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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
Madison, ga.-.
'SATURDAY, SEPT. G, 1856.
Why Woman should be Educated.
A friend has kindly loaned us a copy of
Bishop Pierce’s Address, delivered at the
late Commencement of the Methodist Fo
male Collego in this place, and which
bears the above title. A careful reading
lias confirmed us in the good opinion
which we formed of it, when wo heard it
delivered.
The American people arc peculiarly fond
of excitement, mid to such an extent has
the tiling grown upon them, that some
thing of the sort is now absolutely essen
tial _to their happiness. They have had
spirit-rappings, animal magnetism and psy
chology; gold fevers and filibustering ex
peditions; Mormonism, Millerism, Fou
rierism, Socialism, and every other ism,
conceivable and inconceivable, not forget
ting Abolitionism and Black Republican
ism, which now threaten the destruction
of our government. But the subject
which, among all these, hits excited us
most, from one end of the Union to the
other, is Woman’* rights. It has been the
theme of populur orations, without num
ber—of editorial diatribes innumerable,
and of sermons not a few. Grandmothers
with caps and spectacles, and pretty misses
•with bright eyes and rosy chocks; hen
pecked husbands, anxious to conciliate
their better halves and arden, lovers, de
sirous of appearing well in the eyes of fair
inamoratas: tiieso have all been found oil
tlicono side, while gentlemen who claim
to lie botli independent and candid, occu
py the opposite.
These two great parties have eacli of
them taken extreme ground. The one lias
claimed for woman ontiro equality, mental
and physical—an equality which fits her
to compete with man in all tho walks of
life. The other insists that her sphere is
exclusively private and domestic, and that
she is incapable of an intellectual dcvelop
nnent sufficient to fit her either for public
or. literary life; regarding her, in a word,
as altogether useless and out of place eve
rywhere except in the kitchen. Both of
those parties, wo say, have taken extreme
ground. There is a difference between the
sexes, we think, and a very marked one.
This difference is found both in their men
tal and physical natures. The one was de
signed to cherish and support the other.
Man is like the sturdy oak, that can stand
.■alone; woman like the ivy, which mast
•cling to something or perish. As well
might tho clinging vino support the de
cayed and tottering oak, as for gentle wo
man to hope to make her way th'ougb the
world, after having taken her plnco upon
the stngo of public life, without destroying
tho delicacy of her nature. Woman’s true
placo is home —there her empire is su
preme, her sway unlimited. Let her fulfil
the high and ho'y duties of wife, mother,
•daughter, and sister, and her time will be
fully and pleasantly employed. Woman
owes her influence over man to the sensi
tiveness of her feeling, the simplicity of her
heart, and tho devotedness of her love;
and whenever she succeeds in becoming
tlio sharer of his rights, site will losejier
hold on iiis affections.
On tho other hand those who look
upofi woman as incapable of high mental
■cultivation —as only fitted for household
duties, and out of place every hero else,
are quite ns much in error. A medium
ground is the only safe one. There can he
Dio denying tho fact that woman’s nature
•jiecnliarly fits tier for the household, ami
that therein are centred some of her love
liest relations; but that she is incapable of
Anything higher, does not follow. She
anay lie unable, or indisposed, to take hold
of tho higher sciences; hot there are, wo
humbly conceive, fields in literature which
she may occupy successfully. And then,
■what position is more responsible than
that of the mother ? Is it not her peculiar
.province to educate tho infant mind ?
“ To watch
The dawn of little joys—to sit and sec
Almost their very growth.”
AVo shall not stop to discuss the impor
tance of educated mothers. AVe take it
■for granted that, no one will he so fool
hardy, at this day, as to contend that edu
cation —a thorough education—is not ab
solutely necessary to lit her for the proper
exercise of her duty. The subject is ably
touched upon in tho address before us,
from which we should like to make co
pious extracts, if our space allowed it.
