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j* letter written
ject poverty; bi feth a man of ahift*^
expedients, was th* prototype of Micawber
familiar with tbs inside of prisons as aa -- ■
vent debtor. At an rty age, the son was 1 '
to service in a blacking numnfaetorv tv*
wretchedness of which be thus £ lerifc
autobiographical sketch. “*
“This speculation was a rivalry of ‘’Warren*
Blacking, 60 Strand,’ at that time very famorn.*
One Jonathan Warren, (the famous onei^ -
Robert), living at No. 80 Hungerford Stairs U*
Market, Strand (for I forget which it was eallS
then), claimed to have been the original inves
tor or proprietor of the blaeking recipe and in
have been deposed and ill-nsed by hia renown^
relation At last he put himself in the way
selling his recipe and his name, and his SO Hun.
and the intermediate direction very small),^
a' little capital wotild make a groat 'business o'
of some, property wag 'found in
George Lamert, the oonsin and brother-in U v
of James. He bought this right and title, and
went into the blacking business and the biacK
ingpremises. 1 to.'Jj •-
; “In ah evil hour!or rue, «a"f often
thought. Its chief manager, James Lamert th*
ideation
tided over the meeting, vihich was
earnest one, and disposed to serious
ion. After considerable discussion
could not easily be bad: th6 Governor himself
with Assertions now and then falling from 'hiin
And tteBO^ftitifouicd'l^romM^ that wro
growing rich, amoung ns would gravely inform
ns that it was not for Tips Majesties interest that
vie should thrive. i .
Sot* of aQ [qvx oppressors we were .chiefly
squeezed by.a. mew of abject - Persops fetched
from New Ygriky to jbeth&iT'iolaQf the Adver-
tttiy, standingatonrrighthand; bythosowere
extra ordinary--and- intolerable Fees extorted
Holes butihoeo of their own insatiable AVarlce
and Beggary }‘-ahd eveh the'-probate of a Will
must now co,t as tedny pounds pethapa as it did
Shillings heretofore r nor- con’d a email volume
relative who had* lived with, ng in B.ylua
street, seeing how I. was employed froia o*y u
ff»3y*»d*aowing .what onr‘. domestic circum.
BtaJices'tfimi were,' proposed- that Irshrrald on
MStiaratas.%2^
oerfari^rtar this -head, that -it was six atffift
S2gggggS3^ the offering
* white, Deyeaux and Butts, three of the 'n^
groea whowantoSto‘‘oookttiegboS8”cfWahd<i
Bradley* at Savannah, last Tuesday, hare been
heldto baflinthe samcf $2,800 flortte AUe*
and $1,600'tor eaoh of the former. - J '•'
Fat Brown, highly colored, of Augusta, *ill
not chase the festive oooh or “yank” the mans*
^flzis Sms_ Yon are anrpflged to haam ttgl
I am surprised at your surprise. I am certain
that X never wrote a line, and that I never, in
Parliament* in or even on the
hustings-* plaee where it is . the fashion to
theeiliartatianof holy writ. TMb principle is
life.- Success, prosperity, the confidence of
Leeches inthe two' Or three years that they have
been suddngbf nisL.»—* - f., P^monsmie cfld
but peaceably object against the raising of Taxes
without an Assembly, have been tor it fined,
some -20, some SO, some others 60 pounds.
Paekt and picks Juries have been very corn*
mon things among us. * ;* * Some have
effect of such institutions would ba almostin-
stantaneons. What happened lately in France
Is an example; - Xh‘1818 a nure Democracy was
entabHrtied there. Phring a short time tbert
was reason to expect a general spoliation, ana-
tional bankruptcy, a new partition of the soil,
• twftTitnnfw qf jnfffj f>f tfiXfitfOU
Mfl on tho rich for the pnrposo of supporting
the poor in Idleness 8aob e system would in
twenty years have made France aa poor and
barbarous as France of the Garlovingians.
Happily the danger was nVurfod^arid now there
Isa despotism, o silent, tribune* am enslaved
press. Liberty is' gone* feint civilization-has
been saved.- Ihave notthesmallestdonbt that,
if we had a puretyflegfaeWfe goTrtrtimontTioOh,
the effeotwooldJbe thnBaiitfl. Hither the poor
would plunder the rioln and civilization would
perish, or order and ’tiroperfy would be saved
out anytheleast lnf*
them, or ariJYajjias Corpus allowed unto them.’.’
