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“LOVE, PURITY AND FIDELITY.”
HT A CITIZEN OK qCITMAX.
The TVmp’rance banner now ’« unfurl’d,
And we t relcome all- of ev’ry land—
To crush the tv rant of the word.
By joining tlie ‘*cold water’ band.
In our motto you may bebo’d.
The ‘‘golden rule” by which we live:
To pluck from ruin’s grasping hold,
And appease man’s cry—“o! give!” “0! give!’’
Love for a brother in distress.
Love for a feeble, eering child.
X<»re for the widow---a# oppress'd,
Love for the orphan—sweet and mild.
Pure be the actions of our life.
Pure our honor as the crystal spring;
So when we cease this mortal strife,
lienee we will soar on angels’ wing.
Fidelity to man on earth—
Fidelity to God above;
No better motto ere had birth
Than Purity, Fidelity and Lov*.
Then let the trl-color’d banner wave,
In all its majesty and irrace;
Its the* signal that we wish to nave
Our fellow-men from foul disgrace.
Come, tipplers at the ruby wine—*
Come, ye red-nosed sons of Bacchus;
Come, join our ranks whilst yet there's time,
And spurn the power of Rhaduinauthus.
T Ti» tyrant Ruin's d* lusive sway,
That tells you “like a freeman live!
And ju«< « long as you obey,
Its cry will be —* O! give!’ “O! give!
Go ,lnr the Drunkard’* weeping wife—
li<-hold the den he call* a home !
“My God!” you cry. “is this the life.
Hum brings to the poor man’* hearth-stone ?”
Yonder i* his child—a little boy !
See the tatter’s grab about hi* frame!
Alas! what i* there sot him of joy,
Whilst halier bear* a drunkard * naniet
Knter. now a breathing thing of life—
A drunken, reeling, cursing man.
Whose bleeding face tells of a strife,
Kngaged in with bis fellow man.
He is the father ol that child—
The husband of that noble wife;
She mlet* liim with a smile most mild,
And sue* must humbly for her life.
“Begone, thou crouching wt etch!” lie cries,
“Or by the ever living God.
I ll send your *oul to him on high,
And place your body ’neath the (tod!
A ragin„ (Ire is in my breast—
A torture in my blacken'd heart;
Begone! I say, for I’m distress’d.
And act, I may, the rnttrd’rer’* part.”
“But. husband, here is what will bring,
Unto you happiness and wealth;
A balm to heal the hurtful sting
Which we for long, long years hare felt.
It l* lo spurn tbe power of rum.
And join the noble Temp’ronce band;
They kindly welcome yc u to come.
And in tbeir legion* take your stand.
“Yes, husband, join the Temp’rance band, —
Then I, your wife, will happy be;
And ’round your brow, three virtues stand—
Lorn, Pibitv, Fuwutt!”
Kike tall pines in tbe wilderness.
When tossed by wild and angry storm—
The victim’s grief is not more less—
Oh! joy! most bumble and forlorn.
He struggles with the mighty loe—
He sneers upon tbe poisonous rum;
There come* a faint cry—as of woe—
“l’Ujoin! I'U join! —it shall be done /”
Ti* done. The Drunkard’s joined our band,
And pledged to strict fidelity;
No more will ’round bis homestead stand,
Tbe friends of Rum's idolatry.
Then let the clarion trumpet sound,
’Till er’ry sot throughout the world,
Shall surely by its note be found.
And Bacchus to tbe depths be hurl’d.
Quitman, Ga., Oct. 16, 1871,
A correspondent of the Scientific A
merican says: I/*t any one who has an
attack of lock-jaw take a small quanti
ty of turpentine, warm it aud pour it on
the wound, no matter where the wonnd
is, and telief will follow in less than one
minute. Nothing better can be applied
to a severe cot than cold turpentine; it
will give certain relief almost instantly.
Turpentine is also a sovereign remedy
forcronp. Saturate a piece of flannel
with it and place the flannel on the
throat and chest, and in a very severe
case three to five on a lamp of sngar
may be taken inwardly. Every family
should have a bottle on band. There
are some persons, bewever, opon whom
turpentine acts ass poison,
AMICUS’ LETTER, No. XI.
