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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, July 4, 1856.
LAHHEBT CITT CIRCULATION.
Vo paper will be issued from this office to
morrow ; and she next day being Sunday, the
Sun will not nppenr again until Monday mor
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fourth of July.
The American people arrive, to-day, at the
close of one more year of national existence.
Eight decades have gone over us, and the great
principle of self-government still remains in
tact, and our people still acknowledge no ruler
but themselves. The recurrence of our na
tional birthday calls up many glorious memo
ries; but it also awakens sad reflections.—
While we have gone forward with unparalleled
rapidity in the arts and sciences—in territorial
extension—in commerce and manufactures—in
agriculture and literature, we have made no
progress in self-government, but have rather
receded. Corruptions, abuses, discontents,
have crept into the body politic. The Union
yet remains, but it is no longer one of brother
ly love, nor based upon that solid foundation
where our fathers left it. Its two grent sec
tions survey each other with mutual distrust;
while all men feel that the links which bind
us, cannot endure further tension, and arc
strained to their uttermost.
Those are sad thoughts for the Fourth of
July. But we are cheered by the belief that a
higher power than man’s, controls our destinies,
and will preserve us from destruction. Surely,
if any nation may claim to be the recipient of
Divine favor, we are that nation. Every page
of our history contains proofs that we have
been ordained to some great purpose ; and we
have an abiding confidence in the continuance
of that Divine protection which lias thus far
been vouchsafed to us. Let us hope for the
best. Let us believe that the sober second
thought will ere long come into play, and in
augurate reaction. Let us hope that the great
Governor of Nations will put into the hearts of
our people that conciliatory spirit, and those
feelings of brotherly affection, which will avert
tho threatenings that menace us, and on which
only we can rely to preserve our National In
tegrity. It is not in the power of politicians
to preserve it. The people alone can do it ;
and we sincerely trust that on this day, so
dear to us all, North and South, every lover of
his country will forget sectional disoontents,
resolve to cherish fraternal feelings towards
his fellow citizens, and secure to the whole
people many returns of the Fourth, and hap
pier ones, than we have to-day—days when
the future will be as bright with promise, as
the past is brilliant with glory.
Mechanics’ Meeting.
There was a very large and spirited meeting
of our city mechan.cs on Wednesday evening,
at Temperance Hall. At the moment of our
arrival, the audience had just come to “order,”
and Mr. J. D. Baldwin was on his way to the
stand, for the purpose of making some re
marks explanatory of the objects ol’ the meet
ing.
Mr. B. said:—“ Fellow citizens: u few nio
o.hauics of this city, being of opinion that
much good might be accomplished by the for
mation of a Mechanics’ Association, and being
influenced solely by a desire to advance the
wolfare of the laboring men of Columbus, have
called this meeting of working men, in order
that the project might be discussed, and if
possible some good attained. I need hardly
tell yon that, similar fraternities exist, both
North and South, though to much greater ex
tent in the former than the latter; and that
when animated by tho right spirit, they have
been found to yield both profit and pleasure,
to the mechanic. I am not accustomed to
public speaking, und do not hope to entertain
you with any display of oratory. But 1 may
remind you of facts well-known to yourselves
—of evils but too well known ; and as a broth
er mechanic urge upon you to devise tho ways
and means to promote your prosperity and
remedy thoso evils. It is known to you all
ihat the Southern mechanic lias a grievous
competition to encounter from the North
ern mechanic. Thij calls for remedy. It is
well known that many of our brethren arc in
want, at times; sick, and in distress. Wo
should relieve them, and make mutual aid a
principle of our association. It is well known
that Northern mechanics occupy a higher
place in the social scale, have more general
intelligeuee, and more comforts than those of
•he South. It is within our power, by menus
of association, to lift ourselves as high ns they.
We must studiously devote ourselves to self
culture. and to increasing our proficiency in
our respective callings. It is well known to
you, also, to mention another evil, that the
statute laws of Georgia in reference to negro
mechanics, are not faithfully observed. And
while we disclaim all intention to violate tho
laws, it is our right to have those executed
which hove beui t .<-sed tor our benefit, and
our duty to insist upon such execution. But
I will not undertake mention of all the objects
which fall within tho scope of a Mechanics’
Association. Your Committee will report mat
ter for your action ; and though 1 cannot say
what they may do, it is immaterial at present
to know. We shall have a voto upon their re
solutions. There is much to be done; it is
time we were up and at work. Come forward
and enrol your names, and if you do no more,
you can bread the hungry, comfort the afflict
ed, relieve the distress, and protect the or
phan and the widow. Come up men, andsign.
