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WOULD YOU?
EY ALFRED WARD.
^Arrowing on your knee ;
While you sing some little ditty,
Pulls your hair or thumbs vour “ ee,”
Would you think it wasn’t pretty?
T - Tell me, could you ?
If you owned “the baby,” would you ?
M ife, with arms about your neck,
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And you would refuse her—may be ?—
T . Could you ? should you ?
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Would you murmur at your lot ?
Tell me, should you ?
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Should you ? could you ?
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[Musical World Sc Times.
MR. EVERETT’S SPEECH.
The Pilgrim Society recently celebrated
at Plymouth, Mass., the embarkation of
the Pilgrims from Delft-Haven in 1620.—
The occasion was one of great interest, and
we give below the admirable speech of Air.
Everett.
The next toast was :
The Embarkation of 1620, and its results.
The President then introduced Hon. Ed
ward Everett, who was greeted with
much applause, and spoke as follows :
You, Mr. President, have been good
enough to intimate that among our numer
ous honored guests to which your compli
mentary remarks might have applied with
ecpial justice as to myself, with possibly a
single exception, that I am the individual
to whom you look to respond to the toast
which has just been announced. I rise to
obey your call. It is time that there is a
single circumstance by which it is possible
that the allusion may have been more ex
clusively applied to me than to any other
gentleman present, for it is most true that
on one pleasant occasion on which I have
been at this delightful and beloved Ply
mouth, I have suggested that it might be
expedient, not always, hut occasionally, to
transfer the celebration of the great day
from the winter to the summer season.—
Supposing that to be the allusion which you
had in your mind, 1 feel that I may, with
out impropriety obey your call in rising to
respond to the toast which has just been
given.
It is now hard upon thirty years since I
had the honor, on the 22d December, to
address the sons and daughters of the Pil
grims, assembled in this place. I deemed it
a peculiar privilege and an honor. I deem
it, Sir, a still greater honor to find myself
here on this joyous occasion, and to be per
mitted to participate in this happy festival,
where we have an attendance of so many
distinguished friends and fellow-citizens
from distant parts of the Union—from al
most every State in the Union, Sir, yon
have already told us—where we are favored
with the company of the representatives of
the New England Society of New York, one
of those institutions which are carrying the
name and the principles of the Pilgrims to
the farthest ends of the Union ; where we
are gratified with the company of our mili
tary friends from the same City, the great
commercial emporium of the United States;
where we are honored with the presence of
so much of the gravity, the dignity, and the
character of the community ; and where we
are favored with the presence of so much
of beauty, of grace and of loveliness. [Ap
plause.]
I do, indeed, Sir, feel it to he a privi
lege to he here under these circumstances,
and 1 do deem myself most highly honored
in being called upon to respond to the toast
which you have just announced in commem
oration of the embarkation of the I ilgrims
and its results. The theme is vast; I
shrink from it; I know not where to begin,
•>r where to end. It seems that you your
self, in the remarks with which you favored
the company, struck the key-note of this
great theme,in alluding to this great conti
nent, before the Pilgrims came, and to the
situation of its primitive inhabitants.—
There is the beginning. I saw one or two
of them, poor wanderers, as we came into
Plymouth, seated by the road-side, won
dering spectators of the pageant which was
passing before their eyes.
A few days ago, as I saw’ in the news
papers, two light birch bark canoes appear
ed in Boston harbor, containing each a soli
tary Indian. They seemed, as they ap
proached, to gaze in silent w’ondor at Lie
city of the tripple hills, rising street ahoxc
street, and crowned with the dome of the
State House, and at the long line of villas
stretching far into the hack ground ; at
the numerous tall vessels outward bound,
as they dropped down the channel and
spread their broad wings to the breeze, and
those w hich were returning weather-beaten
from the ends of the earth ; at the steamers
dashing in every direction across the har
bor breathing volumes of smoke from their
fiery lungs. They paddled their frail barks
with dexterity and speed through this
strange, busy, and to them no doubt, be
wildering scene ; and having made the cu-
cnitof East Boston, the Navy lard, the
city itself, and South Boston, dropped down
with the current, and disappeared among
the islands. . /». • j
There was not a human being of kindred
blood to utter a w’ord of welcome to them,
in all the region, which on the day we now
commemorate was occupied hy their foie
fathers in Massachusetts. r I he race is gone.
