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Ami the luinl-s • * the Hvk A- we.
I WOlt.i.T IOW it !•• I'V. ;• (| .! ks
< R tlie tlrejidlul t iitit- !t ; i M
Ami rosts *it ••. to jjivc ‘. in. !
Ami wh.it holi'll ji I
They I*ll ni<* that iny i ‘ !.
Is a nun of tvrait it ai lj r ;
That iiu iiJis >h ij > t.j mi Ji * • ...
r J itlos, too, ol , ir.ojli ii. e.
And that a lady I*. < ante In.’ ) ;
\ erv Well, S let iShe,
Fickle Itavt* i fitcn as ho.
’Tis many a year .‘-in* <• ho wa* y.
Lovicg inr hi 11, ai •. i_ i
v fU in mv a v;i r *:o . • I
|{*kfii|j*l flust* i*\ iii s-i . ; i.. .* ■ . and _ i! ;
‘Tis many a \e *>•. ‘t > g, . ,-• .
T ii.t si'als tlfj;-- ’a i. .-,irf •e-d<\\na t( .. t
Fill! 1 think **t It: ns y ? .. Imv,
Knowing or dream • i hutj >y,
1 u less lu* dream t ** t me.
Ami I would not poo t';e* uTim of
That calL hity - L linfard L**‘;
That has wast'd cf* Ma. .-J iL: i ; trir.y 1-air,
Hor, oh ! he won! I s* • ! !'v if-
Something: i lo\t* and el'ie: it ;!.
Au image slirinc l in a *• .•>.. * *•<•;!,
Ami u is dear to mo
Thouuh tlu* lace i* L* ckJrd. .• \\ ; ‘ nr..l : nr.
Vet .Memory c alls it Tri-Ut a : l <-iu.f.
And k ’epeth tin* ol it*, do ;nmn
For the Hake ot I M k i-- Lie,
Thu lit.lo hoy t hat 1 oiijff
Was really in love with me !
KATE 3EVERLYs*
A STORY OF TilE VALLEY UK WYOMING.
BY PKRCiK 11 SEI.T N. j
“Do you see that jaiidsctipc ?” sai.l t'ie ..Id
man to me, as we paused on the edge of the.
mountain road, and looked down into the \allcv
of Wyoming beneath us..* “Well, that spot.c iliii
and beautiful as it now is, was once the se ne of
massacre. God help me! (lie agonies.of that ;
day almost wring mv heart to think of them,
even alter tlie lapse of fifty years.”
“I have beard it was a fearful time, ami you ;
have often promised to tell me the talq of your
own connection with it. Yet. if tie- subject be
*o painful to you, I dare scarcely make the re-]
quest.” _
“No, boy, no,” said the old man, sadly, “1 w ill
tell it, for the promise is of long standing,, titi.l
‘ f ee * to-day as if I c.uild narrateTlTTit. tragedy
with less emotion than usual. Sit down on this
cock, and give me amo'nent to lest; I will then
commence my story.”
While the old man wiped the p.-rspiralb.ii
horn his brow, aud s.-it fan ing him-. If with lii
broad rimmed Summer hat, l took the ply. “
pointed out by liim near his side, and spent the
moments that elapsed Before lie began his nar
fatmn j n gazing at the landscape More me.
Sitting on a huge bolder, at the edge of tlie
mountain, just where tlie hill began to slope
ow n into the valley, we commanded a view of
one of the most unrivalled landscapes in the world.
0 ° ) ur rose up the mountain, bold, nigged
ao<l barren, lik j the back of some vast monster
® )t Amefxrau Uniurn
j rear."l iig,ai!t>t ll.c^ky—but <t) the light ndh-j
j ii'g intL-rposi'd to destroy the view ; wiiose love- 1
lines* so far exceeded even litv expectation*, that
; for s.tine minutes 1 gazed on tin* scene in mute
I adniiiation. l n-neath me stretched tiie valley,
Idiveisified with gently sT..ping eleva'ions, and
“prinklevl with fields of waving golden grain;
; while lierti :in<l there a patch of woodland, with
Tits dark green hue, lav sluinWenng on the laud- j
scape —the sf.if.ee of the forest • Vcf tit.d illlotl i
vat viug to a ligliter tint a* the wind swept over |
the tree-tops. I’ight through the centre of tin: ;
valh'V nieundeied the river, now rolling hclvvi\t ;
I,lml h.aiiks, and now stealing gently among the |
rich nicadovv iaiaisiu thedi'-ance, until at length ■
it turned to the .est, and, .skirting the foot of the j
far otf liil!-. were lost hehind the ptoliie of the I
-nenmiaiu- IwOLui-us.—lu-liiu ceutie of tlui_val.e_;
ti... vilia-re. witii i,s vviiite house.; ..ndf.iry ‘
ehnr.h ste.ple, smiling over the scene, l arj
awav “ti the horizon stretched a line <4 hills, |
their dark blue summits, half hid hv the clouds, i
vvlnclr wrapped theiiras in a veilol gauze. No;
sound cattle up from the valley, i *e.•asiotinlly i
he twitter of .a bird would he lieatd fiotn the |
Mm'oiindiiig trees —vvhih the !**w to-Ue ot a ti- j
nvvvt,Jet fall ..a our left kept niotiotoii.aoly soiujd- j
iug in our e; IS, ’1 he lie >! I.: Ijg I a V sot a summers
sun pound down upon the !ufid>eape, and every
tiling a round was I,right, and gay, and beaut i
i'nl, Iw as still lost in admiialiuu rrl lire lovi-ii
i;c.Mij tlie set tle, when the old man signified his
n a line to coitimenee his tale.
