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BOlitfUTO.V, AISBET & BARNES) Publishers and Proprietors. *. v j o * [tOt-GIITON, , 1C. M8BET. I Editors. (Llje (T anfrbrrafc Pinion . fu'ih Fed IJ id,l>>, in AJi/ledgerU/e, tin., (/ oj Hancock and 11 ’ilkinson Sts., (ojrpovte Court Home.) A! $3 a year in Advance. j — THE CONFEDERATE UNION. VOLUME XXXIII.] 5I1LIEDGE YILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 21,1863. bites op advertising. Per square oj twelve tines. 0 „.i.,*ertion*l HO,awlfifty ccutsfor each subsequent COBiUiOUKW. - r u .iM-‘«iit without the specification of theuumberol ni-rrtions will be published till forbid and charged j.oordinglj'. jj l’rofessiocal Cards, per year, where they donotexceedSix Likes - - $10 00 / 1,'wrat contract will be made with those who wish to AJrtrlhc by de ye 'r,occupying a sqncifed space LEC if Lane A NEW RE 11 MEAT for the Department of Middle Florida. ’General Howell CoMi’s Command. Hired a Substitute to Stay Behind. We have heard of many cases ol men liable to conscription hiring sub stitutes to take their places in the ranks; but the instance reported below is uncommon and noteworthy. The 3*L ADVERTISEMENTS. d^ad Negroes, by Administrators, Ea rs .ir tiualWhis, arerequired by law. lobe bold ■ first 1 ue.-w.iy in the uioni li; between the houis o! lb in tie torenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court uottse in theooanty m which the property is sit uated. -Votive of theaesales must be given in a public ga- relt? I I day* previous to the day ofsale. Notice* lorthe sale of pcnional property must begiv- t*n in like manner 111 day* previous to sale day. Notice* to l lie debtor* and creditors of an estate must nl.a i»e published 40 days. Notice that application will be madetothe Conrtol Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. for letters of Administration Guardianship i Are., must be published 30 days—for dismission froif. [ Administration, monthly si.e months—for disutissioi trom Guardianship, 40 days. Kales for foreclosure of ‘Mortgage must be published month!a far four months—for establishing lost pnpers for the full space of three vwnti s—forcompelUngtillee from’ Executors or administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, th« full space of three u. mths. . Publications will always be continued according to the-e. the legalrequiremcnts, ni dess o t her wise ordered at the following RATES: Citations, on letters ofadministration, Ac. f ‘27b “ “ dismiasory trom Admr’n. 45(1 “ Guardianship. 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes . 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of persona! property, ten days, 1 sqr. 1 50 Sileofland or negroes by Executors, &e. pr sqr. o 0(1 Estrays, two weeks 1 50 Per a man advertising his wifefin advance,) 5 00 rnilE ur.dcrsigi.nl having been authorized by i V0UUS[ volunteer who hired a Stthkti- X .1,. s,c,.„ .( ..: l ute to stay bn with tire ordnance wagon, while lie hastened to take part in the fight, was Seaborn Williams, of Tuskegee, Ala., a very modest and re tiring hut courageous youth, of-less than eighteen years, who was killed in the great light near Murfreesboro’, j The account which we copy is from a j letter from the Captain of his compa ny, which formed part of the 40th Ala- serve under Genera) Howell Cobb, in Ids depart ment ot Middle Florida, all persons v.hnlu-ve raised or may design to rinse Companies, .are in vited to correspond with me at Macon. Georgia. Companies of sixty-four, squads, non conscripts or exempts from any portion of tin Stale, and ll- so persons subject to const-tip!ion, residing in the district ot Middle Florida, and in the fol lowing named counties: Baker, Calhoun, C'iay, drowned rat figure which the stranger GREAT .SPEECH cut, streaked- it for the house. Having ; reached the door she stopped—turned,; and squealed—Oobbee—dam!” ‘•Good heavens!” said Thompson, j digging his heels between his horse’s i HON. D. W. YOitRHEES, ©X THE IS DEM MTV HILL. I partments in which the powers of the Uov- : eminent are placed, but the voice of the People is supreme over them all. The Ex- |®i' utnoca ° make no law, annul no lew, j nngenolaw. He j g not responsible for | bo laws as he linds them. They are made >y t lc j, eopJe tiu ][ , j 8lafiv * it and he » .imply their servant. to 'execute then- w,l thus expressed. ! he depart- ment.of the judicialy was created to inter- jpret and pronounco the meaning of law- ' and if the law, as thus declared by the """"courts, is not iu accordance with the popa- individual and national happiness. But if! ! ar ^ s hes,^it is to be corrected by new leg. [NUMBER Ir. ribs—-‘good heaveus! let me get out of this horrid place, where not only the men, but the very babes and suck lings swear at inoffensive travelers!” :k islatiou. But one department cannot in* vade or coerce the other when each con- lines itself to its constitutional boundaries. These rides are very old and very familiar, but they assume a new and wonderful sig nificance in the light of present events. I hey are like the face of an old friend be- Decatur Dougherty. Early. Lee, Mitchell, Miller, Randolph, Tern-111, Thomas, Worth, Chattahoo chee, Marion, Quitman, Stewart, Sumter, Schley, Taylor, Webster, Muscc^cc. Erfuralion ol K.ldinV Orphan*. Savannah, Starch 5’lst, I SOU. Mr. Editor:—I ask for space in your columns -to repeat, a suggestion, already made through some of our religious papers in regard to the education of the indigent Also, non-conscripts, exempts and THOSE ! 