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BY S, B. CRAFTON.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1853.
VOL. VII—NO. 20.
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II ©(D3E3L CASTS'
THE LITTLE HOUND BOY’S
DREAM.
BY MRS. M. A. DENNISON.
Professional and Business Cards,
BEVESill'S? XL EVAISS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
WILL practice in the counties of Wash
ington Burke, Jefferson, Scriven, Emanuel
Laurens, Wilkinson and Hancock.
(Orifice in Court House on Lower Floor.)
Feb. 1, 1853. 1—ly
JAMES S. HOOK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
• ■. ) Washington, Burke, Scriven
Middle-circuit. ^ j e ff eraon an <l Emanuel.
Southern Circuit. | - - - - Laurens.
Ocmulgee Circuit | - - - - Wilkinson
[Office next door to Warthen's store.]
jan. 1, 1852. 51—ly
JHO.W. RTJDZSIIL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville Georgia.
Jan. 25,1853 52—ly
XL. E. WAB.TEEJM.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
feb. 17, 1853. 4—ly
X. S. SAFFOLS. J&.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLER AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
Will practice in the counties of Wash
ington, Montgomery, Tatnall Emanuel and
Jefferson of the Middle Circuit, also the
counties of Telfair and Irwin of the South
ern Circuit. Office in Sandersville.
February 22, 18 4—tf
* Z- GRAY,
WATCH MAKER, AND JEWELER,
Sandersville, Georgia.
May 10, 1853 15—ly
XMLULFOXLB XVXAK.SXJ,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLER AT LAW,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 22, 1853. 4—ly
S B CRAFTON>
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
Will also attend the Courts of Emanu
Laurens,and Jefferson, should business been,
rtystedto his care, in either of those eountie
feb. 11. 4—tt
J, B- BATNE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Scarborough, Georgia.
Will atteud promptly to all business en
trusted to his care in any of the Courts of the
Middle or Eastern counties.
March 14, ly
BE. & XL- Xtt JOHNSTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Sparta, Georgia.
Will practice in Hancock and the ad
joining counties, and the Supreme Court.
MARK JOHNSTON, j R. M. JOHNSTON.
March 22, 1853.8—tf
W. L. H0LLIFIELD,
STTXLGSON DENTIST.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
may 10,1852. 16—tf
Dr. William L.Jernigan,
f HAVING permanently located him
self in Sandersville, respectfully offers
his professional services to the citizen?
of the Village, and county. When not oth
erwise engaged he may be found at his Office
at all times.
Sandersville, March 8,1853. 6—ly
8CRA.DrxoWi joHKsonr <&co
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
D.T.SCRANTON, }
JOSEPH JOHNSTON, f Savannah *
A W. B. SCRANTON,
f No, 19, Old Slip, N Yor
feb. ,22 1853. 4—iy.
A little fair haired child laid its pale eheek
against a pillow of straw.
It had toiled up three pair of narrow, dark
stairs, to gain its miserable garret, for it was
a little “bound child,” that had neither fa
ther nor mother; so no soft bed awaited his
tired limbs, but a miserable pallet with one
coverlet.
It had neither lamp nor candle to lighten
the room, if such it might be called ; still
that was not so bad, for the beautiful round
moon smiled in upon the poor bound boy,
and almost kissed his forehead, as his sad
eyes closed dreamily.
But after a while, as he laid there, what
woederous change came over the place. A
great light shone down, the huge, black raf
ters turned to solid gold, and these seemed
all studded with tiny, precious sparkling
stones, The broken floor, too, was ail en
crusted with snining crystals, and the child
raised himself upon his elbow, and gazed
with a half fearing, half delighted look up
on the glorious sight.
One spot on the wall seemed too bright
for his vision to endure, but presently, as if
emerging from it, came a soft, white figure,
that siood by the poor bound boy’s bed
side.
The child shut his eyes, he was a little,
only a little frightened, and his heart beat
quickly, but he found breath to murmur,
“tell me, who are you.”
“Look up, be not afraid,” said a sweet
voice, that sounded like the harps of heaven,
“look up, darling, I am your brother Willy,
sent down from the angels to speak with
you, and tell you to bear all your sorrows
patiently, for you will s5on be with us.”
