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THE UPSOX PILOT.:
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0. A. MILLER, - . - - - Editor, j
Thomaston, Thursday, 5, 1
The South ancl her hot water
Patriots.
We once heard a distinguished Virgin
ian remark that if a kettle of hot water
was sunk into the ocean, such was the te
nacity of purpose and ill-tempered dispo
sition of -John Q. Adams, that lie would
dive down to the lowest depths and bring I
it up, merely for the pleasure it would af
ford him to scatter the fluid around in
even- direct ion and see his neighbors scratch.
Now, we do not believe that Mr. Adams 1
was a cruel man, but be loved a fuss, and
his opinions once fixed, he would coiry
them out even to the expulsion of himself
from the Halls of Congress or the break
ingjof bis neck. Some men otherwise clev
er, naturally, love hot water. They seek
it as a cat seeks a rat. They are dissatis
fied with themselves, and it affords them a
sort of malicious pleasure to know that j
others are in the same comfortable condi
tion. If rich, they envy the humble con
tort of the poor—if poor, they covet the
follies of the rich. Fortune never comes
to such men with both hands full. She
■either gives them food without a stomach,
or a stomach without food. They are
wanting in that wit which induced the
pilgrim to put boiled peas in bis shoes
when commanded to journey, and thus they j
go on to the end of life with hard leather j
and harder peas shaking about their corns j
—hobbling and sweating under what they
make a heavy load.
■“They drive their wAgon up the hill,
And always And it diffikil.”
Every sensible man —be he called Amer- j
lean, Whig or Democrat—who has mark- ;
<xl events with an observant eye for a few
years back, must be satisfied that too many i
of our hot water Patriots possess the ill
nature, without a particle of the learning,
talents or tenacity of purpose which char
acterized Mr. Adams. They fuss and
fume, threaten and denounce about “South
ern rights and Southern honor,” but when
pushed to the wall (as they say) they al
ways find some hole for escape. They never
prove their faith by their works. They
are great Prophets, but their profits are \
always the spoils. They tell you of the
great miracles they have performed—of the
devils they have cast out, but their mira
cles never go beyond the five loaves and
two little fishes, and for every devil cast
out, seven more enter in, to rend the body ;
politic, and make it howl for very agony.
These
“ Saviors of a nation—not yet saved,
And Southern liberators —still enslaved,”
like l)r. Sangrado, never resort to but one j
remedy for all political ills — hot water and j
bleeding. The patient, they think, should
be kept in hot water, and dosed with hot
water every hour of the day, then bled and ;
then hot water again, then bled again, be
fore he is properly ready for the dissecting
knife. These bold practitioners are ever
prepared to amputate what their skill can
not heal. They affect a fondness for blood
and thunder, not that they are cruel, but
because it is such an emphatic mode of ex
pressing and exhibiting their devotion for
“Southern rights and Southern honor.”
Unfortunately, however, for their reputa
tions, it always happens that just as the
patient is struggling in the last agonies of
dissolution, and ready to be cut up, their
root and “yarb” professional brethren, the
old whangdoodles of the party, step up to
the bedside and cry “ hold ! keep dark ! !
for if the u innards** are exposed they will
be found lull of our patent democratic
poisons.” The consultation closes —the
learned doctors wag their heads and laugh
in their sleeves at the stupidity of the
dupes, while the patient, simj ly by the vis
medicatrix natures, hobbies out on his skel
eton shanks, too happy for a safe deliver
ance from the hot water, lancets and dis
secting knives of the Sangrado’s and the
patent poisons of the whangdoodles.
