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POETRY.
THE WAY TO BE BRAVE.
Speak kindly to that poor old man,
Pick up kis fallen cane,
And place it gently in his hand,
That he may walk again,
His bundle, too, replace with care
Beneath his trembling arm;
Brave all the taunts that you may hear,
To give his life a charm.
A braver deed than scorners boast
Will be your triumph then,
A braver deed than annals tell,
Of some distinguished men,
Yes, leave that thoughtless, sneering crowd;
Dare to be good and kind;
Then let them laugh as laugh they may,
Pass on ; but never mind.
Pass on; but think once more of him,
The wreck that you have seen,
How once a happy boy like you
He sported on the green,
A cloudless sky above his head,
The future bright and fair,
And friends all watching o’er his couch,
To breathe affection’s prayer.
But ah, the change ! How wanders now,
Forsaken, lone, and sad—
Thrice blessed is the task of those
Who strive to make him glad,
Speak kindly to that poor old man,
Pick up his fallen cane,
For that will ease his burdened heart,
And make him smile again.
MISCELLANEO US.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
"R. L. WARTHEN,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
feb. 17, 1852. 4 ~
- MULFORD MARSH,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah.^Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. - -1
J. B. HAYNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HALCYON DALE Ga.
Will attend promptly to all business en
trusted to his care in any of the Courts of the
Middle or Eastern circuits.
Haleyondale feb. 2 1852 • % IY
JNO. W, RUDISILL.
attorney at eaw,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
March 10, 1851 ■ 8 ~ lv
[Yrom Arthur’s home gazette]
PETER MULROONEY-
How Peter became a Widdy,
By Sylvanus Urban the Younger.
' TaSesst hook,
Attorney at Eaw,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
• j,, • • ) Washington, Burke, Scriven,
Middle-circuit. ^ j e ff erson and Emanuel.
Southern Circuit. | - - - - Laurens.
Ocmulgee Circuit | - - - - Wilkinson.
Office next door to the Central Georgian
office. jan. 1, 1852. hi ty
S. B. CRAFTON,
Attorney at Eaw.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Will also attend the Courts of Emanu
Laurens, and Jefferson, should business he eni
rtusted to his care, in either of those countie*
feb. 11.
4—tf
X.OUB & CO.
Factors and Commission Merchants,
No. 11§, RAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
J. W. C. Loud.] [P. H. Loud.
nov. 4, 1851. 42—ly
BEEN 6l FOSTER,
Factors and Commission Merchants.
Savannah, Ga.
P. H. BEHN,] [JOHN FOSTER.
feb. 10,1852. 3—ly
J. T. JONES.
Manufacturer and importer of
Guns,Pistols, Rifles, Sporting Apparatus, &c.
No. 8, Monument Square, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly*
S. E. BOTH WELZ. & CO.
Wholesale and Retail Store,
No. 173, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
DEALERS IN
LIQUORS, WINES, GROCERIES. 6pc
S. E. BOTHWELL.] [r. l. gamble
feb. 10, 1852.
3-ly
8C&ANTON. JOHNSON & CO,
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
D. T. SCRANTON, ) ,
JOSEPH JOHNSTON. \ ^ nna *
S W. B. SCRANTON,
( No. 19, Old Slip, N. Yor
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
JOHN X&A.LXiERV. .
Draper and Tailor.
Dealer in Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle-
n en’sfurnishing Goods. 155, Bay street,
Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
X, BASHER’S
Cheap Dry Goods Store,
No. 146, Congress street, Savannah, Ga.
(Late H. Lathrop’s)
A well selected stock of. seasonable staple
and Fancy Dry Goods, are kept constantly on
hand, and . will be sold cheap for cash.
KIP’ Please call and examine,
feb. 10,1852. 3—ly
“And so Peter, you are no longer the
husband ot Mrs. Mulroonv.”
“Deed, sir, but that’s thrue.the day, an’
its plazed I am to be rid av Tier. Will I
tell yer honnor the sthory !”
“Ok by all means, if you can spare the
time.”