If all men, by ibe precepts and exam
ples of Christ, are not saved front their
sins, what is their condition? They re
main untaught, unreclaimed, still sinning
and suffering the consequences of their
own Jmisdoing. There was to the Divine
miud but one plan to save men from the
consequences of sin, and that was by
preventing the act; hence the life of
Christ was devoted lo the convincing of
*in, of righteousness, and a judgment to
come. Never from his lips fell the con
soling promise, that in his death, aud by
bis suffering, men w uld be relieved
from the consequences of their sins.
Such an assertion is a mockery at jus
tice uod contrary to every principle of
right, and is contradicted by daily and
hourly occurrences. Titere is uolhing
written io more legible characters upon
the pages df mortality's history than
bod effects resulting from bad caoses.
Why are they adjudged bud effects?
Because tin y give us pain, they produce
suffering, either morally, mentally or
physically, being the specific penalties
of the luw violated.
The minister informs ns that inas
much as it requires otir whole time and
talent to render obedience to the law,
that tho crime of a single violation can
not be expiated by the sufferings cf the
guilty party, and that the only hope of
escape is by obtaining paid .n. If upon
the principle of pardo i alone we can
escape, there is no linpc for any man
living, for, says Christ: “I say unto
you, in no wise can the guilty escape
the just punishmeut of their iniquities.”
Would not pardon be one way of es
tape? But Christ says in no wifce can
you escape. Reader, reconcile this con
flict between Christ and the preacher; I
can not, only in one way: that, is, we
can receive pardon only when we have
suffered the penalties of a violated law.
Jerusalem was forgiven for all her sins,
because site bad suffered double for all
het iniquities. If the citizens of Jeru
salem did suffer for their sins, and be
cause of having suffered received par
don, why mry we not suffer for our sins,
and because of having suffered, receive
remission? The law is inexorable.
Justice denial. dj its execution, and it
never stops short of or goes beyond ad •
equate punishment or rewards. When
the law is vindicated by the enforce
ment of retributive justice, then the
parties, so far us that offense is con
cerned, are reconciled. G< and never in
flicts punishment in anger, but in love;
for prospective good, God chasteueth
whom lie loveth. He doesn’t chastise
them fir having and me right, but because
they have erred. Isn’t that punishment?
Isn’t it for the good of the creature he
loves? Isn’t the chastisement sufficient? j
ft certainly would not l-e suspended.unti! j
the object was accomplished. God cer- j
tainlv had an object in the punishment;
it certainly was a good object, and he
had the power and the wisdom to exe- !
cute his own will. II chastised sttf-1
ficiently, the error is cun and. The ( pin-1
ion that sin is infinite and deserves end- |
less punishment, most evidently con j
diets with the inspired declaration that,!
"Where sin abounded, grace did much !
more abound,” Again, 1 Though your
sins be as scarlet, tlicy shall be as white
as snow; though they be red like crim
son, they shall bej as wool.” Aud again,
“Behold the Lamb of God that taketli
away the sin of the world.” Observe
the illustration: our sins, or rather their
effects upon us, is compared to colors of
deepest die—seemingly indelible—nev
ertheless God’s love makes them white
and as wool. Is tliere any contingency?
None whatever. God’s will, nor his
word, does not depend upon man’s will,
or man’s acts, to make it true. Then
that man’s sins are to be blotted out
wtieu he has suffered the penalty, is an
eternal truth; no act of ntan can make
it false. That man may expiate in time
bis crimes against the only law under
which he lives aud acts, is proven be
yond all controversy by the declaration
to the citizens of Jerusalem: “Ye have
suffered double for all your miqailiee.”
When did they suffer it—in eternity?
No, they were then living; the declara
tion was in the past tense: “Ye haoe
suffered” &c. Did not David suffer for
his sins on earth? Did he not cry: "My
soul is in hell”? Was he not suffering?
Was it not for k the sins he had done?
