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VOL. XXIV.
ATHENS, GEO., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1855.
XO.36
(TIjt ioiitjjfntlknittr,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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». A. IKANKI.IS H1I.L, JAMKS A. SLEOUE
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of Athens and vicinity, that his office is still
ever Wilson .V Ve il s Clothing Store, College Avo
ntie, opposite the Post Office.
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MOORE & CARLTON,
D EALERS ill Silk. Fancy and Stnple Goods,
Hardware and Crockery, No. 7, Grnute Row,
Athens. I is. [Jan. 26.
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T. II. WILSON & BROS.,
yilOI.ESALE and retail dealers in Dry Goods,
1 tiroceries, Hardware, Crockery, Ac., Nos. 3
Avenue, Athens, Ga.
and 1, Colic.'
March It).
SAMUEL P. T1ICRM0NW,
^ TT< IKNEY AT LAW, Jefferson, Jackson conn-
tv, t la., will attend promptly to nnv business
Confided to bis rare. ’ [April !*>, 1855.
WILLIAM C. 1)EL0\EV,
Attorney nt Lan 1 ,
V17ILL give especial attention to collecting, and to
’ * tue claim* ot .ill persons entitled to L AN 1) WAH
KANTS under the late bounty Land bill of the la-at
Confirms.
Oiti. «*o:» Broad .Street, over the store of I. M. Ken
ney. Athens, tin. March 15—if.
HILL & THOMAS,
D EALERS in Silk, Fancy, and Staple Goods,
Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, Ac., No.
Granite Row, Athens, Ga. [Jail. 19.
FERRY & REESE,
W HOLESALE and retail dealers in Hats, Caps.
Boots. Shoes, Trunks, Ac., between Drs
Lull's' and White's comer, Broad street, Athens,
(is [Jan. 19.
F. W. LITAS,
W HOLESALE and retnil dealer in Dry Goods,
Urocieries, Hardware, Ac., No. 2, Broad st.
Allien,, (lit. [,lnn 19.
Fro.n the Boston Post.
THE BATTLE OF LOUISVILLE.
“ I congratulate you on your glorious
victory."—Mayor Barbee's Speech.
It was on August evening
The bloody work was done,
And “ Samuel” at his cottage door
Was sittinsr in the sun;
Anil by him sitting on a stool
His little grand-child, William Poole.*
They saw the dead, with ghastly wounds
And limbs burnt off, borne by;
And then old Sain he shook his head,
And with a holy sigh,
“ They're only Dutch and Irish," said he,
Who fell in the great victory!"
“ Now toll me wliat ’twas all about,”
Young William Poole lie cries,
While looking in his granddad’s face
Wifh wonder-waiting eyes—
“ Now loll me all about the war,
And what they killed the Irish for.”
‘They were know nothings,” Samuel cried,
“ Who put them all to rout;
Hut what they shot and burned them for
I could not well make out.
Hut Mayor Ilarhee said,” quoth he,
‘ Thai '/was a glorious victory t"
“The Dutch and Irish lived in peace,
Yon silvery stream hard by;
The Hindoos buret their dwelling down,
And they wore forced to fly ;
So with their wives and children fled,
Nor had they where to rest their head
“ With fire and guns the city round
Was wasted far and wide;
And many an Irish mother then
And new-born baby died ;
Rut things like that, you know, must be
.It a know unthin ' victory!
‘They say it was a shocking sight,
After the day was won;
For twenty bloody corpses thero
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, mnstbe
jIt a know nothing victory !"
“ Great glory George D. Prentice won,
And also Captain Stone.”
“ Why, ’twas a very wicked thing,”
Quoth Samuel’s little son.
“Nay, nay, my little hoy,” said he,
“ It was a know nothing victory /”
“ And Cayennes said : “ Americans
Americans shall rule.’ ”
“ But what good came of it at last?”
Quoth little William Poole.
“Why, that I cannot tell,” said lie;
“ But 'twas a GLORIOUS victory /”
btellaim,
From the N York Spirit of the Time*.
Uncle Peter’s account of the Battle of
Yorktinvn.
Uncle Peter was a “rare one” in his
wav, and though he “fit,” ns he said, at
Y’orktown and New Orleans, yet he al
ways praised “Old Hickry” over every
one else. “Talk tu me ‘hout yer Gincr-
al this and ’totlier, but old Andrew was
the boss for a scrimmAge,” he used to
say. Now, though Uncle Peter was on
ly three years old at the seige of York,
he always swore that he was there and
had a “hot time of it, too.” He was
not again in this world, may we all meet
in the mansions of our Heavenly father,
through Jesus Christ. God bless and
protect you; and ever believe me.
“ Your affectionate husband and lov
ing father.”