7 J ’ F“ 1 or l I,nns of oar soldiers who have fallen in *I T IME«/T TO CONSCRIPTION. in General 1 IkPgJUient. Capt. Abercrombie j this war. It may not be improper for me Cobb’s Department ^ | writes this concerning the matter: * to mention, that I have 1 bored among a bounty ot 5‘,,o an>j a complete outfit will be j “The day btTore the light, I receiv-1 oar lroo ps, from the. beginning of the strug- furnished to every A oliinttcr, as soon as he is * mistered in. ed au order to detai this people refuse, from this lime forward, J. to be led by these principles, an abyss of horror awaits our speedy entrance, as ter rible to tbe upright soul of a free-born American citizen as tbe flaming depths where the lost angels writhe in agony. | The world, it is true, will not stand still, - ivbrkd I.V Til E iiou.se OK it KPBK.SKNTA- i some other people more worthy the high . ® unexpectedly under terrible and start TivES, on the IStii of l-TB. 1S63. t toust will take up the cause of constitution- bn e circtnnstanees. I do not allude to . al government; but we will bo dropped in j 1 lCul af dine, because I supposo they c . , j gloom and utter despair l>v the wayside. I are new to the humblest mind in tbe land, oir, the lull now before the House has no b .. ... 1 I allude to them l.nw -vor K ; r f„ r .u ; c*ir, times like the present are ahvavs full era ’ I0We ' el * s, r» i°r lue pur- parallel m the history of this or any other , of( j. ing€r to fhe rig i l(g of{ j IC pcop! p ]„ j P°£c of asserting, as I do here now iu my Lee people. It is entitled A.iacttom an j lour j ike this, if we expect to retain the P ,ace as :l Representative of the people, demnify the ] resm.nt and other poisons institutious of Jil, er ty. an increased degree i that 1 ,c preseut Executive of tbi. Govern- of vigilance is required. For when the el- I ment bas usurped the powers of the judicial ements of political organization arc in coin- j ai ? c * ( . e ^ e o lsial be departments of the Con- motion, .'ind disorder pervades the whole j s * ltu * ion an extent which is totally sub- face of affairs, bad men in authority unbri- ve, ; siv , e of republican institutions, and not die the spirit of tyranny in their breasts j *? bo bcrno 1 b - v , a * re , e P. eo P «• I make the and leap over the walls of constitutional re- cha ^* aml W,1J sub,nlt tl,e P ro ° r to m 7 straint. Such periods in history have been * countrymen. the rich harvest of despotism. When the | , U ' Vl1 ,,ot bc denied on this floor or else- tl.under rolls along the sky and midnight i ™ e that tbe pus P cns i° n of the writ of gloom increases the terrors of the storm, the- savage beasts of the desert go forth ai.d ; , —- j very reluctantly, and went hack to, A NfAV DAILY IN MAI ON* j the train. Harly next moniiug, I saw J ; him again, with his " gun, in line. Il On the SECOND MOXDA\ of 1EB- j \ Ven t up to him ami asked him why I RUARY. inst., the undersigned will com-1 } ie was there. He replied, I have hir- j mcnce the publication of a new Daily l‘a-1 e d another man to stay behind with the i .j i per in JIacon under the title of Tli Daily Confederate. BOOK-BINDING Till: .Subscribi-r i.* now pre pared to do Book'Bind- ing, in all its branches Old Books rebound, &c. MUSIC bound in the best, style. Blank Books miTiiitHctnred to order. Prompt attention will be triv-L-u to all woik entiusted to tne. S. .f KIDD. 1'iiiwiTf in Botithnn Federal l iiion OBfre. Milledzevillij, Marcli irJth, 1861. 43 SBR2SS: For one year, Cash in advance $10 00 “ six inontlis, “ “ 5 00 “ three “ “ “* :j 00 “ one month, “ “ l 00 Advertisements inserted on the most lib eral terms, payable, in advance. From an experience of a quarter of a I century in the business of Journalism, the j Editor feels-confident in being able to fur- wagon, and il you will let me B pi er for to he with the company in the fight to-day. Unwilling to mortify him, I consented to his star. It should mu L-c forgotten, that onrarmy is composed almost exclusively of volun teers, who have proven themselves among ; ' the best, (if not tbe very best,) soldiers! e ’ ’f. Hie world lias ever seen. I am satislied this is owing in a great measure to their intelligence. Leaving out of the question the soldiers from other States, of whom I know but little, it is true of our Georgia soldiers that the proportion of those who cannot read does not exceed one per cent. I make this statement deliberately, and know whereof 1 affirm. And then you will scarce find a company that does not contain sometimesjas privates in the ranks graduates of Colleges a: d Universities.