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th** now are kept in store for the day of
and the perdition ot uiig.aily
men ” Now sir, look these o*>ns**q-iences iu
the face, and tell me whether sin be milult*,
and wheiher it may not deserve all the pains ‘
aud penalties of eternal damnation. To pre
vent the spreading of such a moral pest,,
lem-e, the Almighty Governor of the Uni
verse is in duty bound to adopt the
most stringent measures against the sin
ner, no matter how stringent, so tht y are
effectual
B- fore disnrssing this question as to the
infinite evil of sin, and before lringng my
article to a close, I have a scripture to bring
to your notice, i refer to th** 22 i chapter ol
Job and 5 h verse, where El phaz says to
Job, “Is not thy wi.-kedness great? and
thine iniquities infiniteV’ Here is at least
one paa-age that asserts the infinity of sin.
I aniicpaie your reply. It will be either
that infinite is here employed in a hyperbol
ical sense as in the prophecy of Nahum, or
else according to Ballou, that these were
amongst the foolish words for which God
rebuk-d E iphaz. It is easier to as sett either
of these propositions than to prove them.—
At any ratp, if you will bring a solitary pts
sage that asserts as unequivocally that all
men will be saved,ho matter whether spoken
by El'pfaaz or Elibu, or Maher shalal-hash
bz, we prom ; s thereupon to quit the field.
After you have disposed of tliat passage from
Job, we propose the annexed problem for
solution. You are compelled to take one of
two groundsin regard to the nature of Christ,
that he ws an infinite l<eing, or else that he
was finite like oureelves! If you adopt the
former, it proves to a demonstration i hat one
sin is infinite, for it c- -st the life's blood ol
the Son ol God to destroy it, ami even iheu
there must be added to f his infinite remedy,
the co operating of the finite power of man.
anil c >ns quently if one sin is so mu h more
than i .titme that it requires an infinite and
fl ute exertion combined *o overcome i‘, how
much more than finite would be teu thou
sand crimes or a whole life time spent in re
bellion against G>al This sum may oewoiked
by the rule ot three, and you can state it
thus; A? one sin is to fi ilte power over amt
above infinity; so are 10,000 sin?, to the an
swer. Snnuid you take the other ground,
that Christ was a finite being, tneu it p-oves
that a finite being can perform a siugle act
witch wilt have not only mm infinite and
endless iff ct, but still produce ihai • licet in
millions ot ca-es so that li men w.H oe eter
nally saved by his dra'h 1 Now if one findr
act can produce effi-ots equal io millions ot
infinities, what amount of cot.s*-quem-e wil
teu thousand finite acts piisluce? This sum
can also be ciphered ut by the same rul
and according to the same statement.
We have picked up the-e prob'ems in th
course if our reading, and won! i he
glad to see them s Ived by a Uuiversali-t.
Tnev are at least a lair s*-i off to your row
of fi/ures, ‘‘long enough to encircle the
Glebe.”
I shall not in this number notice the mis
takes you commit in regard to the relation
between the pardon and punishment of sm
They are but of little coos* queue* in th
present State of the discussion. I promise,
however, in ‘‘due sea Boo” to show that yai
views upin lh<>se subjects are as untenable
as with reference to the nature and evil ol
■in.
Yon will discover that I have confined
my leply toau elimination ol the texts ad
arguments that you have adduce I in support
of y* ur proposition that alt men will be
savrd. When you shall have had a reasons
ble time to finish your Affirmative argument
I shall then proceed to establish that the sys
tem of Universal ism is unscriptara>, and
that its practical bear ings are in the main
disastrous to the inteiests of true piety.
Rssepeciful v, yours,
W. J. SCOTT.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 18th, ’59.
Rev. W. J. Scott:
Dear Sir—As I am so situated
that it is not probable that I can see your
reply to my first communication in time to
write my second, so as to have it appear in
the issue succeeding the issue in which yours
will appear, and as I have plenty of affirm
ative arguments to fill more space than I
shall be able to occupy, you must excuse me
for writing this, without waiting for the
appearance of yours. I shall now proceed
to offer further scripture arguments in fa
vor of the final salvation of all men. The
next class of proof text*, which 1 introduce,
afford, it is freely granted, in advance, only
a negative kind of testimony ; but yet that
testimony is of a character which should
give it great weight with all those who be
lieve in the endless existence of the spiritual
nature of man. I present you now with a
class of passages which negative the endless
continuance of inflictions which God impl
ies upon transgressors for their wickedness.
In the 15th qbapter of Isaiah God call- up
on the Jews to ‘‘draw near hither, ye sons
of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer
and the w hore ; and ask them : “ Against
whom dove sport yourselves ? against whom
make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the
tongue? are ye not children of transgres
sion, a seed of falsehood, inflaming your
selves with idols under every green tree,
slaving the children in the valleys under th
cliffs of the rocks!” see verses 3—5 of the
chapter. Here this wieked nation is eharg
ed with the most heinous offences known to
the Bible. They even slew their children in
their horrid idol worsh p, which double
crime of idolatry and infanticide was strict
ly forbidden ia that law which had been de
livered them amidst the thunders and light
ning of Mount Sinai. Os what greatei
abomination, and blacker crime could they
possibly have been guilty? We can con
ceive of nothing more horribly wicked.—
Certainly if there ever was a nation whose
iniquities cried to Heaven for the outpour
ing of God’s weightiest vengeance this wa
thai very nation. By looking into the his
tory of God's dealings with these idolatrous
infanticides we find that he did punish them
severely; but after all, he declares in tin
16th verse of this chapter: ‘‘For I will noi
contend forever, neither will I always la
wroth : for the spirit should fail before me
and the souls which 1 have made.” Yes,
God declares : “For the the iniquity of hi.
covetousness was I wroth, and smote him :
I hid me and was wroth, and he went on
fro ward ly in the way of his heart. ’ Bu
notwithstanding God has thus dealt with him
for his heinous crimes, yet he declares: “ 1
have seen his ways, and will heal him: 1
will lead him also and restore com forts unto
him and to his mourners.” How different
is this from the assertions of those who
teach that murderers and idolaters deseive,
and shall endure endless punishment? God
saves the most abandoned. The believers in
endless torture, under a mistaken notion ot
whtt justice requires. turn them over toen Uess
burnings. \\ hat God declares as the result
of hu dealings with idolatrous, child-murder
ing Israel. Jeremiah, hi* inspired pru ,,het,
declares in referance to the “children of
men,” generally or universally. He says:
“For the Lord will not cast off forever: but
though He cause grief, yet will he have com
passion according to the multitude of his
mercies; for he doth not afflict willingly
nor grieve the children of men.” ,See :Bam.
