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THE POOR IN TIIE HEART.
BY V. I\ T.
Fat far. away up a great many pair of winding stairs
in her heart, was a door ca.iiy passed by, and on tliat
door was written “woman.” — Boz.
And so it is with the drunkard ; far away up a great
many pair of winding stairs in his heart, there is a door
easily passed by, and we must kuoek at that door, once,
twice, seven times, yea, seventy times seven, to open it.
•e-John B. Gough.
He was an old man. Not so very old,
either; for the wrinkles that marred his ca
daverous visage were not the autograph that
Time’s fingers had laid there—and the hand
that placed upon the low pine table the well
drained glass, did not tremble so with the
weakening that age induces ; yet very old,
and very wretched, looked the sole occupant
of that narrow room, with its red curtain,
and floor stained with tobacco saliva, and
an atmosphere abundantly seasoned by the
bar-room into which it opened.
A hat, it must have been intended for one,
half concealed the owner’s uncombed locks ;
and unmistakable evidences of a familiar ac
quaintance with brickbats and the gutter, did
that same hat produce. There was a coat,
out of whose sleeves peeped a pair of elbows
in rejoicing consciousness that they “could
aflbrd to be out.” Add to these, reader, a
shabby pair of faded pants, and you have the
“tout ensemble” of the wretched being who
had just commenced his daily potations in
the only “grog shop” to which ho was allow
ed ingress. And yet that wretched, friend
less man, that sat there under the stupefying
effects of his morning dram, had a heart, and
far up a great many pair of winding stairs
in that heart, was a door easily passed by,
and on that door, covered witli the dust and
cob-webs of time and neglect, was written
“Man.” But nobody dreamed of this, and
when the temperance man had gone to him,
and promised him employment and respecta
bility if he would “sign the pledge,” and oth
ers (well meaning men, too,) had rated him
soundly for his evil ways, and he had turned
a deaf ear to all these things, and gone back
with blind pertinacity to his “cups,” everybo
dy said old Bill Strong’s case was a hopeless
one. Ah! none of these had patiently groped
their way up the heart’s winding stairs, and
read the inscription on the hidden door there.
But while the unhappy man sat by the pine
table that morning, the bar-keeper suddenly
entered, followed by a lady with a pale high
brow, mild hazel eyes, and a strangely win
ning expression on her gentle face. The
man looked up with a vacant stare of aston
ishment as the bar-keeper tendered the lady
a seat, and pointed to the occupant of the
other, saying, “That’s Bill Strong, ma’am,’
and with a glance that indicated very plain- j
ly his wonder at what she could want there, ■
left her alone with the astounded and now j
thoroughly sobered man.
The soft eyes of the lady wandered with a
sad, pitying expression over old Bill's tea- 1
tures, and then, in a low, sweet voice, she !
asked, “Am I rightly informed? Do I ad
dress Mr. William Strong?”
Ah! with these few words, the lady had j
got farther up the winding stairs, and nearer
•the hidden door, than ail who had gone be
fore her.
“Vcs, yjat is my name, ma'am,” said old ;
Bill, and he ghmced down at his shabby at- ‘■
tire, and actually to hide the elbow that
was peeping out. It was a long time since
he had been addressed as Mr. William Strong,
and somehow it sounded yen’ pleasant to
him. ‘
“I am very glad to meet you, Mr. Strong,”
responded the lady; “1 have heard myfather
speak of you so often, and of the days when
4 vou and he were boys together, that I al
most feel as if we were old acquaintances.
You surely cannot have forgotten Charles
Morrison ?”
“Oh! no; Charlie and I used to be great
‘Croniefc,” said old Bill, with sudden anima
tion, and a light in his eye, such as had not
shone there for a long time, except when
rum gave it a fitful brilliancy.
Ah! the lady did not know, as perhaps the
angels did, that she had mounted the stairs,
and was softly feeling for that unseen door.
So she went on :
“I almost feel, Mr. Strong, as if I could
see the old spot upon which your homestead
etood, I have heard my father describe it so
often. The hill, with its crown of old oaks
at the back of your house, and the field of
yellow harvest grain that waved in front.
Then there was the green grass before the
front door, with the huge apple tree which
threw’ its shadows across it. And the old
portico, with the grape vine that climbed
over it, and the white roses that peeped in at
the bed room window, and the spring that
went shining and babbling through Clio bed
of green mint at the side of the house.”
Old Bill moved uneasily hi his chair, and
the muscles around bis mouth twitched oc
casionally ; but unmindful of this, the lady
kept on, in the same low, melting voice :
“Many and many were the hours,” so fath
er would say, “tnat Willie and I used to pass
under the shadow of that old apple tree,
playing ‘hide and seek/ or lolling on the
grass, and telling each other the great things
we meant to do, when we became big men,
while Willie’s blue eyes would sparkle with
hope and happiness, and when the sunset laid
a crown of gold on the top of the oaks on
the hill, Willie’s mother might be seen stand
ing in the portico, with her snowy cap and
her cheerful voice, calling, ‘Come, boys, come
to supper.’ ”
One after another the big, warm, blessed
tears went rolling down old Bill’s cheeks,
and falling on the pine table. (Ah ! the lady
was at the door then.)
“1 was always at home at Willie’s,” father
would say, “and used to have my bowl of
fresh milk and bread, too, and when these
had disappeared, Willie would draw his little
stool to his mother’s feet, and she would tel!
him some pleasant story of Joseph, or David,
ov seme good boy who afterwards became
a great mart, and then she would part Willie’s
! brown curls from off his forehead, and say,
in a trembling voice I can never forget, ‘Prom
ise me, Willie, when you are a man, and the
grey hairs of your mother are resting in the
church-yard yonder, you will never disgrace
j her memory.’ And Willie would draw up
his slight form, lift his blue eyes proudly to
I his mother, and say, ‘Never fear, mother, I
will make a good man and a great one, too,’
. and then, after he had said his evening pray
er, we would go, contented and happy as
the bird that nestled in the old apple tree, to
j rest. Then, just as we were sinking into
| some pleasant dream, we would hear a well
known foot fall on the stairs, and a kind face
bending over us would enquire, ‘if we were
nicely tucked up ? ’ It is a long, long
time, father would say, since I heard from
Willie, hut I am very sure he has never fallen
into any evil ways. The words of the saint
! ed mothei w ould keep him from that.”