After that you can select from such
Committee as yon desire.
Mr. Baldwin here wont to the desk, aud was
about writing his name, wheu,
Mr. Simons rose, and said: Fellow citizens,
it seems to me these proceedings are very in
formal. We should have a Chairman and a
•secretary before going farther.
Mr. Baldwin: Just wait a moment till I get
down my name—(Laughter and cheers)—there
now} (Great applause.)
Mr. Simons proposition was then adopted
by appointing Mr. J. D. Baldwin to the Chair,
and Mr. W. H. McNeill to act as Secretary.-
The officers having taken their seats, Mr. Si-
rnons was loudly called for; whereupon ho
took the stand, and said:—
Fetlow-Citizen*: In complying with your
call, and taking the stand, lam somewhat em
barrassed. I feel up here, like a cat in a
strange garret, for I have not been advised of
the objects of this meeting, and do not know
anythiug of them. But I have always hearti
ly sympathised with mechanics; 1 have labor
ed for their welfare; and l therefore feel that
I have some right to address you. Ever
eiucc I landed in Columbus in 1833, I have
watched closely the difficulties which beset the
path of the working-man; and in 1841, l, and
another, endeavored to found a Mechanic’s
Association. We were actuated by the purest
motives, but we received the cold shoulder,
and tiie attempt failed us many similar ones in
Georgia bofore And since, have done. Now, 1 am
of opinion that the reasou why these associa
tions when formed, arc generally short-lived,
is, a want of foundation., They arc not based
upon fundamental principles, but have usually
confined themselves to war upon some ulterior
evil. Vet we have principles—great princi
ples to be maintained. We all suffer too, and
continue to suffer ; but. we might apply reme
dies did we so choose.
One great evil to which I would call your
attention, is the apprenticeship system as it
now exists in Georgia, and the conduct of some
mechanics who avail themselves of its defects.
It is too often the case now-a-days, that by
the time a boy begins to boos some use to bis
employer, and to repay him for the trouble of
hie teaching, the apprentice is decoyed off
from his rightful master ; his ear is filled with
pleasant poison, and secret persuasions, and
he quits his first situation to take up witli the
man who has beguiled him. .Such conduct on
the part of master mechanics is shameful; it
should be frowned down, and your association
should see that none of its members are guilty
of such dishonorable couduct. One reason
why we have such poor mechanics in the South
will bo found in the workings of the appren
ticeship systom. We should memorialize the
Legislature on this subject, and have inoro
stringont laws. (Applause.)
The social position of the mechanic in the
South, is a subject of much discontent. But
it is uousense to complain of it, till we make
some attempt at elevation. This we should
do, by tho cultivation of the most scrupulous
honor in our dealings one with another. In
Europe a mechanic cannot get employment
uules he can produce a certificate of honorable
discharge from his last employer. (Great ap
plause.) We should to improve
ourselves, and become worthy of a higher po
sition. We should have a library, newspapers
and periodicals to tell us of the progress mak
ing in the mechanical arts, and everything
connected with the mechanical interests of the
country. We should have lectures upon sub
jects interest ng to us, as mechanics ; and even
send to a distance to procure the proper men
to address us. We should meet frequently
too, and have a friendly and free interchange
of sentiment and opinion, giving each other
all the aid we can. But above all, we should
look to that moral culture without which, all
efforts t. rise will fail, or prove but transitory.
In reference to Northern competition, I hope
we shall not forever have to contend with it.
The signs of the times forebode a day, when
the dissolution of this Union will make us
independent; against that time let us prepare.
Let us set our house in order, and make ready
for the day when locomotives will not be im
ported, but be made upon our own soil. W'hen
parlors shall not bo furnished from Northern
manufactories, but from Southern. We must
get ready for that time, by perfecting our
selves in our trades, increasing our general in
telligence, and raising ourselves to a level with
the mechanics of any other country.
I know not whether this association will
take any action on the subject of negro me
chanics, and attempt to forbid negroes from
becoming mechanics. But I hope such attempt
will not bo made. It is impracticable and
would be unjust. Every man has a right to
do what he will, with his own; nor is there a
mechanic now in this room, who, if he owned
a negro workman, would submit to be dictated
to in regard to what kind work of that negro
should do. We cauuot touch this subject my
friends, without infringing on reserved rights;
and 1 warn you that the establishment of such
a principle is insidious abolitionism: right here
the seeds ot fanaticism begin to germinate.