“THOMAS SHADFORTH.”
A Curious Sermon.
The Brandon (Miss.) Register reports
the following curious sermon, preached
at the town of NVatcrproofs, not far from
Brandon :
‘ I may say to you, my brethcring,
that I am not an edecated man. an’ I am
not one of them as believes that educa
tion is necessary fur a Gospol minister,
fur I believe the Lord edecates his prea
chers jest as he wants ’em to be-edecat
like some folks nowadays who know an’ althogh I say it'that’bughtSHTiU)
everv bodv vou can mention, and warn ok— U fl. n nrimUcnv vlur T lOUTUlOW I
* N ..mi'll after th ■ q-ext prize .flighting bully, who
was cnininizcd in New York, and followed to hia
grave by eight thout^d men.
MY POOR LOUISE.
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HOLESALE and retnil Dnurcists, Athens,
(la.,keep constantly on hand a Inrco and well
selected stock of Points, Gils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs,
Brushes. Window Glass mid Putty.
Also, dealers in American, French and Enxlish
Chemical, Dru^s, Medicines, Perfumery and Fancy
A articles.
JTF' Physicians, Dealers and all others, enn de
pend open their orders nicotine prompt attention,
upon the most accommodating terms. Their goods
am selected with great care, and will he warranted
os represented. Jnn. 19.
T. erilSIlot sE, C. N. AVERILL
T. STEMIOUSE & fO.,
1 .10HWAHDIN0 nml OoTnmwsinn Morcbnnts,
No. Hnyne Str«**t, Charleston, S. C. Refer
to K Dulin, Hind, Williams X Wilcox, Charleston;
Hand, William* X Co. Augusta; J. Norciww, Atlan
ta, C.C. Chandler, Chattanooga; K. H. X 1). L.
Coffin A Co., Knoxville. July 20—ly.
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R. L. BLOOMFIELD,
'HOLESALE nml retail Clothing Store, Broad
StrreCt, Athens, Ga. [May 10.
II. N. JI DSON,
f t OMMISSON MERCHANT, and denier ini choice
J Family llrocories, Confectionaries, Fruits, Ac.
.m the comer of Brond and Jackson streets, Athens,
(la. April 26,1855.
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY AND
MACTII.KE WORKS.
I RON and Brnsa Onstines of every variety nml
A description. Improved Iron Circular Saw Mills,
warranted equal to the host : Steam Endues, For-
cin? Pumna, Gold Minim;, Mill, Gin, nnd all other
kinds of (jeering Mill Irons nnd all kinds of Ma
chinery male to order; Iron Fencing of select pat
tern* : 'Plough nnd Wagon Costings nnd Dog irons.
Every variety of repairing nnd wrought iron work
promptly executed.
Our general assortment of patterns, ore the nocu
mutation of years. A list will bo sent those ad
dressing, post-paid.
REUBEN NICKERSON. M. E..
Agent Athens Steam Co., Athens, Gn.
Jan 18—ly.
AX IDYL, qv WILLIAM WINTER.
I
Pale she was as a lily leaf,
My poor Louise!
And you knew from the calm of her saintly
eyes.
From the gentle tone of her sweet replies;
And the kindness that flooded your heart with
surprise,
That her bosom waslnden wtih sacred grief,
Deeply hidden beyond relief,
My poor Louise.
IL
Ever the same from morn till night,
Pensive and mild;
In her gentle way there was nothing of art.
And her kindness it was of the breaking heart,
Or that which is broken quite!
Sometime her dark blue eyes grew dim,
And dreamy with excess of pain ;
And there seemed gushing to their brim,
And then her sorrow ebbed again,
And so she smiled—
A smile delirious, ghast, wild—
My poor Louise J
III.
A thing she was of perfect grace,
Of angel beauty in form and face.
My poor Louise!
Soft gold hair in many a curl,
Shadowed a sweet brow pure as pearl.
And fell in an airy graceful flow,
On the delicate bosom, white as snow.
Of poor Louise!
Her lips in a beautious curve of pain.
Were bent and formed to a pretty pout;
And in her eyes the smile was vain
To hide the sorrow looking out;
But wc never heard
A mourning word,
And though we saw in those eyes so fair.
The same sweet smile,
Yet all the while
We knew that death was lurking there.
IV.
every body you can mention, and were
present at evert' event of importance
that has transpired during their life time,
and often some years before. In telling
his war exploits, uncle Peter used to
warm up to a heat that his sentences run
into each other without stop. You had
only to ask, “Uncle Peter, you were at
the battle of Yorktown, wasn’t you?”
“Thar, bless your soul, houcy, yis I
reckon I was tliar.”
“Well, tell us all about it, Uncle
Peter.”