Rap! rap! rap! went the words of the
lady at the door in old Bill’s heart. Creak !
creak! creak! went the door on its rusted
hinges. (Angels of God, held ye not your
breath to listen ?) The lady could onlv see
the subdued man bury his face in his clasped
hands, and while his frame shook like an .as
pen leaf, she heard him murmur, amid child
like sobs, “my mother! oh! mv mother!”
and she knew the tears that were washing
those wrinkled cheeks, were washing out a
dark record of old Bill’s past life; so with a
silent prayer of thankfulness, she resumed :
“But there was one tiling my father loved
to talk of better than all the rest. It was of
the morning you were married, Mr. Strong.
‘lt w as enough to do fine’s eyes good to look
at them, as they walked up the old church
aisle—he, w ith his proud, manly tread, and
: she, a delicate, fragile creature, fair as the
i orange blossoms that trembled in her hair.
I remember how clear and confident Wil
i flam’s voice sounded through the old church,
as lie promised to love, protect, and to cher
ish the bright, confiding creature at his side,
and I knew’ he thought, -as he looked down
upon her, that the winds of Heaven should
never visit her too roughly; and then my
father would tell us of your pleasant home,
and of the bright-eyed boy and the fair hair
ed girl that came after awdiile to gladden it,
and then } r ou know he removed to the West,
Mr. Strong, and lost sight of you.”
Once again the lady paused, for the agony
of the strong man before her was fearful to
behold, and then, in a lower tone, she spoke :
“1 did not forget the promise I made to mv
father, previous to his death, that if I ever
visited his native State, I would seek out his
old friend. But when I enquired for you,
they unfolded a terrible story to me, Mr.
Strong. They told me of a desolate and
broken household. Os a blue-eyed boy, that
a father’s heart might so well delight in, w ho
had left his home in disgust and despair, for
one on the homeless waters ; of the gentle,
suffering wife, who, faithful to the last, went
down, with a prayer on her lips for her erring
husband, broken-hearted, to the grave; and
of the fair-haired orphan girl, who followed
her mother in a little while. Oh! it is a sad,
sad story I have heard of my father’s old
friend!”’
“It was I! it was l that did it! I killed
them !” cried old Bill, lifting his lowed
head, and gazing on the lady, every feature
expressive of such wild agony and helpless
remorse, that she shuddered at the despair
her own w'ords had aroused. (Wide, wide
open stood the door then, and the lady
passed.)
A soft hand was laid soothingly on old
Bill’s arm, and a voice, full of hope, murmur
ed, “E veil for all this there is redemption,
and von well know’ the first step towards it.
Sign the pledge. In the name of the last
prayer of your dying w ife, and of the child
that sleeps by her side, I ask you, will you
do it?”
“I will,” said old Bill, while he brought
down his closed hand with such force on the
rickety pine table, that it rocked beneath it,
and a gleam of hope lighted up his features,
as he seized the pen and paper the lady placed
before him, which paper contained a pledge,
binding all who signed it to abstain from
the use of intoxicating drinks, and when he
returned it to her, the name of William
Stuong lay in bold, legible characters be
neath it.
There w as an expression almost ludicrous
from its intenseness of curiosity on the bar
keeper’s physiognomy, as the lady, after her
long interview with old Bill, passed quietly
through the shop, and the expression was not
lessened, when old Bill, a few moments after,
walked through without taking another glass
of grog; and he never passed over the thresh
hold again.
Earnest hearted reader, von whose soul
may he glowing with sympathy for your
erring brother man, who would gladly raise
him from the depths of sin and degradation,
and point him to the highway of peace and
prosperity, remember there is a door in every
human breast. See that you pass by it.
Boat.
Mr. Twombly’s Mistake. —Mr. Thom
as Twombly had drank but six glasses
of brandy and water, when, being a man of
discretion, he returned home at the seasona
hie hour of 1, A. M., and went soberly to
bed. Mrs. Twombly was too accustomed to
the comings and goings of said Thomas, to
be much disturbed by the trifling noise he
made on retiring; but when she discovered
that he had his boots on, she requested him
to remove them, or keep his feet out of the
bed.
“My dear,” said Mr. Twombly, in an apol
ogetic tone, “skuse me. How I came to
forget the boots, I can’t conceive, for I’m
just as sober as ever I was in my life!”
Mr. Twombly sat on the side of his bed,
and made an effort to pull off his right boot.
The attempt was successful, though it Drought j
him to the floor. On regaining his feet, Mr. ;
Twombly thought he saw the door open. As i
he was sure he shut the door on coming in, !
he was astonished, and, dark as it w'as in the ,
room, he couldn’t be mistaken, he felt certain. I
■ Mr. Twombly staggered towards the door to
close it; when, to his still greater surprise,
he saw a figure approach from beyond.
Twombly stopped—the figure stopped.—
Twombly advanced again, and the figure did
the same. Twombly raised his right hand—
the figure raised its left,
j “Who’s there ?” roared Twombly, begin
ning to be frightened. The object made no
reply. Twombly raised his boot in a mena
cing attitude. The figure defied him by sha
king a similar object.
“By the Lord!” cried Twombly ; “I’ll find
out who you be, you sneakin’ cuss!” He
hurled the boot full at the head of his myste
rious object, when—crash ! went the big look
ing-glass, which Twombly had mistaken for
the door.
Smtlijmt Scnliiul.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA:
THURSDAY MORNING,..SEPT. 23, 1852.
Dancing School.
By reference to advertisement, onr readers will
see that Mr. Cleveland will open his school on the
first day of October, in this city. Mr. C. has spent
the Summer at the North, accomplishing himself in
all the newest styles of Dancing, and will be pre
pared to give thorough instruction in them.