AVe must content ourself with simply one
■or two:
“Society,” lie thinks, “lias not only
•denied to women the motives for strong
mental effort, by which the ambition of
men U roused to action, but it positively
otfers the temptation to rest in inglorious
mediocrity, as the more respectable and
attractive. Tlie love of admiration is na
tural to the human heart; nor is tho pas
sion stronger with women than with men,
save that the former aro more dependent
for their personal influence on their person
al attractions. This common instinct of our
mature seeks itsgratification in those inodes,
whieb observation and experience teach to
be tike most direct—the best adapted to
popular use. While, therefore, girls are
made to believe that there is more power
i i a curl than in a thought—more witchery
in complexion than in language—more at-
111 811111 flilltlo
traction in graceful motion than in general
knowledge, just so long the conventional
notions of the world repress intellectual
development and foster frivolities of char
acter. The grave—the good —the great,
are all parties to the policy, which assures
the female world that dregs, figure, grace
as to their persons, light conversation,
frothy commonplaces, vapid inanities abont
beaux, courtship an<? marriage, are about
nil that is expected of them, and that she
who excels in these tilings is the belle of
the hour. Even wise men, in their gal
lantry, talk nonsense to women, as though
politeness required them to condescend to
those of low intellectual estate. Under
the fallacious views which prevail, the
young people, in nil their social intercourse
and at every festal gathering, seem to have
conspired to ignore knowledge, taste, ideas,
worthy of our lational nature, and to have
resolved the charms of society into idle
prattle, as unmeaning as the chattering of
swallows. This abominable fashion does
gross injustice to both parties. Men de
grade their intellect in compliment to the
fair, and the fair are betrayed, by the com
pliment, into unworthy estimates ot them
selves. This stylo of address, though in
tended to please, is actually an insult; ns
it implies an incapacity to appreciate any
thing more sensible and exalted. Instead
of listening, well pleased with the twaddle
of their obsequious admirers, I wisli that
w omen would resent this imputation upon
their good sense, and compel the lords of
creation into more rational conversation.
I would as soon look to find tho Garden of
Eden, with its fruits and flowers, on the
icy shores of the Cireum-polar Sea, as to
expect tho emancipation of tlio female
mind from tlio disabilities of the ruling
fashion, unless wo.nen themselves pioneer
the reform. But, ladies, in resenting the
indignities which are perpetually offered
you in life’s daily walk, you must learn to
discriminate. Amid the crowd of attend
ants who wait upon your smiles, ther.o aro
some, with whom thero lias been a long,
long famine of ideas. There is but a hand
ful of meal in the barrel, and n little oil in
tho cruse, and no prophet in tlio land to
bless the scanty store. ‘They givo you
all—they can no more, though poor the
oll'ering he.’ Spare, these and keep your
wrath for him who voluntarily makes a
fool of himself, because bo is talking to a
woman.”
lie insists on tho sound, thorough and
extended education of woman, ns actually
necessary to fit her for the high and holy
duties which she is called on to perform as
wife and mother. An. uneducated woman
is not a help meet for an educated man.
“ liCave woman untaught—her mind unde
veloped, unenriched—and you bereave
marriage of its significancy, and make her
whom Heaven intended as a helper, com
panion and friend, a more convenience and
a toy.”
Is it less important that tlio mother he
educated? “To her guardianship God
commits tlio new-born spirit in its cradled
infancy. Tlio heart expands in tho light
of her love, ns a flower in tlio sunshine.
* * * Slio moulds tho warrior and the
hero—she inspires the patriot and the ora
tor—she gives to genius its noblest im
pulses, and to virtue its loftiest aims. To
tho hallowed ministry of her love, the
world is indebted for its happy homes —
home, for its sweet nttract’ons—childhood,
for its guardianship—man, for his happi
ness and repose—sickness, for i ';s solace—
tho dying chamber, for tlio last earthly
light that beams nqiid its grief and gloom
—tlio grave, for tho sweetest memorials
that bloom upon its pulseless bosom ; and
heaven itself, for thousands of the count
loss multitudes who shall swell the an
thems of its eternity.
“Now, must all tiieso high, holy tasks
bo abandoned to tlio intuitions—tho un
tutored sensibilities of untaught women ?