And 1 implore you as you value your own
pence and that of your country, to beware of
it. Let us not breed strife in the community,
nor seek to array one portion of it against an
other. 1 remember an attempt to put down
negro mechanics, some years since in Macon.
An Association was formed there and quickly
became inad. They were going to rule the
world; but they soou broke down, and thus
damaged their real and other interests. Our
safety is in putting the mechanic arts beyond
the reuch of the negro. Negroes can piano
plank and lay brick, (though you seldom see
one on the outside of a handsome wall) but
that negro lives not, nor will ever live, who
can convert the ore of the earth into the proud
locomotive that sweeps your plains. (Applause)
So improvo yourselves, that the negro will in
vain try to compete with you, and will in this
way be driven out of workshops, to those occu
pations for which they are better adapted,
and where, in my opinion, they would be most
profitable to their owners. The argument
against negro mechanics, 1 will add, is absurd.
You bad as well go and demand of Mr. Bar
ringer tho stoppage of his planing machine,
because it took bread out of the mouths of old
fogy planers, as to demand that negroes shall
be kept out of the workshops. The cases are
parallel.
In regard to mutual aid to each other in
sickness, trials, and distress, 1 highly approve
it. We are commanded of God, as men, to
help our fellow-men. Shall wo do less towards
brother'mechanics ? We should have a perma
nent fund always accessible to those deserving
aid.
My friends let me conjure you to think well
of yourselves. You obey the command—live
by the sweat of the brow. Be not captious or
discontented because some men may scorn
you. You are tho jewels of Georgia—her jew
els, as truly as the Roman matron's sons were
jewels with her. Let other meu think of you
wiint they will —have your own opinion of
yourself. For my own part though my father
before me was a blacksmith and hammered
iron ; and though I have had to work so long
as health permitted, with jack-plane and saw ;
and thougb I have a hundred times been dirty
and sweaty, and tired, I never yet felt that aScn
tor or a President was any better thau 1. (Ap
plause.) The only thing for us to be asham
ed of, is our own immoral or dishonorable
conduct.
Follow citizens, l am no chicken. I have
boys raising up, that 1 want to occupy good
positions and become useful men. My head
tells you that years have passed over it, but
it does me good to see so many of you here to
night. and so earnest arid enthusiastic. Press
forward and you will yet make your mark.
Fearing 1 shall weary you, l will conclude
with a leal from my experiences. When I
first chine to this city, I ought to have been
fenced in, to keep the cows from eating me, I
was so green. I was like a stray dog; noth
ing to do aud nothing to do it with. At last
I got work with a cabinet maker. I worked
hard all day, but my nights I knew not what
to do with. 1 had no books to road—uobody
to talk to. I soon found the way to the whis
ky shop, learned to play “rounce,” kick up
tho devil and get a head-ache in the morning.
Your association can save youth and young
men from this. The latter can come among
us, hear our conversations, read our books.
Wo can take them to our houses, and mako
their nights pleasant. If found worthy, wc
can marry them to our daughters. I have
none myself, but may have. (Applause.)
Finally; I wish to see Southern mechanics
side-by-side with all others. They only want
opportunity. I have the greatest confidence
in tho equality of the Southern with the North
ern mind. We are as ingenious as they are,
if we could but bring it out; and there are at
this day, little white headed boys in the piny
words, apparently without three ideas above
a monkey, who only need development to
equal a Fulton. Let us strive for self-im
provement, and above all, have it distinctly
undefstood that we have not combined in or
der to infringe upon other men’s rights: but
legitimately promote the interest of mechanics,
and olevate the mechanic arts.
Mr. Barry, rose at the conclusion of Mr.
Simon’s address, to protest against the meet
ing’s having any connection with abolitiou
movements, and called upon the Chair to set
forth the real objects of the meeting.
Mr. Levy said that he was sorry that such
a word as abolition should so much as be nam
ed in a meeting of Southern mechanics, than
whom no men were more loyal. He depreca
ted the mention of anything political at a Me
chanics’ meeting.
The call upon the Chair being renewed, Mr.