“What, you my brother Willy? oh! no,
no, that cannot be, my brother Willy was
very pale, and his clothes were patched and
torn, and there was a bump on his back,
and he used to go into the muddy streets
and pick up bits of wood and chips, but
your face is quite too handsome, ana your
clothes prettier than I ever saw before ; and
there is no ugly hump on your back—be
sides, my brother Willy is dead long ago.”
‘T am your brother YVilly, your immor
tal brother; my body, with the ugly hump
is dead and turned to ashes; but just as
soon as that died, I went up to the great
heavens, and taw sights that I cannot tell
you about now, they were so very, very
beautifuL But God, who is your father, and
the holy name of Eternity, gave me these
bright garments that never get soiled, and I
was so happy that I expect my face was
changed very much, and I grew tall and
straight; so no wonder you do not know
me.”
And now the little bound child’s tears
began to fall.
“Oh !” he exclaimed earnestly, “if I too
could go to heaven.”
“You can go,” replied the angel with a
smile of ineffable sweetness, “you have learn
ed how to read, well, to-morrow get your
Bible, and find very reverently—for it is
God’s most holy book—these words of the
Lord Jesus : “But I say unto you, love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good
to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use and persecute you.”
“Do all these; and you shall be the child
of your father which is above.”
“Even if they beat me ?” murmured the
little bound boy with a quivering lip.
A flash of light passed over the angel’s
face as he replied; “the more you forgive,
the nearer you will be to heaven.”
In another moment the vision had gone,
but still the room was all blazing with un
earthly radiance.
As the little boy fell back upon his pillow
his wan face reflected the angel’s smile, and
he thought, “1 will forgive them even if
they beat me.”
Suddenly a more musical voice than the
former fell upon his ear. This time he was
not afraid, but sitting up on his miserable
couch, he saw a figure that seemed to lift
itself to the wall, a ray of intense brightness
went hungry rather than do wrong.
And you, if you never forget to say your
little prayers that I taught you, if you will
keep God’s holy commandments, and trust
in him always, you shall soon be with me in
my sweet, heavenly abode.
Once more the child was left alone, and
still the rafters were golden, the walls
pearly, the old floor studded with brilliants,
and the same soft, mysterious light over
all.
A strain of holy music fell faintly upon
his enraptured senses; it grew louder and
came nearer and nearer to the head of his
little bed. And then- a voice—oh! far
sweeter than either of the others, sang;
“my child, my little earth«hild, look upon
me, I am thy mother .”
In a moment what emotions swelled the
bosom of the lonely boy. He thought of
her cherished tenderness to him long years
ago, of her soft arms around his neck, her
gentle lips pressing his forehead, then came
up the cruelty of strangers, who after she
had been put away, in the deep ground,
treated him with harshness.
He turned towards her, oh ! what a glo
rious being; her eyes were like stars; her
hail like the most precious gold ; but there
was that in her face that none other might
so truly know. He had doubted if the first
risen was bis brother, if the second was his
father, but not onqe did he doubt that this
beautiful being was his own dear mother.
A little while he kept down his strong
feelings, but the thoughts of the past and
the present overpowered him.
“Ob ! mother, mother, he cried, stretch
ing forth his little hand, “let me come to
you—let iae come ; there is nobody jn this
world like you ; no one kisses me now, no
one loves me, oh ! mother, mother, let me
come 1” aud the hot tears raiued down his
cheeks.
“My orphan child,” she said, in low
tones, that thrilled him to the heart, “you
cannot come to me now, but listen to me.
i am very often near you when you know
it not. Every day I am by your side, and
wheu you come to this lonely room to weep
my wings encircle you. I behold you suf
fer, but 1 know that God will not give you
more sorrow than you can bear. Wheu
you resist evil, i whisper calm and tender
thoughts iuto your soul; but when you give
way to anger, wheu you cherish a spirit of
revenge, you drive your mother from you,
and displease the great aud holy God.”
“Be good, be happy, even amidst all your
trials, and if it is a consolation, know that
your immortal mother often communes with
thy soul. And farther, thou shall soon be
with me.”
“Oh ! mother, mother,”, murmured the
boy, springing from his bed, and striving
to leap towaids her. The keeu air chilled
him, he looked eagerly round—there was
no light, a solemn stillness reigned, the ra
diance, the rafters of gold, the silvery beams,
the music, the angels—all were gone. And
then he knew that he had been dreaming,
but oh ! what a dream ; how strengthening,
how cheering, never would he forget it.