Was that in eternity? Wasn’t it in |
time? Did be not thank God that he
bad delivered his soul from the lowest
bell? When did be thus thank and re- 1
HEBE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED BT FEAR AND UNBRIBED BT GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., OCTOBER 20, 1871.
joice? Alter ho had suffered tho full
penalty of inexorable, inflexible, un
yielding, unrelenting justice. Then
mercy interposed, staid the sword of
justice, and delivered him from his tor
ments. Here is the irrefragable evi
dence that in time we sin—in time we
suffer the penalty—in lime we obtain
and realize full remission. If our sins
are remitted, because we have suffered
for them in time, can justice bring up
the crime already expiated and forgiven,
and claim eternal punishment? Would
mercy fold her pure white wings aud
unresistingly yield her trophy? Nay,
would she not agonize the universe with
piteous lamentations, that would vibrate
through the vast, the boundless reach of
immensity, in protesting against the
second suffering of her child. But noth
ing short of endless punishment in hell,
comes up to the standard of theological
justice. And in my humble opinion,
there is nothing that could he described
more dishonorable to onr Father in Heav
en, than to ascribe to him the author
ship of such a place; and at the same
time to declare it our duty to love the
author of such a place. Os all the im
aginable inconsistencies, it is the most
revolting. Tho Bib'o no where gives
to hell the description that the minis
ters do. Dr. A. Clatk says the word
hell, used in the common translation,
conveys now an improper meaning of
the original word. It is now used to
signify the place of the damned, and in
no other sense will they receive it. The
word hell comes Irom the Anglo Saxon,
Ite'an, which signifies to cover, to hide.
And the literal import of the original
word, hades, is the giave—the place to
which the patriarch Jacob said he would
go to his son J soph mourning. It is
tho place where Job prayed that God
would hide him and keep him until his
wrath was past. What would the rea
d t think of his minister, if he would
pray to God to hide him and his con
gregation in hell, until his wrath should
pas. over?
We think wo have clearly shown, in
former letters, both by scripture and
reason, that the advent of our Savior
was not to save men from endless mis
ery. Isn’t it a most palpable absurdity,
to suppose that the father sacrificed his
beloved son to save men .from his own
wrath, after he had prepared a place to
punish them? What would you think
of a man of wealth, that would sacri
fice his entire estate to save his own
son from his own wrath? Judicious
minds would say he was insane. If we
adopt the opinion, that Christ died to
save us from the eternal pubis of hell in
the future world, the question arises,
who made this hell, and for what pur
pose? The answer is, Uod made it to
punish the sinners in, that Christ, who
you say is God, died lo save them from:
"I came not to call the righteous but
sinners to repentance.”
Gospel salvation saves sinners from
the condition they are already in; and I
defy any and all theologians, of any and
all denomination, to produce a single
scriptural declaration, that Christ came j
to save men from punishment, either in I
this world, or tho world to come. .Jesus
said tic came to seek and to save that
which was lost. Not to save this or
that from being lost. And illustrate* by
the parables of the lost sheep, the lest
piece of silver, and the prodigal son.
But wo are told that the dread sentence
is to be pronounced at tho last day,
when Christ shall erne to judge the
world, and the sinners’ fearful doom will
then be sealed.
I assert, without the fear of eonlradic- |
lion, that Jesus never spoke of coming
to judge men at a later period than in
the generation then living: “Verily I
say uuto you, thero bo some standing
here which shall not taste of death until
they see the son of man coming in his
kingdom.” Are those to whom Christ
spoke living now? Will they not have
tasted death when time shall end? With
this inquiry upon your miud, I leave
you until next week.
An lowa hnsbartd, a few months agoi
agreed to give his wife three dollars a
week to maintain comparative sileuce,
deducting one cent for each superflmm*
word she uttered. She now owes him
nearly enough to pay the national debt.