It would be a mistaken sentimentality to
regret the change; to regret that some thou
sand uncultured barbarians—destitute of all
the improvements of -social life, and seem
ingly incapable of adopting them, should
have yielded gradually to the civiW
millions who have taken their place. But
we must, both as men and as Christians, con
demn whatever of oppression and wron
has marked the change (as it is too apt al
ways to be the case, when strong and weak
tribes of fellow-men.
On the first of August, 1620, tb m-
stances of the two races, as far as this pait
rfZerica is concent, presented very
nearly the reverse of the picture we have
just contemplated. On that day the terri
tory now forming the States of New Eng
land was occupied by numerous Indian
tribes, some of which were strong and war
like. They were far behind the natives of
Mexico and Peru; but they had added
some simple agriculture to their hunting and
fishing; their moccasins, and snow shoes,
and stone hatchets, and, w’ampum-belts,
evinced their aptitude for the humble arts
of savage life; they retained unimpaired
their native independence, ignorant of the
claims to sovereignty which powerful gov
ernments three thousand miles off founded
upon the right of discovery; and neither
the arts, nor the arms, nor the diseases, nor
the vices of civilized life, had commenced
that terrible warfare against them, which
has since been pushed to tlieir extermina
tion.
On that day and in this condition of the
American races, a handful of care w T orn,
twice-doomed English exiles, set sail from
Delft-IIaven in Holland, with the inten
tion, after being joined by a few’ brethren
of the faith in England, to encounter the
then much-dreaded perils of the Atlantic,
and still more formidable uncertainties of
the projected settlement} on the outer edge
of the new w’orld. Ti. o centuries and a
third have passed—the jnomentous ages of
national infancy, chihlhood and youth,
have been rapidly live.! through, and six
prosperous republics, ji.rents of a still in
creasing family of StatL in the boundless
West, have grow n up in »ae wilderness. In
the meantime in this pal; of the Continent,
the native inhabitants lC.ve sunk far below
the point of compai'ativBwcakness down to
the verge of annihilate' ; and we have as
sembled now and here celebrate the day,
when this all-importan, change commenc
ed.
I allude, Air. Preside'-to this revolution
in the condition of this Continent, and the
races that occupy it, not as introducing a
narrative of familiar incidents or a train of
common place reflections, hut as pointing
directly to the great problem which first
presented itself, on the discovery of Ameri
ca, and the agency of the Pilgrim Fathers
in its solution ; an agency whose first pub
lic manifestation might he said to com
mence with the ever memorable embarka
tion at Delft-Haven, to which I have just
refei’red.
The discovery itself of the American
continent may, I think, fairly be considered
the most extraordinary event in the history
of the w’orld. In this, as in other cases,
familiarity blunts the edge of our percep
tions ; hut, much as I have meditated, and
often as I have treated this theme, its mag
nitude grows upon me with each successive
contemplation. That a continent nearly
as large as Europe and Africa and the eas
tern shore of Asia—with groups of islands
in either ocean as it w r ere stopping places
on the march of discovery—a continent not
inhabited, indeed, by civilized races, hut
still occupied by one of the families of ra
tional man—that this great hemisphere, I
say, should have laid undiscovered for five
thousand years upon the bosom of the deep
—a mystery so vast, within so short a dis
tance, and yet not found out, is indeed a
marvel. Mute Nature, if I may so express
myself, had made the discovery to the phi
losopher, for the preponderance of land in
the Eastern Hemisphere demanded a coun
terpoise in the west.
Dark-wooded trees had drifted over the
sea and told of the tropical forests wdiere
they grew. Stupendous ocean currents,
driven westward by ever breathing trade-
wdnds, had wheeled their mighty flexures
along the American Coast, and returned to
Europe w’ith tidings of the everlasting break
waters w’hicli had stopped tlieir way. But
the fullness of time had not yet come.—
Egypt and Assyria, and Tyre and Car
tilage, and Greece, and Home, must flourish
and fall before the seals are broken. The
ancient civilization must he w’eighed in a
balance and found wanting. Yes, and
more. Nature must unlock her rarest mys
teries ; the quivering steel must learn to
tremble to the pole; the Astrolabe must
climb the arch of Heaven ; science must
demonstrate the spheriodity of the earth,
which the ancients suspected hut could not
prove ; the Press must scatter the flying
rear of mediaeval darkness ; the creative
instincts of a new political, intellectual, and
social life, must begin to kindle into action;
and then tiie great Discoverer may go forth.