This we think is a fair illustration of the
manner and treatment of our Democratic
political doctors. The old Federal Whang
doodle at Washington slips along with his
pockets filled with poisons, in the shape of
Cincinnati platforms, Pacific Railroads,
Walker instructions to free soil Kansas in
broken doses of squatter sovereignty. Pauld
ing excuses, extravagance and play the
devil generally—the Sangrado’s whip out
their lancets and put on their pots, and
then it is blood and hot water and hot wa
ter and blood; hut with all their sweating
and bleeding the old Federal blood will
stick in Mr. Buchanan’s veins. Next comes
in formidable array, the dissecting knives
and just as it is feared that every bone in
the whole country and the world—wherever J
civilized man has trod—is to be broken, !
hacked and hewed, in steps the whangdoo
dles, and by the application of a little gold
dust plaster, every thing is quieted, the
wounds of the Union and Constitution are
healed —“Southern rights and Southern
honor” are especially looked after—the sun
rises and sets—the little birds sing, and we
all go whistling Yankee Doodle, and not
such lumpy, lugubrious notes as “ Woe is
me, Alhambra as our neighbor of the
Columbus Times has written it down.
We hear many blatant threats made
about disunion. We see every day as
sumptions and declarations made by the
hot water Patriots, as devoid of truth as
they are wanting in patriotism. We hear
sentiments and principles uttered in our
midst, calculated if put in practice, to
turn loose upon the South the combined
liorrdrs of St. Domingo and the Reign of
Terror in France —and tin's, too, under the
plea of “ Southern rights and Southern
honor.” Asa Southern man, we have
hung our heads in very shame for such ad
vocates of our native land. The sons of
the South —Whigs, Americans and Demo
crats —are true to the land of their nativi
ty, and to the Union and Constitution of
our fathers, and we venture to say, with
out the fear of successful contradiction,
that no wrong to the South, the Union or
Constitution can be successfully pointed
out, but that it had its origin in the party
pol’cy of Democratic demagogues, who first
deceived and then betraved the people, and
is and was approved at the time by your
greatest sticklers for Southern Confedera
cies. We think such men are estopped
from taking advantage of their own wrongs,
and should pause before they add treason
to the Union to their treachery to the
South.
Southern by birth, bv education, by in
terest and affection, we love the land where
our ancestors have lived and died for sev
eral generations too devotedly to be con
stantly prateing about her rights and hon
or. We would defend the one, and die for
the other, much sooner (we believe) than
many who arrogate to themselves their ex
elusivo guardianship. We would suspect
the truth of that husband who was eter
nally chanting his own affection and the
chastity of his wife on the streets. We
would more than suspect, if his actions
contradicted his words, and the seducer
again and again was his fireside companion.
Right or wrong, we admire that man or
| party that stands square on principles —
right or wrong, that man or party should
receive unmitigated contempt which would
applaud to-day what it condemned on yes
terday, and condemn to-day what it ap
plauded on yesterday, and following the
multitude, would on one day strew branch
es of palms and on the next “cry out cru
cify him ! crucify him” I
Third Congressional District.
We copy in this paper from the Ameri
can Union a highly complimentary notice
of our townsman, Col. P. W. Alexander,
recommending him as a suitable candidate
to represent this District in Congress. We
heartily endorse the merits and qualifica
tions of Col. Alexander as exhibited in that
article, but in so doing, we could not it we
would, close our eyes or shut our ears to
the claims of several other gentlemen whose
names have been associated in the same
connexion. We think the principles we
advocate arc, and should be, superior to all
personal preferences and local considera
tions, and will hold ourselves ready to aid
with pen and voice any candidate faithful
to these principles and who comes before
the people in a legitimate manner, without
the least regard to personal or local attach
ments or animosities. We wish no selfish
emulation to the injury of our cause and
the gratification of our enemies to spring
up among-rival aspirants and the friends
of a good and honest administration of the
government 1 thus exposed to a lire both
in front and rear— Turka ridente , <£c.,
—the “Turk laughing and the Jar not
, gritted,” but let us take a long pull, a
I strong puli and above all, a pull altogether,
and we can boat the mongrel Democracy in
this District -into lint, and scatter it to
every wind, where it never can unite again
to curse and ruin the country.
••Charge Chester. Charge! On Stanley, on !”
! “Up Guards and at them” ! Let the fire
flash at the same time along the whole line,
| and then push on with the bayonet.
Atticus.
Read the communication signed Atti
! cus. It is from the pen of one of the clear
: est and most independent thinkers in our
| county. We hope Atticus will often fa
vor us with the offspring of his brain.
