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THE EXCELLENCE OF LABOR.
bt m. *. 8. b. ut annua.
Oh. Lt>rw tpotwliu;* o'er thy toil.
WUJi p:init heart and Inrow.
Thy wt.rk n lioly: life's tuniuil
I- full of moanin';, own now.
i.riftr not thnt ‘ti- tliv lot to earn
By 1-tlior hard thy daily I .read :
(Hi. whon will man tin- le*.oii team
i .a a.iinroV owry page ontnprowl—
That all rintat lalmr. W must Innr
To 11. in.-nV wno .yot stern *h-t roo.
And -nm om-h joy with moisten.-. I brow?
for nlk'iiew it. misery.
Say. i* the rn h man I■.-> ftjty. w ho.
I’li.aljili satisfy ilia mr) sense,
To Xitorv's holiest law untrue.
Spends all his life in 111'!olt*n.-.‘ ?
ti.. gase iijm.ii his rare worn fare.
Andi-a U-h his eye. so eol.l and dim.
Ea.-h disronieuted k-ature Inna-,
And tell me if you envy him t
>'... no! they only can be blest,
Who patiently, while liere they stay,
Fulfilling Heaven's high Is-host’
Toil cheerfully from day to day.
Then labor on. thou child of toil!
Work with thy hands—thv head —thy heart;
Man's noblest destiny fulfill.
Its highest zest to life impart.
Au.l w hen a.h evening hour shall eonte,
< >h. with w hat unalloyed delight
Mayest thou enjoy thy peaeeAij home.
And s.HtnUy sleep the livelong night I
Yes. Is .nest labor gives to rest
What neither wealth nor power can give,
Tlie eonsoienee nitre the quiet breast,
quiet nature's tiest restorative.
All liail to those who understand
And do the work they find to do!
W". wo. to those who idly stand.
To Nature's holiest law untrue!
Front the Suinirr Itrpubhcan.
A I) I S(! I S S I O
or Tint
DOCTRINE OF UNiVERSALiSM
BETWKEX
li‘T. H'. J. Scoff, Methodist, and Tier. D. 11.
Ctagftm, Unirerenlist.
Holly Springs, Miss.
Ret. W. J. Scott,
I fear Sir :—Confident as you are of
your ability to maintain the doctrine o('end
less punishment, without building it on the
infinity ot sin, you nevertheless adhere with
great tenacity to that dogma. In your first
letter you say, “I do regard proper vewsof
the nature of sin as of special importance
to my future argument.” Whether you will
admit it or not, it is known to ail that the
infinity ol sin is the eliit f corner stone upon
which is built the doctrine of endless pun- i
iihmer.t Os such special importance is it,
that it is Itecavse ot the supposed inliuitv of .
sn, that you believe it deserves that inflic
tion. Remove the idea from your mind that
sin is infinite, and you would immediately }
say it does not merit an endless retribution.
You accuse me of basing *‘a misrepresenta
tion of the orthodox Divines” upon your
quotation from Baxter. The quotation is; |
“We can never measure the magnitude of j
human transgression, unless we are prepared
to appreciate the infinite holiness and good
ness of the lawgiver and the matchless ex
cellency of the law which is transgressed.”
This language as every one can see, clearly |
predicates “the magnitude of human trars
gression” upon the “matchless excellency of j
the law.” It was for this very purpose that
you introduced it; and in your thud article
you distinctly say. “that to grasp all the uses
and excellencies of that law would baffle the
intellect of the wisest of the children of men.’’
With this declaration from your own pen
before you, please inform me, if the law’ be
not “infinitely above our comprehension,'’
how far it really is “above our comprehen
sion,” and then we can determine just how
far I have misrepresented “the orthodox Di
vines,” and also j'ist how much sin lacks of
being infinite. You say that, “if the boy
who steals pins should be arraigned before
the civil magistrate, it would be adjudged
sutfi ient that he had mind enough to under
stand the law against petty larceny.” Sup
pose. my dear sir, that the civil magistrate
should propose to inflict upon this pin-steal
ing boy the penalty for graud larceny, arson
or murder, what would be thought of such
a civil magistrate ? This is precisely what
your system proposes to do. It denounces
so more than endless punishment against
him who commits all the crimes known to
the law. There is a vast difference in mag
nitude between the guilt of him who steals
pin, ar.d of those to whom Christ said,
Matt. 23; 13; “Woe unto you scril>es and
I'han-.-es, hypocrites! lor ye devour widow’s
houses,and lor pretence make lorg prayers.”
The common sense of mankind recognizes
the difference, and Christ recognized it by
saying to these devourers of widow s houses:
‘therefore ye shall receive the greater dam
nation.” Your system is justly odious to
vvery man’s sense of justice, and I cannot
allow you to escape the odium so justly at
taching to it, by the cuttle rish cry of “the
cruelities and abstrusities of blink-eyed
metaphysics.”
You object seriously to the idea that Christ
will exert force to bring men to him. Your
own creed, remember,declares that the grace
of God must give men the will, or else they
wmot come. Christ, who is better authori
ty than your creed, says: “ All that the
Uther giveth me sh all come to me, and him
that cometh unto me I will in no wi-e cast
out,” John 6; 37. This language is rather
foredjlc titan pcrsuasice or inviting ; hut I find
>t in the book. auJ, however revollug it may
be to your Arir.inian notions, you must ex
cuse me for obtruding it upon your notice.
Titis language also intimates pretty dearly,
dtat something more is meant by giving all
things to Christ, than dimply that “in the
sense of dominion all things shall be subjec
ted to his sway inasmuch as they declare
that all who are thus given shall so come to
him as to be “in no wise cast out.” You
:uay demur to this evi'ienev; but bell we our
court you will fail to sustain your demurer;
mu as an ‘ Old Barrister” you know that it
must then he dismissed, and the evidence be
admitted. Why do you leave out t’ e word
ond, which connects the 39th and 40th verses
of the 6th chapter of John, when yon offer
the 40th to prove that Christ only meant to
tfach the final salvation of those who i/i this
hft believe on the Son ? This word shows
that the 40th does not negative the 39th;
it only states an additional fact, which is
that such as see anti believe on the Son may
enjoy everlasting life in this world; for, says
the Savior: “be that believelh on him that
! * n t rue hath,” not shall hare . but * hath
£ ’ eri.asting life,” John 5; 24. Wonder
w hy Christ did not say: “the Father's will is
t natof all the believers I should lose nothing.”
