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«r JOHN R. riASE.
The eagle had stooped from his area on high,
A star has gone out from its path in the sky,
A Statesman has fallen in hi* hlazn of renown,
Hid brow aUeneircled with Fame's laurel crown.
Then hallow liisgrare—lay him down in his rest,
Whore Memory shall water the tnrfon his breast,
And the soft winds of summer sigh o'er his repose
In his own Tennessee, where the Cumberland
flows.
Ilisnatne is enrolleJ with each mighty name
That dory or Country shall hand dim u to fame,
Interwove in the annals ofthe brave and the free,
To echo forever from sea unto sea.
liis career was all finished, his laurels were won
When the race of the foremost is scarcely begun;
And the finger of Glory shall point to his name
As the greenest in years, but the equal in fame.
While red Huena Vista looms up in the fight,
Like a meteor's blaze in the darkness of night;
Whilo the gates of the mountains their secrets
unfold,
While California o’erflows with rivers of gold ;
While the sweet name of Freedom is our glory
and pride,
While the broad wave of Empire rolls up like
the tide ;
While new States, like new stars, on the horizon
shall shine,
What name shall be brighter emblazoned than
thine ?
Then hallow hisgravc—lay him down in his rest,
Where Memory shall water the turfon his breast.
Arid the soft winds of summer sigh o’er his repose
In his own Tennessee, where the Cumberland
flows.
LIFE.-A Volume.
*Y »tSS ELIZABETH 8UE1.1., OF NEW YORK.
CHAPTER I.
Infancy.
Thou hast no heavy thought or dream,
To cloud thy fearless eye ;
Long be it thus—Life’s early stream
Should still reflect the sky.
Mrs. llcmuns.
Infancy ! What interesting associations
cluster around the word, starting out in the
dim confines of memory ; and in bright re
lief are its sunny smTles, its artless and
winning ways, its unaffected innocence,
and unsophisticated endearments. Igno
rant of the past, and heedless ofthe future;
unqualified to profit hy the wisdom of
others, and unable to appreciate its own
brief experience—no cloud of care lias yet
risen to darken with its sombre gloom, its
sun-lit horizon. The gushing streams of
unrestrained joy flow quietly on, in a bub
bling stream ot continual pleasure, confin
ed within the flower-gemmed banks of pa
rental solicitude and care. Like the gra
dual unfolding ofthe rose, as one leaf after
another bursts out in crimson lustre from
its green envelope, so is the gradual ex
pansion of the infant mind. Itsdevelope
ment may be slow, but in that very tardi
ness is manifested a wise provision of na
ture ; for if the mind were to possess the
power and vigor of maturity whilo the
physical powers are in a state of entire de
pendance, what mentaltorture and anguish
would be endured. All then, is wisely or
dered ; and as the playful infant totters to
the days of childhood, its harmless prattle
and healthful sports, give a bright promise
for the yet distant future.
CHAPTER 11.
Childhood and Yonth.
My name is Fun, your crony dear,
The nearest friend you ha'e.
Burns.
Happy, buoyant Childhood ! Unres
trained it bounds along from joy to joy
with elastic vigor, and healthful gaiety.—
There is an indescribable freshness of feel
ing, and freedom of manner in childhood,
which speak of artless and guiltless simpli
city ; and then comes swelling up from the
fountains of thought, many a crude idea,
which like the air bubble on the mountain
lake, breaks on its surface and tells us not
of the depth ofthe waters beneath. The
minute enquiry, the irrepressible curiosity,
and the interesting field for interrogation
which it finds in everything new, are but
the nucleus for the intellectual germs
which a well educated youth will develope
and an active manhood will perfect. In
childhood, and then alone perhaps, may
be found those delicate moral sensibilities,
those exquisite conceptions of right and
wrong, which, if properly cultivated and
suitably directed, will in after life, lead to
all that is truly great or worthy of appro
bation —to that fame which is alone im
perishable.
