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GEN BLAIR’S SPEECH.
The Democratic Candidate for Vice President at
Leavenworth, Kansas - Immense outpouring qt
Citizens General lilair wprm Segra Supremacy j
and the Despotism of tlir Sirord- Issues of the ,
rending Canvass, die., its.
At Leavenworth, Kansas, on I'riday,
the 31st of July, General Francis I’.
Blair delivered to the State Democratic
Convention and the citizens of the town,
in ratification meeting assembled, the
following speech upon national topics :
Fki.low-Citizkns or Kansu* : I con
gratulate myself on my good fortune in
having to address so large and enthusi
astic an audience as 1 now behold. I
do not assume to myself that .Ids
i« a personal compliment to me. 1
am too well aware that on the contrary!
your presence here to-night is rather
due to your devotion to the great cause
in which we are all engaged, and in
that sense I accept it ns a greater com
pliment than il it was a mere personal j
ovation. The cause to which wo are do
voted, and of which 1 am one of your
representatives, is one worthy of your
most, profound devotion. It is a cause
in which the enthiisiam which I see here
to night so far as I have observed has
prevailed throughout the country. It is
the cause of popular rights, the cause
() fcivil government, the cause of eon.ti
totior.al liberty. It is the cause, the 1
worthiest of all f.r which man
has ai raved himself in times past :
and it will become you—it will become i
a || of ns to evince yourdevotion to that
cause which has showered upon the naj
tion so many blessings since its funmla-j
Tins cause is in p»,-il ; this cause .
has received from the party m power the i
rn'-st violent shock ; it has been tin del
milieu and is almost on the point of be
in" overthrown But lie- poop e id the j
country are rallying b> defend this cause
ihe* holiest and beat i»> tin* worn., ami m
their might 1 confide, in their strength 1 .
will abide. They alone can rescue tlm
nation from the impending peril, and it
j 8 for yon and for all citizens of this
country wiio love Democratic institutions
to come up as one man and sr.stain tin
best and holiest can e in the woiM.
j Applause-] 1 do nut speak merely !
. mpiy rhetoric on this subject. 1 could
advert and will advert, to the particular
transactions by which this cause has
been brought into peril. I Call your at
tpntion to the aggressions which haw
been made by the radical party, calling
themselves Republicans upon the funds-;
mental principles of our Government j
those great underlying principles on 1
which all civil liberty depends. They
have sangtot by various ntoasuies, wind* j
the Constitution has prohibited to en
trench themselves in power in this Gov -
eminent. They, losing the confi lence of
their own race,—losing the confidence of
the white people—have sauglit to give
the power in a portion of the States of
this Union to another element—the black
race—hoping after losing the confidence |
of the white race t > maintain and perpet
uate their supremacy by giving political;
power in ten States of this Union to the i
black race. [Applause and cries of;
•Shame ! shame !j Now rny fellow
citizens, I take the broad ground that
the white race is the only race m the;
world that has shown itself capable ol
maintaining free institutions and a
free government —[applause] ; that no
where, in any country or at any time,
have the black people shown themselves
capable of establishing or maintaining a
constitutional government or any other
kind of government. [Prolonged ap
plause.) Yet the people of the South
ern States have been disfranchised and
the ignorant blacks—the same people
that the Republican party lias declared
were imbruted by slavery—whom we all.
know to be ignorant —w.iom we all know
to be semi barbarous—whom we all |
know have never been capable of creit
ting establishing or maintaining a free
government are made to predominate in
all of those States. Not only are
they made to predominate m the
Southern States but the three or four
millions of semi-barbarous blacks have
the entire control of those States, and
send twenty Senators to the United
States Senate, while the four millions of I
clpl'... ii I ll' it' ti §ptfiC| n
i while people of New York send but two ;
Senators. It would take New York,
I’ennsylvani.i. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
i Missouri, ami enough of the other grout 1
(States ol the Union put together con
| turning twenty millions of white people
1 to counterbalance 11 e three or Idur mil
lion blacks in the South, so that the ne
groes are not only put above the white
i people of the South but above the white I
i people of the North, also, and three
1 four millions of blacks are made equal
in the Senate of the United States arc i
more than twenty millions of the free 1
white people of the North. | Cheers, and
amt cries of shame.] Fellow citizens,!