He was notan Arminian, and hence he said:
°f ali which he hath given me I shall lose
nothing, but should raise it up again at the
.Ast day.’’ You have taken issue with “the
toflif’ul and true witness,” and I leave you
10 the undisturbed enjoyment of all the lau
rds you can gain in the contest.
But you place me under obligations by
n forming me that the original word for lose
* n ®y proof-text is the same as that applied
‘o Judas’ fate, John 17: 12. It ig the same
w ord also, I find that expressea the condi
’ n °f the lost piece of silver, the lost sheep,
and the lost prodigal, in the 15th chapter of
‘•oke and I find that all these lost ones were
Mud or restored again. It is the same word
‘W- * by the Saviour. Mali. 1$ 11, and Lake
| 19; 10, when lie says: “ The Son of man
J is come to slek and save that which was
! lost. ’ Christ s plain declaration, and the
spirit of his parables both teach that he will
linady save a!! which was temporarily lost,
I including poor Judas. \ r our own cotumen
| tator. Dr. Claike also holds that Judas was
j s * re d. But you join issue with Christ, and
I say that his mission was only to offer to save
i and teg to save ail; but tiiat in thousands ot
i instances God’s will is to be thwarted, and
J Christ’s Sorts to prove abortive. I sympa
; tliize with you when I reflect that you wor
ship and pray to a G-d who is so impotent
that a worm of the dust, of his own creation,
j can for ever defeat his will. Come and ac
j quaint yourself with that God who says:—
j “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all
|my pleasure, Isaiah 46; 10; “As I have
i purposed so shall it stand,” Daiah 14; 24;
i aud be at peace.
You agree that the “Abrahamic Cove
nant promised spiritual blessings. Then it
never can be fulfilled in time ; for thousands
of families have gone into eternity without
! ever hearing of Christ; much less enjoying
a spiritual blessing in him. It must be lul
filied to them in eternity, or remain forever
unfulfilled. You emphasize faith and blessed
in the sentence, “they which be of faith are
hlt-ssed with faithful Abraham.’’ You did
j not emphasize are. They are blessed now,
i who exercise faith. That is Universatism,
i exactly. But because they are blessed, you
infer. I suppose that others never will be,
hut God savs; “all the families of the earth
shall be blessed.” A slight difference. I
believe the Lord. Tt is a brilliant discovery
of yours that the Dev 1 preached Uuiversal
im in the gmdeD of Eden ; hut old Lemuel
Haynes, a colored brother, of N. Y., an
, nounced it many years ago, and must have
, the credit for it. The preaching of the ser-
I pent then Avas orthodox, as it has been ever
| since. Got! said: “ye shall surely die.” The
’ serpent said they should escape. Univer- |
i sdism says punishment is certain. The ser- j
* pent say? yet, that there is no certainty
about it, and that sinners may escape. You 1
agree with the serpent. I cannot let you |
, force your bad company off on Universal- ;
ists, my dear sir. Keep him at home. What
Universalist “of renown” has asserted ‘ that
there is no hell m tne Bible.” and “that there i
’is no heaven ?” I confess to a little skeptic
ism on this point. There is hell in theß.ble,
; and Dr. Ciaike says there is a hell in the sin
ner’s own bosom. Into the Bible hell men
went in old times with their weujtons of war,
and laid their swords under their heads. See
Ezekiel 32; 27. You have changed things
since Ezekiel’s day. You do not let them
carry their weapons of war with them into
your hell, iu eternity. Thus lar in review
of your third article.
On opening your fourth article I find you
complaining that I rail some of your asser
tions “.-plenetic personalities.’’ I thought
your wools justified the epliithet, but as you
disavow the feeling, of course I freely give
you the benefit of your disclaimer. I wa3
, by no means galled as you seem to imagine.
Far from iL Our readers are competent to
decide whether your efforts to sustain your
false witness, or mine to convict him most
deserved to be styled ft lo de se, and I leave
it with them. You have signally failed to
prove that sin is infinite.
As to the condemnation of Origen, your
confident assertion that t.he document quoted
by me is. l rparious lacks confirmation. I think ;
the weight of authority against you. But if j
spurious, it only shows that Universalism
was not considered so much of a heresy an
ciently as at present. Origen was a Cmver- j
saiisf. You have so asserted : Mosheim con |
firms it and yet aithc igh a man of great
learning and piety . as you will not deny his ,
hei'csy was not condemned while he was liv- j
j ing. You seem now to employ counter
worked 3 synonymous with destroyed. Very
well. But why uut just let it he destroyed /
As to my “strange jumble” of the active
and passive forms of the verb Katargeo,
what has that to do with the meaning of the
verb itself? If it means counter-worked, and |
and is in the passive form in the original, I
suppose we would just translate it in the j
passive form, and no matter whether active j
; or passive, it makes nonsense, in many in
| stances, if we give that meauing. It is easy
for any one to see, who will examine, that it
means destroy, in the seuse of ceasing to exist. \
You saw at a glance, that Katargeo occurs !
twice iu 1 Cor. 13: 8, and is rendered fail,
vanish away, and hence your own good sense
taught you that I had merely inadvertently
quoted the wrong sentence of the verse.
The blander, as you term it, about pleroma,
| in connection with the divinity ot Christ,
j claims paternity with my friend Scott. You
! said emphatically alter quoting : ‘lt pleased
j the father that in him ali fulness should
dwell,” “this is a distinct allirmation of the
proper divinity ol Christ.” The Greek term j
it is true is pleroma, but taken in connection 1
with the foregoing part of the chapter, is a
very emphatic and intensive assertion that
Christ is God.” It wts upon pleroma that
you built your assertion, and now, when I
“have shown that your mode of argument 1
proves too much, you fiy to Col. 2; 9, a text
not named by me, and call it my proof text, I
to get pleroma tes theo teios. This is clearly j
an alter thought, my dear sir. If theou
mean?. God, the Deity, theJSupreme God, I ‘
should luce to know if that does not include j
the God head, and if it is not therefore more
comprehensive than Thcoteios. Father your j
own blunder, and he more careful next tune, i
The Divinity of Chris?, I repeat, has nothing
on earth to do with the truth or falsehood
ot the position lam affirming. But do you
wish to discuss that point? I deny that I
have misrepresented your argument, and if
I have, it devolves on you to show iL So
far fioui railing at your system of theology,
I have shown that it contradicts your own
i positions. Our leaders can see this, and
I you cannot divert their minds from your in
i consistencies by accusing me of, “sweeping
■ denunciations of Methodism.”