Nomination of Troup for President.
No event has occurred in the political world,
since the Southern Rights party was overwhelmed
and the banner of the South trampled in the dust,
which has stirred such varied and profound emo
tions in our bosoms, as the nomination of Troup for
President and Quitman for Vice-President of the
United States, by tlie remnant of the Southern
Rights Party which lately assembled in Alabama.
In point of numbers, the Convention was inconsider
able ; but we arc persuaded that there was not a
man in that body, who would not willingly immolate
upon the altar of the country, his heart’s most cher
ished treasures. As to the probable effect of this
nomination upon the result of the struggle now go
ing on for the Presidency and the spoils, no man
can cherish even a hope that it can make a sensible
impression ; yet it is a solemn protest against the
encroachments of national parties upon the constitu
tion, and the rights of the South. Nor are the
candidates selected by the Convention unworthy of
the proud position to which their friends would ele
vate them. Their brows are already entwined with
a halo so bright that the bauble of the Presidency
could add nothing to its brilliancy. The name of
Troup is associated in the minds of men with those
of Washington, and Marion, and Sumter, and
Calhoun. We teach our children 10 pronounce it
with reverence, and we never mention it ourselves
but to illustrate exalted civic virtue, unimpeachable
integrity, and an unconquerable hostility to every
form of tyranny. The honors of Quitman are green
er than those which adorn the venerable form of his
illustrious colleague; but he is equally entitled to the
homage ts his countrymen. In camp and cabinet,
he has served his country with single-hearted devo
tion, without fear and without r< proach, and has
immolated his ambition by flinging himself in the
van of the small body of incorruptible patriots who
war in the almost desperate contest with Northern
fanaticism.
If, therefore, we had been allowed to choose cur
candidates for the Presidency, we would have pre
ferred Troup and Quitman before all the other great
and pure men, whose virtues and services have made
them the idols of the Southern people.
But the strife is hopeless. All the great leaders
of public opinion in the South have committed them
selves to the support of other candidates. The
Southern Rights party is virtually dissolved as a
political organization, and the only question now
left for the people to decide is the relative sound
ness of Pierce and Scott upon the absorbing ques
tions which have so long divided the Southern
mind.
We have no idea that Troup will consent to en
ter tile Presidential arena. But we wait with im
patience his letter of acceptance or declination of
the honor conferred upon him. lie is known to be
a supporter of Pierce for the Presidency. How
far that support was conditional, we have no means
of ascertaining. If he shall consent to run, and
thus place himself at the head of an active, living,
fighting Southern party, we cannot find it in our
hearts to oppose him ; nay, he shall have the aid of
our poor ability in tho contest. We could not live
in peace with the sin of having voted against the
bravest, and purest, and greatest patriot th t ->ver
trod the soil of Georgia, resting upon our conscience.
But if Gov. Troup shall consent to run merely to at
liw certain disaffected politicians to throw away their
votes on him, we will have nothing to do with the
contest; but continue in the more practical work of
proving to the Southern people, that in a strugg'e
between Pierce and Scott, they are bound by the
highest considerations to vote for Pierce. An
American citizen has no right to throw away his
vote. The elective franchise is the richest heritage
of freedom. W e hold it in trust for posterity; and
are bound to use it in such way as will best sub
serve the interest of our country.
Eagle Cotton and Wool Factory.
The Cotton and Wool Factory owned by the
“Eagle Manufacturing Company” of this city, is
now in complete operation. The Factory buildings
were erected a year since in the most substantial
manner. The first Loom was put in operation in
February last.
All the modern improvements have been adopted
by this company, for labor-saving in the operations
of the machinery, for the use of steam in every
case where heat is required, and in the arrangements
made for the security of the buildings against fire.—
No trouble or expense has been spared, either in
building or machinery, to make the establishment
complete in every respect.
The company have five thousand spindles and
one hundred and fifty Looms in operation. There
is a surplus of spinning machinery, to enable them to
meet the demand for cotton yarn.
They will manufacture fifteen hundred hales of
cotton, and one hundred thousand pounds of wool,
per annum. The demand for their woolen fabrics is
B'i great that they propose to double their wool
machinery by another season.
Their machinery is so arranged that they can
manufacture all the various styles of coarse goods,
both cotton and woolen, and plain and colored.
They will therefore be able to supply the demand in
this and the adjoining States for such goods, and to
this home demand they look for encouragement in
their enterprise.
Their arrangements for dyeing wool and cotton are
complete; an experienced Dyer is employed in this
department.
This establishment is now turning out a great va
riety of goods. Linseys, plain aDd twilled, of vari
ous colors; a very heavy ar'’-jle of Cotton Stripes,
of many different patterns v colors; Sheetings,
Shirtings and Osnaburgs, of a “vy superior quality.
Two hundred and fifty men, women and children,
are employed in this Factory. Five hundred per
sons receive their support from it.
We notice several young gentlemen in the city
have adorned their petuons with the “Cotton Stripes,” ;
and as the winter comes on, we hope to see others
bedeck themselves in the “Wiregrass Jeans.” “Why
should not Columbus Fashions be substituted for
Boston Notions ?
The Atlanta Meeting.
We regret that the pressure upon our columns
prevents us from giving the official proceedings of
this, as well as almost every other political meeting.
The Convention met at Atlanta on the 17th iust.
A committee of nineteen was appointed to report
business. After a day’s and liberation, the Committee
reported, through Judge llenrv R. Jackson, their
I Chairman, that they had opened a correspondence
with the Executive Committee of the Southern Rights
j wing of the Democracy, for the purpose of effecting
a reorganization of the Electoral Ticket. The Ex
ecutive committee, in reply, assured them of their
willingness to remodel the ticket, if they had the
power to do so ; but as the Democratic Convention
had appointed not only Electors, but alternates, and
left to the Committee only the power of supplying
a vacancy in case both Elector and alternate declin
ed, the Committee could do no more than promise
that if a contingency should arise, in which they
should be called on to fill vacancies, they would
exercise their power “in a manner entirely accepta
ble to our Union Democratic fri- nds.”
