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JAUfiO f. WHITAKER,
fRorRIITOR.
I O II \ U. STEELE
KDITOB.
A. E. MARSHALL,
ttHOtil A TB ID1TOR A WD B B F O UTKB
ATL A NT A, fl-EORQIA.
faturjay Moninx, October 84. 1868
DELUSIONS.
From the tenor ot our exchanges, it would
seem that al! have experienced some regret
at the defeat of the democratic candidates in
the North, and are expressing a fear that the
success oi the abolitionists will tend to length
en the war.
The hope that democratic successes would
hasten the close of this straggle, is one of
those strange delusions that sometimes make
people people blind to experience, and for
getful that instead of acting as a drag in the
abolition government, it has given a cordial
support in the prosecution of the war. Take
for instance New York, which State has a
democratic Governor, and let us see wha 1
lie has done towards gaining peace. Nothing.
He has supplied tlicYankce authorities with
troops at every call, and but, lor his activity
in sending troops to Pennsylvania, when ev
en Pennsylvanians refused to respond, Lee
would have met with np repulse at Gettys
burg, and our army would have marched in
to Philadelphia. As a second instance of
liow delusive is the iJcaof peace through
democratic successes, let us look at New
Jersey, her Governor and people
They are all democratic, yet we find in
those Htatcs the same cordial support of the
Abolition administration, as we And in the
State of Massachusetts or Connecticut, nay,
if any thing a more earnest support, for
while the negro worshipers of New Eug*
land, are voting for the Government, and
' talking of their determination to subdue the
rebellion, New York and New Jersey are
sending thousands of men to swell the taclis
of our enemy. ^
VVc have forever banished from our
thoughts nil hopeful - foreign intervention .
that delusion which did us more damage
Ilian the whole Yankee army. There is an
other delusion which it were better lor us to
do aivny with also, and that is, the hope oi
obtaining ptoacc or independence through
the victories of democratic parlies in the
North. It is a frail uud rolleu support on
which w'o lean, and one that. will crumble
and tall from our grasp, if wo place our de
pendence on it. This contest is a matter o 1
life and death to the North as well as the
South. 11 we tiiumph their death kuell is
sounded, ftml thus struggle for existence wilt
bo kept up, uo matter what party be in pow
er, uutil the people aud their army, seeiug
the hopelessness of the contest, shall re
fuse any longer to support It.
Besides the delusion under which wo labor
in thinking that democratic successes will
eud the war, we forget that the ground which
the candidates of that party takes, is, that
the people of the South would return to the
Uuiou it offers were made to guarantee their
rights, and one of their principal plans is to
makesuch offers to us, which if rejerted w ill
compel them lofavor a moro vigorous prose
cution of the tvar, and fence us into ooinpli
auce with their wishes. It is therefore a mat
ter of doubt wholher their success would not
increase the power agaiest which we arc
struggling, instead of lightening the burden
ot this war, much less ending if.
We have no hope of an end of Ibis war
hul by the valor ol our gallant troops. They
sre the ones to whom we are to look for
peace and independence, and if we set
aside liopts ol aid Irom any other quarter,
ami give them a lull and cordial sup
port, peace and independence will not re
main aloof much longer, but will crown our
efforts without tko assistance of the demo
cracy of the North. •
To W the people into the belief that de
mocratic success will end this contest, is to
lead them into a web ot delusions, from
which it may be too - late to extricate them-
sclvis when they perceive their error, and
desire to retrace their footsteps.
by which II is surrounded. . _ „ M
How important then that the Amt book* j of *arpshooten to deploy to the front as
on elementary studies we published shoal# ^ -
be written by men ot large comprehension of
nod tally alive to the wants of oar
youth,'frat &w can property estimate. We
notice with pride and gratification a series
of School Books iasning from the press in
Mobile, Alabama, and shall take great pleas
ure in recommending them for general adop
tion, if they come np to the proper standard
as we hope and believe they wilL But as
we said thejfleld has fjust been entered, and
who will work in that field with such cheer
ing prospects of reward before them ?
OUk FUTURE EDUCATORS '
Tiiert; is no class of persons ty ho can con
tribute more to nationalize our people, to
make them fosj former traits of character
aul awurne such new ones as are required
by t he changes of revolution, than the edu
cators of our youth. Had the encroachments
oa our rights by the North been less gradual
aud the period of our separation from her
been longer delayed thau it wa?, it is not too
much to s.iy that a separation would finally
have becoma imposiiblc,or at auy rate much
more difiloalt to efi - jc% s ilely .by the. large
aud increasing influx Into our country of
Y'aakej school in titers aud Yankee books,
and their inlluence on the tender and suscep
tible minds of our youth. Now that this
separation is c unpleta and perpetual, oar
pa >ple must awake to the solemn fact that
the minds of oar youth are to be directed
into different ehaunels from those, to which
they lnve been acjuitonisi, and their char*
actors and genius moulded into such
new shapes as will befit the land in which
they a-e to exert their iuflaence.