3; 31—33. These two passages, as well as
others that might be quoted, disprove most
positively, the idea that God will inflict end
less pain for the blackest crimes know n to
his \V ord. What then will he do with the
wicked, that is, all men: “for all have sin
ned and come short of the glory of God,”
says Paul, Romans S, 23? With us there is
but one alternative, denying as we do
the doctrineof annihilation. If God does not
cast men off forever in their sins, he must
save them from their sins. This bein -so
I conclude that these passages of scripture
“teach the final salvation of all men.”
The next proof texts I offer are those
which teach the destruction of mans ene
mies. Merely calling your atteution, with- J
out quoting them, to Heb. 2, 14. which teach- J
es the destruction of the devil: and to 1 I
John 3.8, which teaches the detraction of
his works, unless Christ’s mission shall prove
a fai.ure, I must ask you to ptuse with me
at Paul's language as recorded 1 Cor. 15; 26.
As King translators have given us
tLis verse, it roads: “The last enemy that I
shall be destroyed is death.” Thus render
ed, it loaves room for the supposition that
after the destruction of death, some other
enemy may remain. But leaving out the
words which the translator supplied, it leaves
no room for such an idea. A? Paul wrote it j
he affirms that death is the last enemy, and
death shall be destroyed, what will remain
to mar the happiness of man ? I must con
fess that I can conceive of nothing. AVhat
ever is opposed to holiness in man is an en
emy to him But the last enemy’ shall be
destroyed : and therefore nothing opposed to
holine?? will remain. What then must lie
come of man, when his last enemy is de
stroyed ? When all hi? enemies are de
stroyed he must be in a saved condition;
and hence I must conclude that, when
all enemies are destroyed, all men will be
saved.
But I will come now to that, kind of scrip
ture testimony which is plain and direct in
its nature, and which most directly and pos
itively establishes the final salvation of all
men, unless it can lie shown that the lan
guage is to be restricted to less than its plain
and obvious meaning. Before I proceed to
the introduction of this direct testimony, al
low me a few words in reference to the best
manner of arriving at a correct understand
ing of the true meaning of this language ot
the scriptures. lam about to introduce a
number of texts from the scriptures, to prove
the final salvation of all men. in which I
shall rely, as one great leading feature of the
nature of their testimony, upon the univer
sality of the language employed. Before
this discussion is through with, you will in
troduce passages in which you think the un
limited duration of punishment is establish
; *-d bv the meaning of the words used to ex
press the nature of that punishment. Now
it is very evident that the language intro
duced on the one side or the other must lie
limited in signification. The final salvation
of all mn, and the endless punishment of
some men cannot both be true. Suppose
now I introduce that passage which says:
•For it pleased the father that in him should
fall fullness dwell; and, having made
peace through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcile all things unto himself, by him,
I say, whether they be things in earth, or
things in Heaven.” Col. 1: 19, 20. And
suppose that, instead of meeting me in a
discussion of the sue meaning of the lan
guage of my proof text, you introduce Mat.
25; 40: “And these shall go away into ev
erlasting punishment; but the righteous in
to life eternal; ” what have we accomplish
ed ? Why, we have simp!?! arrayed one
passage of God's word against another, just
as though his word was a bundle of contra
dictions. If the phrase all things, in my
proof text, includes all men; and if to re
concile to Got/, is synonymous with sav
ing, then my text in reality does teach the
••final salvation of all men,” and your text
cannot teach the endless punishment of a
portion of the human race, unless there is a
pointed contradiction in God's word. We
arc alike interested in so explaining the
scriptures as that their teachings shall har
monise. How then is the harmony to be
I produced between the two passages referred
!to ? Why, you must be able to so explain
my passage to show that its teachings har
monise with the doctrines of endless punish
ment; or I must be able to so explain yours
as that to show that its teachings harmonise
with the doctrine of the “final salvation of
all men.’’ By what shall we be guided, then,
in our investigations on this subject? Bish
op Horne lays down ten rules of interpreta
tion, by which be says we should be guided
in our investigations of the scriptures.—
l have them not now before me; and if I
had it would not lie necessary to transcribe
them. I recollect that in one of them he
j tells us that we should take into account the
character of the author of any book that we
may wish to arid the tenth, and
the last one is, that before we decide on the
meaning of any pas-age, so as to attempt to
establish anv doctrine by it, we should be
very certain that our interpretation does n>t
contradict natural reason. Natural reason,
and the character of God, then, I take as
my compass and chart in all my investiga
tions of llis word: and I always endeavor
to put that construction upon its language
which harmonizes with his character, and
with that natural reason for which, as well
as his word, I am indebted to hint.
We are told by all biblical critics, I t>c-
I tieve, that the language of the scripture is
| to Ik* taken in its plain and obvious mean
j ing, unless there are good and sufficient rta
: jous for departing from that meaning. Since
i have quoted Col. 1; 10, 20, I will let it
stand as the first direct proof text; and I
ask what is its plain and < bvious meaning,
i'he declaration of the A[ostle is very ex
! plicit that it is God s pleasure to reconcile all
j hings onto himscif, by Jesus Christ. Is it
i not obvious to every one that reconcilation
| .o God places him who is thus reconciled in
a state of salvation ? And is it not also ob
j vious to every one that tile phrase all things
, includes all men ? Most assuredly both of
I iliese positions are obvious to every one pos-
I sessed of common understanding. Such be
ing the case, the plain and obvious meaning
of my proof text is, that it is God's pleas
ure, by Christ, to save all men. Can any
good and sufficient reason he given why this
plain and obvious meaning should be ignor
ed ? If so, where is the reason to be found?
Is there anything in the context by which
we are required, or by which we would even
| be justified, or excused, for restricting the
meaning of the phrase alt thing e, o as to
make it include only a part ot the human
’ race ? Let us see. In verse 15 we are twice
told that all things were created by him,
with the additional assurance, connected
with the reiteration of this fact, that all
things were created for bin. Nothing ere
ated it seems fur the devil. Verse 17 says .