This reply was far from satisfactory to the Union
Democrats, but as they cherished sincere devotion
to Democratic principles, and a profound anxiety for
the election of Pierce and King, the Committee re
commend that the Convention “east no obstacle in
the way of concentrating upon the present Electoral
j ticket, all the strengtn and votes which can be
brought to its support.” This report was adopted
almost unanimously.
Capt. Wm. T. Wofford offered a substitute, in
i which he proposed to bring out a Union Democratic
Electoral Ticket, which was lost. lion. R. M.
Charlton, John 11. Lumpkin, Henry R. Jack
. son, E. W. Chastain, and other distinguished gen
tlemen, were present and participated in the meeting.
The Public Lands—Whig, Democratic, and
Websterian Policy in reference thereto.
The great body of the public lands lie West of the
Mississippi river, and were acquired either by pur
; chase from France, or by treaty with Mexico. In
both cases, money was taken from the treasury of
the United States, which had been raised by taxes,
and given in exchange for them. The lands, there
fore, are the substitute for the tax money, and when
sold, the proceeds should be returned to the treasu
ry, and used in defraying the current expenses of
the Government, and thereby lessening tho burthen
of the taxes now imposed upon the commerce of the
country.
With tl lis view, the VI. resolution of the Demo
cratic Platform agrees. It is in these words:
VI. Resolved, That the proceeds of the Public Lands
i ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects
specified in the Constitution ; and that we are opposed
to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among
the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant
I to the Constitution.
The doctrine contained in this resolution is sound,
conservative and republican. Congress has no pow
er to appropriate money, vvhe'her raised by taxes or
the sale of land, to any other objects than those
I specified in the Constitution. Any other construc
. lion of the power of Congress, in this respect, will
: change tho whole theory of tho Federal Govern
ment, and make it one of unlimited power. Give
| the Federal Government money, and allow it to ap
i propriate it at discretion, and the rights of the States,
; and of the people, will soon be obliterated an 1 tram
pled upon by the hungry horde of spoilsmen, who
will gather around the public crib. No extrava
gance will alarm men who share in it—no tyranny
will be resisted by men who make money out of it.
No pensioner of a government was ever known to
seek its overthrow. Nor is this principle confined
to individuals —it applies with equal force to commu
nilies and States.
I Hence we deplore the position taken by the Geor
gia Convention which nominated Webs per for Pres
ident. Tho 10th resolution of the Platform adopted
1 by that Convention, is in these words :
10. Regarding the public lands as the joint and com
mon property of the several States, and holding that par
tial appropriations, either of them or their proceeds, to
particular States,for general or specified objects, are un
wise and unjust to the other members ot the Confedera
cy, we are in favor of a just and eq in! distribution of
said lands, or their proceeds, among all the States.
We cordially agree with the Convention in the !
i opinion that “partial appropriations, either of them ]
(the public lands) or their proceeds, to particular
States, for general or specified objects, are unwise
! and unjust to the other members of the Confedera
, ey.” “Joint and common property” ought to be
; enjoyed by all the copartners. Any other disposi
tion of such property is downright knavery. But
we equally condemn the policy which proposes to
“distribute the public lands, or their proceeds, among
all the States.”
‘I he only reason assigned for this disposition of
the public lands or their proceeds, is, that they are
“the joint and common property of the several
States.” So are the ships of war, the forts, arsenals,
and dockyards—and, indeed, the whole treasury of
the United States. Shall they, too, be equal'y dis
tributed among all the States? If not, why distrib
ute the public lands or their proceeds ? Has the
Federal Government no use for them ? Does it
owe no debts? Has it no use for money? Why,
then, this anxiety to get clear of the proceeds of the
public lands ?
We can well understand why Massachusetts, or
any other manufacturing State, should favor this
policy. She would thereby fill her own treasury,
and force an increase of taxation on imports, where
by greater protection would bt accorded to her own
manufactures. But why do Georgians desire to
withdraw so much money from the public treasury ? ;
Why do they desire an increase of taxation ? The i
great body of the people of Georgia, and of the
South, are farmers, whose taxes are necessarily in
creased, and whose markets are circumscribed, by
every increase of duties.
The position of the several candidates upon this
question is well known.
General Pierce stands upon the Democratic
Platform, and is specially flat-lb.;tel and erect upon
this plank of it. Ho never voted in his l.fo fur an
appropriation of the public funds, that we are aware j
of, where there was the least doubt upon the con- |
stitutionality of the appropriation. Indeed, he has
gone so far in the opposite extreme, that his oppo
nents charge him with meanness. They are wel
come to all the capital they can make out of this ob
jection to him. Liberal, almost to extravagance,
with his own money, he has always been extremely
econ miic&l with that which belonged to other
people.
General Scott, on the other hand, is extrava
gant both in public and private life. We never
heard of his objecting to any kind of appropriation.
He seems to think money was made to spend, and
is never satisfied to keep a dollar on hand for future
exigencies. In his letter of the 25th October, 1841, I
he say* : “If I had had the honor of a vote on the
occasion, it would have been given in favor of the
Land Distribution bill.”
Mr. Webster is, in this respect, the counterpart
of General Scott. His chiefest pleasure consists
in spending money. Though engaged in the most
lucrative practice for 40 years, he has never laid up
a dollar, and has been all bis life long troubled with
duns. In his public capacity, he is equally extrava
gant. lie will be found voting for almost every
measure which appropriated money.
He was in favor of distributing the proceeds of
the public lands among the States, when this was the j
favorite policy—now he takes a larger view. lie in
troduced a bill into the Senate a few years ago, giv
ing the public lands to actual settlers—thus lending
the influence of his great name to the agrarian doc- i
trine of the red republicans.
We don’t know which position is the most repre
hensible. Give the public lands to the States, and
you make them pensioners of the Federal Govern
ment, and destroy their ability to resist Federal eu- |
croachments. Give them to the people, and you ;
transfer their allegiance from th S;ate—to which ‘
it properly belongs—to the Federal Government,
and make it omnipotent and overshadowing. In a
contest involving such consequences, the true posi
tion of a Southern man cannot be matter of doubt.
