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KELLIDI A HELL,
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A. K. KKLLAM. M. A. BKLI_
S. & R. P. HALL,
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Alar on, Georgia.
PRA<TK'E in Rihk Crawford, Houston, Epson, Monroe. Macon,
D<oly, Twiggs. Jones and Pike counties; and in the Supreme
Court at Macon, Decatur, Talbotton and Amerieii*.
nr irKie* .tv ka Scott, Carhart Hi Co.’s Store.
April 4, 1850. 2—lv
Wm. K. cIeGRAFFEN
Attorney & Counsellor at Law.
MACON, GA.
OreiCK MULBERRY BTEJCT, NEARLY ORPOSITP. WAMHNGTON
. HALL.
Smith , g . 1-1 - v
JOHN l’ MILLM.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
June 28th. 185<>. It—ly
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\ \ still in Sffacon, Georgia, and when written to, sends j
‘Medirint hy nitil to any part of the country.
Dent give up all hope without consulting him.
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Mr. Mery’s Inveslisationi:..,
BY PAUL CREYTON.
“ He ig 3 good man, I suppose, and an excellent doctor,*’
Mr*. Salina Simmons, with a dubious shake of her head,
“lt .
“But wliat, Mrs. Simmons ?*’
Ih*yay he drinks.”
u , impossible!’’ exclaimed Mr. Josiah Query, withem
ptaii*.
Impossible! I hope so,” said Mrs. Simmons. “ And
roind you, I don’t say he drinks , but that such is the report.
-Gd 1 have it upon tolerably good authority, too, Mr. Que
ry.”
M bat authority.”
” Oh, I couldu’t tell that: for you know I never like to
n >*lce mischief. I can only say that the report is—he
drink*.”
Mr. Josiah Query scratched his head.
“ Can it be that Dr. Ilarvey drinks ?” he murmured. “ I
thought him a pure Son of Temperance. And he is my fam
ily phy* ■cian, too! I must look into this matter forthwith.—
-Mr*. Simmons you still decline stating who is your authority
• for tliia report ?”
Mrs. Sinnnons was firm ; her companion could gain no
faction She soon compelled him to promise that he
* ‘bid not mention her name, if he spoke of the affair else
where, repeating her remark that she never liked to make
miiohief.
i >r - Harvey was a physician residing in a small village,
w, ‘ore he shared the profits of practice with another doctor,
• bind Jones, Dr. Harvey was generally liked, and among
h’s friends were Mr. Josiah Query, whom Mrs. Simmons
decked with the bit of gossip respecting the doctor’s habits
a iotemperance. Mr. Query was a good hearted man, and
he deemed it his duty to inquire into the nature of the re
port, and learn if it had any foundation in truth. According
ly, he went to Mr. Green, who also employed the doctor in
his family.
Air. Green, said ho, “ have you heard anything about
j this report of Dr. Harvey’s intemperance ?”
Dr. Harvey s intemperance?” cried Mr. Green, aston
i idled.
Yes—a flying report.”
“ No, I’m sure I havn’t!”
“Os course, then, you don’t know whether it is true or
not ?”
“ What?”
“ That he drinks.”
“ I never heard of it before. Dr. Ilarvey is my family
physician, and certainly would not employ a man addicted to
i the use of ardent spirits.”
•‘Nor I,” said Mr. Query, “and for this reason, and for
■ the doctor’s sake, too, I want to know the truth of the mat
ter. I don’t really credit it, myself; but I thought it would
be no harm to inquire.”
Mr. Query next applied to Squiro Worthy for informa
tion.
“Dear me! exclaimed the Squire, who was a nervous
•nun, “ does Dr. Ilarvey drink TANARUS”
“ Such is the rumor—how true it is, I can't say.”
“ And what if he should give one of my family a dose of
arsenic instead of the tincture of rhubarb, sometime, when he
is intoxicated ? My mind is made up now. I shall send for
Dr. .Tones in future.”
“ But, dear sir,” remonstrated Mr. Query, “ I don’t say
the report is true.”