He does go forth. The discovery is made;
the balance of the globe is redressed. A
continent nearly equal in extent to one half
the ancient hemisphere is brought to light.
What momentous questions present them
selves ! Another world ! Is it a twin sis
ter of the ancient world ! It has mountains,
and rivers, and lakes, and forests; hut
does it contain the homes of man ? of culti
vated races, who have pursued, independ
ently of their Eastern brethren, separate,
perhaps higher paths of civilization ? In a
word, lias the great cause of humanity
made an immediate gain by the wonderful
event which has added so much to the Ge
ography of the world, as before known 1
The first contact answered these great
qiiestions in the negative. The native
races —apparently incapable of assimilation
—seemed doomed by a mysterious Provi
dence to pass away. The Spaniard came
upon them, borne on winged monsters, as
they thought, from beyond the sea ; ca
reering on strange quadrupeds, horse and
rider, as they supposed, forming but one an
imal, and he advanced under cover of that
fearful ordnance which they confounded [
with the three-bolted artillery of the skies ;
lie came in all these terrors, and he brought
them death.
Those that escaped have borrowed little
from us hut the poisoned cup—the loath-.
some malady—the murderous weapon.— )
The skies are mild, the soil is fertile, there ;
is every variety of climate—a boundless j
theatre for human enjoyment and action— \
hut the appointed agent was not there. .
Over the greater part of the new found con- 1
tinent, society’, broken down by eternal
wars between neighboring tribes, at once
in its decrepitude and infancy, had not yet
risen even to the pastoral stage. Nature,
in fact, had not bestowed upon man the
mute but faithful partner of his toil—the
horse, the ox, the sheep, and other still
humbler associates, whose aid (did we but
know it) lies at the basis of his civilization:
who furnish so much of liis food and cloth •
l n „- meat, milk, eggs, and wool, and skins,
ami relieve his weary muscles of their
heaviest burdens. There is no civilized
population to stand up and enter into an
equal comparison and generous rivalry with
Europe. The discoverer has come ; but
the settler, the colonist, the conqueror;
alas, that I must add, too often the oppress- (
or and destroyer, are to follow in his train.
By these various agencies—joyous and sor
rowful-—through those parts of triumph
and woe—the culture of the old world, in
the lapse of successive generations, reform
ed of its abuses, enriched with new arts,
animated by a broader spirit F of humanity,
transferred from the privileged few to the
mass of the community, is to be reproduced
and perfected in the West.
I need not say to this company, assem
bled on the shores of the haven for which so
many noble hearts on^tliat terrible voyage
throbbed with sickening expectancy—that
quiet haven where the Mayflower furled her
tattered sails—that a greater, a nobler work
was never performed by man. Truly the
opus magnum, the great work of humanity.
You bid me speak of that portion of it which
devolved on the Pilgrims. NYould to Heav
en I could find words to do justice even to
my poor conceptions, and still more that I
could find conception not far below the au
gust reality. A. mighty work of improve
ment (not to speak of what has been done
in other portions of the continent,) the poor
solitary Mayflower, so to say, lias multipli
ed herself in the thousand vessels that bear
the flag of the Union to every sea ; has
scattered her progeny through the land, to
the number of nearly a quarter of a million
for every individual in that company of one
hundred ; and in place of the simple com
pact, which was signed in her cabin, lias ex
hibited to the admiration of mankind a
Constitution of Republican Government for
all this growing family of prosperous States.
But the work is in its infancy. It must ex
tend throughout the length and breadth of
the land ; and what is not done directly by
ourselves, must be done by other govern
ments and other races, by the light of our
example. The work—the work must go
on. It must reach at the North, to the en
chanted cave of the magnet, within never-
melting harriers of Arctic ice; it must how
to the lord of day on the altar-peak of
Chimborazo ; it must look up and worship
the Southern Cross. From the eastern
most cliff on the Atlantic, that blushes in
the kindling dawn, to the last promontory on
the Pacific, which catches the parting kiss
of the setting sun, it must make the outgo
ings of the morning and the evening to re
joice, in the gladsome light of morals, and
letters, and arts. Emperors, and kings,
and parliaments—the oldest and the strong
est governments in Europe—must engage
in this work, in some part or other of the
continent, but no part of it shall he so faith
fully and successfully performed as that
which was undertaken on the spot where
we are now gathered, by the Pilgrim Fa
thers of New-England.
