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VOLUME 10.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN
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to> where a b**nd hn been given by the dece amri, the full •
apace of three month-*.
Stifcr I \u
.4 Pl‘a lor tHUir**.
Kev. Mr. C’onwav, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
recently delivereil u Discourse from the text. ‘
•• All things are youn*. &•, ’ in which we I
timl the following truthful end beautiful ,
j>a>sages in favor of a relisjion of a natural j
and pleasant character, in opposition to one
•>f superstition, gloom and wrath !
“Do what men will, they cannot make na
ture a Quaker, Puritan, or Matbodist. !>he
must be read out of meeting, for *he will not
confine herself to drab or mouse-color. She
will sing songs through a myriad little
throats, even on Sunday ; she w ill dance in
unceasing motion from the motes in the sun
beam up to stars in heaven. That view of
Nature which supposes it is only utilitarian
is talse as it is dreary. She makes more
Sowers than she does cabbage heads, and for
every apple on the tree she hangs an hun
dred useless blossoms. Who will say they
nre useless ; All beauty is useful, even as
those blossoms live and full to enhance the
health of the fruit. All the gaieties and re
•Ttations of life, when healthy and pure,
l.ad forward life to its grand and mature
purposes.
“How blind is every blow struck nt Na
ture! Drive her out at the door and she will
be sure to come in at the window. It would
well accord with human experience to add
that she w ill break tbe window to fragments
ere she will he kept out If that part of our
nature whieh requires amusement and re
laxation is neglected or inadequately sati.-ft
ed. it will he sure to break forth in direc
tions where it can work only harm and
wrong. He who forecloses amusements,
■“huts down the safety-xalve of his emotion
'll nature. The jient-up life rushes on with
full power against every side, and when* it
tind- any weak point it will break loose.—
The noise and excitement of fanatic revivals;
th'* preaching in tents and tln-atn-s in cities:
th- t.'hri--tian frolics, so gravely called camp
meetings, are all very transparent disguises
*'f the same nature whieh takes other peo
ple to the opera and the ball. If these were
the only nnthodsof man's need of excite
ment. we might be well contented and think
of them only as religious sprees. But the
history of those religions which i non Unto a
s jiaration front the world, is all too sad for
us to avoid more gloomy conclusions.
“ That terrible disease, jaundice, where the
\el low and corrupt stream pervades the en
tire system, polluting all tbe sensuous rela
tion-, and changing the entire world to one
**> afflicted, finds its analogy in any human
being whose normal secretion of nature is
impeded in its natural flow. Where the
moral function dues not act directly, it will
.v*t indirectly, ami always injuriously. A
youth'* majority often takes a bitter ven
'.'-s nee on hi-‘minority', and he who is allow
'd to sec nothing hat gravity up to twenty,
“** * chance of seeing naught hut levity
from that time till doomsday.
** I! ould it not he wiser for us to carry out
the great harmonies of nature, which Paul
hs s*> well interpreted in our text? “Ail
’hings are yours.” he says. The Intellect
;i e demanded knowledge as its birthright,
*ml the school-house and university have
•*rLen ; religion demands worship and med
itation. and the church has taken it* stand
in every nation; ami when Beauty, Taste
and Mirth rise up and say : “ We also claim
>ur realm,” how uubrotherly of the other
(acuities to deny them their institution*!
fod made laughter as well a* repentance,
xnd there are three times as many muscles
to pall the mouth up as there are to jaill it
down , whieh. I take it, mean- that we shoud
lugh three times as much a- we -hould cry.
Mr. Carlyle says that a man cannot be ut
terly bad who l as once laugh-d, and Mar
gin Luther asserts that there is nothing the
IXvil so much hates a- a hearty laugh.
* * * * a”* *
“ Man was th. answer to the Sphynx's rid
in answer lo all rantiom in all time*.
He ia to solve the problem of bis own dvsti
nv. But ho can alone solve it when he ha
•'come the full and entire being alone may
ailed man. Not any one portion of him,
‘•km alone i- good : intdlrrt alone becomes
-rifi-bnes*; religion alone is snperstition :
‘Aliment alone becomes unreality ; but let
him grow like a noble oak. all branches to-
gether: let everv power and pa-don be de
veloped—mind, V>dy. taste, sympathy —all
’hat he is and can lie. then von nmy sum up
he grand result and call it Max. For it
w tll be because he has realized the deep full
■‘leaning of that voice which bus told him
‘■ l4t all is his; it will be because be has
the genial hand of Nature and scaled
tjo heights, fathomed the depths, of his own
“>mplex being, and now stands with calm
r "nt before his Lord, with no talent buried.
’ ’ r "*°h having claimed bv culture its law*
Jul usury.’’
Henry IV. Pr*moui*li<‘<l.
• most singular chain of uncommon circtim-
r iM * ces P**C da l ile asa>*inaii'n of Uiat excel
eru tUu > a'ch. Henry IV, of France. In the
K °* s he day on which he was mnotered
*? K.mtlm (**. Fnd.y. May 14. 1610) his
wj. exceedingly pensive. In ihe hope
“"posiiig his spirit*, he ili*ew l.uueelt .n
was uuaMe to sleep Thrice he
u.nc- he fell on hi* knee* in prayer,
‘‘her. repairing to the p e-ence chamber,
. * lu a • endeavored to divert the ne-l.n
t,. ■ V . p*eyjd upon his oiind. Being ns
wiu *nd cheerful, he tried to tali iu
isi W * U * ra ' il “* pbasantiy of his nobles,
•yp * ‘*' ri ‘P , ed to smile, hut concluded thus:
H w -pn g>n Sund .y.”
“*i*“7 Medan.) bad bees crowned
bat the day before his murder. One L Bros-e.
a physician, i- by some r parted to have said to
•he Duke de \ endonie on toe evening ot lhat
dsy. *Il the kii g survives a mischief which
threatens him at preset,t, he will live the-e
thirty yean*.’’
rue duke cnt.—arel the king to grant this
physician r > audience, and rep -at and wht the
old gt-uiiemau hd tr t*n saying- His in jesi v.
with unusual asperity and ha-tm s< redid,
“lie is art old tool, tor telling von such things,
and y-.ii are ayonng I'.ol if y* u Move turn.”
The duke's f jo'uder was fir’ll. respectful and
st-n-mle: ‘See, one •■tight not to believe such
things, hut one may feir them.”
Tee same day. as tt e king and qu'On were
walk ng through an ap .rtim-nt o the paDc the
king -loeped to speak with somebody p e*ent.
Tne queen stopping at the Sam** time, he Said
to her. as by a spirit of Involun’ary pn*pheev.