“ Oh, no ; you wouldn’t wish to commit yourself. You
like to know tiie safe side, and so do I. I shall employ Dr.
Jones.” .
Mr. Query walked sorrowfully away.
Squire worthy must have had suspicions of the doctor’s
intemperance before I came to him,’’ thought lie. “ I really
begin to fear that there is some foundation for the report. I’ll
go to Mrs. Mason. She will know.”
Mr. Query found Mrs. Mason ready to listen to and be
lieve any scandal. She gave her head a significant toss, as
if she knew more about the report than she chose to con
fess. I
Mr. Query begged of her to explain herself.
“ Oh, I shan’t say anything,” exclaimed Mrs. Mason.—
“ I've no ill will against Dr. Ilarvey, and I’d rather cut off j
my right hand than injure him.”
“ But is the report true?”
“ True, Mr. Query ? Do you suppose I ever saw Dr. liar- j
vey drunk? Then how can you expect me to know. Oh,
I don’t wish to say anything against the man, and I won’t.”
After visiting Mrs. Mason, Mr. Query went to half a doz
en others to learn the trutli respecting Dr. Harvey’s habits.
Nobody would confess that they knew anything about his
drinking; but .Mr. Smith “ was not, as much snrprised as
others might be;” Mr. Brown “ was sorry if the report was
true,” adding, that the best of men had their faults. Miss
Single had troqueiitlv remarked the doctor's florid complex
ion, and wondered if his color was natural; Mr. Clark re
membered that the doctor appeared unusually gay, on the oc
casion of his last visit to liis family ; Mrs. Rogers declared that
when she came to reflect, she believed she had urn*to!* -
■melt the man’s breath; and Mr. Impulse had often seen
him riding at an extraordinary rate for a sober gentlemen.—
Still Mr. Query was unable to ascertain any definite facts
respecting the unfavorable report.
Meanwhile, with his usual industry, Dr. Ilarvey went about j
bis business, little suspecting tile scandalous gossip that was 1
circulating to his discredit. But he soon perceived he was j
very coldlv received by some of his old friends, and that oth- j
ers employed Dr. Jones. Nobody sent for him, and he j
might have began to think that the health of the town was 1
entirely re-established, had he not observed that his rival up- \
peared driven with business, and that he rode night and day. j
One evening Dr. Ilarvey sat in his office, wondering what j
could have occasioned the sudden and surprising change in j
his affairs, when, contrary to his expectations, he received a
call to visit a sick child of one of his old friends, who had
lately employed his rival. After some hesitation, and a strug
gle between pride and a sense of duty, he resolved to respond
to the call, and at the same time learn, if possible, why he
had been preferred to Dr. Jones, and why Dr. Jones had
on other occasions been preferred to him.
** The truth is, Dr. Ilarvey,” said Mr. Miles, “ we thought
the child dangerously ill, and as Dr. Jones could not come im
mediately, we concluded to send for you.”
“ I admire your frankness,” responded Dr. Ilarvey, smil
ing, “and shall admire it still more, if you will inform me
why you have lately preferred Dr. Jones to me. Formerly
1 had the honor of enjoying your friendship and esteem, and
you have frequently told me yourself that you would trust no
other physician.”
‘ Well,” replied Mr. Miles, “I am a plain man, and nev
er hesitate to tell people what they wish to know*. I sent for
Dr. Jones instead of you, I confess, not that I doubted your
skill—
“ What then ?’’
“ It is a delicate subject, but 1 will, nevertheless, speak out.
Although I had the utmost confidence in your skill and faith
fulness—l—you know, lin short, I don’t like to trust a phy
sician that drinks.”
“Sir cried tbe astonished doctor.
“ Yes —drinks,” pursued Mr. Miles. “It is plain lan
guage, but lam a plain man. I heard of your intemper
ance, and thought it unsafe—that is, dangerous —to employ
you.”
“ My intemperance 1” ejaculated Dr. Harvey.
“ Y'es, sir 1 and lam sorry to know it. But the faet that
you sometimes drink a trifle too much is now a well known
fact, and is generally talked of in the village.”