Hippily for our country its owu citizens—
not those virtually of foreign extract -arc to
be the educators of oar youth. Equally hap
py is she, because these children arc to be
taught out of Soathera books. We now be
hold the preis of our ountry, like a mighty
giant wakyig out of sleep, beginning to ex
hibit powers unknown and unfelt b-fnre.—
Publicttions teem from every press, «.*t a ueh
a character as to instruct the young in the
elements of knowledge, to afford materi
als f >c reflection for the mature in age, and
to amuse those that have leisure, lo eajoy
reading as a luxury. Nswspaper&riewith
each oilier now iu strength, efficiency aud
versatility, where before they eked out a
sickly existence, or were overshadowed by
the snperior effulgence of Northern and
[communicated.]
JACKSON'S BRIGADE AT CHIC AHA VGA.
Ed. Intelligences :
It may be said of the newspapers of to
day, as was said of the players in Hamlet,
that they are u the abstract and brief chron
icles of the time.” The materials of which
history is to be made are gatherd by the
press and through it must they be transmit
ted to future times. What is thus recorded
must be remembered; what is omitted may
be forgotten. Justice to the gallant dead of
Jackson’s brigade who sleep on the field of
Chic&mauga, and to the no less gallant sur
vivors who monrn their ksj, demands that
that the present and future should know
through the columns of your valuable paper
the part which they acted in that bloody but
victorious battle: A grateful people will not
lend an unwiiliiig eai, I trust, lo such a
theme, however rudely aud unworthily it lie
set forth. A simple statement of facts is all
I purp >sc to write: they will nj>eak far more
eloquently for themselves than mere words
could ever do. Shiloh and Murfreesboro'
arc already inscribed on the banners of this
old brigade, and it has added at Chicamauga
another bloody wreath to those already won
under the gallant, cool and skilful leadership
of its veteran commander, Brig. Gen. John
lv. Jackson.
The brigade was assigned to Cncathaiu’:
division a short lime before the army left
Chattanooga, and was a part of that divia
ion in the fight. It consists of the 5th Ga.
Regt., 8th Mis# Kegt., 5;h Miss, do., 2J Balt
1st Con. G.i. Regt, 2d Ga. Balt. Sharp shoot
ers, aad Scogin’s Ga. battery.
About 12 in., on Saturday, Sept. 19ih, the
brigade formed jn line of battle on the right
of Cheatham’s division, and on the right of
our entire line, whither it had moved rapid
ly to tho support-of Walker’s corps, and at
oucc moved forward agriuat the enemy.
Walker had here sustained a gallant but
uuequal contest for some tune past, and had
at last been cheeked by superior numbers,
Our line moved torwaid in splendid style
and was soon holly engaged with the enemy
Al ter receiving .and returning the first fire,
Gen. Jackson ordered a charge, which was
gallantly inadc, driving the enemy nearly a
mile, and capturing a battery of 3 fine Par
rott guns and a large number of knapsacks
abandoned by the enemy in their precipitate
flight. At this point, however, the enemy
being heavily reinforced, made a desperate
stand, and in their turn, attempted a charge,
which was repulsed w ith heavy slaughter.
The fight now became a desperate one—the
enemy massing a heavy force in our front,
aud hurling it with persistent and determin
ed energy on our single line, only to be met
and driven back by the firmness of our
troops. Foiled in their attempts to drive us
back, and perceiving that we were unsup
ported by any infantry on the right, the en
emy now pushed a heavy column in that
direction, with the intention of turning our
flank. They wero met by Forrest, who
stubbornly aud gallantly cou fronted them,
aud obstinately contested their advance.—
The tight had now lasted for more than two
hours, ami the ammuilion of the men was
almost entirely exhausted, many of the men
not having a single cartridge in Ihcir boxes;
still the} 1 ' gallantly held their own until Man
ner's brigade, which had been held iu re
serve, came up to their support, when they
reliiud in good order to their original posi
tion, and again formed on the right of the
division.