-it js now lift v vi ms ago,” lie la gan, “since I ;
t ame to this'valley a voting frontier-mail, with
a lii.lv roust i; utiou, a hoe ot adventure, and!
tlie L\;;.u tilli 1 ‘ll ot be’.i.tf the best sliot on the hor- |
deft the phi. ‘ v a*, el that time, settled plinei- |
e i!Jv bv iatt. > i :; i I Ttt lll , and even
. ; 1 |"a.. 11 : ;i■ - . : s ;■!( - id luxuriant cultiva
a. Many (f ti !, : n ;i. ■-s w ere it) good oir
. aii.i• .a- Id"’ ■ n 1 .. •! Ic r .lays —and
.- ‘ln r 1 1 1 ■s” v was t refined than
: ..a . 1;... a..,: ... Atiun g till the fatllil IS,
. v ,c. ! !',. v v. tmie |>| eased tile so imieh I
Mr. iii • -., .1 ot'his fireside cir- j
! . ‘i ! v, :i” in 111 V eves .
’ i . Ib ! .•. -■ ■belo r hcauty ■ — \
! . . ..’ I . I : :!. with a sylph- :
: • ;n. ah.. • .11” s tic eatol ot a ,
■a. ‘. i 1 I. i* .fa vein g fawn
,-j. i , e \. i■ ! a ‘iiti -o aim ible as i
’ v, ai. . • ii ail vu|io nu t her, 1
, • |moel vvv ■~i. : • 1 -.oatiti .jl liel.'l'e she ’
■ialn -I ot .i■ 1 11 < ii •i-. •; 111 1 1 • i:ht have won any’ j
v ill ill the ‘: • v \\ bv i: wa"ti at slie pi<-
and me ‘ vet ail the rest. I cannot say ; perhaps
.1 w.i” !i, • e. i . . .'ls UV’ “ of Mittie IIIV stcl ions
v mp .: !■ v lit kit u n> t ~•■! Imr, ot pet hap” il vv as
t: . w•- b it o ,iue 1 1 “in lire s.om* tow ti in (,'oti •
i , it. ,i ■ j li-a-4 Wseliool-mati - iii ehihlbood |
... ;• w in never. Ii S(on b. _an to be k now ti
. .n’ t. I!ev■ that I'ofot’ another setison .
. ■ , Jhi! i;. v-iav would become my |
1 a] ]'V vva to tin sodaVS —toohnjipV. !
a., In .; i nil not .Uvcii upon tlieii) for i
•!. \ti inv s-uTw I, iv. Si.(lice it to say. I
;|'-:i w in leal e:vt. ng “, i.i.ss slieli as mortal lleV- j
.• !> . - .\j.. rieiicl. the war ot’ the revolution
ii 1,.. .. r n hard struggle between •
mv • ..i at and mv- .i't'v. the latter conquered
, I ji.iind ll.” t.'imy. Kate did not attempt
m.. lii.tii the-act she lather loved
—rt.-* i” rnnjElrsriC Tlnvngh her woman nature
I-,j.i.,;,1 1...i to ..lied t. ats ill inv departure, her
tea-on told her 1 was foltt, and she bid me t'o.l i
~.;d: 1 ’ ’
” ’H-r.ven M.’ss you, Harry,'she said, ‘and
h-it o ibis imt.a■ a.. I war to a conclusion. I can
t ■; I .-I \v , s-.iv, hit.’ I pray that he necessity
t - ... \ .if ab-ceitr.’ ittav “..on eeas**.
••’ii it).’ t'.iie.l ! v—the A met ieatt cause was
“till .."tihif a, att-l tit - * war led tairto he protract- |
e.| into ‘ eat". I had risen to be n captain in I
dm “It!••!('; w ‘ ~|t I r eeived information J
ii:at i In l tots aml lit.huts intended making it ‘
dee. 1.1 ott the valiev of tile WvoiLiing. I knew i
be irppt'.'!ev ; ’ ii s;'tiatiotr t.f my adopted district-; and
1 -it,,! | .tri‘t:i!i!< and (futt r ia• lives of those I held most \
_,\t j;,"t j disi-fi dited tlie rumor —eliance, I
■waver, tlaevv in mv wa v •-an oppot I unit V of tts- j
.4 the 1. abtv of the reported descci.t, ;
:. i I bi ivittle c.etv it. thilt tiotilluomei.lt vvji< |
to i 0 lost if I’ vvottM save the hv'rs ot those I :
i. d“;iTlidttie. Mv .h ’ermauition w.is at once!
