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VOLUME XLV.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1864.
NUMBER 2.
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\oli(*(‘ of Limited Co-partnership.
rpIIF undersigned have formed a limited co-
1 partnership, under the statutes of Georgia,
on the following terms: .
!st . Samuel P. Bell and Henry Christian are
the general partners, and Isaac D. LaUoclie is the
special partner. .
.jj. i be firm name will be Bell & Christian.
'id TLe amount of cash actually paid in by
Isaac I). LaRoche, is forty thousand dollars.
4ih. The business is a General Auction ana
Commission Business.
5 t |, The partnership will begin on the /th day
»i December inst, (A. D. 1863) and end on the
s ; xt h day of December next, (A. D. 1864.)
tith. Said business is to be conducted in the city
of Savannah, county of Chatham and State of Ga.
7th All parlies reside in the city of Savannah.
I. D. LaROCHE,
Special Partner.
SAMUEL P. BELL,
HENRY 11. CHRITTIAN,
General Partners.
Savannah, Dec. 22. 1363 51 6t
School Notice.
rpilE REV. S. E. BROOKS, assisted by his
J wife, will re-open his select School for boys
and girls, on the first Monday in January, 1864.
Only a limited numberot pupils can be received.
Tuition, per quarter of 10 weeks $25
»—EXTRA
Music, per quarter of 10 weeks ?25
Terms, half in advance.
As many as four boys can get board with the
Teacher.
December 29, 1863 52 tf
WOOL, FUR and 1UGS.
1 AM PAYING the highest cash price for these
articles. I pay twenty-five cents apiece for
RABBIT SKINS,' when they are well stretched
and preserved, and the highest market price for
MINK, MUSKRAT, OTTER, BEAVER, and
all other Skins containing fur. Send me Wool,
Fur and Rags, by Express, and get the money.
An agent is wanted tor every county in the State,
to whom liberal inducements will be offered.
J. A. TURNER, Eatonton, Ga.
December 29, 1363 52 tf
A^anted,
A SERVANT for an Officer of the Army in
VI. Virginia. For a suitable boy, fair wages
will be paid. T. IL LAMAR.
Milledgeville, Dec. 22, 1363 51 3t
5,0001;!
LBS. OF SOAP for sale at the
lilledgeville Hotel.
F. A. HUSON.
_October 13,1863 41 tf
C ITY TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open
for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed
bv the Council for the present year. Office under
theMilledgeville Hotel.
JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk
Milledgeville, July 28, 1863 30 tf
Cotloii Cards, Coffee & Sole Leather.
1 Afl PAIR WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards.
Il/vr number 10.
500 lbs. COFFEE.
500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER.
Just received and for sale by
J. GANS & CO.
Milledgeville, April 14, 1863 15 tf
Tanning.
rpHE SUBSCRIBER will TAN all HIDES
J- brought to his Tannery for one-third.
WILLIAM HARPER.
Deceniber 8. 1863 49 6t*
Notice.
Office Ga. Relief & Hospital Associa’* ?
Augusta, Ga., June 23d, 1863. )
A MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief & Hos-
- I pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near
the 10th of each month for Mississippi, and will
take charge of all boxes and packages intended tor
the Georgia troops in that State, and will carry
them to some safe point near the army and deposit
ffi'-m, and notify the owners, or deliver them to
the owners, if practicable, free of charge. The
boxes and packages must be marked with the
names of the owners, their company and regiment,
and to tiie care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital
Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Association will
not be responsible for any box containing perish
able articles, such as green vegetables, &«■- Box
es and packages will be deposited at the Wayside
Home, Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. POTTER. Geu’l. Superint’dt.
Newspapers of this State will please copy daily
du ring the first week oteach month, and send bills
to this office. W. II. POTTER. Gen’l Snp’t.
Ju 7, 1863 27 latwem
S PECIAL NOTICE —The undersigned having
removed from Milledgeville, desires and in
lends to close up his business matters of that
place as speedily as possible. All persous indebt
ed are -notified that my notes and accounts are ia
the hands of J. A. Breedlove and P. H. Lawler,
w ho are authorized to collect and make settle
ments. If not arranged at an early day,settle
meats will be enforced by law.
A. C. VAIL, Agent.
August 19,1862 33 tf
Off
AP’L L.
ju’e .J.; „
COURT CALENDAR FOR 1864.
REVISED BY THE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
SUPERIOR COURTS.
