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ID 5? 3 (DSI I? 2 S © 8 a UY G. A. MILLER, Terms $2 00 A Year, in Advance. IHE UPSON PILOT, Thomaston, GJ eorgia,. Cl* IT* Mai XI, E<litor and Proprietor. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. Terms of Subscription. In advance, for 1 year, $2 00 ]f payment be delayed 6 months, - - - 260 If delayed until the end of the year * - 300 Club Rates. Single copy, 82 00 Five copied, ........ 800 Ten copied, 15 00 Clubs exceeding ten, in the same proportion 11,50 each. Payment always in advance. o (Office over .4. Worrill 4” Co.'s Grocery More.) • —(> ■ ■ ■— Rate3 of Advertising. Advertisements will be charged at the rate of one dollar per qiu.re of ten lines or less, and fifty cents lor rach subsequent insertion. Professional Cards, not exceeding ten lines, will be inserted 12 mouths for sl2. Liberal contracts made with Merchants and others wishing to advertise by the year. For Announcement of Candidates £3. invariably in advance. 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Notice tu Debtors and Creditors ol an Estate must ne pnhlished forty days.- Not 1 e th-i application will !>e made to ‘be Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Laid or Negroes, must 1 e published weekly for two mon’.hs. Citations for Lett • s Administration must >e pub tnhed thirty lays—fu* D ? smi'si n from Aaj;iiiii.>fnitrin. BontUly six mouths—mr Djsn.ission from Guardian iliip, forty diys. Rules tor PorecloNn’** of Nfortq*"® nui*t be published vio.itlilv for four moir ns—for e- ? al!i'>.'i.igt i.*et papeir fr th® full space .f th-e® m m'hs—fo: oompelling ti ti*s Vnvii Executor*, or A'lmimarat* rs. wb-re o b„ r * hrs he • i rj . nbv i ije deceased, the ftiU space oj titi'ty months. Pttb!ieat.i'*nN will alw-ivs be continued a*eording t< ; -ve tliol- .al re jun euieuts, unless ouierwise ordered, a; the f dlowjng u aty.B : Ciia f ion on T.etters ot A-imini ‘ration. P” 50 !’ ’nissory from Adin.nisirution, *“0 “ “ Guai liansliijt, 350 I. \tve to “ell Land or Negroes •> 00 htles of persona! property, 10 does. 1 rq. 1 50 Bn|es of land <>r negroes by Ex -cutors, • ■ • 0 Estrars. two weeks, 1 >0 Shcritl's bales, 60 lava, 6 00 “ 30 C 50 Nf’iey sent bv nia’l ’* at the of the Editor, provided, if the remittance miscarry, a receipt be cx hibited from the Post Master. £vof cssiomtf (£ at|s. P. \V. Alexander, A TTO RX E Y A T LA TT, Thomaston, Georgia. rtnr 25. 1859 1 y G. A. MILKKK, ATT()Ii NE V A T EA W , Thomaston, Georgia. Wakrkk. C. T. Goik Warren & Goode, A TTO R XL’ YS A T Z A Tl’ Perry, Houston Cos., Ga. 18, 1858—ts THOMAS BEALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Thomaston, Georgia. fel>ll iß6o—ly E. A. & J. W. Spivey, ATTORNEY S A T LA W, THOMASTON, GEORGIA. Ang. 27, 1859. n-ll ts. William G. Horsley, ATTORN E Y A T L A W , Thomaston, Georgia. WILL practice in Upson, Talbot, Taylor. Crawford, ’* Monroe. Pike and Merriwetlier Counties. April 7. 1859—1 y. 8 t kk.vnojj. • u Biaiocu. KENNON & BULLOCH, attorneys at law, Hamilton, Geor.ia. \\ r ILL practice in all the counties of the Chatta- J* hnochee Circuit, Troup and Merriwether, aud in *** adjoining counties in Alabama, f C* Prompt attention given to collections. All business entrusted to their care will receive attention. ,!l of the firm will be found at the office at all Office on the East side of the public square in brick building. p‘ ttixgs of the CorRTK in Harris.— Superior 11 L 2d Monday in A|>ril and October. Inferior b-d Monday in January and July. Ordinary’s I st Monday in each month. .A.. C. Moore, Dentist, r THOMASTON, GA. 1) over DR. THOMPSONS’ store. i -j| r t[ 'r* l aw prepared to attend to ‘’Urn 0 , eilb *l Operations. Aly work M 'CQ-IXIT toj %LT :k Law, its Imparlance aid Sublimity. A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS, DELIVERED BY J. D. RUSS, OF UPSON CO., Before the Graduating Class of the Lump kin Law Schools Athens , Ga. January 11 th, 1861. Gentlemen of the Faculty.