THE UPSOX PILOT, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1559.
Redc( tics’ of The Legislate re. —The resolutions j
adopted by a recent meeting of the people of Spalding
county, in favor of a redaction < f the legislature.
already been published in our columns. As, however
the subject is an important one. and one to which we
desire to direct the attention of ottr readers, we give
below the preamble, by which those resolutions were
prefaced, in which the argument in favor of reduction
is clearly and forcibly stated.
In re-producing this preamble, in order to call atten
tion to the subject, it is proper for us to say. that whilst
we approve 7>f a reduction of the legislature, and shall
do all in otrr power to aid in accomplishing it, we do |
not approve the particular plan of reduction proposed
by tiie people of Spalding, or tiie mode in which they
recommend that the necessary changes in our Consti
tution should be made. Their pdan contemplates a lar
ger reduction of tiie legislature, than, in our opinion, is |
either necessary or desirable, and their mode of chang
ing the Constitution, i. e. by a State Convention, is lia
ble to many grave objections, and lias no peculiar rec
ommendatn n. The changes in the Constitution, which
are before a reauction of tiie legislature can
be effected, can be made as expeditiously by the legis
lature as, they can be by a convention ; and made by
that body, can be accomplished without danger of ma
ny other and radical changes in our fundamental law,
to which we would be exposed if a constitutional con
vention was called by the legislature. —Augusta Con
stiti'tioiali'st.
We clip the above from our able cotem
porary, the Augusta Constitutionalist. We
are pleased to see that the Constitutional
ist approves of a reduction, and only dif
fers with the Spalding people as to the
mode recommended. We think with our
esteemed neighbor, that the reduction pro
posed by the meeting is too large, and
therefore objectionable, hut we think the
Constitution of the State is much safer in
the hands of a Convention elected imme
diately by the people, and for an express
object, than in the hands of successive par
ty Legislatures. We would respectfully
refer our neighbor to the delay and expense
but recently incurred by the people of our
sister State, North-Carolina, in abolishing
the fifty acre qualification of voters for the
State Senate, by* legislative enactment.
This reform, at first desired by ivory one
and opposed by none, at length became the
foot-bull of party demagogues, and only
after a struggle of ten years, to the neglect
of legislation on other important interests
and the expenditure of thousands of dol
lars, the change was at last effected. It is
believed by many that it was a trick first
suggested by that arch squatter sovereign,
S. A. Douglas, (then on a visit to the rela
tives of his first wife in Rockingham coun
ty) to ex-Governor Reid, then a candidate
for Governor, which resulted in the utter
prostration of the Whig party there, just
as the same agitator has prostrated the De
mocratic party elsewhere. Let the people of
Georgia learn a lesson from example, rath
er than experience, and beware how they
suffer party legislative’ demagog6ep*t£> tri
fle with their organic law.
James S. Slaughter, Ksq.
The LaGrange Reporter has hoisted the
name of J. S. Slaughter, Esq., (one of the
Editors of the Atlanta American) as the
opposition candidate for Congress, in that
District. We hope Slaughter will suc
ceed in slaughtering the so-called Democ
racy on the stump as well as through the
columns of the American. W e hope both
his tongue and pen will cut them up root
and branch. The lie porter says :
“We C"py from the West Point Citizen the sugges
tion of that paper with a great deal of satisfaction ; and
give it tlie entire sanction of our judgment and our
heart. Though Mr. Slaughter is a young man he has
made his mark, and gives promise of being one of the
most distinguished men of the present generation.—
Having had to battle the storms of life without any aid
—with nothing to evict wage him but Ins ov. i noble and
proud nature he has attained a position occupied by
the very fewest number of young men of his age. His
Aim a Mater is the jointing office. From its dingy
walls lie has come forth into the workfas a man of let
ters —with a cultivated intellect that commands the res
pect and admiration of all who venerate genius. Asa
political writer he has few equals, if any superior, lie
writes with the power of a giant and proud mind; and
there are few of his opponents who are eager to cross
swords with him.
We have conversed with many gentlemen of our coun
ty, and they all agree with us in the opinion that Mr.