“Sure sir, ‘tis a widdy I am, an’ me own
masther. Will I begin the beginnin’!”
“Any where, so that you commence at
once.”
“Well yer honner; wanst upon a time—’
“Stop, stop, that is the old story book
stvle. Can’t you strike out something a
little more original ?”
“I’ll thrv, sir. Twer one night, may be
a week after I wer unfortunately married
to Biddy Connolley, as 1 wer sittin in the
little back room, thiukin’ about nothin at
all, an’ botherin my head wid all manner
av- strange things in waddles the fat owld
desaiver, an’ ses she to me, sez she—
“Pether avich, thiukins diary works ; will
I mix ye a thrifle o’ sperits ?”
“Thankee, mem,’ sez I, ‘but may be ’tis
throulin’ ye I’ll be.’
“Och ! sure ’tis the delight of my heart
to be plazin’ ye, Pether asthore,’ sez she
lookin as plaisaut, and rosy as a May morn;
; an wid that, out she goes, and * brings me
in a noggin av the raal potheen. After
fillin my dudeen wid tobaccy, sez she—
“There, Pether, dear, ’tis mate an’ drink
to me to see ye enjoy yerself in yer own
house.’
“Arrah Biddy,’ sez I, wid the flavour of
the Potheen staming up my nosthils, ‘Ar
rah Biddy,’ sez I, ‘its my serious opinion
that ye’re a dacent woman afther all.’
“Oh but ’tis you that’s the coptivatin’
man;’ sez she tinderly, an’ sure I ought to
be a blissid woman the day. I doos be
wonderin, Pether darlin,’ how ye kem to
have me, wid all the purty girls ready an’
willin’ to marry ye for the axin.’
“That does be puzziin meself, Biddy,’
sez I.
j “Seech a dacent an’ a well behaved man
too. Tis proud I am of ye,’ sez she, put-
| tin her great big arms about my neck, and
J smudtherin me wid kisses.
“Will it be plazin to ye, Misthress Mul-
roony, not to be afther disth urbin my me-
ditashuns V sez I, relasin myself from her
howld wid the gravity of a coort judge.
“Why Pether,’ sez she, ‘what d’ye mane
by that V
“Aisy,’ sez I, ‘Aisey ! Tis a questhun in
jommetthry, an’ aljebrayical flukshuns that
I’m solvin.’
“I beg yir pardon, Pether dear,’ sez she,
dhroppin me a curchy till her clothes made
a circle as wide as the month ov a brewers
vat; I beg yer pardon,’ sez she, ‘but tis a
lovin, and a wake woman 1 am.’ *
“Musha 1’ thought I, ail the love she iver
had is blue mowldy by this time; as for the
wakeness. Och 1 but ’tis she could knock
down an ox wid it. Sure I’d be thankful
myself for a little o’ the same.’
’‘Take another dhrink o’ potheen, Pether
dear,’ sez she.
“Thankee mem,’ sez I ‘but tis’nt aisy to
quench thirst fromanimpty bottle.’
“But its aisey to fill it agin,’ sez she wid
a laugh an’ out she goes an’ brings me the
full ov another noggin; an’ afther she had
put it saftly on the table, she sits herself
down by the windy, an looks out into the
court, where ther wer hapes o’ little tathe-
ry childre’ makin’ dirt pies, an puddlin in
the wather.
“Prisentlv, as I am liftid the cup to my
lips I heerd a deep sigh.
“What’s the matter Biddy ?’ sez I.
“Tis a foolish woman I am, Pether, dear,
sez she dhrawin the back av her fat. hand
acrass her eyes. ‘I was thinkin outlie child-
hre and the people that has them; and we
so lonesome like, Pether dear!’
- “That’s the truth,’ sez I. ‘Sure but a
family’s a plisant thing.’
“Tis-glad I am to hear ye say so, Pether
avich,’ sez she; and then her face turned as
red as a bliled lobster.
“Misthress Mulroony, sez I,* seriously.
Misthress Mulroony,’ sez I, ‘I am sorry to
persaive that ye have been paintin ye’r
cheeks wid the whiskey bottle. Tis asham
ed I am of ye Misthress Mulrooney.’