Here we rested until Cleburne’s division
had formed upon our right, and at sunset a
general advance was again ordered. The
brigade instantly moved forward and in five
minutes was again hotly engaged with the
enemy. Stubbornly they contested. every
inch of ground, but steadily we drove them
back. Night now came on, and in front and
on every side, the lire that leaped from the
muskets of friend and fo« oast a lurid aud fit
ful glare upon the moving scene. It was a
aight ; ndeed long to" l>e remembered 1 and
added the sublimity of darkness and the
night to the aw l'ul grandeur of the field of
buttle. At length, however, our object was
obtained—5 he enemy had been dislodged,
and 4be firing ceased. The men sank to
rest iu their places, and on their arms, and
slept tiff auother morning should rise to tell
them who had fallen and to light them on
through new dangers to a glorious victory.
Sunday morukag rose upoa the field as
brightly as it ever Smiled upon a wedding
day. No sound disturbed the holy stillness
that reigned around. The riven trunks and
brauches of the forrest, and the stiff and
rigid corpses of the unburied dead only re
mained, to tell what yesterday bad been.—
About sunrise -an order cam9for.ua to move
to the left and form in reserve to Itanney.
Here we remained until 10 A. M., when the
rattle of musketry on oor right proclaimed
that the action baI again begun. About 12
M., an order came from Gen. Bragg direct-
Gen. Jackson to move to the right uJ re
port to Gen. Hi)i. As soon as we had arriv
ed Gen. Hill directed Gen. Jackson to form
oq Liddell's Ml, iu order to occupy an im
portant gap between Jum and Ctehoroe’s
right. Iu moving up to this position it was
found that the gap was much too large to be
filled by the brigade, aud that Hie enemy
had already poshed his sharpshooters for
ward to a position considerably in the rear
of Liddell's and Cleburne's line, and that
they were supported by a heavy battery in
position on our left and in rear of a prolon
gation of the line we were to occupy. Gen.
Jackson immediately ordered the battalion
skirmishers, to dislodge them, and with the
assistance of two companies ot the 2d Ga.
battalion, 1st Confederate regiment, to cover
the-remaining gap as far as Cleburne's right.
This was done in gallant style, tlie skirmish
ers charging with a shout and ecatt
the enemy from our front, driving
back to their line of battle, which h*Lad
vauced to their support The brigade™
moved up to its position and a general at
vancc was immediately ordered. Forward
swept the line in beautiful order. Scarcely
had we advanced one hundred yards w hen
the storm burst npon us. The battery on our
left and which was by this time in our rear,
swept the line with grape and canister, and
in our front, the enemy, strongly entrench
ed, opened a terrific fire upon us. Nothing
that we had before encountered compared
with this. The enfilading fire of the enemy
on our left flank was particularly destruct
ive, but the men never wavered for an in
stant With a shout of defiance, ou they
rushed amid the leaden storm, and the crash
of falling timber, and gained the crest of the
hill on which the enemy’s works were plac
ed. Here our battery, which had moved up
with the line, went into position and opened
a (railing fire on the enemy. The fight was
now the most desperate perhaps ol the war.
The position of the enemy in our front was
a splendid one, aud they lought with the en
ergy of desperation But noibiug could re'
sist the determined valor of our troops.—
Pressed beyond endurance, the enemy began
to waver. At this moment Manney’a bri
gade, which had been in reserve, came up in
spleodid ctyle, and the works wore ours.—
Broken, scattered, dismayed, the enemy fled
only to be slaughtered by our victorious
troops. Hundreds ol ihe poor wretches
threw down their ai-nn and surrendered,
seeking that safety in captivity which wu3
denied to them in flight. Night had now
come oa aud stopped the pursuit, and cheer
after cheer down the Hues told us that our
victory was complete. The exhiJiration of
that proud aud happy moment it would be
difficult to ituagiuc, impossible to describe.
All else was forgotten but the glorious re
flection that rose from the heart of every
man, “The Yaukees have been badly whip
pod, and I helped to do it,” Arms were now
stacked and many a camp tire soon rose
along the line. Around these sat or stood
the survivors of that bloody field, jubilant
in the midst of their dearly bought victory
After a time the clouds that had hovered
over the field relied away and tho moon
looked down in quiet grandeur upon the
scene.
Torn and dismembered were the trees
around, and stiff and stark lay the slain—
friend by the side of foe, in an awful and
ghastly profusion. It was a strange, wild
scene, and strangely did the sounds of mirth
and laughter arise in the midst of death.—
But there wa9 no profiuialiou there; for vic
tory had robbed death of its horrors, and
changed even the groans of our wounded
ioto shouts of exultation. At length, how
ever, 1'alig.ia asserted its mastery, and our
soldiers slept upon the field which, their
valor bad woo. Thus ended the battle
and here ends my simple story. Where
all did their part so well, it would
be invidious to make mention of a few
who specially deserve mention. The con
duct ot all the officers, from the command
ing General and Staff down, was most gal-
jant and exemplary, and h is still more
endeared the men to their leader. The valor
and daring of officers and men are sufficient
ly illustrated by- Ihe deeds they have done.