Passes*, pas.-* /., madsme la regente; t. e., ‘‘Go
mi. goon, madame tho r*g--iit.”
A lew teghts Is f .re the entastr phe, the
queen dre. me*l that all the j-weia in her crown
were chai g- and mu* |erl- mid that site was odd.
pearls we.-o sig ifbmo id tears. Another
, night she stsirted arid eried out in her shsp.antl
waked th j kiug who asked her what was the
matter? She answered. “I have had a fight
j ful dteam; but I know that dreams arc uicio
illusions.”
*d was alwaya of the same opinion,” rcpl*e*l
Henry; “however, toll me what your dream
was.”
I dreamed, 1 continiK*d she, “thnt you were
stahi,cd witn a kuile under the short riba”
“Tnank God, ’ r*jumtu the kiug. ‘it was but
a dreim.”
1 have already notrd that, on tho morning of
the f-ital day. his majesty was unusually cha
griutd; and he said. tu*>re than ouce to those
about tiim, “9 >inethiug or other hangs very’
henvy ou my hesrt.”
Before he went to his couch, ho took leave of
the queen no fewer than three lime-; and then
st* ppng inti his carnage. |,sd not p<s*d
■ ihrough many stneta ere Kavaillac gave him
j that fatal stab, which deprived France of oue
of the most geuerous and buoisnc sovereigns
she ever had.
f From the American Union-]
An ElGpement With a Ta)e to it.
BY CIIAfU.E! f.. SMITH.
The other evening, as I was r< fuming at
a late hour from a visit to a friend's, a sin
gular adventure occurred to tne which I shall
hereby relate:
I was p**--ing an ordinary looking lions**,
in an obscure street of the city, and quite
loudly whistling ,*Ob, no, I’ll never mention
if” when a second story Pont window was
suddenly raised, and the sweetest voice im
aginable was heard to whi-per:
* Wait a moment, Charley, and I will soon
lie ready.”
The head of the ma : den uttering the de
claration was then withdrawn, hut not until
I had seen that she was young, and the jm>s
sessor of imnsnal beauty.
‘Ready? wait a moment Charley,” I re
peated in a musing manner, an endeavoring
to obta n some c ue to wdiat was occurring,
and what was meant, by those word**.
“I have’nt the shghtest idea who the fair
incognita is. but it s-erns that she knows me,
or she wouldn't add*-e.s uie by my lamiliar
name. I wondr-r—”
But my wowfenng aloud was suddenly
cut short, and gieatly iuciwd to mys-lt, by 1
the re-appearance ot the maiden at the still
op**n win I- vr.
“Is everything still?” she inquired, in the
most inusii al ot whispers
“Awfnily glum,” imi k-1, ha king around,
and r*--p noting -fend, “perfectly. ’
“A*-f your sure that no one i* comine?”
‘■Q ite sure. Tne loafer* in th 9 vicinity
have all gone home, mil (he watchman, of
Course, is a-leep in some door- way Pei fe*-t
----ly silent, fr*m one end of the street to the
other; p,*t feet ly.”
“Then we may as well proceed now, as
to wait longer,” c-me in a soft whisper from :
the fair and my*’ fymg unknown. Can you
Catch the bundle ?*’
“Catch the bundle; catch the bundle,” I
refuted, not knowing what to say. but
finally replying at a venture —
“Ot course.”
The head of the maiden was momentarily
withdrawn, then appeared again, and in
connection with a some what * xtensive bun
dle, wh'ch I now tindersatod she intended
me to “exteh!” I caught it—a bundle of
clothing and valuables, a- I readily conclu
ded, and stowed it away under my arm as
quietly and knowingly as it I had known
“whac it was all about.’’
“Is no one coining ! * again asked the fair
incoguita, iu a low and ir< tuulous whisper,
alheit strangely musical, as she leaned for
ward. ami looking down upon tne.’
“No one.”
“And everything is as safe now as it will
be any other time ?”
* Evidently—everything is safe, including
the country.”
“Very well —I will des.jend.”
Whi e I was wondering how on earth this
last teat could be a*;c.>tnpiished, the lair un
; known threw an jie ladder out of the win
dow and commenced making descent.
“Had l not I letter cunwsp and help you?”
I inquired, mechanically, rather than hy
reasou of idea how much assistance could be
given.
“No, hush! do not speak so loud, or we
shall be overheard.’ was the whispered res
ponse ; I can come down as well—or belter
—alone!” . j
The fair unknown was already pasmg
oxer the window, as I saw by a hasty glance
upwards, and then—l did not venture to
look up again for fear she wasn’t dressed in
“bloomer*.” or that tie* moonlight might m-
I jure my ey. s. 1 s:ended the unique ladder,
until a crowd of criiiohue, ;u-x misive pow
er. came down ovcf my head, and ihen re
treated a lew steps in order to re- insure tin*
dimity within !r*e and full desceuL She
soon reached terra Arm*—or latiier the
sidewalk.
“t lii, derr she began, taming towards me
’ —but just then was heard a cry of “thieves
—robbers—help!” within the bouse, at and I
| began to tremble apprehcti-ivciy for tbe
cause.
Was this fair enchantress a hurglaress, or
a companion parUceps entninu o! burglars ?
i I shuddered at tbe thought.
The fair wnmiu was more alarmed ihan
mvself. Hastily seiz ng my arm—the other,
the arm disengaged from ihe b indie—she
led me hastily away. Her lice was pale—
her form tmnb'ed horn head to loot with
emut.on—l dulu't hardly know what I was
about, so greatly was I influenced by a re
flection as to the figure 1 w*g .tiiung-thus
running awy with a wo an I had never
seen be!ore, and a huge bundle under my
arm! .
I “We are discovered,” murmured my com
panion. “My only | prehension is ih.t we
gum]! be put sued au<i separated before the
matter is accomplished.
I stole another glance at my companion,
and saw that she wasoi e of the lovlieSl hru
netes I ever up min my fde. More
over, she wa-young, and evident y not more
than six:ten or seventeen yeajwot age; and
1 her £ce aeen.ed a urn or of child-like confi
dence, polity ol feeling and love.
’ la m usual more 1 fe.t that whatever
was the mystery in which I had b* corue an
ignorant ac or, I was ready to trust to her
to the death.
Wo hasted rnp’dly down the street, hut
not more thurt ten or ad zen rod* bofoie the
j form of a man was s -en app-caching, whil*
there were some lamr tokens ol a tumult
at the house vv t* had jllt fell.
We hurried on pu-smg ilie gentl* man we
had seen approaching, and w h . s**on “s'ruck
up,” the same tune 1 had belore been ex**i
cisiog niy lui gs with, • Oh, uo, I never men
tion it.” etc.