—Fel low STUDENTS, Ladies and Gentlemen : There are some who affect to sneer at the existence of such a thing as disintei ested friendship ; who tell us that it is all ian empty name ; a mere shadow that fol -1 lows prosperity but quickly vanishes under the frowns of adversity ; that itsmilesbut to deceive, and then leaves its votaries to weeping and despair. Such, however, I trust, is not our experience, and Heaven forbid that we should ever have cause to come to any such conclusion. Cold must he the heart, or unfortunate, indeed, the late of that one who knows not what friend ship, is ; miserable must he that man who is thus cut loose from all the tender sym pathies of life. ISuch people most usually have become soured and imbittered by ■ someearly disappointment, and then, for the i faithlessness and shortcomings of one, or perhaps two, they, like the Black Dwarf, judge all the rest of mankind by the same measure. These should not he censured, hut pitied rather. Too often, alas ! are they deceived by the name ; of the spirit of this noble virtue they kuow nothing. Hopeful youth starts out upon life’s pil | grimage and the “glittering prospect | charms his eves.” No storms disturb the s*ft balmy atmospheie ot his life; no clouds of adversity daikons his sky : a brilliant future seems spread out before him : many profess friendship for him so ! long as success crowns his undertakings ; hut when troubles fall upon him, when j failure and disaster hover around him, then ! when those whom he thought to he his I friends forsake him, in the bitterness of his heart he exclaim- that friends!,ip in but an < mpty name! He is hut mistaken in his im n. Theiis is not the sort of attach- ment which the wisest of men has taught us to cultivate. The great Bacon, whose name, iike some tall pyramid in the midst ‘ id a desert waste, rises majestically above the surrounding desolation of Iris age, has toUl u-j in glowing terms ot the value of real Friendship; has told us of its pleasures and advantages and how we should regard and cherish it wherever met with in life’s devious paths. It is a plant sometimes of slow, and at others of more rapid develop ment, according to the soil from which it springs ; yet when full grown it expands ■nto a beautiful tree hearing fruit more preeious than tlie golden apples of the far feimd Hesperides. To the young it is of ten a guide, affecting more with its “silva r voi.-e and sober mien,” than all other pow ers beside. Whilst to the old it is a staff {•) suppoit the declining years of age with >ll its w akness and infirmities. How ac curately, vividly and philosophically has Cicvro portrayed in living pictures the pow ers of tiiis almost divine attribute of hu man nature; —the actions and motives of convivial spirits, linked togefhei by the natural affinities of souls animated with like objects, aims and purposes. Have we not so found it to be ? Do we not, on this day of our final departure feel that friendship has in it something far more substantial than a name—something that will endure and hind us together, however many miles or years may seperate us ? and whatever future may betide us P Such I am persuaded are the convictions of us all. Then let us cherish this sentiment ; let us endeavor to cultivate it as the most precious flower iti the garden of our hearts. It is said that the august [Senate of Rome dedicated an altar to friendship for the re spect they entertained for those sacred ties that were found to exist between Tiberius and Sejanus. Then, fellow students, let us imitate this high example to some ex tent ; let us rear in our affections an altar that shall he as durable as life to the same mythic goddess ; or to change the figure, let us, though far away, cultivate that friendship which has sprung tip amongst us during our brief stay in this School of Law ; and may it continue to grow stronger and take root deeper and deeper,until, like the ivy that twines its gentle tendrils’round the giant oak, it shall become part of our existence. Passing on to another branch of this parting address, I would ask your indul gence while I offer you a few ideas on Law, its Importance and Sublimity. If we look abroad over the various fields of nature, we see that all hei workings are governed by laws. It. is in accordance with certain laws that the different seasons pay their annual visits to our planet.— When gentle Spring—the ever-welcome damsel —comes smiling to the hearts j of men; when with her fragrant breath she wakes the forest from its winter’s slum ber and throws her mantle of green over its leafiess branches, and fills its boughs with nature’s songsters, all pouring forth their notes of gladness, our hearts are filled with gratitude and admiration for the sur rounding beauty. A few months have lolled away and she is gone, —leaving her sister friend, Summer, as a guest. She too is a welcome visitor, and as nearly re- i sernhles her sister, that we scarce note the change, save that the landscape is painted with the growing corn or gemmed with the i golden wheat. Then comes Autumn ; the; fields begin to assume a yellow hue, and his winds soon whiteD them with sDOwy ‘THE UNION OF THE STATES:-DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA” THOMASTON. GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 30. 