“ Mr. Miles,” cried the indignant doctor, “ this is scanda
lous —it is false ! Who is your authority for this report ?”
“Oh, I have heard it from several mouths, but I can’t say
exactly who is responsible for the rumor.”
And Mr. Milos went on to mention several names, as con
nected with tbe rumor, and among which waa that of Mr.
Query.
Tbe indignant doctor immediately set out on a pilgrimage
of investigation, going from one house to another, in search of
the author of the scandal.
Nobody, however, could state where it originated, but it
was universally admitted that the man from whose lips it was
first heard, was Mr. Query.
Accordingly, Dr. Harvey hastened to Mr. Query’s house,
and demanded of that gentleman what he meant by circu
lating such scandal.
“My dear doctor,” cried Mr. Query, his face beaming
with conscious innocence, “ / havn’t been guilty of any mis
statement about you, I can take my oath. I heard that there
was a report of your drinking, and all I did was to tell people
I didn’t believe it, nor knew any thing about it, and to inquire
where it originated. Oh, I assure you, doctor, l havn’t slan
dered you in any manner.”
“ You are a poor fool !’ 1 exclaimed Dr. Harvey, perplexed
and angry. “If you had gone about town telling every body
that you saw me drunk, daily, j’ou couldn’t have slandered
me more effectually tlian you have.
“ Oh, I beg your pardon,” cried Mr. Query, very sad, “but
I thought I was doing you a service.”
“ Save me from my friends !” exclaimed the doctor bit
terly. “An enemy could not have done me as much injury
as you have done. But I now insist on knowing who first
mentioned the report to you.”
“ Oh I am not at liberty to say that.”
J Then I shall hold you responsible for the scandal—for the
“Jtaitepcuilait in all things—Neutral in Nothing.”
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1850.
j base lies you have circulated. But if you are really an hon
i est man, and my friend, you will not hesitate to tell me
where this report originated.”
After some reflection Mr. Qurry, who stood in mortal fear
of the indignant doctor, resolved to reveal the stcree, and
mentioned the name of his informant, Mrs. Simmons. As
Dr. Harvey had not heard her spoken of before, as connected
with the report of his intemperance, he knew very well that
Mr. Query’s “ friendly investigations ” had been the sole
cause ot his loss of practice. However, to go to the roots of
this l pas tree of scandal, he resolved to pay an immediate visit
to Mrs. Simmons.
This lady could deny nothing; but she declared that she
had not given the rumor as a fact, and that she had never
spoken of it except to Mr. Query. Anxious to throw i\k
responsibility of the slander upon others, she eagerly
cd that, on a certain occasion, upon entering a room in which
were Mrs. Guild and Mrs. Harmless, she overheard one of
these ladies remark that “ Dr. Ilarvey drank more than ev
er, ’ and the other reply, that “she had heard him say ho
could not break himself, although he knew his health suffered
in consequence.”
set upon the right track, Dr. Harvey visited Mrs.
Guild and Mrs. Harmless without delay.
“ Mercy on us!” exclaimed those ladies, when questioned
respecting the matter, “ we perfectly remember talking about
your drinking cojfee, and makingsueh remarkt as you have
heard through Mrs. Simmons. But with regard to your
drinking liquor , we never heard the report until a week ago,
! and never believed it at all.”
As what these ladies said of his coffee-drinking propensi
ties, was perfectly true, Dr. Harvey readily acquitted them
of any designs against his character for sobriety, and well sat
isfied with having at last discovered the origin of the rumor,
returned to the friendly Mr. Query.
The humiliation of this gentleman was so deep, that Dr.
Ilarvey avoided reproaches, and confined h.mself to a simple
narrative of his discoveries.
“ I see, it is all my fault,” said Mr. Query. “ And I will
do anything to remedy it. I never could believe you drank
and now I’ll go and tell every body that tho report was
fab, ”
V>
“ Oh ! bless you,” cried tbe doctor, “ I wouldn’t have you
do so for the world. All I ask of you, is to say nothing
together on the subject, and if you ever again hear a report
k e( \Ae kind, don’ t make it a subject of friendly investiga
tion.”