..i"iU— I solieiu I’a-r len.Ve .it ab". el.ee it Wtl” ‘
,n iao.l: I iln ii u -’giud my commission, ami
■• j forth to W’v- tiling.
“I never slttdl forget mv emotions when I drew
t • .11 that ill fated place; il was oil the very day
of :!< ina saci’c —at<d the lirst intimation of the
calami; v’ wilts the mangled hodv of one of the i
uiiiai.,mills', whom I had known, float it g down •
\ tlie str. atn. A cold shiver rf, ll thtofigTr every:
v..:|. ;is 1 gazed on tlm tenihle sight, atnl tifhoti
’-and leaf■ agitat'd mv bosom; but my worst j
sin in's.'s fell far short ot the truth. W heir, hours ;
.after, I met some of the fugitives, and they re
: hearsed to me the ttile of horror, I stood for a mo
ment thunderstruck-,-refusing t” believe that be
; mgs in human form could perpetraUi such deeds
hut it was till too true.
“•Almost mv first, inquiry was for Kate. X”
otie knew, alas ! vvha liad become ol her. Mite |
of those who esr'jjpcd fheJ'ght, told me that
her father had biw n killed at the bi-gintiing of
itlle conflict— atnl that, deprived of a protector, j
I she had probably fallen a v irtim to the infuriate j
I savages, w hile the -.•lliei iiilitihitants were sever
j tillv engag.'.l in prot.•cling liiemselves. lloW 1 .
I eursml them fur t'li.i*se!tishues.s ! And yt could
I expect aught else of limiian nature, than that
each one should protect those dearest to them,
j even to tin-desertion of others ?
“lint mv mind vva* soon made tip. I resolv
ed, come what might, to ascertain clearly the
fate of Kate—-so that if dead I- might revenge
her, iwel it’living, I might rescue her. I lidding
farewell to the living group. 1 shouldered my
rifle.,and struck boidlv into the forest, trusting
iu the guidance ot that Mod who never deserts,
us in ‘ nr extremities.
“1 w ;il'not tire you wi'li a protracted naira-’
live; 1 will only say that, after numerous inqui
ries f >lll the fugitives I uiet.l learned that Kate
had been last seen in the - hands of a party ot
■ savages, —this was sutlh ient for a clue, — I once 1
moo- began to'ltope. I vvaiterl until niglit-fall,
wlicti I sought the spot which had been deselib ;
’1 ed to me as the one where Kate had been la*Lj
: seen—and, never shall 1 forget mv feelings ot
j almost rapturous pleasure, when I found in the.
- no! di boring forest a fragment of her dress stick
“Prove all thigs; hold fast that which is good.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1*55.
’ ing on a bush, by which it -bad, doubtless, been
1 torn from her in passing. 1 was now satisfied ;
that Kate.had been carried off captive. Fortu
nately I had met, in the group of fugitives, a
hunter who had been under some obligations to
her family, and he was easily persuaded to join
me in my search. Together we now began a
pursuit of the savages, lie was an adept tn for |
j est warfare—could follow a trail as a bound the I
1 chase—knew tlie course which would be nio-t
: likely to be chosen by a flying party of Indians,
j and withal, was one of the keenest shots who
! had carried a rifle on the border.
“•It’s my opinion,’ said he, - ‘that these var
| mints did not belong to the regular body of In-
I iliatis who followed Fuller, though even they
I were bail enough. I think, however, lie'would
j uot. “jitiv.r a deed like this. These, viiliaiis scour
’ to have acted on their own at cold—and. if so. j’
j I hey would fly 10 the back country as soon ,-i” pos-1
| sil'le. You may depeudTipon it we shall over- i
! lake them if we pursue that way.’
! “1 felt the truth of these remarks, and assent
ied to them at once. In less than a quarter of
;an hour after first di-covering the trail, we
j were Unending the forest in pursuit of the sav
! ages.
“Let me hasten to the close. Hour after hour,
all through the livelong due, we persiled the
thing Indians—crossing swamps, clambering 1
over rocks, fording streams, and picking our |
wav through the labyrinthine woods, until, to-j
wards night-tall, we reached the-edge of an open |
|-par-e —or as it were, a meadow, shut in bv
geilllv sloping bills.
| “‘lli-t,’ said my companion, ‘we are upon]
| them. l*o you not se-j that thin thread of smoke j
j curling upward over the top of yonder aged hem
lock ?’
“ ‘Ay—it must be them—let us on.’
‘“Sotily, or we lose till. We know not, cer
tainly. that this is the parly we seek ; let 11s
con noil re.’
“Si..wly and stealthily, trembling lest, even a
; twig should crackle 1111. le- our feet, we crept up
j towards the edge of the meadow—and peeping!
I cautiously through the underwiod, beheld the!