Childhood ! Thy name is blended in
our minds with the grassy lawn, the rivu
let by whose side we have often times
sported, the shady grove, the sunny bill
side, and the noisy play-ground. Its
laughing pastimes and happy hours are
brought forward with truth and startling
distinctness on the records of remem
brance, that make us sigh to think they
have all passed irretrievably away. 'I lie
youth enters upon the busy world to par
ticipatd in its gay and joyous scenes ; he
seeks the busy throng and finds subjects of
exciting interest in every new scene. No
thing seemed too high for aspiration or too
difficult for attainment.
“Youth, let the eagle’s course ever be thine,
Onward and upward.’’
CHAPTER 111
Manhood.
“This is the season for combat, not for rest,
Its joys are joys of conquest, not of peace.”
Like the vessel at sea, whose proud ca
reer across the glittering waves, or whose
impetuous course when the angry waters
are lashed into foam by the howling tem
pest, is manhood, struggling and rushing
across the great ocean of life. Ambition
is the rudder, Wealth, Fame, and Power,
the great ports for which he is bound.
But ever and anon the sky is overcast
with threatening clouds; fearful reefs and
dangerous quicksands impede his progress
and darkness broods over him ; yet bright
ly and cheerfully through the surrounding
gloom beams forth his guiding star —the
star of Hope.
CHAPTER IV. •
Old Age.
“ On bis stall'
Bending lie leaned, and from his weary eye
A single tear drops ;
None followed ; for the fount was dry.”
The gray-haired Pilgrim, as he traces
the tablets of his memory, looks back upon
his youth as a thing of yesterday; the oc
currences of early life are all too fondly
remembered, while the affairs of to-day are
unheeded. The glittering scythe of death
—the cankering rust of destruction and
disappointment, have destroyed full many
a link of the bright chain that once bound
him to earth, and many another link has
been lost in the dark gulf of adversity.—
One by one the gilded hopes of childhood,
the pleasures of youth, and the pursuits
and connections of manhood with all their
bright associations, have been obliterated
from the page of existence. Like an old
oak of the forest, the sport of the elements
for ages, whoso riven trunk and gnarled
branches, bear the impress of lightnings
and tempest —so is old age, as shattered
by the temptations and afflictions of life,
it stands amidst the fallen leaves of retros
pective pleasures. Weak, tottering age,
whose prototype is infancy reversed, the
last chapter in the earthly career of Life.
Now and then brilliant gleams of tho dor
mant intellect flash in momentary sublimi
ty over the miserable wreck of that which
was once a fit tenement for this immortal
mind. Hut to the effort succeeds a chaos
like that following the last convulsive ef
fort of a huge volcano, which with one
mighty throe, casts up the lurid stream of
lava and fire, illuminating with its gigantic
flame, height, plain and glen, then leaving
the scene enveloped in a cloud of murky
darkness. The “silver chord” is severed,
strand by strand, and fibre by fibre, till all
its hold on mortality is gently loosened,
and the ripened head is gathered into the
garner of eternity.
Then the Volume of Life is transferred
from the shelf of earth to the studio of its
Author to be cast aside as worthless, or re
bound, according to its tested worth, in an
envelope of spotless purity—of fadeless
immortality.
Cotton RorE. —We have at our office
a sample of Cotton Rope, kindly presen
ted to us by Captain Sensat, of the Span
ish bark Celestina. It was manufactured at
Barcelona, in Old Spain, and Captain S.
informs us that he has been for years
using cotton rope on board his vessel for
various purposes, and in many respects
considers it superior to hempen. It works
remarkably free, and retains its softness
and pliability in the coldest weather ; and,
as an evidence of its durability, he stated
that his present cotton tiller rope has been
in constant use more than three years,
while the same article made of hemp had
to be renewed at the end of every voyage.
This rope is manufactured out of refuse
cotton, and in Barcelona costs about the
same as that made of hemp, but in this
country we have no doubt it could be
manutured at a much less cost.- Char.