Mr. Query promised ; and, after the truth was known, and
Dr. Ilarvey had regained the good will of the community,
together with his share of medical practice, he never had rea
son again to exclaim—“ Save me from my friends!’’ And
Mr. Query was in future exceedingly careful how he attempt
ed to make friendly investigations.
PICKINGS.
No line which dying he could wish to blot.
It stands thus in the original :
Notone immortal, one corrupted thought,
One line which dying lie could wish to blot.
Loro Lyttlkton. Prologue to Thompson's Coriolanus.
To err is human, to forgive divine. <
j ‘ “\ r t J’res-. Oynity >yu Critici mu’-
The perilous edge of battle.
1 }- Milton. Paradise Lost, Book First.
Gor 1 ” fOl - the country and man made the town.
Cowper. The Task.
No pent up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.
J. M. Skwall. Epilogue to Cato, 1778.
And thereby hangs a tale.
Siiakspearb. As you Like It.
And man the hermit sighed till woman smiled.
Campbell. Pleasures of Hope.
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
PorE. Essay on Criticism,
lie whistled as he went for the want of thought.
Drydkn. Cymon and Ephigenia,
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Pope. Satires. To Mr. Fortescue.
Woman, last at the cross and earliest at the grave.
E. S. Barrett. Woman : A Poem.
When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war.
Nat Lee. Play of Alexander the Great.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Congreve. The Mourning Bride.
The old man eloquent. Milton. Tenth Sonnet.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Shakspkare. Troillus and Cressida.
Great wits to madness surely are allied.
Dryden. Absalom and Architophel.
Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Gray. The Elegy.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Sterne. Sentimental Journey.
The devil may cite scripture for his purpose.
Siiakspeare. The Merchant of Venice.
She walks the waters like a thing of life.
Byron. The Island.
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Gray. The Progress of Poesy.
On the light fantastic toe. Milton. 1’ Allegro.
Give ample room and verge enough. Gray. The Bard.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
And even his failings leaned to virtue’s side.
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
Ts see oursel’ as others see us.
Burns. Address to a Louse.
Brevity is the soul of wit. Siuicspeare, Hamlet,
Westward the course of empire take's its way.
Bishop Berkley.
Jlills peep o’er hill and Alps on Alps arise.
Pope. Lssay on Criticism.
The observed of all the observers.
SnAKsrEARK. Hamlet.
And made a sunshine in a shady place.
Spknser, Fairy Queen.
A breath can make them as a breath has made.
Goldsmith. Tho Deserted Village.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy,
wordsworth. Ode on Immortality.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Goldsmth. Edwin and Angelina.
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
Pope. Moral Essays.
Throw Physio to the dogs. Siiakspeare. Macbeth.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased. Ib.
My way of life is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf. Ib,
I’ll make assurance doubly sure. lb.
Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village.
Domestic happiness, the only bliss
Os Paradise that has survived the fall.
Cowper. The Task.
Let who will make the laws of a people, allow me to writh
their ballads, and I’ll guide them at my will.
Sir Philip Sidney.
For winter living chills the lap of May.
Goldsmith. The Traveller.
Rolled darkling down the torrent of his fate.
Dr. Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes.
The man forget not though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
A kenmde. Epistle to Curio.
V\ hatever is is right. Pope. Essay on Man.
The proper study of mankind is man. Ib.
Man never is but always to be blest. Ib.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Ib.
And to party gave up wliat was meant for mankind.
Goldsmith. Retaliation.
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.
Johnson. Vanity of human Wishes.
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Addison. Lines to the Duke of Marlboro.
Also Pope. The Dunciad.
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
Thompson. The Seasons. Spring.
’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
Campbell. Pleasures of Hope.
Or like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white then melts forever.
Burns. Tam O’Shanter.
Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice.
Shakspkare, Othello.
Exhausted worlds and then imagined new.
Dr. Johnson*. Prologue at the opening of the Drury Lane
Theatre. 1747.
Assume a virtue though you have it not.
Shaksferk. Hamlet.
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Burns. Tam O’Shanter.
