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[From the Baltimore Clipper.]
Tlie Festive Cup!
Take, take away the festive cup—
Nor tempt me with the winning glass—
For plainly o’er its mirror brim,
Dark terms of vice, like spectres, pass;
Each Bowing bond—each sparkling drop,
Ts pregnant with uunumber’d ills—
Awakened memory oft unfolds,
Past scenes, at which the bosom thrills.
Take, take away the festive cup—
No more its potent spell I feel—
’Twill tear each germ of virtue up,
And o’er the heart, like shadows, steal;
.For though ’tis wreath'd in rosy smiles,
And seeming pleasures on it ride,
There’s misery, woe, and wretchedness,
Commingling with its purple tide!
Take, take away the festive cup—
It chills my soul with horrid fears!
’Tis fill’d with woe—with wretchedness—
With widows' and with orphans' tears!
Oh may I, with supernatural aid,
Be guarded from its magic powers.
Then will the heart beat high and free,
And gladsome as in boviiood’s hours.
‘Why, then the preacher man he went
home, and then all the fellers came a pul
lin’ and haulin’ me, and kissing me and
squeezing me, aud sich other carryings on
as they did cut up. Fools ! they great deal
better kissed their own selves, I reckon.
% ‘Go on Becky ! tell us about it,’ ses all
the gals.
‘Well, then, after they all went away,
John, he ’ Oh, shaw,’ ses she, ‘I ain’t
gwine to tell you another word more.—
When you git married yourselves, you’ll
kuow all about it, I reckon.’
COIL. BENTON’S HISTORY
Anno 1828—J. Quincy Adams President.
Retiring of Mr. Macon.
Philosophic in his temperament and wise
in lus conduct, governed in all his actions
by reason and judgment, and deeply imbu
ed with Bible images, this virtuous and
—should bear the bad consequences, as
well as enjoy the good ones, cf their own
the camp came to the knowledge of tie chinery of party. He was Democratic in
General. Green was a man himself and ; the broad sense of the word, as signifying
able to know a man. He felt at once that a capacity in the people for self-government, j dealings. He never called any one “friend’
if this report was true, this young soldier ; and in its party sense as in favor of a plain j without being so; and never expressed faith
was no common character, and determined ; and economical administration of the Fede jin the honor and integrity of a man with-
to verify the fact. He sent for the young | ral Government, and against latitudiuarian ' out acting up to the declaration when the
man, inquired of him, heard the truth, and j constructions of the Constitution. He was j occasion required it. Tnus, in constituting
then asked for the reason of this unexpected ; a party man, not. in the hackneyed sense of j his friend Weldon N. Edwards, Esq., his
testamentary and sole executor, with large
conduct—this preference for a suffering j the word, but only where principle was con-
camp over a comfortable seat in the Gen- cerned, and was indeuendent of party in all
eral Assembly ? Mr. Macon answered him,
in his quaint and sententious way, that he
had seen the faces of the British manv
discretionary powers, he left all to his hon
or, and forbid him to account to any court
or power for the manner in which he should
execute that trust. This prohibition was
his social relations, and in all the proceed
ings which he disapproved. Of this he
gave a strong instance in the ease of Gen.