“Good heavens!” exclaimed my compan
ion, th*-it siatit she lis'ei *d to “ear-pietcit g”
non sos whistler No 2 —" what mtai s tins?
—that is—”
She suddenly paused—just as v.e were
pas-ing heneaili a ga* lamp, which 8 lone
lull up >n my features—and *-x lai md :
“You, sir—you are not my Cliaifes—oh!
gr* at Heavens 1”
“No, respected Miss—l am not; but I
flatter my-eh— ’’
Tim Hidden was already on the Hack of
whistler N<> 2, and theieiore I did not fin
ish my profound remaik. She soon ov*r
took him, seized him and caused him t * p*use
while I stood 1 okmg upon them, wi ii the
bund es aut'cally clasped under my arm. A
retrograde movement was commenced and
; the maiden and the young stranger wero
soon in my immediate pr.-?erice.
‘ Oh, sir, ’ began the fair being, as she took
my hand and looking up enclmntmgly into
my face, “you will forgive me the mistake,
I thought you .vere my Charles !” and she
j gazed admir ugly ami devotedly upon him.
“An elopement, eh ?” I asked, smiling at
the mistake.
I Tt.e young gentleman bowed. “And the
signal ot my arrival h-neath the xvmdow as
agiecd upon,” he adde 1, ‘was the very notes
whistled trout that tune.’j
I understood tne mistake in a moment how
I lal lnppenel along at just the witeting
hour of the intended elopement, and chanced
to whistle the signalling tune. Not to dwell
upon a simple and every day matter, I saw
the parties united in wed'oek, and the next
day had the pleasure 01 reconci'ing the pa
i rents to the eveij >yed young coup!**, who
hate already commenced domestic life with
: every pro-pect of not hat ing “paid too dearly
for the whistle.”
| Married F Iks doii’t do such Th : ngs.
A tril, involving matters ot a (fel cate charac
ter in which it was de* me l necesaary to estab
lish the nature <>t an iuum cy heiweeu the de
fendant, a married man and a young woman,
took place a day or too ago, before Justice
Hanselman. Amor g other evidence, offered,
a witness, ad *u. liter of Kve. ot coU’se. siaierl
that she had ob-erved llio pair silling so v*-ry
closely togothcr ihal slie coni! not sec d-ybgnt
i b*-twt-eu them ! [>tr*p’ ic description that!] that
he had his aim alaiut her waist, and though
her head was, turned away, heloqu ntystooped
down and kis-ed lu-r lips, and she relumed him
care-res aidenily.
“Y* u sav you did hot see the lady’s face,
Miss ?! qut-eo U one of the counsel.—
‘How men, oid you know that the woman, the
defendant • m‘*rxced, was not his wife?’
“Hi* wile—pshaw! Do you think I have no
sense!”
“Whether nature has or has not provided
you with the average amount * I br-iins. inedam,
is not the question,” remarked tne attorney,
pompously. ‘Please ans wer the one I ask.,
‘Are you in earnest, sir ?’
‘Oi comae I am, tn idam.’
‘Weil, then, sir. you don’t know much. T
know they weren’t hu-band and wi e when I
saw H em kis-ing each oilmr, tor Lusbauds and
wives don’t do such thing-!’
A < itilty Conscience.
One of the most memory hie passages ever
uttered by Mr. Webster, was in vindication
of the authority of conscience and of Pr->yi
dence, on a trial for a dark and mysterious
murder:
“ The guilty soul cannot keep its own ce
cref. It is fa se to itself. It labors under
its guilty possession, and knows not what
to do with it. Tee lium ui heart was not
made tor Ihe residence of such an inhabitant.
Ii finds itself preyed upon by a twin-nt
which it does not acknowledge to God or j
man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can
ask no sympati y or assistance, eiiher from j
heaven or earth. The secret which the j
murderer possesses soon comes to possess
him ; and, like the evil spirit of which we
read, it overcomes him. and leads him whith
ersoever it will. lie feels it beating at his
heart, nsing to his throat, and demanding
disclosure. He thinks the who;** world sees
, it in his face, and almost heats its worku gs
in the silence of his thoughts. It betrays
i his discretion, it breaks down his coinage, it
1 conquers his prudence. Wheu suspicions
from w ithout begin to embarrass him, and
th i net of circumstances to entangle him,
tbe fatal secret struggles w ith si ill greater .
violence to burst forth. It must be confes- j
srd ; it will be confessed ; there is no refuge ‘
’ from conle-sion but suicide; and suicide is 1
, conic—ion. ”
“We protest against a theory of the Divine
government so monstrous, that to reconcile
, it with the principles of honor and right, and ;
i to justify the ways of God to man, it drives |
| its advocates to the supposition that men arc
i resuseit*t*d demons, and so tails t*ack upon
the legends ot heathens and baib trians.
“We believe in vital religion or the reli
gion of Hjt, as contrasted with that of trust
in hicraremes, establishments and traditional
formula* settled by the votes of wavering
mj .rittes in old counc Is and convocations.
‘ We believe in toangeUcal religion, or the
.chgion of ylud tiding*, iu distinction from
the schemes ttiat make our planet the ante
chamber of tiie mansions of eternal woe to
the vast majority of the men, women and
children that have lived and suffered upon
its surface.
“We believe that every age must judge
the Scriptures by its owu ll*bl ; and we
men by God s grace, to exercise that privi
le.-e, without asking perm ssion of Pope or
Bish p. or any other human tribunal.
“We believe that Sm is the much-abused
stCD-daughter of Ignorance, and this not
only from our own observation, but on the
authority of Him whose last prayer on earth,
as recorded by the G >od Ptijsician, wa-> that
the fierpetrators of the gieatest crime on re
| cord m ght be forgiven, for they kuew not
what tlwy were doing.”
g-gp* Remember your sins, to confess
I them ; your temptations, to guard against
them; and your obligations, thankfully to
acknowledge them.
, ur it was a prime joke of Canning’s,
wl i>, when told hy an eminent docor tliai
poverty was a virtue, remarked that be had
never known what mkiug a virtue ot ne
cessity meant till the...
Eels have i ecu a* >lined since Noah
’ .-auic out of the ark; and printers have
Oeeu cheated out of their j i-t dm s, evei
Slice ihe Or entnls printed with blot** *l
| wu ,*|- jit In it her and * the eels get used to
, being sk.need, nor the printeis to being
, fleec. and. Tbs argues great obstinacy ou the
• port of eels and pnuters.
MACON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1859.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
TOE’S I) A Y , Jf NE 7, Tc;>y.
I “ ‘
American teuir I txrrutive tomm.ttee.