Ah ! there was fighting for yon. "We
fit the hul live long day. I had the big
gest musket in the rigiment, and wored
a coat with two big pockits on the out
side, one chock full of balls and ’totlier
chock full of powder, and I poured in a
handful of both each tiipe. Lawky,
honey, to have seed me rake ’em ! I
shot so fast, and my muskit got so hot, it
burnt all my trowsers off, when old Gin-
cral Washington rid up, and sez he
“ Stop it, Peter—for God’s sake quit
it, you are doin it to ’em tu bad; but 1
kept on rakin ’em for all that. The
widow's and the orphans I made that day
was considerable.”
“And you saw Dick Clark there,
didn’t you, Uncle Peter?”
“ Wh—o— Dick, brother to Tom
Clarke. Why yis, ir. course I did; he
and I was in the same rigimint. Dick
blow'ed the fife that day, and while the
drums was beating and Dick a-bio win’
there coined along a big smashing can
non ball and struck Dick’s fife, and split
it all tur Hinders, and jist at that time
Gineral Washington rid up, and j work
ed a bran new fife out of his pocket, and
sez he—‘Here, Dick, tak this ’er fife,
and don’t stop a blpwin, but blow ’em tu
hell."
The improbability of this story, and
Uncle Peter’s face, were enough to make
a dog laugh—-if those noble animals are
given to laughing—and yet he had told
the story so often that he believed it
true.
“Well, what about the battle of New
Orleans, Uncle Peter \ You were thar
too wasn’t you ?”
“Thar? Guess I war thar, and of all
the rought fightin I ever had thar was
the greatest. Now you see I had that
same muskit, and I tipped ’em over eve
ry pop. There were so many of ’em
that I jist shut my ey es and blazed into
the crowd. I must have kilt a thousand
or so; and when the battle was over,
Gineral Jackson come riding by, sez I—
‘Gineral, didn’t wc do it to ’em ?’ when
he flung himself of!' his boss, and put his
arms round my neck, almost crying, and
sez lie—‘Peter, don’t call me Gineral,
call jne Andrew,’ nnd I has called him
Andrew ever since.”
You can scarcely find an old nogro
in Virginia now who will not “own tip *
to having been in the battle of York
town, though he may have been like
Uncle Peter, only three years old at the
time, Peter Ross was a veritable per
sonnge, and bom and lived in the county
of Hanover, Va. J. T. G.
say it, in the State of Indianny, whar I
live, thars no man as gits a bigger con
gregation nor what I gits.
Thar may he some here to-day, my
brethren as don’t know what persuasion
I am uv. Well, I may say to you, my
brethring, that I’m a Hard Shell Bap
tist. Thar’s some folks as don’t like
the Hard Shell Baptists, but I rather
have a hard shell as no shell at all. You
see me here to day, my brethring dres
sed up in fine clothes ; you musn’t think
I was proud ; but I am not proud, my
brethring, and although I am not proud,
my brethring, and although I’ve been a
preacher of the Gospel for twenty years
an’ although I’m Captiug of the Hat
boat that lies at your landing I’m not
proud my brethring.
I’m not a gwine to tel! adzactly whar
my text may he found ; suffice to say,
it’s in the leds of the Bible, and you’ll
find it somewhar between the first chap
ter of the book of Generations, and the
last chapter of the book of Revolutions,
and ef you’ll go and sarcli the Scriptu
res, you’ll not only find my tex tliar,
but a great many other texes as will do
you good to read, and lqy tex when you
shill find it, you shill find it to read thus:
• And lie played on a harp uv a thou
sand strings—-spirits of just men made
perfeck.’
My tex, brethring, leads me to speak
of spirits. Now thar a great may kiud
of sperits in the world—in the fust place
thar’s the sperits as sum folks call
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY AND
WAItE-IiOOJI.
T HE tindorsiitneil lx>E*tn annnnnrn tl\nt lie has
now on l.and nt hi* WARE ROOM, nenr the
Epiocopal Clinrch, an extensive assortment ot For-
*«•<>■*, of every <le*eri|'tion. Connected with the
Ware room, is a CAJIISF. T SHOP, where he is
prepared to make anv article of furniture to order,
Sadat short notice, niid to repair old furniture, do
aphoUterinc, 4c„ Ac. Ho keep* on hand an ns-
tortment of Gilt Mootdinprs, of every variety.
1‘Uk’s Patent metallic and other coffina,
foristnntiv on hnud. US” TERMS CASH.
November 30, 1854. WILLIAM WOOD.
NEW TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.
H AVIJJO secured the sorvices of O. V. Caldwell
formerly cutter for Win. O. Price, of Savannah
•o<l Aucu.tr,, 1 will have executed, in the neatest and
1 •d'ionablo style, all orders confided In our care.