times, but had never seen their backs, and : Hamilton, whom he deemed honorable and Iso characterestic and so honorable to both
meant to stay in the army till hi did.! patriotic, and utterly refused to be conefern- j parties, and has been so well justified by
Greene instantly saw the material the j ed in a movement proposed to affect him } the event, that 1 give it iu his own words as
young man was made of, and the handle ! personally, though politically opposed to j copied from his will, to-wit:
by which he was to be worked. That ma-j him. He venerated Washington, admired j “I subjoin the following, in my own hand-
terial was patriotism; that handle a sense of j the varied abilities and high qualities of j writing, as a codicil to this my last will and
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patriotic man (whom Mr. Jefferson called i ni0r *» 0 ° d as a me ™ bei ‘ o[tho General As-
“the last of the Romans,”) had long fixed j ? en > b, y than as a soldier; that in the army
the term of his political existence at the I " e was . but , one . ™ n \ and 111 the Ge , neral
age which the Psalmist assigns for the lim-' Asse !” bl - V , he might obtain many, with the
i it of manly life : “The days of our years! * u ?? hes tbey ” ee . ded ’ by sb ™"P } he deS *'
3L3L AH lo ! are threescore years and leu; and ^ b j ^ on and suffering which he had seen in
_ _ , -- —I reason of strength they be fourscore years, j Ij" 6 Cam P’ and that * wasb,s dut Y to , S 0 ’
published monthly for four months—lor estab-. ircwy TYTTT amw PflTTRTsMNP i y«t if tlieir strength laboi and sorrow, for it I . u ®) v °! dut - v and usefulness was deci-
lishing lost papers, for the full space of three ■ -DikbJA I IV lLoUi\ D LU U jtilOlilr. | is S00I1 cut off aad we fl a » iIe touch _ i Slve - Mr. Macon obeyed the Governor s
months for compelling titles from Executors j j ed that age in’ 1828, and, true to all his pur-! summons 5 b Y b >=* representations con-
d “ •* » H MW was true to Lis resolve iu [his. |
Publications will always be continued ac-, ses th ® & dla ' . . j and executed it with the quietude and in-
cording to these, the legal requirements, unless j Becky hadnt been married mor n a | difference of a_n ordinary transaction. He
otherwise ordered.
duty; and laying bold of this handie he i Hamilton, and esteemed and respected the
quickly worked the young soldier into a ; eminent Federal gentlemen of his time. He
different conclusion from the one that he ; had affectionate regard for Madison and
had arrived at. He told him he could do ! Monroe; but Mr. Jefferson was to him the
full and perfect exemplification of the Re
All letters on business must be vosl-jpaid
Professional and Business Cards.
B- Xi. PRE3COTT
Attorney at law,
Halcyondale, Scriven co., Georgia
WILL give his whole attention to
practice of Law in all its branches.
July 12, 1853. 24—6m
tributed to obtain the supplies which ena
bled Greeue to turn back and face Cornwal
lis, fight him, cripple him, drive him further
month, and hadn’t got over her bashfuluess ! was in the middle of a third Senatorial term j back . than | ie b ^d‘advanced (for Wilming-
i yet- j and in the full possessiou of all his faculties ! ton ;s SOUth . of Gamden ’> d,sable hltn t|,om
j ‘ ’Bout what V set she. \ of mind and bodv; but bis time for retire-! [fining m the South,
j ‘Why Tout your courtship,’ ses the gals. j meut had come—the time fixed by himself, the batt e ot Gui ord ’
j ‘Shawl’ ses she, turning her head aud | but fixed upon conviction and for* well con-
| blushing dreadful ; ‘you better tell your , sidered reasons, and inexorable to him as
i own courtship yourselves, I reckon. j if fixed by fate. To the friends who urged
| Yes, but none ot us ever^had any beaux, ! him to remain to the end of bis term, and
i Beck, and you s a mairieci woman. Come w'ho insisted that bis mind was fr ood as
the ! now, do tell us ’bout it. I do love to bear ever, be would answer that it was crood
BSVEUX.IZ’ID, EVANS,
attorney at law,
Sandersville, Georgia.
WILL practice in the counties of Wash
ington Burke, Jefferson, Scriven, Emanuel
Laurens, Wilkinson and Hancock.
(Office in Court House on Lower Floor.)
Feb. 1, 1853. 1—ly
i aboufeourtin’ so much,’ses Betsey Powers.
‘Ok yes, Becky, do tell us.’
.‘Well,’ ses Becky, after a great deal of
blushiu’ and twistin’ about, I’ll tell you all
how it was, if that’ll satisfy you.’
‘Well,’ ses the gals, all get-tin’ round her
so they could hear her good.