C l ON FEDERATE TAX.—Those who have not
1 paid their Taxes, must y»ay by the 22d inst.,
or they will be liable to nay ten per cent, addition-
upon the amount of Tax.
J. C. WHITAKER,
C. T. C. of Baldwin county.
December 15, 1363 50 *t
JANUARY.
2d Monday .Chatham
3d “ *Floyd
FEBRUARY.
lslMonday, Clark
Luiupkiot
2d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday.Forsyth
tPolk
Glascock
Houston
Meriwetlie r
\V altou
4thMonday, Baldwin
J ackaon
Mom oe
Paulding
l^aliaierro
Walker
MARCH.
lalThursday, Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Crawford
r Gwinnett
Madison
M arion
Morgan
2d Monday .Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Pickens
. Washington
Webste r
Thursdayaft'r Montgomery
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnall
Ware
Thursday af. White
Friday a fie t .Bulloch
4th Monday, Clinch
Chattahoochee
Johnson
Lee
Milton
Putnam
Rabun
Twiggs
Wilkes
Thursday af.Habersham
Monday af-1 g c hols
ter 4th Mon- >
day. ) Effingham
APRIL.
1st A 2d Mon. Carroll
1st Monday, Dooly
Emanue 1
Early
Franklin
F ulton
Gordon
Pike
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Thursday aft.Banks
2d Monday, Hancock
Richmond
Karris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
Tuesdaynfter .McIntosh
3d Monday , Glynn
Haralson
Henry
J ones
Liberty
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Monday ? Worth
after, $ Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Decatur
Dekalb
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after,Telfair
Camden
Thursday after Jrwin
Monday “ B er U* n
Charlton
MAY.
1st Monday .Clayton
Randolph
Scriven
Upson
2d Mondsy, Catoosa
Chatham
Gilmer
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
Ths’dy after Fannin
3d Monday,Raker
Bibb
Buike
Quitman
Spalding
Troup
Union
Thursdav aft. Towns
4th Monday, D«3*
Terrell
Last Mon Isv.Colquitt
JUNK.
1st Monday,Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday. Brooks
Clsy
3d Mondsy, Thomas
JULY
1st Monday, Floyd*
AUGUST.
1st Monday, Lumpkin
2dMonday, Campbrl.
Clark
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyih
Polk
Glascock
Houston
Meriwether
Waiton
4th Monday .Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
Thursdays fter,Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
1 s tM(today, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Madison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday .Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday Cobb
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch,
Thursday aft. White
4thMonday, Clinch
,Chattahoochee
Johnson
Lee
Milton
Putnam
Rabun
Twigga
Wilkes
Thursday af, Habersham
Monday af- )
the 4th > Echols
Monday >
OCTOBER.
IstA2d Mon.Carroll
1st Monday Dooly
Early
Emanue 1
Franklin
F ulton
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
Thursday aft. Banks
2d Monday . Gilmer
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Richmond
Sumter
Ths dy after Fannin
3d Monday, Glynu
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Murray
Oglethtrpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
Worth
Thursday > Montgomery
after J
Towns
4th Mond v.Decatu r
DeKalb
Jasper
Liucoln
Schley
Tattnall
Wayne
Whitfield
Wilcox.
Friday after Telfair
Camden
Thursdayafter. Irwin
Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER,
lat Monday-Berrien
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Scrisen
Upson
2d Monday .Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday Baker
Bibb
Burke
Quitman
Spalding
Troup
4tli Monday Dade
Terrell
Thursday aft. Mclnmsh
Monday after Chlqovt
do do Liberty
Monday aft. Liberty. Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday, Brooks
•Clsy
3d Monday. Thomas
For the Recorder.
“ONLY A SOLDIER ”
Respectfully dedicated to Surgeon Dan German,
Senior Surgeon Roddy's Cavalry Brigade.
By Lamar Fontaine.
[The following lines were suggested by seeing
» hearse passing down the streets of one of our
Southern cities, without even an attendant; and
on halting the driver, to ask whose body it con
tained, I received this answer, ‘Only a Soldier’s.’]
“Only a Soldier,” I hear them say;
With a heavy heart I turn’d away,
And heav’d a sigh ;
And watch’d the tramp of the horses feet,
As the hearse mov’d slowly down the street,
And hot tear drops dim’d mine eye.
“Only a Soldier” confined in there,
Once light and gay as summer’s air,
Heedless of sorrow;
He’s sleeping now the last deep sleep—
And angels o’er hirn their vigils keep,—
He’ll wake on no to-morrow.