The South is in a minority in the Federal Govern
ment. Her policy therefore, is, to advocate every
measure which increases the importance of the
States, and to oppose every one which adds to tbo
influence and power of the Federal Government,
j While, therefore, Southern men cannot vote for either
, Webster or Scott, they may vote for Pierce.
j A Plea for Home Education in the South.
! An Address, delivered by E. C. Bullock, Esq., be
fore the East Alabama Female College.
\ Every enterprise which proposes to promote the
! prosperity, increase the happiness, elevate the intel
lect, purify the morals, or add to the renown of the
Southern people, is eminently worthy of the attention
of Southern Rights men. If our soil is unproduc
; tive; if the demand for our produce declines; if
! any portion of our people are uneducated or vicious ;
if, in every field of endeavor, we are not superior to
i all other people—our kind neighbors of the North
are stone blind to the circumstances which have
j probably produced these results, and pertinaciously
i attribute them all to u the blighting curse of slave -
I ry.” We are therefore peculiarly sensitive to what
ever blemishes may exist in Southern society,
and would leave no remedy untried which would
probably remove them.
We 1 lave long been convinced, that the greatest
evil in our domestic economy, is the practice of edu
cating our children at the North. It is the settled
conviction of the Yankee, that all the world is in
ferior to New England—in culture, in morals, and
all the other elements of a christianized civilization ;
and that the South, above all other portions of the
globe, is the most benighted and barbarous. This
lesson is not only taught in the school book, but in
the social circle, the pulpit, the rostrum, and the
professor’s chair. These inlluences are all brought
to bear upon the susceptible mind of our youth ; and
they necessarily return home to us from their Alma
Maters .with ill concealed contempt for Southern so
ciety, and strong prejudices against Southern insti
tutions. This is no fancy sketch, but the result of
our own observations.
We hail, therefore, with extreme delight, the
speech of Mr. Bullock, on this very important sub
ject.
In reference to the evil which we have just no
ticed and deprecated, Mr. Bullock uses the follow
ing strong but felicitous language:
Every’ y'ear our maidens and young tnen are sent to
Northern schools and universities Every summer,
Northern watering places borrow half their attractions
from Southern beauty, and wring more than half their
| profits from Southern pockets, while the most charming
and picturesque spots of our own section, are compara
tively deserted and unknown. Our school-books are
nearly all the work of Northern authors, most of
whom could not do us justice if they would, and would
not if they couid, and who, if they do not, as often hap
pens, indulge in covert and insidious attacks upon our
institutions, are necessarily biased by prejudices, which
it is not in the nature of tilings for them to overcome.
In the works of history', in which our children learn the
glorious achievements of their revolutionary ancestors,
while the part which the North bore in that memorable
struggle is amplified and exaggerated, the equal suffer
ings and devotion of the South a, c disparaged and un
derrated. The.battles which occurred in the Northern
States are dwelt upon with elaborate and laudatory
commen's, while scarce a single page is devoted to
some of the most brilliant actions et the war whicii hap
pened in the Soulh.
If one of our authors writes a book, the chances are
j ten to one, that he finds it necessary to introduce it to
| the public under the auspices of some fashionable North
! ern publisher ; and what newspaper at home is half so
j spicy or grateful to Southern taste, as that which is per
i fumed by tlio.e delicious Northern breezes, winch never
! descend this side of the l’otomac ? So prone are we to
j follow Northern precedent, that we have ejpn allowed
| that leairied and indefatigable lex.cogra-iherTbut dating
innovator, Noah Webster, to fasid'it, j ponderous Die-
I tionary upon us as ri\; st-mdard'de.iYgo >d Engli It ;
j when, in truth, one of his'chief cares seems to have been
| to give an odor of nationality to thot%,ovineiahsins of
the Eastern States, and to Connectu r r.c —if I may be
; permitted to follow his example anci'Jym a word—the
I noble old vernacular of our doubt
! less, that New England might mo* appropriately in
| corporate among her other thrivingßranches of home
industiy, the manufacture of New English. In short,
i no matter what our wants, whether a bonnet or a mag
j azine, a coat or a plough, a carriag® or a song, we al
’ ways turn to the North with the same steadfast devo
tion that the pious Mussulman pruftrates himself be-
I fore the rising sun.
j
i out Mr. Bullock spurns this vassalage, and vin
i dieates alike the intellect and the valor of the South,
i her peculiar institutions and our genial climate, from
| the aspersions of our enemies. The following beau
tiful extract commends itself to every true Southern
heart, not more by the classic purity and beauty of
the style, than by the wholesome truths which it
contains:
And yet is there one within the sound of’ my voice,
who is prepared to acknowledge any natural or social
inferiority on the part of the people of oor section ? Are J
! we not sprung from the same great Anglo-Saxon stock
| with our Northern brethren, and does not the same
blood flow in our veins? Have we not vindicated our
1 claims to at least a perfect equality with them on every
battle-field, from Fort Moultrie to the gates of Mexico ?
Is there one of us, that remembers without a thrill of
patriotic pride, that when at Buena Vista, a Northern
regiment inglorionsly threw down its arms and Hod in j
confusion from the field, it was Southern valor that tur I
ned the tide of defeat and saved die honor of our flag? j
and that again at Churubusco, when the troops of’ the !
boasted Empire State of the North cowered and fa I- j
tered under the heavy fire of the enemy, it was a South- |
ern regiment that stood in the deadly breach, and left j
more than halt its numbers among the wounded and !
slain ? Nor have we been less fortunate in the nobler I
contest of mind with mind. In no one of the many j
sectional contests of the Senate house, has the South i
had cause to blush for her champions ; and from Wash- I
ington and Patrick Henry, to Calhoun and Clay, her {
sta esmen and orators have always held the front !
rank in the confederacy.