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The T. nnessee Immigration Association
gives notice thas it is prepared to fur
nish Eng'ish female servants aud Scotch
skilled agricultural laborers upon pre
payment of S4O passage money and a fee
of $5 each to cover the expeases of the
association,
To the Plnnters of Brooks Cos:
Oentle<iwn: - Having been instructed
some time since, by the “Brooks Agricul
tural Society,” to publish an address to
you, I shall now attempt, in a brief way,
to discharge thjduty. I shall first en
deavor, io a cursory manner, to take a
survey of the eausoa of tbo difficulties
which we, as a class, have to encounter.
Secoudly, of the difficulties themselves;
and thirdly and lastly, of the means
that will probably be effective in curing
or to some extent remedying those diffi
culties and their attendant train of
evils.
Up to the period of the close of the
late “unpleasantness,” the planters of this
County, in common with the farming
class elsewhere in tho South, were main
ly dependent upon slave labor for the
upholding and maintenance of their agri
cultural interest. This system of labor,
(I am not ashamed nor afraid to speak
the|troth whenever occasion requires it,)
the best for both master and man that has
ever been known in the world's history
with us was attended with unexampled
success. In tho short period of ten
years the territory of what is now com
prised in Brooks County, more than dou
bled its material wealth. Our farmers
were independent, contented and pros -
perous; our slaves were the best fed,
best eletbed and happiest peasantry tip
on the face of tho earth. But in a mo
ment, at one stroke of the despot's pen,
this peace, this contentment, this pros
perity, this admirable systi m ol labor>
was destroyed, and with it properly a
momiting in value to over $!t,000,000,-
000. This loss of property is one of the
evils to which I will barely make allu
sion; for, pet haps, it is the least in all
the train. The planter has not only
lost his present wealth, but his hope of
prosperity in the future was blasted.
Without any preperntion,! without a note
of warning, we were cut adrift, and
without chart or compass were launched
npon the vast ocean of untried experi
ment. The pcoplo who had previously
been our slaves, were, if possible, less
prepared for the great change that was
lorceJ upon them than we wero our
selves. Tho hordes of miserable thieves
carpet-hag adventurers, and shoulder
strapped satraps, that poured down up
on us, took great pains to teach these
people that their former masters had
been their oppressors, and were their
greatest enemies; and that by the gal
lant deeds hf these uniformed robbets i
the shackles of slavery had been stricken
from their limbs. That the land and
other property of the South ought, of
right, to be theirs, and in Inture nothing
was in store for them hut to breathe the
sweet air of freedom and enjoy an immu
nity from toil and labor. Tin y being
ignorant and naturally indolent, were
ready to ling these pleasant illusions to
their breasts Matty of them left the
farms aud crowded into -the towns and
cities; and those who remained behind
where with difficulty prevailed upon toen
ter into contracts to labor; mid if the
fanners attempted any plan to organize
to make the labor more available, they
were, in general, interfered with by the
agents, retainers and hangers on of "the
best Government the world ever saw;”
and the result was, that the first year
labor was scarce, inofficent and unrelia
ble; and every succtding year it has be
come more and more |so. The complaint
is almost universal, that the farmer,
when he hints his laborers for tho year,
marks out his acreage that he will plant
and cultivate, pitches his crop and per
haps plants it. Some of his laborers
break their contracts and leave him;
and perhaps, again, at tho most impor
tant stage of the cultivation of his crop
when every thing has to bo moving late
aud eatly, and every nerve strained to
keep it in proper order, mote of the la
borers will, follow tho example of the
first; and thus it continues during the
whole period of the cultivation of the
crops. Under such circumstances as
these, it is utterly impractable to make
farming pay, or that the business should
at all prosper.
Another complaint is, that the crops,
so soon as they are mature 1, are stolee
from the field and gin houses in small
parcels, and carried off ,and sold. This
| evil has increased until it has really be
come alarming. And I would right here
call the attention of the merchants to the
fact, that, in nine cases out of ten, when
they buy small parcels of com or cotton
after night, they are buying stolen prop
erty. And again, it is tbe subject of
complaint, that the laborers, as a gener
al thing, cannot be induced to engage
in the work of putting the plantation in
order, renewing the fences, rebuilding
and repairing the barns, stales and out
houses, and the consest'once is, these
improvements aro rapidly falling into a
stato of dilapidation and ruin, and the
farmer will anon, of necessity, be forced
to circumscribe the limits of his farming
operations.