] objects of our search in six tal/svvarthv savages,!
sittffiYrsmoking around’the i|'mains of ti tire. — I
i At a little distance kneit, vvitN her hands bound. !
1 bat her eyes upraised to heaven, mv own Kate. !
: 1 ‘ii 1 how my heart leaped at the sight. 1 rais- j
’ e.l my title con v ulsivelv, and v. as about to tire.’
i"!,'ii my comjiauion caught my hand, and
j said;
“ S..ft!y, or you spoil till. Let ns get the var-1
mints in rangp, and then we can lire with some j
vtl'cet.. Ilistr
•
•’I lii-> last exclamation was occasioned 1v tin* l
sudden rising of one of the savages, lie gazed I
a moment cautiously.around, and then advanced i
tow ards the thicket where-we lay concealed. 1 j
I drew m v lireatli in, and trembled at the beating j
j"f my own heart. The savage slid approached, i
j My companion laid his hand on my arm, and j
! pointed from my rifle tootle of the Indians. I j
: understood him. At this juncture the advatn-|
i ing savage, warned of oili presence by the crack
j bug ot an u lucky twig beneath my cornpan
; ion's foot, sprang back, with a loud yell, towards
, the fire.
“ ‘Now,’ said my companion, sternly.
‘Quick as lightning 1 raised mv piece and fired.
Mv companion did the same. The retieating
savage and one of his companions fell dead on
the ground: each of us then sprang to a tree,
loading as we ran. It was well we did it, for
in an instant the enemv was on us. Shall I de
scribe that dreadful fight ? My emotions forbids
it. A lew minutes decided it. Fighting from
tree tot ice—dodging, loading, and en leavoring
to get sight on a foe, we kept up the conflict
for nearly five minutes—at the end of which
’ time I found myself wounded, while four out of
! the six savages lay prostrate on t o ground. The
I oilier two, flailing their companions dead, and
despairing of being ‘able to carry off their priso
tier, suddenly rushed on her. and before we could
j -interpose,- had seized their helpless victim. 1
1 had only been prevented, hitherto, from reseu-
I ing Kate I>V the knowledge that an attempt of
| the kind, while the savages were still numerical
: ly superior to us, would end in the certain death
I to us both,—chut now-, worlds could not have re-
I strained me. tind, clubbing my rifle, for the piece
• was unloaded, i dashed out from my covert,
shouting to my companion—
“ ‘< >n—on, in (rod’s name, on.’
“ ‘Take care of the tailor varmint,’ thundered
my companion.
“The warning was too late. In the tumult of
my feelings i had not obseived that the savage
i furthest from me had his piece loaded, and before
i 1 could avail myself of mv coin..anion’s cooler
: observation,'.'! received the ball in my-right arm,
| and my rifle dropped powerless by my side; bad
; I not sprang involuntarily aside at my compan-
I ion’s cry, I should Lave been shot through llie
heart.
“‘On—on,’l groaned in agony, as I seized
mv tomahawk in my almost useless left hand.
“ ‘Sloop,’ said my companion, ‘stoop lower;’
and as 1 .lid so, his rille cracked on the stiil air,
and ‘he Indian fell dead.
i “A+i this had not occupied an instant, I was
now within a few feet of her I loved, who was
struggling in the grasp of the other Indian, lie
j had already entwined his hands in her long hair
| —his tomahawk was already gleaming in the
setting sun. Never shall I forget the look of de
moniac Jury with which the wietch glared on
his victim. A second only was left for hope.— !
M v companion was far behind, with his rifle un- j
loaded. I made a desperate spring forward, and
hurled my tomahawk at the savage’s head, (rod i
of my lathers! the weapon wh'zzed harmlessly
by the wretch, and buried itself, quivering, in the
trunk of a neighboring tree. I groaned aloud
in agony, —there was a yell of triqniph on tlie J
ait' —a sudden flashing in the sun, like a glanc- *
ing knife, and—but 1 cannot go on. Slid lov- j
‘-d as my own life; she who was the purest and
(•'loveliest of her sex; she with whom l had prom- j
’ ised mvself a long life of happiness—oh ! must’
I say it —she lay a mangled corpse at my feet 1 1
Ftit her tnurdeier, aye !—he was cloven to the
hroast by a blow from bis own tomahawk, which
1 had wrenched from him with the strength of
a dozen men.”’
The old man ceased, big tears rolled down
. his furrowed face, and his frame shook with emo
tion. 1 saw that the remcnihrace of the past
, was too much for him, and I sat by his side in
j silence.
I subsequently heard his sad tale fiom others,
and then learned the manner in w hich Kate had
been carried ofl'. The old man’s companion
was right—she bad been made a prisoner by a
predatory band of Indians, who bad followed
LUitler, and deserted him directly after the mas
sacre.
Hcautiful as the Valley of the Wyoming is,
1 never have seen it, ftotn that day to this,
without thinking of the sad fate of Kate Hevek- |
i
POLITICAL.
Why Southern People Should Sustain the |
American Party.