“And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist. - ’ You are aware, my dear
sir, that the original words which are ren
dered all thing# in the 16th ami ITtli verses,
are the same that are rendered all things in
j verse 20. So, it appear* that we must trav
i el away from the immediate context of my
proof text, before we can find even an ex
cuse behind which to shield ourselves for at
tempting to so limit the phrase, all things,
as to make include only a portion of the hu
man family. Whither shall we turn then
in st-Hrch of a good and sufficient reason for
I departing from the plain and obvious mean
ing of the language employed by Paul in
ibe passage under consideration ?
| Shall we turn to the character of him who,
through Jesus Christ, gave Paul a direct
i r ‘ - ’ elation of gospel truth ? What do we
find in his character, as revealed in his sa
;cred volume, or'portrayed in hig dealings
with bis erring and sinful creatures, to re
require us, when he has given us a plain and
distinct declaration of his pleasure to recon
cile all things unto himself, to put such in
terpretation upon hi* language as to make it
teach the final reconciliation of only a part
of our fallen race ? Shall we appeal to his
infinite justice, and assert that this attribute
of his nature requires him to place a portion
of his creaui re# in on of hopeless ir
remedial wretchedness in the immortal world
for the transgressions in this life? What!
infinite justice require the Creator, with
boundless resources at his command: with
infinite wisdom to so arrange his plans as
that not one jot or title of the whole shall
| fail to operate for the accomplishment of
I his grand and glorious design ; with omnip
otent power to carry out the plan which his
infinite wisdom designed, over the head of
all opposition ; infinite justice, require such
a being as this to create untold millions of
rational beings, and to endow them with such
a constitution as he foresaw should infalli
bly lead them, surrounded by the circum
stances with which he was about to surround
them ; into a state of rebellion against him
self, and for being just what he foresaw they
would be, to plunge them into acondition of
endless sinning and suffering in a future
state of being? If infinite just'ee requires
this, what would infinite injustice and infin
ite cruelty require ? Surelv they could not
require anything worse than this. No, jus
tice does not require any such course of pr*>-
eedure. But if justice does not require it,
what other attribute of the Creator’s nature
does require it? Surely it cannot be for one
moment maintained that goodness, or mercy
could require such a course of procedure up
on the part of Jehovah. So. On the con
trary these attributes all demand with uni
ted voice that God shall continue the work
of reconciliation until, in accordance with
his g<*od pleasure as declared by Paul, he
-hall “reconcile all things unto himself.”—
Thus we sec that the context and thecharac
ter of God unite in requiring that the lan
guage of the passage under consideration,
should be taken and understood in its most
obvious import, and hence I conclude that
said passage teaches “the final salvation of
all men.”
But how is it with the language of Matt.
25; 46, and the few other passages which
speak of the duration of punishment ? In
the first place it is a debateable question
wnether the plain and obvious meaning of
the word which is rendered everlasting in
Matt. 25; 46, is that of endless duration.—
But passing that by for the present, and
granting for the sake of the argument, that
such is the plain and obvious import of the
word, are there not obvious and good rea
sons for departing from this meaning when
we find it, in a few instances, applied to pun
ishment ? It strikes me there are.
In the first place we know that this word
is frequently applied to things that are lim
ited in duration ; ns, for instance, the pos
sestion of the land of Canaan bv the poster
ity of Abraham, Gen. I'/; 8; the covenant
of circumcision, Gen. 17; 13; the priest
hood under the law. Ex. 40; 15.
Secondly, Christ explicitly declares, in the
?ame conversation of which Matt. 25; 46, is
a part, that the generation in which he uttered
the predictions, record*d iu the 24. h and 25ih
chapters, should not pas? away until all these
predictions should be fulfilled.
Thirdly, the lact that it we attach the signifi
cation o*’ endless to the word everlasting, when
ipplied to punishment, it com**s directly in con
flict with the p t?ssge quoted from Collossians,
affoids averypowwf.il reason, in my rniud, why
we should not attach to it such signification,
when it is thus applied.
Fourthly, the fact that the connecting of such
a signification with the use of this word,
when applied to punishment, is repugnant to
Gt d’? character as plainly revealed in the Bible,
affoid? another, and with me an irresistible rea
son for rejecting such signification when thus
applied.
But fifthly, and lastly, for the present, the
fact that there is another word in the Greek
language of much stronger signification than
the word which is rendered everlasting, and
that this word is applied to life iu the New
Testament, and rendered endless. in our version,
and that this word is not applied to punishment
in the scriptures, affords a reason amply suffi
cient to reject the signification of endless as the
true signification of everlasting when applied
to punishment. Iu Hebrew 7; 16, Faul says
that Christ is raado a priest, “not after the law
of a carnal oommnndm'-nf, but after the power
of an endless life.” By turningto the original
< f this verse, you will see that the woid ren
dered endless, is on**, ihe radical, literal significa
tion of which is inttissolvble. Here, then, is
the word, which is much more expressive o*
endless duration than the word rendered ever
lasting. Inasmuch as we have all these good
and substantial reasons f>r limiting the signifi
cation of the phrase “all tiling-*,” iu the pas
sage quot* and Iroin Folios- isos, I feel fully justified
in coming to tho conclusion, from an examina
tion of the** two p * usages, that threateniugsof
God’s word do not. when properly understood,
conflict with his ded red pleasure to reconcile
things to hims*-lt, and therefore I mu it main
tain that the scriptures teach, when properly
interpreted, “the final salvation of all in**n.” Not
whether my formerarticle came
up to, or exceeded the limit? assigned to me, 1
must pause here lest I overruu my space.