— Such men know and feel- their personal for suspending the privilege of tbe writ of haheus corpus, and acts done in pursuance thereof. But it embraces even more than its startling title would indicate. It gives to the Executive and all bis subordinates not merely sectiritj- for crimes committed against the citizens in times past, but con fers a license to continue in the futme the same unlimited exercise of arbitrary now- | . , ,, , , , , , , , * , 1 i thunder rolls alon er which has brought disgrace and danger i to the country. I propose, to tbe Lest of 1 my ability this day, to show that neither f , , , i i , ! fion do the same- Beniamin was a ravin future can be bestowed on those who have j - ’ violated, and who pronose farther to vio- j rent and fundamental principles j of constitutional liberty. Sir, tbe prope^^Muon and lawful cxer- j cisc of tbe pouj^^M^Kovcrumcnt consti- j tnte a qucstiln^^^^^uiie and paramount I importance. No people in tbe history of j the world ever long maintained security I from tbe foot of the oppressor who lost sight i • i raveii for their prey. Therulersofthena- indemmty for the past or impunity for the I - Y haheas corpus by proclamation, to which I have alluded, closed the civil courts of the country, from one ocean to the other, against the trial of any one arrested by th9‘ order of the President or his subordinates. ! It gave access to the vaults of the prison. It is the part of the natnie of trail man to sin against laws, hi. li human and divine, but God him- SPECIAL NOTICE. FIXIIE nnoi i signed having removed freni Mil- I iedgeville desires n.d intends to close up his business matters of that place speedily as possi ble. All persons indebted are notified that the no.esand accounts aie in the In nd* of J. A. Hkckhlove, andP. 11. Lawlfb, who are authori zed to collect and make settlen ei-ts If not ar ranged at an early day, settlements willbe enforced bv law. K5 tf. Ji. C. VAIL, Agent.- Western & Atlantic (Stale Railroad. ■RR0SS1 kfianU to Chattanooga, 138 Miles, Fare $0 00 JOHN S. ROWLAND, Sipt. fnaiM-ngrr Train. Leave Atlanta at..... Arrive at Chattanooga at Leave Atlanta at Arrive at Chattanooga at... Acronnnoilirlicn Pnuriigrr L’-ive Atlanta Arrive at Kingston Leave Kingston Arrive at Atlanta This Road connects each way with the Rome Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee A Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville it Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga. July 29, 1862. ’ 10tf - 7 30 P. M. 4 57 A. M . 4 (>n A. M. . 5 15 P. M. Train. .. 2 40 P M .. 0 57 P.M. .. 4 30 A. M .. 8 45 A M. lie was conspicuous for It is aljifcst reckless daring and courage, Aid though immediately fronting tli£ my’s artillery, which was but it' few yards iiom us and was sweeping j responsibility, and hence “every man’s a lanes through our ranks, lie boldly I hero.” Many of these heroes hare sacri- and fearlessly pressed straightforward tice d their lives in our defence, and jt^ while some others would attempt to _ te nie * Mr. Editor, foeciai-nte nisli to the reading public sucb a paper as I 8et*k some shelter fiotn tile intervon- ^, C11 orjfbkns!’ aMeast to such au extent will be acceptable. I be latest intelligence, : trees. Ills arm seemed to be tin j jy,i] qualify them to appreciate the by mail and telegraph, wid bc given, and j first to plant fl victorious banner upon , rights and privileges which they will enjoy no effort will bo spared to deserve u lib ; the enemy's artillery. But he was too under a.free government. If they bad eral patronage. I conspicuous a mark to pass unscathed j lived, their children would not have been EjF’Elcven copies of the-Daily will be ■ through the shower of balls and cards ; doomed to ignoYaticc, as well as poverty. ter that the enemy, was raining upon ; U* 11 nothing be done to prevent the eutail- us. and just as the enemy was giving j „ of s,,cJ ! an e p vil a P°n tb em ? ; . way, a fatal ball entered his bowels I I bel.eve it is perfectly pra«jt:cable to give ; , , , ,, c ,, i nil to tiiese pool orphans inour ctate a plain and passed through them, he le i but T, , J . 1 — — b — — «uu jaw o English education. (I trust many-of them week, to tbe oflice, next door below Ross j looking up from the spot consecrated j m{J y p e st ;j] inorc highly favored.) Up to & Coleman*8 Cotton Avenue, up-stairs. by a brave soldier’s fall, he saw tho | t )ie battle of Sharpsburg, tli ere were left UiF'No name entered without the cash, ! enemy flying in dismay and his com- j in Georgia three thousand six hundred and continued longer than the rades in hot pursuit to avenge his heighten widows. The battles which have sent for $100, or one copy, gratis, to ev ery agent who will procure Ten cash sub scribers at above rates. Business men ot Macon wishing to advertise, will please send in their favors during the present and no paper same is paid for. L. F. W. ANDREWS*. Macon, Feb. 2d, ISG3. fall.”. New Arrangement. Change of Schedule, on and after Monday 1 Itli inst THE Subscribers are convey- ns tho- C. S. .Mail from Seville via fcpnrta, Culver- ton and Powelt-on to Double W<-!l*,und would r*-*pcctfully invite the attention ol t!i< ir friends and the travelling jiublio. to their new and complete arrangement for travelling facilities over thialine.- . SCHEDULE—Leave Alilledgevilie after tbe nrnva of trains from Columbus. Me'-on and Savannah; Ar. : - ive in Sparta al 0 o’clock 1*. M. and at Double Well^ ■erne evening. Leave Double Well* alter the arrival of morning train* from Augusta. Atlanta and Athens; Arrive at Sparta 11 o’clock, A. 31.; Arrive at Milledgevillesame evening. With good Hack*, fine Stock and careful drivers »e solicit aliberal patronage. MOORE A FORM. glare* Offices—MHlcdgrritle HotelMilled gcrille;Ga Edwards' House. Sparta\ Moore's Hotel, Double Wdlt. July 11,1359. 