‘Well,’ses Becky, putting an emphasis
enough yet to let him know that he ought
to quit office before his mind quit him, and
that he did not not mean to risk the fate
of the Archbishop of Grenada. He resign
ed his Senatorial honors as he had worn
them, meekly, unostentatiously, in a letter
of thanks and gratitude to the General As
sembly ot his State, and gave to repose at
1 on about every other word, ‘John, he cum to j home that interval of thought aud quietude
our house to see me,’she ses (turnin’ away j which every wise man would wish to place
JAIVIBS S. HOOK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandcrsville, Georgia.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
At; UIp rimrit ^ Washington, Burke, Scriven j ter } ove his self, I
Middle-circuit. ^ j e fp er30n and Emanuel.
Southern Circuit. | .... Laurens.
Ocmulgee Circuit 1 - - - - Wilkinson
[Oliice next door to Wartheivs store.]
jan. 1, 1852. 51—ly
her head and lookin’ down sideways under
her arm)—‘Fool ! he better go tosee hisself,
1 reckon. Gracious knows ! I didn’t care
nothing about him.’
‘Well,’ ses the gals.
‘Well, John sed he loved me. Fool! bet-
eckon.’
‘Oh, that’s so funny,’ ses the gals—‘go
on!’
JNO.W. RUEiSILIs,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville Georgia.
Jan. 25, 1853 52—ly
R, If WARTSSN.
attorney at law,
Sandcrsville, Georgia.
feb. 17, 1853. 4—ly
I. H. SAPPOLD, JR.
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
-tf ,
z. GRAY .
WATCH MAKER, AND JEWELER,
Sandersville, Georgia.
Any 10, 1853 15—ly
XVZU'XiFORX) MARSH.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLER AT LAW,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah,Ga.
feb. 22, 1853. 4—ly
S B GRAFTON,
attorney at law,
Sandersville, Georgia.
Will also attend the Courts of Emanu
Laurens, and Jefferson, should business be ern
rtustedto his care, in either of those counties-
feb. 11.
4—tf
J, B HATTKTE,
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, * 7—ly
9K. & R ME JOHNSTON,
ATTORNEYS at law,
Sparta,Georgia.
Will practice in Hancock and the ad
orning counties, and the Supreme Court.
MARK JOHNSTON, | R. M. JOHNSTON.
March 22, 1853. 8—tf
‘Shaw !’ ses Becky, ‘I won’t tell no more.
‘Oh yes, do—do Becky,’ ses all of ’em.
‘Well, then, John, he axed me if I
wouldn't have him. Him, fool! better have
j his self, I reckon.’
‘Then, what did you say V
‘Hem! I never sed nothin’. Gracious
knows, he wasn’t gwine to git nothin’ oul
of ine.’
‘Oh, oh !’ se? the gals—‘do go on Becky.’
‘Then, John, he axed ma if he moughtn’t
have me. Fool! lie better have his self, I
reckon.’
‘Well,’ ses the gals.
‘Well, mother, she got kind o’ flustrica-
ed and sed yes. Fool! she better mind
her own business, I reckon.’
‘And then what ?’
‘Then, John, he axed daddy if he
moughtn’t have me; aud daddy he got
kind o’ fiustrieated too, and sed yes, too.’
‘That’s the sort of daddies,’ ses the gals,
g their hands.
TlUn mammy, she went to town, and
got a white frock for me, and white gloves
to put on my hands, for to be married to
John. Hem, fool! she better be married to
him herself, I reckon.’
‘Well,’ ses the gals, ‘go on Becky.’
‘Shaw, now, I ain’t gwine to tell you no
more about it, so I ain’t.’
‘Oh, yes Becky, do go on ! Oh do tell us
all about the weddin’, Becky—that’s a good
soul.’
‘Oh, hush gals, ’bout sich nonsense.’
•Oh, do now, that’s a good soul.’
‘Well, bimeby the preacher man he came
to our house, and a hole heap of people to
marry me. Fools ! they better staid home,
I reckon. Gracious knows I didn’t want to
see ’em.’
‘Never mind, Becky—go on.’