The protest was printed : inf pamphlet jam:
and no doubUbada generti oiMulatibn-
the people of that day. In commenting upon it;
the Nashville TJnlon ahd-Aiherioan aays: Thb
carper-bagger as here pictured nearly two hip-
djedyeaiaago*teUaeteWilril«iiiMs>>iinsy Ttei
luwttuo «p PV fTfTTiT irnTTSs fSt mSn ,r v ™
drawnfot the< Southerns tatesin tbelightof the
past five years. ThegovemmentsCf theSouthem
States.were. * Wsooner iriffiese handa, : biit care
wasi taken to load preferments upon such, men
as were strangers to.and haters of the people;
and every one’s observation had noted what
qualifications recommended a manto public of
fices and employments; only here and there a
goodman was used whan- others amid not easily
be bad,”- " -
Tire Western and Atlantic Canal.
The General Assembly of Geomia (says th4
New York World of the 2Gtb) hag,' represented
to*Congress the. desirability of > a cheap .and
good means of communication between the
Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic seaboard, the
means proposed-beinga eanal through Georgia
connecting the Tennessee and .Coosa rivets
with the CooSaandthS Oamtdgee. All possible
alt seetionuof thel^fph are'ful^^nd p^^ic-j
uondy put forth, and they :axe neither fewinur
individually trifliny. -The lessening of the cost
of the transportation of produoewhieh has been
created by eanal system of this and other States
has been brought fnlly to bear on the propor
tion and the caose of the memorial whioh pre
sents it. The forced^ condnoting of all tho
produce of Western industry, both mechanical
and industrial, by the proposed rente* the
safety of the way both *‘in war and
peace," the fact thafr no tee nor any effect of
rigorous winter can” cause obstructions, and
every possible advantage—all these things are
used to have, as they should have, a bearing oh
the question at. issue.. The real objection to
the whole soheme is that the promulgators ash
for it government aid. To Bay nothing offW&at
the government te at present doing in regard
to the En-klhx, reconstruction, the prospective
obtaining of votes by force, and aU those name
less “jobs” to whioh at present tbe pnited
States are committed, how can'the people of
Georgia expeot to have their industrial affairs
attended to when the civil service has to be-re
formed? c At all times- thero are vary palpable
pense ofllghtorage.' Messrs. Andrew 1 Low &
w.arhthe dgehte.of tfieDhilofc' • ‘ _*
We find. Xheae TremaiftB . on'the shbjeot; iff
raiboads; In the .Auguste Constiititibnaliat Cf
Thursday. iThey.. express enr yfews. of ,lhp
aituation exactly: : c ^ m i
But it te a snbjeirt bf eerious ^iprehsQrdai
there are too many railroads in -tit e-South
Tin*the business. Thejre,tea mania for .build--
Ing whether the popnlatfon and produe-
tiona bf . the corintiy. require them or nob
ThOTedui be ho dQUbt that the groat inlerests:
of me abutbeih people vrould have been promo- i
ted If a considerable f»it of tbe moneys of late!
veara invested in railroads **ni3 been 1 embarked’
in matiufaoturibg enterpriser These would'
have utilized labor,* inoreased values, cheated
'towns and village^ and brought into'extstenee
a great amount of solid and fixed ajdal' ba-j
longing to our own people. Our railroads too !
already built, and those that the new wantg of
the oountry would have rendered desirable,
Would have shared in the general prosperity,
through the increased freights and travel; that;
such an'employment of capital would have pnr-:
duced. Ballroada are .desirable conveniences, j
Imd within the bounds <ff 'the aetUal needs of 1
society for transportation, their construction
close and
pauseinjonrc«ree? r s4«^cb‘out; to "take'an
observation^* add’ l^yabfaewJeoBrso Jashynu
your pilot* and make him tho “raan of your
counset” . Dd this, r and.rageanfl:iavethe temp
est as it may, all wiU.be well with you; anflin
God’s grodi time yen will;casfc enohpr in that
blessed haven, ^BtesaphytB ever blow soRly,
and peace eternally, reigns. ... i .