The next morning when he went down to
his scanty breakfast, there was such a beau
tiful serenity upon his face, such a swee',
gladness in his eyes, that all who looked
upon him forebore to taunt or chide him.
He told his dream, and the hearts that
listened were softened, and the mother,
who held her own babe, was so choked with
her tears that she could not eat; and the
father said inwardly, that henceforth he
wmuld be kinder to the poor, and so he was.
The child found his way into her affections,
he was so meek, so prayerful, so good, and
at the end of a twelve months, when the an
gels did in very deed take him far above to
heaven, the whole family wept around the
little coffin, as if he were one of their own.
But they all felt that he was in the bright
heaven with his brother, his father, and
his dear angel mother.
‘Ifyour husband looks grave.
The Bauk of Atlanta.
The following communication and ac
companying paragraphs, says the Chronicle
& Sentinel, expose a deliberate design to
use the Bank of Atlanta, a charter for which
was granted by the Legislature of this
State, for fraudulent purposes. Who Geo.
Smith <fe Co., are, we know not, nor is it
necessary that we should know anything
more of them than the facts disclose, to ar
rive at the conclusion that they have no
idea of doing an honest, legitimate banking
business. It behooves the people, there
fore, to discountenance the concern and to
refuse to give the bills of the Bauk circula
tion, if they would avoid loss. Let them
do this, and Messrs. Smith & Co., will be
effectually checked in their fraudulent de
signs, in the meantime, the authorities
should be prompt to exercise whatever pow
er they have in the premises to protect the
people, as well of this as other Stales, a-
gainst the contemplated fraud.
We are uo enemy of sound Banks, on
the contrary we have always been the firm
fiiend and zealous advocate of a sound,
legtimate banking system. We have, how
ever, witnessed so much corruption and
fraud, and suffered so much in common
with the whole people, by a spurious, irre
deemable currency, that we feel it a duty,
not less due to ourselves than the public,
to expose all such institulious and their
managers; and to warn the people against
receiving iheir bills as money or the repre
sentatives of money.
The charter for the Bank of Atlanta was
granted for the benefit of the people of that
place, to aid in developing the resources of
that section and increasing the commerce
of Atlanta. As yet none of its bills have
made their appearance in Georgia, that .we
have seen or heard of, while they are at
tempted to be introduced into circulation
in far distant States of the Union. This
fact alone is sufficient to show the intent of
the managers of the institution, aud to
place the people on their guard.
Since the foregoing was written, we learn
that the parties who owned the charter in
Atlanta, sold it to Geo. Smith & Co., of
Chicago. If they knew the purpose of
Smith & Co., they are certainly little Tess
guilty than Smith <fc Co., of the contempla
ted fraud.
outlined ail its form;, its eyes blazed, yet
there was a mild beauty in them every time
they looked into his own.
“Little one, I am your father,” said the
form in melting accents.
“I don’t think you can be my father,”
whispered the boy timidly. “My father
used to look very old indeed; and be got
hurt and wore a crutch ; there were wrin
kles on his face, and all over his forehead,
his hair was short and white; not long like
yours. And my father used to stoop over
and wear a. little black apron, and put patch
es on shoes in a little dark room.
“And what else ?”
“He used to pray and sing very sweetly,
but I never hear any praying and singing
now,” sobbed the child, bursting into tears.
“Don’t cry, dear little boy, but listen to
me. I am your father, your’immorlal fath
er, that poor lame body is all gone now, min
gled with the dust of the grave yard. As
soon as the breath left that deformed body,
I was with the shin'ing angels, hosts and
hosts of them bore me up to heaven ; and
the king of that glorious place clothed mo
in these robes, white and stainless, and gave
me this beautiful body, which shall never
feel corruption. And this was the reason,
dear little orphan, because I ioved Him,
and my chief delight was in praying to Him,
and talking about Him, although I was very
poor, I tried to be honest, and many times
let him
alone; don’t disturb or annoy him.’
Oh, pshaw ! when I’m married, the so
berer my husband looked, the more fun I’d
rattle about his ears. * Don't disturb him.'
I guess so ! I’d salt his coffee—and pepper
his tea—and sugar his beef steak—and tread
on his toes —and hide Lis newspaper—and
sew up his pockets—and put pins in his
slippers—and dip his cigars in water—and
I wouldn’t stop for the Great Mogul, till I
had shortened his long face to ray liking.