Slaughter is the man to take the tie’.d against the Dem
ociatic nominee for Congress in this District. In the
event he does take the field we assure our friends that
he will sustain himself nobly, and will give his oppo
nent plenty t<> do in defending the policy of his party.
In consideration of tin -e tacts, we present tiro name of
Mr. Slaughter as the Opposition candidate for this Con
gressional District: and we hope our friends and the
j>re>s will agree with us and put him forth without the
formality of a convention. The Opposition of Troup,
we think we can safely say, will enter the canvass in
the true spirit of gallantry and patriotism. We think
we know enough of their views to say this much with
all confidence.
The friends of Opposition would be very glad to hear
Mr. Slaughter's views upon the above subject; and we
hope he will early comply with their wishes.”
Superior Court.
The Superior Court of this county is
now in session—Judge Cabaniss presiding.
The Judge is patient, attentive and learn
ed in the law, and aifords universal satis
faction to the Bar and suitors. Xo case
of much general importance has been dis
posed of up to the time of going to Press.
W e see brother Orme of the Milledge
ville Recorder, and Bimri Rose, Esq., of
the Macon Messenger, a bobbing around.
We hope success will attend their politi
cal and business piscatory excursions to
our county.
The South Countryman/’
We have received this valuable agricul
tural work for April. It richly merits the
most extended patronage. It is edited by
C. W. Howard, and published, at Mariet
ta, Georgia, by W. 11. Hunt, at the low
price of one dollar per annum.
Pbcmicxs to Foutiierv Writerh. —Mr. Gardner,
publisher of tla* Southern Field and Fireside, offers the
following prizes to Southern writers:
For the best Xovellette, or Tale of Fiction, one hun
dred dollars.
For the best Literary Essay, fifty dollars.
For the best Agricultural E"ay, fifty dollars.
For the best Poem, not less than sixty lines, twenty
five dollars.
A committee w ill be selected to make the awards, by
the publisher and the two editors of the Field and 1
Fireside—tiie articles to be furnished by the first day j
of June next.
Here is one step in the right path worth
a thousand windy speeches about disunion
and “ Southern rights and Southern honor.”
May the Southern Fireside be always
cheered by Southern writers, and the South
ern Field be always improved by accom
plished Gardners. We wish the Southern
public mind sub-soiled by native hands, ,
and then we will pluck the fruits and flow
ers of an original, overblooming, healthy j
Literature.
Admitted to the Bar.
On Tuesday last, John W. Spivey, Esq., ;
of this town, was admitted to practice law
in all the Courts of Georgia, except the
Supreme Court. Mr. S , received the fol
lowing compliment, from his Honor, Judge ;
Cabaniss, just before administering the |
usual oath, “Mr. Spivey, I am pleased to j
see, is more correct in his answers than
such candidates usually are.”
We wish Mr. Spivey that success in the
honorable hut laborious profession upon
which he has entered, which is due to his
talents and unassuming worth.
Mount Vernon.
We would call the particular attention
of our readers to the appeal in another col
umn so chastely and eloquently made by
ihe Lady Manager of this county in be
half of the Mount Vernon Association. —
••Breathes there a man with soul so dead
who can resist the calls of patriotism when
made by such appeals from the fair and
pure daughters of our beloved, native land ?
ISeialutm’.
The last specimen of It faintin’ that has
1 fallen under our eye is the following, by
Hun. R. J. Ryan, of Indianapolis, who be
ing recently appointed Minister to Bogo-
I ta, was honored with a complimentary
supper on the 20th ultimo. Mr.’ Ryan
: made a speech on the occasion, at the con
clusion of which he said :
“• I give, in conclusion, as n sentiment,” said Mr. Ry
; an, ‘-the bright and spotless administration of James
1 Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. When thrones are erum
: bled, and dynasties forgotten, il will stand the lnnd
i mark of our country's history, rearing ii.-eif an. id re
gal ruins and nation's dissolution, a political pyramid
in tiie solitude of Time, beneath whose shade kings
shall moulder, and around whose summit Eternity
must play /”
The above extract of Mr. Ryan’s speech,
is stolen from one of the
flights of Chatles I’hilips, the Irish Ora
tor. It seems the Democrats must rub
: the dead as well as the living.
s£ay l>:sy Flowers.