Having arrived at Americus, siuce I wrote
the foregoing, and having learned that my
first article did not take up the space allot
r*-d me by the terms of our agreement; I
have concluded to append a brief review of
your reply. lam happy that I have found
in you an opponent, who, while he is deter
mined not to spare that sysrem of doctrine*
which I have undertaken to defend, is pos
*e*ed of a tolerably thorough acquaintance
with the standard writers, who have em
ployed th. ir pens illustrating and defending
the system, ‘from the tune of that PUtoniz
mg divine Origen, down to Vidler, George
R >gers and Hosea Ballou.” Under tin se
circumstances, you will, of course, while at
tempting to hoi 1 me to the logical come
quence of the system, be able to give mo the
authority of some of the standard writers
as to what that system is, when we happen
a- we occasionally shall, ‘‘in the progress ot
this discussion,” to differ as to what it is.—
And now, right at the start, 1 find that there
seems to be a difference on one poiut. Quot
ing the words of the proposition to be dis
cussed, you add: This you immediately
explain by saying that you do not believe
that men are to be saved in their sins, and
you repudiate, with commendable zeal, tLe
i lea that men can be happy except they are
hist hoi}'.” By way of turiber commend
ing these sentiments you say: “We are
pleased to see that ultra Universalism is at a
discount at other places besides Boston.” Ot
course this last declaration is intended to
produce the impression, ujain the minds ts
our readers, that ultra Universalism teaches
“that men are to be saved in tbeir sins,” and
can be happy without being holy. Now,
this is a serious imputation, and-, if true,
ought to condemn to eternal reprobation, in
the eyes of al’ good men, both the system
which inculcates such noxious sentiments,
and those who advocate it. Under these
circumstances, you will, of course, not take
it amiss for me to call upon you to produce
the authority on which you base this impu
tation. Not only do I repudiate such senti
ments for myself; but I further declare that
no Universalist wiiter, of whom I have any
knowledge, h*s ever advancer! any such sen
timents: and I profess to he tolerably well
posted as to what our standard wiiters have
advocated. But your thorough acquaintance
with our standard writers may enable you i
to produce some authority in just fication of
the impression which your remarks are cal- j
cuUted to produce. Do not spare the sys*
tem, my dear sir; but produce the authority,
or coufess t at it is not to be found. “If I
seem a little pressing in my request for this
authority, I must ask you to remember, (
•‘that th** present contest is something more
serious than a match with foil;” and ot.e in
which you have avowed your determination
to do your “utmost to drive this system and
its advocates to the wall.'’ As an o’d bar
rister you know that when one is “driven to
the wall,” he may defend himself at any cost
to his adversary, even to the taking of his
life.
After giving my argument on my fi st
proof text “in a nut shell,’’ you say: “We
wiil not brand this interpretation as a “de
ceitful handling cf the word of God, lor w*-
give you credit for candor.” Thank you for
the credit; but why use the phrase “deceit
ful handling” in this connection ? Little as
it may have been designed to do so, it is
rather calculated to cause those who are less
charitable than yours* If to thus brand it,
and thus to place you in the position of
those who
••Tatm with faint praise, assent with eivU leer,
And, without sneering, teach the test to Shetr.”
I cannot see that your efforts have at all
weakened the force of my arguments found
ed upon my first proof text. True, y<*u say
that the phrase “leave them neither root doi
branch” answers to Paul’s “everlasting de
struction;” but what argument do yuuofler
in support of this declaration? None that
lam able to perceive. “The day shall burn
them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall
leave neither root nor branch,” is ihe bible
declaration, and to say that to “leave them
neither root nor branch,” means to continue
them, both root and branch, in endless mis
ery, i?, to my thinking, about as preposter
ous as my father Murray’s exposition to
which you re!er, or a:? your father Wesley’s
exposition of Rom., 8: 20 21, which pas
sage he asserts teaches the final salvation ol
the brute creation. There has been, you see,
more than one “father in Israel” whose
i views the sons would not like to have to
defend. But try and prove, if you can, that
“leave neither root nor branch,” means to
perpetuate their existence to all eternity in
misery.
Os my second class of passages you say:
“ Indeed those scriptures, so far from sus
taining your views, drive us to the conclu
sion that Christ must become a propitiation
lor our sins; so that God may be just and
the justifier of him that be’iev -th in Jesus
And hence our only hope and plea as guilty
sinners, is, that Christ wast.coursed for our
sakes, and “bear our sins in his own body
on a tree.”
These scriptures drive me to the conc-lu
* : on that God will, just as they declare,
“render unto every man according to his
deeds.” But there is a sad misfortune con
nected with your side of the controversy
here, and that is, that your system of theol
ogy drives you to a flat denial of the plain
declaration of these scriptures, and drivts
you to the adoption of a theory by which
men can escape the just inflictions threatened
in them, before any individual of the race
can be saved. This is one of the Jogieal con
squenees of your system to which I shall
i*old yor. through this discussion, Dot allow
ing you to escape by a disclaimer. In view
of this tesuit of your system, you are rigln
in judging that I “do not relish these con
clusions.”
You judge rightly when you suppose I
meant that the infinite nature of sin is main
tained by the majority of your standard
writers, and I will add, your clergy. Creed,
is from credo, I believe, according to stand
ard auihority, and when I use the words,
creeds of the day, I mean the popular faith,
as gathered from the writings and teachings
of popular sects. If I am to take nothing
as your creed but what 1 find in your artt
cies of belief, as laid down in your book ol
discipline, then isendlesspunishment no part
of your creed, lor assuredly it is not there
taught.
My space will not allow me to review af
length your remarks on the infinity of sin;
but 1 have room for a few words in refer
ence to that proof text from Job 22: 5. You
did not exactly anticipate correctly as to my
rep’y. My reply is that this declaration ol
K iphas was false, if the patient Job spake
as he was moved by the Holy Ghost. He
say? to his miserable comforters, just six
verses before your quotation : “ How then
comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your an
swers there remainelh falsehood.” “Then
Ehphas the Temauite answered,” and uttered
the falsehood, that Job's iniquities were infi
nite. A ba*l witness, my dear sir, this one
of yours. Whenever I am driven to the
testimony of a witness who is branded with
falsehood in the Bible, to sustain my prepo
sition, 1 shall abandon the contest at once.
Very rev-pec Unity, yours,
D. B. CLAYTON.
1 American in Taylor.
Agreeably to previous notice a large
portion of the American party of Tay
I Kir county met at the Court House in
Butler on lhe 7th inst, lor the purpo#*
of appointing Delegates to attend th
Gubernatorial and Congressional Gm
ventmns so.>n to assemble.
When on motion, Gil. Wm. J. F.
Mitchell was called to the Chair, and
1 Wm P. EJwards requested to act as
Secretary.
The Chairman explained the object ol
.the meeting.
A motion was I hen made by W. W
Corbitt, Equire, that a committee ol
be appointed by tha Chairman,
one from each Militia District, to pre
pare matter for the considers’ion of the
meeting, whnh motion was carried.