Messrs. Editors:—I send you extracts
taken from Western papers, which please
publish, that ; t may be a warning to our
legislators how they grant new Charters for
Banks. The high credit our old Banks
now enjoy is of great service to the State,
and great care should be had that no Char
ters are granted for sale, for the safety of
the Planters, Merchants, Mechanics, and
even the Stockholders. My opinion is, that
no Charter should be granted with a capi
tal less than five hundred thousand dollars
and that the whole capital should be paid
in within two or three years, one half the
first year, at least. Our currency is now
good. Let the people look well to keeping
it so.
Geo. Smith’s Money.
The Chicago Democrat of the 24th, says
that the notes of the Bank of Atlanta, Ga.,
intended to replace the issues of the Wis
consin Marine and Fire Insurance Compa
ny, have made their appearance in Chica
go. The plate is similar to that of the
Bank of America, a humbug concern started
by Geo. Smith in Washington City, and
which has since closed its business there,
because the people would not tolerate it.
The notes of the Bank of Atlanta are sign
ed by S. C. Higginson, President, and J.R.
Valentine, Cashier. They are principally
of the denomination of $2, all notes under
that sum issued for circulation in Illinois
being illegal. The Wisconsin notes have
been or will be withdrawn, and.tbe out
standing notes of the Bank of America will
be redeemed by Chubb Brothers, and Sel
den, Withers & Co., Washington, and
Strachan & Co., of New York. The busi
ness of the new Bank is to be conducted at
Chicago, although nominally it is to be
done at Atlauta, Ga. No one knows any
thing about the charter, the bank or its
ownership. The very fact that Geo. Smith
refuses to do a banking business under the
laws of his own State, to pick up a charter
raises a violent presumption that all is not
fair, and that he is uuwilling to make him
self amendable to the laws of the State in
which he lives. He is either afraid to make
which must have been in bad order when
it could not be used in Georgia, and has,
not been improved by its transfer to Illinois
for the purpose of finding a circulation.
Bank of Atlanta, Geo.—We a:e glad to
learu by the St. Louis Republicau that the
Board of Brokers of St. Louis are about tc
set their face against George Smith’s new
emission of shinplasters, issued in Chicago,
but redeemable at Atlanta, Geo. The sub
ject was before them yesterday, but as the
Board was not full, action was deferred.
Those present were, however, opposed to
giving the notes currency in any shape,
and they have taken the right to make this
opposition known--before they gain any
circulation whatever.
Notice—The Atlanta Bank of Georgia,
recently chartered by the Legislature of
that State, is now owned by the subscribers,
and as such owners, they are personally
liable for all its issues, in terms of the act
of incorporation. The notes of the Bank
will be received on deposit by the subscri
bers on the same terms that Ohio and In
diana money is received and they will be
redeemed at New York by Agents of the
Bank at three-quarters of one per cent, dis
count.
Geo. Smith & Co.
Chicago, April 22, 1853.
[For the Central Georgian.]
LAW and LIQUOR.
“Should once the world resolve t’ abolish
All that’s ridiculous and foolisliy
Certainly he’d get vexed,’ there wouldn’t
be any fun in teasing him if he didn’t; and I h'jmse Responsible for the notes which he
that would give his melancholy blood a good raay isS u e , or he seeks an undue advantage
healthful start, aud his eyes would snap and
sparkle, and he’d say, ‘Fanny, will you be
quieter not?’ and I should laugh aud pull
his whiskers, and say, decidedly *Not /’ and
then I should tell him I hadn’t the slightest
idea how handsome he looked when he was
vexed, and then he would preteud not to
hear the compliment—but would pull up
his dicky, and take a sly peep in the glass
(for all that!) and then he’d begin to grow
amiable, and get off his stills, and be just
as agreeable all the rest of the evening as
if he wasn't my husband, and all because I
didn’t follow that stupid bit of advice, ‘to
let him alone.’ Just imagine me, Fanny,
of those who are doing a banking business,
under the laws ol the State. In either case
his acts are to be looked upon with suspicion
by the people. He has been engaged for
years in the issue of currency unknown to
the law, and the last in violation of law,
as that has been, for prudential reasons,
withdrawn, the people, if they are wise,
will never suffer these shinplasters to get
such a foothold among them again.