‘Well, then, John he came lo take me
up to the preacher mau, for to be married.
Fool! I never did feel so mad—aud theu
Ob, shaw gals, I can’t tell any
¥. L. HOLLIFIELD,
SURGEON DENTIST.
SANDERSVIL*LE, GEORGIA
maylO, 1852. 16—tf
tf
Dr. WilliamL.Jernigan,
HAVING permanently located him
of the Village, and county.v' When not <ffh-
ervv ise engaged he may be found at his Office
at all times.
Sandersville, March 8,1853, 6—ly
more.
‘Oh yes—go on Becky.
‘Well, then, the preacher man, he axed
me if I would have John to be my lawful
husband. Him, fool! better have his self,
I reckon. And then- — shaw, gals,I
won’t tell any more.’
‘Oh, do Becky ! Now you’re jest coming
to the interesting part. Oh, do tell us the
rest, Becky.
‘Well, I never said nothih’,and the preach
er man, he said I must have John to be my
husband—when he was sick, when he was
well; and when he was better or-worser,
and rich and poor; and love him, and stick
to him, and mind him, and Lord only
knows what a heap of things ; and then he
said people what he put together, it was
agin the law to take apart; and so I was
married, hard and fast, the fust, thing I
know’d, to John.’
‘Well, what theu, Becky ?’ ses the gals,
getting more and more interested all the
time.
between the turmoil of life aud the still
ness of eternity. He had nine years of
this tranquil enjoyment, and died without
pain or suffering June 29th, 1837, charac
teristic in death as iu life. It was eight
o’clock in the morning when he felt that
the supreme hour had come, had himself
fuil-dressed with his habitual neatness,
walked in tbe room and lay upon the bed,
by turns conversing kindly with those who
were about him, aud showing by his con
duct that he was ready and waiting, but
hurrying nothing. It was the death of
Socrates, all but the hemlock, and in that
full faith of which the Grecian sage had
only glimmering. He directed his own
grave on the point of a sterile ridge, (where
nobody would wish to plough) aud cover
ed with a pile ol rough flint-stone, (which
nobody would wish to build with,) deeming
this sterility and the uselessness of this rock
the best security for that undisturbed re
pose of the bones which is still desirable to
those who are indifferent to monuments.
In almost all strongly-marked characters
there is usually some incident or sign in
early life which shows that character and
reveals to the close observer the type of the
future man. So it was with Mr. Macon.
His firmness, his patriotism, his self-denial
his devotion to duty and disregard of office
aud emolument; his modesty, integrity,
self-control, and subjection of conduct to
the convictions of reason and the dictates of
virtue, all so steadily exemplified in a long
life, were all shown from the early age of
eighteen, in the miniature representation
of individual action, and only confirmed in
the subsequent public exhibitions of a long,
beautiful and exhalted career. He was of
that age, and a student at Princeton Col
lege, at the time of the Declaration of Am
erican Independence. A small volunteer
corps was then on the Delaware. He quit
his books, joined it, served a term, returned
to Princeton, aud resumed his studies. In
the year 1778 the Southern States had be
come a battle-field, big with their own fate
and possibly involving the issue of the war.
British fleets and armies appeared there,
strongly supported by the friends of the
British cause; and the conquest of the South
was fully counted upon. Help was needed
in these States; and Mr. Macon, quitting
college, returned to his native county in
North Carolina, joined a militia company
as a private, and marched to South Caroli
na, then the theatre of the enemy’s opera
tions. He had his share iu all the hard
ships and disasters of that trying time; was
at the fall of Fort Moultrie, surrender of
Charleston, defeat at Camden, and in the
rapid winter retreat across the upper part of
North Carolina He was in the camp on
the left bank of the Yadkin when the sud
den flooding of that river, in .the brief in
terval between the crossing of the Arueri
cans and the coming up of the British, ar
rested the pursuit of Cornwallis, and ena
bled Greene to allow some rest to his weari
ed and exhausted men. In this camp, des
titute of everything, and with gloomy pros
pects ahead, a summons came to Mr. Macon
from the Governor of North Carolina re
quiring him to attend a meeting of the
General Assembly, of which he had been
elected a member, without his knowledge,
by the people of his eouuty. He refused to
go; and the incident being talked of through
;
(of which, up to
he believed himself
to be master,) and sending him to Y r ork-
town, where he was captured, and the war
ended.