..Dear, reader, we wishyouthaihappinesstbe
present year, wbioh the world knowelh not' d*
g rrassment In view of future enterprise^ it
y not be amtes'to examine tho qnesticin cau
tiously, and “hasten Blowly.” to* - a - - - .
i .Chas. Parsons, a negro boy . about 14 years
(4d, ia^uifler arrest, atAflauta; on the charge
pt murdering another black lamb of like tender
•yearn!.. ?siW...f-'.i? I
“ In Fulton Superior Court, on Friday, Foster
Blodgett appeared and give bond in the sum
of $25,000 for his appearance for trial at the
next term of that court. . ,
t Conley has taken possession of the Carters-
villeond.Van Wert Bailroad, upon petition of
Clews ft Co., Us creditors, and has sppeinted
D. S. Printup, of Borne, Beceiver.
Mr. A. Soheuerman, for many yearn a
prominent Griffin merchant, died in that place
lost Monday of pneumonia.
The Griffin Middle Georgian is pleased to
leant that the entire work on the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama railroad to Garrol-
ton, has been let out, and that a large force will
be put on it at once.
Tpere were 86 vessels of all descriptions lying
at the Savannah wharves on Thursday, and the
tonnage dues on vessels entered that day at the
Custom-house, amounted to $1,400.
CoL D. W. Morgan of-LaGrange, died last
jHanflay evening. Mr. M. J. Kingsbury of
the same plaee, was seriously injured the same
day while firing a Christmas cannon. Hia right
arm was, blown, off at the elbow, hte left hand
^g^9fle^ c /^hif ey^san^fa{sa ; l^rne$ t . . !
, , ^heAtianta Sun qf yesterday says : .
. Hauisp Domst iHAX Flag,—The New Era has
had the names of Grant and Akermou, for
F^aident^ and ^c^-Pferident, flpatiiig at its
OMSroingvlhatjflag^ma^ed^ni^^^^
stl and has
s, no doubt,
rtion ht bis
ktotodbilmt
IthinkbislU-
objections to be found against tiie aafaugof
government aid; and how suprqnely absurd
such asking at the present moment i£ null pro
bably be seen by the xesulte of tUs memoriaL
. The “absurdity” will be less apparent the
more the subject .is oonsidered.. When the
great producing States of the West find that by
tiffs route their grain and meat willfind an out
let to the Atlantic all the year roundat less than
half the present cost, they will cease to consider
this canal in the light of a Georgia improve
ment^ and see that they havener greater inter
est in it than tiffs or any otiier Southern State.
It te as important a national work as thaPa
cifio Bailroad, and rightly presented to tee
country will combine the hearty co-operation^
at least a majority of the-States. It capnot too
of Congressional sanotion now, te sure to re-
the very sets passed by tee efforts of the con
spirators. Under these circumstances ttbeoomes
a Question whether tee State te legally respon
sible for any of tee bonds issued'uporithe Gov
ernor’s endorsement
While on tee aubjeot of Georgia railroad
frauds the suggestion occurs that the new Sen
ate Committee cm Retrenchment may find ft
promising field for tbeir work in inquiring
whether a member of their body and a Secre
tary of one of: the Departments bavehad^fcny
share in a soheme ter swindling’ the peoplo of
Georgia out of a valuable teflioad. ..
Floriilti News.
Tai&aBkssBB'waa blessed with ri Shdical vic
tory last Tuesday, wherein a. tffty adminiAtf-
tion was elected which perhaps represents about
twenty doUan-valhatian'of thetaxablesof th*e
elty. : A general rite mad - jubilee of drunken,
yelling, 'cursing and ptefol-firihg negroes fol-
lowadatt night
Jacksonville announces tho receipt of an in-
voice of green cora item Indian Biver.