Providence from the beginning strewed
tlieir path with salutary hardships. Form
idable difficulties beset them from the first.
Three years of weary negotiation had fail
ed to produce these noble adventurers the
express sanction of the British Government;
they have scarcely obtained its reluctant
and tacit permission to banish themselves
to the ends of the earth ; and their shat
tered private fortunes allow hut the mean
est outfit; hut on the 1st August, 1620, un
der these poor auspices, they embarked, a,
handful of Pilgrims, to lay upon this spot
the foundation not only of this our beloved
New England, hut of all that portion of
United America which traces its descent to
this venerated stock.
NVhen we contrast the heart stricken
company which on that day knelt and wept
on the quay at Delft-Haven, till the pass
ive spectators—ignorant of the language in
which their prayers were offered, and the
deep fountains of grief from which then-
sorrows flowed—were yet fain to ipelt in
sympathetic tears. NYhen we compare
them with the busy prosperous millions of our
present New England, we seem to miss that
due proportion between results and their
causes, which History delights to trace.—
But a deeper and more appreciative study
reveals the secret.
There are two Master Ideas, greatest of
the spiritual images enthroned in the mind
of man, the only ones, comparatively speak
ing, which deserve a name among men,
springs of all the grand beneficent move
ments of modern times, by whose influence
the settlement of New England may he ra
tionally explained. You have anticipated
me descendants of the Pilgrims, these
Great Ideas are God and Liberty. It was
these that inspired our Fathers, by these
that their weakness was clothed with pow
er, that their simplicity was transmitted to
wisdom ; by these that the great miracle of
their enterprise was wrought.
I am aware that, to ascribe such a result,
even in j>art, to the influence of religion,
will sound like weakness and superstition
in this material age ;—an age at once su
premely skeptical and supremely credulous,
which is ready to believe in everything
spiritual rather than God, and admits all
marvels but the interposition of liis provi
dence ;—an age which supposes it a thing
of every day’s occurrence to evoke from
their awful rest the spirits of the great, and
good, and believes that master intellects,
which, while they lived—obstructed with
these organs of sense—ravished the ears
with “the tongues of men” and have now
cast ofl'“this muddy vesture of decay,” and
gone where they speak with “the tongues
of angels,” can yet find no medium of com
munication from the eternal world but
wretched inarticulate rappings and clat-
terings, which pot house clowns would he
ashamed to use in their intercourse with
each other—as if our matchless Choate, for
instance, who has just electrified the laud
with a burst of eloquence not easily paral
leled in the line of time, if sent with a mess
age from a higher stage of being, would
come skulking and rapping behind the wain
scot, instead of coming in robes of light,
with a voice like the music of the spheres ;
—an age, I say, that believes all this and
vet doubts and sneers at the wonder-work
ing fervors of earnest men, swayed by the
all-powerful influence of sincere faith.
It believes, yes, in the middle of the nine
teenth century it believes, that you can
have the attraction of gravitation, which
holds the universe together, suspended by
a show-man for a dollar, who will make a
table uance round the room by an act of vo
lition, (forgetful of the fact that if the law
of gravitation were suspended for the twink
ling of an eye, by any other Power than
that which ordained it, every planet that
walks the firmament, yea, all the starry
suns, centers of the countless systems, un
seen of mortal eyes, which fill the unfatli-
omed depths of the heavens, would crum
ble back to chaos) but it can see in the Pil
grims nothing but a handful of narrow
minded bigots, driven by discontent from
the Old NVorld to the New ; and can find
nothing in the majestic process by which
United America has been established as a
grand temple of religious and civil liberty
—a general refuge of humanity—but a chap
ter in political history, which neither re
quires nor admits explanation.