1861. cotton ; the trees are seen bending beneath the golden clusters of fruit, and everything seems to wear an air of plenty and content. Gradually the forests assume a yellow and purple tint, and we know that Winter is near. Soon he comes, and with his shrill blasts frightens away the merry warblers of the forest to more pleasant climes. At his bidding the neighboring woods are strip ped of their beauty, and all nature is clothed in lier most solemn dress. The old fields with their dried herbage ; the meadows that a few short months ago seemed smiling with teeming plenty, hut now carpetted with the bleaching grass, are all that meet the eye. We see that these changes are all regular and consistent with each other, because they are all subject to! certain invariable laws. Should we borrow the wings of fancy and soar away to the innumerable bodies of vast illimitable space, and there note the exact accuracy with which each body revolves within its own respective sphere; when we see the precise nicety of the mo tions which prevail throughout the whole solar system, marking the path of each planet within its own orbit, yet causing them all to move harmoniously around the same common centre, we see at once the importance and the power of the laws which govern these different systems ; or if one of them, even the least, were violated these worlds would fiv off in confusion and disorder would reign supreme. And now, as we gaze in awe upon that vast empyrean where hang suspended astral systems or firmaments resembling our own, they will gradually like light cloudlets under the in fluence of the telescope, resolve themselves under a greater power into stars, though they perhaps appeared at first no larger than the finest particles of dimond dust.— And though the imagination may he left to wander on, and on without limit or stay, save that which is given by its inability to grasp the unbounded, the same great truth applies; these bodies all are , and must (>f necessity be, subject to ce/ to in invariable laws. Eveu the smallest star that twinkles in the blue vault of Heaven is subject to its control. Law is universal. It is the governing principle in physical nature. It mounts the whirlwind, rides in the furious tornado, commands the slorm-god and lie obeys, calms the ocean’s angry billows, is seen in the lightning's lurid flash, directs the swift thunderbolt, smiles through the lovely rainho v as it gently spans the sky, holds universal sway and waves its sceptre in triumph over all the works of creation ! Philosophy teaches, and history confirms tlu> great truth, th it fixed and certain laws are no less essential to the harmony of the Material Universe, than they are for the exstenee and well-being of society ; and; along the hanks of the stream of Time are strewn the fallow glories and the momi tiFT" —/* f Ui'pro'ia is worth oetween tit- I iiav< garded this iiu.k. , • n * learning and of art is a sad example to demonstrate this fact. She had all the el ements of greatness within her; and aiound her classic name cluster all that is grand and noble in history. It was here that Homer sung ; his sublime poetry was first heard along the shores of the xEgean ; then mingling with the breezes which rippled its waters, it was wafted with increasing melody to the uttermost corners of the earth to gladden the hearts of men_ And the sacred Nine, proud ot the golden treas ure, have handed it down through the dust and gloom of centuries to succeeding gen erations as a priceless heritage of genius and poesy. Nor was the oratory of this wonderful nation surpassed by its poetry. Peal after peal of her eloquence went forth from her forum, overturning thrones, shak ing nations and leading forth armies flush ed with hope and enthusiasm, to deadly conflict on the field of battle to struggle for greatness and renown. And though j that eloquence which has thrilled the hearts of millions and found in their breasts echoes responsive to its sentiments, and which to-day is unsurpassed in ancient, or modern times could not save this ill-fated country from ruin and decay, its wonderful power is yet attested by all contemporane ous history. Even at the period of which I speak, when Greece was declining be neath the tyranny and corruption of her rulers, her oratory was the most powerful. The eloquence of Demosthenes was, like Jove’s thunderbolts, hurled forth against his enemies and the enemies of his country scattering terror and dismay far and wide I among them, and at the same time inspir ing his countrymen with hope, reviving: their drooping spirits and urging them to make a vigorous effort to sustain their in dependence, until ultimately they resolved j to rise, shake off their vile fettersand stand forth in defence of their country, nobly to | defend and preserve it, else die in the at tempt. Destiny had ordered otherwise ; had decreed this country’s fall ; hut she tell not ingloriotisly, hut fell covered with the mantle ot honor and tame. Her ex- i ample is still remembered and now, after the lapse of two thousand years, it is as, heroic and the flame of her glory burns as j brightly as it did when success and triumph perched upon her standards on the plaius of Marathon! It may be asked, why her fall ? It is answered that her people for got her laws ; ceased to be governed by the precepts of Colors, Thales and Lycurgus and the inevitable consequences lollovved. ‘"■lnter anna nlent teges!” Rome once the haughty mistress of the j world, proudly thought she would live and reign forever.* In her own day her fame was co-ex tensive with the hounds of the inhabited world ; she had extended her vic torious sceptre over all the Continent and 1 farther still. Her conquering legions had scarcely, if ever, known defeat. She had given birth to poets, philosophers, orators and historians of whose memory history is proud. Her legislators gave to her a code of laws unsurpassed perhaps by any of the Gentile nations that hud come before, and many of which to this day stand as au thority iu all civilized pars of the globe. But in an evil hour she forgot the patriot ism of her first Brutus, the inscriptions up on the Ten Tables and disregarding those laws which had carried her to the highest point of national glory, stooped to take part in the ambitious struggles of Caesar and Pompey and fell a victim to her own folly. Thus did the spirit of her greatness depart from her. Nought but ruin and decay now hang around her once splendid palaces, and the former magnificence of her temples- serve hut for the abodes of hats and owls. The requiem of her na tional glory has been sung by succeeding centuries, and to day she stands a mourn ful example of her folly and falsity to this great truth. Th ■ same great truth is taught in the history of God's chosen people, the Jews.—lt was when the precepts of their great Law-giver, Moses, were abandoned , that their downfall came. It would he unnecessary and perhaps unprofitable, to speak at any great length of the state of society during the Middleor Dark Ages of the world. It is sufficient to say, that upon the downfall of the Ro man Empire, the light of civilization was extinguished, and learning, laws and the fine arts were all buried in one common grave. For centuries a dark pall of igno rance and superstition overhung the world; and even Christianity was shrouded in its black folds. No laws were known except the will of one man, selected perhaps for iris daring and physical strength ; or, like Saul because of his being a head and shoul ders taller than anv in the nation. Actu ated by a spirit of fanaticism and super stition one million of men stood upon the plains of* Europe to fight for—they knew not what. Led on by the fiery zeal of Pe ter the Hermit they marched on to battle, and few ever returned from it. For hun dreds of years not the least ray of light could he discerned glimmering on the hori zon of civilization. At length the dim twinkling ot a star might he seen suspend ed over France giving a* first an uncertain light, hut gradually increasing in bright ness until at length a whole nation emerg ed trom its of darkness and was daz zled with its brilliance. Such was the reign of Charlemagne. The same may he said of Alfred who gave to England her first written code ot laws. From that day un til the present time, the world husbeeu ad vancing in civilization and the science of the law ; and although 2nd, | f* c i. , i -—0 116 4711, Jay sth. ‘iVelray 10th. Pi®- t ■ your li.st o' ;NTf]\Y p\o * ~ewed it with ! } ot\\ } • t 01 every obsta- ; cle that ignorance or passion placed before I them and have continued it until they have arrived at the lofty summit of the Nine teenth Century. ! Take one more example, bloody though iit may be. The Empire of Charlemagne I had continued to grow (with a few excep tions) until the latter part of theeightcerith century, when its people cast to the winds their laws, unbridled the furious passions of men, and France was plunged in the Reign of Terror, and • lie pages of history were crimsoned with the blood of humani ty. No longer were heard the chimes of the church bells mingling with the breezes of the holy Babbaih morn ro summon the people to the places of worship ; they were drowned in the war and carnage of miir derous war. Worshiping at the iev shrine of Reason, they treated religion and its ho ly missions with contempt, and over the gates of the cemeteries was written in blaz ing letters *‘D**ath is an Eternal Sleep.”