;:v The ^Pdatto:^ald
year are more delicions and larger than usual,
owing to the toot teat the crop is small. Too
negroes have beadiarrested^confestf to
murdering and rybbing Mr. Ferguson, the tax
jjO rmrmty
A son of th^&moas Seminole chief* ‘-^Hgrat-
tail,” landed at Cony’s wharf in Key Wes^ tme
I..L PmSI Mnwna tna4ai) nilYl
any knote;' cannot be written. My whole na-
taro wasso -penet^ated with thc grief and Bu-
nffliationof sucih considerations, that even flow,
-famous and caressed and. happy, I often forget
in mv dreams ^hat I haye a dear wife and chil-
dfen; oven that I am a mSan; and wander des
olately back to that time of my life.
ceptiogJbanny in tno atryarAcaaepy of juuhicj
tion of land or a loan of tee oradit of Gov
ernment to the extent of ten nffllions: < *f*
Offiffnitiied Prorinction lif Upr|inla. j
•She Richmond. Dispatch spea^ dotMoliy .qf
the imaterial prospects of Virginia, asserting
that tee* prodaotlons'.of .the Stoto haVa^dimin-
iahed everyyear smccAhK Wan, Torshtfwffiffs 1
it gives figures oxtraetedlrorfi ns'ownxomthsf-
oial columns, in relation to wfeSaf ;
thought it at some
whioh X hi
hg, under:
tea United State?.
a idgo Win. 1 foursome, of Iiee bounty, one of
rides^ antt most estimabre (Stizens of that
Ion, d{eiflast Mfondav. ' r : -
»• I' Btirtbn to be
0 f^|S[:tee Comet, at Camilla, Mitohell county,
toit -or about the SOth of. next Jamnpy. Mr.
Burton te one of the very bravest mem we have
.ever known, tp thus deliberately brave starva*
(jlon. . : "V ’ .
. We clip these Items from th& last Albany*
.^ewa:"* ■*.;
r VSnteMB Knaam.—I7e have heard of two or
three rtCent negro murders in this vicinity, but
have not deemed the: matter of sufficient mo-
imaBAte.jastify.aaaeanffafOntiertimdar&'v&eh
?eg?pya.'negco, and was accompanied
has been going on.for a week
past, and webear'df no letecffi&ultyhero,
rtofora. Manyne^pesara-propartegtocropaD
lotion for five years;hcl
an'atais*!
Bttfingeiittieappai
don’t know; but l ean see him now,. BtaHngo
me as I ate my dinner, and bringing up tea
other waiter to look.; I gave him ahaffpeniffi
Where is the original of one of the iceMaois
wMri fa the history of “Baria coppetma,
wMcih was literally draum from Jus own eag?e-
7i ?Twas ante
That'frMaemlv, when’l went into the bar of a
8trangep“blic : house for a glass of ala or potto
now,n
five yetis jail
what itwafl f<
1869 and 70
^atenjtetho idreet, they d
me. I remember, one ei
somewhere for nty father; i
I have no i
day wite.aohanaiBg yonng lady of thafc city,
and sailed for EuropmJepring strife end six!
- Itrmnr>aponf-^hni8 baa redly been o
atdhfndfif iutinffdatiCnte! thefitWh^ee'
head to ih’
v, over the
early,man!
inthe
Bdww&Rferth
cently eleoted Democratic Gown
preveated from taking the Gubeti
The Georgia Radicals are raah enoi
'that in the face of the oomiog Fret
tibn General Grant would fifo'rmw
endanger his ohances for re-electi
flagrant outrage as they would have
but, however mueh he may have
to humor his frieds in their little
wipe out a State organization to j
he deoUned to take their advice,
there In disgust.
but all wobii
candidal
and had to-be harried from the robin for safety. 1
We honestly believe that if he had remained,
he wonld have been seriously injured if cot
killed.
ir do with the eld «ga
’ said the friend,
i will suit yon exscuy-
musty tomes of black lettered lore, and'here-
after wfll obop
mfatify juries in the stveaffed halls of jostioe.
We don’t know whether to congratulate our
friend or sot. ’Tis Hofesoafo ohpica. This wo
can do*' however, we racommead Min wanriy
to the’ people of Southwest Georgia as an able
and oourtoons gentleman, and wteh his gifted
associate end himself the highest measure of
m Bln TO THE BE5CCB—THE OBV 28 SXBXi UBS
In addition to the above* we take pleasure fa
fitilkting the advent of two more leaned
Umbo of the law, who make terir bow to tee
publio in our ooltimns to-day.
One of these, B. H. Green, Esq., is a
and promising <ff tizen of Maoon, and will doubt-
len make lffs mark in the new-field of Ids
ehofea. The other, Mr. E. H. Hannan tea new
««n«s«tA for forensic honors, but begins Us
career under the most flattering auspices.
