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VOL. 2.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Farewell.
BY J. T. SCOTT.
If there is a word that touches the heart,
Or shadows the visions of hope and of joy,
Or causes the spring of remembrance to start,
Or evinces that pleasure lias much of alloy,
More than this one sad word, when solemnly said,
By those whom we love as words ne’er can tell,
Wo yet have to learn it; and, then, can we dread
Its utterance as much as parting ‘Farewell ?’
Hie lover, when leaving the maid, whom he loves
With affection as pure, as affection can be,
Breathes with a sigh, as lie sorrowfully moves,
From her presence to objects he loves not to see.
The husband departing far from his drar mate
And children, will speak a tender ‘farewell,’
Lie his hand shall unfasten the oft opened gate,
Which leads him from whence his heart's idols dwell.
When file tocsin of war is summonsing loud
All valorous spirits to take up the sword,
Brave sons, to shield parents ’neath the load of age
bowed,
Will haste to the summons, ‘farewell’ their last word.
‘Farewell!’ the aged lather will say to his son,
After he has cheered him to raise his strong arm ;
‘Farewell !’ breathes the mother to her valiant one.
Alter invoking God, to preserve him from harm.
-Farewell!’ ’Tis a word we love not to hear;
For oh! it hath power to sad Jen the heart,
To usher a sigh, to bring lorth a tear,
And memories recall ne'er more to depart.
There is but one time to lisp its sad sound,
The hour when death shall ring its loud knell
Then lot it be breathed to friends gathered round,
In sweetest of accents: ‘Farewell! Fare you well!’
The Lady and the Russian Emperor.
Letters from Petersburg, dated July 20th,
give an account of the following very mysteri
ous and interesting occurrence: —
Towards the middle of last month, (says the
writer,) the arrival of the Hon. Mr. U. 1, an
Englishman of high connections and great
wealth, who was accompanied by his wife and I
her sister, Lady Helen B 1, promised to j
give great eclat to the season, since it had been i
announced that the Honorable gentlemen had
votne for the purpose of giving a round of fetes,
for the magnificence of which lie is so justlv
renowned in England. In due time Mr. R—l
was presented to the Emperor, who on first see
ing Lady Helen, seemed so much struck by
her grace and beauty that he bestowed upon
her those very pointed attentions which not
alone are a mark of respect, but also of a more
fervid feeling. Festivities soon commenced,
and it was remarked that His Majesty went
with more zeal into these enjoyments, but rare
ly staid anv length of time unless Lady Helen
was present, when he would remain longer than
even the most liberal observance ot etiquette
warranted.
About a week ago, (July 13th,) a State Bail
was given at the Palace. Mr. It. 1 an 1
his ladies were invited, and soon after 1 1 o'clock
repaired to the gorgeously decorated Saloon-.
Mr. R 1, who had observed the singular con
duct of the Emperor towards his sister-in-law,
had announced his departure on the day follow
ing, for although from the well established
moral excellence of llis Majesty, lie could
harbor no feelings of his distrust towards him
in regard to Lady Helen, be found it necessary
to silence the reports which seemed to be rap
idly gaining ground. Their presence at the
Rail was their l ist appearance -it the Saloons
of royalty, thereby rendering the event all the
more interesting. The Emperor is a line man,
as fine a one as you can pick up during a day’s
walk in any quarter of the globe, but on this
night he looked really magnificent, as leading
the lady of the Austrian Ambassador, lie en
tered the Saloons, where the crowd fell back
to give way to the mighty one. As lie passed
Lady Helen, who was leaning on the arm of
the young Prince Woronsehelfi, he gave her a
look so full of meaning as to cause her face to
he sutfused with blushes. On he went, the dia
mond decked multitude blocking up the pas
sage which had just been formed for him, eager
to catch one more sight of him who reigns su
premely over fifty millions of his fellow men,
and whose will at home, has never yet been
questioned.
It was shortly after midnight, when Mr. R—l,
after having been in search of his fair sister-in
law. was accosted by Prince WoronscheiF, who
asked him why Lady Helen had left so soon.
“belt so soon!” inquired Mr. R 1, “why,
,-where can she have gone to alone ?” ** 4ou sent
a message to her,’’replied the Prince, “requir
ing her to return home at once, and that you
“ould soon follow. She seemed disappointed,
hut left since you wished it.” “ When, where!”
gasped Mr. R !, scarcely able to master bis
agitation. “ I saw her cross the Newsky Per
spective,” said the Prince, who had handed her
to the carriage.
Mr. K 1 heard no more. Hastening down
the magnificent marble steps of the Palace he
reached the square, where several officers of the
guard stood in close conversation, holding their
chargers by the bridle. Vaulting into tliesad
dle of one, to the infinite surprise of the owner,
ho rode vent re a ter re across the Perspective,
jden, on reaching the corner of the Promenade,
1 ’ saw a coach drive swiftly down the street,
after halting a moment to pick up a tall figure
enveloped in a large military cloak. A few mo
ments sufficed for Mr. R Ito overtake the
c °aeh, and forcing the blinds down, he saw his
’ ‘jor-in-law before him, in company with the
ir '” person, before alluded to, whose face, hovv
eVf-r < was entirely covered by the collar of his
Ci otk. “Pul! up,’’ shouted Mr. R 1, at the
time drawing a pistol from the holsters;
Rmn no answer. Presently the inmates of the
Cf, ach, which went along at furious speed, heard
e report of a pistol, succeeded by a heavy fall,
t l,O horses, no longer lashed, came to a stand
an d the next instant Mr. R 1 tore open
A'jeoach door, and handed out his sister-in-law.