More for me to say would be as supeifl joih
os it would be unseemly.
The following tabular statement, obtained
from official sources, wifi show Ihe losses
sustained by the several brigades of Cheat
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Religious Services at the Libby Pris
on.—The Rl Rev. Bishop Muirill again offi
dated in his pastoral character at the Libby
prison,yesterday afternoon at four o’clock.
He preached an able sermon on the subject
of Faith, which was listened lo with unbro
ken attention by his auditory, consisting' of
the captive Federal officers, and attaches of
the prison. The picture presented was quite
a novel one. The audience occupied a spa
cious room on the first floor, Irom Cary sir.,
and were formed in an immense group
around the Bishop, who appeared m 1 be full
robes of hi^ office. The officers in the fore
ground of the group sal upen the floor in the
most convenient attitude to themselves «hc
outer portion ofthe group remaining stand-,
ing. The services continued for about an
hour, and at their c-Igsc the Bishop convers
ed kindlv with several of the Catholic offi
cers.— Richmond Enquirer.
Abundance.—A gentleman, just from
Greene County, Georgia, informs the Macon
Confederate that the harvest of corn is amaz
ing in its quantity. The tithing of one plan
ter is 10,000 bushels,-and another expected to
gather 100,000 bushl-ls. Peas are in wonder
ful qu&utities, and sweet potatoes encumbi r
the ground. Pea tints are alike abundant.
This is good news. We shall need some of
this corn in Virginia.
i3F"We understand, though we emoot
speak from experience, that drinks have
gone np in Atlanta to $ 150.-
A PATRIOTIC LETTER.
The Richmond Whig says:
The following letter from a venerable,
high-minded and greatly respected citizen of
Charleston to Mr. Rives, of this State has
been submitted to us for publication. We
willingly make place for a paper in which
the deep conviction of right, and the Arm
determination never to relax or yield, felt by
onr whole people, find such earnest and vig
orous expression:
Charleston, Sept. 25,1803.
My Dear Sir: **
yond the pleasure of offering my cor-
salutations,I have but a single object in
this trespass on your time. As a citizen of
an injured country, let me thank you tor
your letter to Mr. Deane, of Lynchburg;
and, iWhUc doing so, let me appeal not only
to your indulgence, but possibly to your re
membrance.
Some 30 years ago, wc met at the Springs
of Virginia, since which it has not been my
good fortune to have our intercourse renew
ed, save by an occasional note at very dist
ant intervals.
Wc conversed freely upon Mr. Calhoun’s
doctrine of nullification. When we parted,
my own observations as to the influence of
that doctrine, were at yotir request commit
ted to writing, and by youb favor I presume
it was that those imperfect views of a stu
pendous question found their way into the
columns of the Richmond Enquirer. One
third of a century has passed away! I have
nearly completed the fourth score of life-!
Yet the incidents referred to, bearing strong
ly on our country's welfare, have never been
erased from my mind. We were both Union
men. I had gone through an ordeal which
made sj T mpatby acceptable. You mo3t cour
teously gave it, and then, as now, it giatified
me to find that I was enlisted under the
same banner with yourself. Of Mr. Calhoun
I never said a word that might not have
been spoken in his presence, because I nev
er had a feeling towards him but of equal
admiration for his gigantic intellect, and for
his spotless integrity—feelings that were
mingled with a grateful sense of kindness
aud confluence received at his hands to the
very end of his brilliant existence. And
when the mournful duty had to be perform
ed ot receiving his body from the Senate of
the United States, I felt elevated by the or
der from our Executive to proceed with oth
ers in every way more distinguished than
myself direct, to Washington for this sacred
purpose. All the affeciirig scenes which
transpired during our mission, especially iu
Virginia, are now before me, showing that
a bright light had been extinguished, and
that ihe Mother ot States felt deeply the
flitter calamity which rested upon ns all.—
There had been a difieren.ee between Mr.
Calhoun and mjself on the subject of nulli
fication, only; in the other great measures
of his eventful life, there was none As his
friend, I honored him; and as his neighbor,
I valued an association with him, which was
intimate, confidential and unrestrained. I
say unrestrained, because the cardiual ob
jects of his pure life were to save the Con
stitution and the Uuion; and because he
knew that such was the highest aspiration
of my own mind.
Shall I be charged with vanity 1 jr sayin_
there had been a “ difference between Mr.