The philosophy of history has not yet
laid hold of the battle of Guilford, its con
sequences and effects. That battle made
the capture of Yorktown. The events are
told in every history ; their connexion and
dependence in none. It broke up the plau
of Cornwallis in the South, and changed the
plan of Washington in the North. Corn
wallis was to subdue the Southern States,
and was doing it until Greene turned upon
him at Guilford. Washington was occupi
ed with Sir Henry Clinton, then in New
York, with 12,000 British troops. He had
formed the heroic design to capture Clinton
and his army (the French fleet co-opera
ting) in that city, and thereby putting an
end to the war. All his preparations were
going on for that grand consummation when
he got the news of the battle of Guilford,
the retreat of Cornwallis to Wilmington,
his inability'to keep the field in the South,
and his return northward through the low
er part of Virginia. He saw his advantage
—an easier prey—and the same result, if
successful. Cornwallis or Clinton, or either
of them captured, would put an end to the
war. Washington changed his plan; de
publican statesman
of personal and political friendship and as
sociation with Mr. Randolph is historical,
and indissolubly connects their names and
memories in the recollection of their friends
and in history, if it does them justice. He
was the early friend of General Jackson, and
intimate with him when he was a Senator
in Congress under the administration of the
elder Mr. Adams, and was able to tell Con
gress and the world who he was when ho
began to astonish- Europe and America by
his victories. He was the kind observer of
the conduct of young men, encouraging
testament, and direct that it be a part there
of—that is to say, having full faith in the
honor and integrity of my executor above
named, he shall not be held to account to
any court or power whatever for the dis-
His almost fifty years charge of the trust confided by me to him
in aud by the foregoing will.”
And the event has proved that his judg
ment, as always, committed no mistake
when it beslowed that confidence. He had.
his peculiarities—idiosyncracies, if any one
pleases—but they were born with him, suit
ed to him, becoming in him, constituting a
part of his character, and necessary to its
completeness. He never subscribed to char
ities, but gave, and freely, according to bis
means—the left band not knowing what
the right hand did. He never subscribed
for new books, giving as a reason to theso-
them by judicious commendation when he j iiciting agent that nobody purchased his
saw them making efforts to become useful j tobacco until it was inspected, aud he could
and respectable, and never noting their i biu r co book until he had examined it. He
faults. He was just in all things, and m
that most difficult of all things, judging po
litical opponents, to whom he would do no
wrong, not merely in word or act, but in
thought. He spoke frequently in Congress,
always to- the point, and briefly and wisely;
and was one of those speakers which Mr.
Jefferson described Dr. Franklin to be—a
speaker of no pretension and great perfor
mance, who spoke more good sense while
he was getting up out of his chair and get
ting back into it than many others did in
long discourses; and he suffered no reporter
to dress up a speech for him. He was above
the pursuit of wealth, but also above depen-
dance and idleness; and, like an old Roman
of the elder Cato’s time, worked in the fields
at the head of his slaves in the intervals of
public duty; and did not cease this labor un
til advancing age rendered him unabie to
stand the hot sun of the summer—the only
season of the year wlten Senatorial duties
left him at liberty to work in his .fields. I
think it was the summer of 1S17 he told
me was last he tried it, and found the sun
too hot for him—then sixty years of age, a
Senator, and the refuser of all office. IIow
often I think of him when I see at Washing
ton robustious men going through a scene
ceived Clinton, moved rapidly upon the i of ^supplication, tribulation, and degradation
weaker general, captured him and his 7,000
men, and ended the war. The battle of
Guilford put that capture into Washington’s
hands, and thus Guilford and Yorktown
became connected ; and the philosophy of
history shows their dependence, and that
the lesser event was farther to the greater.