we all very well know that this is a po
1 litical trick to keep what is known
as the Radical party in power. They
don’t believe in iljiliemselves. They voted
j it down in the State of Kansas by 10,000
! majority, but notwithstanding the pe >p’e j
I have voted down negro suffrage in this
State, your two Sen itors and lleprosen- j
! tutives still insist upon sustaining the;
I State Governments erected ou the ne
! gro vote of the South. You don’t under
i stand the danger in which our institu- j
| turns are from the ignorant blacks and j
| vagabond car,ot baggers of the South.
[Prolonged applause, and cries of ‘Yes,
| we do; and we’ll save the count ly vet”]
I The people have never assented to these
! so-called reconstruction acts. In the
election of 1866, so far from presenting!
that issue, they dodged it—they ptesen-j
I ted an entirely different issue. The is I
sue they submitted then was what is
known as the i4tli amendment to the j
Federal Constitution, which conceded to
all the States the right to regulate suf t
frage for themselves That was the is-;
sue upon which the last Congressional
election was held. After they attained
power by admitting tlie doctrines on
which the Democratic party always stood j
they went to work to disfranchise the!
while people of the South and enfran-j
cliise tlm blacks, denying to the States ]
Ihe rights which were contained in the |
14th amendment. As soon as they show-
ed their hands the election of 1801 de-|
dared against them In'New York,l
I Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan California j
’ Oregon, Connecticut, and in enough
States to carry the election, the people
! decided against them. But the Senators !
sand Representatives from those States j
I refused to obey the will of the people.— |
They put it at defiance and wenton with
their reconstruction, and now declare
they have fixed it, and that it is not in
the power of the people to undo what
they have done. And, because in a let-j
rer I wrote pending the nominations in !
New York, I took the ground that tlm j
j will of the people must be executed, they |
I proclaim mo a ‘revolutionist,’ anxious to
! reinstate the rebellion. The idea that |
| an y ~ne should undertake to undo what :
has been done by this great Congress |
I this Rump, this fragmentary Congress—j
i [cheers] —who got into power by do- |
i reiving the people on false issues, is men- j
j stxotis in their virtuous- eyes. After I
iheir aelion has b on condemned by 10,-I
! 000 iii K»uo»«, by 50,000 in New York,
j bv as many in O no, by 30,p00 Mk-lfi
gan, and by overwhelming majorities of j
1 the people wherever there has been an j
expression of their will ,t*is revolutionary
’ to favor the execution of the will of the j
'people- Frank B.air is a ‘revolutionists’
■ and wants to inaugurate another rebel-;
| lion 1 [Cheers and laughter, | 1 say j
i the Southern States were never out ofi
I the Union ; that is tlm doctrine we held ;
; to and fought for for four years, but now ;
the Radical party lias taken tlie exact
I position that JeU. Davis and other laa I
. ers of secession took at the commence j
j meet of the war. [Applause and cries (
!of ‘lhat’s so.’] I tell you 1 have no aui i
I mohity toward the negroS. and those who
; arc pretending to be limit friends arc
i their worst enemies. Everyone knows,
j from my history, that when the negroes j
were in slavery, 1 was an advocate for!
their emancipation. I advocated it at
the worst times and in the worst places.
; I advocated it when the present pale-1
faced Radicals of Missouri did not dare 1
to lift up their heads. [Prolonged cheers.] .
And now 1 say that unless the negroes i
j submit to the intelligent guidance of the j
powerful white race, their late will be
t! at of tlie Indians, they will bo exlerniiu
ated . The negroes can only be happy
laud prosperous as long as they are mi M -
jed by the intelligence of the white race.;
i | Cheeis.] Whenever it is sought to dis- i
i franchise the intelligence of the country i
1 and make it subordinate to the ignorance j
of the country. Whenever it is sought;
to subordinate the white race of the ;
! country to tiie black barbarism of tlie
negro, the prosperity of the country is at
an°end. [Applause and cries of “That's |
so.”] But I come back to the proposi
tion with which I started, that the Kaci
cal pa: ty has done these things indefi-j
arice of the will of the people. Have the
people ever endorsed negro suffrage?—
(Never.] Did yon not condemn it in
; this state? Was it not condemned in all
the States of the Union at the last elec
tion? and shall the Radical party per
sist in pressing it upon tlie people, that.