»Thn«A vrho heard hia examinationfor admission
to the bar a few weeks since, say he acquitted
himself with distinguished credit
Albeit these young gentlemen have entered
upon a thorny pate, and like the net of the
brethren will probably make more mischief
than they can ever coze, still, a3 “necessary
evils in society,” we wish them Ul cases, and
many. , . .
Akotheu.—Wo have to ehronide another de
sertion from that condition of bottomless shirts,
fish net aoeks, and other signs and symbols of
teat miserable thing so terribly miscalled “sin
gle blessedness.” On .Thursday, 21st instant,
that veteran in this cause, our friend Fred H.
West, Esq., of Leooonnty, was married by Bov.
C. M. Irwin, at Starkeville, to Miss Lizzie Sul
livan. ' This rescued sinner baa been tardy, in
deed, in finding the right pate, bokwe nope tee
less* cordially congratulate him upoh the happy
fact. He and hia will accept our earnest wishes
for a peaceful and prosperous future.
A Judicial Appointment.—We
terday, that Aeting Governor Conley had ap
pointed John H. Pate, Esq., of Hawklnsvfile,
Judge of the Oconee Circnit—a new one crea
ted at tee late session of tee Legislature, and
composed of counties heretofore in tee South
ern, and of Dooly, in this Circuit. We also
learned that a gentleman ngmed Thomas* of
Dublin, Lanrens county, had been appointed
Solicitor General of the same. We have not
the pleasure of knowing either gentleman, but
are informed that both are sound Democrats.
Wateb vs. Land Tbakspobtation.—A special
correspondent of tee New York Tribune, now
ranging about the State of Alabama, expresses
tee opinion test “when the present systems of
railroads in the South is completed, but little
cotton will reach New York from the Southern
porta.” That is a point wbioh time and expe
rience must settle. At present it seems difficult
to believe teat railway can successfully com
pete with marine transportation; bnt “Tom
Scott” and the Georgia Central will have a
tnstle on the question. ^
Cost or Neobo Melish.—According to the
gonth Carolina Investigating Gommitteo tho
cost of Scott’s negro nullah was $421,159 71.
Bat that, of course, covered a large amount of
stealing, besides what was spent for guns* knap
sacks, red flannel and feathers to equip and or
nament the martial Pomp. The negro army wsa,
in fact, only a smoky or dusky oover under
goott ppuld tend off another pool hundred
thousand to belaid up in lavender among his
Ohio deposits.
Sisoulab Death.—Misa Mary Ellen Foy, a
pupil In tee Normal School, New York city, cut
her own throat in the attempt to swallow the
core of an apple a few days ago, and was re
ported dying last Tuesday. She was eating the
apple, and while in the act of swallowing a por
tion of the core* it cut the lining of her throat
and several of tee arteries like a knife. Her
Messmates were astonished to see her fall over
on the floor and vomit large quantities of blood.
Qvzan View- or It.—Illustrating Bev. Mr.
Beecher's thorough conscientiousness in pre
paring for his work, an Indiana paper says
test in order to prepare himself to preach against
gambling, he eent for CoL Alvord, a noted black
leg, and took lessons in poker, Boston end brag.
Did tee reverend gentleman qualify himself to
preach against all the viees in tee same way?
If so, he most have had a weary round in pre
paring for the ministry.
Chicago
XnsmuBCE.—'The Chicago Times
says the managers of the Liverpool add London
and Globe and Uu North British and Mercan
tile Insurance companies refuse to take any
risks on the Chicago north side, while the latter
company is terminating about $1,000,000 of its
risks on tee north and west rides. Beth com
panies, it is wtt, threaten to withdraw from
Chicago altogether, owing to tee great number
of wooden buildings now erecting on the ground
devastated by tee fire.
Gxunms’e Ess Buestzb.—Jubilee Gilmore
has planned Us second Coliseum near Bosting
Gomming. It Is to cover an area of eight acres
and accommodate an audience of 88,000—a
chorus of 20,000and an orehestraof2,000. The
conception of celebrating tee reign of peace
with sueb e noise is Bostonian. But tee Hub
Is evidently aa appropriate place for a Hub-bub.