Calhoun and myself? - ’ If so, my answer is,
that it was a difference as to the remedj-,
not to the grievance. Such a difference as
exists between common men and their supe
riors, in a state of society where both are
accustomed to the refinemrnts of life, and,
therefore, to the freedom of opinion. From
my earliest recollection I had been devoted
to the Union. It was my inheritance to be
so. My whole family had gone with Wash
ington, and all subsequent teaching were
utterly disregarded. Others may be iu the
same category, and will doubtless speak nut
with as much honesty, and with far more
ability for themselves.
1 have said that my “veneration” was for
the Union; but it was the Union, as Mr.
Calhoun after, so often and so ably stated,
“ under the Constitution ”—the Union, in
keeping with the principles and purposes,
as they arc set foith in every clause of the
instrument, from the first word of the “ pre
amble,” to the last word of the last amend
ment ; and if this was a weakness, it had
become the most cherished' 1* infirmity ” ol
my whole nature. In those days, however,
Mr. Lincoln was as obscure as myself, and
the “ crushing out rebellion,” as a term to
be applied to sovereign States, would only
have l>een applied as a vulgar expression,"
not to be tolerated in the presence of re
spectable people.
When tho revolution which separated us
from the mother country terminated, who
were the parties living in contiguity to each
other? Is there a Freeman to be found
who will not say “ States,” and States only ?
Aud what relation did they bear to f ack
other? Perfect “independence!” Each
sovereign over its own territory! Each
passing^laws to suit its own convenience!—
Each making life, libprty and property de
pend on those laws, from which there was
no appeal! They had met in Convention in
1777 and adopted what was called the “Ar
ticles of Confederation.” These articles be
ing found “inefficient,” they met again in
.1787, always as “ States,” and submitted to
their “different <joeornmsnts” what was
afterwards known as the “ Constitution of
the United Stales.” These different govern-
ei nments considered the document submitted
to them, and adopted it at diffetent periods,
over a range of two years ! They were free
to rali‘y or reject as to themselves seemed
best for themselves: and, if there be any
doubt” on this subject, i; exists because
article 7ih of the Constitution has not been
properly or faithfully read. Tlie “Old Thir
teen” had gone into Convention, not to ob
tain rights, or to make those they possessed
more perlect, but to form a compact for their
mutual benefit. By that compact they im
posed duties on their ageuts ; and to enable
those agents to perform the “duties” assigned
them, they—the States—conferred “powers"
adequate to those “ duties ”—“ rights ” being
reserved to themselves. And why ? Because
they were sensible men, and honest m^n,
knowing lull well that “ rights ” w r ere inhe
rent and powers were derivative; and that
such were the relations about to be estab
lished between themselves (the States) and
the copartnership they were forming. But
it any man who ever sat at any meeting ever
atssuibled, at any time, ia America, had ever
dreamed of the powet s conferred being used
to subjugate, to destroy', to annihilate the
l*uiies Irom whom aH power emanated that
man was singularly resolute in the mysteri
ous silence so perseveringly adhered to.—
For more than fifty years the Government
had betn controlled by the South, and the
Constitution remained as U came from the
hands of The framers.
From the beginning the pioductious of
the South were made uinbt&ry to the North,
and the South submitted f because, if permit
ted, the would have preserved the .Union ;
but the population of the North increased
ia proportion to the advantages she enjoyed,
and not satisfied with “plunder,” she became
bent upon destruction. The jSouth. protest
ed, and the foreign clement was appealed to
to put down tlie South and to obliterate the
Constitution. The violence of fanatics was
invoked; the hatred ot the abolitionists be
came bitter and furious; their most promi
nent advocate proclaimed an “irrepressihle
coLflicl” between the two parts of the Un
ion ; the language of condemnation and of
insult became the common parlance of the
day; and when the next Presidential elec
tion was approaching, a Northern man was
selected, not because anybody was weak
enough to think him fit for the office, but
because he hated the South—because his
views were entirely sectional—and because
his disposition Was as cruel and unrelenting
as the occasion required; and this brought
matters to a point. We proposed peaceably
to retire from a compact in which equality,
justice and mercy were all denied. We
thought, and we still think, and so aver, in
the presence of Almighty God, that our right
to leave the Union is as perfect as teas our
right to join it or to reject it. We did not
enter it unconditionally, but, ou the contra
ry, for especial and specified considerations
—every one of which has been violated, dis
regarded and ridiculed—even to ttie open
declaration that we should be kept in the
Union by force, not as brethren or equals,
but on such terms as the most implacable
enemy should consent to dictate.
Is it a marvel, then, that those men of the
South who had reverently aDd steadfastly
adhered to the Union, despite the “accumu
lated wrongs" heaped upon them, should
at last pause to calculate the value of a Un
ion at. variance with the constitution ? Or,
that they should embrace secession and rev
olution with all their bloody consequences?