8 tf - A California Story. Administrator's Sale. . t he 1 no * liern P art of S ^’ T>Y virtue of an order of the Court of Orclina- j (C al lfornla.) IS a Stream Called N uba I ) ry of Appling county, will be sold on tbe \ riVGr. ACTOSS it SOlllC GTltcrprisiUg 111- first Tuesday in MAY next, before the Court ! dividual If till t a bridge; and, Oil the House door in tiie town cl Holnicsville, Jppling ; , , , , , ' , , county, the following lands, belonging to the fs- , baillvS Somebody else built tllioe Ol tate of Henry Clary, late of said countv, deceit*- ! four llOUSCS. The inhabitants called ed: Number ltlij, in third district of said county, | t , , Vllba Dtlll). Three bars containing 390 acres, subject to a widow s dowery : r 1 for life time. Also, number 473 in the 4tli dis- were instantly erected, and the “town trict of said county, containing 490 acres, more or i i ncl - ease d rapidly. About 110011 OilC less. Terms on the day of sale Sold lor the i . , 1 • J ,, , , benefit Of the heirs. ' | coo[ lay, a sojourner III the land pass- willis clary, Adm’r ed this flourishing locality, and se*»'ng March ifitli, 1863. 44 tds k 1 ft ] 0 ug_](iorg(j(] specimen of humanity in a red shirt smoking before one of the bars, thus addressed him: ‘Hello!” ‘Hello!” replied the shirt with vig or, removing his pipe from his month. ‘What nlaco is this?” demanded be Executor's Sale. old before the Court. House door in tho town of Marion, Twiggs county, on j the first Tuesday in MAY, within the legal hours ! ! of sale, the following land belonging to the es- j j tate of Hartwell L. Solomon, deceased, to-wit: | Six hundred andTwentv-five acres,- lying and i __ T . . beyig in said county, and in tho 25th and 27th dis- i ‘»» hat place IS j tilets, numbers not recollected, hut known as . t] !C traveler, whose name WHS TilOllip- ’ the settlement on which Bennett Jones now lives. ! and the settlement known as the Davidson place, adjoining lands of John Faulk, Wm. L Solo nion, and C R. Faulk. Terms on Hie day of sale. JOHN FAULK Ex r. March 2d, 1863. ls 42 tds. A dm in istralor's Sal e.—Post/ion ed. W ILL be sold on the First Tuesday in MAY next, before the Court House door in Nashville. Berrien county, within the usu al hours of sale. Lot number three jjundred and thirty in the sixth District, originally Irwin now Berrien, as the properly of William Garrett, dec’d. Sold by virtue of an order from the Ordinary of Wilkinson county, for the benefit of thecrejitors of said deceased 'Terms cash. E. CUMMIMG, . JNO. M. GARRETT. ) Ad “ Ti JOHltJ T. BOWDOIM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BtTOSTOS.Bk. Katonton, Ga., Feb. 14, I860. 38 tf. 50 Saw Cotion Gin for Sale. • ONE of WATSON'S best 50 Saw Cotton Gins -s offered for sale. Tiiis Gin is new, and is equal to any in use. Sold for no fault, the present ow ners having no use for it. Any planter wanting* good Gin,can have a chance to get one at a re daction on the regular price. Apply at this office ■ otV.Tift nr.f. H. Watson.at Albany HOES X f) DOZ. HOES Just received and for sah OIJ by WRIGHT & BROWN. Feb 2d, 1863. < f - A DUN! A DUN!!. r p 11E undersigned request all persons indebted to them to call and settle. HERTY & HALL. Milledgeville, Jan 10th 1862. tf s **'t.n.iRviK. OKEEKLEX Bt'Tt.EB IRVIN & BUTLER, attorneys at law, ALBANY, Georgia.- PRACTICE in the Superior Courts of the Soutl I H esteinCircuit,—in Terrell, Randolph,' qnd Ear ■ Viatic* in the I’utaula Circuit,—in Worth and Ma . '■’0 Counties, in the Macs n Circuit, in tho United , '■* Circuit Court ct Savannah,—and by specia 'lirurt.in any County iu Southern Georgia. •Isn-iary lat’ISoO. 34 tf. £THERIDGE 8g SON, Factors, Commission and Forwarding M3RCHAN TS, SAVANNAH, CA. * D ETHERIDGE. j| n, y 15th, 1856. W. D. ETHERIDGE, Jr 8 tf Plantation for Sale. J h ER for sale a well improved Plantation : 7 l “ )ln three miles of Milledgeville, contain- “ ' ,ljar te8n hundred acres of land. B . WILLIAM A. JARRATT. P,b - L 1 *9 m+ Spool Cotton, 2 0 Coats Spool Cotton for Sale by J WRIGHT & BRQWN- r «b 2d is April 3, 1863. 47 tds ; son. i The answer of tho shirt- wa« unex pected: ! “Yuba Dam!” * There was about fifty yards bc- ! tween them, and the wind was blow- | ing. Mr. Thompson thought he had been mistaken. “What did you say?” he asked. “Yuba Dam,” replied the shirt cheery I fully. “What place is this?” roared Mr. I Thompson. “Yuba Dam!” said tbe shirt in a slightly elevated tone of voice. “Luokce here!” yelled the irate Thompson, “I asked you politely what this place was, why in thunder don’t you answer?” The stranger became excited. He Administrator's Sale. A GREEABLE to an order of the Court or Or dinary of Bulloch county, will he *rdd before tbe Court House door, in Statesboro, on the first. Tuesday in JUNE next, one negro boy, named Cuyler, eighteen j’enra of age. Sold as tlie prop erty otO.H. P. Lanier, for a division among the . —. . ~ heirs of said sstatp. Terms made known on the ; rOSC and replied With the voice Ol .‘III day of sale. BENJAMIN WILSON, Adtn'r. CATHERINE LANIER, Admr’x. April tllfc. 1H8S. n i'. 47 tds. Appling Sheriff Sales. V* TILL be field on the fiist Tnesday in MAY eighty pounder: “Y ou-ba Dam! Don’t you liear that?” In* a minute Thompson, burning with the wrath of the righteous, jump ed ofl'his horse and advanced on tbe next, before the Court House dour in the i stranger with an expression not to be own of Holmesville, Appling county. Georgia, j nl j s ^ a ^ cn . ’p|, e shirt arose and assumed between tliu usual hours of s*le, the following - lie lots of Land,to-wit: Nos.6ti. 4ii. 410,313, 53o. 1 a posture ot oflcnse and detensc. 2, 280,305,519.64,,43.551, 346,272^399. 