A\ e this day publish a card from the gen
tlemen composing the Central Executive
I Committee of the American party of Geor
gia in reference to the subject of a State
Convention, and a general organization.—
The Committee have, very properlv, we
think, declined to call a convention of the
American party, and have considered their
duties, as a Committee, at an end. They,
however, suggest a convention of all oppos
ed to the present State and National Admin
istrations, to be held at Miilcdgeville, on the
3rd Wednesday of July, to take such action
as may bo deemed necessary. This recom
mendation will, we trust, be a sufficient call
for such a convention, as there is now no
other authority to make such a call, except
the general voice of the people as manifest
ed through the public press.
To the furtherance of the recommenda
tion, we take the liberty of suggesting
that there lx* a meeting of the citizens ot ;
Bibb County, on Saturday, the 18th of June,
at the Court House in Macon, at 11 o'clock,
A. M., for the purpose of appointing Dele
gates to thcjj’ongressional and State Con
ventions. This call embraces all who are
opposed to tlie State and National Adminis- j
trations, without respect to former political |
alliances.
Jack on Artille.y Company.
On Friday evening last, this new* Military
company was organized by the election ol
tlie following officers:
J. 11. Andrew-, Captain.
Then. Parker, Ist Lieut.
F. 11. Burghard, 2nd “
Geo. A. Dure, 3rd “
E. J. Jeffers, Ensign.
J. M. King, 1.-t Sergeant.
F. Herzog, 2nd “
C. Machold, 3rd “
A. A. Menard, 4th “
A. Kre*iz, Ist Corporal.
M. Barry, 2nd “
N. Binswauger, 3rd “
A. Munsch, Ith “
\N m. Cooper, Sec. & Treas.
This i- tlie otli Military company organ
ized in Macon, and makes tho Battalion
complete in each department, as follows:
Bibb County Cavalry, C'apt. Fitzgerald.
Floyd ftilles, “ Hardeman.
Macon Volunteers, “ Smith,
i Metropolitan Guards, “ Griffin.
Jackson Artillery, “ Andrews.
Who .-avs we are not a military people?
We wish them all the most unbounded suc
cess.
Tin* National Administration.
The Georgia Dem icracvare, at present, in
something of a stew, about tlie propriety ol
endorsing or ignoring the Administration of
President Buchanan, at the meeting of their
Gubernatorial Convention. The “Federal
Union” is in favor of endorsing, in general,
with perhaps one or two exceptions, while
some of the leaders of the party, “swear by
all the Gods at once,” that they will not
submit, either to an endorsement of the
Walker Kunsa- swindle and other acts ot
the National Administration, or to preier
mitting an expression of their full condem
nation of Buchanan. We shall soon set
how the matter will he settled, us the Con
vention will meet in a few days. Os course
their candidate for Governor must take
position on tbe platform adopted. We pre
dict, however, that as little as possible will
be said of National affairs, and ull stress
laid on those of State! Otherwise the nom
inee might find “Jordan a hard road to
travel,” in the coming canvass.
Another Sou h-rn Palace.
Our townsman, Win. B. Johnson, is like
ly to find a competitor in the South, in the
erection of his palatial dwelling. Col. J. A.
S. Ackien, of Mississippi, is about erecting
a private residence at bis plantation, oppo
site Red River landing, which is designed to
cost $169,009 —and $126,000 more for the
furniture and furnishing ! The following is
the plan of this immense edifice:
•Tne style of the edifice is castellated goth
ic, with a frontai?e on the river of 104 feet,
a depth on tin* two sides wings of 104 >eet.
and a centre compartment of 220 feet deep,
sunnouuted by a lofty anil beautifully pro
portioned tower. The budding will contain
50 rooms, exclusive of closets, b tth*ruoin-,
ward-robe.-, etc., spacious and ampiy provid
ed with all the modern improvements in
comfort and elegance. All the walls bf the
building are to be double, with air passage*
inside.”
Second District.
Gen. James N. Bethune, of the “ Corner
Stone,” Columbus, has announced himself i
u an independent “ Free Trade and Direct i
Taxation ” Candidate, for Congress, from |
the 2d District. He will take the stump on !
that issue before the people. Our contem
porary would make a good Representative, i
but he cannot, we think, have any great |
hope of election in opposition to the regular
Democratic candidate.
The If aeon & Brunsw ck Eai’rcad. I
We clip the following from the Brunswick
Herald, of last week. It is an instance ol
going from home to hear the news at home
—yea, verily !:
Macon Bronx wick Railr<>ad. —We un
derstand that contracts to grade about 23
miles of this Road have been made. Messrs.
Dean and Ralston take the contract through
tbe swamp on the west bank of the Ocinul
gee, about 7 miles, and the Messrs. Collins’
lt> miles from the east bank.
Lock Out !
The Savannah News says that more than
one thousand copies of the N. Y. Ledger are
’ taken in that city ! It also says that a late
number of the Ledger contains an editorial
unqualifiedly “commending Horace Greely,
the unprincipled and unscrupulous High
Priest of Abolitiondom !’’ This is a signi
ficant fact, and one that ought to bring a
blush to the cheek of every Southerner w , bo
pays his money for such literary trash as
that furnished by Bonner. How, we ask,
can the South ever expect to be any thing
else than “hewers of wood and drawers ol
water” to the North, when these Northern
Abolition papers are so liberally patronized,
at the expense of sound and able Southern
ournals !
State Aid Convention.
The first •• ednesday of August is the
time, and Atlanta fs the place, for holding
tho proposed Convention of the friends ol
•■state Aid to tlie Railroad system of Georgia.
From present appearances the Convention
will be a highly respectable one, not wit h
stunding the opposition to the measures pro
posed, by the mammoth Railroad corpora
tions of Savannah and Atigu-la.
This policy of State Aid was inaugurated
when the Western & Atlantic Railroad was
bu'it, and confirmed when the Main Trunk
Railroad charter was enacted. It is, there
fore, too late in the day, to object to a con
tinuance of the same policy, so long as a
large portion of the State is yet undevelop
ed. The iv/iole State has had to bear the
burdens of taxation arising from tbe con
struction of the Western & Atlantic Road,
and will have to bear the burden (if any) in
cident to tbe building of the Main Trunk.
Therefore, on the principle- of equity and
justice, the favored portions of the common
wealth, which hare pro fit ted, so vastly, by
the aid extended to tho Railroads named,
should be willing that other portions of the
State should receive the same attention.—
We do not believe that any 10-s is likely to
accrue to the State, from extending aid to
the important Railroad projects now on foot.
Let this be done on the safe principles laid
down in the Main Trunk charter, and the
result would be beneficial to the people, and
profitable to the State, by reason of the great
increase of taxable property and general
prosperity.