;it shall be the rule? And when, as Ij
! have already stated, in New York, thro, if j
! the Democratic party should carry these j
! elections; if the peoph- should elect a
! Democratic President, this pretended re j
I construction should be undone; aud it;
these miserable carpetbaggers in the
i Senate were i:i the way of its being done, J
i the people will fiud a way to execute ;
tneir will; those miserable creatures who]
j have undertaken to forstail the popular
| will, say that any one who undertakes :
II" iC SHALL TH3 PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RLIHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAR AND VNBRIBED BY CAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., AUGUST 21, 1868.
; to i-MTiitc tlm will of the people is a rev*
i>! ut ien ist. [Applause.] Book at the at
titude nf these men. Who are the two
lionists ?• Who lias pul, at defiance
line popular will? Who has taken away
; the powers of the Executive i.s granted
to him by the ('oiislilulion ? Who has
• enriailed the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court of the United States? Wh has
I done all this t Why the Radical pa: ty
; |Ulmers and cries of Tiint’s so.”] Who
i lias put ten States of this Union under
martial law in time of profound peace ?
! The Radical party in Congress. Who
j has taken away from the President the
constitutional powers granted him as
[ Commander -in-Uhict of the army mid
| conferred it on their candidate for the
I’ii sidency ? The Radical parly. Who
! hold eight millions white people of the
! South pinned to the eai tii with bayonets?
| Tlm Radical party. General Grant was
! selected as tlie candidate of the parly
j because they knew they were beaten on
their principles, and because he alone, (
with h s great personal popularity, was
supposed to bo able to at rest the tide
that was about to overwhelm them ; be
causa with the almost omnipotent power
now given him in ten States of this
Union, they Thought he could control the
| votes to their own advantage. Is this
! man who has bayonets at the throats of
| eight or ten millions of the people, the
proper representativeof tin-people ? ( Not
much.] And are those who seek to turn
j aside those bayonets and give the law
] and the Constitution control, revolution
! ists tell you now all their attempts to
| subjugate this people will be over—
] thrown. The success of the Democratic
I party at the coining election is fore
| gone It is ordained of Heaven. It is
a thing already consummated almost,
| because the people of tins country are
j not the men to surrender their liberties.
! j Never, never.] Nor can the eminent
services or piestige of Gen. Grant inis
j lead them. (Applause.) 1 desire to
| speak of General Grant with the great
jest respect tor his services to his coun
j try. I shall never allow myself to speak !
jof him otherwise than xvith the greatest
j respect. I don’t think we gain any ad
vantage by misrepresenting him or his
services.
! A voice—We have not heard from him
! yet.
General Blair—No, and you are not
] likely to hear from him—[applause]
I but as he is a candidate for the highest
position in the world, he is subject to »
I fair criticism oil his conduct and lan
j gunge I call your attention to the
I report made by General Grant when sent
j by President Johnson to the South to
investigate the condition of affairs there.