3.3, j Arrived within a yard .of him, for the last time, what W Putting his hartd to his mouth, his in the 5th district: also the following fractions in ! flrm 0 uent I'Otired: the 4th district 41H», 500, oOl, o(2, *>(<.;, i>(14, • * F 526. 527, 522. 339, -541. All of the above lots | “ Y OU-ba Daill. , ^ **5 and fractions lying in the county of Appling.— ! Xiiti UCXt minute they* Were at it. i Ti«‘ Thorepsou «•«. dow..; then th. I. Hutchinson vs. Nejicmiah R. Butlwr, adminis- I shirt; then it Was a (log tall—that is, trator on the estate of Abraham Coiby. 1 ruperty both were down. They lolled about JAMES SMITH, Sh’ff. 44 tds pointed out by C B. Hitt. March 13th, ls03. PR ESS FOR SALE- a riAntile-cnd Adam’s Power Press, A ®?pSect “tr have used it and can ’“■■"tomiS® 4 tuatxes. Milledgeville, March 10th. 1863. * 42 if. occurred since and other causes have probably increased this number to five thousand. Suppose there are three thou sand of these, whose children must be ed ucated by charity or never he educated at all. I think it would be found, on investi gation, that not more than two children of a family, on an average,- could he spared to attend school at the same time. Some of the-larger boys have already grasped the handles of the plows which their fath : ers left standing in the furrows when they rushed to arms, anti the larger girls are aiding their poor mothers in making music with the spinning wheel and the loom — Yet even these may snatch sufficient time from labor to acquire such educations I propose should he given them. Suppose, then, we have to provide for the tuition of six thousand orphans, who shall board at home and attend school in their own neighborhoods. At $40 a scholar for tuition and books, it would require tiro hundred and forty thousand dollars per annum Cannot this amount bc raised wolf, and stands as the emblem of unlaw- ; ful and sanguinary power. Seditions and i., . . , .... civil wars are the unhappy occasions for ; but imt to tbe bar of .|ust.cc the exercise of this baleful propensity which high official station so generally bc- ; ,8 !Y 3 ’ gets in the heart of man. And, Mr. Speak- ; se , 8 . r. f——; er, the mournful evidences arc thick and i a . nd s alone repudiate the justice of fearful on every band, whichever way we i * 16 -Almighty, lo deny to the accused turn, that the public confusion which now ; P erson tbo r, S »o be heard m his defense - f , y-• . , y „ .... , j reigns in our own once peaceful land, has I “Pre-eminent J the. attribute of the worst of tins fundariRntal truth. I ho sentinel bro bt with it to U3 this 1 pernicious evil in i 5 *?f sof b ! u , tal despotism. Condemnation who stands guard over he citadel of popu- ;ts m06t fri h{ful an j / ggra feted form. ; without trial, and punishment without lim- kr liberty cintmly protect and defena Ins , 1)isastc ,. i, as P Allowed disaster in terrible ! ^^ttion to my mmd, sacred trust by keeping his vigilant eve I , . .... . , , . 4l *v most atrocious tyranny that ever steadily fixed on the movements of power. ' a . n ! al In L 1 a l' 1 1 Y 0 a ThcT cup ; Toasted on the groans of the captive, or Every attempt to divert his attention., by i sorrow.’' Our territorial ! °” tbc 4 tcars lb « ^ proclaiming other and more important cb-) ^iaaoenr has been torn and disputed by l lbe , ther esfa ’. -Did yet on this spectacle jects, or by lulling him to.«K~- J “° l’ 03 ” the sword, homes have been desolated and , Lor 1 ror and of fibame American citizens comes !° I1L '^ government, j li]lctl witl , the pj Ucrness G f deaili, debt and bavu been S aziu o for more tban a J ea - ! „.ci> attempt to convince tljc public mind ; taxa(ion (owcr up ]ike ft g ] oomy specter i t t 1,ie f ruat , bl,lw ' a,k nbicJl U aD<Mr *' io ™ ** that here may be higher duties tor the at- ouy IllidBt> al){] c J st an apDa li^/ s ), aJo , v , U°ody toil have erected agatpst the wick- izcn to perform than to preserve inviolate , ovcr the Lo ofthe preset a „d of future I f exercise of unlawful power has been the inalienable rights ot person, property peueration / of Iabor } or moro t!ian a huu . j torn away with a panic,dal hand. Every died years to come; but such scenes have 1 c, I tlzcn , ,u this Republic, the farmer at h,s not softened the heart of executive author- P. low * *l>e mechanic at Ins shop, thi mer it}-, tempered 4he insatiable lust of personal j ? l,R ! ,t h.s counter, every calling add pro- To measure out the metes and bounds of | domination, or stayed the hand of official CM °! l ln , c ’ 10111 , tbe Pyo’^d man m his tresjiass and oppression any more iu the administration of the American Republic than they have in the administration of the Governments of former ages.- The usurper seizes the moment when the Constitution ot his country is weakened by some deadly peril to assist in breaking it down. He watches the opportunity when tbe laws are unsettled to trample them under bis feet and substitute bis own imperious and unhallowed will in the place of their well- defined and peaceful operation. and the.pursuit of happiness, is an. assault upon the existence of this Republic and a sacrilege .against God. po-wer, and estiblish them by constitution al landmarks*sufficiently plain and strong to resist the encroachments of executive au thority, lias- been the-lofty purpose of every friend of freedom who has left his name to illuminate the annals of human conduct.