, 110 ai 'e you sir,” he asked of the tall person
- ,|J had remained motionless, but now left the
1 : Fa by the opposite poor. There was no an
a shrill cry, such as is only heard in
file n^ erness ot ’ Russia and in the deserts of
a^,’° Us quarters, whence squadrons of horses
coders of police came to the spot. A
p k ae °| indescribable confusion ensued. Mr.
had seized the mysterious stran
£o ‘ s d ’ ’ n she actot pounding him to his heart’s
W^ltn himself seized from be-j
. and a deep voice whispered in his ear, j
‘, v ~' lre - At the same time a rush was made \
J ‘- military towards the spot where Mr, I
R 1 and the tall stranger were standing; they
were separated, and Mr. R 1 saw his opponent
no more. Lady Helen, on being asked, could
not give any clue as to who he was, since he had
only ju<t before the rescue by Mr. R 1 en
tered the coach, and had not exchanged a sin
gle word with him.
It was remarked by those who were present
at the Imperial Bali that night, that the Em
peror was absent lor more than an hour from
the scene of festivity. When at last he re-ap
peared, he seemed confused and excited ; the
news ot the attempted abduction of Lady He
len had also meanwhile reached the Saloon,
and was received by his Majesty with a coldness
which ill compared with the feeling that he had
theretofore evinced towards her. Early on the
follow ing morning, Mr. R 1 made a formal
complaint through his Ambassador, but altlio’
every assistance was promisee!, the affair was
shrouded in too deep a mystery for even the
l'eteisburgh police, and no trace of the offender
could be discovered.
Mr. R 1 and his fair compagnons de
voyage left Petersburgh, and have returned to
England.
The Old Story Rook,
Some years ago, when on a summer excursion
I stopped for a few days with a friend who
kept a boarding school for girls. While - there,
I was invited to preach for the minister of the
place. Iwo ot the boarding school misses,
whose acquaintance 1 had made, went to the
lecture, tor the purpose of hearing me. I read,
as the foundation of the lecture, Ezekiel’s de
scription ot the valley of vision, the dry bones
rising up suddenly to life. On our return, one
ot the girls said to me, “What a wonderful
story that was you told us. Can it be true ?’
1 assured them it was a true story; but they
could hardly believe it, and wondered where 1
got it. I told them 1 found it in an old book
that was full of the most interesting stories 1
bad ever seen.
‘ Oh,’ said they, “it must be a wonderfully
interesting book. How we should like to read
it.'’
‘AVell,’’ i replied, “you may read it if you
like, lor it is a very common book, and you may
find a copy of it m almost every house.’’
“Oh, the Bible! the Bible!” they both ex
claimed.
“ But how is it,” 1 inquired, ‘ if it is in the
Bible, that you never heard ot it before ? Did
you never read the Bible through ?”
“Read the Bible through!” exclaimed the
eldest, a sprightly girl of fourteen or fifteen,
“Why, 1 never thought of such a thing!’’
1 think my readers will agree with me, that
.she would have been much wiser if she had not
only thought of such a thing, but had actually
done it many times over. And I should be
very much mortified if one of mv children
should hear a Bible story related, and not know
where it came from. But the only way you
can guard again-t thus exposing your ignorance
j is, to rea l the Bible Ihromjh in course, A great
many children read the Bible only by snatches.
They take it up and read a little here or a little
1 tli.-re, but never read a single book through.
But in this wav they can never know what the
Bible contains. If you were away from home,
and your father should write you a letter, would
you be satisfied to read a fine or two here,
and a sentence there, and then throw it aside ?
llf you should do so,you might miss of the most
important tiling in the letter. Perhaps he has
informed you that he is coming to take you
home, and is giving you directions what to do,
in order to be ready; but you do not see these
directions, and so you will not he ready w hen
lie comes. The Bible is a communication from
your Father in heaven, in which he gives you
directions how 7 to be ready when he shall come
to take you home. But if you miss of them,
and are not ready when he comes, you will lose
that blessed home in the heavens which he has
prepared for his children.
There are many children who have under
taken to read the Bible through by course once
a year. 1 am acquainted with a young lady
who has read it through ten times, once before
she was eight years old, and nine times since
reading it through every year for five or six
years in succession. It any ot our readers
would like to join the band of Bible readers,
on the plan of reading it through once a year,
we wili put them on the way of doing it. If
yon road two chapters in the Old Testament
every morning, and one in the New Testament
every evening; and after completing the New
Testament, read at night in Jeremiah, Lamen
tations, and Ezekiel; with two Psalms extra on
the Sabbath, you will complete the whole Bi
ble in a year. And I can assure you that be
sides securing a treasure of wisdom and know
ledge, you w ill say after you have read it once,
that it is tlie most interesting book in the world.
There is no history of equal interest with the
Bible histories ; for in them you see the hand
of God, tracing out some grand design : and
von have God’s word for its truth. There is no
romance equal to the true stories of Joseph,
Ruth, and Esther. There are no fables of equal
interest with the parables of the New Testament.
There is no other poetry like the book of Job
and the songs of Moses and David. There is
no rhetoric that equals the sublime strains of
Isaiah. There are no wonders of science equal
to the deep mysteries of revealed truth. The
Bibl ■is full of the “seed- of tilings.” It is t e
foundation of all true knowledge, the basis of
all w isdom. It is a shame to be ignorant of it,
whatever else you may know. And the more
you read it the more deeply will you become
interested in it. If you read an entertaining
book of man's production once, you are satisfied.
