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FOrBIETO,
LETTER FROM HON. JOSH. HILL, j
U. S House of Representatives, }
Washington, Jan. 14th, 1861. )
Editor of the Chronicle & Sentinel:
Dear Sir, — I cannot thank you too
warmly for your prompt and generous de
fence of me, against the malignant assaults
of certain ultra partisan prints of our
State. I hope for the honor of human
nature, that none of my assailants read
the reported proceedings of Congress, as
published in the Globe. It may be that
they derived their information by Tele
graph, that modern mercury, whose polit
ical messages contain about the same rela
tive proportion of truth to falsehood, as
did Fulstuffs “tavern reckoning” of bread
to sack, “hut one-half pennyworth of
bread, to an intolerable deal of sack.”
Monday, the 31st of December, was a
tumultuous day in the House. Members
from the South and members from the
North, appeared defiant of each other, and
alike desirous to exhibit a dogged deter
mination to yield nothing to the spirit of
I conciliation and compromise.
Mr. Pryor offered the following resolu
, tion :
“ Ile^olved , That any attempt to pre
serve the Union between the States of this
Confederacy, by force, would he impracti
cable and destructive of Republican liber
ty,” and demanded the previous question
on its adoption.
Mr. Stanton, of Ohio, moved to lay the
resolution on the table, and called for the
yeas and nays.
I preferred an adjournment lest the
I other course might increase irritation. I
moved an adjournment, saying “my object
is to put a stop to all this resolution-mak
ing business in the House, as it is fraught
with nothing hut mischief. Every resolu
tion on the great subject, in my judgment,
is unprofitable.”
Mr. Hindman said, “We are ready to
meet this question.”
Mr. Crawford asked for a vote on the
resolution now ; and desired the with
drawal of my motion.
1 replied, “No, sir ; I shall insist on my
motion ; and I will endeavor to prevent
all other resolutions of a like character
coming in, either from one side or the
other.”
My object was well understood in the
House—it was to keep out all exciting
topics. It is true, that I did go to Mr.
Pryor, and tell him, that apart from my
objections to considering any such mere
abstract questions, I thought the resolu
tion imperfectly drawn, even to express
...1 A 1 1 1 —• *1 I*o 1‘ * T ut U t u/1
that I was not opposed to the use of force
by the national government, tor the pre
servation of the Union between the Slates,
when used against mobs standing in oppo
sition to the execution of the Fugitive
Slave Law, or lawless and murderous
hands of robbers, such as John Brown led
into Virginia. I insisted that such use of
force, was not incompatible with the rights
of the States. Mr. Pryor agreed with me,
and desired a member from New York,
standing by. or myself, if opportunity oc
curred, to offer the necessary amendment,
qualifying the resolution. The House re
fused to adjourn. The Globe then quotes
me as follows : “Mr. Hill said, that having
learned that the resolution would he mod
ified, if not laid on the table, lie would for
the present, vote in the negative, out of
respect to the mover.”
“Air. 11. subsequently said, that inas
much ns consent cannot he obtained to
modify the resolution, he would vote for
laying it on the table, as he would, in fu
ture, upon all resolutions on the same sub- j
feet coming from individuals. By this Ii
meant that I desired to leave all questions |
hearing on the peculiar state ot the coun
try to The Committee of thirty-three, ex
clusively. j .
By reference U) the reported proceedings j
of the House, it will appear that 1 have j
adhered to my pacific purpose ot excluding,
as far as in fri* power lay, all unnecessary
and exciting resolutions, and aiiesting sec- .
tional debate. lam satisfied with my ae- j
tiofi. I ofily regret that 1 have not al- (
ways been successful.
i have tried to pursue that course that
I bbheved would best promote an adjust
mi nt of the unhappy strife now raging he- j
tween a divided people. 1 have not played
false to the convictions ot my deliberate j
judgment. While 1 hope for the approval
of the people I repre sent, I must be my
own judge as to the best mode of serving
them It is far easier to yield to a clamor
than to follow the dictates of reason ana
conscience. I know of no reward compar
able to self approval. # I
If even now it he a crime to labor earn
estly to preserve the Constitutional Union j
of the States, let me, by my own confess
ion, he adjudged guilty. But I am tar
from seeking its perpetuation by the sub- j
juration of seceding States.