Mercury. •
*
Quite Affecting.—A very sentimental
youth, having 6een a young damsel shed
ding tears over something in her lap, took
the first opportunity to be introduced to
her : and made no doubt that she was a
congenial spirit.
“What work was it that affected you so
much the other morning 1 1 saw you shed
a great many tears. Was it Bulwer’s
last t”
“I don’t know what Bulwer’s last is,”
returned she, “but I assure you 1 was en
gaged at something which always almost
kills me. I was peeling onions.”
UP” A man that always has his fingeis
in his mouth, will never have anything
else to eat.
From the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal ,
for July.
Mineral Spring* of Georgia.
We have had itin contemplation to pre
pare some account of the Mineral Springs
of this State. In connection with the sub
ject, we bad proposed a visit to each one,
and through the kindness of the the chief
Engineer of the State Rail Road, we
made with him last fall an examination of
Gordon’s and Murray’s Springs ; having
previously been at one or two others, and
obtained the waters from most of them.—
Believing that some notice, however brief
and imperfect, would do good at this pe
riod of excitement regarding the public
health, we submit the few facts in our pos
session,with the regret that the information
is not more minute and accurate in refer
ence to the analysis of the mineral waters
of Georgia.
Probably no State in the Union pos
sesses greater mineral wealth than this.
Her resorces in this respect, yet unex
plored, and very superficially examined,
prove them to be very various and appar
ently inexhaustible. In Georgia are found
gold, some of the piecious stones, mines
of coal, lime and iron ; also sulphur, mar
ble, granite, &c , &c. Asa consequence to
this geological formation, we have fer
ruginous, sulphurious, carbonic acid and
saline waters. Chalybeate and sulphur
springs are not uncommon in different
sections of the State, and for years a few
of them have become watering places,
and favorite summer retreats for a portion
of our citizens.
Mineral waters are those which contain
so much foreign matter as to render them
unfit for culinary purposes. For this rea
son many are used for their supposed med
icinal cirlues. The properties of mineral
waters have been classed into four divisions
—viz, chalybeates, feruginous or iron ; aci
dulous or acid waters ; sulphureous , and
lastly, saline, or water bolding in solution
some ofthe various salts. Tbs same spring
may contain more than one, or many even
possess all these foreign matters. —Accor-
ding to this definition and classification,
all die known varieties of mineral waters
are to be found in Georgia.
No analysis of the mineral springs ofthe
State has ever been made : indeed, this
could only be accurately done at their
source, lor with whatever caie the water
may be bottled, some of their gaseous con
tents will escape.—All that is now pro
posed, is simply an enumeration of those
now known to exist, with an approxima
tive estimative of their qualitative arid not
their quantitative properties.
1. One of the oldest mineral springs of
Georgia, is the Madison, situated in the
county of the same name, being 24 miles
ftom Athens the seat of the University of
Georgia. The water of this spring is
Chalybeate, its temperature is 64 deg. of
Farenheit, its supply good ; the climate is
delightful, the accommodations are excel
lent, and the place accessible by Railroad
as far as Athens.
2. Near Gainesville, in Ilall Cos., 30
miles from the Madison springs, is a Sul
phur spring but of limited supply—still
nearer the town is a splendid Limestone
spring.
3. The Indian springs (Sulphur) are in
middle Georgia,not far from Macon. The
supply of the water is here sufficient for
drinking but not for bathing purposes.
The accommodations are very good ; the
place can be reached within a few miles
by Rail Road. This has long been one of
the most fashionable resorts of our State.
4. At the Stone mountain in DeKalb
Cos. directly on the Georgia Rail Road, is a
Chalybeate spring as yet however attrac
ting little notice; which indeed may be
said of several other ferruginous springs
in other parts of the State.
5. The Merriwether springs (Thermal)
are near the Pine mountain, in a county
bearing the same name, and are we, be
lieve, the only natural warm waters in
Georgia the temperature is about 90 deg.
The accomodations for bathing are good.
Toere are several other springs along this
range of mountains, such as the Thunder
springs in Epson Cos. (so called from the
copious discharge of carbonic acid gas,)
Chalybeate, Sulphur, See.