i Where then shall we look for the eau -of oar help
leasness! I- it, as some would have us believe, that the
peculiar and striking feature of our social system is an
element of weakness and demoralization, and must we
therefore transport our children to sit at the feet of Ga
maliel in purer and better climes ? Let the experience
of the past answer. It was with institutions like ours,
different only in not being justified by like fixed and un
alterable distinctions of race, that Rome conquered and
Greece civilized the world; and not only was polished
and slaveholding Athens the renowned seat of refinement
and learning, but in its bosom was nurtured the grandest
literature of ancient times. At no period of the woild
have the temperate Southern latitudes been deemed un
favorable to the highest mental and moral culture, and
history shows that while barbarism has generally owed
its origin to the North, the South has been not unfre
quently the favored home of letters and the fine arts.—
Nor is there anything in our peculiar circumstances to
make us an exception to the rule. In sound morality
and reverence for law, we are in no wise inferior to the
people of the Northern States, and violations of both
are far move frequent there than here. It is not very
many years, since, in sight of Hunker Hill, a convent
was given to the flames, and the defenceless women and I
children who were its inmates, driven at the hour of
midnight, by a pitiless mob, from its protecting shelter.
Its blackened wails jtill stand a monument of the secta- !
rian prejudice of the sons of the Puritans. It is but a
little more than three years since the Astor Place riots. ;
having their origin in no higher cause than the rivalry
of two popular actors, were attended with great loss
of life, and only suppressed by the entire military force :
of the city of New York. How often in the last few ;
years, mobs have been marshaled in Northern cities, in- :
eluding Boston itself, in successful defiance of an act of j
Congress and a plain provision of the Constitution, is !
quite within the recollection of us all. In Philadelphia, :
which, by a strange misnomer, bears the name of broth- i
erly love, riots are of weekly, and sometimes even ;
daily occurrence ; while the great State of New York
has been but recently shaken to its centre by anti-rent
disturbances ; and in nearly all the Northern States,
outbreaks of complaining operatives, clamoring for high
er wages, the fruit of a frightful collision between labor
and capital, are no uncommon spectacles.
It is, too, worthy of note, that Fourierism, Millerism,
Mormonism,Spiritual Rapping-qand other wild vagaries
of hair-brained fanaticism, not to speak of those minor
absurdities in the way of diet at which everv well reg
ulated stomach instinctively revolts, have not only
originated, but found all their disciples, in the North.
There is a practical and conservative good sense about
our people, which saves them fiorn such inflictions, as
well as from that vulgar idolatry, which, indiffer
ent as to an object, finds vent one month in a prepos
terous devotion to Kossuth, and the next in a frantic at- j
taehment to Jenny Lind. The illustrious Magyar, and j
the unrivalled Queen of Song, have both found among
its the respect and admirati ju due to their undoubted tal
ents, without occasioning the extravagances and lollies
which marked the conduct of their Northern friends,
and doubtless excited their own disgust.
I have lingered upon this subject not in a boastful
spirit, nor for the purpose of exciting sectional prejudice,
but simply to enforce the proposition that there is noth
ing in our relative natural, social, or moral condition,
to warrant the slavish dependence which we have so
long endured ; and because, in my poor judgment, the j
first Commencement of a Southern College atibrds no
inappropriate occasion for the performance of such a
task. If ever a people had great and peculiar reasons for •
developing their own resources, and especially for sus- j
taining their own institutions of learning, we are that
people. With one of the fairest lands that the sun ev
er shone upon, every consideration of pride, patriotism
and interest, appeals to us to arouse from our lethargy,
and abandon the suicidal policy which has so long rob- j
bed it of its own.
We wish our limits enabled us to give the whole
speed). There is not a line in it which we have not
read with relish, not a sentiment which we can not
endorse, not an aspiration which we do not cherish.
Escaped from Jai!—An Ontrage.
W e learn from the Literary Vademecum that
the boy Sam, charged with an attempt to commit a
rape upon a white girl, escaped from the jail of Ma
rion county, on Monday of last week. ITe was pur
sued by Dr. Jeter, and overtaken, but before he
could secure him, a white man rushed to the rescue i
of the negro, and presenting a pistol at Dr. Jeter. :
I threatened to blow his brains out, if he did not 1
release him. Sam and his rescuer then mounted a
I couple of horses, which another white man held for !
! them, and escaped. They made their way towards
Alabama. The Sheriff of Marion county has offer
ed a reward of fifty dollars, each, for the apprehon
| sion of the white men engaged in this outrage, and
fifty dollars for the negro. Sam belongs to Mr.
Sheffield, of Sumter county, Ga., is five feet six
inches high, spare built, thin visnged, has a sullen
■ look, and is impudent in his speech and manner.
Pierce and King Chib.
One of the largest, and by far the most enthnsias
j tie meeting of the Club, which has yet been held,
i convened at the call of the President, at Temper
| nnee Hall, on Monday night the 20th instant, to
| hear an address from the Hon. W. 15. Pryor, of
LaGrange—when that gentleman, in his usual
. spirited style and manner, for an hour and a half en
chained the attention of his audience, amid repeated
bursts of applause.
After which the Hon. M. J. Crawford was lustily
! called for. This gentleman acknowledged the call,
and promised to address the Club on some future
evening—declining at the time on account of the
lateness of the hour.
Mr. Crawford has been distinguished in past par
ty politics as a Y\ big, having represented for a num
ber of years, that party in our State Legislature.
| He now gives his hearty support to Pierce and King,
believing them to be the safest men for tile South
at this crisis.
JOHN QUIN, President.
M. N. Clarke, See’y.
Washington Correspondence of the Sentinel.
Washington, September 16, 1852.
I propose to-day to give you a bird’s-eye view of
ihe last movements of our Northern brethren, who
are renewing the anti slavery agitation with fresh
zeal and energy. The nomination of Hale and Ju
lian, by the Pittsburg Convention, seems to have in
spired them with new ardor, and Uncle Tom’s Cab- j
in and Sumner’s speech, together with Durkee’s, j
are their manuals. Hale has accepted the nomina- !
tion in a pithy letter. It is to the point, and his final I
’ flap at the Van Eure ns and others who have taken
steps backwards, is very characteristic. lie is evi- i
dently determined to make war to the knife, and j
: has started already to stump it in the West, as the I
1 Abolitionists of the Western Reserve in Ohio, un- !
der the persuasions of Greeley and other supporters j
of Scott, have shown a disposition to support the j
Whig nominee as a safe man for them. Whether
it is the secret purpose of Ifale to aid in this eon
summation, directly or indirectly, is impossible to as- I
certain, for that party always acts by indirection.