Ncvcn, unless wc mean to arrest tho im
provement of the world, extinguish tho
hopes of humanity, blight household joy,
and restore tlio reign of night. The notion
that tho aflections arc contracted, the sen
sibilities indurated, by knowledge, ami that
high mental training would unsex woman,
giving her a heart of stone for a heart of
flesh, deserves to bo placed alongside of
that modern discovery of some French
philosopher, that tlio earth is receding
from the sun—growing colder—and will
become a ball of ice, uninhabited nml un
inhabitable. AA’hat! high cultivation un
veil modesty—dethrone love—ossify ten
derness—wear oft’tlio downy bloom of fe
ninlo character—convert tlio American
fair, tlio loveliest of Eve’s descendants,
into Amazons? AYhv, knowledge consti
tutes tho chief difference between savage
and civilized life! AY here do wo find tho
noblest sentiments—lie refinements ot
taste—the most unsold Ii impulses—bene
volence, with its wine and oil—love, bear
ing the burdens of age, cheering the sor
rows of childhood, making home glad
with its music, and all life radiant with its
charm? Not among the ignorant—the
vulgar; but amid the arts, habits, com
forts and laws of well-educated human be
ings. The power to think and the power
to teel go together. A superficial head
and a frivolous heart lie side by side. The
shallow soil makes a barren field that
never teems with tlio generous harvest—
the very grass withoreth ‘beforo it grow
eth up—wherewith tho mower filleth not
his hands, nor ho that bimlcth sheaves his
bosom.’ A vain, silly, giddy woman has
no head a-, and cannot think--no heart, and
cannot feel. In tlio garden of her soul
there is neither bud nor blossom—flower
nor fruit. But the modest, intelligent,
refined woman ‘opens her mouth with
wisdom, and in her tongue is tlio law of
kindness she looketli well to the ways of
her household, aud eateth not tlio bread of
idleness. Iler children rise up and call her
blessed—her hns! and also, and he praiseth
her.’’ Sensibility and wisdom, delicacy
and strength, are not incompatible. AVo
man’s heart is her glory and her crown;
but her emotional nature will not lose its
tenderness in the light of knowledge. The
sun-flower, and not the night-blooming
ccreus, is the type of her soul and its sen
sibility. Does tlio brook cease to run, be
cause the day-beam comes down to lave in
its bright waters, making the pebbled bot
tom reflect the glory of the sky ? No, no.
Nor will the radiance of learning repress
the genial current of woman’s gushing
emotions; but rather, in the gladness of
their flow, they will flash with superadded
charms. Educate her worthily and wise
ly, and the very instincts of her being will
rise to the dignity of sentiment. The
vine, which is wont to creep and soil itself
with the dust of earth, will be lifted up—
twining its tendrils around the elevated
mind, will unfold its blossoms in beauty,
and emit a fragrance sweeter than ‘ the
balm of a tlioiiAiml flowers.’ Educate her
worthily and wisely, and the affections,
which else had grown rank in wild luxu
riance, all pruned nml trained, will hang
their ricli clusters in sunshine, and, if you
will allow me the language of heathen my
thology, the juice will be nectar for the
gods. Educate her worthily and wisely,
and every American home shall have its
priestess and its altar, where patriotism
shall learn its earliest lessons and religion
hum its purest incense. The generations
to come, blazoned with the heraldry of
virtue, shall proclaim tlio sanctity and the
success of her mission, and, by the blessing
of God, a world reformed shall be the ap
pendix to her life’s precious poem of love,
tenderness and truth.”
Superior Court.
■ The fall term of Morgan Superior Court
has been in session during tlio week—
his honor, Judgo Hardeman presiding.
Among tho gentlemen of the bar from
abroad we notice Judges Cone and Fi.oyd,
Solicitor General Lokton, Col. Junius
AYint.fiet.d, and Messrs. P. B. Robinson
and G. 0. Dawson of Greensboro, A. 11. 11.
Dawson of Savannah, Hon. E. Starnes and
Col. 11. 11. Gumming of Augusta.
---* • •
Political Speaking.
Col. Thomas I’. Saffoi.d, the democratic
Elector for this district, addressed the peo
ple at the Court House, on Tuesday, during
the adjourn men t of court for dinner.
On Wednesday, Hon. N. G. Foster, the
present Representative from tiiis Congres
sional District, addressed his fellow-citi
zens at, tho same hour and place, in favor
of the American candidates and
On Thursday, at tlio same hour and
place, lion. I.inton Stephens, of Hancock,
spoke in favor of tlio Democratic nomi
nees.
Something of n Storm.
It is tho universal opinion in this com
munity that it stormed a Jetr last Sunday.
AYo have a distinct recollection that, all
day long, it “ blew great guns,” ami rained
us if tho windows of heaven were opened;
but had it. been otherwise, our walk down
town on Monday morning would have con
vinced us that there had been something
in tlie wind. Such a demolition of fences,
and gardens, and shade trees, don’t often
greet one’s vision.