In North-western Georgia, known as
the Cherokee country, a section whose
geological structure is exceedingly interes
ting, exists the greatest mineral produc
tions of the State.—Here are the coal
mines, lime kilns, marble quarries, iron,
sulphur, ore, src., &.
6. The Powder springs, so named from
their Sulphuretted-hydrogen gas, are in
Cobb Cos., not far from Marietta, through
which passes the State Rail Koad. They
have yet attracted little notice.
7. Rowland springs, are in Cass Cos. G
miles from the Rail Road, and was the
most popular resort the past -summer.
They are near the it on-ore most extensive
ly worked in the State. The water is
Chalybeate, and th 6 accomodations equal
to those of the Madison and Indian, their
rivals.
8. The Cohutta springs are in Murray
Cos., high up in the mountains, near the
Tennessee line, these waters are strong
ly Chalybeate, are very cold, very abun
dant, are situated in a most delightful cli
mate. It is a place formerly frequented
by the Indians in the summer. The con
templated Hiwassee or East Tennessee
and Georgia Rail Road will pass near the
Cohutta springs, which, with good accom
odations and the natural advantages ofthe
location, cannot fail to make them a pleas
ant retreat.
9. Murray’s springs are within a few
miles of the Tunnel of the State Rail Road
12 miles from Dalton, and are like the
Cohutta iu the mountains. They are very
numerous ; break out in the bottom of a
small stream ; and contain Lime, Sulphur, I
andiron. The temperature of these wa
ters in the midle of the day (clear) was 60
degrees.
10. The Gordon’s springs are also near
the Tunnel and Dalton. Prof. Means
says of these “I have examined a good
many of the mineral springs of Georgia,
and tested then- waters, but have not seen
any that I think furnishes as good a varie
ty of medicinal properties, within the
same geographical limits. Several fine
cold Chalybeate springs of different de
grees of strength,together with one or two
Saline springs, largely impregnated with
Magnesia, combined with Sulphuric and
Carbonic acids (Soda and Lime being
also included,) are found within the space
of forty yards; while at the distance of a
half mile, a pleasant cold spring, charged
with Sulphuretted Hydrogen, breaks, out
within 3Q feet of another very cold and
large ferruginous spring.”
We have thus, Acidulous, Chalybeate,
Sulphureous, and Saline waters to this one
location. They are at the foot of Taylor’s
ridge of mountains. All these waters are
very abundant; their temperature 59 deg.
Tho accomodations are rapidly improving,
and under proper arrangement, this wa
tYcWig place is destind to become one of
cue most fashionable in the South.
11. The last waters we,i;ptice arc
on Lookout mountain, where at a glance
six States ofthe Union may be seen. This
is the line of Georgia and Tennessee, with
Alabama hard by—here is the terminus
of one State Rail Road and the commence
ment ofthe other—here is the Tennessee
river navigable for hundreds of miles, and
here was Ross’ landing now known as the
location ofthe flourishing town balled Chat
tanooga. We are indebted to our friend
Mr. Frazier of the town just mentioned,
for the following information respecting
this interesting section of our country.
“The mountain ranges nearly North
and South. It commences on the south
bank ofthe Tennessee river,about three or
four miles from the State line ; rises abrup
tly from the bank of the river in the dis
tance of a mile to the height of 2000 feet,
its greatest altitude,runs through the North
west corner of Georgia and into Alabama,
where it breaks off' into irregular spurs
and ridges. The unbroken and highest
part is in Tennessee and Georgia, and is
some 40 or 50 miles long. The northern
point is the highest part of the mountain,
and is narrowed on top to a few hundred
yards, which is nearly level and quite pro
ductive.—There are several farms now
opening about this plain. On this part of
the mountain are the springs, from which
the waters were taken that you have analy
zed. The soil is sandy and the rocks are
entirely mountain sand stone. The spring
No. 3 is in Georgia, and breaks out with
in about 100 feet of the highest point; it is
a bold and constant stream. No. 2is in
Tennessee, just on this side of the line ; is
also a good stream. Temperature 5S deg
No. 1 (the pure water) is on the side of
the mountain, runs out of a purpendicular
bluff'some 250 or 300 feet high ; its tem
perature is 56. * * * *
* * * There is perhaps not to be found
in the world a more romantic spot that the
point of Lookout mountain. You can
stand upon this broad flat rock, 2000 feet
above the surrounding country, and survey
at a glance, six States of the Union—Ken
tucky, Vinginia, North-Caroling, Geor
gia, Alabama, and Tennessee. You look
down upon mountains and hills, green
forests and cultivated fields, flourishing
villages and towns. The Tennessee rivei
ls seen too in all its beauty and grandeur
for miles and miles in the dim distance.