Paul says nothing about a general judg
ment; but you assert that then every tongue—
“ Angels, men and Devi s shall confess Christ
to be Lord to the glory of God the Father.”
All men then are to have the aid of the Holy
Ghost; for Paul says: “No man can say
that Jesus is the Lore, but by the Holy
! Ghost,” 1 Cor. 12: 3. The satne, 1 presume,
is true of Devils. You thiuk the expression,
“all that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed’ militates against my position. —
Have you ever come to Christ? Were you
ashamed of your former course when you
came? If so, you are not a subject of sal
vation, according to your construction. It,
as you assert, “ihe punishment of the guilty
is to glorify God,” it is strange he has taken
so much trouble to save any. If the punish
ment of some glorifies him, would not the
punishment of all maoxift that glory? I
say that God is the Savior of all men, in the
same sense in which Isaiah said of Christ
1 700 years before he was born, “he is brought
! as a Lamb to the slaughter;” that is, pros
pectively. Please narae just one of the
thousand temporal evils of which you speak,
from which God saves all men rune. Will
you do it? According to Uaivereahsm this
MACON, A., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, I S..
common salvation is from sin, your assertion
to the contrary, notwithstanding. This is
the glad tidings ol Universalism. Who be
lieves or teaches that heaven is made up of
the refuse of the Brothel and the Rumble,
with a sprinkling of swine, and ail manner
ol cattle ? Y oucan soon prepare a murder
er for heaven, as every one kuows, ami why
object to letting God do for all the wicked
what you ean so soon dh for the murderer?
Look at home, whenever you feel disposed
to throw stones. You have my full permis
sion to quote your friend Peek to your
heart’s content, as you can prove your points
by him so much more fully than by the
Bible. He is a good witness for you, albeit
be does bear take witness against his neigh
bors.
You ask for the record in which Christ
condemned the popular opinion of the Jews
about future punishment. Here it is: “Be
ware ot the leaven of the Pharisees and of
; the teadducees. ’ Mat 1G; 6. He says him
self, verse 12th that by leaven be meant “the
j doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Saddu
eees.” liow do you like thejecord? The
Jews in Christ's time believed in the doc
trine ot transmigration. \Vliere did he name
that doctrine and condemn it? Can you
give chapter and verse?
Yon want to know what, term the Jews
used to designate the place of future punish
ment. There is no proof in the New Testa
ment, I believe, that they had a name for it. i
T be idea of futuie punishment they expressed j
thus: “ hor while we lived and committed
iniquity, we considered not that we should
begin to suffer for it after death.” 2 Edras
7; SG. “And they that have loathed my law,
w hile they yet had liberty, and when as yet ;
place of repentance was open unto them. I
understood not, but despised it; the same i
must know it alter death by pain.” Esdras
9; 11, 12. What a pity tor you that the
Apociyphal books are not canonical. It
would help you out as muck as Mr. Peck’s
poetry does.
But you have spent time and occupied !
space in laboring to prove future punishment. !
That is an outside issue. You might prove I
that untold millions ot our race shall endure i
indescribable agonies, while the stars were
being blotted from existence, one after an
other, a million of years intervening between
the obliteration ol every two stars, until not \
one should be left to twinkle in the blue
arched vault of heaven, and yet, endless pun- i
ishment would not be commenced. Y'our !
task k a hard one, and one at the successful I
accomplishment of which none hut fiends of
darkness could exult.
To you I think belongs the honor of dis
covering the conditionality of the future life.
I thought that one thing was a certainty, in
the creeds of all Christendom. But it seems
I was wrong. To offsett your two voices I
offer the following:
Bible. —In thee shall all the families of the
earth be blessed.
Methodism. —ln thee shall not all,but a port
of the families of the earth he b'esied.
Bible —The Father sent the Son to be the
Ssvior of the world.
Methodism, —The Father sent the Son to
be the Savior of a part of the world.
Bible. —The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his band.
Methodism. —The pleasure of the Lord shall
be defeated in his hand.
This is only a specimen and might be con
tinued ad infinitum, showing the groat har
mony between Methodism and the Bible.
You have discovered that “forever and
forever and further” occurs in the Septua
gint; but you call it “hyperbolical non
sense.” Tins is a serious charge against a
version that Christ and his Apostlee used
withont condemning iL The occurrence of
this phrase shows that forever does not
mean endless.
You have spoken several times of the im
moral tendencies of Universalism; and I
know you have in reserve what you thick a
heavy battery on that point. Lest jmu with
hold it till I cannot reply, I shall anticipate
it; and I intend to turn it upon your own
system. If Universalism is licentious, its
adherents deserve great credit ; for they are
not sinners above others. Y'ou cannot show
that any Universalist ever committed acapi
tal crime, while numbers of the preachers
of your laith have been guilty of the black
est crimes in the catalogue. There is a town
in Maine, which contains 1,500 inhabitants,
in which there is not a Rumhole nor a pau
per. It hastjut one Church and one preacher,
and that is a Universalist Church, and a Uni
versalist preacher. Show me an orthodox
town, large or small for which as much can
be said. There is a tow nin Massachusetts,
with four Universalist societies, which does
not support one lawyer. Barnstable county,
Massachusetts, has a great many Universal
ists, and its jail has been tenantless for 18
months at a time. There is a District in
Dooly county, Georgia, in which there is a
Uuiversalist church, and many believers in
the doctrine, and there has never been a
criminal prosecution in that District. And
strange as you may think of it, I can show
you a gentleman who says my preaching, in
that Church, reformed him from profane
sweating.