The Chairman then appointed the fol
lowing gentlemen a# that committee;
W. W. Corbitt. Butler, chairman ; E
lli.x, Reynolds, Dr. J. D. Bell, Pan
hoid'e, J* T. Gray, CarsotiviJle, W. A.
If. Royal, < Vdar Creek, Willis Jenks,
Howard, L. C. McCrary, Davidson.
i'he committee, as appointed, retired
for a short while, returned and made the
following report:
Whereas, the time is fast approaching
when another political battle is to be
fought in our Slate, we, a portion of the
American party of Ta>Jor county, h iv
mg met for the purpose of taking into
Consideration the political movements of
ihe past and present, do now (time to
the following c< Delusions :
First, that the political elements are
discordant, there being neither peace nor
hamsuiy in the ranks of the two mn-t
pr rument parties in our Union. The
B ack Republicans at the Noreh seem
to be the most united of ihe two, and
we are fully of the opinion that should
these principles and men succeed, then
there is an end to the peace and happi
ness of this great and once happy coun
try ; believing as we honestly do, ihat
the pritic pies they advocate and enunci
ate would bring about an irruption of
the Government and a final dissolution •
of the Uuion. Upon the other hand,
the Demo, ratio party has nothing to
t*oast of, but everything to lament; ds
traction and confusion seem to have bro
ken into the tanks of that party. In
fact, we are of the opinion that it is
perfectly disrobed of its Nationality,
if any it has had for several years. We
have a Democratic party at the Noith
with one set of principles, and a D rra
eratic party at the South with another
*et of principles. In the North the par*
ty advocate* the principles of Inierveii
‘ion, Squatter Sovereignty, and Alien
Sutlrage, a* well as Internal Improve
ments by the General Government.—
At the South, the party advocates the
principles of Non-Intervention, oppose
Sqnatter Sovereignty and the Internal
Improvement by the General Govern
ment, and, with a few exceptions, are
opposed to Alien Suffrage j a-.d yet both
wings of the party both North and South
p’otess to stand upon the Cincinnati
platform. We then are of the opinion
that the promises wh eh have been re*
peatedly made by lead ng Democratic
orators in our State: that the safety ot
the country rested solely in she united
Democracy, and that that part y, if kept
in power, would keep the government
in its purity and deal out equal rights to
all, has been an entire subterfuge, and
that these promises hive all fallen to the
ground. As an evidence of that fact,
we find an empty Treasury when there
-hould have been money enough to de
fray every expense of the government.
We were promised peace, and yet there
is no peace. The same questions are
still agitating the country from North
o South. We were promised that Kan
-as should be admitted into the Union
with a slave constitution. She is still
ut of the Union as a Siate, and the Ter
ritory is Free-soil or Biack Republican
lhe Administration has lost its friends,
hiving proved a total failure, and with
.t the Democratic party has lost tts pow
er. The smaller of the three partie
now in the Union is lhe American par
iy, and to wh.eh we are proud to say
we belong, believing as we honestly do,
i hat its principles are sound and conser
; \ative, and that upon that party re-t
----the present hope of lhe country. W>
then, as Americans holding ourselves
aloof from either of the other parties,
do hereby enunciate aid publish the
following principles, and by them we
are willing to stand or fall:
Resolved , That we re-affirm she prin
ciples contained in the platform of 1850
Resolved , That we reaffirm the prin*
■ iples Contained in the Philadelphia plats
hum of 1855, and the principles of the
American party of 1857.
Resolved, That we are opposed to thi
system of Internal Improvements by the
General Gotten iment, and believe in an
• qual distribution of the proceeds ot the
public lands among the States.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the
financial affairs of the government b*-ing
managed with economy and the public
Treasury watched over, and that we are
opposed to everything like extravagance
n disposing of the public funds, and eo
pecially opposed to any of said money
being used for political purposes in buy
it g votes to secure the election of any
mail.
Resolved, That we are oj posed to tli
presciit Administration, believing that it
has been a curse to the country and de
serves no sympathy at our hand*.
Resolved , That tits thanks of this meet
ing are hereby tendered the Honorable
Alfred Iverson, our Senator in Congress,
lor ihe manly course pursued by him in
lhe last session of Congress, and espe
cially for his speech so widely circulated
m this (State. In that speech we have
much to approbate and but little to con
demn, and cannot see'how that gentleman
can still be identified with the National
Democracy, as it is called. And espi
-ially is that gentleman entitled to our
thanks for voting generally in opposition
to his colleague.
Resolved , That we are in favor of a
State convention and a candidate for
Governor, us we never intend to admit
that there is no man of our party capa
ble of managing the affairs of the Siate
R"ad, and we hereby appoint the usual
number of delegates to attend said con*
veution.
Resolved, That we uppoirit delegates
to the Ci.ngregsional convention to norn
mate a candidate for Congress in this
District.
Resolved, That, as we are determined
to carry into effi ct the principles heiein
set forth, that the first Tuesday in July
next be for our party to meet in Butler
to nominate candidates for the Legisla
lure.
Resolved , That Wm. J. F. Mitchell,
L. Q. C. McCrary, Elijah M. Hicks.
-Jeremiah Wilchar, C. F. Fickling, Da
vid O. Smith, James Griffith, Y. JI
Caldwell, Andrew Mi Cants, Willi-
Jenks and W. \V . Corbitt are hereby
appointed delegates to the Gubernato
nal convention, and that Peter E. Ri
ley, VV. P. Edwards and B F. Reese be
a, ptinted delegates to the Congressional
convention.
B fore these resolutions were put up
on their passage, W. \V. Corbitt, E q .
•ddressed the meeting at some length, m
favor of the resolutions as reported.—
Denounced Squatter Sovereignty, Alien
Suffrage, Internal Improvements by the
general government, in unmeasured tei m ;
ailed upon men of all classes to join the
honest masses, and he p to kit k James
Bio hauau and his sympathisers out <f
power. Alluded in eh quent terms to
he gdlaiit G ggin of Virj.iuia, and clos
ed by exhorting the people to come up
on the first Tuesday in July next, and
norn nate candidates to represent them in
.he next Legislature.
The report was then unanimously
adopted.
Ou motion of B. F. R*ese, it was re
quest* <1 that the proceedings of thi>
meeting be pnbli-hed in the Georgia Cit
z-n, an'l that the Jour. & Messenger,
l pson Pilot, and alt other papers friend
ly to the principles herein set forth copy
ihe same.