Baldwin rose, and emphatically disclaimed any
desire upon the part of the projectors of the
meeting, to interfere in the remotest manner,
with the rights of slaveholders; and then
briefly recounted the various objects which
the Association had in view. Upon taking his
seat he was loudly applauded.
A list was then opened for the enrolment of
member’s names, and fifty-seven signatures ob
tained. A Committee consisting of Messrs.
M. N. Clark, Charles I*. Levy, Thomas I)e
W olf, Wm. R. Brown, E. A. Jackson, and N.
B. Love, was appointed to prepare business
for the next meeting ; after which the meet
ing adjourned to IVednesday evening next, at 8
o’clock.
It is proper to say that our reports of the
remarks made, are very much condensed. We
had full notes, but for want of room, have
been compelled to be brief.
Going, Going, Gone.
The Omnibuses and baggage waggons, pass
our office several times daily, on their trips
between the Hotels, and Depots, and we notice
latterly, very full cargoes, and a great many
“Columbus” trunks, starting with their own
ers, to the various summer resorts. The tide
of travel from Montgomery, and other places
west of this point, has also largely increased,
and every body that can, is moving away from
the heat. Having been promoted from the
Can’t-get-away t C lub, to the Ain’t-a-goin-away
Club, we shall remain, at our post, and do
what we can to enliven our brother members
during the “heated term.”
In this connection, we would call attention
to the advertisement of our City Omnibuses,
and especially to that portion of it, having re
ference to leaving “orders” at the Hotels.
West Point.
The following is a description of a drill per
formed by the Light Infantry corps at West
Point, during the reoeut examination :
“There were six cannons, each followed by
a caisson or ammunition wagon, both of which
were drawn by four horses. The rapidity and
celerity of the evolutions were astonishing.
Upon the sound of the bugle the horses would
be spurred across tho plain, tho pieces un
limbered and discharged several times a min
ute. Again would the bugle sound, and be
fore the smoke over that part of the field had
cleared away, the battery would be driven
across the plain at full gallop, and, in a few
seconds more, at the word of command, a dea
fening roar would arise from that quarter,
which thesourrounding hills reverberated with
startling distinctness. These pieces can be
discharged six times a minute. Another man
oeuvre was dismounting the battery, which was
done in less than a minute after receiving the
order, the carriage having in that time been
entirely taken to pieces, and laid upon the
ground.”
The Florida Branch.
The Middle Florida Branch of the Bruns
wick and Florida Railroad has been located, we
understand. It leaves the Main Trunk at the
point where it crosses the line of Clinch and
Ware counties, and runs diagonally? across
Clinch county to a point near the southwestern
corner ot the county, and in the direction of
Jasper, in Florida.
W e had the pleasure of examining the pro
file and was struck with the remarkable even
ness of the surface, having almost no cuts or
embankments, savo the slight ono to form the
road bed. We are informed by Col. Schlatter,
that the fall is only 27 feet in 39j{ miles.
Brunswick Herald.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
In Congress, July 4th, 1776.
When in the course of human events, it be
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them
With another, and to assume, among the powers
of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the lews of nature and of nature’s God
entitle then, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires shat they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:-that
all men arc created equal; that they are en
dowed by their Creator with certain unaliena
ble rights; that among these are life, liberty,
and the pin suit of happiness. That to secure
these right?, governments are instituted among
men deriving their just powers from the con
sent of the governed; that whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these
euds, it is the right of the people to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute anew government,
laying its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall setni most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. J’rudenee, indeed, will dictate,
that governments long established should not
be changed for light and transient causes ; and
accordingly nil experience hath shown that
mankind mo more disposed to suffer while
evils are si. durable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are aecus
tsmed. But when a long train of abuses anil
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same ob
ject, evinces a design to reduce them under ab
solute despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, aud to
provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these
colonies; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems
of government. The history of the present
king of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyran
ny over these states. To prove this, let facts
be submitted to a candid world.
He lias refused his assent to laws the most
wholcsOfne and necessary? for the public good.
He has fordidden his governors to pass laws
of immediate and pressing importance, uuless
suspended in their operation till his assent
should bo obtained: and when so suspended
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.—
He has refused to pass other law-s for the ac
commodation of large districts of people, un
less those jieople would relinquish the right
of representation in the legislature—a right in
estimable to them, and formidable tot.yrants
only.