You see it as it rolls just below you ; then
as it dashes onwards to the North, making
almost a complete circuit to enter the cliff's
in the Cumberland mountains, called the
Suck.”
The Doctor also states in this letter the
fact that from a register kept in 1842 or
’43, it was ascertained that the difference
in the mean temperature between the val
ley ofthe river and the summit of the
mountain was 6| deg. lowfer on Lookout
than in Chattanooga. The waters sent us
were Sulphureous and Chalybeate, the
strongest we have ever tasted.
The common temperature ofthe water
(pump and spring) in and about Augusta
is 65 deg. At the U S. Arsenal, on our
Sandhills, 200 or more feet above us, is a
well 160 feet deep—its water is 66 deg.
There are two pumps in Augusta of 63
deg. and a spring lately opend in one of
our Factories is even a fraction below this;
the water is pure mountain—probably
derived from the canal. The temperature
of our up country water is 62 deg. while
in the mountains is as low as 58 deg. and
56 deg. The common temperature of the
Saratoga mineral waters is 50 deg. one of
the springs is as low as 48 deg.
We commend our various mineral
springs to the notice of our profession ; it
may be, like our indigenous botany, they
are undeservedly too much neglected,
only visited as fashionable resorts, and not
for medicinal purpose. An accurate ana
lysis of them, or well observed cases trea
ted at their sources, would no doubt en
chance very greatly their value. We can
not close, however, without directing the
attention ofthe proprietors of these vari
ous medicinal waters, as we conceive them
to be, to the importance of connecting ex
tensive bathing establishments with them.
At Saratoga nearly every spring has its
bath-house. If good internally, these wa
ters must prove so when externally applied.
An Irish Expedient. —“ Dennis, dar
lint, och, Dennis, what is it yu’re doing V’
“Whist, Biddy l’s be trying an expe
riment !”
“Murder! what is it ?”
“What is it, did yer say ? Why, it’s
giving hot wather to chickens l am, so
they’ll be afther laying bhiled eggs /”
FRANCE.
The Hibernia, recently arrived from
Liverpool, brings \ r ery important intelli
gence from Europe, and most especially
from France. Her interference with Ro
man affairs is likely to prove disastrous to
her own interests, by causing domestic
dissension and strife. She presents to the
world at the present time, a remarkable
spectacle of inconsistency—having so late
ly thrown off the shackles of tyranny, she
engages herself now to fasten them upon
a neighboring people. The following are
extracts from the advices of the Hibernia :
M. Canet asked the government wheth
er, in case of the occupation of Rome by
the French army, they should leave to the
Roman people the liberty of choosing their
own form of government.
M. Odillon Barrott replied that notwith
standing the insane resistance the Romans
had offered, the intentions of the French
government were good. The could not
abandon their policy. All they could do
xvas to return good for evil. If they re
fused the convention the French govern
ment propose to be followed by the en
trance ofthe French army, all they could
do was to forget the past, but without
abandoning their policy.
The vote for the rejection of the propo
sition to impeach the President and his
late minirters, was 8 for impeachment,
377 against it.
Paris was in a state of siege on the 13th
ult. Riots had taken place, barricades
had been formed, and lives lost.