Mv devotion to Georgia makes me un
willing to see her take to precipitate flight
from The Union, before all honorable efforts
to restore and preserve it, have been tne
and failed, the is a great State, and may ,
well afford to rest in security upon Her
ability to protect herself whenever the ex
igency arrives. . . . n
1 trust that an appreciative public
reward you liberally for your constant de
votion to their best interests.
As for the carpings ot petty.
crogues, I regard them no more than tl
velpini of so many curs. Incomprehen
sible as it is to them, I want DOt '", nS
the hands of people or rulers—and tha
places me on an eminence beyond the
reach of their detraction.
THE UNION OF THE STATES: - DISTINCT. LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY l Nil.
A generous adversary will give me the
benefit of this explanation. I shall see
who is capable of such magnanimity.
Very respectfully,
Y T our friend,
Joshua Hill.
HON JERE. CLEMENS.
In the Alabama Convention, on the 11th
ult., the Ordinance of Secession being up
for adoption—when the name ot Hon. Jere.
Clemens was called, he arose and said :
Mv President : Each member of this
Convention, however unpretending may
have been the obscurity of his past life,
this day writes a name in history which
will endure long after we ourselves have
passed from the stage of action. In honor
or reproach, in glory or in shame, them it
is stamped, and stamped forever. Under
such circumstances, I feel that a word of
explanation as to my course will not he out
of place.
1 shall vote for this Ordinance ; hut
frankness and fairness requires me to sav
that I would not vote for it if its passage
depended upon that vote. Jf it was left
to me to decide whether this plan of resis
tance, or another, should be adopted. I
have already indicated strong preference
for that other which you have voted down.
As matters now stand, my vote will not
affect the decision of the question here in
one way or the other. I am looking beyond
this Hall, and beyond this hour. The act
yon are about to commit, is, to my appre
hension, treason, and subjects you, if Un
successful, to all the pains and penalties
pronounced against that highest political
crime, or noblest political virtue, accord
ing to the motives which govern its com
mission. \\ hatever. may be our opinion
of the wisdom and justice of the course
pursued by the majority, I do not choose
that any man shall put himself in danger
of a halter in defense of the honor and
rights of my native State without sharing
that danger with him.
I give this vote, therefore, partly as an
assurance that I intend, in good faith, to
redeem the pledge which I have made a
gain and again, through the press, that
whenever the summons came to me to de
fend the soil of Alabama, whether it was
at midnight, or at midday—whether I be
lieve her right or wrong, it should he free
ly, and promptly answered.
Sir, I never had a doubt as to the course
it became me to take in such an emergen
cy as this. I believe your Ordinance to he
wrong—if I could defeat it I would; but
I cannot. It will pass and when passed
it i/thwiui'a uK’ act ui ulemateol Aiauiiiua.
As such I will maintain and defend it
against all and every enemy, as long as I
have a hand to raise in its defence. As an
earnest that I mean what I say, I am
about to place myself in a position from
which there can he no retreat.
I have other reasons, Mr. President,
which I do not mention here, because to
do so would, in some measure, counteract
them. They are known to my friends, and
there I shall leave them, until time and
the course of events shall render their pub
lication proper. For the present, it is
euough to say that I am a son of Alabama;
her destiny is mine ; her people are mine;
her enemies are mine. I see plainly enough
that clouds and storms are gathering above
us ; hut when the thunder rolls and light
ning flashes, 1 trust that I shall neither
shrink nor cower —neither murmur nor
complain. Acting upon the convictions of
a lifetime, calmly and deliberately I walk
with you into revolution. Be its perils—
he its” privations —be its sufferings what
they may, I share them with you, although
as a member of this Convention, I opposed
vour Ordinance. Side by side with yours,
Mr. President, my name shall stand upon
the original roll, and side by side with you
I brave the consequences. I vote in the
affirmative.