Indeed, there seemed no “ alternative ” left
U3, and the ordinance which carried South
Carolina lo the Union in 1784, wa3 repealed
in ISfiO. Other States followed, and a meas
ure as much in conformity with the history
of the constitution as any “principle” it con
tains, has been branded as rebellion, and is
to be punished as treason! Leading jour
nals aud prominent men at the North have
exhausted thetr imaginations in delineating
Indignity, degradation and torture, both
moral aud physical, to be inflicted upon us.
Many, 1 ike Mr. Dickerson, of New York,
who oucc favored the South, because her
support was looked for, now join the blood
hounds that seek to prey upon her vitals,
and while their deeds are failing their fancy
gleans every field where “new miseries” are
to be gathered, or “novel punishments” are
to be discovered. “Dungeons and hal’ers,”
cries Mr. Dickerson ; “ servile labor under
our own seivanls,” answer the pack, who,
having tasted blood, are more eager iu the
pursuit. In this attitude we stand before
the world; there is no hope but in tlie jus
tice of our cause and iu “that mercy which
enduretli toreyer”—and there is uo escape
but in the temper ot our arms ami in our
willingness to use them. “Honor,” howev
er, is never without a remedy, and if wc can
not leave to our children what i9 their birth
right and their property, we can at least
transmit to them another legacy—their fath
er’s relusai to submit to tyranny; when
death was the alternative, aud when called
ou to decide, they remembered Patrick Hen
ry, and answered as he did. Let us find
everything concerning such reflections; lot
us cease to talk of foreign interposition, or
mediation, or aid ; let us regard reconstruc
tion as an obsolete if not an obscene express
sion, and deem the thought of ever return
ing to those who have prostituted every
constitutional obligation, as an unnatural
desire to embrace a puirified mass, in its
most disgusting lorm. On tlie contrary, let
us return with confidence to that holy re
sistance which, under the providence
of God, will carry us through “the wilder
ness” and prepare us to demand atonement
for the desolation of onr homes ami for the
murder ot our children. When a savage
enemy takes invention and puts science to its
utmost to contrive new horrors and other ago
nies to be inflicted—when he presumes to
talk of a “wicked rebellion,” and impiously
claims to invoke the “vengeance of heaven,”
let us leave him to his falsehood and his in
famy, and console ourselves with the knowl
edge that this profanity docs not change the
character of the-Divine attribute, or his hy
pocrisy turn virtue into vice, or vice into
virtue. And when a faithless agent, aud for
his day, a successful usurper, has acted his
part as other tyrants have done before him,
the wonder will he that such barefaced re
bellion against the constitution ot the Unit
ed States should so long, have been tolerat
ed, unmarked by the scorn an i contempt oi
any ,Portion of the people over whom he
ruled, aud unpunished by the legitimate con
sequences of moral ambpolilical treason ! —
I fear, my dear sir, that I have not only ex
hausted your patience, but have forfeited
your pardon. M^y not the overpowering
nature of the subject be my apology ? And
may not feelings which would have absorb
ed me in my best day be favorably consider
ed now at the very end of my pilgrimage.
As your fellow-citizen aud fellow sufferer,
I beg you to go ou with the good work.—
Gontinue to be heard, as with a trumpet
voice, on every mountain, and in every val
ley, and let the noble old Commonwealth
take the front rank in our cause as her natur
al position, and let her send forth the senti
ments of patriotism and of courage, in the
language of devotedness aud defiance. The
world knows that Virginia is the same now
that she was “when the laud nurtured Wash
ington”—tho same that she was when Henry
spoke, and oppression hung its head —
the same as she was when Marshall opened
the hidden treasures of the law, and the
highest tribunals on the globe quoted its
authority of an American jurist.
Let the South continue lo be the South,
and let God declare the results. It may be
her destiny to suffer, but it is her not policy to
despair. Her trials will be great, but her re
sources are boundless. The assassin is at
her throat, but her sons'are faithful* and their
mother will take no step backwards. Can
the enemy change our climate, or can he
carry away our soil ? Can envy, hatred and
malice strike out the productions of the earth
or satisfy the wauts of the rest ot mankind ?
Can they say to our low grounds, give up
youj fertility, or to the high places, be no
more the abode of health ami strength -? Bat
Massachusetts has to be appeased, because
South Carolina declined to entertain Mr.
Hoar, when be came here, ior purposes at va
riance with her laws; because ol an affray
between Mr. Brooks and Mr. Sumner ; and
oh! damning sin, bemuse the State gave
birth to Mr. Calhoun, and because Mr.
Calhoun gave the labor of his life to save the
country from what the country is now endu
ring. Well, when tho vindictive anticipa
tions et Mr. Lincoln and his subjects are ful
filled, have the rest of the human family
Changed their character and adopted his?