The meeting then adjourned to meet
on the fir.-t Tuesday in July next.
W F. J. MITCHELL, Chm’n.
W. G. Edward*, Sec’y.
Ji st Dropped In.—A gentleman in a
neighboring city, having occasion to get a
note changed, dropped into a broker's office,
and having accomplished hi*errand, was in
duced to try his luck by purchasing a whole
ticket in the Georgia Lottery, which result
ed in his obtaining the capital prize! That
was his “tide,” “which, - ’ as Shakespeare
says, “if taken at the flood, leads on to for
tune.” and no one would be more likely to
realize the sentiment of the “Bard of Avon,”
than those who avail themselves of the
i chances offered by the great firm of WOOD,
EDDY & CO., of Augusta, Ga., and Wil
mington, Delaware. An investment of .<lO,
or $2,50, in any of their lotteries, may be
the tide for many if they address the above
firm at Wilmington, Del., or Augusta, Ga.,
and enclose the money for a whole ticket or
shares, in any of their liberal and attractive
schemes. — Sunday Leader.
Any of our readers afflicted with
Scrofula or Scrofulous complaints, will do
well to read the remarks in our advertising
columns respecting it. But little of the. na
ture ol this disorder has been known by the
people, and the clear exposition of it there
given, will prove acceptable and useful.—
We have long admired the searehing man
ner in which Da. Ayer treats every subject
he touches: whatever has his attention at
all, has a great deal of it, he masters what
he undertakes, and no one who has a parti
cleof feeling for his afflicted fellow man, can
look with indifference upon his labors for the j
sick. Bead what he says of Scrofula, and
see in how few words and how clearly he tells
us more than we have all known of this in- {
1 sidious and fatal malady.— Sun, Phil'a. Pa. I
How they Taunt us.
A day or two since, glancing over one of |
the numerous half literary sheets from the
North, with which the households of the
South are plagued as were the Israelites of i
old, with the frogs of Egypt, we casually 1
observed an article commenting on some re
marks of the Mobile Mercury, as to a cer
tain Disunion movement in this State. The
editor of “ The Century ” treated the whole
affair with the greatest contempt arguing
that there could be no possible danger of
Disunion, because not one in twenty thou
sand of the inhabitants of New York expect
ed such a thing. The whole logic, in effect,
of the Abolitionist, was, that the North con
trolled the whole question ; and that the
North had heard nothing of. and cared noth
ing for, these Disunion demonstrations —er-
go, there is to be no Disunion.
AH this is the natural, vulgar insolence of
those who are, or claim to be, superior in
numbers and political power. It is dtficult
for the mildest tempered nmn to read these
audacious flouts from the people who would
be paupers, without the eotton-flelds of the
South, ami who contrive to packet the loo<e
change of our section while they revile its
people, without losing his equanimity ; but
we must remember that the mean and cow
ardly, when powerful or rich, are always
tyrannical and insulting. The editor who
thus coolly intimates his contempt for the
South, very probably has his agents in the
South, begging Southern men and women
to subscribe to his paper. The means of
punishment for all his class, are in the hands
of our people, as they have been told a thou-
I sand times. • If we would keep our money at
home we should be much more respected,
and these people who express contempt for
us now, would be on their knees for “lar
gesse.”
But the bitter point in the article which
suggested these paragraphs, was an intima
tion that our own “statesmen ” of position
—meaning, no doubt, such men as Ham
mond, Foote, and Howell Cobb —laughed
at the idea of separation ; and in the next
column is printed an anti-Southern speech
delivered by that garrulous, old pest, 11. S.
Foote, of Mississippi, in the late Southern
’ Convention. We are made angry by such
flouts as we first mentioned—we are irrita
ted by assertions or even hints of the supe
riority of our Northern enemies over our
selves—but when men of the South, who
ought to beour brethren, are quoted to prove
j every man who opens his mouth for South
ern equality to be a knave or an ass, it is
then that we arc humiliated—it is then, that
wo are made to bow our heads in hitter
shame and mortification. But so it is. We
arc annually sold by Footes and Cobbs, un
til the Southern man with soul enough to
. love his native soil and prefer it to Yankee
land, finds himself eternally spit upon at the
instance of Southern traitors.
Recently, in New York, all the various
associations of the North, whose hasi.-, of
Union is hatred of tfce South and of Soutli
trn institutions, had their several anniver
saries, and, we heard nothing very denun
ciatory of them, from Southern papers —but
when some Southern gentlemen were gath
ered together at Vicksburg, in a Conven
tion, to devise some remedy for Southern
wrongs; and behold ! dozens of Southern
papers are found to villify ami denounce
them and their objects. More than that,
a man is found, in the South, to make a
speech to gladden the hearts of Abolitionists!
That man is ex-Governor Foote, and he has
manufactured a popularity thereby, even
among the people he betrays, that may yet
make him President. All these things are
well calculated to put true Southern men in
sack-cloth and ashes. We are in a most
Egyptian bondage and darkness.—Mont
gomery Mail.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Show me thy Principles by thy Work.
Mr. Editor.— The above is a Scriptual
test, an exaction of man’s individual con
duct. • Suppose we, for a moment, try the
professions and deeds of the Democratic
party by that rule. Now, if a man profess
es to be converted from the error of his way
and joins the Church, the people of the world
never ask what the man believes. The peo
ple of the world look at what he does, or
how he acts—for his doings and acts will be
the exponent of his principles. If he acts
up to the principles he professes, the deeds
of that man will correspond to, and reflect,
the principles professed in his daily conduct
and life. How readily we censure a man
(and properly too,) who deviates from prin
ciple voluntarily professed and expressed.
And tlie thought occurs to my mind why
l individuals should he judged by their deeds
and a political party only by its professions,
j If it is right to hold a man up to the princi
ples he professes, how much more essential
| to morals, to good government, and the pre
servation of liberty, that a political party,
composed of many more individuals should
he strictly held tip to the principles it pro
fesses.
Whenever a political party, like a man,
fails to redeem its promises and forfeits its
right to honor, it is no longer entitled to res
pect, and ought not to he trusted. Has the
Democratic party redeemed a promise made
in 1854 and 185 b? Its leaders told you, it
successful, it would restore the country to
its pristine tranquility. Has it done it ? Its
leaders told you it would restore the govern
ment to economy and republican simplicity.