You seldom desire to look into it again. But
even’ time you read the Book of God, you see
new beauties and behold new wonders; and
this w ill continue to be increasingly tiue, if you
live to be a hundred years old, and read it every
day. It is like a mine of gold, and silver, and
precious stones, covered over with iron and
brass—these heavy metals, the most necessary
toman’s use, lying on the surface; the silver
arid gold, not absolutely necessary, but very use
ful, lying next below ; and then as you dig
deep into the mine, every new vein you open
! discovers rubies, and diamonds, and precious
I stones, of surpassing excellence and surprising
I beauty.
A learned Judge asked the witness, “Mr.
; Smith you said you once officiated in the pulpit;
! do you mean that you preached ?”
“ No, sir; I held the light for the man what
! did.”
“ Ali: the court understood you differently,
they supposed that the discourse came from
you.”
“No sir: I only throwad a little light ou it.”
“ Sniffprailcjit in fill tilings —Jirutnil in untiling.”
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1851.
Rural Life.
This primeval employment of man, is the
most healthful of ali occupations—healthful for
the body, the mind, and the soul. Yv hat other
pursuit by w hich men obtain honest, bread affords
such vigorous training for the physical powers,
such various, and extensive ranges of mental
exercises ?
And where may the moral nature of man be
preserved unsullied from vice, and grow, and
expand more than amid rural scenes and be
neath the purest air of heaven i
The farmer’s life is not scratch, scratch with
the pen-rap, rap, with the hammer —nor an
everlasting unpacking and repacking of the pro
duct of another’s labor. He walks forth under
the open sky, his broad acres spread out be
neath his feet; the blue concave sunlit or starlit,
orsbruuded iu clouds, is still above him, health
claims him as her favorite child, and the glori
ous sun loves to kiss a cheek that is not ashamed
to wear the ruddy imprint of such affection.
Nature’s own inimitable music of babbling
brooks, birds, breezes, or rustling foliage, enters
his ear on its glad mission to his heart. lie
listens to instructive voices,continually speaking
from the universe around him. His eye gath
ers truth from unwritten pages of wisdom,
everywhere open before him. Each day each
month, season after season, year after year,
these teachings are given to him infinite in va
riety and endless in extent.
When towards the close of a sultry day the
summer’s blessing comes pouring down and
as in tli*-- beautiful poetry of the sacred volume,
“the trees of the tield clap their hands,’’ and
the valleys covered with corn, shout for joy, the
farmer, retiring from his labors to the friendly
shelter of his cottage roof, improves his leisure
hours with the treasures of written wisdom.
So too, while his fields are sleeping beneath frost
and snow wiiat profession affords more availa
ble opportunities for self culture ? Where was
tlie lyric poetry composed that makes Scotland
prouder of her Burns than of all her ancient
race of warelike kings ? Was it not between
the handles of the Mossgeil plough ?
How John Knox tot a Wife,
Knox used to visit Lord Ochiltree's family, preach
ing the Gospel privately to those who were willing to
receive it. The lady and some of the family were
converts. Her ladyship had a chamber, table, stool
aud candlestick for the prophet, and one night at sup
per, says to him, ‘Mr. Knox, 1 think you are at a great
loss bv want of a wife,’ (lie was then a widower) to
which he said, ‘Madam, 1 think nobody will lake such
a wanderer as I,’ which she replied, ‘Sir, if that be your
objection I'll make inquiry to find tin answer gainst our
next meeting.’
Tlie lady accordingly addressed herself to her eld
est daughter.telling her she might be very happy if she
could marry Mr. Knox, who would be a very great re
former, anJ a credit to the church; but she despised
the proposal, hoping her ladyship wished her better
than to marry a poor wanderer. The lady addressed
herself to her second daughter, who answered, as the
eld? yt.
Then the lady spake to her third daughter, about
nineteen years of age. who very frankly said, ‘Mad
am. I'll be very willing to marry him, bull fear lie’ll
not take me,’ to which the lady replied, ‘lf that be all
vour objection, I’ll soon get you an answer.’ Next
night at supper, the lady said to Mr. Knox, ‘Sir, I have
been considering upon a wife to you, and one very wil
ling,’ to which Knox said, ‘Who is she, Madam ?’ Site
answered, ’ ‘Mv youngest daughter sitting by you at
table.’ Then addressing himself to the young lady, lie
said, ‘My bird, arc you veiling to marry me? She an
swered, ‘Yes sir; only I fear you'll not bo willing to
take me.’ He said,‘My bird, if you be willing to take
me, you must take your venture of God’s providence
as I do. Igo through the country sometimes on my feet,
with a wallet on my arm, a shirt, a clean band, and a
Bible in it; you may put something in it for yourself;
and if 1 bid you take the wallet, you must do it, and go
where I go, and lodge where I lodge.’ ‘Sir,’said she,
‘l’ll do all this.’ ‘Will you be as good as your word?’
‘Yes I will.’ Upon which the marriage was con
cluded, and she lived happily with him, and hod sever
al children by him. She went with him to Geneva,
and as she was ascending a hill, as there ate many near
that place, she got up to the top of it before him, aud
took the wallet on her arm, and sitting down said,
‘Now, good-man, am I as good as my word ?
She afterwards lived with him when lie wax minister
at Edinburgh.
Fulton and Cbauccllor Livingston.
Tlie following interesting incident, which occurred
in the early history of contemplated steam navigation,
has been communicated to us by an old Knickerbocker,
whose memory of past events is fresh in his recollec
tion. It brings to tnind tile names of two great men ;
one a genius to whom the world is deeply indebted,
and the other a name which New Yorkers, at least,
will ever remember with pride. They are the names
of Robert Fulton and Chancellor Livingston.