’ ni'. .Vogel goods, we will take the measure and
onward the pattern to our manufact sring establishment
V *** where 1 will pay tiarticuly attention to
joe material toil ..inking, and forward the garment
"* r * the ruatntnei in three week* from the lime the
Wanne is left.
.,.” c "ill have a good assortment of plain and fancy
Moth., CaM.meres, Vesting, Ac , here by the 15th of
J “lv. at which time all orders left, will meet with
prompt attention.
'-hitting and making at the shortest notice.cn very rea
*“•? I*™**, trom thin day forward. *
Athens, Jnue28,1855. R. L. BLOOMFIELD.
At sunset of an August day
Her eyes were closed most tranquilly,
And thus she breathed her life away,
My poor Louise!
That heart no longer to and fro
Beat with the heavy throb of woe;
Nor did those tender eyes as once,
But all was hushed and still.
Her features, calm in perfect rest,
The marble stillness of her hreart,.
O’er whi( h her thin white hands did Ly
Crossed and folded peacefully;
The fragrant flowers wharewith we hid ;
The darkness of the coffinJid .
The last fond kiss,—it will ever lie
On the solemn shrine of memory—
The forms around in sable dress;
The mournful tone;
And then the sense of dreariness
And being all alone;
These are the things that hunt me yet—
These, these 1 never can forget,
No poor Louise!
JW. HTBLOPEOSS.—The »nb*cri
REQRnaiTl. ber ha* opened naassortincnt of
Tjtrfnl Price A Co.'s celebrated Melodeons,
* J “ which be will sell nt the Monufactu-
with the addition of freight.
_ Apnl 19—jy_ A. K.
. CHILDS.
.feCK), stock of Dry
Hardw« 9 w w Boots and Shoes,
B^SrCZ 1 ?' 000 lb * extra Tennessee Bi
ij-rtilS. b? T BISHOP A
Bacon, for
SON
Near the Banks ef that Lone River.
B7 GEORGE P. MORRIS.
Near the banks of that lone river,
Where the water-lilies grow,
Breathed the fairest flower that evw
Bloomed and faded years ago,
How we met and loved apd parted,
None on earth can ever know—
Nor how pure and gentle-hearted
Beamed the mourned one years ago,
Like the stream with Itllies laden,
Will life’s future current flow,
HU in heaven 1 meet the maiden
Fondly cherished yeare ago,
Hearts that love like mine forget not;
They’re the same in weal or wee;
And that sty of memory set not
In the grave of years ago,
The Soldier's Letter to His H ifc on the
Eve of Battle.
Col. Shadforth of the 57th, was killed
in the attack on the Redan on the 18th
of June. Acting Sergeant Major George
Cummtng, in enclosing to the wife of
Col. Shadforth the following letter of her
husband, after speaking of the high es
timation in which he was held liy the
regiment, thus describes his death :
“ I spoke to him a few minutes before
he fell; the last words I heard him say
were, ‘Now Colonel Ware, you miud the
right, 1 will take the left, and Major
Inglis the centre.” This was said amidst
a shower of missils of every kind, and
he was then as cool and collected as if
on parade. Poor Colonel! it was the
last order I heard him give, and the last
time I saw him alive. He could not
have suffered much pain from the nature
of his wound.”
The following is the touching letter of
Col. Shadforth to his wife written the
night before the assault:
Another Letter from President Long-
street—To the Methodist Know Noth
ing Preachers.
When I closed my last address to you,
I was speaking of your professed love of
the person, and opposition to the religion
of the Catholic. Now it so happens that
all your opposition is to the peison, and
none of it to the religion of the Catholic.
Tour whole aim is to deprive him of of
fice. How can keeping him out of office
affect his religion? I k . is opposition, in
any one, dangerous and unprovoked; iu
preacher*) jgnaWo afifl ungenerous, f the
Ou’know that yourTBiies of the world
hosts, and then that’s the sperits uv
care nothing about religion ; that their
hostility is directed exclusively against
the members of that Church. That ma
ny of them are intemperate, thoughtless,
indiscreet, desperate. That encouraged
by your countenance, and inflamed by
your speeches, they will regard Catho
lics as the enemies of the country; as
hypocrites and knaves; and they will
treat them accordingly. They will as
sail their persons, destroy their property,
desecrate their Churches, and rob
them of their civil privileges gener
ally. This has been done, to some
extent, already; and it will grow
worse with every accession to your
strength. The Catholics cannot bear
thislong. They will become desperate,
arm in self-defence, and all who lo ve jus
tice aud hate oppression, will join them.