Tlie weatiierwise hereabouts aro divided
in opinion ns to tlio cause of tlie deluge.
Some aver that tlio rain-king took a sudden
fit of woeping over his niggardliness for
the past three months; while others con
tend that it was an effort to drown us, as
a punishment for our continual complain
ings. AVo incline to neither opinion. It
is quite clear to us that Old Plnvius felt
disposed to do the tiling up handsomely,
but had got out of practice and went too
far.
However, we ore quite ready to forgive
him for it, every tiling looks so bright
and handsome since. Snell delicious weath
er as wo liavo had all this week is some
thing to be thankful for.
Health of Charleston.
Last week wo copied from our Augusta
exchanges several paragraphs relative to
A’ellow Fever in Charleston—among them
one which reported a largo increase of that
disease. A friend writes us that tlio sto
ries aro all false. ‘ Tho City,” lie says,
“ was never healthier than at present.
Our citizens are returning every day from
their summer resorts, and no ono here
thinks of yellow fever. In fact, there
isn't sickness enough in the city to kill half
a dozen people !"
“The Diamond Merchant.”
AVe trust that none of onr readers have
filled to read the beautiful story, which
wo are publishing on onr first page.
“ AVild, romantic and improbable as this
tale will appear to European readers,”
says tho authoress, “it is nevertheless
strictly true; having been drawn from the
archives of the Turkish Empire, and rela
ted by Perous«e Hanoume, the lady secro
tary of tho Sultana Aznie, for the purpose
of being communicated to me, during my
residence in Constantinople, in 1830.” It
is taken from a volume entitled “ The Ro
mance of the Ilarem , by Miss Pardoo. It
is only one of a number of most beautiful
Eastern stories which it contains. Tlie
work may be procured at tho Bookstore,
in Madison.
J3?”Hkxry M. Law, Esq., of Savannah
is lecturing on “Oratory.” He has late’y
been in Griffin, Atlanta and LaGrange, and
in all those places tho papers speak of him
in tho highest terms, lie will probably
visit Madison in a few davs.
Suicide of Doct. Ramsay.
AVe learn from the Savannah Republi
can that this nnfonunate man committed
suicide in tlie jail at Conecuh co.
Ala., on AYcdnesday, the 27 th nit. He
had been arrested and lodged in jail there
on a charge of forgery, preferred by the U.
S. Government. His friends in Georgia
desired tiiat lie shonfd stand his trial at
home, and proceeded to Alabama with the
necessary papers and a U. S. marshal to
demand him. The authorities in Alabama
refused to give him up, whereupon Ramsay
managed to poison a cup of coffee with
some pods of Jamestown weed which lie
had procured. He lived some time after
lie was discovered in a dying state. The
Republian adds: “An appropriate end to
a reckless and abandoned life. ‘the
way of tlie transgressor is hard.’ ”
A Rich Love-Getter.
A French writer has remarked that it is
so rare and precious a talent which is re
quired to write a good love-letter, that it
is difficult to find ten good models of this
kind of writing in the French language, so
prolific in this department of 1 teraturc.
Talvi, tlie authjjr of Ifehisc, says, “For a
love-letter to be what it ought to be, we
must begin it without knowing what we
are going to saj-, and end it without know
ing what wc have said.” The “gentle
swain” who penned the following missive
to his sweetheart ha« gone even farther
than Talvi requires, for lie has rendered
his so that neither himself nor any ono
else, now that tlio letter is written, can
tell wlmt he meant to say nor what ho has
•aid. By way of premise we will state
that this is a bona fide love-letter, picked
up in tho street and handed to us by a
friend. If it isn’t a rich one, we’re no
judge:
Aprii, 20th, 1850.
Miss Catherine
Respected Mbs —
Would that my pen was tiped in
the dies of a rainbow, and plucked from
the wings of an angle and weded with tlie
prais ot an infints wit. Miss Catherine,
your mind is as gentle as tlio first storing
of an inlint dream, Your steps are as soft
as the silken footed Zepra failed with
wings of perfume from tlie newborn para
dice.
Yon aro tlie gingerbread of my walking
Vision and Cherry bounce of my recollec
tion. Your lips are like risen rose-buds
moisfend in tho honey dew of affection.