Curses not loud but deep. Shakspkare. Macbeth.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree.
PorE. Epistle to Bathhurst.
By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.
Pope. Elegy on an unfortunate Lady.
Where ignorance is bliss
’Tis tolly to be wise. Gray. Ode on Eton College.
i\.nd swift expires a driveller and show.
Dr. Johnson. Vanity of Human Wants.
Order is Heaven’s first law. I’ore. Essay on Man.
Honor nnd shame from no condition rise. Ditto.
An honest man's the noblest work of God. Ditto..
Plays round the head but comes not to the heart.
Ditto.
But looks through nature up to nature’s God. .Ditto.
With all my imperfections on my head.
Siiakspeare. Hamlet.
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns. Ditto.
Lay not the flattering unction to your soul. Ditto.
The time is out of joint. Ditto.
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Pope. Moral Essays.
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Topic. The Epistle.
From seeming evil still educing good.
Thompson. Hymn.
There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how we will.
Siiakspeare. Ilamlct.
On her white breast a cross of gold she wore,
Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
Porr.. Rape of the Lock.
At every word a reputation dies. ~ Ditto.
Ajjd t>g tl>- j may dine
v , i a man ; simplicity a child.
\ Pope. Epitaph on Gray.
The mob of gentleman who write with ease.
Pope. Imitations of Horace.
Our Affections a source of Suffering.—
There is a smell of varnish in your house. A coffin
is there ; they have clothed tho body in decent
grave clothes, and the undertaker is screwing down
the lid, slipping round on tip-toe. Does he fear to
waken her ?
lie asks you a simple question about, the inscrip
tion upon the plate, rubbing it with his coat cuff.
You look him straight in the eye ; you motion to
the door ; you dare not speak.
lie takes up his hat, and glides out stealthful as
a cat.
The mau has done his work well for all. It is a
nice coffin—a very nice coffin ! Pass your hand o
ver it —how smooth!
Somo sprigs of mignonette are lying carelessly
in a little gilt-edged saucer. She loved mignonette.
It is a good staunch table the coffin rests on ; is it
your table; you are a house-keeper—a man of
family!
Ay, of family ! keep down outcry or tho nurse
will be in. Look over at the pinched features ; is
this all that is left of her ? And where is your heart
now 1 No, don’t thrust your nails into your hands,
nor mangle your lip, nor grate your teeth together.
If you could only weep !
Another day. The coffin is gone out. The stu
pid mourners have wept —what idle tears ! She,
with your crushed heart, is gone out !
Will you have pleasant evenings at your home
now ?
Go into your parlor that your prim house-keep
er lias made comfortable with clean hearth and blaze
of sticks.
Sit down in your chair; there is another velvet
cushion one over against yours empty. Yon press
your finger on your eye-balls, :ls if you would press
out something that hurt the brain ; but you cannot.
Your head leans upon your hand; your eyes rest
upon the flashing blaze.
Ashes always come after blaze.
Go now into the room where she was sick. Soft
ly, lest tho prim house-keeper hear you, and come
after.
They have put new dimity curtains upon her
chair; they have hung new curtains over the bed.
They have removed from the stand its vials and
silver bell: they have put a little vase of flowers
in their place ; the perfume will not offend the sick
sense now. They have half opened the window,
that the room so long closed, may have air. It will
not be too cold. She is not there!
Oh, God ! thou who dost temper the wind to
tbe shorn lamb, be kind !— lk. Marvel.
Trials of a Housekeeper.
We had the honor yesterday of conversing with
a lady who was in pursuit of a servant under diffi
culties. She related to us some of her trials, and
verily our sympathies were excited by her narrative.
“ I have just now,’’ said she, ‘had an interview with
a candidate for service, whom I called to see at her
home. She is an Irish girl, very tall and coarse,
with an almost manly voice. She fixed her arms
akimbo, and looked down at me with a benignant
air, while I humbly represented my situation to her.’
‘Thin it’s a woman yee want to cook and make
herself useful in gineral.’
The lady indicated her assent.
‘Thin it s myself that’ll shute ye, if the pay’s e
nough.’