These will be denounced by your clan,
as traitors to tlieir country, aud its reli
gion, and slaves, of the Pope. They
will become, enraged at such imputations
only for espousing tlio cause of the inno
cent, and hurl back the charges. Hot
blood will soon produce blows, and blows,
merciless civil war. This is to be the
end of your love for Catholics, and ha
tred of their religion, if history be worth
anything. Are these things only possi
ble ? What are then all the offices of
the world, compared to such consequen
ces ? Have you not had signs terrific al
ready, that they are not only possible,
but utmost certain, if you keep up your
orgauization ? Come out of it theu, it
let us always rejoice to strengthen each
other’s hands in God.” I could quote
much more from Mr. Wesley’s works to
the same effect.
But a letter of his has been going the
rounds of the newspapers, which the
Know' Nothings obviously tliiuk gives
the sanction of that good man to their
movement. Not so. Mr. Wesley was
not the man to write as inconsisteuly, as
their version of this letter makes him
write. That letter was written to show
that Protestants would not be safe from
oppression under Catholic government.
No doubt of it in the world. Nor would
Catholics bo safe under Methodist gov
ernment, as pour plots against them now,
most clearly demonstrate. The truth is,
no religious sect is to bo trusted with
'.AjMk if#
were To lake the stump against you, I
would say to the honest yeomanry of the
country, “good people, if you thiuk that
your liberties will be' any safer iu the
bands of Methodists, than Catholics, you
are vastly mistaken.” And, in proof ol
this assertion, I would point to the out
rages of the Methodist unyority in 1844,
which split our Church. I would add,
in humiliation, but iu candor, “you have
ten thousand times more to fear just at
this time,from Methodists,than Catholics;
simply because the first are more numer
ous than tlio last, because the first are
actually iu the field for office, while the
last are not ; because the first, by rea
son of their numbers, arc the pets of the
strongest political combinations that ever
was formed in this country—secret and
oath-bound at that. And if you will
take an old man’s advice, when Church
es get to quarreling, aud politicians e vil
on you to do justice between them, I
would advise you to deal with them all,
as the Indian magistrate did with the
parties to a prosecution before him, for
fighting, lie ordered the combatants to
receive fifteen lashes, for a breach of or
der ; and the prosecutor to receivo thir
ty, “because if it hadn’t beeu for him,
the court would not have been bothered
with the case.” This is the way I would
talk to the people, iu homely phrase, but
sterling truth.
IT IS THK DUTY OK A CHRISTIAN MINIS.
TER TO PREACH POLITICS, ho admits that
when the ruler of a people is sjwken evil
of, without auy color of reason, and
when odium is cast on him by that
means, “ we ought to praach politics in
this sense ; wo ought publicly to confute*
those unjust ccusurors.” Now tlio ruler
of this nation is spokou evil of by your
party continually, and therefore, In the
judgemmt of Wesley, I might stand up
iu the pulpit aud defend him. I shall
not avail myself of the privileges, but
as it comes right iu tlio way, I will say,
if the South is uot satisfied with the pro*
scut Chief Magistrate of the nation, she
deserves to have a Seward put in hia
place.
Thauk God no rcligoui sect can ty-
wv.tuize i\et’ tlioviuJljhr
MqnBi .'Htoy r ail respeetjhe -TwSderaV
Constitution. Until wo see theu, the
r-.
Before Sevastopol, June 17—9JP. M.
“My own beloved Wife and dear
ly beloved Children At 1 o’clock
to-morrow morning, I head the 57tli to
6torm the Redan. It is as I feel, an
awfully perilous moment to me but I
place myself in the hands of onr gracious
God without whose will a sparrow can
not fall to the ground. I place my
whole trust ip him, Should I fall in
the performance of my duty, I fully re
ly in the precious blood of our savior,shed
for sinners, that I may be saved through
Him. Pardon end forgive me, my be
loved ones, for anything I may have
said or done to cause you one moment’s
unhappiness. Unto God I commend my
body and soul, which are His, and,
should it be His will tjiftt J fall in per
formance of my duty, in the defence of
my Queen and country, I most humbly
Bay, ‘Thy will be done.’ God
turpen-tiino, and then thars the sperits
as sum folks call liquor an’ I’ve got as
jood an artickel of them kind of sperits
on my flat boat as ever was fotch down
the Mississippi river, but thar’s a great
many other kind of sperits, for the tex
says,“He played on a harp uv a thousand.
strings, sperits of just men made perfeck.
But I’ll tell you the kind uv sperits as
is ment in the tex, it’s fire. That’s the
kind of sperits as is ment in the tex, my
brethring. Now thar’s a great many
kinds of fire in the fust place, thar’s the
common sort of fire you light your segar
or pipe with, and then thar’s fox-fire and
cam-fire, fire before you’r ready and fire
and fall hack and many other kinds of
fireformy texsays, “Ileplayedon harpnv
a *Ao«5and strings, sperits uv just men
made perfeck.”