Miss Gather!no hear I give you a few lines
of poetry,
Hear take my heart—t’will be safe in thy keeping,
While I go wnud'ring o’er land and o’er sea;
Smiling or sorrowing waking or sleeping
What need I care so my heart is witli thee?
It matters not where I may now be a rover,
I care not bow many brigiit eyes I may see;
Should Venus herself come and ask mo to love her
I’d tell her I couldn’t—my heart is with thee.
When the first summer bee,
Over the young rose shall hover,
Then, like that gay rover,
I’ll como to thee.
In search of new sweetness.
For the A’i si tor.
“Do AVomcn Reason ?”
Mu. Editor—l have frequently won
dered if tlie sterner sex consider us reason
ing persons, or creatures who are governed
only by impulse, and can givo no other
why or wherefore for their actions than—■
because. I have heard several “over-gal
lant gentlemen” express their opinions,
and liavo read many discussions on this
important subject; but se’doni have I
been so much pleased, as with tlio remarks
of Mr. Joiixie Jonquil, for lie lias been
honest enough to express his views in such
a manner that we can easily understand
them, and also imagine why lie has conde
scended to enlighten tho public. Had tlie
gentleman given us reasons to support bis
assertions, I should liavo considered it my
duty to prove that lie is mistaken; but as
lie only asserts that women do not reason,
I will only g ve, at this time, what I con
sider his reasons for thinking as lie does.
But first, let mo assure you, there is no
danger of the learned gentleman’s “getting
into hot water;” and if he docs, it will not
hurt him, for it is utterly impossible for
any one of us to raiso sufficient intellectual
steam to scald one so completely clothed
in tlie armor of self-complacency as our
friend Mr. Jonquil.
I expect, however, that lie is perfectly
justifiable, for, if his landlady lias given
him cold tea and burnt biscuit, who will
censure him for asserting that “women
put on fire in a hap-hazard way”? If he
lias received a lecture for stepping on a
lady’s dress and tearing oft' ono of her
Honnces, who would think lie did wrong
to imagine the tight shoe on her foot in
stead of his own ? But in pouring out Ids
vexation, he should have been more care
ful, and selected things for which we can
not givo ft reason. Now I think any one
whose heart is in the right place , could ac
count for our wearing small bonnets. Sir
you know wc would not look well without
something on our heads; yet if wo had
them entirely covered up, we conld not
keep them cool. Look at the generations
which have gone before us. Onr mothers
woro big bonnets, and what has been tho
result ? They have been considered hot
headed, unreasonable creatures. AYe wish
to remove these erroneous ideas, and this
is our reason.
AYhy does lie say “ women do not rea
son—that’s beyond all question. No use
to talk to her after her mind’s made up.
Dear, enchanting, unreasoning creature,
sad and many aro the scrapes you fall into
from want of reflection, and vexing some
times are your arguments—which are no
arguments at all." Thero is only one way
in which I can account for it, and that is
suggested by his own words. ’Tis my
opinion lie'has been trying to persnade
some fair lady to become Mrs. Jonquil, and
she with provoking obstinacy has refused
to listen to his entreaties; hence he knows
from sad experience that “ it’s no use to
talk to her after her mind’s made up.”
No donbt her arguments were vexing.
See, Mr. Editor, lie commences the para
graph I have quoted, by alluding to
“ i comen"; but after a few words he speaks
of “ her," and “ dear creature," instead of
“ them'2 and 11 creatures." “Ont of the
abundance of the heart the pen writeth.”
I presume Mr. Johnie Jonquil is a critic,
and will find many errors in these lines,
but as he thinks
“The clear errata column
Is the best page of all the volume,”
ire will, no donbt, thank mo for thus giv
ing him an opportunity to exercise his rea
soning faculties.
Piif.be Penfeatiier.
Greensboro, Geo.
For the A'isitor.
•‘Do Women Reason?”
Good gracious! my dear Editor, what a
fluttering amongst the fair sex that little
squib of mine seems to have produced!
l’m sure I had no thought of offending the
clear creatures, and had I foreseen sncli a
result, would have sooner committed ma
trimony than published what I did. But
“ what’s writ is writ; would it were wor
thier!” Dear little Susie SxowDßOPComes
down upon me unmercifully. She would,
I verily believe, pummel me with a broom
stick, if she had a chance, and deem it a j
meritorious action. Softly, fair Susy—
hard words are not arguments. You only
spoil your pretty face, without touching \
tlie matter at issue.