Suppose he bums Charleston—her ashes will
find an air in every Southern man’s heart!
Fosteiily will assuredly build another city !
and they will assuredly call that city “Char
leston !” Suppose he overruns the country,
has he conquered the country ? Suppose he
violates our churches and desecrates our
grave yards, has he extinguished the “spirit”
which nevtr dies? But can Mr,. Lincoln
with all his ferocity, do these things ? The
answer God has not developed, but we do
know that He alone deals with the souls of
men 1 One word more, my dear sir. When
the setting Sun spreads his broad wings be
hind these Virginia hills, taking his depar
ture for the night, is there no ** morning to
follow »” Does not that tata? sun rise in an
opposite direction, giving notice to the world
that darkness is over, and day light comes
again ? The same with the Scutl/l Let her
stand to her arms! Let her say to despot
ism : We are enemies ,iu war ! iu peace, we
never can be friends ! And if the invader,
Cruel, as he may be, docs not, at list cease
to revel io the rum which m-kes his triumph,
and the sorrow which tie feeds on, if tie does
not quail under the burthen of his own ef
forts to make freemen slaves ! and if he dees
not sink under the fiend-like wish to deny
them IhehumanUy extended 10 other staves,
he will at least pause and ponder over the
small progress lie has made low arils the coo-
snmation of his own plans ?
And when tyranny has missed its aim—
and when the sun is seen rising once more
in all the majesty of truth, she’dding his ray9
over the land dreuched with the blood of a
heroic race, but over a people ar*so still brave
and still united, malignity may the better
compare the crimes which have been com
mitted with the consequences which have
-been achieved!
The North has destroyed a great Republic !
The historian will record the fact, and Heav
en will award the sentence ?
1 am. my dear sir,
With sincere respect ami regard.
Your friend and fellow citizen.
ALFRED HUGE8.
Hon. W. C. IHyks.
MARR1EO.
On tbaftlJ Oct., at the residence of the bride’s tooth-
by Rev. Mr. Freeman of Ihe Fplsco;>aIChurch, Mr. s. 11.
DAVIS, of Mcutgcm;ry, Ala., to Miss MARY ANN HIN
TON, of Atlanta, formerly of M. ntgomery, Ala.
Montgomery Adve.-fijer pVise copy.
ATHEN/EUM.
Lessee mud Manager, - W. II. C’ltiauv
(Atoo of tlie Mobilj and Rfoalgomery Theatres.
OPEN EVEKY EVENING
Saturday <Oct. ‘2i, Second Night ot '.lie New Drama Lf
DURRELL MARKHAM
OB THE
Captain of the Vulture
Captain George Duke I Tmla Drothl . n M r. John D. t vi,
James Duke, j
8*r»h Feck Mra. Jessie Claik-
Mlllicent Duke Miss Otcilti Oil.-p
And tlie whole of the Star Company.
by the Orchestra
To cone u ie wiUi the Lm^hahie Fsr.-e
TURN OUT.
fhe Frout Ten R )W4 of S.-ats reserved fj>s L d es
If* Preparation the War 1) by John Davis
of tlie “Ufctlle of Uek lltli.”
sar"A guard will be pi iced In th
order. Seats renerved for La.lies.
Tlieat.ro to preserve
Prices—Pari|uettr, }1.
Gallery $1.
Upper Tier, $1.fill, Ootore.
NOTICE.
T HE copartnership heretofore existin ' »s (he firm < f
Jack, Rryevu A 0 v aa Uiwnlve* on ih-r 1st day
of Augud, 1S«3. AU persona having demands figaiual
add tirmare hereby notified to come forward and pre
sent rUUut,and Uvrse owing are rujua ted to iu*ke im
mediate pay met. t.
JACK, BRV30N A CO.
NEW FIRM.
ritHS under.lgned Im/e entered Into c 'partnership
A under the firm and style of Jack A Bryion, fcu i
will continue business at the old btand. August 1, 1803
F. M. JACK,
Oct 24-il3t T. M. IIHYSON.
Who Wants the Best Farm in
S. W. Georgia?
I WILL sell my Kami on Keel’s Cretk on ti e d ie t
Calhoun aul Baker Counties, for So urns, ynid
Farm contains 1600 acres with the piWIrg- jf C6i)0 a.-ie--.
Some 6 or 000 aerre cleared and rush. On sal.1 farm n
large new framed dwelling iOxrO feet, 6 rooms, negio
cabins, Ac.j as good water auissoaili of Muon, i a:i
raise neatly every article we need or *1 h, salt and iron
excepted, of which the former is cloie by, good stoak
country,convenient to mills, churches and schools, pleas
ant seoUon and good society. Judge Win. \Y. Olay ton c.f
A’ltnta, knows the looa by of my (arm.