— Such names belong to the people, and are household deities around the humble hearthstones of those who eat their bread in the sweat of their faces, and liiul safety alone in tlie well-defined limits of the laws under which they live. The surveyor with his chain can run the lines and plant the corner-stones along the borders of king doms, empires, states and territories, hut statesmen and philosophers have taxed all the hours since the dawn of civilization with the efforts of incessant industry in cir cumscribing and restraining a lawless and impatient spirit of power. Vast armies have been marshalled and great battles fought; the earth has been turned from its primeval peace and purity intonne mighty sepulcher, and the sky has been rent with the voice of mourning in order to appease the lust of conq uest and to extend ili C phy sical boundaries of a country to a moun tain, a liver, or an invisible, air-drawn line, which is disputed by armed force ; hut one drop of blood from tjje veins of John Hamp den or Joseph Waricn ; one handful of dust from the graves of Saratoga or Camdcu ; one expiring sigh from the lips of Bozaris or Winkelreid ; one relic from the plains of year by year, to accomplish an object so \ °ld Blatea or Marathon, is more valuable important ? If not, I am mistaken Loth I an *l more glorious in the cause of human as to the ability and spirit of our people, progress, atid more acceptable iu tbe pres- T’be question as to tire best plan for raising , once of infinite justice and eternal right tbe necessary means, I leave to the wis- ' than all the wars of invasion and subjuga- dotn of our people.. “Where there’s a tion with which the world has resounded will, there’s a way.” If. the object shall! from Issus to Austerlitz. I bow before the commend itself to their favorable consid- | shrine which liberty has erected to the cration, the want- of means will not bc allowed to prevent its accomplishment. Some may inquire, Where are the teach ers to come from ; the men are all in the army ? I answer, that our women must become the instructors of the youth, or the children ofthe rich and poor will all grow tip iu ignorance together. Happily for us, as a people, we have women in every neighborhood “worthy aid W’ll mansion to the good man in his cabin, all sta id this bay naked and exposed, utterly and entirely at the mercy of one man, and of tbe fawnin^ninions who crouch' before him for pay. ^Pltate a fact in the bearing of tbe country, and wherever my feeble voice may penetrate, witnesses will rise up and solemnly attest its truth. It would bc tbe natural supposition of every intelligent mind, that an argument to prove that there is a warrant in the consti tution for this state of affairs would k* an ! insult to the genius of the revolution in Mr. Speaker, on the 24th day of last which our liberties were won, an outrage on September, tbe I resident of tbe United (| je memory of the great dead of that peri- States, in a few brief lines published in the newspapers and styled a proclamation, de clared that the people of this country were under martial law, and that all civil rights and remedies touching their personal liber ties were suspended. Tbe blow was sud- ory ot tlie great dead ot that peri od. and a mockery to tbe common sense of the world. But the spirit ofabject servili ty which always invites the arrogant as sumptions of power and precedes the down fall of liberty, is performing its loathsome office on every baud. We hear on every names of Washington and of Algernon Sid ney, of tlie elder Brutus and of Thomas Jefferson. I invoke their memories and the guidance of their spirits tvliilc I de nounce a measure which surrenders back to tbe bands of power all those grand achievements in tbe cause of human free dom which have rendered their names im mortal. den, quick and radical. It was a piece of i g j t j e jj ie 0 ] d cr y 0 f tbe courtier and tbe par- the inevitable logic of executive encroach- . as ite. At every new aggression, at every ment. lyranny Las its rules of action as additional outrage, new advocates rise np well as other systems of wrong. Chicane- ; t0 defend that source of natronage, wealth ry, fraud, and subtle, obscure, false dealing j an d fame—the departnTent ofthe Execu- cli.i.cierirc its attempts when it does not tlve . Technical and obscure rules, enn- feel secure in more daring efforts. But | lling ly devised special pleas, and skillful this act or the President and Ins cabinet is and deceptive sophistry, all combine in tbe unblushing assumption of power which ; the hands of the supporters of this admin- lias ceased to respect or fear the constitu- i8tratiou t0 tearaway from the people the turn or laws which the people have made, j protec tion of the laws of their own making, and which these servants of the people have : SacL ass i s t ance has always waited on the sworu to support. It throws aside all dis- jnost maligDant efforts 0 f tyranny. Nero guise, tears oft its veil, and displays the had his poet laureate, and Seneca wrote horrible features of despotism to American . , lis defense for the murder of his mother, citizens. Will any^member of this bouse i q*i 10 p res:eD t dark hour affords ample evi- disputc the correctness of the terns which deuce that linman nature is tbe same that I employ ? Let us divest ourselves of all ; it was two thousand years ago. passion and resentment. Let us take a Ami(1 the opening scenes of this disaa* caltHAietv of facts and principles, as bisto-; trous aud deplorable war, the President ry will do. and, by the steady light