which my character is as
sailed, 1 will show you, are not supported by
the facts upon which you rely; and, if you
have inadvertently fallen into errors, you will,
as honorable men, correct them ; but, if your
attack has been a studied design to injure or
destroy my character in order to elevate Gen
eral Harrison, it will merit the censure of eve
ry honest citizen of the land. As you arc at
the head of leading and influential political
journals, you will pardon me for saying that
abuse is not argument, by it you may succeed
in pampering prejudice, to whose empire every
principle of justice and political truth may be
sacrificed, but it usually indicates bad hearts, a
weak cause, and vicious purposes.
It sometimes happens that, when truth istoo
forcible to be palliated or denied, abuse and
even vulgarity are subterfuges to escape from
its force. You say that I charge General Har
rison with being an Abolitionist. Here is our
first issue. I say 1 have made no such charge,
and your saying that I did is not supported by
any part of my circular. I say this: that he
was nominated ‘ with the view and for the pur
pose of obtaining strength by procuring the
votes of Abolitionists.’ This truth is too uni
versally admitted for a denial, and you have,
therefore, carefully evaded its point. I pro
ceed to give evidence of what has transpired
here during the present Congress, showing the
character of the two parties upon the subject
of Abolition, to which 1 hope you will look
with attention, as it deeply concents the inter
est of Georgia; and its truth none denies. I
state this: That ‘much pains has been taken
to throw poppies over theeyesofthc South by
attempting to prove that General Harrison.
himself is not an Abolitionist.’ Now do you
mark what 1 said ; that the effort to put the
people to sleep and ofi'lheir guard was by at
tempting to prove that General Harrison him
self is not an Abolitionist. While I, in mv cir
cular, price that Subject upon different ground,
and show that he ought not to be trusted up-
f b y r «ason of the influence
ough winch he was nominated ; by reason
the character ol northern Whigs, shown by
their \otcs m Congress upon that subject; bv
reason of the Abolitionists claiming his
nomination ns an advancement and triumph
ol their principles; by reason "of his being
opposed to slavery and desiring it abolished •
and hy reason of his refusing to say now
whether he is an Abolitionist or not. These
are the grounds I took iu my circular,
none ol which you deny, or can deny; but
content yourselves to divert public atten*
Lon from those issues which I make; and at
tempt to do the very thing which 1 say efforts
arc. making at the South to accomplish, by de
luding a question which admits ofnroument
1 say m my circularexplicitlv, ‘ Whether he
is the advocate ol the present action of the Abo
litionists is immaterial.’ While you are at
tempting to prove that Harrison is no Aboli
tionist, l charge that ‘official letters and speech
es prove this : that lie is opposed to slavery
and desires it abolished.’ 1 then give nri extract
horn his circular to prove what? that he is an
Abo itionist? No; I tit to prove his opposition
to slavery. You say that 1 garbled this letter
m order to prove lie was an Abolitionist. I
want you to publish the entire letter once more,
and let every candid man determine whether
any and every part of the letter does not prove
what I alledge it establishes. Look to my
circular, at page (j, and alter making the ex-
tract,sec what 1 say it demonstrates; I say
1 ibis circular proves that he is unfriendly to
slavery, and that lie considered it a calumny
to be considered friendly, necessary for him to
repel: and it proves that ho was so anxious to
retain the fticndsl.ip of the A! olitionists that
he actually thought it necessary to obtain a
certificate that he was a member of an Aboli
tion society. Now- I ask yon if any part of the
circular which 1 omitted disproves wlir.t 1 state
the circular proves ? But does not the residue
of the letter prove the same facts ? Why did
General Harrison, so many years after, get a
certificate that he had been a member of an
Abolition society ? Do you not know that he.
obtained this certificate from Judge Gatch, id'
order to satisfy the Abolitionists that he wi&
friendly to their cause ? I do not ask why he*
joined the society originally; but 1 ask any*
iiian to define the object he had. so many years-
afier, for procuring this certificate that he had
been a member of ail abolition society. The
object is too plain. He considers it slander*
to be accounted friendly to slavery; and yet
slaveholders are invited to make him Pre*i-
dent.
You charge me with making a garbled ex
tract to prove that lie was an Abolitionist, while
my ciicular plainly shows that you have been
guilty of a very manifest misconstruction, ora
wanton attempt to deceive your readers at the
expense ofmy character. What else do I say ?
that ‘ ii oilier proof be necessary to show that
he is opposed to slavery, and wishes it abolish-
id, read again that part of his speech (a part of"
which basso often been published in Lis de
fence) in which he says: ‘should I be askedif
there is no way by winch the General Governr
mcnl can aid tne cause of emancipation, I an
swer that it has long been nu object near mjr
heart to see the whole of its surplus revenue*
appiopriatcd to that object.’ This extract was*
made to piovc his anxiety to Lave slavery
abolished ; and I once more challenge you-to*
publish the enure speech, and point me to a^
solitary letter or syllable that disproves the'
charge. You have too much intelligence-
Ihctc.ore, to suppose that it was necessary for
me to publish the entire speech, w here no part
ofit contradcls or disproves w hat 1 allege it
proves. I ask you to state, as candid men,
who ought to have proper regard for truth
and virtue, i: any pait of that circular and
speech of General Harrison's disproves whnt
1 aver it does prove ? And 1 then leave it to
your ow n sense of justice to say w hether your
charge of garbling, to deceive, is uot unjust and
unfounded. J
I will not charge you with having mudo a.
wilful misrepresentation for the purpose ofex-
ciling prejudice against my character, for I
have charity enough to hope that you have-
misunderstood and misconstrued what I think
is very plainly written; and that, calling your
attention to your mistake, will induce you to
look over my circular once more, when it will
doubtless afford you great pleasure to make tho
necessary correction. , You are very welcome
to all your evidence by which you attempt to es
tablish that he was not some years ago an Aboli
tionist; his opposition to slavery you cannot de
ny 5 that he is anxious to have it’aboiished you
cannot deny : that the hope of getting Abolition-
istsWotes influenced his nomination you cannot
deny ; that tLe advocates of the Abolitionist;
who are in Congress are his supporters, yow
cannot deny; that the Abolitionists Lulled his
nomination a triumph of their principles and:
the overthrow of slavcocracy, yon Cannes
deny; that the Abolitionists of the State of
Ohio, where he lives and where they ought to
understand his feelings best, give him a cordini
support, you cannot deny; that he is new iu
the charge of a committee, and refuses to an
swer friends or foes upon this subject, yon can
not deny; and that these various connecting'
circumstances very far outweigh a vote giveru
twenty years ago, or declarations mode front
four to six ycars-back, when there was much,
less excitement upon that subject than at pre
sent,1 think no candid man will deny. If a Pre
sident should be elected, though he should be
an Abolitionist, having no such influences op
erating upon him, he would have no power to
destroy our right of property in slaves; but
with such influences brought to bear upon a
President opposed to slavery, and anxious to
have it abolished, presents an alarming and a
fenrful prospect for Ihe South. The number
of Abolitionists ii) the State of Ohio is said Co
have more than doubled since one word, has
been made public from Geueral Harrison upon
the subject. 1 desire to call your attention, in
the next place, to a few mistakes yon hare ac
cidentally made upon the subject of his Feder
alism. I say accidentally, for I should dislike-,
to lose tny high regard for ycur sincerity ajia
candor in placing every thing very fairly be
fore the public that interests that public, whcU*.
cr it would favor of militate ngajns^ yjJr