“Only a Soldier” coffined there,
Once a father’s joy, a mother’s care,
Torn from his bright home;
Now a maiden sighs for his return,
On his sister’s check the tear drops burn,
For her soldier brothers gone !
“Only a Soldier,”—I thought anew,
And my fancy turn’d and quickly drew
The parting hour,
That hour he left at his country’s call,
To place himself as a living wall,
Where sterner men would cower.
In dreams he’d seen comrades kneeling down
To raise his head from the battle ground,
And he loved to say,
“Tell my father, that I, lighting, fell,
Mid the humming shot and screaming shell,
When the South had won the day.”
Alas! he never had dream’d of death,
But as borne on whistling bullets breath,
Mid muskets flashing!
And when the grim war dogs howling loud,
Spread with sulphur smoke the battle cloud,
And shell with thunders crashing.
A fevered cot is his battle ground,
And slowly, calmly, he’s going down,
To the “far off land” !
An army surgeon is standing by,
.(No angel tear bedews his eye)
Holding the still, pulseless hand.
No gentle mother is watching near,
No loving sister with tender care,
His aching head to lave ;
Uumoumed, unwept, he sinks to rest,
E’en by human sympathy unblest,
To the dark, yawning grave.
The cold sod holds the form that is dead,
Dew drops kiss no more the pale forehead,
Nor shine in that hair ;
All hope is gone! life’s sorrowing’s o’er,
That spiiit’s on the “kcholkss shore,”
Dwelling with lov’d ones up therf. !
Tuscumbia, Ala., December, 1863.
force, and fled with slight resistance, j near sun down, they were driven back
and six or eight pieces were soon put on the infantr}’, which had followed us
there in redoubts by the energetic Brig
adier, E. M. Law, which commanded
a considerable extent of the enemy’s
iine on the western side of the town
Gen. Longstreet resolved to assault
this portion of the entrenchments.
On the northwest corner was a large
ARMY C ORRESPONDENCE.
The Biazilian ladies think it fine to be
fat; rend nothin* bat French novels, dress
splendidly out of door*, and live like ?»g«
in the house.
From the Savannah Republican.
Near Rutledge, East Tenn. >
December 19, IS63. j
It is very probable that you have had
no account of tbe East Tennessee cam
paign since the crossing of the Tennes
see river, on the 14th of November, for
tbe reson that our correspondence was
cut off - soon after, and for other reason
lhat the command has been busy ever
since. The disaster at Chattanooga,
has no doubt spoiled great results at
Kuoxville, which gave the enemy op
portunities to relieve the hard pressed
force there. Let us pass over the ad
vance to Knoxville, which was feebly
resisted, but which did once afford a
great opportunity to strike the enemy
a strong if not decisive blow—lhat was
at Campbell’s Station, where he was
almost surrounded, yet permitted to
move away. This may have been ow
ing to want of time, as it was late in
the day, but the truth seems to lay in
the slow movements of the brigade
commander ordered to make the at
tack. YVe will avoid calling names.
Immediately after arriving at Knox
ville, the place was partially invested,
the force under Gen. Longstreet being
inadequate to surround the city entire
ly. Some of tbe Generals, it seems,
were in favor of making an immediate
assault, but it was not made, and it
seems to have been Gen. Longstreel’s
purpose to force the enemy to come out
and give him battle from want of sub
sistence. This Burnside studiously
avoided, and reduced his supplies to
quarter rations of bread with lull ra
tions of meat, of which, it seems, he
had abundance. The enemy’s pickets
were driven step by step day alter day
into their lines, and were finally forced
to take shelter behind earth works of
the sttongest kind, which circuinvalla-
ted the cilv.
Our picket lines were generally ad
vanced at night, and often so suddenly
that the enemy’s were surprised and
taken in their rifle pits.—From these it
was learned that the Ibrees under
Burnside consisted of the 9tb and 23d
Army Corps, with three thousand cav
alry under Wolford—the whole num
bering, probably, filteen thousand ef
fective men. General orders forbid
publishing the strength of Gen. Lon-
street’s forces or if he received any re
inforcements.—Finding that the enemy
could not be induced to attack, prepa
rations were finally made to assault the
place. It was necessary to get posses
sion of some high hills across the Hol-
ston, which furnished a fine position lor
artillery.—The enemy held it in small
fort, mounting a considerable number
of guns, but for the two days previous
to making the attack our sharpshooters
had kept them silent at the distance of
four hundred yards. On the morning
of the 29th November, at lour o'clock,
the brigades of Generals Anderson,
Humphreys, Wofford (commanded by
Col. Rufl^)antl Bryan were put in posi
tion as near as possible to this fort,
which our shatpshooters now com
manded atone hundred yards distance.