Above all, let those Railroad corporations
and those cities which have become wealthy
through the opening of the Western & At
lantic Railroad, as a mighty feeder to the
connecting lines terminating at Savannah and
Augusta, not he so selfish as now to deny
like privileges to those portions of the State
which are seeking aid from the Slate.
At all events, wc wish to see that Conven •
tion held, and we hope that every county in
the State interested in the subject will send
Delegates thereto, and some concert of ac
tion be determined on, before the ensuing
election. It is a question above party, and
we hope it will be discussed and decided on
its own merits, irrespective of political preju
dices or personal interests. The “greatest
good of the greatest number,” should be the
rule lo govern the Legislature in its action,
and we have confidence to believe they will
so consider the policy of State Aid when the
subject is brought before them.
We leyan Female C liege.
We have received the Annual Catalogue
of this Institution for 1858 and 1850, from
which we take the following summary:—
Senior Class, “4
Junior “ 10
Sophomore Class 35
Second “ 47
First “ 30
Partial Course, 0
Total, 173
The Annual ‘Examination of Cla-ses in
the Literary and Scientific Department, Ju
ly 4th—7th. Commencement Sermon, July
10th, by. Rev. Joseph S. Key. July 11th,
Kxamination in Ornamental Department,
and Junior Exhibition. Meeting of Board
of Trustees same day. July 12th and 13th
Commencement Exercises. July 13th, An
nual Addre.-s, by Rev. P. P. Neely, D. D.,
of Alabama. Oct. 3d, opening of next Ses
sion.
The Institution is in a very flourishing
condition, ns will be seen by the foregoing
statement of the number of pupils in atten
dance.
The Catalogue is a beautiful specimen of
printing, from the Job Office of L. H. An
drews, of this city, and fully equal in all re
spects to anything issued from the first class
establishments at the North.
i£ii|ti*t C hampion.
Our well beloved friend, Joseph Walker,
having been ousted out of his position as
Editor of the Baptist “Index,” has issued
proposals for publishing a jmperin Augusta
under tbe title of the “Baptist Champion.”
He thus set- up for himself, and as the
“ Champion ” avowedly of Baptism, not
Christianity ! Tlie mask being thrown aside,
he may be expected t<> “pitch in” without
any denominational trammels to interrupt
his bellicose propensities Well, let him
slide. As uncle Toby -aid 1 to the fly “Go
poor Devil, there is room enough in the
world for you and me.”
Vug nia Election.
The N. Y. Herald of the 27th ult., speak
ing of the Virginia elections, says, “the
Democracy have suffered a moral if not a
mortal defeat in the very Sebastopol of the
party.” The follow ing is the reason of the j
Herald for this result:—
“ V\ list bus bei-oo.e of that heavy Virginia i
majority of JO.UttO for Mr Buchanan ? And
how is it tlia', under the pr stige of that ma
jority, the party has failed to do a? much for
Mr. Letcl.er as they did for Mr. Wise ? The
reason is, that ever since Mr. Buchanan’s
e ection, the s* lfnh, plotting, and intriguing
politic ans of that party ha\eb“en at woik
mini’ g and counter mining, pi .tting and
counter plotting. North and South, against
the admuiisiration and utraiust each other
for the Charleston Convention and the spoils
and plunder, of the succession. Thus we
find the Democracy in both sections cut up
into c uflcuug factions and cl ques; and
thus, from the treacheries, riva ties, and hos
tile Presidential cliques in Vugnia, the < p
position have been encouraged to rise lor the
conquest of the State. If they have suc
ceeded, they owe their success to the de
moral zatious iu the Democratic camp ; but
if the opposition have failed, it is r.ec*ue
they have failed to appreciate and propeily
to appropriate the real weakae3s of their
adv:r=aiy.”
A*w tVI eat.
A car load of new wheat, from Calhoun
county, Ga., pas.-ed Atlanta on Friday last,
en route to New York, via Macon and Sa
vannah. It suffered no break of bulk, ou its
passage to Savauna.i,
A CARD.
To the American cf Geor ia.
The undersigned, your Central Executive
Committee, appointed by the Convention at
Milledgeville, in July, 1857, having been re
vested bv various American pre-scs and in
dividuals, to call a Convention of the Amer
ican party , according to usage, preparatory
lo a general re-organization for the ap
proaching fall elections—beg leave to an
nounce, that, after due consultation and de
liberation, they have deemed it advisable
not to call said Cone* ution.
Still true to our principles, and cherishing
the liveliest regard for their maintenance, we
nevertheless believe that there are other ob
jects to be accomplished, of much higher and
more pressing importance, than any ques
tions connected with the rights of foreign
citizenship.
There i- a party in power, composed of
tho worst elements of all parties, which, tin
ier the sanction of the Democratic name,
has committed unparalleled abuses and frauds
upon the American people.
It has perpetrated the Kansas swindle—
squandered the public money in the most
shameless manner—run up the national ex
penditures iu time of peace, t-o near 90 mil
lions of dollars per annum!—encouraged
ectional feuds for its own aggrandizement,
,and even connived at Mormon protection.’
Worst still—it has elected a o Abolition Gov
ernor over a Southern State!—a State, which
owe3 more to slavery than all the South be
sides—having acquired riches and power by
the professional business of breeding slaves
for sale.
Tho-e are some of the enormities which
have recently leen covered by the sanctions
of the modern Democratic party.
To hurl this corrupt party from power is
now the highest duty of every good citizen ;
aud to accomplish this noble purpose, we are
willing to ignore, for the time, all questions
of minor importance.
Trusting in the good sense and patriotism of
our countrymen, we are satisfied that the
evils connected with the naturalization ofior
eigriers, will in due time be correcteu. And
here we rest the subject.
W enow call upon our American friends
everywhere, to unite with the Opposition,
against this spurious Democracy. Let us
make a common cause ; together, with Con
servative Whigs and Independent Demo
crats, make a bold descent upon the spoils
men and together share iu the honors of vic
tory.
Already the good sense of conservative
men throughout the length and breadth of
the land, has revolted at the misdeeds of the
modern Democratic party; and many who
once adhered to it as the only conservative
national party, have left it in disgust. Vir
ginia, the nursing mother of Democratic
statesmen and Presidents, is giving way !
Tennessee and Kentucky are expected soon
to follow with still more decisive result-, —
and Georgia, upon whose patriotism and ex
ample, the whole South relies, will not fail
to thunder her indignation into the ears of
her betrayers.
Let us then organize— organize, is the
word.