Mr. President, this may sound like phi
losophy, but it is the philosophy of the
Sadducee. It quenches the brightest glo
ry of our nature. The Pilgrims were actua
ted by that principle, which (as I have just
said) has given the first impulse to all the
great movements of the modern world—I
mean profound religious faith. They had
the frailties of humanity. This exalted
principle itself was combined with human
weaknesses. It was mingled with the pre
judices and errors of age, and country, and
sect ; it was habitually gloomy ; it was
sometimes intolerant ; hut was reverent,
sincere, all controlling. It did not influ
ence, it possessed the soul. It steeled the
heart to the delights of life ; it raised the
frame above bodily weakness, it enabled
the humble to brave the frowns of power ;
is triumphed over cold, and hunger, the
prison and the scaffold ; it taught uneduca
ted men to speak with persuasive fervor ; it
gave manly strength and courage to tender
and delicate women. In the admirable
letter of Robinson, and Brewster—whom I
call great men, Mr. President-—written to
Sir Edwin Sandys in 1617'—whom, they
pathetically say “under God above all per
sons and things in the world we rely upon,”
—among the suggestions which they make
to encourage him to futher their undertak
ing is this:
“NYe do verily believe and trust that
the Lord is with us, unto whom and
whose service wc have given ourselves in
many trials, and that he will graciously
prosper our endeavours, according to the
simplicity of our hearts.”
The men who can utter these words
with sincerity, and who are embarked in a
just cause, have already succeeded. They
may not gather the fruit, hut they have
planted the seed ; “others may build, hut
they have laid the foundation. This is
the spirit which in all ages has wrought the
moral miracles of humanity ; which rebuk
ed and overturned the elegant corruption of
the classical polytheism, as it did the dark
er and fiercer rites of Thor and NYoden—
which drove hack the false and licentious
crescent into Asia, and held Europe to
gether through the night of the middle ages;
which, limited neither to country, commun
ion or sex, despite of human weaknesses
and errors, in the missions of Paraguay,
and the missions of the Sandwich Islands,
in NYinthrop, in Penn, and in NYesley ; in
Eliza Seton and Mary Ware, has accom
plished the benificient wonders of Chris
tian faith and love-
But, Sir our fathers embraced that sec
ond grand idea of Civil Liberty, with not
less fervor than the first. It was a kindred
fruit of the same stock. They cherished it
with a zeal not less intense and resolute.
This is a topic for a volume, rather than for
the closing sentence of a speech at the
dinner table. I will only say that the
highest authorities in English history—
Hume, Hallam, Macaulay—neither of them
influenced by sympathy with the Puritans,
concur in the opinion that England was in
debted to them for the preservation of her
liberties in that most critical period of her
national existence, when the. question be
tween prerogative and law,absolute author
ity and constitutional Government, was
decided forever.
In coming to this country our fathers
most certainly contemplated not merely a
safe retreat beyond the sea, where they
could worship God accordingly to the dic
tates of tlieir own conscience, hut a local
Government founded on popular choice.—
That their foresight stretched onward
through the successive stages of colonial and
provincial Government which resulted in
the establishment of a great Republican
Confederacy, it would he extravagant to
pretend, hut from that primitive and vener
able compact signed on hoard the Mayflow
er, while she yet nestled in the embrace of
Provincetown harbor, after her desolate
voyage, like a weary child at evening in its
mother’s arms,through every document and
manifesto which bears on the question,
there is a distinct indication of a purpose
to establish civil government on the basis
of Republican equality and popular choice.
In a word, Mr. President, their political
code united religion and liberty, morals
and law ; and it differed from the- wild li
cense which breaks away from these re
straints, as the well-guided railway engine,
instinct with its mechanic life, conducted
by a bold hut skillful and prudent hand,
and propelled in safety toward its destin
ation, with glowing axle along its iron
grooves, differs from the same engine when
its speed is rashly urged beyond the point
of safety, or when driven by criminal reck
lessness or murderous neglect, it leaps mad
ly from the track, and plunges with its
shrieking train into the jaws of destruc
tion.
This speech was received with immense
favor.
Mr. Ycadon of Sooth Carolina.
The following philosophical and patriot
ic tribute to the services of Northern states
men was pronounced at the Plymouth
celebration. For its truth, eloquence, and
liberality, it deserves perusal.