The filiTnlter of emigrants who settle in the |
S ,h' h. iii States i” iin-"ti'idi-r.-il'!e as eompat. i! ‘
with tin; thousands who east their hits in tin ‘
Northern. Why then should the Southern pen- j
pie sustain the American party, one of whose ,
objects is to arrest the tide of iimnigr.J ion
now pouring upon our shores front the < *il ;
World ?
The following answer by the Louisville Jour
nal is to the point, and we commend it to the
serious consideration of the people of (ieorgia. j
“These people come here almost invariably
prejudiced against the institution of slavery. It !
is-well knew ii that t hey hmara great antipathy :
to settling in any slave-hoi.liltgstates. W e tind
considerable bodies of them in some of our lar-
gest southern cities, but. very few in theagricul
tuial districts of the South. Arriving in tlii
coimtrv. already imbued with strong anti slavery
prejudices, they settle almost exclusively in the!
freesoil states and readily become amalgamated
with the abolition faction, giving to it annualK
an immense increase < f numerical strength.
“We have not now at hand the data fiom
which to make the calculation, but wo have to.
doubt that to this foreign element alone in.-iy I e
attributed the gain, by the last apportionment,
of eight members of ('.ingress for the North over i
i the South. It has also been remarked, asanev- 1
| idence of the free soil proclivity of this -lass ol .
I citizens, that, in till cities, neighborhoods and |
| Spates in which tlie greatest number of foreign-!
j ers were concentrated, the -abolition candidate* j
j for the Presidency in lSj J received their largest
; vote.
j “When we reflect that at the present rate of
immigration there is added to the freesoil slates j
j a sufficient number of th.-se foreigners to entitle
them, under the present rate of apportionment,
ito five additional members of Congress every I
] ve .r, we may well pause to consider, if our ow n
| safety does not demand tit our hands some meas
l ure B) which to reduce if not to prevent thisim
. m.-use, unnatural, and disproportionate iticlea.se
. of the voting forces of abolitionism.”
j The evils to bo apprehended from the prepon
j durance of the North in our National Councils, j
I Brought about in part By the emigrant vote, are
j thus sketched by the Journal:
J “If Miflered to continue, it w ill not be long be
fore tlie North will, from this source alone, have
attained the constitutional majority to enable it
at will ‘to amend the constitution itself. It is not!
impiobalilc that in stn-h case resolutions like]
those presented to Congress by Mr. Adams in
1839, proposing the abolition of slavery through- ]
out the jurisdictii'iu of the United States, w ill j
bo unhesitatingly ofl. red. and the constitution ]
correspondingly amended without.a blush for the
heinous injustice of such measures or a single |
care for the disastrous consequences to the j
L nion.
“We appeal to our citizens without distinction j
of party —adopted as well as native —to consi.J i
er well these tacts and their consequences. We 1
know that to democrats this exclusion of foreign-1
ers lias appeared the most, objectionable feature i
in the Ainoriean creed; but we believe that there ]
is notone among them who does not love his|
country; we accord to them a desire to preserve ]
the Union mil protect its institutions, and we do
imt-Uuuk-lhifl. any owe-of them, unless utterly j
blinded and restrained from expressing bis real |
convictions l y being the recipient, of the patron- ]
age of the incumbent executive, after a calm,
candid and unprejudiced consideration of this ‘
subject, will deny that there is danger to the
South, danger to the Union, and to our much- ]
loved constitutional freedom, from this foreign
party.
“We call upon them then as good citizens, ax 1
Union loving men, as tine p.atri.its, to join tliej
American party, and aid it with their example |
and their influence in endeavoring to arrest this j
great impending, danger, and ere it be too late!
to. rescue the constitution and the Union from ]
the fearful peril with which it is evidently threat- j
eneil.”
Let the people of Georgia ponder well the sug- j
gesti.jiis’heie made. It may he hard for one to j
sunder old political ties, Iml when the safety of
the country demands it, he should be equal to
the sacrifice. In a few years more,; unless the
tide of imiiligraticn is checked, the .Smith will
be completely at the tnercy of the North ; and
what tlieu will become of our rights, our prop-!
erty and our firesides l
Editous in Cos cut. —Mr. Sheriff, call Mr. How
ard of the Atlanta I itelllgencer.
A neat, well dressed gentleman, of fine expres- .
sioti of countenance, enters the court-room.
“(’.ill Biitittn of the Advertiser and Gazelle.
“Here!” answers a tolerably good looking fel- ,
I t, with rather an impudent air.
By permission of the public we shall catechise
these gentlemen, in regard to the case of the
people of the South vs, the Fierce Stock Job
bing Company.
“Mr. Howard, be good enough to give us your
attention. Are you a Southern man
“Bone and gristle!” (This with tin-air that
makes you believe it.)
- “Can you inform us who,is the Governcr of
AW'*”* at the present time?”
“Howard flushes up a little, and says that he
cannot say with absolute certainty.
■■Fray give us your best impression on the sub
ject.” ,
-“■"Well, sir, I believe —I fear— that Gov. Ree
der i still the Executive of that Territory.