Let us visit the ptisons. Bridewell, in
New York city, contained 3,000 prisoners a
short time ago, and the only Universalist
about the prison was the warden. There
arc several Universalist churches in New
York city. Wisconsin Penitentiary contains
one L T niver;alist, and 183 of your orthodox
friends. Philadelphia Penitentiary contains
1 Universalist, 21 Episoopulians, 110 Metho
dists, 00 Roman Catholics. Your church is
well represented there, while mine is a long
shot behind; notwithstanding we have there
two preachers of great renown, and many
believers. Sing S ; ng prison at one time had (
over 800 inmates, not one of whom was a
Universalist, while not less than 15 preach
ers of your sauctifying doctrine of endless
punishment were there.
These are facts, stern and undeniable; and
they show conclusively that ail the declama
tion about the immoral tendencies of Uni
versalism is the veriest nonsense. Ido not
wish to be misconstrued. These facts are
stated, not for the purpose of casting odium
upon you, and others who do not commit
these grave offences for which men arc im
prisoned ; but for the purpose of demon
strating that a belief in endless torture does
not restrain men from the commission of
crime; not even those who preacii the doc
trine. The way of escape i3 too easy; and
instead of reproaching those of your faith
who lead correct livc9 with what others have
done, I think you entitled to great credit for
not running into sin, when the consequences
are so easily escaped, according to your faith.
These facts should teach you to exercise
great prudence in charging licentiousness on
the faith of your neighbors, and a great deal
of chanty for their acts, when they fail
; to square with the standard of perfect rec
| titude.
I shall now introduce one or two more
proof texts. In Eph. 1; 9, 10, Paul informs
us that God has “ made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good
I pleasure which he bath purposed in himself;
that in the dispensation of the fulness ot
j time, be might gather together in one al^
! things in Christ, both which are in heaven,
and which are on earth; even in him.” Here
are the mystery of God’s will; his goodplea
\ sure; and his purpose, all pledged to gather
I all things in one, in Christ. It is not yet
done, it is not said at what precise point of
time it is to be done; but it is to be “in the
dispensation of the fulness of time.” This
j harmonizes beautifully with Paul’s teaching
in 1 Cor. 15; 28, in which he assures us that
all things shall be subdued unto Christ, and
that when ali things are thus subdued “the
Son also himself shall be subject unto him
that put all things under him, that God may
be All in All. Nova’, my dear sir, I ask
you, and I press the question, will all things
be finally subdued to Christ, and God be
! come ALL IN ALL ? If this ever comes to
i pass, that God is all in all, where will your j
‘•finally impenitent” be, about whom you so
often speak ? You will not pretend to deny 1
that Paul is here speaking about the final 1
consummation of Christ’s Mediatorial reign. ‘
It is too clear to admit of a doubt. The ‘■
consummation is to be all things subdued
unto Christ; the Son subject unio the Father; j
and God All in All. Build as many argu
ments as you please for endless punishment
upon the use pf the phrase of indefinite sig
nification; ridicule the idea of the final holi
ness of all men as much as you may; appeal
to the prejudices of education in behalf o
your favorite dogma; but here stands the i
declaration of the inspired Apostle, in an ar- |
gnmeut confessedly relative lo the final con.
summation, that all tilings shall then be sub- !
dued unto Christ, and that God shall then be
all in all. The rock of Gibralter stands not ■
more firmly and immovably,defying the fury
of the mad waves which roar and lash its
base, than does this assertion of Paul, in de
fiance of any and every argument y >u can
draw /-om the signification of Tcotasin aionion.
Paul, .n order to assure us that he desires
the phrase all things, in his argument, to be
taken in its most extended signification, limi
ted only by the nature of tilings, informs us
that. Av tieu he asserts the subjection of all
things to Christ, he only means to except
the Father, wiio put all things under him.—
You know that when an exception is made,
all which is not excepted is included in the
general proposition. Under this rule all men
are to be subdued unto Christ, and hence
Paul here teaches the final salvation of all
men. Respectfully yours,
D. B. CLAYTON.
iMmtllmn),
From the Home and School Journal.
“You may come as far as the Entry,
Tom.”
NOT A LOVE STOIiY.
BV 11 ATT IN. •
“You may come as far as the entry,
Tom,” said Mrs. Bennett as she passed
with measured steps from the dining
room to the parlor. Who was Mrs.
Bennett? First, let me tell you who
Tom was. lie was one of eight children
of an industrious farmer wiio owned
about one hundred acres near the forks
of the far-famed Susquehanna River.
Tom had three brothers and two sisters
older than himself, and one brother and
one sister younger.
I am thus minute that the reader may
see just where Tom Steward was at
home, and thus be better able to com
prehend his history abroad.
Mr. Stew ard’s family were just about
as “smart” as other people in general,
and that was sufficient; they were
brought up to habits of industry, and
their moral and religious training was
wholesome. His circumstances did not
however, admit of his giving his children
a liberal education ; yet they were all, I
believe, at various ages from twelve to
seventeen, common school graduates;
that is, they had all “ciphered” through
Pike’s Arithmetic and parsed through
Kirk ham’s Grammar.
They also patronized the village sing
ing school, a very modest institution it
was too, by the w r ay. But llickock and
Fleming’s collection in patent notes was
a very popular time-book in its day, and
ihe Steward family thought they knew
as much about the standard work as their
neighbor; they claimed no more; they
would not have rested with less. Many
a family concert was given from the old
fashioned “upper-porch” where violin,
flute and accordian all blending with
some half dozzen voices, made the hills
and Steward’s hollow melodious with
such pieces as Saxony, Brattle Street,
Bath Chappel, St. Mary’s Chapel, &e.
But as the younger boys grew up,
Mr. Steward, not having steady employ
ment for them all on the farm, the eldest
took charge of a district shool, and
Thomas was placed in the employment
of Mr. Bennett, a village merchant who
had but recently abandoned his farm,
and was now experimenting in merchan
dise. It was “Tom's” business to be
generally useful about the house and
store, and steadily to sleep in the store
at night, armed lor defence against bur
glars.