The pay, the lady replied should be liberal, and
it was for the girl to name her own price.
Tin dollars the month,’ said she, is what I got last
and it was well I aimed it; but all things to me
mind, I may take less from you. How many child
ther have ye ? But three, eh ? Falks an’ they’ll
have to demane themselves diver thin. iVnd what
does your good man follow ? A dark eh ? Oh,
thin, its nate and tidy that he is, no doubt. But let
us be understanding each other a wee bit further.—
W ill ye be having any objections to a body’s kaping
herself tidy and fine like? Let me know that; for
de last lady I lived wid tould me I musn’t dress so
fine, because when I wint to the dure the people
thought I was her shisther.”
dhe lady assured her she would havo no fears of
the kind.
‘Ou-wow, thin, I’ll make a few inquiries about yez,
and if I come it’ll be th’morrow.” And so she dis
missed the lady, greatly to the relief of the the lat
ter, who said she would return home, and hope that
the woman or th’morrow” might never come to her;
for,’ said she, “I tear nothing so much as the com
ing of that woman, save to tell her that she will not
suit me !” Washington Republic.
Beauty of Figures.
I now take my pen in my hand for to write to you, to in
form you that I got here as safe as a thief in a mill, two day*
after I left you and all the rest of my friends. I was cramm
ed into a Btage wagon, where the passengers were as thick
as crows in a corn field, and the jouncing of the carriage
made me as sick as death; yet lam now by the blessings of
heaven, entirely recovered, and am as hearty as a buck. I
have bought me anew suit of clothes, which set as slick as
a whistle, and as sure as a gun ; if you should see me, you
would grin like a panther. The gentleman I live with is as
sour as a crab, and as crabbed as a sourkrout; but to make
some amends for his ill-nature, his wife is as pleasant as a
basket of chips; and then his daughters are as lively as
peas on a hot shovel, though, to tell the truth, one of them is
as homely as a chest of carpenter’s toools. I know I will
not like him, for lie is as snappish as a mud-turtle, if I let a
customer go out of the shop without tradin’, lie says, a
merchant’s clerk should have a tongue as slick as grease, and be
able to lie without blushing; and he should be ns limber as a
weasel, and as full of bows, when a lady comes in, as a dog
full of fleas. When he tells the women how much the arti
cles cost him, he winks like a toad under a current bush.
On Sunday, I went to hear Mr. S. preach, who, boss says,
is the only man that knows how to preach the gospel; though
I thought he was no more up to our parson than chalk is to
cheese.
Monday was muster-day ; but I was as busy as a bee, and
so didn't train ; but it I had, 1 should have been ns wet as a
drowned rat, for it rained all day like Jehu. Those who did
train looked as sour as bony-elabber; but they had to go,
ns they were in for it, as the toad said, when he saw man a
cornin’.
Mr. Linchpin, teamster, is waiting for this, and I must
break off as short as a goat’s tail.— Knickerbocker.
pfliitkal.
Ff[T*n The N. Y. Vuiversc,
of-'.hc wiisUtUttoii and the
, Laws.
A few plain words to a free and intelligent peo
ple, on the important subject which continues to ex
cite the minds of the masses in different sections of
the U nion, will be appropriate. Within the past week
this city has spoken on the questions of adjust
ment, passed into laws by Congress at the close of
its last session. They have spoken emphatically.
They are in favor of the settlement made. They
seek quietness and peace, and they love and cher
ish the Union of the States. They are ready to
throw aside mere party feelings and party men, and
rally in support of the Union. They have done so
by tens ol thousands. The great gathering which
took place at Castle Garden, on Wednesday eve
ning last, has struck terror into the minds of the
agitators, who wish to keep up the abolition excite
ment, either from a mistaken view of right, and of
what is best for the interests, glory and happiness of
our people, or from the less laudable one which im
piously seeks to alienate the people of the two sec
tions of our happy Union, and thus tends directly
to a dissolution of the confederacy.
e do not cherish the belief that there is a sin
gle intelligent man in the United States who really
desires a dissolution of the Union, except a few ex
tremely fanatical Abolitionists. Yet when we see
thousands of intelligent men pursuing a policy
which endangers the Union, and which, if perse
vered in, must eventually lead to a civil war, sepa
rate us into two or more confederacies, or throw us
into the arms of a foreign power, we must sound the
alarm. It is our duty as friends of the Union,
friends of a iree Government, which lias done more
for the liberty of the human race than any other
that history gives any account of, to exert even
honorable effort to stay the uplifted arm ready to
strike a blow* at the liberty and happiness of our
people.