These brigades were strongly support
ed. At good sight, Gen. Law from
the opposite side of the river commenc
ed a fierce cannonade on the entire
western line, directing most of his fire
in rear of this fort.
Shortly afterwards the troops were
ordered forward. With little difficulty
the outer walls of the fort were gained
for our uueriing sharpshooters had ed
ucated Yankee heads to lie close. But
now a greul difficulty was confronted.
No fascines or 'scuffing ladders had
been prepared, and a great yawning
ditch 7 or 8 feet deep aud 10 feel wide
surrounded the entire fort, slippery
with the mud of a recent rain.—The
line hesitated. It was Southern pride
combatting wilh the almost impossible
feast belore them—to tur« back or at
tempt. They cotfTd not go back. Hun
dreds rushed into the ditch, some as
sisting others to scramble up the slip
pery sides until they had gained the
ramparts. Here an awful scene of
slaughter was enacted. The enemy
salt-ly housed inside by an interior
work, shot down every man that gain
ed the top, who rolled back on his
brave companions in the ditch still
toiling and scrambling for the murder
ous top. it seemed at one time that
they would, in spite of every obstacle,
carry the place; but the enemy, en
couraged by their security, commenc
ed hurling hand, grenades over the
sides, which, falling down and bursting
among those fftdtoded together in the
miry Jossc, corflmitted a heartrending
havoc . among the “bravest of the
brave.’’ It w’as a harrowing sight to
look at the wonderful courage ot our
men under these distressing circum
stances standing loo proud to turn anil
fly, enveloped almost in a blaze of fire.
Six or seven hundred men were kill
ed, wounded or taken prisoners, for
some actually rushed over the works
and got inside to be overpowered in
stantly. *You*ng Thomas Cum.ning,
Adjutant of the lGth Georgia, planted
his regimental colors on a gun, and
courageously claimed it, but the hun
dreds that immediately surrounded
him look him and his colors too. The
brave and excellent officer, Col. Ruff,
of the ]Sth Georgia, was killed at the
fort. He was one of our very best offi
cers. All were Georgians except two
regiments from the brave and gallant
Mississippi brigade.—They were on
the ramparts wilh the Georgians and
died like heroes W’ith them. At last
all that could were obliged sullenly to
retire, our sharpshooters still command
ing the works' from the riflepiis. The
whole did not last an hour, and ended
in a fearful repulse. Will history ever
record the name of him who blundered
in this fatal assault? Can it be ascrib
ed to the commanding General or to
the subordinates who executed the
plan? The fact that the ditch existed
was discussed, and prisoners said it
was there. “Somebody blundered.”—
One hundred and fourteen lay dead
around this fatal spot. The enemy
granted a flag of truce and all were ta
ken into our lines. The arms which
lay between the two lines were equally
divided, as each had a claiifi to the
ground, which was commanded by
sharpshooters.
How unfortunate that the news of
Bragg’s defeat arrived in twenty-four
hours after this assault. If the news
had come before, no doubt it never
would have been made. A Regiment
under Col. Jno. C. Carter at Charles
ton, announced that the enemy was
coming up from Chattanooga. He was
compelled to burn or destroy the pon
toon and railroad bridge at that place,
and retire to Loudon. His escape was
well managed and with no loss of men.
—Gen. Vaughn at that place destroy
ed the pontoons, and joined Gen. Long-
street. The %iatter of subsistence was
now a serious one, and Gen. Longstreet
determined to remove to his piesent
position on the Holston. Supplies have
been collected to a little over half ra
tions of beef, pork and flour, and all
things are getting on very well. The
enemy did not molest our fall back
from Knoxville, although the march
was slow and deliberate.
On the 13th of December, while ly
ing quietly in camp near Rogersville,
orders cam«?lo march, and on the 14th,
our line lead back towards Knoxville.
That evening the command came sud
denly on the cavalry of the enemy near
up slowly, thinking Lonstreet was fly
ing. Gen. Martin was sent down the
opposite side of the Clinch Mountains
to get in the rear. He met a body of
the enemy’s cavalry foraging, and cap
tured forty wagons and 61 prisoners.