George Smith raay be rich, but the peo
ple have no guarantee that his riches, may
not take to themselves wings and disappear
whenever he can get one or two millions of
....... , , . . 'his foreign paper afloat among them. He
sitting down on a cricket in the corner, with does not deserve the public confidence, be-
my forefingers in my mouth, looking out of caQse he lives in the habitual disregard of
the sides of my eyes, and waiting till that law under which it is attempted to pro-
man got ready to speak to me 1 You can t h e De ople from illegitimate and spu-
see at once it would be—be—. Well the rious unking. Now is the time to stop
amonnt of it is, I shouldn't do it.—Fanny t hese questionable issues of paper money.
We have got rid of the vast mass of trash
with which the country was flooded only a
cienl to carry you across the plains, has ! few months ago, and g6ld and silver
just been completed, and on a plan , so inge- have taken its place. Let us keep clear of
nious that you can place it in your cigar it. Touch not, therefore, >we say to the
case. ? . ^ j people, the notes of this spurious concern
Fern.
An Indian rubbar stove, with fuel suffi
across'
It would have nothing left to do,
T’ apply in jest or earnest to ;
No business of importance, play
Or steal, to pass the time away.”
T shaii now proceed to notice the most
important points in the articles of H. R.,
and upon which he seems to rest with an
abiding confidence of successfully over
throwing the present legalized system of
traffic in liquor.
He says, the present excitement upon
the subject of Temperance—these legal re
strictions sought to be thrown around “the
traffic in ardent spirits, is not properly a
movement of' Temperance men, but of the
friends Of Temperance—anti-grog shop
wen—it is a movement based upon the
sense of popular feeling,” &c. Now I have
not the least doubt but that these “anti
grog shop men” believed this movement to
be “based upon the sense of popular feel
ing,”—popular prejudice, or something of
this nature. This sense of popular feeling
is the very spot upon which the frail bark
of Temperance was built, and ere the ides
•f next October shall have passed away
the Captain with bis gallant little crew, in
all probability, will be wrecked upon the
very coast on which he built—upon the
sense of popular feeling —yea ! upon this
dangerous coast may the fragments of this
little ship be seen to drift ashore, and none
even dare to own he ever manned her.
I cannot leave this point before recom
mending that the right of discovery be se
secured by Patent to him who ascertained
that this “is not properly a movement of
Temperance men, but of the friends of Tem
perance,” for unless the light of his genius,
the acuteness of his investigation, the ana
lytical powers of his mind had been brought
to bear upon this all absorbing question,
doubtless, the grand discovery would have
remained entombed in the oblivion of the
past, while future generations would have
wandered heedlessly on, under the delusive
impression that this was altogether a move
ment of Temperance men. But notwith
standing this positive annunciation by H. R.
“that it is not a movement of Temperance
men,” I for one, would like remarkably well
to see a few of the names of those friends
of Temperance associated with the proceed
ings of the recent Atlanta Temperance con
vention who are not members of a Temper
ance, or Washingtonian Society, or Tern
perance Division. Come friend H. R.,
hand round the names! I think of such a
class of men, a society might be constituted
equally as “strange,” in all its parts, as the
“Grocers Association of Savannah.”
You have been asked Mr. Editor, with
much apparent gravity, “if you were ac
quainted with a sober intelligent and respec
table citizen who would vote to have a grog
shop located in front of bis family dwell-
ing,” by H. R., and then he goes on to ar
gue thus, now if such a citizen would not
vote for the grog shop to be put in front of
his own dwelling, he should not vote for it
to be put in front of his neighbors dwelling.
Now let us examiueinto this profound quer-
ry, and I hope I shall be able to make it
appear that this is a matter to be determin
ed entirely by circumstances. In the first
place then, if I desired the grog-shop to be
located in front of my house, I should most
certainly vote for it. In the next place,
the front distance, would go far in deter
mining the point of locality, for l presume
there are not many of us in the county
who would prefer to live in close proximity
to a grog-shop, and why ? Not so much
on account of the disgusting scenes too of*
ten enacted at them,” as on account of the
loud and wicked oaths too often ottered
there. Again, few men are willing to have
their families, particularly children, subjec
ted to examples of profanity or sin, for hu
man nature “is as prone to sin as are the
sparks to fly upward.” We in the country,,
have also been educated differently, we
have been taught from our earliest boy
hood, to shun the grog-shops on account of
he wicked examples there, that youthful
nature is too apt to imbibe. Now I pre
sume that friend H. R., would as soon see
his son, (if he has one) occasionally at the
grog-shop, as to see him select for his as
sociates, away from the grog-shops, those
who render it demoralizing id its influence.