On the Ist of the month, a beautiful bLi
quet was laid on our table from some fair,
unknown daughter of Upson—accompa
nied with the following kind wishes :
Around your path may the fairest flowers,
That ever bloomed in Thomaston bowers,
Bloom and blossom bright and fair
Loaded with sweets of May'day air,
Bo thy path with roses strewn,
And thy hours to care unknown,
A tid sorrow cloud thy pathway never,
And happiness be thine forever.
May 1,180 J. From Julia A. M.. of Upson, Ga.
We return our thanks, as best we can,
in the following words :
“Lady to me thou rut a sprite,
A vision of the fancies,
Thy form may never greet my .sight.
Unless by rarest chances —
But hast thou Lover, Brother, Friend
Whose m u! is rapt in thee —
Tiie wish to lleave . that he may send,
Just deem it sent by me.”
Sfiin-Wfekly Patriot.
This spirited Opposition paper has been
lately enlarged, and is edited with great
ability. Its Grist is now pure American,
unmixed with any weavel-eaten democrat
ic element. Its brands will pass muster
in any just market. Success to the Pa
triot.
Third Congression a l District. —F roin
what we see in other papers, wc suppose
that lion. R. P. Trippe lias determined to
decline a re-election to Congress. We re
gret very much that we have to give up
our well tried friend, Trippe : for we feel
certain that if lie would consent to run
again, his friends would think of no other
name as proper to represent the Third Dis
trict.
Rut, if it he true that Mr. Trippe can
not consent to serve us again, we must
look round for another ; and in anding so,
we do not wish to be understood as desir
ing to forestal public opinion by any means,
but only to place before the p ople a name
to be thought of, when we suggest the
name of Peter W. Alexander Esq ol’ Thom
aston.
Mr. Alexander is known to many of the
voters of the Third District as well as oth
er parts of the State as a well informed
Statesman, having been for years, at the
head of the Savannah Republican, one of
the best political papers of the State. In
all things heretofore lie has been “capable,
faithful and honest” and we have confi
dence to believe he would make a good rep
resentative.—A merican Union
For the. Upson Pilot.
State Aid and Reduction.
Mr. Editor : There are two questions
involved in our State policy which every
Georgian should investigate for himself,
independent of party affiliation or the dic
tation of party leaders. The question of
State aid and the question of reduction in
our State Legislature, are of far more in
terest to the people of Georgia at this time
than all the clamor as to the policy of re
opening the African slave trade or the im
mediate acquisition of Cuba, about which
demagogues are so boisterous as to the
true policy of the South and our Southern
institutions.
The question of State aid to works of,
internal improvement is one of deep and I
vital interest to the people of Georgia.
Every tax-payer is directly interested in
it, and should look well to the subject, and
vote for no man to represent him in the
Councils of State whose views does not
accord with his own upon this intricate 1
and all-absorbing subject. It has been the
main topic of Georgia legislation for the ;
last three sessions. It is true, it had a be
ginning. but it seems to have no end ; for
so sanguine are its friends of its ultimate
success, that they force it upon the General
Assembly in so many forms and shapes that
a forty da\ ‘s session under the present Con
stitution is entirely too short for a hearing
upon all the various plans and schemes
concocted for the purpose of success. And
such is the zeal of its advocates, that they
will vote for any and every thing, no mat
ter how absurd or ridiculous, in order to
gain strength upon that subject, which is
all and all with them.
In this way new county after new county
is made, with the promise that the new
county members when elected shall b ■ State !
aid men. and in this way, by tills sort of,
bartering and trading amr ng the members,
wliose rule of right seems to be the quid
pro quo , tin re is much done that should
not be done, and too mueli left undone
that should he done ; and the result is,
that the treasury sutlers and the people
are not benefitted by the operation.