He then stated that the people of the
! South had submitted to the terms im
, posed upon them by the Government,
! and that they were fitted to return to
I tlm rights ot citizens in the Union.—
i Since that time he has seen proper to
j cnange his attitude on this question. I
:do not impugn his motives, but we are
! nil at liberty to look at the facts. When
the Radicals were keeping the Stales ,
■,ut |,o recommended their admission I ]
know very well from General Grant’s
former position that he Inis no affinity
for tlie negro. Neither has General Sher
ir,s n nor General Sheridan. They have
no hatred toward the people of the
South. Look at the terms General Slier
man gave Johnston at the surrender in
Nr,rlh Carolina. It all goes to show
that these military leaders, who are all
now arrayed against, the Democracy, in
their hearts believe ill the- doctrines of
the Democratic Jparly. They did then
and they do now. But I will tell you
the secret—what has brought them to
j the Radical party, it is their mil tary
instinct, which tells them that the Radi
cal party is in favor of a despotism in
thts country, and without having any
! affinity for the nogrn, or hatred lor the
1 white people of tlie South, they felt that j
the Radicals were in favor of erecting a j
, despotism, and they knew full well that |
would give add tiomil consequence to
military im-u filial is the secret of these
men arraying themselves against con
stitutional liberty, and against the civil
] institutions of our Country. [Continued
I applause.] We have honored these men
ns no nation ever honored its heroes be-
We have given them the loftiest
position, but they are not content ; they
: would make themselves dictators over
I all tiie country. Arid new is the time
i for you to show yourselves as ready and
I capable of p ostrating these would be
I dictators as ym were in prostrating the
i rebellion. [We are ready.] I know
you are read) . 1 know that while you
■ cherish the services they performed for
I the Government, you are not inclined to
I surrender your own birthrights—the
: birthright of a citizen and a freeman.—
j [Applause.]
A voice— What about the Copper
heads ?
Genera! Blair—l think these Radicals ;
have made the name “Coppereead” re-j
| spcctable by their great treason against ]
] tfie Government. 1 think that whatever ]
jof prejudice may have exisied against;
! those woo were called ‘ Copperheads”
j during the war, because of their cympa-
I thy lor a people who, however wrong, ]
| have made themselves memorable lor aB j
| time, wiii 1 ave been forgotten and their j
; sins will have been forgiven, when the j
i Radicals, who have undertaken to des-
I troy the liberties of the whole people, to
subvert our institution, to put down the
n-reat principles upon which civil liberty
i alone can_ be sustained, who] sought to
j perpetuate their power by appealing to j
: the ignorance of a degraded race of be
ing' , will be he and up" as examples for cim
■ tin mi I execration. [Applause.] |W
Radical parly will be ovei’tlmwii. The
| people are it; no temper to submit to the
domination of a party who seek to main
t: 'n’thoimelves by cn l ug te.their a drill's |
ignorant and barbarous race ot men.
| [Applause] I may be accused of up
I pealing to your prrpidiees. Ido not
| appeal to your prejudices. I appeal to
history. 1 appeal to that which ought
Ito guide every statesman. It is iiiipos :
sible to make a nation prosperous by
giving the reins of power into the he tills
of a race ot people who are incapable of
guiding any nation. You. have repudia
ted iliat doctrine—[Yes, and will do it !
again] mid you ought to and it. forever.—
[Applause.] A man is unworthy him
self, il In- is classed as a white man, who
will put the black man over his own
! race; and no one but a demagogue would
]do it. If the Radica’a flt si cure in tin ir
position they would lie content t j appeal
to their own race of people for support,
to the people who created this Govern
ment, who maintained it and carried it
forward to unexampled prosperity. They
would be content to appeal to tlie in tel 1i |
gence of tlie white race. But no, they
know they have forfeited the confidence
of the white race. They are Conspiring
agaii . the most cherished institutions
of om country. They are giving the
franchise to that ignorant race whom
they know to be incapblc, and at the
same time are disfranchising the intelli
gent while people of (he country, and
their doom is sealed. [Applause.] But,
fellow-citizens, there ara others here
] Irotu whom it is your right to hear.—
[Cries of "go on,” “go on.”] There are
gent lemeu here who have been but re
cently nominated lor high position in
your State—gentlemen who 1 believe
will be elected by the people of the
State—and they have a fight to be heard,
and you have a right to expect that 1
will give way for them. Having claim
]ed your attention for the length of tiirf
I have, I now surrender it to men from
your own State, after thanking you fur
your very kind attention to me.
The Little Newspaper Game.