African slavery, as it exists in the South, must be
let alone by Northern men. The evil is already
great enough for the South to bear, without its
magnitude being increased by Northern interfer
ence. We take our stand among those who are
ever ready and willing to denounce the whole
scheme of agitation on the question of African sla
very. No good, but much evil will result from such
agitation. We are determined to support the con
stitution, and the laws of Congress made in accord
ance with its provisions on the subject of slavery.
The fugitive slave law is strictly a constitutional
measure. The man who will interfere so as to pre
vent the carrying out the law is a dangerous mem
ber of the community, and should be denounced by
every good citizen. In relation to the Institution
of slavery in the Southern States we have no voice.
We have got rid of it in our own State; and so
have our Sister States of the North. We do not
want it, and in our sovereign State capacity we said
so, and it disappeared. We did not like it, and we
spoke, and it ceased to exist. The South do not
blame us for having abolished it. They do not ask
us to re-establish it. They do not even ask us to ad
vocate its existence among them, but only that we
cease to inrerfere with what belongs exclusively to 1
the people of the States in which slavery exists’
They have some fifteen or sixteen hundred millions
of dollars worth of property in slaves, descended to
them from an ancestry common to them and to us.
They had no more agency in the creation of this
property than we had. From its very nature it is
the great element of labor among them; they feed
it and clothe it; provide for it in sickness and old
age ; and, though many of them may regret it£ ex
istence, yet there it is. They cannot emancipate it
at once, without endangering the peace and good
order of society; and if forced to do so by North
ern interference their own lives and happiness, ja
well as that of the blacks, would be endangered.
Much has been said about the movement in this
city, which resulted in the great meeting at Castle
Garden. Some have charged that it was a mere
dollar-and-cont affair; originating in a spirit of pa
triotism based upon the profits of trade, and whol
ly divested ot those great moral principles or mo
tives which should govern us in our political actions.
e admit that there is an interest, a deep interest,
at the bottom of the movement which called togeth
er ten thousand men of both parties at Castle Gar
den. But it is an interest that looks to the pros
perity ot our Union; an interest which gives us the.
only hope that our great internal trade, the pros
perity ot our people, and the glory of our couutrv,
can be preserved.
The South, as a matter of course, is fast aliena
ting herself from the North ! She begins to see that
her interests are no longer to be respected by the
North. She is holding meetings, at which her peo
ple are pledging themselves not to purchase North
ern goods, to have no dealings with Northern men,
in commerce or in business of any kind. They are
beginning to look towards a direct trade with Eu
rope. The great body of the Southern traders and
capitalists, are gradually but certainly moving to
wards establishing a distinct Republic. They fur
nish from ninety to one hundred millions of dollars
w’orth of our exports to the rest of the world.
Northern ships carry abroad a great portion of this
immense agricultural produce, and Northern capi
talists receive the principal benefits growing out of
it.
Here we see the effects upon the industry of the
North—the interests of the North. It is not the
interest of a few individuals, merchants in this city,
but the interests of the whole North that are effect--
ed by the mad schemes of a few Northern fanatics.