The rallying cry was the breach of the
constitution on the part of the government
in ordering to attack on Rome.
Troops of al[ arms occupied the boule
vards ond all the places important in a
strategetic point of view. No less than
100,000 men were under arms.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has publish
ed a spirited address to the people. It is
as follows :
“ The President of the Republic to the
French People:
“Some factious persons dare once more
to raise the standard of revolt against a
legitimate government, for it is a govern
ment produced by universal suffrage.
“They accuse me of having violated the
constitution ; me, who for six months
have borne tranquilly their insults, their
calumnies, and their provocations.
“The majority of the Assembly is itself
the object of their outrages.
“The accusation of which I am the ob
ject is but the pretext, and the proof is
that those who now attack me pursued me
before with the same hatred and the same
injustice when the people of Paris nomi
nated me their representative, and the
people of Fiance made me President of
the Republic.
The system of agitation keeps the coun
try in a state of uneasiness and distrust,
which engenders misery.
“This must cease. It is time that the
good should be re-assured, and the wick
ed made to tremble.
“The Republic has no more implacable
enemies than those men who, perpetuating
disorder, force us to turn France into a
camp, and divert our plans of amelioration
and progress into preparations for combat
and defense.
“Elected by the nation, the cause which
I defend is your own. It is that of your
families, your properties—that of the poor
as well as the rich—that of civilization it
self.
“I will not shrink from anythingto make
this cause triumph.
“Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
“Paris, June 13, 1849.”
Hard Fighting at Rome. — The Ro
mans still hold out. —ln spite of the con
vention concluded May 31st, between M.
Lesseps, the French Envoy, and the Ro
man government, General Oudinot thought
fit, on the Ist of June, to occupy Monte
Mario, or the sacred Mount, which over
looks the High Tiber, the Vatican the
Fort of St. Angelo, and the Ancona and
Florence roads. On Saturday evening,
there appeared in Paris journals an official
despatch stating that “ Though the Villa
Pamfili is surrounded hy a wall four yards
high, and nearly fifty centimetres thick,
and though the enemy had formed barri
cades in several places, aud thought it
was defended by 20,000 men, it was quick
ly taken. More than 200 prisoners, of
whom ten were officers, had been taken
at five a. m. Three flags and 200,000
cartridges were also left in our hands.
The Church of San Pancrazio, adjoining
the park of the Villa Pamfili, shared the
same fate ; and we were forcibly establish
ed there at 7 o’clock.” The number of
wounded on the part of the French is sta
ted to he 165.
From the .Y. O. Delta.
Interesting from Mexico.
We are indebted to the Patria for an
extra, issued by it yesterday evening,
containing the following intelligence from
Mexico, which we proceed to translate :
We received yesterday the Bicn Publi
co, published at Matamoras, of the 18th
inst., in which we find the following : On
the 17th instant, the following document
came to hand, which we have translated
from the English, and although it appears
to have been printed in this city, (Matamo
ras) we have good reasons to believe it
was printed on tl>e other side of the river,
(i. e., on the American side.)
Declaration of Independence, .Time 10.1840.
Unanimous Declaration of the Seven North
ern States of the Sierra Madrc of
Mexico.
When in the course of human events.it
becomes necessary for one nation to dis
solve the political bonds which unite it to
another, and to assume separately
the powers of the earth the position i
which the laws of nature, and nature’°
God, entitle it, a decent respect for t j,*
opinion of mankind requires that it shoulj
state the causes which impel it to the se U
aration. . P -
The history ofthe present and past Kov
ernment of Mexico is a history of repeat
ed injuries and usurpation, all having f or
their direct object the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these States. 7
prove this, we present the following s ac; "
to an impartial world :
First. —Wearied with political changes
which have been heretofore nothing rn or e
than continued oppression, exercised bv
new hands, we declare ourselves f ree ’
Second. —Wearied with the exactionsof
the government, which have been made
solely for the purpose of perpetuating tl le
power of the usurpers of the liberties of
the people, we declare ourselves free.