“Troth Pether sez she, I would’t de-
raane mytelf by sech thricks. ’Twas the
thoughts av the purty childre’ that quite
upset me, and us so lonesome.’
“Och millia murther! Biddy,’ sez I,
would ye have me burglariously stale an
other man’s family.’
“Where ’ud be the needeessity o’ that
Pether jewel,’ sez she, in a saft, coaxin way.
There’s a fine breth av a boy an orfin, Sha-
mus byname, for sure father Hennessy
christened him that same. You’d plazed
to have him wid us, wouldn’t ye Pether ?
“Faix, I dunno,’ sez I, feelin’ mighty
quare undher the combined effects of the
poothen, an’ the soothing spache of Mis
thress Mulrooney.
“Take another dhrop o‘ spirits, Pether
dear !’ sez she. An’ thin Biddy set down
aside me, an poored me out first one glass,
and thin another, an’ all the while the poth
een kept disapparin’ in a sthrange niysta-
rious sort av a way ’til my sinses got con
fused, and two Misthress Mulrooneys kem
up to me, and kissed me wid two mouths,
an she tuk two candles in her hands, an’
led me out o’ two rooms, an’ up a quare set
o’ double steps, where I laid howld av four
ballisters, and across two passiges an thro’
two more doors, an thin I tumbled, some
how or other, into two beds, while two Bid
dy Mulrooneys tucked in two bapes av
clothes, wid two sets av hands.
“Well, Misther Urbin, when I woke next
morn wid the misery in my head, who
should I see but Biddy, sittin at the bed
foot, wid an ugly lump av a boy by her
side.
‘ Tisdhrarain I am,’ sez I to meself.
“But there Biddy sat sthrokin down the
coorse thatch on the ugly gossoon’s head,
an sez she to me—
“Pether, avick,’ sez she, ‘this is Shamus.’
“Oh !’ sez I, lookin bothered intirely, as
in deed an thruth I was, ‘that’s Shamus, is
it ?’
“Shamus, my son,’ sez she, ‘why don’t
ye be afther spakin'to yer father.’
* t‘The top o’ the mornin to ye, owld dad
dy !’ sez the ugiy little rapscallion.
“Tare an ages !’ sez 1. ‘Tis cliatin me
ye’ve been Misthress Mulrooney; an I to
take ye for a lone widdy.
“Get up Pether, an take a cup o’ tay, ’tis
dhry ye are the morn,’ sez she, lookin me
in the face as bowld as Joolynus Sayser.
“Thinks I, tis betther to howld my ton
gue, may be there’s no more av em, but
’twasn’t aisey in my mind I was* an that’s
no lie.
“Well, smutherin my feelins,’ I believed
meself all that day like a dacent, an a sinsi-
ble man; and the.hape o’ desait that had
coorted an marri’d me onbeknownst to me
self, cockered me up wid the best of the a
tin’ an the dhrinkin, as if ’twas a show pig
she wor fattenin for the fair. Och wirra,
wirra, but ’twas too bad intirely.
“Well, ’twas the next day, while I wor
thryin to make out the poethry of family
life, she cemes into the room ladin another
little gossoon by the hand, and sez she to me
sez she—
“Pether, acushla, this is Dinnis.’
“An’ who’s Dinnis, Misthress Mulroony,’
sez I.
“Our Dinnis ! sez she.
“Augh!’ sez I.
“Sure, Pether,’ sez she, ‘tisn’t a weeshee
little slip av a thing, the likes o’ that, ye’ll
be complaining av ?’
“By the powers! Misthress Mulrooney,’
sez I, ‘what the gossoon wants in size, he
makes up in ugliness, I does be thinking.’
“Tis brakin my heart to year ye talk so,
Pether,’ sez the owld crockydile.
“Troth Biddy” thought I ‘’tis a cobbler’s
lapstones she safter o’ the two.’