The next flay our lines confronted the
main body, waiting for Martin to get in
the rear. He did not succeed, nor Gen.
Jones, who was sent on a similar er
rand. The enemy got wind of the
movements and fled Our cavalry pur
sued them on towards Knoxville, where
no doubt the rats are making for their
/tales. They destroyed the country in
their way, burning fences, some hous
es, and destroying forage with the most
wanton waste, in many instances leav
ing the families in actual destitution.
What was amusing, the crouching,
boot licking unionist did not escape
from the plundering vandals.
This is a beautiful and fertile coun
try, watered by the Holston river and
numerous small tributaries, and pleas
antly diversified with ranges of moun
tains running North-east and South
west. The people are divided in their
sentiments; some true us steel to our
cause, hut many poor wretches con
verted by “green backs” are against us.
The enemy have recruited 'some
among these people, but from the low
est and most abject class, that are so
mean and cowardly that they are not
at all to be feared. The respectable
farmers are our staunch friends, but
when you strike a poor neighborhood,
look out for closed doors, ugly, slmrp-
tiosed, barefooted women, and a re
dundancy of white-headed children.
Go to one of their hovels and ask if
you can buy a chicken, and immedi
ately a frizzled head, angular faced fe
male will poke out a cranium from a
hole in the logs, known as windows
among them, and answer: ‘’No, ’thout
you got greenbacks; you’ns money
ainl worth a —.” We wont repeat
exactly, hut hint that the dash means
what they’ll get if they ever die, pio-
vided there is not a reformation.
Tout-le Monde.
A WIFE WORTH HAVING.
A TRUE STORY.
The distinguished William Wirt,
within six or eight months after his first
marriage, became addicted to intemp
erance, the effect of which operated
strongly upon the mind and health of
his wife, and in a few months more she
was numbered with the dead. Her
dealli led him to leav£ the country
where he resided, and move to Rich
mond, where he soon rose to distinc
tion. But his habits hung about him,
and occasionally he was found with jol
ly and frolicsome spirits in bacchana
lian revelry. His true friends expos
tulated with him, to convince him of
the injury he was doing himself. But
he still persisted. His practice began
to fall off’, and many looked apou him
as on the sure road to ruin. He was
advised to get married, with a view of
correcting his habits. This he consent
ed to do, if the right person offered. He
accordingly paid his addresses to a
Miss Gamble. After some months’ al
ter,tions, he asked her hand in mar
riage. She replied :
“Mr. Wirt. I have been well aware
of your intentions for some time back,
and should have given you to under
stand that your visits were not.accept
able, had I not reciprocated the affec
tion which you evinced for me. But I
cannot yield my assent until you make
a pledge never to taste, touch or han
dle any intoxicating drinks.”
This reply to Mr. Wirt was as unex
pected as it was novel. His reply was,
that he regarded the proposition as a
bar to all further consideration on the
subject, and left her. Her course to him
was the same as ever—his, resentment
and neglect. In the course of a week,
he went again and solicited her hand.—
But her reply w’as her mind was made
up.—He became indignant and regard
ed the terms proposed as insulting to
bis honor, and avowed it should be the
last meeting they should ever have.
He took to drinking worse and seemed
to run headlong to ruin.
One day, while lying in the outskirts
of the city, near a little grocery or grog
shop, dead drunk, a young lady, who,
it is not necessary to name, in passing
that way to her home, not far off, be
held him with his face upturned to the
rays of a scorching sun. She took her
handkerchief with her own name mark
ed upon it, and placed it over his face.
After he had remained in that way for
some hours, he was awakened, and his
thirst being so great, he went into the
little grocery or grog-shop to get a
drink, when he discovered the hand
kerchief, which he looked at, and the
name that was on it. After pausing a
few minutes, he exclaimed :
“Great God, who left this’ with me?
Who placed it on rny face?” No one
knew. He dropped his glass, exclaim
ing :
“Enough! enough!”
He retired instantly from the groce
ry, forgetting his thirst but not the de-
I er to touch, taste or handle intoxica
ting drinks.
To meet Miss G. was the hardest ef
fort of his file. If he met her in her
carriage or oil foot, he would dodge the
nearest corner. She at last addressed
him a note in her own hand, inviting
him to the house, which he finally gath
ered courage enough to accept. He
told her if she still tiore affection for
him, he would agree to her terms. Her
reply was:—
“My conditions now are what they
have ever been.”