• An. indyi-.1, Can. vou tell. Mr. Howard,
w/to appointed Reeder to rule over Kansas?” ]
j Britain at this poiut begins tu shuffle into a,
corner, muttering very savagely. Mr. Howard
l answers with a jerk;
’ “The Administration, sir!”
“The presentable, constitutional, Democratic
Administration —is it ?”
“The same, sir!”
“Then, I suppose, Governor Reeder is a correct |
exponent of the principles nnd practice of the
a.lininistration, so far a* polities and especially
the subject .f slavery-—i* eon. erned
“Y’.Tn h'lifitf In- ain't 1” growls Britain.
11 .war. I r. plies :
“lie i” id, in mv opinion : and I beg to “ay
that oiil\ a short time since, I was lisured by a
11 “t iiigui"hed member ol the ad minis* iat ion, that
Ree I el- would l.e removed, and not suflered to go |
back to Kan-as. - ’
“Vert g0,..1, Mr. Britain, yon say’ very cm-,
pbat'i'-.iily that lech r is no* a true exponent “I j
, tlie principles of the tid'nini'tration- pray, in,
I u bat .1. .sis.iu I..:I to I‘ \ I.dal_l!,XTlAV h-l
; “lie's ad -d flees., let, and imposed liiitl-'-li
lon Fierce. The admitiis! ration, 1 learn has for-.
! c.-d him to r. sii/ii
“Ah, w.-Il w n't the administration iorced I \
liie .a./i.i’ r*’ tl ( r S’l ilh. to ask him to resign ‘
j r.nth il tin s.o s “No! til!” constitutional ,
! 1_). ui.i.-tatie a.lmini •trati"ti bei-ume -ti •! that i
he w:i< a fi., -. i!.-r and had attempted :•> swt'i-;
, .!li- the South out oi Kansas, and tohl him, mi in |
llinihl to walk the pi.iiik •
] “Mr. Britiiia. as v.u have some pap.-rs unde’
i voue arm, will v.ur j.e h.i,.l ii’ uglr !,* “Xam.ie-r
if you h-ve .-iintioUl New \oik, ot the J , . , h
jJune ilist - v .
“ I have.'’
“Any notieo ot Lb-jab'*';therein .’
“I tind,” says Butanes., tn.lily I.lushing a deep ;
purple blush, “th:it <. .LHjior Reeder pa*se.l |
lb rough t.lraUeilv, <-n route, f..r,Kansas, on the
l.V’li ii.-t., aecoinpai.ied by Jos private seC--ta-,
ry.”
“Then lie hasn’t roei lud ! leittpv. and
“Spice not —but what the •!. * .i t usin. ,-s I.m.
you to do with whe'h'-r.tlo” I ''-ino.-rati.- a.dmttK.
ist rat ion i emoves Reeder ol uwt —youe . no I ‘em-
I ocrat
“Mold on! Hive von It card at.v thing (ax]
i cr con ■q.oiid'-:;c>. of the ‘ baih-xtoti Stuml'ini) ‘
; to the etTect that h - associ.Ttldg'-s Johnson
] and Elmore and Attorm-v Goueral 1-aaes, wiil
:i1... Be dtiveii out, in order to place the whole
charge on the absurd pretence (as to them) of j
“ tiii/i'iit/ ijiir iUihhn and to convince the It.-e j
1 M.il.-r* that Reeder was not removed for being a ;
freesnilvr ?”
“At t Ids jtttu t ure, but 1 1 editors bear Ia noi'o in :
the street, and being allaid soiiu bodv will eft'l j
hurt out there , rush ineontiuentTy f nlh il.to the:
; cool ail—and break up tlie investigation.”
I roni lie- < “lirci'ielo • ttenl im l.
Lord Baltimore Again.
Hun. A. 11. Siridiens.
Dear Sue You were ri”)>t in suppoxsing that ;
my former ('oinmiinieation, c ntr..verting your.
! stiitemont in reference to Lord Baltimore, • looked .
tor an answer.” I did look for an answer—l tliti j
look for one. You tell me that the issue between ,
us “amounts to nothing.” bit it. “amounts,
to.’” is just this: Did Lord Baltimore estahlish re. j
I ligioiis toleratioiFrin this .continent? oil affirm
! that lie did. and that lie was the first to do it. I,
; deny that tie ever did il all Whether this issue
j “amounts to nothing, ’’an intelligent public will
j decide, or probably Inis already deci led. ‘The!
| same tribunal w ill ul-o decide w hether this sum- j
tnary way of disposing of an issue nrgucu cither
i ability or willingness to meet it fairly.