Mr. Yeadon continued :
“ Before closing my remarks, so inade
quate to this great and interesting occasion
I cannot forbear doing reverence to the
name and the shade of the illustrious Web
ster, for his constitutional fidelity to the
South. It sprang from principle as well as
feelings imbibed from parental instruction;
and it is no wonder the boy who first read
and studied the Constitution of his country
on a cotton handkerchief, should have been
unswerving and faithful in giving the full
benefit of that Constitution to the cotton
States of the South and West. It was un
der this hallowed influence that at Richmond
in 1840, he made the memorable declara
tion, that ‘in the capital of Virginia, under
the light of an October sun, he gave it to
the wings of the wind, and wished it borne
to every corner of the Republic, that Con
gress liad no power whatever, directly or
indirectly, to interfere with the institution
of slavery in the several States;’ and it
was in the same spirit that he took that no
ble stand in 1850, which saved his country
from internal strife—the Union from dis
solution. [Hisses and applaiise.] And
while thus as a southerner rendering hom
age to the illustrious dead, let me also do
homage to the illustrious living, and re
turn my grateful thanks to the great speak
er of the day—the gifted, the glorious Ev
erett—(NVebster’s worthy successor in the
Cabinet and in the Senate chamber,) for the
declaration and sentiment uttered by him
in Congress many years ago,but still indeli
bly impressed on my memory : ‘ There is no
cause in which I would more readily shoul
der a musket than to put down a servile in
surrection in the South.’ [Applause.]
“Let me here, too, narrate an anecdote,
or an incident, connected with the great
Carolinian, and his love and admiration
for Massachusetts and Boston. It was in
my last conversation with him. Just be
fore he departed from Charleston on his
last mission to Washington, that he broke
out in warm, glowing, and loving eulogy of
Massachusetts and Boston, referring to the
time when Josiah Quincy came as amission
ary from Massachusetts to Charleston and
South Carolina, to enlist the descend
ants of the Hugenots with the descendants
of the Puritans, in the Boston tea-party, in
the coming struggle for American indepen
dence, which then cast its great shadow
before, dwelling with evident pleasure on
the ancient ties, political and social, which
once united the two sister commonwealths
and the two sister cities, and discoursing el
oquently on the affinities which yet obtain
ed between them, in conversation, in hospi
tality, and in social elegance and refine
ment.
“Let such principles and feelings—such
as animated the bosoms of the dead Web
ster and Calhoun, and such as yet jmi-
mate the bosom of the living Everett—
he cherished and imitated, and the Union
will be indeed perpetual—realizing the
loftiest and happiest destiny for itself) with
the two oceans for its longitudinal, and
the North Pole and the Isthmus of Darien
for its latitudinal boundaries—civilizing,
christianizing, and peopling the Ameri
can continent, and by tlieir glorious exam
ple and influence, regenerating the human
race. In the language of the Union an
them of a gifted son of New England, who
has made the South his home, I would
say this day, from a full heart—
“ ‘Dear to ns the South’s fair land—
Dear the central mountain band—
Dear New England’s rocky strand—
Dear the prairied West!’
“ In conclusion, and in renewed refer
ence to the great lamented dead, I would
suggest that a common memorial, in the
shape of a work of art, so perfect in de
sign and creation as to challenge and com
mand the admiration of the world, should
rise to perpetuate the memory, worth, and
services of the illustrious trio, so alike in
life and in death, emanating.either from the
three States more immediately concerned,
as alike honored and alike bereaved—I
would therefore, propose as a sentiment—
Clay, Webster, Calhoun—Let a group
of statuary, chiselled in Parian marable, per
petuate their memory at the National Cap
ital; or let Kentucky, Massachusetts, and
South Carolina, pile a common monument
to the illustrious three, at Ashland, Mars-
field, or Fort Hill, to awaken the admiration
and kindle the emulation of posterity, till
suns shall set to rise no more.” [Ap
plause.]
Biographical Sketch of Gov. John Millcdge.
The ancestors of this gentleman came to
Georgia with Gen. Oglethorpe. lie "was
born in the city of Savannah, in the year
1757, and received the best education which
the infant colony then afforded. He Avas
placed in the office of the King’s Attorney,
where he had excellent opportunities of
becoming acquainted with the forms of bu
siness.
At the A’ery beginning of the difficulties
between Great Britain and the colonies, he
espoused the cause of the latter. He was
one of the party who took George Wright
prisoner in his own house—the first hold
revolutionary act performed in Georgia.