Milford,Oct 14-3.* N. 0. DANIELL
$100 REWARD.
^tTOLkiN from the subscriber oi thdOth Inst., a Dou-
ble-cased Patent Lever Watch, No. t(«4, made by
Olereoahaw k Co. The above reward \vM< be pbid lor the
recovery of Uie Watch. Als\ f 10 j for proof to con vk t
tte tlielf. oct24-Udt
T WO months after the date of this notice, application
will be ma te t j the orulnary of Butts county, Ua ,
foi leave to sell a house and lot In the city of Orittin,
Spatting County, Oa, as a part of tlie real estate ot
Sti pheu W. Pr.ce, late of said county of Suits de ;ta»ed.
Oct.Sd, lb&t. Fit'LlX PtflSOii, fcx’r.
Oct 24 w2m
tilORGII, Butts Countv:
T WO months afer date application will be made to
the honorable c^urtof ordinary cf said county,
for leave to sell the lands belonging to the tstateof Tiit-
inautiardaer late of said canrtydeo’d Oct. 19th.lSt.'-;
6ct-24-w2m ilARHAL N. BYARS, Adm’r.
OEOMGfA, Borfs Coo.. v:
W HBKEA9, Rarral N. Byars and IVd’lara C. Nut:
apply to me for letters or administration on the
estate of William B. Nutt late of sai l county deceased.
Tucse are there ore to cite and admonish all ar.d sia-
gu'arthe klwdred and creditors of rsid deceesed to be
aud appear at my office within the time prescribed by
law, to show cause If any they have, why said letter
•hould not be granted. Given under my hand at oilier
Oc". 19th,ISAS. VHIAX GOtbllAN, Oid’y '
OCblrOSM
GEORGIA, Butts Cobkty:
W HEREAS. Clark Jally applies to me for iait -rs of
guardianship of the person and proper y of Mine. -
v* Jally, minor child af said dark Jally.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons
concerned, to be and appear at my office within the time
prescribed by law, to show cause If any they haoe why
said letters should not be granted. Given under my
Itand at office, Oct. 19U>, 18113.
oct:4-w30d WILEY GOODMAN, Ord’y.
More New Goods.
XILACK ALPACA.
X3 do flax Thread,
Fine Felt Hals.
Laoles* Kngtlh Gaiters.
Gents' Merino Shirts,
Peats* Lambs Wool Drawe s,
Super Sea Island Shir.ing,
l-cad Pencils, Letter Paper, Env. lope?,
Sewing Hit Agate Bu' tons, Combe
4-4 ghktlocr, and 7 8 heetlar,
Bleach Oil Cloth tor Covering.
At P. G. BESSENT’ri
Oc.t23-.ltt Commission Merchant, Whitehall St.
Over Shirts.
FEW Bo*. Soper Fancy Flancei OrerBi irt.*,
1 Case Gents’ tuper English Boots and Armv Shoes
Just rec ived at t». ti. KKSSEIV'J »S,
Oct28-d£t Commission Merchant, Whitebait fet.
A
STOLEN.
F ROM the res! fence of the u-jdtraigned ne rC o?a
Keys, DeRalb County, on Sunday night las', one
small biy mare, (with bridle, saddle aDd ma t ingales )
right eye ou*, 10 years old. Ample remuneration wilt
be made for the mire if retjrnid t j my residence.
Oct28-dSt* S1EPHEN MARTIN.
$50 Reward.
L OSf on Wednesday list Inst., a black Memorandum
Bojk cont v nlngtwo di-charges, r.nsfrrmtbe reg
ular service 4 and ihe other liom the Ct naciipt Camp In
A abin-a Alia a certificate of ecemptlon from lfa*or
F. C. Humphries, Columbus. ArsenaL as a-Qovernnier.t
Contractor. There was also sane shiuplasters in the
Memorandum Book. The 'above rtw trd will be paid if
delivered at this office
Oct 22-dH*
O. B. BRIERS.
You Can Find Good
RIO COFFEE,
AT DE SHQNG’S,
White Hall Street, near Mitchell Street.
GetK—d4l
NOTICE.
W ILL b. • sold at public outcry on Saturday the 14th
November next, ia the Depot of the W. A A.
nan K ad, a vartair «1 articles inclu ling a lot oi scrap
GEO. D. PHILL1PJ,
Fup’t. W. A A. R. R.
iron.
Oct 13 -dt j
Bichromate Potass.
600
LBS. Bichromate Potass one
for sale by BOD
Aug 21-dtf
S nslgnmentj nd
MON BROS.