But I’ll tell you the kind of fire as is
ment in the tex, my brethring—it’s hell
fire ! an’ that’s the kind of fire as a
great many uv you’ll come to, of you
don’t do better nor what you have been
doin’—-for ‘IIo played on a harp uv a
Motwand strings, speritsof just men made
perfeck.’
Now, the different sorts of fire in the
world may be likened unto the different
persuasion of Christians in the world.—
In the fust place we have the Piscapa-
lions, an’ they are a high sailin’ and a
falutin’ set and they may be likened
unto a turkey-buzzard, that flics up into
the air, and he goes up, and up, and up,
till he looks no bigger than your finger
nail, and the fust thing you know, lie
cums down, and down, and down, and
down, aud is a fillin’ himself on the car
kiss of a dead boss by the side of the
road, and “He played on a harp uv a
thousand strings—sperits uv jest men
made perfeck,”
And then thar’s the Metliodis, and
they may be likened unto the squirrel,
runnin’ up into a tree, for the Metliodis
is gwine on from ono degree of grace to
another, aud finally on to perfection, and
the squirrel goes up, and up, and up,
and, he jump from limb to limb, and
branch to branch, and the fust thing you
know lie falls and down he comes kcr-
flurnx, and that’s like the Methcdia, for
they is allers fallen from grace ah! aud
“lie played on a harp uv a <A(WMand
strings, sperits of just men made per
feck.”
And then, my brethring, thar’s the
Baptist ah! and they have been likened
unto a possum on a ’simmon tree, and
thunders may roll and the earth may
quake but that possum clings there still-
ah! and you may shake one foot loose,
and tother’s thar, and you may shake
all feet loose, and he laps his tail around
the limb, and he clings, and he clings,
and he clings furever, for ‘(Ho played
on a harp uv a lAotuand strings, 6pcrits
of just men made perfeck,
you would be wise, and run no risks.—
on cannot surely be so weak as to sup-
iose you can crush Romanism by Know
Nothing agencies; but you have almost
ruined Methodism by them already.—
You are hated by thousands who ouce
respected you; and whether they be
good or bad, I protest against your work-
tliese agencies against them. Your
duty calls you to other and better work.
Hear the venerated Wesley upon this
head; Preaching on the text, Mark IX,
38 9 (“we saw one casting out devils in
thy name, and we forbade, because he
followeth not us. And Jesus said, for
bid them not.”) Mr. Wesley proceeds
upon the principle, that all sin is the
ork of the devil in the hearts of men;
and that all who arc instrumental in
changing and purifying the heart, may
be said to cast out devils, and should not
be forbidden in their work. He says,
suppose then a man have no intercourse
with us, suppose ho be not of our party,
suppose he separates from our Church,
yea, and widely differs from us, both in
judgment, practice, and affection; yet if
we see even this man casting out devils,
Jesus saith, “forbid him not.” What if 1
bless and’protect you; and. my last
prayer will oe, that He, of his infinite
goodness, may preserve me to you. God
ever bless yom my beloved Eliza, and
me dearest children; and if we meet
A Mistake.—Sir John Irwin was a
favorite with George III., who once ob
served to him. “They tell me, Sir John
that you love a glass of wine.” “Those,’
replied Irwin, “who so informed your
Majesty have done pie a great injustice
—they should have said a bottle.”
A Questionable Heritage.—Pren
tice says Three years ago, a man in
Missippi cheated us out of twenty dol
lars, and now bis son cheat us out o
about the same sum. The young man’i
propensity to cheat is probably the only
thing he ever came honesty.
Quoth Patrick of the Yankee—“Be
dad if he was cast away on a desolate
island, he’d get np the mornin’ an* go
mind soilin’ maps to the inhabitants ”
History furnishes no case so strong to
my purpose, as that which produced the
letter just mentioned. In the reign of
William ill. of England, statute was
passed which inflicted punishment “ on
Popish priests or Jesuits who should he
found to teach or officiate in the services
of that Church ; which acts were felony
in foreigners, and high treason iu the
natives of the Kingdom. The forfeitures
of Popish heirs who had received their
education abroad, and whose estates
weut to the next Protestant heir. The
power gh en to the son or other near re
lation, being a Protestant, to take pos
session of the father or other relation’s
estate during the life of the proprietor.