Little Children’s Dresses.— Naked
Arms and Necks. — A distinguished phy
sician who died some years since, in Paris,
declared ; “1 believe, that during the twen
ty-six years I have practiced my profession
in this city, twenty thousand children have
been carried to the cemetaries, a sacrifice
to the absurd custom of exposing their
arms naked.”
I have often thought, if a mother were
anxious to show the soft, white skin of her
baby, and Would cut out a round hole in
the little thing’s dress just over the heart
and then carry it about for observation by
the company, it would do very little harm.
But to expose the baby’s arms, members
so far removed from the heart, and with
such feeble circulation at best, is a most
pernicious practice.
Put the bulb of a thermometer to a ba
by’s mouth the mercury rises to 90 deg.
Now, carry the.same bulb to its little hand.
If the arms he bare ant! the evening cool,
the mercury will sink to 40 deg. Ot course
all the blood which flows through these
arms and hands must sass from -0 to 40
deg. below the temperature of the heait.
Need I say that when these cold currents
of blood flow hack into the chest, the
child’s general vitality must be more or
less compromised ? And, need I add, tid
we ought not to he surprised at its fre
quently recurring affections of the Rings,
throat and stomach ! . ,
1 have seen more than one child with
habitual cough and hoarseness, or choking
with mucus, entirely, permanently relieved
by simply keeping its arms and hands
warm. Every observing and progressive
physician has daily opportunities to wit
ness the same simple cure.
THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE
UNION.
The following letter, translated from
the “Courier des Etats Unis,” and copied
into several Northern journals, is repro
duced here for the benefit of our readers ;
New York, Jan. 10. IS6L
“Mr. Editor : You were perfectly right
a month ago, in recommending an appeal
to the people in order to terminate this
question of the South against the North ;
and doubtless the Congress of the United
States, after a month of haranging, will
recommend this popular vote. It is high
time that there should he an end to it all,
for our great model republic is about to
become the laughing stock of all the sov
ereigns of Europe. Nevertheless, I have a
hope that the Union will stand, and that
it will he stronger than before. The Uni
ted States, as they now’ stand, are respec
ted by all the nations of the earth ; hut if
they were to divide themselves into tw’o or
three confederations, then w’ould begin re
clamations from all the powers which
might think themselves entitled to make
them.
“As I saw the fall of the French em
pire in 1814 and 1815, and that each pow
er regained often more than it had lost, I
can tell you what would happen here in
America, if the United States separateand
find themselves reduced to civil war. In
the first place, France would retake Lou
isiana, according to ancient treaties; Spain
would reclaim Florida ; England would
appropriate Oregon and several other
States ; Mexico, under English prelection,
would retake the territory of New Mexico,
Texas, and California ; and England might
perhaps keep California as an indemnity
for the subsidies furnished to the Mexican
Government in this war against the former
United States.
