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Y VOL. XXIV. ATHENS, GEO., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1855. XO.36 (TIjt ioiitjjfntlknittr, PUBLISHED WEEKLY. r>V HILL & SLEIMiE, ». A. IKANKI.IS H1I.L, JAMKS A. SLEOUE EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Office Upstairs, No. 7, Granite Row. TERMS: Two Dollar* prr annum, in nilvnnrr, or Tbrrr Dollar*, if delayed. To Chili* remitting $10, in ndrnnre, Sis I’o fir* will ho sent. Auy nnbs'.Tilier failing to give notice "t hi* desire l>y diw!on|uiuo Iim subscription nt the expiration of •l»o t'mfi- for wliirli it ho-' Iweti paid, will !><• considered •ontiimrit, ntil lu-til liable accordingly. except nt the /»w'wiii)*s Id . ... ;*2»- x,. p„|H>r will Is- discontimn-d, (except nt tj.e oj.tioii of the E liter*,) until nil atrenriu>ei nte paid. DATUM OF ADVKRTIMISfC. 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W OULD respectfully announce to tie citizens of Athens and vicinity, that his office is still ever Wilson .V Ve il s Clothing Store, College Avo ntie, opposite the Post Office. Feh.y-iy. MOORE & CARLTON, D EALERS ill Silk. Fancy and Stnple Goods, Hardware and Crockery, No. 7, Grnute Row, Athens. I is. [Jan. 26. u 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. w r. n. & ii. r. j. long, 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. w 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