After Fulton was fully convinced that a steam en
gine could be constructed so as to enable him to prove
the fact to the world and not being able to satisfy any
American capitalist of the feasibility of his discovery,
he went to Europe to see if lie could not meet with
more encouragement among her capitalists. He wished
to test his discovery upon a comprehensive scale. Bui
he returned unsuccessful ; having met only the deri
sion usually applied to Utopians and monomaniacs.
Ou his return to this city he accidently met in Broad
way, near Rector street, Chancellor Livingston, who
accosted him thus :
‘Well, Fulton, you have been to England and France
and as lam informed yon have been unsuccessful. Do
you still hold the opinion that vessels can be propelled
by steam ?’
*1 do,’ said Fulton.
‘ Well, then,’ said Fulton, ‘how much do yon want
for the experiment?’
‘I want,’said Fulton ‘fifty thousand dollars!’
The reply of Livingston was one that justly entitles
him to tlie lasting admiration of posterity.
‘Call at my office,’ said he, ‘to-morrow morning at
ten o’clock, and receive my cheek for the amount.’
Fultou did call, and he did get that check. Thi>
enabled him to build one or two boats, and the reality
of his discovery wa proved to the woild. This crazy
man suddenly became an astonishing genius. A boat
was built, called the Chancellor Livingston, which ran
between this city and Albany. The Hudson river
slioulJ always have on its waters a boat called the
Chancellor Livingston—a man who had intelligence
enough to distinguish true genius from visionary en
thusiasm. and liberality and patriotism sufficient to sup
ply the means to enable that genius to show itself,
: and confer upon posterity untold benefits, should never
be forgotten.
If poor John Fitch, who predicted, many years be
fore Fulton's discovery, that rivers would yet be navi
gated by steam, and whose superior sagacity was met
only by derision and contempt, bad hud a Chancellor
Li vington as a friend, the steam engine would have
been twenty-five years older than it now is. But poor
Fitch died in obscurity, and was buried on the bank of
one of the Western rivers, where, night and day state
lysteamboats pass his siient grave.—A. Y. Dispatch, \
Pretty Thoughts.
What is crime ? A wretched vagabond, trav
elling from palace to place in fruitless endeavor
to escape from justice, who is constantly engaged
in hot pursuit; a foe to virtue and happiness
though at times the companion of poor in
nocence. which is to often made to suffer for
the guilty.
What is thought? A fountain from which
flows all good and evil intentions—a mental
fluid, electrical in tlie force and rapidity of its
movements, silently flowing unseen within its
own secret avenue; yet it is the controlling
power of all animated matter, and the chief
mainspring of all our actions.
What is happiness? A butterfly that roves
from flower to flower in the vast garden of exist
ence. and wliiclieagerly pursued by the
multitude in the vain, hope of obtaining tire
prize ; yet it continually elides from their grasp.
What is fashion ? A beautiful envelope for
mortality, presenting a glittering and polished
exterior, the appearance of which gives no cer
tain indication of the real value of what is cott-‘
tained therein.
What is wit ? A sparkling beverage that is
highly exhilerating and agreeable when par
taken at the expense of others; but when used
at our own cost it becomes bitter and un
pleasant.
What is knowledge? A key that unravels
all mysteries, which unlocks the entrance, and
discovers new, unseen, and untrodden paths in
the hitherto unexplored field of science and
literature.
What is fear? A frightful substance to the j
really guilty, but a vain and harmless shadow
to the conscientious, honest, and upright.
What is joy ? The honey of existence, really
beneficial and agreeable when partaken of in
moderation, but highly injurious when used to
excess.
Fertility of Eastern Texas.
The following letter gives a glowing account
of the fertility ot the great eastern region of
Texas:
Shreveport, July 2, l^ol.
.‘vis. Pic.—As i have set apart an hour or
two for the purpose of writing to friends, a few I
lines may not he uninteresting to yourselves. !
I have this spring had occasion to travel over j
a con-idcralde portion of Eastern Texas, and
prompted by natural inclination have made
close observations as to the agricultural ca
pacity of tho country. I think it the best
cotton region that l have overe seen. Tlie
lands generally arc well located, very produc- i
live, easily brought into cultivation, and pro
duce line crops from the first. The soil appears j
to he thin and light, but nevertheless very
durable. I met with fields that have been
cultivated for ten, and some fifteen years with
out any care for the preservation of the soil,
and yet in many instances they produce as good ;
crops as at first. There are yet larire tracts
of this country in a state of, nature, iu conse
quence ofiheirdUtenoi’ fV>.iV*aviga.t)!o streams,
ft is a great section for rail roads, being near
ly level, and having a pieties of good timber to
build them. One fact peculiar foTKis country,
which makes it so fine for cotton is that the
fall or picking season is invariably dry, ena
bling the planter to gather, in good season, the
most heavy crops. Tho immigration this sea
son will be seriously retarded, in consequence
of short crops oi com, tho season being entirely j
too dry fiir tiiat crop. A few good showers of
rain just at this time would produce tire heav
iest crop of cotton that lias been made for years.
The planters generally <>t this region have
made money very rapidly; more so than any
where else that i know of. They are beating
ilie Red River planters altogether in the way
ofelear profits.