And, almost as a matter of course, the Intel
lectual phenomena of tho year have been cor-
It has been one of extreme posi
tions and sharp end violent antagonisms. The
mighty despotism of force h&3 driven the. as
sertion of supposed natural rights into corres
ponding violence, excess and latitude. ’ The
Franco-German war and Us incidents have ar
rayed in extreme Aid deadly antagonism, til
over tee world, tee great parties of prescription
and of so-called socialism, and the moral specta
cle of the day may be seen In tee marshalling
of the opporing clans for conflict.
In all these great conflicts Both sidsS’ aro
are led^mdc^reeterized'by'tbelr' extremiSal
So we see to-day, on tea one band, tee party
which holds the blood of the people os base coin
to barter for the gawds of mere dynastie ambi
tion, arrayed apparently against the party which
denies all prescriptive or vested rights whatever,
and insists on reducing mankind to a dead and
miasmatic equality of social, pecuniary, intellec
tual and industrial condition.. Between these
blit the ehampibns of either will characterise
the fight teongh not its final issue; Tho phil
osophy of nature, society and politics is alike
at war with tee adjustment of any question on
an extreme basis. Permanent adjustments are,
in the nature of things, always the result; of a
compromise of opposing forces. And so, : fore
casting tee future, will it be in tiffs esse after a
long and world-wide conflict. The good sense
of mankind revolts alike against tee immolation
of nations on the altar of dynastie ambition, or
on the other hand, the surrender of individual
ism to a falsely alleged necessity in fighting
The spirit of tee age is fretful, restless, in
quiring—yearning for something* it knows not
whflt. The communist, socislist and* woman
suffrage movements ore only ontoroppingB of
an underlying mass of thoughtful and earnest
speculation. We have arrogantly assumed that
tee political philosopher’s atone has been dis
covered in America, and are just beginning to
see that the science of government has yet to
be evolved. Discarding the Iff therto accepted
basis of civil authority, we have founded our
structure upon the assent of tee people, and yet
we cannot if we would, disguise from ourselves,
that neither God nor nature erect governments
on ffrfkj foundation. A find*? yrnnquif tho
subject of God’s government without bis own
consent, and Is taunted in Holy Writ with the
imbecility of any resistance or question.. ;He
finds himself the subject of family government
In like manner, without consent or power of. re
sistance; and, lastly, he finds lffmself owing
allegiance to human government‘without hia
own oonsent or power of resistance;—and in all
these relations tiike the subject of severe penal
ties for the vitiation of obligations which were
imposed upon him and which he never, volun
tarily assented to or undertook.
Hence the Republican-basis of Government,
the oonsent of the governed, is an anomaly in
God’s universe, and an indispensable condition
to its salutary operation in praotioe would seem
to be an exceptional condition of intelligence
and virtue on the part of all these rulers who
are to rule themselves* entirely by their own
consent and volition. But so for from insisting
upon this and guarding tee suffrage with eyes
anxiety lias beenAo debase and poison It ' We
are governing empires by tribunals of ultimate
resort, to which we would not willingly entrust
the question of title to a stray sheep.
.All these questions of government in 'its bear
ings upon the interest of society and the .indi
vidual, are now tee great topics of the time,
and will deepen in interest with every, revolv
ing yean The human mind is too active any
longer to permit the promise of qniet, and toe :
next gmieratem wifi nufloubtotPy be
bled terns even this* which is now fretting away
its brieXhour.on the stage of human affairar
Sontlicrn Claimants—Somo Bleb.Dis
closures.
Under this head tee Atlanta Era has an ar
ticle an the subject of those “Southern Claim
ants” at Washington who have been very busy
Some months trying to swear through various
ffiatao for indemnity for property destroyed by
tee different Yankee armies during the war;
and states, as a fact, tha£a number of original
secessionists—blue cockade, ‘’before breakfast
fellows”—have filed application for such indem
nity and deliberately sworn they never willingly
aided in'the rebellion” or sympathised with ill
It is inexpressibly gratifying to us to learn tee
additional Cuts from the gnTT,n paper, that til
teosoehsps cams to great grie^ being stripped
of their loll plumage and incontinently turned
out of oourt. We regret the Era did not print
thoHst. It wonld have been such relishable
reading for the neighbors of these gentry,
who were witness to their cavorting-at-thci bd-
Rbminaof thewar. If there is anvtiassvteom
alltrnemen end women should crucify -with
measureless contempt and loathing, ilia these
creatures who* for tho sake of* few dollars, and
or utter defiance of shame, are grovelling on
their bellies at Washington with dirt ^
mouths and perjury on their lips.