Such is the result of the insane policy, the heartless
hypocrisy, or the false philanthrophy manifested by
a few political demagogues who seek to makoa little
political eapital out of a pretended sympathy for
the negro race iu our Southern States; who are bet
ter fed and clothed than hine-tentius of the Northern
white laborers among us. The leading men among
these disturbers of our happiness, are uiu who if
they cannot rule parties for their owu aggrandize
ment, will seek to ruin the country by dissolving
the confederacy. The “V an Burens and Sewards
have too long controlled parties at the North. We
do not wish to say hard things of mea. We are
not so blindly devoted to party that we lose sight
of our country’s interest, happiness and welfare. We
go for our country against any and all parties, the
tendency of whose action is to dissolve the great na
tional fabrics which secures to us a greater amount
of human rights than any other the world has ever
produced.
o plant ourselves upon the broad position, that
as Congress has adjusted the different question
growing out of the subject of slavery, by a series
of measures, passed during the last session, we feel
disposed to abide by the terms of adjustment. We
will submit to the laws, because it is the first and
highest duty of the citizen to do so. We had a
voice in making them ; and even if we did not like
them in every particular we shall be the last to de
clare that we will not obey them. If we deem them
bad laws we will try to have them repealed. That
is our right; but so long as they remain on the
statute book they must be enforced.
lo all those who feel an apprehension that North
abolitionism will be too strong for the laws, we think
we are warranted in assuring them that the power
of the Federal government will be sufficient to se
cure a faithful administration of them. The Presi
dent will perform hisduty, if it requires the whole
force of the Army and Navy under his command.
He will follow the example of General Washington,
if necessary, who, when a rebellion against the laws
occurred in Pennsylvania, did not hesitate to sup
press it. He had no knowledge of auy higher law
than the Constitution that he had sworn to obey.
New ork city, the first commercial emporium of
the Western world, has done its duty. It is here, in
this great city, where genuine reforms usually spring
into existence, and where mad fanaticism meets
with a proper rebuke. New York city is composed
of a thinking, intelligent population, radical, but
not fanatical. It is a world in itself, where all the
heterogeneous elements of thought have full sway ;
but in the end, on all great questions of public poli
cy and interest,the right prevails. Our people know
the value of this Union, and no schemes for its dis
solution will find favor among them.
We would warn the people of the North against
the danger that lurks in this movement, persevered
in by a lew misguided men among us, to resist the
enforcement of the fugitive slave law. They can
not succeed, and the Union be preserved. It is
dangerous to deviate, to the right or to the left, in
this matter. We need only look at the direct and
plain words of the sacred instrument that makes
us one people—“Wo person field to service in one
State, under the laics thereof \ escaping into another
State, shall, in consequence of any law or regula
tion thereof, he discharged from suck service or labor,
but shall he delivered up on claim of the party to
whom such, service or labor may be due.”
Now, is not this plain enough ? Is any man at
liberty to set up his own conscience against the prac
tical operation of this plain provision in our funda
mental law ? Have others no political rights to be
respected ? If so, then all governments, and espe
cially all free governments in which majorities rule,
are so many absurdities. If we want to continue
one people we must respect the provisions of the
compact that binds us together, acquiesce in the will
of the majority when constitutionally expressed.
New York then, in the multitudinous gathering
at Castle Garden on Wednesday night, has set the
ball in motion, and given it an impetus that is irre
sistible by the whole fraternity of Abolitionism.
They tell us that this Union is worth something;
that the happiness of twenty-five millions of people
is of some value; and that we must not and shall
not treat with contempt the laws of the land, break
down the Constitution of the Union, turn negro
stealers, and proclaim to the world that the groat
American Republic cannot endure.
The Two Extremes in
on High Invoked ! —The mail of Sunday brought
us a New \ ork paper containing the proceedings of
a mongrel abolition meeting—blacks and whites—-
at Oswego, N. Y., and a Charleston Mercury con
taining the proceedings of a meeting of Quattle
bums, in Pendleton District, S. C.
In the above proceedings we find the following
resolution, offered by Gerrit Smith, unanimously a
dopted :
Resolved, That we recommend the last Saturday
of this month as a day of fasting and prayer, and
that friends of God and man, in every part of this
heaven provoking nation, do come together on that
day, in their respective territories, to pray to Al
mighty God that he would cause the speedy repeal
of this accursed law against his poor, and the speed
y repeal of every other slave law, and the speedy
overthrow of that spurious and horrible religion
which substitutes preaching and praying, and cere
moniiousness, for the duties and work of htimanr-
NO. 35.