The newspapers have suggested the hold- ,
ing of an Opposition Convention, in Mil
ledgeville, on the 3d Wednesday in July
next. Wecordially endorse that suggestion,
and urge our friends in eveny county to send
up their delegates. Let them send their
best and most experienced men, without re
spect to political antecedents, provided, they
arc known to be opposed to the party in
power;—and our word for it wo shall be
able to organize such a party’, as will not
only correct all local abuses, but rout the
plunderers, und save the National Govern
ment of our Fathers from demoralization
and ruin. J. 11. R. WASHINGTON,
J. W. A. SANFORD,
J. M. CALHOUN.
FOSTER BLODGETT. Jr.
Opposition Presses, please copy.
“Takf the Beam out of Thine own Fye.*’
Mr Editor :
The Richmond Examiner, (Va.) of the
31*t May, says, the Opposition party is made
up of “odds aiul ends, shreds and patches,
blackspiritsnnd gruy, disaffected Democrats,
disappointed office-seekers, Whigs, Know
Nothings and lilack Republicans.” Well
let us see of what materials the Democratic
party is composed. Heads and tails, long,
boh and short—black, red and blue spirits—
disaffected Know Nothings, disappointed
office-seekers, Whigs, Abolitionists Free
booters, public robbers, public plunderers
and pap-suckers. “They have neither prin
ciples nor prrty names in common.” In
New York they call themselves Jeffersonian,
squatter sovereign, Douglas Democrats. In
New York “ the strength of Dead Rabbits
enables them still to rejoice in the name of
Douglas squatter sovereigns.” In Massa
chusetts they are Hallet Democrats, alias
Abolitionists. In Virginia they call them
selves States rights Democrats and elect an
Abolitionist to the office of Governor. In
Pennsylvania they are Forney Democrats—
that means opposition to Slavery and its
extension. In Georgia they are neither
Don glas, nor Buchanan Democrats, though
I believe they are Van Buren Democrats.—
The Examiner ought not to complain and
talk about the Opposition party affiliating
with Giddings, Hale and Cos., now. and in
1860, while his party has been, since 1864,
living in close communion with, and fimly
allied to the Dixs, Forneys Cochranes Van
Burens Redflelds, Hal lets, and many other
Abolitionists “shoulder to shoulder” with
them against the rights of the South in the
Teiritories. HAYNE.
jggf* The Democracy are r.joicirg over
the supposed fact that Montague, their can
didate for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia,
i has been elected by a very large mrj >riy.
They are we'come 10 all lhe iatisfactkm tlrey
can derive from that fact, hut they shal
n>>t forget that during the canvass Mr. Mon
tague Raid:
/ voted for Bn than an on the Cincinnati
Platform hut he ha* deceived me - he is </ trai
trr io his pa ty ad so help me my Creator,
111 never vote for hnn oguiu.
• Put that in your pipe, gentlemen.
From the Sumter Republican.
A DIICIJSSIO A
OF THE
CGCTF.IKE OF UHIVERSAUIM
BKVWKEX
Rev. IF. J. Scott, Methodist, and Rec. D. B.
Clayton, Universatist.
Rn. I). 1). Claytau:
Dear Shi —h lies been a stand : ns* rule of
my short mini-ten*! fife, to hew*re <*f en
franc** into a The**l* g* *l quarrel. 1 b*ve
b**en tl u- f •titearuiL', tr dt-cre* t (ir you pre
fer ihe *em) f airily becao-e I have ‘p v
little likii g!• r Mich a oolites', bur chi* fly
lor tli* r*H*i*n i 1 at the interests of truth are
not. always i>rom**t* and l>y rai gbng and it s
p tation, • ovvev* r s Ber’yamt horie-tlv **oll
- In departing Irom this esta>*l sh**d
rule, I have yielded 1.. what I rpg.tde.l n
pres, nt neeos-ity. Wfe th* rI l ave e:r*d or
not ill tt i- opii ion, n ill bes. eu l>v the re
suits a* and b armys * f the present *-ontr*oer
cy. Now however, tint is-t.e i- j * ne.l b—
tvwi 11-, I-hail eari.es’!y end* i.v**r so to
conduct n.v [tot of the ands n—ion. a* <o se
cme ti e ai p <*ba'ion, f nor tlie final v* r*t cr
of our inutii I read* rs. L**t if nev* ithel ss
t*ewell mn'eistood at lie- p* oi', that t e
present cotite-r i*-o't uthing more set ions
than a match with lo 1-. 1 adv rtt-e volt
and the reader, that w l.ih* I will, ‘n no* vent,
infringe up *n the courtesies of debate, 1
shall not at the same time -n*re that system
of d* elfin* s which you have uidctaken to
defend. My < punoti of that sv- etn is not
fo* in* and from h* *f-ay, nor it f. un n*d upon ;
e ticatinnal pr judu * s, hm it is denied fr< rn
a toler bly di rnuyh acquaintance withy'*nr
Standaul writers, anti frm a rar.-fi ! study
of its history anil practical wo kings, both in
England and America. At and the * onclns on
f<ncod upon my mit dhy p evicts- mv* s'lga
t on is, that the system is not only a demoral
ize g sy-tem, but, that it can onlv he sus- ■
tallied bv a pa pibe wrestin g < f the Scrip
tures. Thus, he i* vitig s 1 ito, with a l
my heart, 1 should lie remain to my m n
isterial v.*w, toberiiiige-.it “td bamsti all
strange doctrine and hmsy,” did I nor,
when* ver opportunity offers, do my utmost
to dnve this system and its advocates to the
wall.
Perhaps I ought to sav, fe-t I b** misun
derstood, that when I speak of (ii** demor
aliz ng influence < f the system. I sp**; k <,f
its general tendei ci*>. I do not question
that there are examples of piety amongst
those ho'ding the doctrine of the final sdva
tion of all men, and even some (fits related
doctrines. There are peculiar physical c >n
-1 solutions that res sr. the action of virulent
j I ois ns, and so too there are individur.l
j minds that withstand the destructive influ
ence ol religious error. Paganism, you ate
wel apprised, had its S icmt*-?, and Ronian
i ism can boast of the piety ot Pascal and
F- nelon. but it is none the less true that both
the one aud the oil er, are the “doctrines of
the Devils. Wr- s[, a ,l have more to say,
however, on the practical wcek'n g- of Uni
versali-m, at a fuiuie stage oi the di~eii--ion,
ami for the present, stay our hand as tothat
point.