The State of North Carolina gave General
to obtain office, which the salvation of the
soul does not impose upon the vilest sinner!
His fields, his flocks, and his herds yielded
an ample supply of domestic productions.
A small crop of tobacco; three hogsheads
when the season was good, two when bad
—purchased the exotics which comfort and
necessity required, and which the farm did
Greene 25,000 acres of Western land f or , not produce. He was not rich, but rich
that day’s work, now worth a million of| euou = b dispense hospitality and charity,
to receive all guests in his house, from the
President to the day laborers—no other ti
tle being necessary to enter his house but
that of an lionest man; rich enough to bring
up his family (two daughters) as accomplish-
dollars; but the day itself has not yet ob
tained its proper place in American history.
The military life of Mr. Macon finishes
with his departure from the camp on the
Yadkin, and his civil public life commenced
on his arrival at the General Assembly, to
which he had been summoned—that civil
public life in which he was continued above
forty years by free elections—Represeuta
tive in Congress under Washington, Adams,
Jefferson, and Madison, and long the Speak-
es of the House; Senator in Congress un
der Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy
Adams, and often elected President of the
Senate, and until voluntarily declining; j int of pubhc duty t0 p l ease
twice refusing to be Postmaster-general j oblige hin £ Of this his relation
under Jefferson ; never taking any office j R an 3 do ] ph gave a signffi instance,
but that to which he was elected ; and re- a knife } efend h fm in the thea
signing his last Senatorial term whefi it was . adelphia wheu mena ced bv some naval, and
only halt run But a characteristic trait re- officers for wortk ' spoken in debat
mains to be told of his military life-one and d / emed offensive to their professions
that has neither precedent or imitation, the j vet when Speaker of the House ofRepresen-
exampleof Washington being out of the line j [ at[ be Mr. Randolph from the
of comparison:) he refused to receive pay head of the Committee of Ways and Means,
or to accept promotion and served three. becailse the chairman of that committee
years as a private through mere devotion to I should be on terras of poHtical f rie ndship
his country. And al the long length of j with the Admin5stral j on f which Mr. Ran-
his life was conformable to this patriotic dolph had then ceased to be with Mr. Jeffer-
son s. He was above Executive office, even
the highest the Piesident could give; but
would not attend the Congress Presidential
caucus of 1824, although it was sure to
nominate his own choice, (Mr. Crawford;)
and, when a reason was wanted, gave it in
the brief answer that he attended one one®
and they cheated him, and he had said that
he would never attend another. He al
ways wore the same dress—that is to say,
a suit of the same material, cut, and color,
superfine navy blue—the whole suit from
the same piece, and iu the fashion of the
time of the Revolution, ana always replaced
by a new one before it showed age. He
was neat in his person, always wore fine lin
en, a fine cambric stock, a tine fur hat with,
a brim to it, fair topboots—the boot outside
of the pantaloon, on the principle that leath
er was stronger than cloth. He would wear
no mau’s honors, aud when compliment on
the report on the Panama mission, which,
as chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, he had presented to the Senate,
he would answer, “Y x es; it is a good report;
Tazewell wrote it.” Left to himself, he was
ready to take the last place and the lowest
seat anywhere; but in his Representative ca
pacity he would sutler no derogation of a
constitutional or of a popular right. Thus,
wheu Speaker of the House, and a place be
hind the President’s Secretaries had been
assigned him in ceremony, he disregarded
the programme, and, as tbe elect of the
elect of all the people, took his place next
after those whom the national vote had elec
ted. Aud in 1803, on the question to
change the form of voting for President and
Vice President, and the vote wanting one
of the constitutional number of two-thirds,
he resisted the rule of the House which re
stricted the Speaker’s vote to a tie, or to a
vote which would make a tie, claimed his
constitutional right to vote as a member ob
tained it gave the vote, made the two thirds,
and carried the amendment. And, what
may well be deemed idiosyncratic in these
ed ladies, aud marry them to accomplished | days, he was punctual in the performance
gentlemen—one to YVilliam Martin, Esq., of all his minor duties
the other to William Eaton, Esq., of Roan
oke, my early school-fellow and -friend for
more than half a century; and, above all, he
was rich enough to pay as he went, aud nev
er to owe a dollar to any man.