A cnrresporiden of [the Augusta
Chronicle S Sentinel writes to that jour -
nal as follows:
In imitation of the infamous precedent
established by General John Pope, whilst
ho was in command of this State, and of
the recent acts on the same subject pass
! e I by t’ e State Legis’a urc of Louisiana
audjAlabama, the notorious carpel bag
ger and miscegonator, J. E. Bryant, ed
itor of tlie Loyal Georgian, supposed
part owner of Bullock and Conley’s pa j
p-r, in Augusta, and Representative in
tlie Legislature from Richmond county,
today introduced a bill in tlie House to
give BulloC (part owner of a newspa
per himself) tlie power and authority to
appoint, or name one newspaper in each
State which shall publish all the sheriffs’
and other legal sales, decree; and uuti-i
cos bySull ordinaries, sheriffs, clerks, exo I
cutors, administrators and trustees.
Tin-'infamy which this bill seeks to]
perpetrate is appear-nut on its face. It
is mi attempt to give tlie Governor of
the State, iiimsKi.k an interested parhj, the
power to establish Radical newspapers in
J lie different Congres ioual Districts of
the Stale, ostensibly to do tin: legal at
vertising, but in realty to serve to keep ;
up the Radical party, a purely partizan i
measure. . :
It is a well known fact that m the]
whole State, of Georgia, where they,
they claim to have a registered vote of J
between seventy and eighty thousand, ;
I bat party lias only two newspaper or-|
gans, and these meet with but little sup ]
port from the decent men in the country, j
■ Tlm efibrtof this bill will bo to subsidize j
seven or eight Radical sheet, to offer a;
premium for infamy.
1 douol think, however, that the Leg- j
latino will pass such a bill as this as it;
is but a legalized robbery of the citizens ;
of tlio State.
A schoolmaster -Afn r giving one of Ids ;
pupils i'y ouud drubbing for speaking bad j
grammar sent him to tin other cml of the
room to inform another boy oat lie wish
ed to speak to him, and at the same j
time promised to repeat the dose il lie ]
spoke to liirn ungrammatically. The j
youngster being quite satisfied witii j
what lie got, determined to be exact and j
addressed hisfeilinv pupil ‘Acommon sub |
stantive of Ihe masculine gender, singu-;
lar number] nominative case, and in an J
angry mood, that sits perched upon the j
eminence at the other end of the room, j
wishes to articulate a few sentences to
you in the present tense.”
“Good morning, uncle. How do you
, do?” “I am well, as you see.” “I'll bet
] ten dollars you don’t know what I came j
:to see you for.” “Money, of course you
! never come for anything but that ”
j “You’ve lost tuu dollars, my dear uncle.
! I came to ask you—how is aunt?”
► —•—-*•*■
i “Has the 'representative from your
comity arrived yet?" Inquired a fodc-al
officer of ageutlornan breakfasting at an
Atlanta hotel a few mornings since.”—
“Wait,” replied the gentleman, “until I
get through my breakfast aud I will go
to tlie kitcheft and inquire.”
ELI WHITMEY.
nv JAMES l AIU’OX.
One day, iii the fall nf 1*92, when
Washington was I’resiilent oi'the
States, a company of Georgia planters
happened to be assembled at the House,
near Savannah, of Mrs. Nathaniel
Greene, widow of the famous Geiu-ral i
Groom-, ol the Revolution. Several of
these planters had been officers under ]
the General, and they bad cull and, natn- I
rally enough to pay their respects to' his j
The I unic 1 up ill the if'
pressed of the Sou I hern States ’
■since the close of the war. Thu planters
weie generally in debt, their lands were i
mortgaged their products afforded Iktle
profit and many of the younger and more
enterprising peoph- were moving away.
The cause of this things, those
planters agreed w ol rais
ing cotton with to the great
labor required in separating the fibres of j
the cotton Rom the seeds.
Many of cur readers presume have
never seen cotton growing, {nor even
a liolljor pod of cotton. This pod,
j which is about us la'geas a lieu’s egg,
bursts when it is ripe and all the cotton
gushes out at. the top in a beautiful
white tloek. If you examine this flock
closely you w-ll discover that it contains
eight or more large seeds, much resembl
ing in size and shape, the seeds of u lem
on. The. fibres of tlie cotton adhere so
tigldy tto the seeds, that tojgct one pound
of clean cotton, without wasting any, ns
to require a whole dap's labor. It was
this fact that rendered the raisinj*of Cot
toll no little profitable, and the
Southern States from sliring in the pros
perity enjoyed byt.be States of the North
after tlie close of the Revolutionary war.