. Third. —Wearied with the armies
which have been collected solely to o p.
press and annihilate the industry of all
except that of the oppressors, we declare
ourselves free.
Fourth — Wearied that our religion
constantly threatened by bayonets, is set!
tered in its design of benevolence and pub
lie instruction, xve declare ourselves free.
Fisth —Wearied that the people, in the
midst of their vast domains, are denied the
right ofindividual possession, we declare
ourselves free.
Sixth —Wearied with the promises
which have been made to our children
who anxiously await in vain of their rulers
the right of education, we declare our
selves free.
Seventh —Wearied that our aged fath
ers are sinking gradually into the grave,
like the brutes, without any alleviation
we declare ourselves free.
Eighth Weai ied that whilst misery
and poverty prevail everywhere, the usur
pers amass purple and gold, wo declare
ourselves free.
Ninth —Wearied with the national de
claration that slavery should not he tolera
ted on our soil, while the domestic service
is an odious, horrible and cruel system,
anil prevails without alleviation and with’
out parallel, we declare ourselves free.
Wherefore we, the people ofthe Seven
Northern States of Mexico, appealing to
the Supreme Judge ofthe Universe for
the rectitude ot our intentions, now sol
emnly proclaim and declare “that these
United States are free and independent!"
I hat they ate absolved from all allegiance
towards the Mexican Government, and
that ail connection between them has cea
sed, is and ought to he entirely dissolved.
And consequently as free and independent
States, we have tho right to levy troops of
war, make peace, form alliances, establish
commerce, and perform any other act or
thing which appertains of right to free and
independent States. And to sustain this
declaration, with a firm reliance upon Di
vine Providence, we mutually pledge to
each o her our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor.
We have drawn the sword and thrown
away the scabbard. Now’s the day.-
Death to tyrants.
From the Augusta Republic.
Milledgeville, Ga., June 25th, 1849.
Dear Sir:—ln accordance with a reso
lution of the Convention which assembled
this day for the purpose of nominating a
candidate of the Whig party for the office
of Governor, the undersigned have been
appointed a committee to inform you, that
hy general acclamation, that honor has
been conferred upon yourself.
Allow us to increase the satisfaction
which the knowledge of this fact will give
to the people of Georgia, by having it in
our power, as early as possible, to acquaint
them with your acceptance.
Very respectfully your obedient serv'ts.
JNO. MILLEDGE, 7
R. R. CUYLER, |
DAN’L McDOUGALD, SCom’tee.
ROBERT MAYS,
L. J. GARTRELL, J
Hen. Edw. Young Kill, Lagrange, Ga.
LaGrange, 29th June, 1849.
Gentlemen :—By your note, dated Mil
ledgeville, Ga., June 25th, I am informed
that the Whig Convention on that day as
sembled for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for the ojfice of Governor, have,
by “general acclamation,” conferred that
honor upon myself. You also a6k an ear
]y signification of my acceptance. .
Allow me to say, that the people of
Georgia had already honored me, to the
extent of a reasonable and unexcited am
bition, and I was satisfied with my posi
tion. Yet this renewed proof of abiding
and increasing confidence excited emo
tions of profound gratitude. Proffered,
as it is, by so numerous an assemblage of
my friends, personal and political. 1 fe e i
no liberty to decline. The obligation to
accept is enhanced by the unanimity of its
tender.
The nomination, therefore, is accepted;
pledging myself only, that, if elected, t' l ®
sole object of iny fostering solicitude aid
administrative energies will he found i s
the promotion of the entire interests of out
beloved State.
V ith high consideration, I am, gentlemen
Your friend and obedient servant,
EDW. YOUNG HIbU
To John Milledge, R. It. Cuyler, Da« ie
McDougald, Robert Mays, L. J-^ ,al
trell, Committee.
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nesty of purpose and practice, as it is 11111
they should have food and raiment— 1
first sustains the moral and intellect^ 5
life to the-same degree that the latter nia in
tains the physical existence.