When Savannah was taken by the British,
Mr. Milledge, with his friend, Major James
Jackson, retreated into South Carolina,
AA’here they were captured by a party of
Americans, Avho took them to be spies, and,
notwithstanding their reiterated denial of
the charge, they AV’ere about to inflict upon
them a spy’s death, hut were prevented hv
Major Deveaux, an American officer, who,
fortunately coming up at this time, declar
ed the prisoners to be Georgian officers,
and ordered them to he released.
At the unsuccessful attempt by the com
bined forces of the Count DeEstaign and
General Lincoln, to reco\’cr Sa\annah
from the British, Mr. Millcdge was present,
and with liis associates, evinced a bra\’eiy
that would have done honor to A’eterans.
In South Carolina, at the siege of Augusta,
and upon A’arious occasions, lie continued
to do everything in liis power to advance
the cause of liberty. Throughout the whole
reA’olutionarv conflict, few made more cost
ly sacrifices than Mr. Milledge. After the
war lie became one of the leading men of
the day. As a representative of the peo
ple in the State Legislature—as Governor
of Georgia at a period of great political bit
terness—as member of both branches of
Congress, his course gave satisfaction to
the people of Georgia. He was the first to
advocate everything which he thought
would promote the interests of Georgia.
It is due to the memory of Mr. Milledge,
to say that he was one of the first with
whom the idea of establishing our State
University originated. He cordially uni
ted with the most eminent men in Georgia
to carry out the important measure. The
funds of the University, however, were ve
ry small, when the Legislature and the
trustees determined to commence the insti
tution. No lands belonging to ‘it were
thought suitable for a seat of the College.
One was selected on the 6th of July, 1801,
by a committee, of which Mr. Milledge was
a member, and he generously purchased a
tract of land, at a cost of about 81,000, and
made it a donation to the College; on this
land Athens is principally built. Presi
dent Meigs, in a letter, addressed to Mr.
Milledge, dated May 11,1808, says: “Your
institution has taken a strong root, and will
flourish, and I feel some degree of pride in
reflecting that a century hence, when this
nascent vrillage shall embosom a thousand
of the Georgian youths, pursuing the paths
of science, it will now and then be said that
you gave this land, and I was on the for
lorn hope.”
Mr. Milledge distinguished himself by
his opposition to the celebrated Ya^oo
fraud. He resisted with all his influence,
the vile machinations of the speculators,
and if he had performed no other serv ice
for Georgia, this alone ought to entitle him
to the gratitude of her citizens. In 1802
he was associated with James Jackson and
Abraham Baldwin, as a commissioner for
ceding to the United States Government,
certain portions of the territory of Georgia.
Mr. Milledge died at the Sand Hills,
near Augusta, on the 9th of February, 1818.
[Savannah Courier.
From the Southern Banner.
Southern Masonic Female Tollege.
Mr. Editor:—NYe had the pleasure on
the 14th and 15th inst., of attending the
first Annual commencement of this young
and flourishing institution, and feel it our
dutv to add our share of commendation.—
NYe* arrived at Cov ington on the 13th, a
little after night-fall, and found lodgings at
the Hotel of Mr. Jackson, well known to
the travelling community for its good cheer
and freedom from rowdyism—had a com
fortable nights rest, and was, the next
morning, through the politeness of Col.
Jones, of that plaee, shown through the
College building, and to the top of one of
the towers, sixty-feet high, where we had
a magnificent view of the surrounding coun
try. The Stone Mountain, with its cloud-
capped tower—the College at Oxford—
the Few monument, and many other objects
of interest. This College is situated in a
retired and shady nook of Covington.—
The College buiffling is one hundred feet
long, by fifty wide—well arranged for Col
lege exercises ; and for beauty of location
and neatness of architecture, it cannot he
surpassed by any similar institution in the
South. It was erected and furnished with
the necessary apparatus, by the spirited and
liberal citizens of Covington and vicinity,
at a cost of between fifteen and twenty
thousand dollars, and by them presented
to the Grand Lodge of Georgia, at its last
Grand Communication. NYe attended the
examination of the class, and was highly
delighted with the proficiency of the Pupils,
especially in Mathematics. The class to
which I allude, consisted of some twenty-
neat, intelligent (and I had like to have
said pretty, but that might have been con
strued into flattery,) girls, who drew, alter
nately, from a hat, the proposition to he
'solved, and though some of them were dif
ficult, we did not notice the first failure to
obtain the correct result in a short time.-
On the 15th, the young ladies read compo
sitions, which were correctly written, well
delivered, and for the most part, original.