W hen the gentlemen had been con
versing for some time the idea was star
ted that perhaps this work Could be ilony
by a machine. Mrs. Greene then red*
[liuiked : 1
f ‘Gentlemen, apply to my young- fi ic-ifl
i Mr. Whitney; he can make anything.’
Few words have ever been spoken on
this globe, that have had such important
and memorable consequences as this
simp e observation of Mrs. Nathaniel
Greene.
Eli Whitney of whom she spoke was a
young Massachusetts Yankee, who had
conic to Georgia to teach, and, having
been taken sick iiad been invited by this
hospitable lady to reside in her house
till he should recover, lie was the son
of a poor farmer, and had worked his
way through college without assistance
—as Yankee boys often do. From c uly
boyhood lie had exhibited wonderful skill
in mechanics, and in college ho use to
i repair the philosophical apparatus with
{ remarkable nicety—to the great admira
tion of professors and students. Duringg
his residence with Mrs. Greene he liu«
Hindi) for her an ingenious tambour frame
on anew principle us well as many curi
ous ti-0 s for her children. lienee her
] advice: “Apply to my young friend, Mr.
] Whitney he can make anything.”
She now introduced Mr. Whitney to
[ her friends, who described to him the dif
| licitltics under which they labored, lie
| told them he had never seen a pod of
cotton in his life. Without giving them
any promises, he resolved to procure
some raw cotton forthwith, and see what
he could do with it. Searching about]
the wharves of Savannah he found at]
! tenet isome unclean cotton, and taking ;
j home a bundle of it in his hands, lie
! shut him:.elf up in a room in the base j
! incut and set Lo Work io invent the marh l
j inc required. _. _ j
All tlie winter he labored in his solita- j
iy cell. There’ were no proper tools to
j lie had in Savanna!-, lie made his own
| tools. There was no wire. He made
j Ids own wire. The children, the servants
the visitor, at the l ouse, wandered what
; fie could be doing in the basement all !
] alone. But l.e said nothing and kept on
' tinkering and tinkering, till early in the
! spring of 111)3, he had completed his
wo k. Having set up the mysterious
j machine in a shed he invited a number
(if planters to conn: and witness its opera
! atiuii. Its success was complete. Tins
] gentlemen saw with unbounded wonder;
land deligut, that one man, with this]
young tCMfem’.-) engine could clean as
much cotton in one (lay ns a man could
] clean by band in a whole winter. The
| cotton grown on a lar.. <: plantation could
] lip separated from the seel in a few
! days', which before required the constant
labor of a hundred hands fur several
I months.
| Thus was the cotton-gin invented j
! The principle was so simple that the won j
der was tiiaL rio one had thougllJkjif it
! before. Tli; cotton was put intoAparge ]
trough, the bottom of winch was formed
| ol wires placed in parallel rows, so close
! together that the seed could not puss
] through. Under tics trough saws ro
: volved, the teeth of which thrust tliem
! selves between the wires and snatched
the cotton through, leaving the seed be
hind, which ran out in a stream at one
end of the trough.
The simplicity of the cotton gin had j
I two effects—the one good the other bad. j
] The good affect was tuat in the course
! ot a very few years it was introduced all
lover the cotton states increased the val
;uc of all the cotton lauds, doubled aud
] trebled tlie production of cotton, and
I raised the Southern States from hopeless
[depression to the greatest prosperity,
i The effect was as lasting as it was sud-
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NO. 28
■ 'l' 11. In 1 733 the whole export of cotton
I from ilic Unitoil States was toil thousand
I’.ilon. In 18;VJ tlio exports win four
j millions of bales. Mon acquainted with
ktlio subject mo if opinion that that sin—
Pgle inuuition Ims been worth to the
j Snith one thimsnd millions of dollars,
j How in ui* It (Till Ii io inventor gain by it
\nt one (lo '.ir ! Associating himself
with n linn! and cupitnl ho went to Oonnec
! liciit to si't up u ni.i lluHue tmy of cotton
gins. lint llio .simplicity of the machine
| was such that any good mechanic, 1 who
j saw it could make one ; and long before
j Whitney was ready to supply machines
. f his own making, there were a great
number in operation all over tire cotton
Stall's. His patent proved to be no pro—
i lection to him. If lie brought a suit for
| its infringement, no Southern jury would
I give him a veidiet. lie struggled on a
j gainst adverse influences for fifteen years
| in ISOS, when his patent expired, he
i gave tip the contest and withdrew from
j l lie business a p Hirer man than lie was
n the day when he went with his hand
ful of cotton pods, into Mrs. Greene’*
! basement.