Ho has milled together legislative bodies at
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the repository of their public records, for
the sole purpose of fatiguing them into com
pliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representatve houses re
peatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness,
his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after sueli
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; —
whereby? the legislative powers, incapable of
annihilation, have returned to the people at
large for their exercise, the state remaining,
in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers
of invasion, from without, and convulsion
within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population
of these sta cos ; for that purpose obstructing
the laws for naturalization of foreigners : re
fusing to pass others to encourage their migra
tion hither, and raising the conditions of new
appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws for es
tablishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure of their offices and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and
sent hither swarms'of officers, to harass our
people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace,
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military inde
pendent of, and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us
to a jurisdi dioM foreign to our constitution,
and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his
assent to tl eir acts of pretended legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us:
For protecting them, by a mock-trial, from
punishment for any murders which they should
commit on the inhabitants of these States :
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world:
For impc sing taxes on us without our con
sent :
For depriving us, in many cases, of the bene
fits of trial by jury :
For transporting us beyond the seas to be
tried for pretended offences :
For abolishing the free system of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg
ing its boundaries, so as to render it at once,
an example and fit instrument for introducing
the same absolute rule into these colonies :
For taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering funda
mentally, tho forms of our governments :
For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by de
claring us out of his protection, and waging
war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
lie is, at this time, transporting large armies
of foreign mercenaries to complete the work
of death, desolation, and tyranny, already be
gun with crcumstances of cruelty and perfidy,
scarcely paralleled in tho most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy the head of a civilized
nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken
captive on the high seas, to bear arms against
their country, to become executioners of their
friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by
their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavored to to bring on
the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless
Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes and conditions.
In every stage of those oppressions we have
petitioned for redress in the most humble
terms : Our repeated petitions have been an
swered only by repeated injury. A Prince,
whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be tho
ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to
our British brethren: Wo have warned them
from time to time, of attempts made by their
legislature, to extend an unwarrantable juris
diction over us. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of oor emigration and set
tlement here. Wo have appealed to their ua
tivc justice and magnanimity, and wehaveeon
jured them by the ties of our common kindred,
to disavow these usurpations, which would in
evitably interrupt our connections and corres
pondence. They too, have been deaf to the
voice of justice and of consanguinity,, We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity
which denounces our tep:
them, as wc hold the rest of mankind IN
in war, in peace friends. ’
. We, therefore, the Representative? ®
United States of America, in general c
assembled, appealing to the upreuw imE* 68
the World, for the rectitude nf our j n ' t ",
do, in the name, and by authority ot’ ,i ■ >
people of these Colonies, solemnly pubu’ Jfc 0 * 1
declare-—That these United Colonies J I® 15 *
of right ought to be, Free and
States ; that they are absolved irom all .3
ance to the British Crown, and that all n iK?
connection between them aud the s®
Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totVh®
solved : aud that as Free and ’inder. 2
States, they have full power to levy vv , ‘l® nt
elude peace, contract alliances, establidk 0 "’
merce, and to do all other icts and’ ‘t®f
which Independent States nmy of right ! ®|
And for the support of this declaration
firm reliance on the protection of Divine |* a
deuce, we mutually pledge t... each other®
lives, our fortunes, and our -acred hono ° D!
__ JOl N HANCOt'I
Address to the People of America il
the Citizens of Manchester ’ ®
Friends and Brethren—We venturn t I
dress you under a deep feeli- g o f sole! A
occasioned by the peri lorn condition®
winch the relations of our two great c” -J
have been thrown, by the mistakes or m?®
ceptions of our respective government
Whatever may be the errors <f either or J
these governments, we cam . t forget ,I.®
have to do with a people who, for dome?t : ®
lightcnmcnt, commercial enterprise audi.fl
cal importance, take rank .-.uoiig the hr?!®
tions upon earth, and who, l,v tbeii ‘ 4®
siou, increase of population’ and C],vi®
philanthropy, promise at no distant i>eii®
attain the highest degree of influent,. ®
the governments of the eivilund world ®
A brotherhood of race and a communit®
interests have sprung up between our two®
tions, more intimate, more continuous I*l
more comprehensive than the world ha- J
seen before. Never in recognized hat®
were two great coinmunitiet so closely ®
by blood, or so intimately blended by com®
interests, and never before was it given t ®
world to witness a union where so much |
involved—the wealth, prosperity and ha®
ness of distinct States, each having a sen.®
government and being under the control ®
own independent laws. *
IVe are, therefore, all the mrc alive—®
allow us to say—tremblingly dive to what®
may effect this union and ini nipt the ban®
ny that has so long existed i tween us, to il
reciprocal advantage, and, w believe,’to ■
benefit of the whole world. Providence I
made us mutually dependeni -so much so■
deed, that whatever would s< iously injure A
would, to an equal extent, si iously injure fl
other. Asa direct consequ, oe of this ]’i®
dential arrangement, we are t pi ally interc®
with yourselves in the material that is gi®
in your fields, in the shipping that coin®
your cargoes to every marke of the umv®
aud in the endless train of r ffationships til
the most princely commerce f the world |
interwoven between us for sown auxil®
support.