The planting interest is improving every j
year; tho country was settled by a sort of!
devil-may-care set of farmers that arc giving
way as last as they can, and going west for the
purpose of raising stock. I have met with
many cotton planters that have been west to
look at t lie country and not having been pleased,
returned and purchased land east of the Trini
ty. I see a movement in the city in favor of
a rail road contemplated to pass throug East
ern Texas, which l look upon as being a grand
project for New-Orleans, and bound to be the
most profitable rail road stock in the South.
Tlie weather has been fin some time dry,
and there is no appearance of rain, it looks
as it’the dry season had set in. Yours, J. B.
Death of (ooper, me Novelist.
James Fennim >re Cooper, E-q., died at
Cooperstown, Otsego county, N. Y., on Sunday
last. The event was not unexpected, but will
not he less regretted. Mr.Gooper has contributed
largely to the amusement of readers wherever
the English language, is spoken, and no Amer
ican has done more to advance the literary
reputation ol his country. Mr- Cooper was horn
in Burlington county, N. J., on tlie 15th Sep
tember, 1789. He was 02 yeas old, lacking a
day at the period of his death. The foundation
of his farm’ as a novelist was laid by the pro
duction of liis Spy, which was followed up
speedily by the Pioneer, and the other “Leath
er Stockings” tales, and h;s sea novels. He
produced thirty-tour novels, besides a Naval
History, Travels, &e A writer in the Inter
national Magazine, in reviewing Mr. Cooper’s
works, says:
“There was not a language in Europe in
which all his novels, alter the publication of
the “Red Rover,’ did not appeal almost as soon
as they were printed m London, He has been
the chosen companion ot the prince and the !
peasant on the borders of the Volga, the Dan- j
übe, and Guadalquiver; by the [dus and the j
Ganges, the Paraguay Mid the Amazon, where j
the name even of Washington was never spo- i
ken, (?) and our country is known only as the i
home ol Cooper. The world has living no oth
er writer whose lame is so universal. We may
add that among the early admirers of Cooper,
as a novelist was the late Col. Trumbull, the
historical painter, whom we havp heard express
his preference for Cooper’s novels, even over
those of Sir Walter Scott.”
Prentice of the Louisville Journal is partic
ularly severe on the Chivalry of South Caro,
olina. One of the Charleston papers came out
recently in favor ol a Railroad to connect South
Carolina snd Kentucky, upon which Prentice
makes the following remarks ; “We do not
know what the South Carolina traitors want
a railroad to Kentucky for. If they undertake
to carry out their treason, our Kentuckians!
will not visit their state by railroad or other- i
wise, except for the purpose of thrashing them,
and in the event of their making their appear- j
ance here, we shall be sure to farnilliarize ;
their necks with our great staple as fast as we j
catch them.”
ijDBHsuL
From the London Times.
American Fugitive Slave Law.
At a meeting of tho Cork Anti-Slavery Society,
held at Lloyd’s Hotel, May 27 4851, Jus. Lampkin,
! Esq. Mayor of Cork, in the Chair, the following re
| solutions, proposed by Andrew F. Roche and second
ed by Alexander King, was unanimously adopted :
“ Resolved, That we have observed, with pain and
sorrow, the course pursued by the Legislature of the i
United States with reference to slavery and thereby ex- ‘
press our deep abboreuee of some of its recent enact-
I ments, more especially of the inquitous Fugitive Slave
Law, passed during the last session of the Congress,
which affords so strong an evidence of the continued
and determined opposition of that Government to a
j course consistent with justice d.al mercy, that we can
not but consider it a willful perseverance in an unright
eous system, which lias been long proven to be not
less at variance with the soundest principle* of enlight
ened policy than repugnant to the plainest obligations 1
of morality and religion.”
The following, proposed by Riuhard Bowden and
seconded by Nicholas Peterson, was also unanimously
adopted.
“ Resolved , That we desire to express our heart
i felt sympathy with tho millions of our oppressed fellow ;
I men still held in chains in that land of boasted freemen, j
as well as with the Anti-Slavery cause throughout I
America, whom we would fain cheer on their arduous
’ struggle on behalf of Huff ring humanity, amid the dif
ficulties and perils which surround them ; and weear
! nestly beseech our fellow professors of the Christian
name in that country to put away from them this enor-
I tnous evil, and to afford every assistance to those noble—
; minded men who are laboring to efface from the na
tional escutcheon so deep and foul a stain,”
And the following, proposed by Win. Docble and
seconded by Farmer Lloyd, was in like manner adopt
ied:
*‘ Resolved, That these resolutions be advertised in
: each of tlie true leading Cork papers, as in n leading
journal in Dublin and London, and that the Secretary
be directed to take steps to have them published as ex
| tensively as possible in the United States newspaper
press, and also transmit a copy to the Secretary of the j
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
JAMES LAMBKIN, Chair.
Samvel Beale, Secretary.
The ignorance and impertinence, not to say ingrati-J
tude, which these Cork showmans exhibit iu the above j
resolutions, are well rebuked iti the following commit- j
mention from Joseph Brenan, an honest young Ire- !
lander, who has been an exile from liis country since j
1848 :
New York, .June 22, 1851.
Good Corkonians :—Your ‘resolutions’ have been
widely copied in this city, and have gone far to make
Ireland more contemptible than ever—a somewhat dif
ficult feat. You have contrived to offend men who
were inclined to bo your best friends, to injure your
mercantile interests, and to make yourselves rather
ridiculous. lam sorry for it—l know some of you
who took part in those ‘resolution.’ intimately, and
respect your character ; I believe you to be sincere and
honest, but I cannot help regarding you—A. F. Roche,
tlie ‘Rescue of Cork,” included—as deplorably ignor
ant of domestic or foreign polities.