of suspended the operations ofthe writ of ha- truth and leason, lot us examine and dis leas corpus in certain unsettled and afflicted cover it we can, what the ^dinirnstratiou ; c Jti e s and portions of the country. This now* m power lias done in behalf ot the was in my judgment, without authority of constitution of the lathers, and in behalf of t | e constitution ; but the people bore with the cause for which this republic was foun- heroic patience their own wrongs rather at ’“- tliau add to the disorder and calamities of ing it would be to our country if, in the The convulsions which have signalized the j bat against a weakening providence of God, the rising generation past are being reproduced in tbe present, istry, who violated it in i The object for which our ancestors re- j the nation But this partial assault on the volted from the British empire, and enact- principles of free government is rendered ed that sublime tragedy of history, the j insignificant in view of tbo daring and gi- ! American Revolution, was to secure to the gantic stride taken in September, and Sir, ije live in tbe midst of storm and | citizen more liberty and personal security , which the blandishing tongue of flattery qualified,” who will enter upon this work, revolution. A memorable epoch in history | tban he possessed under the jurisdiction of an l adulation commend and sustain in the if the necessary countenance and cncour- j s transpiring in our view. The air is dark j tlie British crown. Their complaints were ! American (’> :.cv ,-s. and in the face of the gement are atlorded them. What a bless- -with tbe elements of strife and of change. [ not against the constitution of England,! Ameri •u. t c , r.h ‘.bis last act in and a wicked min-j ,|j3 m tl i j,i .[ tragedy <1 national honor, „ ...... order to oppress the j an d, 1 to . na’inii.,1 *'•? iotetce, I shall more should be educated by select teachers.— The murderous roar of cannon, the sanguin- ! subject. They studied tho dangerous na- (.gp^ci J c n «: :1ns time. Why, many of the wives and daughters ary crash of war, and tbe pallid, appealing lure of a lawless executive during, seven I Sir,t ungni content myselfas to the power of our fallen heroes would engage in this faces of the dead mark our time and our ; years of grief, of bitterness, and of blood, ofthe President to suspend the writ of ha- business, and thus gain a livelihood for country as they have marked al! climes j When day dawned on their independence \ / teas corpus by resting upon judical prece- tbemselves, at tbe same time that they and ages heretofore. History is being re- • tbe great secret of free government was no 1 dent. I might declare, to this House and might be a blessing to others. written ; and what man lias done, man is longer a secret to them. They had learn- . j 0 the country, in the language of that emi- If this work, Mr. Editor, ought to be doing again. 1 see nothing new in tlie ca- j ed it, and learned it forever in tbe high and i nen t jurist, late justice of tbe Supreme done its commencement should nut be long lami ies which now assail the destiny to holy inspiration of battles fought for the : Court of the United States, Benjamin delayed. All the arguments in favor ot j which we aspire. We arc treading over , inherent right to govern themselves. ]| a nd Curtis, of Massachusetts, that •• the the timely edneation of our youth gener- j a g a j n the footsteps of generations which W isdom then succeeded their swords, and only Judicial decisions which have been ally bear with double iorce in favor of the ; h aV e passed away. Mutation and change the American Constitution became the oft- j na j c upon this question have been adverse orphans, whose cause I plead now, and.! js the order ofthe world. Stability and spring of the American Revolution, and in- to the power of the President.” whose cause 1 will continue to plead while * * '* * * ’ ' God shall permit me to use my voice or <ny pen. If Georgia shall lead off in this good work, her noblg sisters will soon fol low her example. J. H. CAMPBELL. I might LARD' WANTED- 10,000 SjgSS'' Milledgeville, Jan. 24th, 1863. toTravelers. 36 tf M Y House is open to receive tran- . a sient boarders, and all who may K |he call. I study to please all and *eep m(J best and cheapest houses ^ HAYGOOI). ^VfiledgsTille, March 13th, 1S$3- 43 tf. GEORGIA. Jasper County. ■yiTHEKF.AS, Michael Kinard and John J T\ Kinard, makes application to me for letters of administration on the estate ot John 11. Kinard late of said county, deceased These are therefore to cite and admonish all persoufi interested in said estate, to file their ob jections, if any they have, by the first Monday iu June next, why letters of administration on tiie estate of said deceased shall not issue to the applicants in termsof the law. Given under my hand officially this 8th day of April, 18l>3.* 17 5t M. H. HUTCHISON, Ordy. They and kicked up a trenteudous dust. They squirmed around so energetical ly, that you’d thought they had a do zen legs instead of four. It looked like a prize light between two pugilistic centipedes. Finally, they both rolled on the bank and into the river. The water cooled them. They xvent down together, but came up separately, and ] geokuIaT Jasper County. nut for tlie shore Both reached it ! YV H1 ’ :REAS ’ tehi,drach L McMichael, Benton putior me snoit.