In order to change this state of things
the people must take this matter into their
own hand.', for the people are the only ru
lers known to our Government. Awake,
then, from your slumbers—arouse and
shake oil'your lethargy, and go to work—
instruct your Senators and Representatives
to call a Convention to change the Consti
tution so as to reduce your Senate and Re
presentatives, and make your General As
sembly what it should be—an intelligent,
dignified, business body, instead of a loaf
ing, idle, prodigal, careless, thoughtless
rabble, who will never vote to adjourn as
long as there is a dollar in the Treasury to
squander.
As: to lire mode or manner of reduction,
it matters not, so that the number left is
small enough : for, the more poj illation or
territory, as the ease may be, the more the
rc-sj onsibility, and the more certain will
your representatives discharge their duty.
Forty Senators and one liundre l and thirty
two Representatives; say five Senators
from each of our Congressional Districts,
as they now stand, and one representative
from each County. This number will be
abundantly suffice nt lbr all the purposes
of business ; for even under the present
system there are not in either branch of
the Legislature that number of safe, relia
ble, workingmen—consequently, tlie num
ber of drones thrown out, according to this
plan, would be ninety-lwo Senators and
thirty-seven Representatives, making an
aggregate of one hundred and twenty-nine
members whose per diem pay (say nothing
of mileage) amounts to the sum of thirty
thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars
for each session. In ten years it would
amount to three hundred and nine thous
and and six hundred dollars, which, if well
managed and properly appropriated, would
go far to educate the poor children in the
State, which would be much more praise
worthy and noble as a State enterprise
than the taking of hazardous risks in rail
road companies, for the sole benefit of a
few reckless adventurers, who desire to
make money easy, but who modestly ask
the IState to take all the responsibility and
risk in the matter, without the least possi
j ble chance of being benefitted in any way
whatever. I know that 1 am treading
upon disputed ground, lor the friends of
i State aid tell us that the State is to he
| amply secured and never can loose a dollar,
i I think J can show to the contrary. At
least 1 will try to do so, and in as few
words as possible, for I do not desire to
: make this a lengthy communication, lest I
| might weary your patience or some of the
many readers of your excellent paper. I
! will come directly to the point. The prop—
! osition is, as a general or local system, for
! any railroad company in the State, indi
vidually or collectively, upon the c.mple
i tion and putting in running ord< r twenty
miles’ length of road, that they shall, upon
. giving to the State a mortgage of said
road, and all its rights, tackle and apparel,
I receive from the Executive of the State an
j endorsement of their bonds for seven
thousand dollars per mile, and so on through
the v. hulc length of the road.
Suppose the speculation works out well.
I and the road pays a profit to the stoc-k
----, holders in actual dividends, I will admit
! that the State will neither loose nor train,
i tor the company will pay up at
| maturing, and the State will be released
from its obligation, and the mortgage can
celled and given up. But let the roads be
badly located, or from some other cause
they are not nor cannot be made profitable,
is it not reasonable to suppose that these
sagacious speculators would shirk out and
throw tho whole responsibility upon the
State. And in this way all the paying
roads would soon belong to speculators
and the non-paying roadstothe State. R
would he insulting tothe’peopleof Georgia
to make them such a proposition, still, it
is made to the delegates you send to repre
sent you, and some of them taunted with
tlueats ot being politically decapitated for
having nobly and gallantly rejected the
proposition, and dune what they conceivetl
to be their duty. ATTICUS.
For tlit* Upson Pilot.
To the Ladies of Upson, in n e .
half of the Aioiint Veriion As
sociation.
It is needless for a pen so inexperienced
and youthful as mine, to attempt an elo
quent appeal, to you my sisters, in behalf
of this noble enterprise, or to dwell with
enthusiastic*ardor oa the glories of patri
otism.
Being appointed by the accomplished
Vico Regent, Mrs. P. E. Eve, as Ladv
Manager of our County, it devolves on me
simply to find a way to the hidden fire o?
patriotism, which I know is burning on
the altar of your hearts.