I am not wroth with your affection for the negro.
Certainly it does not cost any thing.—lt never took a
cent from the pocket of O’Gouncii, though it injured
the nationality of lielanl. ’Tis the cheapest indul
gence of philanthropy which can be imagined; but tho
cheapness is only for the moment. I- you were wise
merchants, and understood the importance of making
your harbor a port for American trade, and consequent
ly of eschewing insult to the American people, you
would perceive how expensive such sympathy might
become.
But the argumentum ad crunenom is despised in
this age of civilization and ‘spiritual’ developments.—
Perhaps justly. I, for one, would avoid it if possible,
and only hint tit it now.
I remember that Richard Do vden—one of your
resolvers —often contended in the ‘Cork Scientific and
Literary Association’ that a man should endeavor to
understand a subject before disscussing it. I regret
that he has not followed his own rule. For, 1 may be
allowed to ask, what do you, individually or collective
ly, know about this question of American slavery ?
Let me catechise you in detail.
Ist. Do you know that tlie slavery question is the
most important question in the domestic politics of
America ?
2d. Do you know that continued agitation of this
question endangers tlie safety of this Government
risks the happiness of twenty-four millions of people
for tlie immediate realization of a crotchet, and threat
ens the stability of republicanism in its iast and noblest
stronghold ?
3d. Do you know that ‘the friends of the anti-slave
ry cause throughout America’ are the very worst ene
mies of the negro—the men who are doing most to
prevent the etnaiic pation of the slaves and the settle
ment of the question—aristocratic dclcttunti, who
are monarchists in faith and agitators by profession ?
Or can it bo possible that you are still, after fifty years’
somewhat experience, enamored followers of agita
tion ?
4th. Do you know that said ‘friends’ are, for the
most part, English by birth or descendants of the tory
opponents of the revolution, paid—yes, absolutely paid,
many of them, George Thompson and Garrison, for
instance—to embarrass the American ‘legislature’—as
you cull it—and involve the Republic iu difficulties ?
That their cue is to fiing dirt on the graves of Wash
ington and Jefferson ; to attack the Constitution which
has sheltered your countrymen from the effects of the
‘liberty’ which you enjoy at home, and to trumpet the
honor, mercy and glory of England, to all the long ears
which are ready to listen to their treason ?
sth. Do vou know that your ‘fellow professors of tlie
Christian faith’—as you term them —are in the habit
of asserting that ‘Jesus Christ is the principal slave
holder m America?’ for, I assure you, I have heard
the assertion made by the > orophaeus ot Abolitionists,
Win. Lloyd Garrison. Christ is by no means as pop
ular with them as the negroes. I have little doubt
but that they will regard you —tlie authors of those
childish resolutions—as much greater philanthropists
than the Redeemer. Don’t be shocked—what I tell
you is true.
6th. Do you know that immediate emancipation of
the slaves would be very likely to prnvo disastrous to
the Southern planter—to produce a chaos, the predo
minant hue of which would be red —to realize the
worst that humanity can endure—a revolution with
out ideas ? If you do not know thi3 ;as of course
vou don’t—l recommend you to pay a visit to the Cork
Library and read a chapter on the subject in De Toc
qaeviile’s work on America.
7th. Bo you know that England is endeavoring at
this moment to dismember the American Union and
trample tho last flag of Republicanism, by playing a
ciever double game—appealing to the South on the
score of mercantile interests and promising great things
in return fur secession, and appealing to the North
against the sin of slavery and the miseiable condition;
of the plantation negroes? You may not credit this
though I believe she tried the same course with you,
succeeded in making you quart o! ore with another, oad
stood by, crying ‘sesss, at him boys,’ while you were
tearing each other to pieces.
Bth. Do you know that the Southern slaves are ac
tually led ? Did that white slave, who applaudeJ your
fine sentiments enthusiastically, cheer for you on
good dinner or an empty stomach ? I think on the
latter. Stripes on the back ? Good God, what is the
bite of a whip to the bite of famine ?
9th. Do you know that Southern slaves can and do
acquire property, and frequently make sufficient, by
working after hoars, to purchase their liberty if they
please, but which they generally do not?
10th. Do you not believe—be candid now—that you
| have male esses of yourselves? If you do not, you
i arc alone in your disb-lief.
I would append another catechism to the above,
touching white slavery, if I had leisure. As it is, I must
find time for a few queries. I pray you. for the * k
of vour own credit, for the sake of classic old Cork—
the well woo fame of which 1 am proud—think se
i mslyof them, and do nut fly into'}, pwion and twid
dle, as you are very likely to do.
Ist. Are not you, Robert Lambkin, and you, Rich
ard Bowden, and you, A. F. Rocha, despised, down
troden, spat-upon s aves? Have secuiity in your
homes or in your souls ? Have you a characteristic ot
fr**’ 1 m nb. at yon? Ido not refer to you iudividual
-1; • oil!! of you, at least, cannot ba blamed—but 1
. speak of nli Irishmen. Do you suppose thataSou’h
| ern slave would change his quarters with the p ople
who throng your streets, shivering before your ‘honors, 1
and bogging a ‘ha’penny for God’s sake?’ Yah ! yah ! J
guess he'd show his teeth and shake his jolly plump
double-ehin at the proposition. No, a negro does
undervalue his dinner; ho objects in principle
to starvation ; and in absence of the ordinary amount
of nutriment, I believe he would not have as much
‘patience and perseverance’ in breaking old inroads on 1
living upon nir as some people I wot of.
2J. Do you imagin j that the world regard yon a*
men? lam sorry your imaginations ore so powerful.