“Now you will ask me how these re
sumptions could take place, and by What
right; this is very easy to explain. It is
Louis Napoleon who would begin by a
very simple and logical process ot reason
ing J for every one knows that Napoleon
111 aims at consolidating all that Napole
on I had in view with regard to foreign
policy. Now, Napoleon I, in 1804, ceded
Louisiana, to the United States for the
sum of five millions of dollars, which the
Government of the United States engaged
to pay to the American merchants wdiose
goods and ships had been seized during
the wars of the French republic, from 1792
to 1801. But as the United States have
not paid the aforesaid five millions, and
as, for more than forty years, we have seen
shrrgv French spoliation bill, which lias
never been passed ; therefore, as soon as
the Union shall Ik> dissolved, those who
claim this sum will address themselves to
Louis Napoleon, and I have no doubt, con
sidering his character, that he will pay
their demands and retake Louisiana. En
gland, who suspects something, has already
ordered ships-of-war to the Gulf of Mexi
co. See how Providence, having such an
instrument as Louis Napoleon to work
with, can bring everybody hack to harmo
ny.” L. L.,
“Who wears the St. Helena Medal ”
Northern Citizens at the South.—
It is computed that at least one million of
the citizens of the South, are natives’ of
the Northern States .who have settled in
the South, and in many instances inter
manietl with Southern families, and are
among the most loyal and public . spirited
of the population. This is especially true
of Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
Charleston has a large proportion of na
tives of the Northern States among her
population, and the city of Savannah is,
in its habits and aspect, more like a sober,
business New England town than a South
ern city. New Orleans and Augusta have
each a large Northern element, and there
as elsewhere Northern adopted citizens are
among the most valuable and reliable nSefif
in the community. As Paul Jones, Lord
Sterling, Baron StUben, Montgomery and
others were among the most ardent, faith
ful and efficient friends of their adopted
country in the war of American independ
ence, so we ever find the adopted citizens
of the South the foremost in loyalty and
devotion to the land which they have cho
sen as their home. Most of them, like
Gen. Greene, a native of It node Island,
who so successfully achieved the deliver
ance of the South in the Revolution, made
that sunny land their abiding place from
congeniality of spirit with its generous and
chivalric people. The number of citizens
of the North of Southern births is also
very large. They may he found every
where in the most remote portions of New
England, and are scattered all over the
Northwestern States. There are more na
tives of Virginia now resident in New York
than of New Yorkers resident in A irginia.
In many instances they too have inter
man ied into families in the land of their
adoption.
Thus linked together by the most sacred
ties, what new and unspeakable horrors
are involved in the idea civil war ! Does
it not become all good men, all men who
have humanity, all men who are not given
over to'hardness of heart and derrfouiacal
malice and cruelty, to labor with their
whole sorr'ls. and to besiege the throne of
Heaven with their supplications, that this
hitherto, the happiest oi all nations, may
he saved from such an unnatural collision
and fearful catastrophe ? — Balt. American.
Schiller, the German poet, tells us that
within our own bosoms are the stars of our
destiny.
The Riulit Spirit.
The following, from a communication by
the Reverend D. IT. Milter, a Connecticut
Baptist preacher, to the Christian Secreta
ry, breathes an excellent spirit:
The time has come for Christians to pray
fertile “peace and prosperity” of the land;
the time has come for ministers of the Gos
pel to preach the Gospel, and leave politics
to the politicians to undo, as far as possible
the evil which a departure from ministerial
duty has produced ; for td the political par
tisan preachers, more than to any other
class, is to attributed our present troubles
as a country.
My love to the country —North, South,
East, West, with all the sectional ills to he
found leads me to cry. “God bless thee my
country J” It is now that the firm believer
in the doctrine of the sovereignty of God,
in alt the purposes and plans of life, is en
abled to trust with comforting assurance
that all will, end well ; for He who hath
said, “better is the end of a thing than the
beginning thereof” is “the Lord God om
nipotent” who reigneth over all..
Talk not of “two nations” —of “disun
ion” —it cannot he ;it must not he. Let
the provisions of the “fugitive slave law”
be enforced ; let the “personal liberty bills”
he repealed ; give, if need he, all protection
to the South demanded, for slavery where
it exists, but let not a dissolution of the
Union take place.
Is it possible that the time is coming
when two American armies are to meet in
deadly conflict ? “when they shall march
to battle by the music of their undivided
national airs, and with the undivided mem
ories of the Revolution still fresh in their
minds ?” A war, this, of families ; of child
against parent, brother against brother;
Christians of the same denomination
against each other ; impossible, it is too
horrible ; let it he prevented by a union of
patriotism —a love of God and man. O
that God may direct the thoughts of In's
people and lead to earnest pravof for the
“peace of the land,” and direct the politi
cal leaders of the country to such expedi
ents as will perpetuate the Union, and so
guide the nens of our editors that they
may be dipped in love rather than worm
wood and gall For the Union let us con
tend with s"ch a spirit j and such a force,
that the agitations North and South, ol’
secession and civil war, will yet gladly seek
a hiding place in the folds of our nation’s |
banner, the flag of a great, a glorious, a i
united people.