One thing is certain, he has old scores to pay off
against Pierce, who has been the cans.- of his down- i
fall- Cassius M. Clay is stumping it openly in Ken- i
tucky, for the Free Soil ticket. This is a proof of i
progress certainly. Some years since, his Aboli- i
tion tendencies came near costing, him his life in that ‘
State. Now, he stumps it with impunity. Central :
committees and organizations of the abolitionists also |
are to be found in Maryland, and in tins District.—
That in this Uitv, disseminates documents exten
sively, and makes no secret of its operations. This,
too, is a stride, s.i e.- ihe National Era office was
mobbed four years ago. Virginia, also, was repre
sented in the late I’itNhurg Convention. The head
quarters of ihe Abolition revival, however, are in tiie
North-East and North- West. In the Middle States,
although numbering many voters, they do not hold
so preponderating an influence. Probably Vermont,
Massachusetts, Ohio, and Wisconsin, are entitled to
the bad eminence of being their banner States.—
Y\ hen it is remembered that the Free Soilers in the
last election polled 140.000 votes for Van Buren. this
t lenient cannot safely be ignored or despised in any
calculation to be made of the chances at the ensu
ing elections. Strenuous efforts are making by the
Northern supporters of Scott, to draw over the Ab
olition influence to him. They are dropping the
mask, since the contest lias assumed so sectional a
shape, and it has become evident that Pierce and
King will sweep the South. The extreme North,
with but few exceptions, will go for Scott, the ex
treme South for Pierce, and the Middle States will
hold the balance. Hale’s men are working hard to
form the nucleus of the balance-of-power party. In
New Hampshire, they are calling a Convention.—
I'h t Independent Democrat , of Concord, the paper
which originated the New Boston slander against
Pierce, is very busy in tins work. In a late number
it gives a call for a State Convention, which says:
A State Convention of the Friends of Freedom, and
all friendly to the election of Hale and Julian to
the offices of President and Vice President of the Uni
ted States, will beholden at the State House, Concord,
on Thursday the 23d instant, at fl o’clock in the fore
noon, for the purpose of nominating an Electoral Tick- j
ot, and effecting a thorough and efficient organization, ]
preparatory to the coming election. It is earnestly de- ;
sired that every part of the State be represented.
The same print, in a longeditori.il, headed “Gen. !
Pierce’s I)e Leon Letter and the Record,” abuses j
the Democratic candidate roundly and at length, j
From that article, the following extracts are taken, !
which will show at once its temper, and the settled
purpose of that fanatical and mischievous faction :
We have heretofore expressed the opinion that all
Gen. Pierce’s political opponents were not capable of,
doing half so much towards his defeat, as his addle- j
headed advisers here are doing every day, hy their mis- !
; e ,able sv-tem of “certificates.” If any thing were want
ed to finish up the work, and make his defeat a dead !
. certainty, it was just such a letter as the one we pub- ‘
li-hed last week, to that nullifying fire-eater, De Leon, i
In that letter, intended for the South Carolina market,
: Gen. Pierce says :
“My action and ; y language in New Hampshire
touching this matter (slavery) have been at all times ‘
and under all circumstances in entire accordance \
with my action and language at Washington.”
’
After commenting on this, the Democrat eon
: eludes with this warning, sounding like the ominous
whir of the rattlesnake :
Let thc.sc “covenanters” for oppression beware. The
earthquake they fancied they had bound, is bound to
scatter their covenants and their platforms as the
whirlwind “scatters the leaves in Vallambrosa.” The
day that sees the close of the next Presidential elec
tion shail see the birth of anew epoch in the history
ot American politics. For that new epoch let every
true man .stand true and make ready
As between the two parties, both pledged soul and bo
dy to slavery, we cannot say there is much chance of
choice for the friends of freedom. If we have a choice,
it is founded in the different capacities of the two par
ties for evil, rather than any disposition for good in ei
ther. On that ground, if any, will the people decide ;
giving power to the weakest, rather than the strongest
of the two. So, we predict, will the resu/l ot the elec
tion show. The people will prefer King Log to a |
King Serpent, if they can he sure which is which.
Which it considers “the weakest of the two, ’ it
needs no Daniel to interpet. The intimation squints ,
strongly of a secret understanding, with its brethren, i
Greeley and the other Scottites, to cripple the other
party and its nominee, the force of whose opposition
the Democrat and its master have felt at home, and
whose record it has so bitterly and unsparingly de
nounced for months past.
Its “King Log” is evidently Scott. “The colored
people of Ohio,” have holding a Convention at
Cleveland, at which 500 were present. Their chief j
avowed object waa “to improve their own condition, !
especially by instruction in the Mechanical Trades
to which they have now great difficulty in gaining
access, owing to the bitter prejudices against them.”
The quotation is from an Abolition print, and the
admission is a striking commentary on the profes
sions of their Northern brethren, who are willing to
accord them full liberty— to starve. “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin ’ with them is the workhouse or jail. The
first guns from the Northern elections, show the ut
ter confusion of parties. Both in Vermont and
Maine, the cross-cutting has been so great as to con
fuse all calculations. Vermont goes Whig, as usual.
It. is one of the few strong holds that party has now
i left, but the abolition odor is stronger still. It will
be remembered that \ ormont deliberately nullified
the Fugitive Slave law at the last session, by Legis
lative enactment. Returns from 218 towns show
that there has been no popular choice for Governor.
The Whig Legislature will doubtless elect the Whig
candidate, Fairbanks. Tiie Senate stands, Whigs
25]; Democrats 5. House, Whigs 93; Democrats
and Free Soilers together, but S3 —giving a clear
Whig majority on joint ballot. The Whigs and
Free Soilers, however, are hard to separate.