—Dorn icjcnui it yy j McJtficliael Hm] C iark w. McMichael. about tne same time, and Thompson [ Executors to the will of Shadrach McMichael, scrambled up the bank, mounted his ! deceased, makes application to me for letters ot warlike steed, leaving liis foe gouging i These arc therefore to cite and admonish all the muS out of one of his eyes. ! persons concerned to be and appear at my office Having left the business portion of the town—that 1£ the corner where shall not be granted to the applicants in terms ol the three bars were kept—he struck ‘be law. . t a house in the suburbs, before which j 6(5:? 47 niCm M. H. HUTCHISON, Ord y. a little girl of about three years old ——^ " T~ ~—: rrrT* - . mVO MONTHS afterdate application will be WAS playing. j ma de to ihc Ordinary of Baldwin county for “What place is this, si&sy ?” he ask- an order to sell all the real and personal estate ot j I Moses West, late of said county, deceased. ed ’ . ... . . .. , J _. , WILLIAM P. B. WEST.Ex’r. The little girl, frightened at the March 31st, 1863 t u 46 9t. permanence in the works of human hands herited all its ideas. In immediate view ; airav negative upon negative, and cite in is the utopian dream of abstract specula- of the unparalleled struggle which ha«^ist support of tny position tho great names of lion. The different forms which govern- closed, and of tbe causes which produced ; judicial history, before whose glory it the mentshave assumed to redeem society from it, the Constitution of the "Luffed States higher walks of useful ftme among men the chaos constitute no exception to this re- ! came forth from the hands of its framers, , most exalted names of to-day would be as mark. On the contrary, till history stands tiie great missionary of freedom to the citi- the feeble spark of the glow-worm in vain as an awfiil witness to the fact that no gov- ! zenr, of this chosoii land first,and afterwards competition with the blazing sun at its me lt fj intent lias ever yet been established j to tbe whole earth. This is the Spirit with ; ridian. I might show from the recorded which has been exempt from the fierce j which it was born, and such the purpose for transactions of the past that the nineteenth blasts of human ambition. which it was set.apart. it is an old max- century and the laud of much vaunted free- But instability and tempestuous strug-! * UJ °^ aw every instrument shall be j doift have produced a President and a Cab les do not necessarily roll backward, or construed and interpreted according to tiie | inet who, in a species of delirum, have de- p _ intention of those who made it. I ins inax- ^ fled, spurned, and sought even check tlie wheels of progress. Great ;ht to crush and ha- principles are immortal. They cannot die. j was followed until these modern days | m ,Rate the legal decisions of centuries The forms in which they are encased may bave engendered not merely a spirit of ma d e m behalf of personal security and perish and decav to dust; hiit, like the lib-| fa,se cor,struc . ,,on , ot °l ien , auda * ; personal independence ; decisions which sa turated soul. Truth puts on new glories in : cious usurpation, such as never haunted lute the eye of the wayfarer and the down- every *phase of her existence. Our course ! ! be . ^ordered brain of George III, even j trodden of every age anti of every clime like is onward, like the mMity liver, to the i J n llIS llours of madness, lam not about j ligfit-bouses on the stormy Leach, beckon- oceau of destiny. I believe in the steady b f e to cuter into an elaborate discussion j i, !g the mariner iff the midst of darkness advancement and ultimate civilization of 'f tb e various primary functions of the and despair to the shelter of a peaceful the world by the benignant power of a i Constitution. It is the text-book of the | harbor. I might do all this, and it.would higher and purer gospel tlnfn that of hate j P eo P 1e . 8 happiness and security, and they | seem that it would be ample enough; but r of force The trinity which presides j know 11 by heart; but in order that the ! it would be no more tban has already been - - * baud- ! dangers which now assail it here in the j Qoho with far moro ability than belongs to house of its pretended friends may bc more my humble powers. All the world knows plainly seen, I may bo allowed to dwell a j these things. Even the Representatives moment on some of its simplest but most j w ho misrepresent the people on the other important features. *’ " ’ ’ 1 - n J By the letter and by the spirit of the Constitution this is peculiarly and emphat ically a popular Government. The people make every part of it, uphold the entire fabric, and control its whole economy. It is true that the Constitution makes three de- ver my belief is composed‘of those ha' maidens of God,—liberty, charity audjus- tice. With faith in these, the American people, though assailed by thdse painful convulsions which no nation ever escaped, though desolated and heavy in heart, and weeping over departed glories and joys, may } et look off across tbe dark and angry face of the waters, and in the distance be hold tbe star of peace and honor,and around it clustering the beaveuly constellation of side of this Chamber know all this, and shrink and tremble before tho application which future history will make of past his tory. I wish, however, to dwell tor a fear moments, amidst the historical association! of this immortal writ of human freedom and human progress. I wish to scan its put*