But, Mr. Editor, I liavo no intention
now of replying to Miss Susy. I see too
that Piieue Penfeatiier lias entered tlie
lists. The more the merrier. She will
finish, I suppose, what Susy has begun—
my demolition. Well, for the present, let
them liavo it their way. AVlien they are
through, I’ll try again, and it may be that
I shall introduce a few more points. At
any rate, I have no intention of beating a
precipitate retreat. If fairly vanquished,
I shrill die as peaceably and with as much
dignity as possible.
Yours to command.
Joiixie Jonquil.
Madison, Geo.
For the Visitor.
Politics in the Pulpit.
A Plea for the New England Clergymen
Politics were initiated into the pulpit of
America in tho month of May, 1634. The
Rev. Mr. Cotton can hero enter his claims
to immortality: Massachusetts may here
record her boast. Tho one may say, “On
my broad bosom first trod that glorious
son of mine, who gave additional lustro to
the forum of the House of God, by fulmi
nating there his philippics against tlie cle.
ment of Republicanism in these western
wilds.” Tlie other may say, “It was my
voice which, first of all American Pulpit
Orators, was heard on tiiat notable elec
tion day—ringing clear and loud above tho
tumults of the freemen of Massachusetts,
when I bade them stay the progress of po
litical freedom, anil begged them, for the
sake of God, ‘ to check the democratic ten
dency of their times' But they were
‘ bent on cxe rCising their absolute power,’
and reversed tho ‘ decision of my pulpit'
—tho decision of Religion and of God. - ’
{See Bancroft, vol. l.p. 364.)
“But although on that day my voice
was drowned, and my efforts were una
vailing, yet posterity shall gratefully
award me honor for my perseverance in
the cause of God. For when my fellow
citizens met again, one year after, to frame
for themselves ‘a icrittcn Constitution,'
and to carry on the work of Civil Liberty,
I rose again and throw my whole influ
ence, as ‘a Puritan clergyman’—as ‘tlie
son of a Puritan Lawyer’—as ‘ an aroired
enemy to Democracy,' to redeem my peo
ple from tlie error of their ways, and to
persuade them to govern themselves by
tlie Lairs of Moses." See Bancroft, vol. I.
p. 365.
“ Ami for ton long years, by the exer
cise of all my powers, in preaching an oc
casional ‘■judicious sermon ,’ did I try to
keep alive the political power of the patri
cians of my land, in opposition to the en
croaching power of the common people.”
(P- 366.)
Tims may Massachusetts and Rev. Mr.
Cotton claim the honor of having been tho
first to initiate politics into tho American
Pulpit; and thus may it be seen that with
unerring judgment, with infallible stead
fastness did that '■‘■Pulpit Politician" op
pose the accursed progress of freedom.
But this is not all. Tho land of tho
“ three thousand Anti-Xebraska ” clergy
men of New England have other ancestry
of which to glory. '‘The liberties of
Massachusetts seemed contending against
the power of the English Government.”
The people were determined to maintain
their rights. Opposition arose. Party
spirit ran high. Excitement reached its
maximum. Tho election day came round.
Louder, and still louder, became the hur
ried tumults of that busy day—when !o!
in broad outline swept through the bewil
dered crowd the majestic form of the
“pious Wilson." His indignant soul dis
dained the earth. Fired with religions
fury against the heaven-cursed wishes of
the people for Liberty , he could not bind
himself to earth, but “ climbed a tree" and
from bis celestial height harangued the
freemen of that Colony, and almost per
suaded them to abandon Liberty forever,
as he.preached to them “of the Levy of
troops for the Pequod War" — “of respect
to Magistrates"—“of the distribution of
Total Lots" —“ and the assessment of
Pates." (p. 389.)