We proceed now to nu examination of
your main p:op* sitioii, and the p-oofs aud
atgumen's you burg to its support. Y- ur
propositi n is that “th** .Scriptures teach the
‘doctrine of the final salvation rs ah m n ”
This you mmcriit*!y explain by -aying that
you do not believe mat men are to tie saved
j m their sins, and ymi repudiate, with com
; metidable zeal, the notion that men can Le
happy excep’ they are fi -t holy. We ere
pleased to See ih it nlft nnivr is-'i-m is at a
discount at other place? bes des B<>-t*’tl. B it
let me remind you that with yc r p'*s*nt
v ews vour riincla’iner 19 worth v* rv 1 til*
The doctrine ttmt tun wilt be s,.v*-d with* tit
j holiness, horn winch your mind so ju.-tiy
n volts, and which md- ed sfe-ek- the r. iii
’ men sense (if mankind, is a logical conse
| queiice of jo ur sys'ein, and 1- not 10 In*
‘got ml ol by ad sclaimer, Wc sha 1 :
j liold you to it in the progre-s <f th s
i d'SCUSsion, and. spite al <f your stnieidiutrs
10 tie delivered from its festering “ body of |
death.’
T king vour propn?i*b n how ever ns you
have s’a'ed it, li >w do yon prove <1 to e-ta
bli-h ns truth You anduc- your lir-t
proof lext Mu'aclii, 4it chapter, a"d Ir,
ver-e. ‘T r hchohj tie day • nuill- that
sli 1 bur n a an nv n,’’ \ our cjo g< si- 1
of itiis passage w i.'d tie a nm- r i<ble one
it it were not of piece with U’ iv--rsli"*t
• xposdious g* neial'y. You ass* it that the
destruction here pre uct. and, D to he accom
plist cd during the MessUmu renin of Clm-t,
anil that as we cannot. regard the anmhita- ,
lion if ibe wicked to be intended by the
♦ xi'rest-ions “‘bun them ip —leave them
millmr ioo f nr branch.” ergo it is a desti nc
tion of iheir .s ins that, is meant. And the
whole threatening of the inspired Prophet,
according to the interpretation, amply
amounts to tins, that the waked are io he
puig-d of their sins as a refiner if silver
W"iiid purge a halt’ do 1 *r of our current sil
ver com of it-* five pc rent alioy. This is
vour a: giimeDt 111 H lillt-sbell. W e w ill not
brand ibis interpretation as a “deceitful ban i
hng” <d tiie word if God, for we gVe you
credit i'-r candor, hut v do say it i- a most
t limderii'g • xpi ‘-ition f *r a Master in Israel.
Imbed and >s about as p eposterous a to ir
lather Murray’s exp .“Un.n oi the 25th cbp.
of Matthew, iu winch he made the siiep
there spoken of the sinner,*and the goats
the sin j , which he hdcommitted, and there
upon s* tit the foi rner into eternal life, and the
latter into ever'asting pun sbment. Tins, it
was w ell said hv another Univ. rs;hst
Preacher, “was like a Sheriff who should
allow the criminal to escape, Hut, very grave
ly present the coat’s the guilty to the Court,
with a request that it nuitht be tried and
punished.” 1 think yotir exposition of Mai
acid ot.ly provides for the punisi.meTit of the
<ioat oi tl e criminal, wh !e it permits the
off nder to go on whipped of justice. But
badinage ap„rf—what is the teaching of your
firs’ proof text. It clearly refers, we ihh k,
to the day of final retribution when Go 1
sha 1 reward every man according to the
deeds in tlm body. The litter part of the
tin eg’ iing chapter corroborates this view—
| tie , say.sM.Uchi, •'.-hall ve discern betw. en
ihe righteous and the wicked, then shall tlie
-eetning irregularities of the Divine Adtrrn
i istration be explained at;d rect fiod. ‘ For
| heboid the day cometli, k'C The same
material emblem is employed here as in
other passages of Fcrintur*-s, such a- “fim-
J mg fire,” “unquenchable fire,” “fiery indig
nation,” the same doom of the waked,
‘leave them neither root mar branch,” an
i - weiing to Paul's “ever! .siing destruction.”
: The fact that John tins Bept S’ was to pre
-1 cede this gr.-at day of h s wrath .iceshit af
tect the argnnieni in the least. We admit
; that some t m hem C ninieritatnrs, anengst
j them Dr. A’ am Cla.Tve, rfir ‘his passage
| p'imat dy to the destruction ul J’ rural, m by
i lie R'lnan aiumesr. If we w. re to adopt
I ihiS ViyWr, your doctrine Would i Ot b* helped
jhy it. F-r asil en theCi."V.it s allescaja-d
to pelfa, in < el. Syria, v. lids’ tie tcgody
Jws pet Mil red to’ the i umber of Vm
i Ituiubeil tt on ami, 8 > Wi 1 |I be in tin I ‘Vav
I ch ;hall bern as ao oveu.” Gcd wul
NUMBER 11.
spare his servants as h Father th~ sn that
serve:h him, hut al that art* proud mi <1 do
wickedly sha 1 he burnt up wiih nr q temdia
blf fi-e. E tber < frhe foregoing ejv.i siihih
will satisfy tie nece-sith-s of inv iuyiitiie.il,
1 and they are both opposed t< • y >ur inda
proposition. What then becomes .i’ the <ii~
1 inma which y>*u labored to budd on this
prss ge of Maiacht. It seems to ne\ and -o
it will str the impartial read) r, th*t y u
are in the condition of an engineer who is
hosted bv his own p“tnrd—or * f th*i other
class desct bed bv Divici who are ‘‘snared
in ttie wot k of their ow I* hand.-.”
Yotirtnxt arvumeht for the doctrine f
universal slv ion, yon b> s eon a cia’- of
pa-8-ges which HS-elt that God Will I e ward
very mull neo.rdinw to Ins and chs. Weiuive
noth Ip to o'j ct 0 I'iese SetljlMms Ae-
Cord hp to your tl e !ogy, th-y t.-.cb . h*l .• il
m n will be raved, bu< * cvt• 1 1 iiir to the 8,-
hl , they tea- h that in ST etne-s, lima
WII le ‘MV* d — f r, I (J'lireS a>C ed Winter,
‘‘lt tI on, oh L -r.', ikoifdst m. k ii icj itv,
who should sand?” Ji Imn forced to and
e red it your mci.lv In.man reasono g-. ortno
tfai mm s < f tt eri >• I o sp k • i a th* v w ere
111 Veil I y the I!o'y G ‘ ’St. I sllou -I ll* t lot P
h state i.s t<i ihe | r per course. lie n< and
those scr pi in is, s,,fti I rout sh.-t .ininp y..ur
Vl’ WS. Olive n- Id I tie cot chislori rhm tl • ie
iiiiist he an ittortetne-’f tor us, that C!irf ; t
must tiC'ime a propitiation tor <>t)r M's, i (
‘hat God ITItV be just atid the jusl.fi | of
him that b“tieveth in J.-su*. An- hence out
only liope and p'ea a* trinity mm cm t-, that
Cmtst, w. sa- cursed for our s; ke-, and “l e r
tnr sins in his own body on He tie.’ I
dare Say voti do not relish there cm fu
sion-, but I can arme at no other front the
preims* s.