Mr. Bennett had three daughters, two
of whom were, at the time of which we
are now speaking, grown up. They
were decidedly handsome, and had some
superficial accomplishments, though they
were both what could commonly beeall
ed dull scholars, notwithstanding their
educational advantages were by no
means limited. They were particularly
dull in music. The parlor was graced
with a second hand piano, but beyond
this fact the gracefulness of the institu
tion of music in Mr. Bennett’s parlor
was not known. Their stock of enter
tainment was excedingly small. One
could perform with a moderate degree of
accuracy, “The Camds are comingthe
other “The soldier’s joy.”
You now have more than a hint who
Mrs. Bennett was; l will add, she was a
woman of a moderate stock of informa
tion, rather accomplished in manner, and
liberally proud. This last trait, byrea
son of some peculiarities of deportment,
frequently exposed her to the charge of
haughtiness. Thomas, however, was
well suited with his mistress, and up to
the time she addressed him in the terms
above quoted, entertained the kindest of
feelings towards her. He felt that all
due respect had been paid him as a mem
ber of Mr. Bennett’s family. He usual
ly spent his evenings in the dining-room
when not needed in the store. His son
ciety seemed quite acceptable, especially
when Arabella, the youngest and bright
i est of the three girls, needed any assis
tance in her arithmetic or grammar.
, Besides he played the flute tolerably
well, and this added somewhat to his ac
j ceptability.
Ou the occasion above referred to,
several of the young people of the vil
lage and vicinity had called to spend
the evening and w-ere of course ushered
! into the parlor. Now, Thomas was a
j young man of too much good sense to
suppose that he was entitled to a seat in
: the parlor with the visitors of Mr. Ben
nett’s family. But on this occasion he
felt that he had claims, ’iiie company
was made up of his schoolmates and
others moving in the same grade of so
ciety with himself. He expected to lie 1
recognized ; and having arranged his ap
parel and given due attention to his
personal appearance, he took his seat
near the door opening into the hall or
“entry” which separated the dining-room
from the parlor, awaiting an invitation.
Here he sat, not entirely indifferent to
the boisterous hilarity of the company as
the doors opened and closed admitting an
occasional gust of music or of mirth
across the hall. Mrs. Bennett, in pass
ing observed that he was interested, and
supposing from his appearance that lie
expected an invitation to participate in
the social enjoyments of the evening,
those to give him to understand that he
was a privileged character, and that his
privileges embraced the boon of stand
ing outside of the parlor door to hear the
sounds of music and mirth inside ; ac
cordingly, ’■he addressed him in the spir
it-withering words, “Fou may come as
far us the entry , Tom.”
Thomas filled with indignation rose
from his seat, took his hat and repaired
to the store. Mr. Bennett soon retired
and left him in charge, with instructions
to be cars ul of the fire, and close the store
at 9 o’clock.
Nine o’clock came, and he was left
alone to reflect upon the indignities he
had suffered from those whose respect he
htid meiit and, “Who is Mrs. Bennett,”
said he to himself, “that shs should toler
ate Tom Steward's presence in the ‘en
try,” Avhile Kate Bennett seated at the
rickety old piano, thumps ‘The camels
are coming,’ or Mag gives the ‘Soldier’s
Jo>’ fits? Or Avho are their cousins,
Joe Spatlbrd or Jim Shaffer, that they
think J am not a suitable associate for
them, when neither one of them knows
Old Ilurdred from Hail Columbia?
And Avho are Dick Dreadway and John
llolt, neither of whom can state a single
question in the single rule of three, or
measure a pile of boards ? And who is
Tom Steward that he should consider
himself injured by any treatment which
the Bennett class are capable of inflicting
upon him ? Thomas no doubt cherished
feelings of resentment not decidedly
commendable while the above thoughts
were revolving in his mind but he soon
overcame them.
Ifow much of the night he spent in re- i
flection, how much in sleeping, and how
much in laying plans for the future we
need not inquire. But as the sun rose
the following morning it rose to illumin
ate a world which the neglected but spir
ited youth had just determined to take ;
by storm. The indignities he had receiv
ed had induced a resolution of ven
geance which nothing short of the pow
ers of death or the frown of heaven could
suspend.
The avengement resolved upon was
not of that character which would inter- i
sere with the rights of others; but
which would compel the world to con
cede to him his own. It was a ven
geance which would degrade none , but
elevate him. Reader, need I say that
resolution was founded upon, and ended
in the acquisition and proper use of know
ledge? lie by some means blundered
into the universally received sentiment
that “ knowledge is power.’
Ills first object was to prepare him
self to take chargeof a district school and
make his services In that sphere available
in the acquisition of funds to prosecute
his studies further. He applied himself
diligently and in due time appeared be.-
fore the school committee, passed a most
triumphant examination, was employed
to teach his own school district, though
comparatively but a boy, two at least of
the young men who where recognized as
guests the evening on which he was pro
scribed becoming his pupils, much to
their own mortification as well as that of
the “Bennett class” generally, lie was
very successful as a teacher.
From the district school as a teacher
he entered a neighboring academy as a
student. . Music was a part of his edu
cation by no means neglected, and hav
ing a peculiar taste for this branch rs
the fine arts he finally concentrated his
energies in this direction. It required a
perseverance almost superhuman to ac
quire an independent use of the key
board with the disadvantages under
which he labored; yet his efforts were
based upon an unshaken resolution
which he kept ever before hi3 mind; suc
cess was hence inevitable.
The sequel is, there is now moving in
the musical circles of the West, an inde
pendent spirited young man ot unim
peachable moral character, whose known
presence in the “entry” would be consid
ered a sufficient apology should Mag or
Molly Bennett decline to entertain vis
iters with music ou the piano in the par
lor.
It is worthy to remark, however, that
he would never perform “The Camels
are Coming,” or “The Soldier’s Joy.”
Even under the sound of those pieces he
cannot conceal his agitation. lie says
they reproduce in his mind the sensations
he experienced when Mrs. Bennett re
marked, “ You may come as far as the
entry, Tom.”
POL I T IC A L_.
Warren Akin—A Kkrtrli.