You are looked upon as dogs, and r.re treated ns such.
You are kicked, and you only snarl; you are kicked
again, and you only show your teeth ; you arc kick’ <1 |
more frequently, and you run round the corner—you
never bite. Di you, Richard Bowden? you know
something of Repeal agitation, and can answer. And
you talk of American slavery ! God help your fool
ish heads, and tench you to look at home.
3d. W ould it not be o tter for you to forge one pike
or point a gun against the monopolists of your country,
who murder the people wholesale, and little of
ktio.king tho life out of a peasant as I would of
knocking the ashes out of my pipe, and straw the walls
of the houses and ilia hones of the serfs over your
rich fields would it not be wiser to do that than spend
your time in abusing America, which has dragged
your brothers out of tho grave by the hair of their
beads, and fed you—aye, fed you, paupers as you are—
when corn was rotting iu your granaries, and yon were
too cowardly, too debased, with too much of snake’s blood
in your dastard veins, to touch a single grain of? Pah !
you are the laughing stock of the world. A nation
of asses would show more manhood and more com
mon sense.
4th. Does not charity begin at homo ? llow do
you pay your tradesmen and laborers—do you give
them wages, and enable them to live as men ? No.
A negro man would save more money iu a month than
your drudges would collect in n lifetime. And vet yon
regard the American legislature with ‘abhorrence.’—
l Hike yours, :< never taught us tho os igiiiation of fa
mine.
sth. If you must turn your hands to the trade of
emancipation, why not adopt resolutions, and better than
that, carry them out—to emancipate the lb msands of
your countrymen who are now rotting in the poor
house—running blind from disease, (as I read in one
of your papers.) shrunken, withered wretches, shriv
elled up like burnt paper—no? men, but hideous ghosts
of men, with rubbish for brains and mud for blood—
Wity don’t you emancipate thorn? If your sympathy
is exclusively confined to tlie sable hue, why not take
blacking brushes and rob their faces into darkness ?
You can then regard them as negroes, and 1 assure
you you will flatter th-m much by so doing.
Satis superque. i would say more, though, if I
were allowed. My pen runs nimbly on this subject,
for I feel wiiat I say. But I must stop somewh re,
and do so now by asking you, fathers and sons of
slaves, to do something for yourselves before you begin
to express “your abhorrence* of America.
Your fellow-townsman,
JOSEPH BRENAN.
Gov, McDonald's Views on Seicssian.
We are iglail to have the views of the South
ern Rights candidate for Governor under his
own hand :
“I maintained the right of secession, fur
cause, of the existence and sufficiency of which
the people of a State in their sovereign capaci
ty, were the exclusive judges. In the exercise
ol it, they could not be controlled bv the judg
ment of others; that it was absurd to say that
a man had the right to do a thing, and that
another should say that he had no such right
and not permit him to enjoy it. 1 illustrated
by putting this case: If Seward, Gid dings,
Wilinot, Hale, Chase ds Cos., acquire sufficient
power to abolish shivery in this State, and raise
negroes to an equality with white persons, and
Georgia were to deem that sufficient cause to
secede from the Union, for the purpose of tak
ing care of her honor and her rights, and ap
peal to the same men to know if the wrongs
they had inflicted justified the measures we
had aduptf J, they could be little doubt about
the y ;ment they would pronounce. They
would decide against the sufficiency of the
cause, l .by admitting it, they would condemn
thernselv s. I maintained that a right was a
perfect thing. That there was no right, if it
could not be exercised but at the pleasure of
others.
As 1 have been farced to this statement, I will
say additionally, that on the establishment of
the right of secession for sufficient caus-% of
which the people are to judge for themselves,
independent of all control of others, depen J
the rights of the people under our Govern
ment. Establish the doctrine that the other
States have the right to say that it shall uot be
exercised, and you deprive the States of all
remedy tor political wrongs and oppressions.
They must submit to any aggression inflicted bv
a majority, or, if they wish to relieve them
selves of it, it cannot be done bv an appeal to
the God of battl-'s. There will’ be an end of
State sovereignty and State rights, if this doc
trine prevails, and if the tilne should come that
powers delegated, entrusted to the Government
for the protection of the people of each State
delegating it, and all the States, should be so
used by a corrupt majority’ in the Government,
as to inflict the most insupportable wrongs on
the people, and that the people cannot re-as
same as peaceably as they delegated those
[lowers abusively’ used, our Government be
comes a despotism at once, and the sun of po
litical arid constitutional liberty will go down
in revolution and blood.
Charles J. McDonald.
Marietta, Ga., Sept. 8, 1851.
This letter sela at rest the question of Gov.
McDonald's position ou the exclusive right of
judgment, lie asserts and re-asserts it, as not
only the ti uih, hut essential, fundamental truth,
ihe assertion of the right of the “other States'*
he considers fatal. In fact, there will, in his
opinion, “be an end of State sovereignty and
State rights, if this doctrine prevails.” Gov.
McDonald is therefore distinctly committed to
the doctrine of the exclusive right of judgment.
This doctrine we do not hesitate to pumounco
as utterly repugnant to authority as it is to
principle and to common sense. It is no more
justified by the principle* of the Republican
party, than would the a*sumptiou of the right
of repudiation of the public debt of a State. If
no d.sliuct condemnation of the doct.iue could
be found in the resolutions of tue itvpuohcan
party, it might be easily accounted for, on the
ground that tue claim is too preposterous to
have been advanced oy any party less despe
rate than the present bout hern Rights party of
Georgia. Dveii the refuge of silence i- denied
them, however, by the IT-publican party. The
Kentucky resolutions oi 17yd. drawn by Mr.