“Howld up' yer head Dinnis,’ sez she.—
‘Look at him Pether, dear, isn’t he. the
very picthure av his father V
“Sora bit o’ likeness do I see,’ sez I, ‘and
its little I care to look for it. ‘’Tis sorry I
am, Micheal Connolly was lost at say.’
“Pether!’ sez she.
“Its the thruth I am spakin Biddy Mul
roony,’ sez I.
Arrah, bad ’cess to ye thin,’ sez she. ‘ye
ungrateful, good for naught. But sure it
sarves me right to be trated so. After I
took ye from the guther, widout a rag to
yer back, ye vagabone. Augh ! black was
the day, an bitter was the hour that I stoop
ed to marry ye, Pether Mulrooney; for yer
father was a washerwoman, an yer mother
was hanged for horse—’
“Aisey, aisey, Biddy Mulrooney,’ sez I.
‘Sure tisn’t dacent nor proper to blisther
my charackther vid the thrilling failins’ av
my ancesthral proginitors. ‘Tis ashamed,
gowna
“Pether, sez she, ‘this is Brian.’
“Augh !’ sez I, ‘sure ’tis a foundlin hos
pital I’m marrid to.’
“Pether,’ sez Biddy, ‘this is Brian. YVhy
don’t ye spake till him ?’
“Och, murther !’ sez I. ‘How will I be
afther spakin,’ when ’tis a dumb baste lam,
an my voice is choked intirely wid the
childre in me throat!’
“Faix! but yill spake to Brian for all
that V sez she.
“Oh, sure I will,’ sez I, for the wakeness
wor comin over Biddy, an I thought it best
to soother her.
“Isn’t he a purty boy,’ sez she.
“I’d be sorry for the man that ’ud call
him ugly mem and you a standi u by,’ sez I.
“Troth, ve may say that,’ sez she, ‘con-
sidherin the batin he’d git.’ *
“Sorra bit ’o bad name passed my lips
that day; but I dhressed myself widout say-
in a word, and wint out for the benefit av
ray consthitushun.
“When I kem back, Biddy calls me in at
the door av the little room, and pointin to
the weshee thing in pettieuts among the
other childre, sez to me, Pether thats Nelly!
“Is it a girleen ?’ sez I, for there wor a
touch o’ the kettle about her face, and I
said to myself, ‘may be she’s a haythen or a
napgur.’
“Arrah !’ sez Biddy, can’t ye see wid yer
eves ’tis my Nelly, the darlin ! Sure^ye’ll
kiss her, an bid her welcome, Pether.’
“Mem ? sez I.
“Go and kiss her this rainnit,’ sez she.
“Would it be plazin’ to ye, to sweep the*
little colleen’s face first sez I.
“Why would I do that ? sez she, makin’
an arch av her back ye could dhrive a coach
and foor over. * ‘why would I do that ?’ sez
she, ’tis clane dirt !’
“Sure ’tis thi thrue word ye are spakin’
Misthress Mulrooney,’ sez I, as saft as but-
ther; ‘but ’twas thinkin I was, that a touch
av the broom about the ragion av the cheek
’ud improve the girleens compleckshuu.’
“Och ! by this ou’ by that, Misther Ur
bin, ’tis a wonher I’m a livin man this day
The fatould desaiver dhrowned me in the
torront av words, an thin dhryed me in a
hurricade av blows. An’ to seethe childhre
too! Oh but they fell upon me ! Shamus
tore my coat into stbrips, while Biddy
scratehedtmy face ; Dennis murdhered my
shirt enthirely, and Nelly stuck pins into
the calves of my—ahem! extremities ; an’
Brian med a beautiful stove pipe av of my
hat. Afther endurin’ this coorse of treat
ment for some time, like a gintleman and a
pheelosofer, I scramed out murdher ! And
tha nayburs kem rushin in to my rescue. I
wint up stairs, Misthur Urbin, and packed
up my duds, wid the intintion of lavin the
house forever; when jest as I was crapin out
av the door, who should come np to me,
but a sayfarin man. I gev him one look, an
thin sez I wid my heart in my mouth—
“Michael Connolly it’s plazed I am, to
see ye, after being dead dhrowed so long.