I The folioAving sketch ofCo!. Akin, Avhich
we find in the Atlanta Confederacy, AVili be
I read with interest :
Col. \\ arrkn Akin, of Cass, the Opposi
tion Candidate for Governor. —lt is fash
ionable and supposed to be popular, at this
day and time, to underrate the early advan
tages of those who are candidates for posi
tions of high trust and public confidence.
Me have numberless instances of over
wrought pictures designed, more for popular
efi6Ct than a strict regard for truth.
It is due to the public, and to candor, that
a simple, unvarnished sketch of Col. Akin
j should be published.
The information w T e shall give of she histo
ry of the gentleman, Ave gathered from a
couple of distinguished jurists, who haA’e
known him from his infancy. Both of these
gentlemen are his w r arm personal friends, one
of whom w’ill support him for Governor, the
other will noL
Then to the narrative:
\\ Akin is of humble but highly re
spectable parentage, born on Beaverdam
Creek, Elbert county, Ga., in the year 1814.
The circumstances of his family deprived him
of the blessings and advantages of education.
He was a common field laborer, assisting his
parents in rearing their family, until arriving
at the age of eighteen, when he left Elbert
with his broad-axe upon his shoulder to hew
his way through a world of competition and
rivalry.
There being much excitement in the coun
try at that time about the gold regions of
Lumpkin county, the stout-hearted, youth
lui, but determined boy soon found himself
mining for gold in the vicinity of Dahloncga.
He toiled for ten months in the capacity of
a day laborer, and Avith his hard earnings
purchased a few book3 and learned to spell
and read.
’lhe society of the place avas of the most
reckless and dissipated character, yet it failed
to ensnare the determined youth. He spent
hi? few leisure moments in the improvement
of his neglected mind, and by the sweat of
his brow, labored in the bow ; ells of the earth
to make himself independent, respectable
and useful.
After the expiration of ten months, he had
not only improved himself in education, but
hud saved a sn*all amonnt of money, with
which he purchased, on Pettit’s creek, near
the present village of Cas a , a poor tract of
land. With his own hands, he cut logs and
built a saw mill, aud from this mill timber
was furnished out of which the village of
Cas-ville was built.
Pursuing the business of a saw mill keeper
for some tim**, he determined to turn his at
tention to the study of law. lie verysoou
entered the law office of Hon. David Irwin,
of Cassville, and was admitted to the bar in
1838. His comprehension and rapid ad
vances :ti his profession was remarkable, and
he soon formed a copaitnership in the law
with A. R. Wright, under the style of Akin
& Wright. This copartnership was uninter
rupted until the election of A. R. Wright
as Judge of the Cherokee Circuit in the fall of
1843.
Col. Akin continued a lucrative practice,
and has always resided at Cassville since his
first settlment at that place.
Cass county, in the early settlement of
the Cherokee country, was, as yet, a con
trolling county. And being in the centre of
the Cherokee purchase, there arose many
difficult problems in Ihe law. Suits were
innumerable, and abtruae, based upon land
purchase*, land titles, mortgages, Ac.
Although comparatively a Avilderness
country, yet some of the best legal talent of
the State practiced in the circuit.
Politically, Col. Akin has always been a
consistent Old Line Whig. He ha® never
belonged to any other paity or organ : zation.
He kept aloof from the Know Nothing or
ganization. In 1848, he was placed upon
tbe electorial ticket of Taylor and Fillmore.
In 1850 he was a member of the Georgia
C invention, took an active part in the delib
erations, and Avas proraiuent in the estab
lishment of the Fourth resolution of what
is commonly known as the Georgia Platform.
He Avas appointed attorney of the W. &
A. R. R. by Governors Crawford and Cobb,
aud assisted Col. Clayton in winding up the
business of Gov. Cobb’s Administration, in
the beginning of Gov. Johnson's first term.
We presume there is no man in the State
Avho has had more to do w’ir.h the affairs of
the W. &A. R. 11. than Warren Akin. He
has been the consulting attorney for the
road for quite a number of years, under all ,
administrations, until the installation of the j
present dynasty.
Col. Akin is a Christian gentleman of the
Methodist faith, and is noted for his piety
and liberality ot sentiment.
At the last commencement of the College
ceremonies at Cassville, in a public address,
he proposed to be one of ten to raise ten
thousand dollars for the education of poor
young ladies at the Methodist College at
that place. Aud at the Commencement of
the Baptist College at Cassville, in a public
address, he proposed to be one of twenty to
raise twenty thousand dollars for the educa
tion of poor young men.
Many other instances of his benevolence
and unostentatious charity might be men
tioned.
His leading characteristics are energy, de
termination, integrity, and economy. Having
as warm and benevolent heart as ever beat
in the bosom of man.
For intellectual endowments he is sur
passed by few men in the State, and Avhen
ever the people meet him lace to lace and
toe to toe, they will be satisfied with his abil
ities.
In his manners, he is a quiet, unobtrusive
gentleman, ever unmindful of those clap
trap arts with which small men seek to
receive the favor of the thoughtless and the
idle.
His devotion to family and friends has
never been surpassed by any man. And no
man ever questioned his truth or doubted his
honor.
Col. Akin for a number of years has been
wholly restricted from the turmoil of poll- |
tics, and it is only through the persuasion of
friends of all parties, that he enters once
more the arena.
Such a man must succeed!
It Won’t Takk.— The Edgefield fS. C.)
Advertiser ; an influential democratic (!)
; journal, is seeking to impose Senator Douglas
! upon the people of that State, as not a very
improper man for their support for the
Presidencv. The Advertiser will find it an
uphill business to indoctrinate the democracy
I of South Carolina, or of any other southern
State, into the support of the revolutionary
quatter sovereignty and anti-southern her
| esiea of Mr. Douglas. The democracy of
the South is not yet prepared to trample the
Constitution, their birth-rights, and the
honor of the country under their feet, that
Senator Douglas, a traitor to their cause and
their section, and the Union, and the worst
of abolitionists, may be lifted to the height
of his vanity and ambition. It won’t take.
Jacksonville (Flu.) Standard.
For the Georgia Citizen.
To IJt< 1 otrr* of she Tlilrd I)ia
iraet.
If one could believe the statements made
by the Democratic press, in this districti
they would have Col. Speer elected whether
or no. They say they believe Col. Speer
will be elected, if the party does its duty.