He was steadfast in his friendships, and
would stake himself for a friend, but would
or
i oblige him. Of this his relations with Mr.
He drew
a knife to defend him in the theatre at Phil-
and disinterested beginning; and thus the
patriotic principles of the furure Senator
were all revealed in early life, and in the
obscurity of an unknown situation. Con
formable to this beginning, he refused to
take any thing under the modern acts of
Congress for the benefit of the surviving
officers and soldiers of the revolution, and
not above the lowest the people could give,
taking that of justice of the peace in his
county and refusing that of Postmaster-Gen
eral at Washington. tie was opposed to
nepotism and all quartering of his connex
ions on the Government; and m the course
rotel agnmst tliOT all, saying th,y had 1 0 fi,j s forty-years’ service,' with the absolute
enttoron o lbo I Aintrono nriH rm lfnrxr i nnd i * . . . . • ~
suffered alike, (citizens and military,) and
all been rewarded together in the establish
ment of independence; that the debt to
the array had been settled by pay, by peu-
tions to the wounded, by half pay and land
so the officers ; that no military claim could
be founded on depreciated continental paper
money, from which the civil functionaries
who performed service, and the farmers who
furnished supplies, suffered as much .as any.
On this principle lie voted against the bill
for.LaFayette, against all the modern revo
lutionary pensions and land bounty acts,
and refused to take any thing under them,
(tor many were applicable'to himself.)
His political principles were deep-rooted,
innate, subject to no change and to no. ma-
to the Senate, attend
ing its sittings to the moment, attending all
the committees to which he was appointed,
attending all the funerals of the members
and officers of the Houses, always in time at
every place where duty required him, and
and refusing double mileage for one travel
ling, when elected from the House of Rep
resentatives to the Senate, or summoned to
an extra session. He was an habitual read
er and student of the Bible, a pious and re
ligious mau of the “Baptist persuasionas
he was accustomed to express it.
1 have a pleasure in recalling the recol-
lectons of this wise, just, and good maD, and
in writing them down, not without profit, I
hope, to rising generations, and at least as
extending the knowledge of the kind of
men to whom we are indebted for our inde
pendence and for ihe form of Government
which they established for us. Mr. Macon
was the real Cincinnatus of America, the
pride and ornament of my native State, my
heriditary friend through four generation,
my mentor, in the first seven of my Senato
rial and the last seven of his Senatorial life;
and a feeling of gratitude and of filial affec
tion mingles itself with this discharge of his
torical duty to his memory.”
A candidate for medical honors, having
thrown himself almost into a fever from his
friendship of many Administrations and the incapacity for answering the questions, was
perfect respect of all, he never had office or
contract for any of his blood. He refused
to be a candidate for the Vice Presidency,
but took the place of elector on the Van to be examined."
Buren ticket in 1836. He was against pa
per money and the paper system, and was
accustomed to present the strong argument
against it in the simple phrase, that this was
a hard money Government, made by hard-
money men, who had seen the evils of pa
per moneys and meant to save their posteri
ty from it. He was opposed to security-
ships, and held that no man ought to be
entangled in the affairs of another, and that
the interested parties alone—those who ex
pected to find their profit in the transaction
asked by one of the Professors—“How
would you sweat a patient for the rheuma
tism ?” He replied, “/ would send him here
Mr. Randolph, in a late speech, after en
deavoring for some time to establish a disv,
puted point, declared—
“It is clear—-it is clear aa—it is rather *
more clear tbftn—ihe light of that window
—-which is not very clear.”
On a recent trial, an Irishman, with char
acteristic obliquity of speech, after scratch
ing his head, said, “Plase your Honor, I
do not remember—or if I do, I forgeiUr
now’.” 'Y