But to return to the point of locality. Ill
cities we find no difference whatever in the
prices of property, dwelling houses or oth
er real estate, on account of its proximity
to grog-shops, and certainly the city-gentry
drink the “critter” to as great an excess as
those in the country. In cities, police offi-
cers suppress all undue fuss or loud swear- •
ings, in the country we have no such offi
cers, and more fuss ; consequently exists,
the prejudice in the miuda of the country-
folks against living' close to grog-shops-
Again, the propriety or impropriety, as to
the location of a grog shop might be de
termined in this way. We are infoimed
by the Scriptures that ‘There is a time for
all things,” and the inference is plain, that
there is a proper place for all things. “There
is a time to pray,” yet the prayers of the
Pharisee when- offered in public places and
at the corners of the streets, were not heard.
“There is a time to dance,” yet, who can
dance without a place to dance upon ?
“There is a time to work, a time to feast, a
time to sleep, &e., die. Yet, who can work,
feast, or sleep, unless he has a suitable place
tor the accomplishment of these objects.
But apart from Scriptural illustrations, we
see things daily, badly arranged or located,
l am acquainted with an honest, upright
aud good citizen of this county, (Jefferson)
whose only front approach to his “family
dwelling is through bis Cow-pen and Horse
lot.” Now, I dare say friend H. K. would
Dot like this arrangement for himself, neith
er would he like such things tqj?e placed
iu front (near-to) his dwelling By the vote
or will of his neighbors, no doubt but he
would consider it very unkind, even uujust,
diouid legislators, compel him to place bis
horse stables “in front of his family dwel
ling”—no doubt but he would consider such
legislation an infringement upon bis rights
—he would be ready to cry aloud, that this
is oue of the rights reserved by the Sover
eign people—this is a subject upon which
legislation is inadmissible.
Now by the same parity of reasoning,
that I have shown that you should locate
your stables, upon your premises, are when
in your judgement best suited to the objects
of a stable, I hold, that should my neigh
bor build a bouse upon his premises and
with the avowed object of putting ardent
spirits in said house for sale, there should
be no legal restraints upon his action, so
long as he invades the rights of no one. J.
might proceed to enumerate many build
ings and things which should never be put
in front or near the “family dwelling,” but
which are absolutely indispensable when iu
their proper places.
H. R., says “that I believe the Traffic in
Spirituous Liquors to be at variance with
the principles of the Bible, and it is to this
point I wish particularly to draw the at
tention of the reader.” Now reader, I
would be glad that you reflect upon this
proposition. You are called ou to legislate
upon the “Traffic in Spirituous Liquors”
because it is at variance with the principles
of the Bible. Are we to infer by this re
mark that men are to be dragged into mor
ality by legal restraints ? Forced to com
ply with the “principles of the Bible” by
legislative enactments I Away then, with
moral suasion” altogether I We’ll heir
no more sermons on Morality, Faith, Hope,
Charity, when it la admitted as a principle,
that men are to be made by Penal Codes,
to comply “with the principles of the Bi
ble.” I say, when this is admitted- as a
principle in State Government, we will have
no use for Princes Digest, Cobbs Analysis,
or the Annual proceedings of the Legisla
ture—this “principle,” when applied, will •
put an end to Law and Lawyers—the only
things to be accomplished would be the
election of a Sin Tribunal, and place it up
on a Great White Throne, to sit in judg
ment upon the actions of mankind; judg
ing in accordance “with the principles of
the Bible,” of the enormity of the sin and
of its merited punishment.
I say friend H. R., make out and publish
your Penal Code in strict acquiescence
w th your “principles,” and let the people
judge for themselves, and not for another,
what is to be the result, and the offspring of
this marriage between Church and State,
so ardently maintained and hoped for by
yourself. Piny-Woods Observer.
Jefferson co., Ga.
Question for Debating Societies.—Doe*
it follow that a man raised on ginger must
be gingerbread/ Let some ot our young
lyceums .discuss this. The warmth of . the
subject will admit of a spicy debate.
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