Ye’ll find Misthress Connolly an the childre
in the room bey ant.’
t ‘I waited till I heard one long skreech,
anythin I tuk to my heels until I got into
the counthry, whin I tossed me hat in the
air an’ rowled over and over like a crazy
man. Oh, good luck to the salt say that
brought Michael Connolly back to his ould
wife and orfin childhre, an’ good luck to the
day that mad me a widdy! Wouldn’t I
like any body to thread an the tail of my
coat just now ?”
av a boy, a holdin Misthress Mulrooney by j the Union, and as wide as the limits of the! principles ? This'attempt to create thejm*
J 'jurisdiction of the Constitution,—and in the ! pression that the new organization lias
very'organization of that party, which was failed in its objects, and that every body
formed by an abjuration and renunciation | must fallback into one or the other of the
former lines of division, is but the lastap-
peal ofthe old Priests of the defiled temples
of Party, who feel that they are about to
lose their livelihood in making images of
false deites for the people to w orship.
Hence their lusty shout, of “Great is Diana
of the Ephesians;” “Great is the power of
Party;” and great is the virtue of old is
sues !
This cry has been unavailing in the past,
and it will be unavailing in the future;
wherever the question shall be made and
met. Let our friends not doubt too soon.
No occasion has yet arisen for an appeal to
the whole people of the U. States upon the
principles of our organization. Whether
such an occasion shall arise, may depend
upon the action of this Baltimore Conven-
vention. Alabama has already called a
National Convention on our principles, to
assemble in this City after the Baltimore
Convention. To this latter Convention we
should not fail to send delegates. Should
such a state of things exist as to render a
new national organization necessary and
proper, to carry out our principles, I feel
assured that the late results in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, are but proofs of
what may be expected ir other sections of
the country, when similar efforts may be
made for similar objects. And in this con
nection I will add that the idea of reorgani
zing either of the old parties in this country
upon sound national principles, is in, my
opinion, a result not to be looked for with
much confidence. As organizations, these
parties are both effete and corrupt. They
both make professions in “platforms” which
they never carry out in practice. These
platforms or programmes have become noth
ing but artful devices, by which demagogues
are enabled to delude and cheat the people.
“New wine is not to be put into old bottles,
else they burst.” And if the effort to in
fuse new and sound principles into either of
those worn out parties should be successful,
a like result may be expected. It is quite im
probable that it should be otherwise. For
the elements in each are discordant, conflict-
[fROM THE CHRONICLE <fc SENTINEL.]
Mr. Stephens’ Getter.
Washington City, Feb. 7, 1852.
My Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor of the
2d instant was received yesterday. You
ask what I think of the late movement of of our principles, shall we not be
of all old party names and affiliations by all
who entered into it, we offered to unite with
any and all men, irrespective of past party
distinctions in every section of the country,
whether in the South or North, who would
make these principles a cardinal point in
their creed. The same position we still
hold. As yet, no party at the North has
given any such assurance. The Baltimore
Convention has not been called with any
such view or object; so far from it, many of
our bitterest assailants, at the South as well
as at the North, have already been duly
appointed members of it! Could any idea
be more preposterous than the project of
sending delegates to a convention of our op
ponents, for fear that they may not conduct
their proceeding according to our liking?
Such wouldcertainly be a novel course in po
litical tactics.
If those members of that Convention
from the South, who were lately so loud in
in their denunciation of all men at the North,
and who were so particularly censorious of
our position at home, shall acknowledge
their errors and put themselves upon our
principles, and shall purge that body of its
Free Soil elements—and shall, also, present
to the country a good candidate for the
Presidency—it will be time enough for us
to connect ourselves with their action after
they shall have given us these evidences of
their being entitled to our confidence and co
operation. A good candidate, standing on
our principles, and put forward by an organ
isation standing upon the same principles,
is all we want.
Whether that Convention will *00016 up
to these requisitions, is one of the problems
that future developments only can solve.