The Maine fight was a quadrangular one, and
turned entirely on local issues, chiefly on the Liquor
Law question, which swallows up ail others there, at
| present. In the Presidential election, it will be large
|ly Democratic, as is conceded on all sides. There
| ‘ vas f° r Governor, a Democratic M. L. candidate
—a Democratic anti M. L—a Whig and Free Soil.
| The result, as heard up to to day, was as follows;
Portland, Me., Sept. 14. —The returns come in slow
ly, but sufficient has been received to render it certain
that Hubbard, the democratic candidate, falls over 3,001)
short of an election by the people. The democrats,
however, have a small majority in the Legislature, which
will secure the election of their candidate. The elec
tion of three whig and three democratic Congressmen
has been confirmed.
As before stated, these elections turned on local
issues, mainly, and therefore are not fair indications
of the Presidential canvass.
Enclosed. I send you editorials fiom the N. York
Tribune, which will show how the Northern Scott
V\ bigs are carrying < n the canvass. It will bo seen
that they strenuously insist upon it, that Gen. Pierce
is the pro slavery candidate, and Scott the reverse.
The Alabama Convention, however, appear to have
had other lights on the subject. Their action has
excited great astonishment here, both to their friends
and foes. Surely this is no time for idle parade, or
for jeoparding tiie success of one of the very few
Northern men who, under good and evil report,
have stood faithful to the Compromises of the Con
stitution and the principles of the Republican party,
as expounded by Calhoun. But until the proceed
ings of that Convention reach here, everybody must
be at fault, it is so difficult to comprehend its action,
or the motives that could have induced it.
The Whigs and Free-Soilers are both much elated
at it; for they hope it may serve to divide and weak
en the Southern phalanx, hitherto so confidently
counted on as one unit for Pierce and Kiug. But
when the full proceedings are had, light may be
thrown on this very hazy proceeding. When men’s
enemies applaud them, it is rather an equivocal proof
of the wisdom or the benefit of the course that calls
forth such approval. Verb, sap. sat.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
[From the Daily Morning News. J
Four Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.
New York, Sept. 18.
The American steamship Pacific has just arrived
at her wharf. She brings Liverpool dates to the
Bth inst., four days later than the accounts received
by the Niagara.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —The sales of the
three days—sth, 6th and 7th—comprise 30,5t>0, of
which speculators took 2,000. The following are the
quotations which prevailed at. the sailing of the Pa
cific : Fair Orleans. G 3-8.1. ; Middling. 5 S-8d ;
Fair Mobiles and Uplands, 6d ; Middlings, 5 1-2
pence.
Liverpool Corn Market. —The market for corn
was quiet. W heat continued dull, and had receded
Id. per 70 lbs. from previous quotations. Good
Flour was selling at 21s. a 21s. fid. per bbl.
Coin was scarce prime yellow commanded 29 a
295. 6d.; white 30s. sd. per. 480 lbs. Provisions
were dull ; Bacon was in good demand ; Lard was
improving; Turpentine was greatly in demand;
common rosin sold at 3s. 4d. a 3s. 6d per cvvt.
Trade in the manufacturing districts was less
buoyant than at former advices.
Consols closed at 100 a 100 1-2.
The crops throughout England and the Continent
are more than usually promising.
The Africa arrived at Liverpool oil the 4th inst.,
and her news had a depressing effect on the
market.
France. —Business in France had been greatly
disturbed in consequence of the commercial con
vention with Belgium. A remonstrance had been
presented to the French Chamber of Commerce on
the subject.
The Dutch markets are generally in an impro
ved condition. We note sales at Antwerp of 300
tierces of Carolina Rice at 13 1-4 a 14.
Political. —The West India mail arrived on the
sth inst., with $1,200,000 in gold, but no important
news.
There has been a serious misunderstanding be
tween England and Turkey in consequence of the
Turks having fired into two English vessels while
passing through the Dardanelles. The English have
demanded an explanation, and threatened hostilities
if it is refused.
Exclusive preparations are being made for the pro
posed tour of Louis Napoleon to Vienna.
It is now said that his marriage with the Frincess
Wa ais only temporarily postponed on account of
ill heul.h.
It is also confidently affirmed that he intends to
proclaim his imperial power at an early day, and
that fie will convoke the Senate for the purpose of
ascertaining the decision of the people on the
subject.
The French minister at the Hague has been re
called. The Journal des Dehats strongly con
demns the course of England in seizing French ves
sels on the fishing stations without previous notice.
The Austrian Envoy at Brussels has addressed a
strong note to the Belgian Government relative to
the indignity offered to Ilaynau, the celebrated Hun
garian “Butcher.”
The Lowndes County Chronicle, the Dallas Ga
zelte, ami the Spirit of the South, have hoisted the
names of Troup and Quitman.
A Worthy Act. — Messrs. Roger Stewart and
! R. Purvis, of Mobile, Ala., have purchased the ship
j Mersey for $2,500. They intend to moor her in Mo
i bile Bay, to hoist a light upon her mainmast, and
i convert her into a “Bethel” and hospital for tho
j use of the sailors. It is the intention of the benevo
: lent gentlemen to employ a resident surgeon to at
tend to the siek, and to have divine service perform
ed regularly on board.
Scott Mass Meeting at Atlanta. —Thero
were only about five hundred people present, more
than half of whom were citizens of Atlanta. Hon.
VV. C. Dawson and Maj. Harris were the speakers.
The Scott papers say they were listened to with
patient attention, and have no doubt some good was
effected. Doubted.
Cotton Worm.— We learu from the Telegraph
Register, of the 10th inst., that these destructive
insects have been committing ravages on the planta
tions around Houston, Texas. They had been at
work for three weeks, and were as numerous as ever.
Their ravages were, however, confined to the lo.v
grounds. The paper estimates, that not more than
a third of a crop could be made on the river lands,
while the up-lands would produce twice as much a*
Isrt year.