And the depriving of Papists of the
power of acquiring any legal property
by purchase.” Do the records of human
legislation present a greater monstrosi
ty, than this act, with its horrible parade
of forfeitures, disabilities aud penalties
upon a man, for no higher offence, than
teaching and preaching in his own
Church on British soil ? After the Ca
tholics had groaned under it, for about
sixty-seven years, they meekly petition
ed for a repeal of the act. To the hon
or of the Parliament of eighteen George
III. it was repealel without a,dissent
ing voice. And now all Protestant Eng-
uesus stum, lorum imn tun. uuaun j d ia au UFOar . Associations
were to see a Papist, an Ar.an, a feoce- ... . „ P J lirft _ rAatftrat ; n n
nian, casting out devils? If I did, I
could not forbid even him, without con
victing myself of bigotry. Yea, if it could
be supposed that I should sco a Jew, a
Deist, or a Turk doing the same, were 1
to forbid him directly or indirectly, I
should be no better than a bigot still.”—
There are many ways of doing this.—
You indirectly forbid him, if you cither
wholly deny, or despise and make little
account of the work which God has
wrought by his hands.” “When j'ou
discourage him in his work, by raising
objections against it, or frightening him
with consequences which eery possibly will
never be.” “ you show an unkind
ness towards him, either in language or
behavior. And much more when you
speak of him to others either in an unkind
or contemptuous manner. When you en
deavor to represent him to any in an
odious or despicable light.” Think not
that the bigotrv of another is any excuse
for yon.” If HVcsley were alive, what
would he think of your midnight plots,
and open tirades against Papists ? Oh,
read his Letter to a Roman Catho
lic, (vol. v. p. 7G1,) and ask'yoursclves
as you read it, “did Wesley ever expect
his follower to treat Catholics as 1 am
treating them ?” How meek and Heav
enly the spirit! How tender the lan
guage ; how touching in sentiment!—
After enumerating certain articles of the
Protestant faith, and vindicating them
from the work of God, he concludes in
this language, much abridged and much
diluted by the abridgment:
“Are we uot thus far agreed ? Let us
thank God for this, and receive it as a
fresh token of his love. But if God still
ioveth us, we ought also to love
one another.” “Oh brethren, let us
not fall out by the way, I hope to
see you in heaven.” “In the name then,
and in tho strength of God, let us re
solve, First, not to hprt one another; to
do nothing unkind or u n friendly to each
other; nothing which we would not have
done to ourselves.”
Let us resolve secondly, God being
onr helper, to speak nothing harsh or un
kind of each other, The sure way to
avoid this is to say all the good we can
both of and to one another—to use only
8 the language of love; to speak with all
softness and tenderness.”
“Let us, thirdly, resolve to harbor no
unkind thought, no unfriendly temper
towards each other.”
“Let us, fourthly, endeavor to help
each other on in whate ver we are agreed
leads to the kingdom. So far aa we can,
were formed to procure a restoration of
the statutes of William. Petitions pour
ed into Parliament, and beset the throne,
a la abolitionism, filled with awful fore
bodings of the speedy rise and triumph
of Catholicism ; and still more awful ioro-
seo any prospects of its being otherwise
bodings ofitsconsequenses to Protestant- notwithstanding all the methods which
ism. Even good old John Wesley
of
Catholics treating that instrument with
disrespect, it is madness to entertain
fears of them ; aud worse than madness
to form combinations against them. But
bow sbs.ll we characterize combinations
against them, when they avo numerical
ly disabled from taking the reigns of the
government iu their bands, if they were
disposed to do it; aud when they have
uot yet manifested the slightest disposi
tion to do so, if they could ? #It is mon
strous! And who are your confedera
tes ? Why you “ higher law” gentry,
who would* shout hallelujahs, if your
slaves should become your masters to
morrow. These have nearly gained
the control of the government already.
They rose to power by tlieir hostility "to
you. They arc moving to tho Capitol
in solid phalanx, with the battle cry ou
their lips, “ Down with Slavery !"
And now when you must be united oe
ruined—when you need help from eve
ry quarter to oppose them ; you are CQV
operating with them, and iraking ene
mies of your Catholic friends at home 1
Worse still! By doiug in a wrong, un
christian, unrepublican way, what if
done rightly, would have beeu harmless;
you have set one half of onr people
against the other, iu bitter, and I fi^uj
implacable hostility. May God help
us ! But I am digressing.
You are afraid of the spread k (f Roe,
manism. Well, until the marks of the
brick-bats are effaced from your own
chapels, I should suppose you would
not forget that persecution to a church is
the worst agency iu tho world to prevent
its spread. It is like hydrogen to a
balloon; it both expands aud elevates it.
All the priests of tho Catholic Church
in tho Union would not have inspired
among Protestants, iu twenty years, the
respect for it that Know Nothiugism has
inspired iu one. Mr. Wesley speaks in
point to the case. Hear him : “1 preach
ed at the new chapel, on Luke IN 55.