Has it done it? Its leaders promised equal
rights to all sections. Has it done it? Its
leaders invented a territorial policy that en
gendered a strife between the North and the
South for the mastery in the territory. Its
lenders have inaugurated the doctrine of In
ternational Improvements by the general
government. Its leaders practically teach
the doctrine that to the victor belong the
spoils. Its leaders have corrupted the peo
ple by justifying any means, and all means,
that would secure the success and triumph
of the Democratic candidates for office. Its
leaders have passed laws susceptible of a
Northern and Southern construction, there
by alienating and decieving the North and
the South. Its leaders promised economy
in the administration of the government
Do their deeds correspond with their prom
ises ? Ifthe leaders have promised one thing
and done another, howare you to judge them,
by their profession* or by their acts ?
The yearly expenses of the government,
prior to 1856, were 45 to 50 million dollars,
now it is 80 to 00 million yearly. Now treat
the leaders of the democratic party as you
would a man who had promised you to do
one thing and does another.
The lenders of the Democratic party have
laid down economy in the Federal Govern
ment as a principle of the Democratic party.
If they have not walked by and acted up to
that principle, they have abused, and are no
longer entitled to the confidence of the peo
ple.
Fellow Georgians, look at youi National
Government. See your money is lavished
on political varnpyres, that a party may be
held together for base purposes and corrupt
leaders. Your government is bankrupt and
cannot meet its honest obligations.
The President and his party coquetted with
Kansas, through Walker, until they robbed
the South of her rights in that territory.
The President and his party have appropri
ated the public money for the education of
negroes sent back to Africa.
People of Georgia, do vou feel proud of,
or humiliated at, the choice you made of
Mr. Buchanan for President in 1856 ?
LOWNDES. I
I3T Above all things never despair:
‘God is wl ere he was.’ He helps these who
truly trust in him.
TOP. THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
The Macon Telegraph, growls at the
“Card” of the Executive Committee oi
the American party, and says, it is only ‘a
change of front.’’
Well, suppose it be—that’s no reason why
the Telegraph should get into an iil-humor
about it—seeing that the editor has done
some changing himself in time past, and in
all probability may do it again, whenever he
can sell out the Telegraph for a good profit,
and buy a “ Know Nothing” paper, cheap.
But, his party —the modern Democratic
party, is happily uuder no necessity for a
change. It has already a ‘-front” tor all sec
tions and creeds—a Iront lor a protective
tariff’, and a front lor ad valo/em— a Iront lor
Buchanan—a front lor Douglas, and a front
for Martin Van Buien —a front for old
Whigs—a Iront for Know Nothings, and a
Iront for Free Boilers and Abolitionists—a
front for intervention, and a front for non
intervention—a front for Slavery and for
anti-Slavery—for the African Slave Trade
and against it—for union and disunion—for
economy, and the most reckless extrava
gance-lor Southern Conventions, and against
, them —for the protection of the dear Mor
mons, against trial by Jury for robbery,
theft, adultery, murder and treason; —and—
bat, in this instance, if they have any front
I tor their punishment, it does not appear.
So that with all these fronts, and a wide
door in each for tvery body to enter, there
is not much likelihood of the ‘fierce Demo
cracies’ having to change its “front.”
SHORT.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, £imu
MACON, JUNE 10. 1859.
The Rev. IT. H. Parks will de
liver a Temperance Sermon at the Meth
odist Church on Sunday night next at
the usual hour. The public are invited
to atiend.
To Coir^spondents.
gggp” 11. A. C. Fragoletta. We are
not in a condition to accept the propo
si tion so kindly made. Our income will
not justify any outlay in that direction
GREAT FIKG I V COLUMBUS!
On W ednesday forenoon we received
lhe following dispatch from Off umbus :
Columbus, June 8.
Dk. L. F. W. Andrews: Alabama
and Fontaine warehouses burnt last
night. Ten thousand bales of Gttton
and a large amount’ of Groceries de
stroyed. Loss six to eight hundred
thousand dollars. Cause of fire unknown.
Some insurance. W. 11. G.
Good Sale-
On Tuesday last, the lot opposite this
office with improvements, the property
of the estate of the late Moses Barnes,
was sold at public outcry, for |5,380. —
There is less than one half acre of ground
and but an indifferent tenement on the
lot. We understand that Isaac Scott is
the purchaser, and that lie intends soon
to erect thereon several stores, with a
fine hotel over lhe same, taking in the
corner of 3d and Cherry streets and run
ning on Cherry street to the alley. We
hope the rumor is true.
Sou Stabbed by his Father.
A fbw days since. John G. Martin, of
this city, got into ad fficulty with his
*on Robert, when the latter fell in upon
his father with a stick or club and beat
him badly 7. Whereupon the father drew
a knife and cut Robert in ihe back, in..
Acting a dangerous wound. Wo did
not learn the cause of the difficulty, but
suppose rum had considerable to do with
it.
Hon L J- Gaitrell.
The. Democratic Convention for the
Fourth Congressional District met at
Nownan on Tuesday last, and nomina
ted the lion. L. J. Gaktrell, by accia
(nation.
I ( Important to Foreign’ I3okn Citi
zens. —The following letter, says the
Memphis Bulletin , has been handed to
us by Ilume P, Hill, E*q., who has
’ heretofore obtained passports for many
■1 our naturalized citizens, who wish to
visit Europe. It will be seen that the\
will l ot be entirely safe in relying upon
iheir naturalization for exemption from
military service during the existing war:
Department of State, {
Washington, May 17, 1850. )
To Mr. Felix LeC/erc. Memphis. Tenn :
Sir—Your letter of the 13’h instant
has been received, in reply 1 hive to
-tale lhat it is understood that the French
government claims military service from
all natives of France who may be found
within its jurisdiction. Your naturaliza
tion in ihi.s country will not exempt you
from that claim if you should voluntari
ly repair thither.
I am, sir, your obd't servant,
Lew is Cass.
The attention of our adopted fellow
citizens is called to the above. The con
struct;on given by Mr. Cass to the Law
of Naturalization operates very harshly
upon the rig its of this class. The
“bloody Know Nothings” never contem
plated so grievous a wrong against For
eigners as this. We think the construc
tion is wrong and that our government
-hould piotect the rights of our adopted
citizens, in any part of the globe. After
they have expatriated themselves and ta
ken the oath of allegiance to this govern,
merit, they are entitled to, and should be
-ecured in, all the rights of native born
citizens. \\ under what will be the next
fraud practised by the present democratic
administration! Let the adopted citi
zens look to it.