There, enshrined, it has lived for year?,
and now is the time for its sacred flame to
ho fanned into life, increasing in fewer
and brilliancy until in vivid characters of
light, there beams within the blaze, wosds
that breathe, “Success to tho worthy As
sociation that reveres! the immortal name
of Washington ! Our country's Hero, who
fought and bled for our independence, and
to whose heroic valor and wisdom we owe
our glorious liberty !’’
> Then let 113 “up and he ek ing/’ to as
sist. as tiir as we are able, in the purchase
of Mount Vernon, its Lroad avenues, and
shaded alcoves made sacred by the foot
steps of him, who gazed with pride and
affection on his beautiful home; its jas
mine covered hills, and summer retreats
where surrounded by aromatic odors of
| rare and brilliant flowers, he was wont to
sit at twilight and listen to the soft lulla
by of distant waters. Those towering
Elms, lofty Oaks and graceful Cedars, bo
I regular in their growth were planted un
| dor Ins superintendence, .and inav yet live
I to tell future generations, that* this was
> the home of one whose memory will linger
: forever in the depths of every American
! heart.
i And still more sacred than all these, is
the quiet and beautiful spot where sleeps
the body once buoyant with life and health,
but now entombed beneath the iev nmr
: hie, never more to awaken at tlie victori
ous call of Fame, or to write on the heart
i torn and bleeding in chains, ll Dku et mon
droit!’ For wo must have Libertu or
j Death /
“ The snow white marble lifts M head
Awl heralds forth Lis fame
Wh le on its topmost point is reen
•i he sleeping patriot’s name !”
Met Links I should scarcely dare ap
proach a spot so hallowed, but at a dis
tance would reverently kneel and weep,
! fearing lest I should trample some tiny
j flower that mourned in silence near bis
, tomb.
j And ail this may be ours ! What a glo*
| l ions privilege to feel that it may be kept
• sacred to our country, and to know too,
I that this patriotic enterprise originate!
i “’ith the Ladies of our own noble State!
; Shall the Ladies of Upson county be less
| willing than others to contribute in so do*
I rious a cause ? No ! Rather let us enlist I
J our names proudly and consider it an un-l
j usual honor, if our “'little mite,” can as-l
sist in rendering Mount Vernon the com*!
i mon property of our free and independent!
; Nation, and we are all aware that there!
never was, or ever will be such another,l
until time itself shall cease to exist.
We do not exempt the gentlemen oil
j course, they must untie the purse strings,!
; and bear in mind “that they hold therein?!
j (which certainly is right and just.) hut vm
show them the way to qo!”
And they can but admit, even if
lead them sometimes into “horrid extra?-*
agances,” that in this case we have shows*
; them the straight and broad way to Mount*
; \ ernon. If they are amiable and w-B
: greatly assist us, this beautiful place, en*B
cleared as the favorite spot of Gen. Watf-B
ington, shall ever be ours, but if not-*
then it may lie ours any how.
\\ e have . talented and zealous nsfi-B
I ants who will pass our little subscript!- 5 *
book around, so that all may have an *•];■
port unity of inscribing their names,
| show that Upson must and will he ahf®
in patriotism, as well as in everything el®
that is good ! All contributions from *fl
distance can be sent either to me at V'ayß
rnanville, or to Col. W. G. Horsier, Thoc
aston. _ Respectfully,
Loula W. Kendall, L. M. V. A. I
‘I he llox. Edwaud Everf.tt axi>L*'B
telies. —ln his eloquent discourse on u®
career and character of Thomas Down®
the Hon. Edward Everett mentions tbfl
interesting fact that the subject of his en®
ogy drew a prize in a London lot teryF'hi®
enabled him to lay the foundation of ®
fortunes, or which promoted them in -®
| extraordinary degree. In the onslau/B
upon lotteries, it is well to note this k J
and, particularly, to remind our nfi®
i that, by sending 810, 85, or 8- l-~\ : *
; Wood, Eddy & Cos., Wilmington, l 1 J
ware, or Augusta, Georgia, they
ccive in return a ticket in their legal®
lottery, which, if successful, will via I
j prize of 850,000, or its proportion.
Experience is the must eloquent of F®
| chers, but she never has a large con/'s'®
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