Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOLUME 10. From Ijfc* I!ln<rst*-L 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 XUMBER 22* 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,