My apprehension is, that it will be. Upon
what indications others found more favor
able expectations, I am at a loss to conjec
ture. Is it from the fact that Col. Polk’s
resolution was rejected in the Congression
al caucus of the present session ? Is
it from the fact that Mr. Bartlett, whose
name appears as one of the committee who
called that Convention, was elected to the
seat he now holds in the House of Kepre
sentatives as an open and avowed Free
Soiler ? Is it from the fact that Mr. Kan-
toul, the champion and defender of that,
most unprincipled of' all coalitions in the
annals of political profligacy in Massachu
setts, is one ofthe members of: that Con
vention ? Or, is it from the fact that the
“Union,” newspaper in this city puts down
the most ultra men of the South and the
most rabid Free Soilers at the North, now
Congress, as all good Democrats and equal
ly entitled to membership and fellowship in
the great party of which it possesses to be
the sole organ ?
If so, I have only to say, that these and
other indications which i might mention,
have quite a contrary effect on me. That
Convention, therefore, so called and consti
tuted, as well as all other National Con
ventions, whether Democratic or Whig,
must be put right on the record as a con
dition precedent, before looking to me for
any support or countenance. 1 speak only
for myself. The Constitutional Onion par
ty can speak for itself when its Convention
assembles. But can any one doubt that
the moral power and influence of our posi
tion upon the action of the Baltimore Con
vention would be much greater outside
than inside of it deliberations ? Would
they be less likel to comply with our de
mands from fear of our_ defiance in case of
refusal, than to be controlled by our wishes
after a voluntary surrender ? If we go into
their organization without the condition
precedent of a recognition and endorsement
in the
our friends in Milledgeville. In reply, I say
briefly and plainly, that so far as it may be
considered as indicating the expression of
an opinion in favor of sending delegates to
the Baltimore Convention, I am utterly op
posed to it.
The first, and second of the Resolutions of
that meeting have my cordial approval. The
first re-affirms the principles of the Consti
tutional Union party, and reiterates a deter
mination to adhere to them. The second
provides for the call of a Convention- in the
State, at some suitable time hereafter, to
take into consideration the subject of the
Presidential e ection, and to adopt such
course in relation to it as duty and patriot
ism may then dictate as proper. This is all
riwht. And while I cannot concur with
some in believing that the third resolution
was intended by those who adopted it to
bear the construction which has been put
upon it—to wit, that its object was to com
mit the party, in advance, to send delegates
to the Baltimore Convention,—still I mean
simply to say, that ifsueh was the intention,
I am unqualifiedly opposed to it.
The new organization in Georgia was call
ed into existence upon an extraordinary cri
sis in our political afiairs. That crisis has
not passed by. Those who think
am of ye for doin that same, Biddy Mul-
rooney.’ different conclusions from the signs of the
“Sure, I’d scorn to do it, if ye didn’t per- times from what I do. The present (appa-
voke me,’ sez she. rent,) calm is but a temporary suspension
“Och ! but ’twas a sore day I passed that; of the dangerous elements which then raged
same ; and one as quiet as a mouse in a so furiously. That party was formed upon
panthry. If I opened my mouth at all, up the .principles set forth and embodied in the
jumps Misthress Mulrooney wid—‘Behave action of the State Convention in Decern-
yerself, I say.’ Sure I dinno how I kept my ber, 1850. Those principles I need not re-
timper ; but ‘twas through fear av her wak-; peat to you. They were such as a large ma-
ness, I does be thinkin’. I jority ofthe people of Georgia then thought,
“hhe next day wor Winsday, Oh ! but I and as I still think, essential to the main-
have raison to remimber it. Well, sir a- tenance ofthe rig*htsofher people and the
fore I wor out ay my bed, I heard the pal- union of the States,
thering of feet acra s the floor, and whin I not sectional either
condition of veteran troops, beguiled and
betrayed unarmed into the camp of the en
emy ? The idea of men thus situated in
sisting on terms is simply ridiculous—cap
tives may be allowed to beg for quarters,
but who ever heard of them demanding
concessions ? And is this the time for our
party to put itself in such a humiliating po
sition ? That extraordinary effort is now
being made to inculcate the opinion that
nothing can be done by a separate organi
zation upon the principles of that formed
in Georgia, I am perfectly aware of. But
does it not come with a bad grace from
those who, in thus speaking are but repeat
ing their croakings of twelve months ago ?