Jvihosou, distinctly am. in the right of such
party to judge tor itself, not only of infractions
but oi the inode and measure of redress. The
very words “ereh party’’ indicates that there
are two partus. Uuo the other party in the
Controversy is, is <Jijtiiictly laid down in the
following quotation from those resolutions:
“ That to this compact each State acceded as
a State, and is an integral party, ns Co-States
FORMING AS TO ITSELF THE OTHER PARTY. That
the Government created by this compact was
not made the exclusive o a final judge of the
extent of the powers delegated to itself; since
that would have made its discretion, aiid not
the Constitution the measure of its powers;
but that as in ait other cases of compact among
parties having no common judge lach party
has an equal right V- judge for itself, as well
1 of infractions, as of the mode and measure of
redress.’
ihe Virginia resolutions, and the report of
99 explicitly regard the States a* parties, and
no where claim any exclusive right to any one
State or number of States.
Come to the contest of 1332 and 3, it will
be found that the positions of the most extreme
State flights men never leached the absurdity
of claiming the exclusive right, if Gov. Mc-
Donald’s doctrine be a lot of State right*, than
such men as Calhoun, Troup and Coudy Ra
gust, have no title to the name of State Rights
men. Madison and Jefferson having already
been expelled from the Republican party, and
the claims of Calhoun, Troup and a host of
others, formerly considered almost too ortho
dox, and bending rather the other way, being
rejected, what names and what company will
be left for Gov. McDonald, the head of the new
school ? It w ill sink beneath contempt.
We have shown (August 30th, l8oI.) that
Calhoun held “the resuun lion bv a Sla;eof her
delegated powers a breach of compact,'for which
the States as a community would be responsi
bie, and notits citizens.” Mr. Calhoun i-.xpiv-;- .
ed himself aiso in the following strong language:
“He could not conceive of a division with
out giving an equal right to each to judge of the
extent of the power allotted to each,*’
Gov. Troup held the equal right of judgra rg
in both parties, and expressed <t in the strong \
language:
“lbat a Stale, for the violation of the ar -
clesof compact, is responsible under the pno
lic law to the other State.*, as between so
eigns, be compelled to make repamtion for
injury or damage which may ensue t. tneiu . i
consequeuce of such violaiieu*; and t iat t.. *
is one of the great securities against iia-ty u.._
precipitate action ou the part of the States. ’
Extreme a* he was in .some of his opinions.
Gov. Troup held not cidv the right of th • cn
.stales to judge lor themselves, oiit to “d*- fit .i; 1- ‘
satisfaction,” and “to go war.” Gov Tfouj
denied tile right ot the Genera! ( rove ri: irr-- nt,
but never the right of the otln-r States.
Goody Rag net, in the Examiner of Februa
ry 4th, 18-15, when opinions had had an ample
opportunity to mature, after the arching
investigation of the questions involved, by the
ablest minds of the nation, di>cuss.\s the quc--
tion of umpirage in thecas of “disputed pow
er b tween a State and the Federal Govern
ment,” and arrives at the following conclusion :
V\ here (lien should we look for .111 umpire?
Would any State of the Union consent that
her liberties and lights should be placed at the
arbitrament of any foreign power { We judge
not, and as we can conceive of no i..;!,. r m*Vd’
of umpirage, we are forced to the conclusion
that ti:e safest policy won Id ie 1 o leave the ques
tion open as it is at {-•resent The right of wil
tuul control ’ appears to us, to be the very con
servative principle oi our .sy-t- in."’
Gov. McDonald has emerged from the low--
est depths of Fedeiali -in, to t ach Gov. Troup
tuat what iie considered “one of the great se
curities against hasty a id prec pitatc action the
part of tlie Slates, is in reahtv “an eoU of
State sovereignty and Slate Rights.’’ lie has
risen to rebuke Goody Rtgu>-t, by assuring him
that be is mistaken m considering “the righfc
I if mutual control, the very conservative pna
c pie o. our system,” and that >;> the contrary,
upon independence of all control “depend the
ngats of :he people unik-rour Governtieeut.”
He ha- purged himself of Federalism, by be
coming an anarchist. The immense momen
tum he acquired in his sudden leap has earned
niin beyond all bounds, —he has overleaped
Republicanism aud fallen on the other side, and
finds hiinseii cow the advocate of anarchy and
absurdity, a id w.th the. warmth of anew con
vert. virtually accusing"the most extreme State
Rights men of ignorance of tiie Right of the
: Stales, and denying the doctrines of the Vir
ginia and Kentucky Resolutions. Not even
the opinions of individual men of the extreme
wing of the State Rights party—in lien less the
well considered positions of the States above
named, orw tiie State Rights Convention of
Georgia in 1a33, sustained the claim, prepos
terous on its face, oi tue exc'nsive right of ei
ther party to a contract, to judge of its infract
tion or of the mode and measure of redress.
t Chronicle <& Sentinel.
Tns CiiA.SGE IN NoitT/tSJIN SENTIiISNT. Th®
Huntsville Adv.x > ate i-f the 10th insiani says : W
hare been permitted torn ike the following extras: from
a private letter of Gen. Cass, to Col. Clemons. It is
strongly confirmatory of the other accounts of the great
change going on at the North up .n the subject of sla
very, which we are constantly receiving “ And there
is a better feeling at the North, and though fanaticism
will talk end write, still there is just as little probability
of oar interfering with your slaves, as there Is of your
interfering with cur house-- and land*,"’
NO. 27.