- Jgggi rnxJ*M rfJ!
wotidjperidL LuM.il 3 Ik-
You may think teatyour country enjoys an
exemption from these^ evils.- - X will frankly own
to yea that I ero of *a .very different opinion.—
Yonr fate I believe to Jp^oqrttin* though it is
deferred hy p physical oause. As long as you
have a boundless : extent of fertile and unoccu
pied land, your laboring population will bo far
more at Base* than tee laboring poptitiion of
tee Old World; and while that is the case the
Jeffersonian poliey may continue to exist with
out causing any fatal calamity, -But the time
will emne^ when NewYingtairavHnWas thickly
peopled as Old England.': Wages will be as
low, and will fluethato as much with yertz as with
us. You wiU have your Mancbesteis and Bir-
minghams, and In those Manohesfers and BIT*
minghams hundreds of thousands of artisans
will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then
your institutions will be fairly brought to the
test - i:.
Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutt-
nous and flifKHjpteDtodj and Mm to 12s*
ten with eagerness to agitators who toll him that
it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should
have a million while another cannot get a full
meaL In bad years there is plenty of grumbling
here, and sometimes £ little rioting. Bat it
matters little. For here the sufferers are not tee
rulers. The supreme power is in tee hands of a
class, not numerous indeed, but select, of an edu
cated doss* of a class which is and knows itself
to be deeply interested in the security of prop
erty and the maintenance of order. Accordingly
The bad time is got over *witfout ^robbing the
wealthy to relieve the indigent, The springs of
national prosperty soon begin to:flow.again;
work is plentiful* arages rise, and aH is. tran-
qnility and eheerfnlneea. ,b.*.vr
I have seen England pass three or four times
through such critical seasohs'as I hate 7 <fit-
scribed. Through such seasonsrlhb United
States will ju*yo.,to ( f|gss %; the<coarse of the
next century, if not of tiff£ How will yon pass
through teem? I heartily wish you a gpod.de-
liverance. But my reason and my. wishes are
at war, and I cannot help foreboding the worst
It is quite plain: that your government will
never be able to restrain s distressed 1 end dis
contented majority; for.withyoathe majority
is the government ;,and has joe riph^ wfaojfere
always a minority, absolnttiy at its mercy.—
The day will come when, in the State of New
York, a multitude of people, none of whom has
more than half a breakfast, or expects to have
more thanhqlf^a.dinhinvwillchogsea Le
tore. Isit possible toaoubfc wharatirt of
tii>nbe!*resp<ibt for vesf^ Hgfif^irlsr o^sotv-
anco of pnbiio faith. - (hi the other is a deffia-
gogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists
and usurers, andatidngwby anybody shprffd be
drink obampagne and to rldSina
carriage, while thtrasanasof hottest ftikgttM&t
wantofneoesfflnfls.: 'Whichqfitim two candi
dates is likely to be preferred by. a working
man whohears children cry for-more bread?
I seriously apprehtiidf that you will, in sorne
jyjJb^^wuwn^f^^rm^tyaa Ihare^^^^f^db
ayear of soarefty* devour all tb^^.oor%
thus make the next year a year not of seal _
but of absolute famine. There will be, I fear,
qpotiation. The -spolistian will increase the dis
tress. The distress will produce fresh spolia
tion. - ' ; - : •?
There is nothing to stay you. Y<
fafion is fill Bail aiic
fore* when asocietyhgs. onteredonlMs. down
ward promesa, eitheroiTilfeatifmnrlibeTtymust
pariah. Either sonie :Cessar or Napcdean will
seixe the reins of goVeifament i eHm : e : strong
hand; or your republic will be a^fearfully plun
dered and laid waste by barbarianato the twen
tieth edntory as tee Roman Empire jvab in the
'fifth;‘with tiffs difference, th^ji
Vandals, who revagedthe Bo: “
from without, and that your
will have been
by your owi
Think! np
Jefferson ai 0 ... 4
I readily admit that lffs intentions 1 , wins . good:
and his abilities considerable. • Odious stories
bavebeen tirculatedabimtlds