Opposition Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the Americans,
j Whigs and suen Democrats as are opposed
to the present State and National Adminis
trations, at the Court House, in Macon, on <
Saturday, the 18th June, at 11 o’clock a! M |
for the purpose of appointing Delegates to i
represent the County of Bibb, in the Con- 1
gressional and Gubernatorial conventions 1
shortly to convene. Come one! Come all! *
The Governor on Ills Travels.
His Excellency Guv. Brown has been
down to the seaboard and along the Sa
vannah & Florida and Main Trunk
Rail Roads, on a trip of pleasure. From
the Court Bulletin, we are happy to learn
that he has returned in safety to the cap.
ital after ten days’ peril by land, rail
and sea, to say nothing of other dangers
that attend upon greatness in its travels
abroad. At Savannah and Brunswick
the Governor was “treated to sails and
fishing excursions,” and visited the Or
phan Farm School at Beihesda, also ad
dressed some Sunday school children at
Savannah.
Bolting and Bo ters.
We have wondered, not a little, at
theoppo ilion of ceitain parties in the
7th District to the nomination of Ctrl.
Kenan, of Baldwin, for Congress, by a
meeting of the Americans and Whigs of
that county. The hue and cry is ri-ed,
on all sides, that ihe people of Baldwin
have done a great wrong to give expres
sion to their preference for Col. Kenan
independent of a convention of the DL
trict. In cur opinion, they have a right
to relieve themselves from the trammels
of packed conventions whenever they
find the burden grievous to be borne.—
This, the Baldwin meeting alledge has
been the case, and the time has come to
apply a remedy. In giving expression
to their preference for Col. K. they have
only done what the Editor of the Re
corder did some weeks previous. That
Journal first came out decidedly for Mr.
Hill, as ho had a right to do.
Why then reproach others for a sim
ilar expression ? We do not see the jus
tice or expediency of such a course. As
to the charge of distracting the party,
by setting up independently or repudia
ting c nveutions and their nominees, it
is all gammon, if we remember
the same persons that i re now rebuking
Col. Kenan’s friends for anticipiting the
action of a congressional convention in
the 7th District, were once or ofierier
guilty of a higher political offence than
that now charged against C >l. K. They
not only repudiated the nomination of
General Scott for President, but called
auother convention ani put up Webster
and Jenkins in opposition, although the
former was then known to be in a dying
condition ? It seems to us then that the
Tertium Quids of that day shou’d be
the last to talk about halters and disor
ganizers, especially when there is no
American party now existing in Georgia,
but only the elements of anew organi
zation not yet having any authority to
put up or put down candidates fir of
fice.
It may be said that this is none of our
•business, as we do not belong to the 7ih
District. We have, however, a good
many readers in said District, whom it
is our business to keep posted in all mat
ters affecting their political rights and
privileges, and we thertfore have only
discharged a duty that belongs to our
! position, in asking for “fair play” for
I our friends in Baldwin and the 7th Dist
rict. They a r e not disorganize™*, be
cause there is nothing to disorganize.—
They are not bolters , because there ha 9
been no party nomination which calls
for repudiation.
Col. Bond's Estate.
The appraisement of the estate of the laie
Col. Joseph Bond, in Dougherty County,
amounted to over nine hundred thousand
dollars. The property, real and personal, in
Macon, has since been appraised at $56,000,
and the whole is set doven at one million of
dollars.
A Picture drawn by a Democratic
Artist.
We find the following “Bulletin” in
a late number of the State Pres*, where
it appears as a communication. It is a
graphic sketih of the present beautiful
Administration of President Buchanan,
for whom the author has no other plau
dit than the “ Charity of its silence.''’ The
Democratic convention, shortly to con
vene, will, in all probability, split on
this rock. But to the document:
The Guhsrnatorial Convention and
the Administration. — A few presses in
G*-org,a, whose inaws are ever open for
: crumbs of patronage, are calling on our
approaching Convention to endorse the
Administration. Let us see how beau
tifully i’s leading measures w T outd pass
mu-ter.
First, there is Mr. Buchanan’s recom
mendation to the ia-t Congress of a llih
Tariff, with discriminating duties. He
looked with compassion on ttie unpro
ductive lalar of Pennsylvania and other
states, and called on the National Legis
lature to levy tribute on the South for
its bent lit. Would not this be a hand
some meisure to rail for a complimenta
ry resolution from our State Convention?
S.-Cuiidly, there is Mr. B ichanan’s ad
vocacy of ihe Pacific Rad Road—a mon
ster corruption measure, th it wou'd en
tail taxes and high tariffs upon us and
our children. Our Convention w-ould
show a marked adhesion to State Rights
and Southern lights by endorsing this
horrid abomination.
Thirdly, the foreign policy of the Ad
ministration is a remarkable one—re
markable for vacillation and poltroonery
—sputtering like a braggart, but knock
ing under like a craven to French and
Fngli.h intrigues in Central America and
Mexico—cheatit g the South with a sim
ulacrum of friendship in the Cuban mit
; ter of unattainable results, and at the
-ame time interposing the power of the
government against every scheme for
, the extension of Southern institutions. —
Here is a noble theine for eulogistic res
olutions. They would sound well from
a Georgia G>n vent ion; they would cover
their authors with immortal glory!
Fourthly: the results of ten years of
power are wonderful: a demoralized
Post Cilice Department, a bankrupt
Treasury, a dominant converted into a
rmg-streaked Gmg-ess of all types of
opposition, the public virtue debaiichel
by subsidising venal presses and sending
pimps and felons abroad on diploma 10
missions, paralysis unstringing the mus
cles of the public service in its every
arm, and friends every where dropping
off so last that a cortege of mourners
will scarcely be left to march with muf
fljd drum to its funeral.
Such are the results of the two first
years of the Administration’s re gn. —
Ye men of Georgia, is there anything in
this record worthy of your pride or
challenging vour praise! N->, my coun
trymen! Silence is charity to this Ad
ministration. “Tis the only boon it can
ask of a Georgia Convention.
SPIKES.