(‘Ye know not what manner of spirit ye
are of’) and showed that, supposing the
Papist to bo heretics, wicked men, ene
mies to us, and to our Church a fid nation i
vet we ought net to persecute, to kill,
hurt, or grieve them ; but barely to pre
vent their doing harm,” (vol. IV. p,,
530.) What harm are they doiug you I
So much for your mode of resisting
Popery. Now for Mr. Wesply’a mode
and mine:
In his address, entitled A short
Method ok Converting all the Ro
man Catholics of the Kingdom op
Ireland, lie says, “It is a melancholy
consideration to those wlio.lovc the Pro
testant interest, that so small a part of
this nation is j et reformed from Popery,
They cannot observe, without a very
sensible concern, that iu many parts of
the Kingdom, there are that still ten nay
fifteen, perhaps upwards of twenty Pap
ists to one Protestant. Nor can they
caught the spirit of the times, and wrote
that letter, (hut he did not join any of
their associations) from which it appears
ho thought if the Catholics got in power,
they would abuse Protestants. What
abuse they could have heaped on them,
greater than they heaped on Catholics,
short of cutting tlieir throats, I cannot
conceive. Well, time has proved that
all their foar3 were groundless. Catho
lics went on quietly and orderly, though
they still lay under heavy disabilites. In
1829, most of those disabilities were re
moved. Another Protestant uproar, of
course ; but still Catholics are not with
in a thousand leagues of dominion in
England. Now, with these fact9 before
our eyes, what are we to think of the
pretended panic which has been sud
denly conjured up in this country
against Catholics ; and the abominable
agencies which are put in operation to
curtail their rights 1
Think you that if Wesley were alive
he would* justify you in yoking your
selves to political parties for any purpose?
Never ; as I can prove to you from his
words. Party spirit ran high in
England, in 1774. In that year he
writes to his people as follows* “ Yo;t
were never in your lives, in so critical a
situation as you are &t this tipie. It is
your part to be peace-makers, to bo lov
ing and tender to all, but to adict your
selves to no party. In spite of all solic
itations of rough or smooth words, say
not one word against one or the other
to help and soften ail; but beware how
you adopt another’s jar. ‘ Mark all
those who would set pne of you against
another. Some such will never be want
ing. But give them no countenance
rather ferret them out, AND DRAG THEM
into open dav.’ Was not the man in
spired, for the use of this day and gene
ration! « But are you not m the same
category with us.” No more thgn he
was. He advises you net to go into
party alliances; andl advise yon to come
out of them. But strange as it may
seemt according to Wesley, I might
preach against your Order, while you
may not preach in favor of it. In his
I remarks upon the. question, “ How par
have been used, while manj’ Protestants
are seduced from it.” Theu enumerat
ing discouragements which had paralyz
ed Protestant efforts, Ac., &,c., he pro
ceeds : “But what way can tho clergy
take, with any probabilitj- of success?
There is one way, and one way only;
one that will (not probably) but infulliz
bly succeed. If this way bo takeu, I
AM WILLING TO STAKE MY LIFE UPON
the success of it. And it is a plain,
simple way, such as may be taken by
anj' man, though but of small capacity,
For it requires no peculiar dopclt of un
derstanding, no extraordinary height of
learning; but only a share of sense, anti
au honest, upright heart.” “It was ob
served that the grand difficulty of the
work lies in the 6trong attachment of
the Papist* to their clergy. Here, theroz .
fore, wo are to begin; wo are to strike at
the root, and if this bigotry b« hut re
moved, whatever error or superstition
is built upon it will, of course, fall to thg
ground.”
Now, this may effectually be done
thus; The Papists themselves allow tbp?
one set of clergy, were holier, wiser than
their own, namely, tho Apostles.—-r
They pllow these both to have lived and
preached better than thp present pier-
gj', even of the Roman Church.”
“Here, therefore, ia the short and sure
method. Lot all tho clergy of the
Church of Ireland only live like tho
\postles, and preach like the Apostles*
and the thing ia done.”
There is Sir. Wesley’s pltn; which
was to make one Protestant succeed
against twenty Catholics; h°' w ’ much
more certain to succeed in a country,
where there are twenty Protestants to
one Catholic! Now, as though God
would remove every shadow of apology
from you, for your confederation with
the sous of darkness to accomplish this
end, you arp living yitnesaes that so fur
as this plan has been tried, it has suc
ceeded. When yon were little, humble,
penniless, illiterate, but rich in faith;
“honest and upright in heart,” self-sac
rificing, patient in labor and abounding
in love—when you “lived like the Apos
tles, and preached like the Apostles,”
(for all your learning jvas fropa them)
you gained over to youp Church more
h