In a word, we are of one 1 md, one fan®
aud one religion. Our sons, >y long cont|
ued emigration, are spread o ?r your soil, |
yon have made them happy every domes!
endearment. A higher tho human ilestil
has made our interests iden ieal, and int®
woven the prosperity of one state with tfl
prosperity of tho other. IVe are, therefol
placed among the nations in a position to slifl
what national friendships may accompli®
where the rivalry is directed to the com ml
good and where success is equally shared >1
tween the rivals.
And shall war be permitted to sever us'.'!
Shall battle, bloodshed, conflagration al
sword be allowed to divide ’hose whovnGl
and mutual interests have made one, and 1
convert into national enemies brethren 1
blood, by race, and by religion ‘! in the mn
of our common Maker, and His holy fai®
which both nations profess to believe and praß
tice, we say No ! There is m sacrifice of timl
wealth, and influence that v r e would not I
ready to make to prevent so dire a catastropl
among mankind ; a catastrophe that we bl
lieve would more directly tend than any otlil
possible event to throw the world back ini
the barbarism of the feudal ages, and to furl
ish despotism with a plausible pretext for bal
ishing every form of constitutional governmel
from the face of the earth.
We implore you, therefore, in the name I
all that is sacred and valuabl ■ among maukinl
to employ such methods as your own judl
ments shall approve of restraining your go!
ment in any warlike tendency that it may hail
exhibited, assuring you that we. on our pail
will exert ourselves to the ut. nost of our powl
to produce a similar effect upon the govern
ment of the British crown. We believe till
much of the dispute that now imperils til
peace of the two countries 1. is arisen in mil
take and not in design, and we further belirvl
that a calm and quiet survey of the questioj
will even yet lead to a satistm-tory solution o
every difficulty and to the l eruoval of ever;
cause of contention and comp laint. This, v
are convinced, may best be done by submittiu
the whole case to the arbitration of some povi
er friendly to both parties, and while such
course would avoid the huu o, cost anddH
grneo of a war, it would tend to make our uiu
ion firmer than ever, and. through our exam
pic, exhibit the superiority of constitution!!
liberty and Christian faith il j civilized world
We, therefore, brethren, implore you to I‘d
ert your utmost influence with the, Govcml
ment of the United States in favor of amethoj
of averting the calamities of war, assuring y°j
with all solemnity that we will do the same tj
the fullest extent of our power with the Gow
eruuient of her Majesty the Queen ot GreN
Britain. , j
And, sincerely praying that our mutual if
forts may be attended with complete succe->
wc remain yours in the bond of an insepa’" 1
ble national friendship,
Crops in Louisiana-’
The Shreveport South We? tern of the ll* l
instant, says: “Wo regret t,o learn that tut
lice have made their appeart ace on many l* 1 ’
River plantations, in both (’ Ido and Posh*
parishes, and are causing si ous damage.
The Ouachita Register ol tune 11th say -
“We were blessed yesterday .vith a refreshing
shower—the first since the 1 th of last Apr*
It is needless to speculate u >n the amount <
good it has done to the sufli ing crops in th H
section.”
The Concordia lutclligeuc. of the -Oth in^ l
has the following: “AVe nr* compelled from
the accounts that reach us li om nearly e'er,’
quarter of our parish, to sn that for y es1 ’
past there never has been a poorer prosper
for a good orop than the pro entyear exhi
just at this time.”
Female Cler *.
So many clerks are provii ; defaulters, “
wouder employers do not enij oy young wonu
instead of fast men. The ; iris don t go ° (
benders and spend their em loyer’s cash, an
many of them are as well qr lified to pertorn
the duties of a clerkship as he generality
young men.— Portland Tram rift.