At 11 o’clock the Literary address was
delivered by Dr. Pierce, on which a eulogy
from me would be unnecessary. Suffice it
to say, it was fraught with refinement of or
atory, seasoned and tempered with common
sense, and in my judgment, proved to be
one of his happiest efforts. At early twi
light, the splendid Brass Band, from Plii
Delta, Franklin county, ascended one of
the towers, and regaled the village with
several popular airs. After supper, the
young ladies of the Institution gave a Con
cert in Music, which was said $>y compe
tent judges, to reflect credit on the Profes
sor of music. But of this we do not pre
tend to be a correct judge, since parlor mu
sic has become so much refined that vve
cannot appreciate it. Nor do we believe
that vve should be able to make a tune as
good as Yankee Doodle out of two dozen
pieces. But this is no fault of either teach
ers or pupils. They performed their parts
well, and I venture to say that none of their
audience went away dissatisfied.
On the 16th, the College Building was
dedicated by the M. G. M. William C. Daw
son, assisted by R. W. D. G. M., William
S. Rockwell, and a very large attendence
of Brethren from different portions of the
State. After the dedication, a chaste and
appropriate address was delivered by Bro.
Gould, of Augusta.
After the services of the day were over,
the Board of Trustees met, and elected
Dr. A. Means President for the next Schol
astic year, and Col. M. C. Fulton, Yice
President. NYe think that too much praise
cannot he awarded to Col. Fulton and the
Board of Teachers, both Literary and Mu
sical, as well as the Trustees, for the able
manner in which this Institution has been
conducted ; and vve hope the brethren,
wheresoever dispersed about the State,
will take a deep interest in this Institution,
and will manifest it by meeting with us
there at the next Commencement. NYe
assure them that they will meet with warm
hearts and willing hands, in the citizens of
Covington. Do vou doubt ir ? Come and
see. D. G. CANDLER.
Bushville, Franklin Co.. July 20th.
The Chinese in California.—Accor
ding to the San Francisco correspondent
of the St. Louis Intelligencer, the Chinese
population of California afford an interest
ing subject of observation. Their appear
ance, dress, habits, modes of life, religion
and government are so wholly dissimilar
from ours, and the world Las* heretofore
known so little of either, that when on? lias
an opportunity to observe them nanowly,
he feels that he is treading upon compara
tively new’ ground. The first impression
made upon the mind, in beholding a crowd
of Chinamen, is that they are an exceed
ingly simple-minded, cheerful, contented
and harmless race. They chatter away
with a volubility truly marvellous, and ap
parently are full of fun and good humor.
Their predominant vice appears to he a love
of gaming. They have almost a countless
number of gambling houses scattered
through the city, and which are generally
crowded to excess, especially at night.—
They do not use cards, or any of our gam
ing devices; but simply small pieces of
brass about as large as a dime, with a hole
through the centre. The hanker, or dealer,
takes up a double handful of these and
throws them upon the table, and it appears
that the beis are upon the fact whether the
pile consists of an odd or an even number.
Very few of them have the remotest idea
of our system of laws or government, and
hence they adhere in a great measure to
their own.
Death in Childhood.—How true and
exquisitely beautiful is the following im
pressive passage which is taken from an ar
ticle in the Dublin University Magazine :
—“To me, few things appear so beautiful as
a very young child in its shroud. The lit
tle innocent face looks so sublimely simple
and confiding amongst the cold terrors of
death. Crimeless and fearless, that little
mortal has passed alone under the shadow,
and explored the mystery of dissolution.
There is death in its sublimest and purest
image, no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspi
cion, no care for the morrow ever darkened
that little face ; death has come lovingly
upon it; there is nothing cruel or harsh in
its victory. The yearnings of love, indeed,
cannot be satisfied; for the prattle,and smile,
all the little world of thoughts that were so
delightful, are gone forever. Awe, too, will
overcast us in its presence, for we are look
ing on death, but we do not fear for the
lonely voyager, for the child has gone, sim
ple and trusting, into the presence of its
Allwise Father; and of such, we know, is
the kingdom of heaven.”