Afer a very brief censi oration of she
class ot Scrip l tires just relerieu t ■. \on wan
der off into an elaborate dequjsi ion on the
nature of sin. Ido not allow ihaf the con
troversy between list hi lives up n that polinj
hui 1 do regard ptoper view 3 of ti e nature
id sin as of social mnorimee to my future
argument. 1 sha 1 then fore devote u pood
deal of my remaining space tu ttie cinsid- ra
tion < f that topic.
In your rematks on the infinite nature r f
sin you assert that the ot ihidi x creeds each
that >in is infinite. This is not cottec. In
none of theorihid >X cieeda that I have t x
amiued is that doctrine proposed as an ani
e!e ot Fait't. Pet haps you intend'd t> say
that the it finite nature of sin s in imaii cd
by the imjoiity of our standard wiitets
This is cortect: but then th re is a nmdl
minority, le-pectMble for position and talei i=,
wfio take a different view. I mention this
In cause it is important that vc* should he
accurate in our statement, of facts. Y. u
commit a similar blunder when you assert,
as you do, in the same counts ton, that the
doctrine of endless punishment is founded
upon the infinite nature of sin. S > far fam
this being the c-se, we can ni-p* use entirety
with the doctnue of the infinity ol sui.—
End ess punishment is cc.nsuleied by nun y
Theof pians, as “consisting of m iufinjn s* ra a
of sufferings, for an infi .ite s-rmsot nans
gres ions, as an eternal punishment cot se
quent upon an eternal impendent y. A man
dies in the very act if sinairp, niter* the
spilt woild with au u untie wed heart, mid
there continues to sin forever, and as a con-
Srquti.ce, to suffer tot ever. But are you
sure even that endless punishtm nf is ol ue
ecs-ity infinity punishment. Infinite, ac
cording to your ov. n statement, is that which
does not admit cf increase. Without this,
your illustration of ti e hoy He. i'ng a pi-',
and the cr me of the murderers of the L id
ol Glory, would have no force orp rtnenoy.
Is it title then that the lowm-ins oft! e
dainued as ienrcsemerl by those wli< in Viinr
writers ai.d spe*ke'sst'gtnatzc as *‘b hwl< rij
ot dainnation,” cannot be mereas*-* ? A'O
ih’ re no oilier plagues snd fn ry j'ldgnicptf
in me Treaauiy f Divine wrii, ? A1 /ht
not tfiere be in the luw st deep, a yet lowcp
deep? Wc suggest thc-e tin 11-lils to show
you that if you emild su c< e<l in < oil g v. h* t
none of your writers have e er done, vz;
di-[ rove me it ti hy of su. it w.-nld not
niHicri lly ell - el eiiiier lie eer plural or the
m ual argi m nt fi>r endless punisbii -cut.—
Whi e it is not true then ib t ihe i u e-f
e .ib S- pumshmeiif rests < n tl em tj- ri . f ihe
li fimte ua'treo sm, it is tnia tl at R*-sn'ra
tion ists, ill'll Relit-Ulpl U ‘tils'", Ul aria IS,
aiu ii d'c i UiJivei-b.-'i <f eve. yso q>-,
have b..d inaib quale Vie VVS I 1 I lie * X>.‘eei ,i g
siulii ness of sin. Fmu the days •ftl at
P atoiiifii g and v tie Ongm, down to V and ■ r,
G. oig Rogers nittl Ho-, a Bn'lou, all < ffot fc
Ins beeu niade to Destroy tin- moral ergti
menc :or endless punisi.ment l y lessen as*
the dement of huuiau transgression. And
ih s is manifestly the dnit o’ )our >pe.u!a
tioi s oil the nature of sin. It is and. s iablo
lh> telore ibat we have right vi< w* on tl: t
jaiint. *‘W can n ver measme the in gni
tii'le us human traisgr.s K,n *aya Richard
li Xler, “unless we re piejime . to appreci
ate the infinite hoixe-S and goodms-ot the
law-giver, and ihe maichl.s- * x--Ib-nov of
the law wlitili is tran.-gies-e l.” N- w there
is a udficulty in this arising from Ihe I inii'-ii
nature of our faculties, hum tlie bltndies- <.f
the hiiu.au um'ersiHi.dmg, and e-p. cial y
ltom the depravity of the human h.aif, aid
yet it is lioni these partial and ciic<.ms.-i bed
views ol the ev.l of sin that men tall inlo
error in reference to the mode and measure
of Its pumshmeut. lice couplet has h.come
aphoristic.
That no thief e’er felt the halter draw,
With a good opinion of tliy law.
And indeed we night not to-he surprised
that the culprit is not in all icsj.ev.-is lined to
pas® ujHin the merits of tLe code that oni
stgns him to a State Prison or to the tender
mercies of the c< uimnn lat gm.tn. The
moral of this is that we should be .. ry cau
tious and very modest m our j cdgmei.t of the
Divine admiuisTat’oii.
Ti;e Bibb, bowt ver, has cot left us with
out light with retcr-nce to tlie enoum.us
evil of sin. she plan if the a'onen.em is a
standing testimony to its unspeakable em r
mity. Consider the piiie of redemption,
tne t.lood of the incarnate Bon oh God.—•
Was it, we inquire, & “mere fia.liy” ‘t has
been charactei zed, which made Jehovah s
fellow humble himself to the death of the
cross? Many of yonr writers, to cany t a
foicc of the argument, have denied the I i
vitnty of Christ, and indeed this set ms to
me the only con-i-tent course. But once
more, that we may have ju-t views <4 thu
; ,>vil of sin, Consider the uumense c.iiisequ u
-1 ces that l.dtow from it. The Ea'th is imt
! , nore f u !l of ihe goodness of the Li rl,ih .a
it is of the ravages of rin. Originating n
the veiy infancy of inati’s history, it b.s
| been iraii-uoite.l from sire to son, af and turn
geueraiiou to germ ration, and for we
ran discover, will reach on through the com
ing centuries, until it culminates m ti c hor
rors of an endiess perdition. F r tms tne
old world wa desnoy.d by deluge— lor
tins tbe iut a* itants ot Sodom and t.onior
rah, acid Admah, and Z boim are “set f nth
for an exxinj.le, sufl-rmg llie vengeance oi
ETIUNAL fire**—for liiis ill'* Hl'g’ is il.’ c.'l’t’
lot ill. II fi st .Mate, are rese. Vcd n everl'sf.
i„g ehaii s,” ai.d tt-can-M. .4 ft# si ft tne
i Apostk* Peter, “the heavens and the •ruth