When Bailey last run against Trippe, they
raised the cry then that they believed Bailey
would be elected. They no more believed
Bailey would then than they believe Col.
Speer will be elected now. I think the ap
peals to elect Col. Speer now, and at this
late day, to endorse the Kansas bill, Squat
ter Sovreiguty, aud Judge Douglas, an in
sult to the voters of this district. This dis
tact has never endorsed the Kansas bills and
Squatter Sovreignty, but to the contrary.
Ttie people of the third district have never
wavered; but like true lovers of the coun
try, repudiated Douglass and his Kansas bill
supporters. Voters cf the third district,
don’t be deceived. Douglass will be the
Democratic candidate for President in I860;
and you will see Col. Speer supporting Doug
las in ISGO, as he defended him in 1856, as j
the champion of Southern rights in the Ter- j
ritories. Tbe impudence of the Democratic 1
press and leaders, in the third district, is tru- !
ly astonishing! They want the people to j
elect a man to congress Avho has constantly j
and steadily opposed a majority of the peo
ple on the political issues. Will you, people
of the third district, now repudiate the prin- ‘
ciples you have stood by, and so triumphant
ly vindicated by electing your gallant Trippe
to Congress? Remember you would not
take Douglas and his Kansas bill, Avhen a
man was denounced as a traitor to the South,
who opposed that double-faced and ruinous
concern to the South and country. I know
you well; you cannot be seduced into the
support of a man, who at least, has endorsed
the Kansas swindle. Guards .of the third, !
up and at the enemy. You have in Tlios. I
Hardeman a standared bearer worthy of
your support. Stand by him, Avork for him,
strike for him! He biavely bears your ban
ner aloft in this contest. It is unfurled to
the breeze, aud on its folds is inscribed
Truth, Justice, and Equal llight3. Long
may it wave in triumph over Douglas’s
Squatter Sovreignty Kansas bill and its open
and coyer! supporters.
One of the Old Guards.
From the Atlanta American.
Gov. Brown and the Slate Road
—the Humbug Exposed.
The friends of Governor Brown, as well as
that dignitary hiraseifj have re solved to rest
his re-election on the management of the
State Road. Very well, so be it. It is thus
admitted that he has, and claims no other
merit than the supposed good management
ol’ this great interesL It is his entire stock
in trade. All his political capital is invested
here, and if he looses, he is ruined. Bad as
his case is in other respects, it is worse in
this. We shall demonstrate what we assert
by figures derived from the published Re
ports of the Superintendents to the Govern
ors.
The gross earnings of the State Road for
the year ending
SepL 30, 1854, were $591,154 78
Working Expenses, (43 per ct.) 253.031 78
Net Earnings, $338,123 00
Gross Eirnings to Sep. 30, ’55, $088,950 5G
Working Expenses, (37 J per ct.) 259,883 33
Net Earning3 $429,047 23
Gross Earnings to Sep. 30,’56, $8 7 1,366 53
“Working Expenses(43£ per ct.) 380,668 85
Net Earnings, $490,697 68
Gross Earnings to Sep. 30,’57, $900,808 95
Working Expenses, (884 per cL) 435,827 55
Net Earnings, $464,981 40
The total of the net earnings for the four
years ol Governor Johnson’s administration
was, according to ollicial reports as quoted
above, 81,722,849 31. The yearly average j
of the net earnings Avas $430,712 32, and
the monthly average $35,892. All the !
above facts are deduced from, and supported
by, the Reports of the Superintendents and
the last annual message of Governor John- ■
son. and therefore indisputable.
Now turn to the report for the year ending
SepL 30, 18.50, and notice the contrasts.
Remember that GoA-ernor Joseph E. Brown
plumes himself upon his management of the ;
Road —that he and lii3 friends rely upon
this —upon this and nothing else, to secure
his re-election.
The gross earnings of the Road to
September 30, IS>B, were. SBOO,OOI 28
Working Expenses, (49J perct.,) 394,227 84 !
Net Earnings $405,773 84
The above exhibit shows that the net
earnings of the Road, after deducting work
ing expenses, averaged more per year during
Governor Johnson's administration , than the
first year of G-overnor Brown’s. The differ
ence in favor of Governor Johnson is about
twenty-five thousand dollars per annum ! j
Ti.e statemeut also shows that the net earn
ings, or profits of the Road, for the year end
ing September 30, 1855, exceeded those of
the year ending September 30, 1858, nearly
twenty-five thousand dollars!! and this, too,
with an interval of three years, during which
the Nashville and Chattanooga, and the East
Tennqjisee and Georgia Railroads were com
pleted. The two succeeding years still fur
ther and more largely exceeded the first un
der Governor Brown—one bjr nearly eighty
five thousand dollars, and the other by near
ly sixty thousand!
The average net earnings of the Road per ,
month, for the entire term of Governor
Johnson’s administration— four years —was
$30,392, while the average for the seventeen
months during which payments have been .
made under Gov. Brown is only $29,235; !
showinga DIFFERENCE AGAINST GOV. ;
BROWN OF NEARLY KT SEVEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS PER MONTH,
|3F” and that, too, with a better equipped
Road, and more feeders.
Look at this exhibit, citizens of Georgia,
and say whether Joseph E. Brown, after all
his bragging, and all the boasting of his or
gans and the leaders of the party, is entitled
to any credit for his management of this
great interest. The net profits ot 1800 were
greater than those of 1858—and the three
i years preceeding his administration better
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than his first yeai! and yet he and his
friends brag over the result and say that for
this he should lie re-elected. After all that
has been said, the figures prove him to be a
conceited boaster, and wholly without merit
where he claims to be strongest. Will the
people permit so vile a deception to be play
;ed offou them ? We believe not. Can they
be so blinded and humbugged ? We do not
I believe they can. The administration of
Joseph E. Brown cannot stand the test of an
investigation —it is an unmitigated humbug.