Then we are told, as now that the new or
ganization was a failure because it did not
meet with favor from the political intrigu
ers of this city. Some went so far as to say
that the party was dead and could not be
galvanezed into existence.
But what have we not accomplished since
then ? Georgia has spoken, with a majori
ty never before known. So has Mississippi.
And Alabama has shown that her people
are not to be bound by the shackles of party
when principles are at stake.
Has a sin
gle election been lost where the issue was
so draw made ? But Mot only this—last winter the
Georgia organization met with nothing but
opposition from the two great parties, as
they are called here. These parties have
since both been brought to a pause. They
want nothing now so much as a truce.
Their opposition has been changed to-amod
est request, that “bygone may be bygone.’
Shall we grant them even a triice? Will
they not thereby be enabled to rally their
disorganized forces .? Is this the time then
for us to disband? Should we desert our
standard when the enemy everywhere* is in
They were, moreover, [flight before us ? Should we not rather
in their character or j hold our ground until our triumph is com
ing and hostile.
How, for instance, can those men in Gocuv
gia who looked upon the eighteen thousand
majority against them in their own State
at the late election as untrustworthy upon
the questiomof Southern Rights, be expec
ted to act in harmony with the Wilmots,
the Rantouls, the Preston Kings and the
Van Burons at the North! The very idea
of such a possibility is suggestive of infamy,
I take it for granted then, that harmonious
action amongst men holding such antago-
nistical opinions and principles, is out of
the question. And it should be borne in
mind that Mr. Rantoul declared the other
day in the House, that if he were not a
good Democrat, there was not one in New
England! But apart from considerations
growing out of the present condition of the
slavery question, and other questions of do
mestic policy, on which there is equally as
wide a difference' of opinion between the
two great wings of these-old parties, there
are still other new questions arising, upon
which most probably still under differences
of opinion will exist. The question of in
terfering with and taking part in European
politics, will soon be upon U6. “Coming
events cast their shadows before.”. At this
time we see a man, of unusual address and
great ability, traversing the Northen States
of the Union, and urging upon the people
the abandonment of those principles which
have been coeval with the existence of our
government in our relations with the vari
ous monarchies and dynasties of the old world."
His object, evidently, is to implant in
the public mind, the principle^that it is our
duty to join in a general crusade for the
liberties of mankind. These wild and dis
organizing doctrines havo been embodied in
resolutions and adopted with enthusiasm
by large and respectable meetings in divers
places. The day is not distant when the
questions involved in these doctrines will
become practical issues. They will present
subjects of vast magnitude and momentous
importance for the consideration ofthe Am
erican people. And .upon them, as well as
upon those other kindred questions to
which I have alluded, men in all sections
who think alike, must organize and act to
gether without respect to past differences of
opinion on other points, or an early doom
will be onr destiny, instead of that full
measure of true greatness which it is our
real “mission” to attain, and which nothing
short of the united patriotism of the whole
country can secure.
This is no time, therefore to look to old
issues with a prospect of reorganizing parties
upon them. But I have said much more
than I intended. In conclusion, I will add
that our policy is to hold our position. We
should unite with no party that fails as a
condition precedent to incorporate In its
creed these principles which we consider as
essential to the maintenance of our rights
and the preservation of the Union of the
States. We should stand aloof from allaY-
filiation and association with Freesoilism.
Whatever may be the course of future e-
vents we should stand by our principles
wherever they may lead us, “through woe’.’
as well as “through weal 4 ” and maintain
them now and always if need be until they,
we, and tke Republic, perish together in a
common ruin. Yours respectfully.
Alexanddr H. Stephens.
looked, there wor another dirty little brat objects. They were, and are, as broad as 1 plete in forcing an acknowledgement of our
Why is a person snoring in bed like a
new song ? Because it’s sheet-music.