Oh ye of the Sunny South! who write
bitter things against the clergy of New
England, go back to the history of these
infant Colonics, and learn your great in
debtedness to these early Puritan Fathers
who taught ns the way of God more per
fectly in politics than we were willing to
follow. Go read of pious Davenport of
Rhode Island, and his modest charge, in his
political pulpit, to the judges of that Colo
ny, when he commanded them in the
words of Moses—
“ Judge righteously! and the cause that
is too hard for you , bring it unto me, and
I will hear it.” Oh my countrymen, how
have ye departed from the glorious sim
plicity ot the olden time! Ye never now
do carry your hard civil cases (when too
hard for yon) to be judged by the minister
of the Gospel. Spurn not now the legiti
mate descendants of Massachusetts’ twin
born sons of greatness. Let these 3000
spiritual great-grand-sons of Cotton and of
Wilson; yea, let Parker, Beecher, and
their kindred spirits, yet be heard for
their “ fathers' sake." The Mantle of In
fallibility has fallen down to them; and
you can yet hear “ the voice of the god,"
as they cry out against “ accursed institu
tions" and the freedom of freemen —the
Lights of the South." Sat.
Madison, Geo.
[COMMUNICATED.]
A Tribute of Respect.
Once again have our ranks been broken
by the rude and ruthless hand of death;
and one who was never known but to be
loved and respected for his virtues, has
been called “ to that bourne from whence
no traveler returns.” Young, and just
launching his bark upon the tempestuous
ocean of life, with nothing to daunt his
courage, but everything promising success,
he bid fair to become a good ci .izen and
an ornament to society.
In commemoration of the virtues of our
loved and csteemod friend and classmate,
Dan'ikf. McDougald Peabody, of Colum
bus, Ga., we, as the organ of the Junior
Class, do hereby adopt the following reso
lutions :
Pesolccd, That tho Junior Class of Em
ory College has received, with the deepest
sensibility, the announcement of the death
of our late associate and classmate.
Pesolccd, That we tender our heartfelt
sympathies to the.family and friends of
tho' deceased, and sensibly feel, ns they
have lost one “ near and dear to them by
the ties of nature,” wo at the same time
have lost a friend who rejoiced with us in
prosperity, and sympathised with us in
misfortune’s “dark and dreary hour.”
Pesolred, That the Junior Class, from a
desire of showing every mark of respect to
the memory ot the deceased, will go into
mourning for one month, by tho usual
mode of wearing crape upon the left arm.
Pesohed, That a copy of tho above res
olutions be sent to the family of tho de
ceased, and also to the Columbus Enquirer,
Times & Sentinel, Constitutionalist, South
ern Christian Advocate, and Madison Fam
ily Visitor.
S. J. SAFFOLD,
AV. 1). TUTT,
H. L. AVILSON,
J. A. PECK,
S. J. WINN.
Committee.
Emory College, Oxford, Ga., Sept. 1,1836.
£: Pue.be Lamwell’s reply to Johnie
Jonquil came too lato for this issue. It
shall appear next week.
Pen-and-Scissorlngs.
A Washington despatch says, “I ven
tore the prediction that the first important
information received from Kansas official
ly, will be that Gen. Lane is in irons.
Mark this.” Major Barbee, the talented
Virginia sculptor, was, it is stated, dan
gerous’y sick in Florence at last accounts.
.... Wistar's Wild Cherry Balsam, a sci
entific combination of the active principle
in tho AA'ild Cherry Bark and Tar, is doing
wonders in the way of alleviating all lung
disease.’.. It seems to cure those obstinate
cases that nothing else will reach... .The
American Banner, of Columbus, Miss, re
cords the death of Judge John Moore, for
merly of Lexington, Ga., in the 77tli year
of his age... .The Bank of Athens com
menced operations on Monday last The
grand jury of Bibb county consider the
City Court of Macon unnecessary, and ex
press their opinion that it would be well
to discontinue it....1f yon would sav e
twenty dollars in physicians’ fees, and
twice that amount in time, buy a dollar
bottle of Perry Davis’ Pain Killer for
family use; you will never regret it
Lola Montes lias returned to San Francis
co from Australia A dog, which had
lost tho whole of its interesting family,
was seen trying to poke a piece of crape
through the handle on a door of one of
the Philadelphia sausage shops The
expense of Congress for the current year,
it is said, amounts to $2,678,000.
Adjournment of Congress. —At
length we have tho grateful news that
the Extra Session has been brought to a
close. On Saturday anew Army Ap
propriation Bill (that is to say, tho old
one with the Kansas Proviso a little
shortened) was introduced, passed, and
sent to tho Senate. The latter body
struck out the Proviso and passed the
bill. The House concurred; and so
the session ended.
jJSTMr. Heald, tho young English
man of fortune who married Lola
Montez shortly after her separation from
tho King of Bavaria, died at Folkstone,
England, last month, of consumption.