D. Henry Miller.
Meriden, Pec. 1860.
i. I tO ANA) 48m*— Jii vwiiuijw i l^’o 1 ’ *
of the New American Encyclopedia, we
read as follows :
“Iu 1775, icltcn n‘ar tilth the iiiother
country had become inevitable , the occu
pation of Ticonderoga was determined on;
and the task confined to [Ethan] Allen,
who set out at once at the head of his
Green Mountain boys, reaching Castleton
May 7, 1775. A party was also detached
under Capt. Herrick toward Skeneshor
ough, and another under Capt. Douglas to
Panton in the vicinity of Crown Point. — ; (
On th 6 morning of May 10, Allen, who .
had previously been joined by Arnold, sur- |
prised Ticonderoga, summoning Capt. De
la Plaine, who commanded the post, to
surrender in the name of “the Great Jeho- ■.
vah and the Continental Congress.” By 1
this coup de main , txvo officers, forty-eight
rank and file, one hundred twenty pieces
of artillery, and a large quantity of small
arms, were captured, and the command of
the Green Mountains wrested from the
English.”
It is cufstomary now a-days to denounce ‘
the action of Southern States in seizing the 1
property of the Federal Government as
robbery and piracy. In their opinion wa* 1
with the Federal Government “lias become
inevitable,” and in self defense they now
are seizing the positions which could he
occupied by troops against them. The
seizure of the English forts and property
was accomplished everywhere in 1775 more
than a year before the Declaration of In
dependence, and the Southern States are
doing the same thing only a t'cw days be
fore the Declaration of ludependanee, from
what they consider a despotism—as in
1775, three detachments were sent against I
British troops, capturing Crown Point,
Ticonderoga, and a sloop of war at Skenes
borough. So, on yesterday three detach
ments were sent from New Orleans to cap
ture Fort Jackson, and the Arsenal at Ba
ton Rouge. Whilst condemning the lat
ter as an act, of piracy, let some of the
heaviest phillipics be levelled against Ethan
Allen and his confederates in 1775.
A distinguished gentleman, ex-Governor
of an Atlantic State, was employed few the
defence on a trial for murder. The Gov
ernor found it necessary, in the course of
his speech, to comment with some seventy
on the testimony of a witness for the pros
ecution. In the nridst of a most search
ing and logical sentence, wherein he was
convincing the jury that the witness had
sworn to more than the truth, he was in
terrupted by a juryman—a tall, lank fel
low, who rising, addressed the Gov rnor :
“See here, Mr. Lawyer, I don’t wantyer
to go on that way abusing me; I won’t j
stand it ; I’ll break up the court if you
do ; I didu’t come to he abused.”
“My dear sir,” replied the Governor, in
his politest manner, “I w’as alluding to the
witness, not to you ; my remarks were not
intended to any of the jurors.”
“Well, then,” said the juror,” just quit
a pinting your finger at me when you tak
1 that way.”
LMitor and l^roprietor.
Volume 3 Number 11.
Lost Stars. —Those who study the hea
vens say that often, a star drops out of the
firmament or dies there, and is lost to sight
forever after. It may have been the bright
star of Wopfc of mlny a mariner on the un
certain sea of life. Its calm, gentle radi
ance may have shed good cheer and com
fort upon many a path, dark with doubt,
and sorrow, and dread. Like these drop
ping, dying stars our loved ones go away
from our sight. The stars of our hopes,
our ambitions, our prayers, Whose light
shines ever before us, fending on and up,
they suddenly fade from the firmament of
hearts, and their place is eippty and dark.