Still another complaint, is the stealing
of cattle, hogs, and other animals out of
the woods, and killing them for food.
Aud still again, another evil and one
that is growing serious in its operation,
is the largo number of dogs that are kept
in tho country, and aro destroying the
stock, sheep and hogs, and in sums in
stances young calves. Families that
can scarcely obtain enough of the com
monest food to keep themselves from
starving, not unfrequcmly keep from two
to five of those animals. How they live,
tho missing sheep and hogs of the farm
er too well tells the tale.
Thus, gentleman, I might go on to an
indefinite extent, enumerating tho diffi
culties the farmer lias to encounter, and
still the tale would not be told.
I will merely meution one other and
general cause of complaint, on the part
of the farmers, and that is the low price
of our product raised for market; and
that speculators almost altogether con
trol tlie price of our great staple. Per
haps tliere is not another class except
the planters, in the whole country, either
North or South, that do not have some
hand in fixing the price of what they
purchase for sale.
These ate some of tho evils which the
planters, as a class and individually,
have to contend with, and is Iherc no
panacea for all these ills? If these
evils cannot he cured, cannot they be
remedied to some extent? I think they
can; and the question is, how aro we to
ascertain and apply tlioso remedies? I
think by organizing ourselves into ag
ricultural associations and soe’eties; hoi
utng occasional meetings; exchanging
ideas; forming plans and having concert
of action iri carrying out those plans. In
the North, associations are formed by al
most every industrial class. They have
fruit growers' associations, buttci and
cheese makers associations, wool grow
ors associations, &c., &c. And only two
or three years ago, the general wool
growers association of the North resolv
ed to memorialize Congress in relation
to certain grievances, fancied or real,
appointed delegates to represent them
before that body, and actually succeed
ed, by the influence they brought, in
causing a high protective tariff to be
laid upon foreign wool and woolen goods.
And if a wool growers aseooiution could
do this, what might a general cotton
growing association, properly organized,
h.t able lo do, enjoying, as they do, al
most a monopoly in tho production of a
staple in almost universal demand?
Ti e first step necessary to bo taken,
is to organize anJ keep up County Soci
eties; have a State Society; and lastly, a
Southern planters agricultural associa
tion. In each of these organizations,
can plans he devised and put into execu
tion to remedy the evils we have men
tioned. Mure titan a year ago wo or
ganized a Society in this County. A
lew of the planters took an interest in
it, hut I am sorry to say a largo number
paid no attention to it; and it is now in
a languishing condition. Let H 8 encou
rage our Society, increase its numbers,
and endeavor to make it answer the use
ful purpose for which it was designed.
Our sister County of Thomas lias a So
ciety that is in a flourishing and pros
perous condition. And last year she
had a fair and agricultural exhibition,
that well may be tho pride of Southern
Georgia. Arid this year she is prepar
ing for the same tiling on a still more
magnificent scale. And 1 am informed
that Brooks County contributed a large
share to the success of the exhibition
last year and no doubt will do equally
well in the one t&at comes off tho pres
ent year, and why not do all this for our
own county? It only needs the interest
and encouragement of a respectable
nurnl er of our farmers to do the thing
successfully.
In all probability, some legislation is
needed to remedy some of the evils 1
have named; and I will state that we
have a representative elect to the next
Legislature, who is willing and anxious
to support any measure that may be
beneficial to the agiicultural interest.
Bat he wants to hear from the farmers
themselves, wbat tbeir needs are; aud
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NO. 42
to hear suggestions from them, so that
he may be able to act understanding)/.
And I now call upon every planter ii the
County to meet in Quitman, on Saturn
day, the 28th October, inst., and let ua
then give instructions to our represen
tative. And let us at the same lima
reason together and form plans for a
large and permanent County Society,
composed mainly of farmers; and let ua
not neglect to hold frequent meetings,
and exchange ideas on subjects affecting
our interest; and my word for it, in less
than one year, "the Brooks County Ag
ricultural Society," will be a credit to
our farmers, and every member will bo
uklc to point with pride and pleasure, to
the progress ’and improvement in the
agricultural prospects ol the County. I
do». - t want a single farmer to bo absent
from thl» meeting. Come onel Como
a ; >! A AMES 0. MORTON,
Prwt B. C. Ag. Society.