Congressional
Washington, August 27.—80th
Houses have appointed Committees of
Conference on the army bill. The
House has passed a resolution to adjourn
to-morrow (Thursday) but the Senate
has not acted upon it.
Washington, August 28.—1n the
Senate, Mr. Crittenden introduced a hill
amending the Kansas-Nebraska act,
placing the legislative power in the
bands of the Governor and Judges, in
stead of the Legislature—Congress to
have supervisory power—debated, buj
no action.
The Committee of Conference on tho
Army bill were unable to agree. The
House again adhered by four majority,
and tabled the motion to re-consider.
Washington, August 29. —Tho Sen
ate to-day adhered to their amendment
to the Army bill. Mr. Crittenden’s bil{
was discussed. A memorial was pre
sented from the Texas Legislature, ask
ing Congress to intercede for Judge Ter
ry, now in the custody of the Vigilance
Committee of San Francisco; which
was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
In the House there was nothing done.
Washington Aug. 30.
Senate. —The following Executive
appointments have been confirmed by
the Senate:
Benj. R. Bitbewood, Collector for
the port of Beaufort, S. C.
Win. J. L. Engle, of South Carolina,
Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A.
David Camden Deleon, of South
Carolina, Assistant Surgeon, to thegrado
of Surgeon, U. S. A.
O. A. Rittsfield, of New Orleans, as
Superintendent of Steamboat Investiga
tions, Fourth District.
George R. West, Consul for the Bay
Islands.
Cool Shooting. —Under this heading,
the Crockett (Texas) Printer, of tho 20th
inst., has the following :
Two men, named Rigsby and Robbins,
at a whiskey stand, in the northeastern
portion of Grimes county, got to quarrel
ing; both had rifies; Rigsby up with
his and shot Robbins, who fell mortally
wounded, but as Rigsby turned off curs,
ing him, Robbins took aim as he lay
dying on the ground, and shot Rigsby
through the heart. Both died almost
immediately, revenged even in death.
Saturday Evening Post. —The Rich
mond Dispatch says: The Saturday
Evening Post, a Philadelphia paper, ex
tensively circulated in Virginia and other
Southern States, is engaged in publish
ing Mn. Stowe’s new abolition novel-
We warn tho public against this incen
diary sheet. The sale of it iii Virginia
ought to be suppressed. Wo earnestly
call the attention of Southern men to
the abolition literary wares, which are
peddled so extensively in our midst.—
The New York Uerald, says it has reason
to believo that, from the Potomac to tho
Rio Grande, the South is full of book
stores, containing literary works, biogra
phies, novels, periodicals, newspapers,
Arc., of the most incendiary kind.
Kansas Correspondents. —Mr. Ely
Moore, a gentleman formerly well known
in New York, writes concerning the in
formation published in tho abolition
papers of New York city :
“The truth is, neither the Times nor
Tribune has any correspondent in this
place. This I know to be so. Tho
correspondents of those pnpers live in
the city of New York, and undoubtedly
are attached to those respective offices.”
Literary Piracy. —Tho Westminster
Review for July, contains a thorough ex
posure of the impudent literary piracy
which Dr. William Smith, in his
“Latin English Dictionary,” has com
mitted upon the labcrsofour countryman
Prof. E. A. Andrews—a piracy tho more
censurable because Dr. Smith, after avail
ing himself of Prof. Andrews’ work, and
appropriating it under his own name, has
the effrontery in his preface to disparage
the work which he had found so useful.
An Honest Flag. —An old Califor
nian arrived in San Francisco, the other
day, fresh from the mines, and dropped
in at a Republican Club Meeting. A
patriotic individual had the floor and
among other good things said, “we go
in for free speech, free-soil, and Fre
mont !”
“ D n your free monte,” said tba
miner, getting up in disgust, “ that’s
what broke me the last time I was in
San Francisco.” He soon brought up
at a Democratic Club, and looked in to
see wbat was the row. Over the presi
dent's chair was a banner, with an in
scription painted on it. “Buck and
Break ” read the green one. “ Well that *
honest, anyhow,” said he. “If that flag
had been hung up when I was here last,
I never would have bucked agin the tigtf
in the world.”.—True Californian.