“Then,” said ihe disenthralled Wirt,
‘‘I accept them.”
They were soon married, and from
that day he kept his word, and his af
fairs brightened, while honors and glo
ry gathered thick upon his brow.—tLs
name lias been enrolled high in the
temple of fame, while his deeds, his
patriotism and renown,- live after him
with imperishable lustre. How many
noble minds might the young ladies
save, if they would follow the example
of the heroine hearted Miss G., the
friend of humanity, of her country, and
the relative of La Fayette.
A SOUTHERNER IN ENGLAND.
Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, who wa9 recently
on a visit to his English friends, was en
tertained at one ot those Agricultural Din
ners at which the noblemeu who best
represent that interest and the better or
der of farmers mingle in convivial inter
course, and from whom emanate those real
English opinions that best express the
sense of the country in its conservatwe
views. Mr. Lamar was invited to partake
of the festivities at the annual dinner of
the Chertsey Agricultural Society on the
16th of November, at which Mr. W. S
Lindsay presided. On Mr. Lamar’s health
being proposed, he addressed the meeting
bauch, the handkerchief or the lady—
Bean’s cross roads. After a short fight vowing, if God gave him strength, nev-
in a speech in which full justice was done
to the cause of the South. With a full and
distinct understanding of the diversity of
opinion that existed between bis hearers
and himself as to some of the institutions
to which he referred, he asserted in the
face of that company, and before the
world, that the statements which had
been made against the South were calum
nious and untrue, and that the white race
in the South had been the guardians, the
protectors, the beuefactors of the black
man ; that they had elevated him in the
scale of rational existence, that they had
Christianized him to a state to which he
has never before attained. He only de
sired Englishmen to listen, not to opinions,
nor to misrepresentations, but to facts.
When the American continent was dis
covered and occupied by European race it
came into contact with two savage races.
Oue was the noble Indian race, the an
cient occupiers of the continent, and the
highest type of savage manhood ; the
orher race was one brought there, not by
agency of the Southern people, but by
agencies which he would not then discuss
—it was the Alrican race, which all phi
losophers and historians pronounced to be
the lowest type of natural man. It was a
race without a God, without rational ideas
—cannibals not attaining even to tbe
civilization of the fig leaf. | Hear and a
laugh] What had been the history of the
two races he had described ?
The Indian race—thff noble race inca
pable of domestic life, of any thing but its
wild and nomadic existence, had been
driven back to continually narrowing
circles, with constantly diminishing means
of subsistence, and were in danger of com
plete extinction before the advauciDg
wave of civilization. But the other race,
the negro, with all its foulness and barbar
ity, being naturally a servile race, had
become domesticated, and in spite of the
institution of slavery if they pleased, but
still with slavery, had risen higher and
higher in the rational scale, until now it
‘furnished heroes and heroines for modern
romances, themes for modem songs, had
even beeu invited by some statesmen
within the charmed ciicie of social and
political equality. [Hear, hear.J An in
stitution that has done so much for that
race must be considered carefully. He
might be told that having bronght up to
that point of civilization, the South owed
it to Christendom to emancipate them.
[Hear.J In answer, he would refer to the
opinions of Britisli statesmen, British
travelers, and philosophers, who were
united in opinion that the emancipation
oi that race at this time, and especially in
the manner proposed by the rulers of the
North, would be a curse to both races.
[Hear.J
But he could safely say that so many
and so great were the boons which the
South had already conferred on tbe negro
race, that the world iiad ample guarantees
that if the time should ever come for them
to believe that liberty would be a boon and
not a curse, then tbe South would be pre
pared to confer that boon upon them.
[Cheers.] And he might add, if that time
should ever come they would be capable
of asserting their own claims and tbe
whites could not if they would withhold
the boon. [Hear, hear.] Misrepresentation
had been con tantly made to the English
people apou the subject, and it had been
said that in the South the negro was treat
ed only as property, aud was deprived of
all tbe rights of human beings. This he
pronounced false. The laws of every
Southern State, in short, regarded the nes
gro as a man, threw around him the
guarantees of personal security and legal
protection, and allowed him as much per
sonal liberty as he is capable of enjoyi ig
ia bis present intellectual and moral con
dition. They awtr led the penalty of
death for the murder of a slave, And im
prisonment in the Penitentiary was the
punishment for maiming. 1 Hear.J
Exercise, air, good temper, a id temper
ance are the principal sources of youth,
health and longevity.