A mother’s steady, soft and earnest light,-
that beamed through all our wants and
sorrow’s ; a father’s strong, quick light, that
kept our feet from stumbling on the dark
and treacherous ways ; a sister’s light, so
mild, so pure, so constant and so firm/
shining upon us from loVirig eyes, and per
suading us to grace and goodness ; a broth
er’s light, bright, and bold, and honest /
a lover’s light, forever sleeping in our souls
and illunimirmtirig otir gOings jand com*
ings ; a friend’s light, true and trusty —
gone out —for ever P No ! no ! The light
has not gone out. It is shining beyond
the stars, where therp is no night and Qd
darkness, forever and forever.
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Extraordinary Bequest. —At Yitto
ria, in Spain, recently, a edrioris ceremony
took place. A wealthy citizen named In*
dalecio de Santa Maria, who died lately,
left by his will 300,000 reals, (about 75,-
000 francs,) to be distributed in eqrial por*
tions among sixty girls of , thfe’ place, aged
from twelve to eighteen, distinguished for
their good conduct and filial piety ; but as
the number of girls who cotfld claim that
designation exceeded sixty, the municipal
ity. ai the request of the eXeciltors, assem
bled all of them in the town hall, and
there, assisted by a committee of ladies,
drew the. names of sixty by lot. Not few*
er than four hundred and twenty girls were
present, all neatly dressed in the pictures
que costume of the district.
Poomhs and Bboft Difficulty.— A
Washington despatch of the 12th instant
says :—“The report of the altercation be
tween General Scott and Senfttot Toombs
is wholly untrue. The facts are nsfollows :
Gen. Scott, Senators Toombs and Benja
min, and others, dined at the house of Mr.
Corcoran on Wednesday, and the South
ern Senators denounced the Union with
passion. Mr. Toombs wished that the Star
of the West could he sunk, but no discour
tesy was offered to General Scott, and no
difti.fjnlttr Sr*rtf hoc ?**
Inorized a denial ot the report which has
been circulated/’
At the Philadelphia anti-coefeion meet*
ing on Wednesday night, a banner was dis
played with the following inscription)
NO CIVIL WAR.
JUSTICE TO THE SOUTH.
EQtJAt RIGHTS IN THE TERRITORIES.
This covers the whole ground. It is and
platform of pfifrciples which all true na*
tional men can heartily endorse. There,
will be no “union of hearts, and union of
hands,” until these principles prevail and
are asserted at the North.
One of the small Stales of Germany
having, on account of the unsettled ap
pearance of the European horizon, deter
mined to put its army upon a war footing,
resolved, as a means, towards that end, to
purchase the most improved weapons of
war, and accordingly procured an Arm
strong gun upon trial. Having got the
gun, a great difficulty arose—they had no
place to put up the target. Their otori
space of Territory was not large enough ;
and as none of the neighboring States were
willing to allow it to be put up in theirs, 1
the trial had to be foregone.
A Scotch parson in the Rump time said
in his prayer :
“Laid blues the grand council, the par
liament, arid grant that they may all hartg
together.”
“A country fellow said .“Amen” very
loudly, adding, “I’m sure It's the prayet
of all good people.”
“Friends,” said the minister, “I don’t
mean as that fellow mearis. My .prayer is
that they may all hang together in accord
and concord.” ,
“No matter what cord,” replied the oth-*
er, “so that it be but a strong cord.”
Incorrect Rumors.— The Montgomery
Advertiser, of Tuesday 2*2d, says : “One
of the editors of this paper is at home on
furlough, and will return in a few days to
Pensacola. All rumors in regard to the
re-inforeemont of Fort Pickens, or the vol
untary surrender ot Lieutenant Slimmer,
or the intention of Gen. Cass to make art
immediate attack on Fort Pickens, are en
tirely formed upon conjecture, and are in
correct so far as the writer of this article
has had an opportunity of ascertaining.”
Women require more sleep than men,
and farmers less than those engaged in any
other occupation. Editors, reporters,
printers, and telegraph operators, need no
sleep at all. Lawyers can sleep as much
as they choose, and keep out of mischief.
The Worst Form of “Hanging.”— An
exchange gives the substance of tbe ver
dict of a recent coroner's jury on a man
who died in a state of inebriation : “Death
by hanging—round a rum shop.”