In my former letter, assuming the miw prohan
! </i, which properly belonged io you, anil not to
| me, (thus giving you an advantage in the discus
! sioii which you could not claim,) I showed that
! the colony of Maryland, under Lord Bultimore.
j did not establish religion* t’redoin. I quoted from;
i the so called ‘'Toleration Act” itself, and showed i
!in the very words of ihe Act. that at i was the !
i penalty of expressing certain religious opinions
How have you met me on tl is point 1 Simply hy
asserting that •■ the (alli'dic cul.ii.y of Mary ;
I land under Lord Baltimore, was tiie first to es j
! ta lish the pinieiplc “I free toleration in religious
worship ” Wi at does this ‘'amount to?” Is
your assertion to lie balanced against the l.egisla. I
j tive records of the country ? I lie readers ot the !
('kemucle (p S'lilm l will decide. In order that
| tliev may the better estimate the value of the
two, I will place them in parallel column:
A. It 8m hens. 1..1W er Maim.ami.
| “The Catholic colony of’ “I lenjii.g tin- Holy Tn- j
j M.tryhoitl, orgiiiii/"l uij'h r niti) i.- I. |.Mii'oh-(l (v.lii
the .-(ii?pie( sol l.oct YinlU'dUiith. met ciifi.-’ .t “oi (.1 i
! ill"re, was the llrst,.toc-lah- taii.l ai.it good* 0. ti c 1,0.d j
101 l flic jiriiiiijl'* cl tree t*i-.qiri-t ary, (lanU Haiti-;
! t.dcratior. in,rd;grrns witr-oii-*rc htiiisi ls”) IVrs.ai- (
i ship on this COnlo.cnt ” usir.n ai.y rcinouclitul welds ‘
I•• ! lie cohoi.v alMai.vtini'l .'He cflncg Ihe Hlcs-'d Vn
i afforded protection lo all gut Mary orltic lioly Ap'.s*
I perseeiiteil sects.” tie* or Lviin^elols, to tie.
! “What i said in Aftguata fined X", or 10 and OauU of
w-iig ittricrty tra.“ ‘——fpsynnort io he j.Tmttety
writpp-'l .'lilt .//!/'..• ...d nt
tin r I ‘!■!'. i e ol Ills ivodstllp
T ANARUS, ((.--io It illiui.irv tiitnseil,)
or ol Ins l.ieul'.i.aiil t •> tt 1.0
.0 “ .Sic / lie . if M 11,-
loud ut ('i.'tfe. ly 7 Jf ir ni,
A h. 1... Io it nd 17
[Ceiliu-i ’ l.iul itilUiiil nC.
This Act is and itc.l 2D; April. Bib*, when f.onl’
Baltimore was iii the zenith of his power, and,
was copied in substance, il not in very words, from ,
drafts written by his Lordship's own hand. (1111*1
1. 347.) Now, sir, I know that your i. genuity is
truly remarkable, hut if you will reconcile the
statements in these parallel columns, and thus
show that “what you said in Augusta was strictly !
true,” I think you will achieve tor yourself anew
reputation, which wiil he what you already enjoy, i
, as “another morn, risen on midnoon ”
But if you fnl to reconcile them, you must not
think that your reputation for accuracy,on which
alone you seem to rely, will sustain you. An in
telligent people wiil take tlie mere soy tut of no
man, when it H.nly denies such a record as is
above adduced
If religious toleration was “established' 1 in Ma
ryland, it must have been done by law. The]
. mere ipse dixit,of those who professing to write
. history, interlard their statements of fact with in*
i ferences and notions talsely deduced from them,
will not do. The highest evidence that the na
j ture of the case will admit of. is the only evidence
that the court of public opinion will receive. .No
thing but the document which estahlioed religious
freedom in Maryland under Ixird Baltimore, will
meet the demand rightfully made upon you
Editor tad Proprietor.
When a statement occupying a podtion M
prominent as your own. make* aaaertioaa impor
tant in their bearings, which are openly eontro*
verted, it is but due to himself- (allow me reepeet
fi.l'y to suggest,) a* well as to his constituents
and the public generally, that he should either
retract those statements, or p*ove them to be true. •
In t!iis ease, you have not done the former, nor
have y..u even made an attempt to do tlie latter.—*
f challenge yon to attempt it. 1 hope the iseue
fi..r, “amounts t*.’ jcmc/tnng.
I perceive that in your communication to mrt
y.ni make a mistake of wane 80 years in your
chronology; hm as the error may have been typo
graphical. I give you the benefit of the doubt—
though a* tlie error occurs twice, tlie probabili-
ItrS t—a gftiost you.
lin ii-t i -peat what I said in my former letter,
that the i-sae is not one of dates. If you will show
1 that Mary 1 iinl. under Lord Baltimore, was erer u
fie*- government either before Rtiode Island or
att r. v “ti w .il meet tlie issue sati-factorily. You
m iv sin w tt... invitation of Lord Baltimore to Pu*
rit.s s iwi.l l.pi-copaliuns. But tliis invitation
j- .-stahli-lied ‘nothing. And even if it did, yet,
i as U.e parties invited were both in power—one in
S. vv England and tlie other in Old England—the
: invitation e.m avail you nothing, unless you show
that it extended also to parties not in power—to
(Junker*. Baptists. Jews, and in your own langu
age to “i 1 persecuted sects.”