It has only to be exposed to be overwhelm
ed with defeat ana consigned to the oblivi
ionit so richly deserves. Let the Opposition
, Press and Speakers spread abroad the facts
and it will be done. Let them work, and
j place these fact 9 before the people. His
management of the State Road is his only
1 claim to re-election —no other is set up. This
destroyed and he falls. The facts of the re
cord will destroy it, and that utterly. Those
we have given are taken from reports before
us— all of them Democratic. They are not
1 our facts, nor made by us. We do not ask
the people to receive them as such. Every
voter in the State has, or may have, access
to them. These facts prove the net profits
of the Road to have been less the last year
than the three years previous to that! Remem
ber that, people of Georgia, and ponder it,
and then say whether Joseph E. Brown is
entitled to your vote? We challenge any
Democratic paper to deny our Gets or dis
pute our conclusions. They dare not and
will not do it.
Who Defeated the Lecompton Con
stitution?
As divers efforts have been made to cast
the blame of the failure of the Lecompton
Constitution upon “six Southern Ameri
cans,” we have examined the Congressional
Globe,and find on page 1435 the only direct
vote that ever was taken in the House of
Representatives, upon tlie naked question of
the Lecompton Constitution. The vote was
upon the proposition of Mr. Quitman to
adopt the Senate Bill, divested of the Green
amendment, in lieu of the substitute of Mr.
Montgomery. Had this proposition passed,
Kansas would have been admitted upon the
Lecompton Constitution, without any reser
vation or equivocation. But itwas rejected.
The yeas were 75—G2 Democrats and seven
Americans, as follows:
Democrats who voted yea. Atkins,
Avery, Barksdale, Bocoek, Bonham, Bowie,
Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Barnett, Caskie.John
B. Clark, Clay, Clemens, Ciingman, Cobb,
Barton Craige, Crawford, Curry, I’ueben
Davis, Dowdell, Edmunson, Elliott, Faulk
ner, Garnett, Gartrell, Goode, Hawkins,
Hopkins, Houston, Jackson, Jenkins, Jewett,
Keitt, Jacob M. Kunkel, Lamar, Letcher,
McQueen, Mason, Miles, Msllson, Moore,
Leyton, Phelps, Powell, Quitman, Reagan,
Ruffin, Sandidge, Savage, Scales, Seward,
j Henry M. Shaw, Shorter, Singleton, Win.
Smith, Stallworth, StevensoD, James A.
Stewart, Talbot, Miles Taylor, Watkins,
Winslow, A. R. Wright, J. V. Wright.—6s.
Americans wno voted yea. —Anderson,
Eustis, Joshua Hill, Maynard, Robert P.
Trippe, Woodson and Zollicofler—7.
The nays were 1G0—57 Democrats, eight
Americans and 95 Republicans.
Democrats who voted nay. —Adrian, Ar
nold, Bishop, Bures, Chapman, Horace F.
Clark, John Cochrane, Cockerill, Corning,
Cox, Davidson, Davis of Indiana, Dewart,
Dimmick, English, Florence, Foley, Gillis,
Greenwood, Gregg, Groesbnck, Hall of Ohio,
Harris of Indiana, Haskins, natch, Hickman,
Hughes, Huyler, Geo. W. Jones, J. Glancy
Jones, Owen Jones,Kelly, Landy, Lawrence,
Maclay, McKibbin, S. S. Marshall, Miller,
Montgomery, Morris, Pendleton, Russell,
Scott, Searing, Aaron Shaw, Sickles, Robt.
Smith, S. A. Smith, Stephens, Geo. Taylor,
Ward, Warren, White, Wbitely, Wilson,
W ortendy ke—s7.
Americans who voted nay —James Craig,
Davis of Maryland, Gilmer, Harris of Md.,
11. Marshal, Ready,' 1 ’ Ricaud, Underwood-8.
It is not necessaiy here to name the Re
publicans, as they a’l voted nay. If these 57
Democrats had voted for the proposition it
would have passed, but they by their votes
defeated it, and “gave the preference to the
Montgomery amendment; and now some
of the leaders of that party seize upon a vote
which was taken afterwards, in which “six
Southern Americans” voted against them,
and accuse them of defeating the measure.
But they in this last vote, have not the hon
esty to acknowledge that 28 Democrats vo
ted precisely ag the “six Americans” did. —
Griffin Union.
* Ready has since been taken up by the
Democrats and run as their candidate for
Congress in Tennessee. He was beaten, as
he ought to have been, by Mr. Hatton, Op
position.
Warren Akin and Poor Young Men.
Vc learn from the Cassville Standard, a
Democratic paper, that the Hon. Warren
Akin, the Opposition candidate for Govern
or of Georgia, has succeeded in raising a
fund of ten thousand dollars for the educa
tion of poor young men in the Cassville
Mule College. He now proposes to raise the
suin of twenty thousand dollars in addition
to the above, for the education of poor young
ladies in the Female College, of which sum
he will give one thousand.
The man who thus works for the poor,
was once a poor ragged boy himself. Born
in the county of Elbert of humble parent
age, he learned to read, write and cipher at
an old field school. We next hear of him
digging for gold in Lumpkin county, where
he accumulated enough to buy a few law
books and clothes to hide his nakedness. He
went to Cass county, read law alone, started
uj*the hill of life, and is candidate for Gov
ernor of the Empire State of Georgia. In
the midst of his success, however, be has
not forgotten his early struggles; and hence
lie is the friend of the poor young boys and
girls of his native State. — Upson Pilot.
2Tew Mail Arrangements,
J. L.Mustian. Esq., Presidentofthe Mus
cogee Railroad has been informed by Mr.
i Geonre W Adams, Superintendent of the
! o„ t ral Railroad, that the bid of Mr. Cuy
ler for carrying the mails over the South
! Western and Muscogee Railroad from Savan
nah and Augusta, once daily to Columbus,
! has been accepted by the Department at
| \Y ashington.
The mail will leave Augusta fifteen min
utes after twelve a. m.; Savannah, eleven,
p. m. ; arriving at Macon, about thirty min
utes past nine, a. tn. Returning, they will
run as now, with the Muscogee evening train.
The other train without a mail will run
according to the present schedule.
As the Georgia Railroad has two dail*
mails it is the intention of Mr. C uyler that
the South Western and Muscogee roads shall
have the same number. As soon as the
schedules are fixed to Macon, Mr. Mustian
j will receive due notice.— Columbus Times,