Thousands < f me i were rich, who, but
for bis ingenuity and labor, would have
remained poor to the end of their days.
Tlie levees of the Southern seaports weur
heaped high with cotton, which, but for
him, would never have been grown.—
Fleets of cotton ships sailed the seas,
which but for him would never have
be n built, lie, tins creator of ho iiuigh
wealth returned lo bis native Stare, at
the age of forty-two to begin the world
anew.
Mr. Eli Whitney was a thoroughbred
Yankee—one of those unconquerable men
who bulked in one direction, try another
and keep on trying till they succeeded,
lie turned bis attention to the improve
ment of fire-arms particularly to the old
fashioned musket. Having established
a manufactory of fire arms, in New Ila
he prospered in business, and was
bled at length to gratify his domestic
es by marry ing the daughter cf Judgo
■pout Edwards, with wiiom he lived
appiness the rest of his life. Some
in improvements he invented are pro
served in the celebrated Springfield mus
ket with which our soldiers are now
cliidly armed. It was he wlk> began
in fire-arms, which
CcirWnd many others have continued,
and which have given the United States
the best musket the best, pistols, and the
best cannon in the world. Eli Whitney
died in January 1826 in his sixtieth year,
A good story is told of Dr 0 W. Ilolmes
who having been culled on and consider
ably bored by a gentleman who had de
voted himself to lecturing in New Eng
land without much ability for doing so,
inquired,‘What-are you about at this
particular time?’ The answer was *Lec-
KJring as usual. I held forth this even
jg at ltoxbury.’ The Professor clap
ping his hands together, exclaimed, ‘f
am glad of it; I never liked those liox
bjry people/
Wh it is the difference between a
marksman who hoots wide of the target
and a brute of a husband who blackens
bis wife’s eye. The one misses his
mark, and the other marks his missis.
A pleas mt style of suicide—to hang
upon the notes of a pretty lady whilu
she is singing.
A thoughtful man suddenly mvlo g ly
may be properly called expensive.
Sheet music -the cry of children in
bed.
Smuggling nutmegs is not a stnill
crime, but it might lead to a grater.
‘Do yon believe In the apprrraco of
spirits father?’ asked a rather fast young
man of his indulgent, sire.
‘X i, To:n, but 1 believe in their disap
pearance, since l missed my bottle of
I! mrbon last night/ replied thejold gen
tleman.
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‘Am I not a little pile?’ inquired a
lady who was short and corpulent, of a
crusty old bachelor. ‘You look more like
a big tub,’ was the ldunl reply.
Why are dmgs the mist intclligmt
things living? Because they “nose”
cveiy tiling.
Why is a boy chasing a chicken like
a collision tit sea ? Because lie’s run
ning a fowl.
Women are generally in quest of some
i tiling ; but conquest seems to suit ’em'
about as Well as anything.
Wf scon sinners is as good a deriva
tive name as Nasb,villiana.
Stealing molasses is most emphatical
ly suggestive of a syrup titus act.
Youtt, in his book entitled 'TiieTlorSe/
says this animal will never drink hard :
| water if soft is within his reach; that lie'
1 will leave dear, transparent hard water
| lor a pool or stream of soft, even though’
| the latter be discolored with mud. Very
cold water from the well will make the
hair rise up and not unfreqnenlly causa
an attack of the gripes. Give soft wa
ter when practicable, especially if tbad
! animal bo ailiug.