Allow me to”*.iy in conclusion, that if I have
spoken to you plain things in a plain way, and
denied your statements emphatically, it has not
been my intention in so doing, to be uncourteou*.
N.tt ing ecu dho further from my wish. Your
protracted ex peri •nee at the Bar. has doubtless
long since taught y.m. that parties on opposite sides
. of i qucctioii. do nut necessarily lose their respect
aiel esteem for each other. I make these a polo
! g. tic remarks, therefore, not for your sake, for I
: know you would not require them; but for the
. sake of the non professional reader and thdse un*
ininitiateil in the''customs of debate, who might
do me the injustice to suppose, that what I in
tendi-'l only for emphasis is done in forgetfulness
]of the law o! kindness, and of tile consideration
dm: to ilie character and position of my dietin’
| guished opponent. I fear no such injustice from
1 you.
I A* ev -r, sir respoctfully yours,
H. H. Ttcxza.
LaGrange, Ga July 0, 1 ‘‘o').
The Ks))vv Notiiinus in Georgia.—The Statu
Council of this organization has recently held a
meeting in Macon. By tlie by, the party ia that
j .-state lias made an excellent preliminary more—
it has dropped the senseless und ridiculous appel
lation of Know Nothings, and adopted the signifi
cant, generic cognomen of‘The American Party.’
The substitution ot'a meaning and decent designa
tion in place of a puerile and affectedly mystic
term of distinction, to lie applied to a party re
. spevtable in nunib.-rx and in tlie elements of its
('imposition, will he admitted by all to be a deci
ded improvement. “Words are things,’’and never
j more no toim when used to designate political par-
I ties; and we, with all due defurance. submit, that
I as tin- new party lias already acquired age strength
at..l iuil'. uce. it should incontinently drop the
slang nick name of “Sain,” or its absurd baptis
mal appellative of Know Nothing, which, in itsi
early infancy might have liecn appropriate enough,
and assume one characteristic of its origin, char
acter and prospects.
Tlie meeting was a large one. comprising two
hundred and fifty delegates from every county in
the State, and of every vacation and culling. We
I loaf!) from th.-Suvuutiuh Tlejmblvan. that the plan
! t.-r was there, ns well as the minister, the mechan
j ie, men of all vocations and all shades of opinion
Democrats. Whigs. I'nion men, f-outhern Rights
men. Temperance men. nnd anti Temperance men
; — alt |. rg"itmg former differences ai..l actuated by
| one common doiro to redeem the land from mis
; rulo. to suppress the corruption of rotten and de
leaving p .riies to rebuke the trenson of fanaticism,
i and *o array themselves as a bulwark between
their section and every danger, come it from what
; quarter it may.
I Timre wn* a marked nnd extraordinary feature
which characterized this assembly, one, which wo
are tree t*> say, that in the very many political
I bodies it t as been our fortune to be present, we
never have ohserv d— tlie absence of spoilsmen
i and d'iiniig. gu.-s. it must have boon,:a pleasing
j and edify ing spectacle : an assemblage of two bun
! ilre.l and titty men. convened to organize or rather
j to re orgimze n political party, which, with ita
i present prestige of success and an accumulative
. increase of numerical strength, seems almost to
realize to a moral cert a i ty un easy victory it the
approaching con est, nnd not a spoilsman or dem
agogue among them, is mostassuredly a rare sight,
■\ew (ftfmUU. UiHetin. **• >
Fiom the Southern Rieorcler.
Afi ‘trs. Editor *■.* The subject of (his note ia
to co:rct the ermnous rejmrts, and repel the
stand rmi* accusations made by the Ft derot
■ f'uion iirt l S'lrnnnah Georgian relative to the
meeting in Sparta, nu the 2'J>l i:lt.,at which Hon.
AI examler 11. Stephens spoke. as well ns tojuati*
’ fy the Chairman, Anobew J. Lake, Esq.
i In my report, as Secretary of the meeting, T
stated that, “upon the pa wage of the reerflutioos,
lUnayes mid nays having t>een celled, the Chair
man decided, that from the soOTtd the nays bad
it.”
Mr. T.nue ‘a a democrat and opposed to the
American Party, is a gentleman of high standing
amUeapci'tability, 4>f unimpeachable veracity,
and has represented our county in the State Le
gislature, and I presume would hardly preside
over “ ‘/any of rowdies.” In giving the deci
sion. Mr. Lane qualified it thus : “If it is left to
i me to decide, I will decide that the noes have it.”
lie ha* since said that he gave the decison in jest,
and that he was of opinion, at the time he gave
the decision, that the resolutions were adopted
bv a laige majority.
I If tin; t r n'on and the Georgian should require
‘further testimony “that the resolutions were
adopted by a large majority,” and that my re
port of the rneetiug was not “untrue,” and that
my statement was not an ez-parte one, they can
have it.
Those papers which have published roy report,
as Secretary of the meeting above alludeo to; wdt
confer a favor by copying this communication.
Thomas C. Aitdab.
Sparta. July 7. 1855.
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