How i.rrrut Land wim, rex* a Cow.—.
On tbe first day of June last, I commen
ced cutting clover for one cow confined
in a yard enclosed by a high, tight
board fence, with a stable attached, in
which she has been fed. She had no
feed but fresh clover from tho first of
June to the fifteenth of October, and all
taken from one fourth of an acre of
ground. She has averaged eighteen
quarts of strained milk per day, front
which my wife has made eight pounds
of butter per week, during the four and
a half months. The cow is five years
old, and a cross of the Ayrshire and
Durham. She has given more milk,
more milter, and of a better quality,
than slie has ever done on pasture. On
one eighth of an acre I have raised one
hundred and fifty bushels of sugar beets
and carrots, which, with the two tons of
hay, will keep her handsomely the bal
ance of the year. The labor ol cutting
clover for the cow is less than driving
Iter throe-fourths of a mile to pasture.
In tbe dairy districts, the usual esti
mate is four acres to the cow, on the
hay and pasture system; whereas by
soiling and raising roots, five-eights of
an acre is found to be sufficient. I will
state further, what I believe from nearly
thirty years’ experience is, that there is
no crop, so valuable'for solllug'as clo
ver, no crop, so many pounds of which,
and of equal value for milk and butter,
can be produced from an acre of ground.
Sweet corn is a good crop for late feed
ing, where clover will not grow, but not
profitable for wiuter feeding.— Ex,.
The following story is related by Mr.
Jeffers->n concerning tho first Continen
tal Congress: “Delegate Harrison, of
Virginia, desiring to stimulate, presen
ted himself and a friend at a certain
place where supplies were furnished
Congress, and ordered two glasses of
brandy and water. The man ill charge
replied that liquors were not included in
the supplies furnished Congress. ‘Why.’
said Harrison, ‘what is it, then, that I
see New England members come hero
ami didos?’ ■Molasses and Water, which
they have charged as stationery,’ wan
the reply. ‘Then give me the brandy
and water,’quoth Harrison, ‘and charge
it as fuel.’ ”
■
Barbarity. —A c< lured sheriff in Louisi
ana heavily ironed an old negro who wan
Ijing in j’ •i 1 charged with having killed
a man of his own coloi*, placed him in a
Cart alongside of three convicted negro
murdereres, and carried him lo the place
of execution with them. His motive for
this unheard-of-proceeding-*, was, ho
said, to let him witness the awful exam
ple which the law makes of murderers.
A sea captain, trading regularly to
the cost of Africa, was invited to meet a
committee of a society for the evangeli
zation of Africa. He was a.ked, among
other questions touching the habits ami
religion of tho African race, “D > the
subjects of the king of Dahomey keep
Sunday?’’ He replied, ‘ Yes, ami every
thing else they can lay their hands on.”
"Mr. Speaker,” said a member of tlio
Jamaica Legislature, discussing a bill
for the regulation of the limber trade, ‘‘l
know tli se timber merchants to be most
egregious rascals— i was in the timber
trade twelve^ears.”
A traveler, we are told, being in a
wild country where he could find no pro
visions for himself or and ig, cut off tho
dog’s tail and boiled it for supper, aud
gave the dog the bone.
A clergyman consoling a widow on
the death of her husband, remarked that
she could not find his equal. ‘‘l don’t
know about that, ’ replied the sobbing
fair one, "hut I’ll try."
Snuggle up. Will.
A young Kentuckey couple recently
made a successful elop-nru nt. Soou af
ter, a i officer was sent in pursuit and
I arriving at the hotel wtu re they were
stopping, found them siimr in bed. Ho
explained his errand, when the young
lady said, with a ringing laugh, "Tell
ma it is too late. Snuggle up, Will,
aud don’t get out for him.”
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