— Hanlon, Currier, li >b< spiere and Marat “watered tlie fairest valleys of France with the blood of her best citizens ;” .ill was an archy and confusion, and in recording this part of the life of a great nation, history drops 5i tear of pity over the sufferings of humanity. And when did France recover from her sad condition and again renew In r march in the progress of nations ? Never until the standard of the law was again erected and itst strong arm extended out to support her did peace and prosperity smile once more upon her people Thus we see that all the works of na ture are controlled by laws; that without them nations fall a prey to anarchy and the cruel passions of the mob. Imagine one of the bodies of the Solar system leaving its orbit and flying about iu wild confusion among the worlds of space ; think for a moment it our ovvu earth was to disregard the law of its revolution what derangement and confusion in the whole system would ensue ! Precisely so with nati >ns. Should they attempt to move one step in disregard of all law, the direst confusion and anarchy would prevail as history abundantly testi fies. Such is the Importance of Law. Its Sublimity, can only he measured by , its importance. Since the Dark Ages have J passed away all civilized countries (perhaps j with one or two exceptions) have had cer tain known laws by which they have been governed ; the grand result is, that civili- ; zation, religion, the arts and sciences have advanced with more rapid strides than at ! any former period ot the world’s history.— j At its bidding, temples of religion, of lear- ; ning and of art have sprung up all over the lauds and the waste howling wilderness is made to “blossom as the rose.” Our own ; country is, or until recently has been, a living example of the salutary influence of j obedience to law. A little ©qf© than two centuries ago the forests of America waved lietore the winds in all their primeval gran deur ; nought was heard to disturb their solemn stillness, save the warvvhoop of the savage, or the shrill scream of the no less savage panther. The light canoe of the sav age lazily floated on the blue waters of the lakes, or rapidly skimmed the rolling wa ters of the mighty Mississippi. At the ad vancing steps of law and order, the Indi an’s wigwam has disapai a*ed and its cull ing snoke long siuce uied away in the blue expanse of ether : and now, where once stood the rude villages of the red man, rise the graceful spires of rich and populous cities. Along our coasts are narrowed in the blue Atlantic, or the far off Pa?ifio, the tall masts of vessels ready to bear to tlie most distant parts of the globe the fruits of American skill and industry. The belt of forest which lav around the original thirteen States has been felled and until recently thirty-three coequal sovereignties assembled by representations beneath tlie wide dome of a great Republic. The steps of the retreating savage have been followed first, by law*, then by civilization, plowing up the pasturage of the wild buffalo, har nessing the waterfall to the wheels of man ufacturing and mechanical industry ; their advancing waves have surged up to the base of the Rocky Mountains and over and be yond they mingle with the waters of the placid dreaming Pacific. The laws of our country and our ready obedience to them, have made it one of the first nations of the earth. It seems from recent developments, that, despite the teachings of philosophy and the warnings of history, a portion of the people of this Confederacy have resolv ed blindly to trample under foot its laws. Should they still persist in their madness, they will soon have accomplished the des truction of the noblest government ever formed by man. History with its iron pen and impartial tablets will assign to their names the blackest infamy. Let southern men take warning by their example. Let them assemble around the altar of their country, and there in the sight of Heaven and before the w r oiid pledge themselves with renewed ardor, to preserve inviolate and untarnished for corning generations the priceless heritage of freedom bequeathed to them by a noble and illustrious ancestry. We live in the resplendent light of the nineteenth century. Laws, arts and learn ing have attained to the highest state of perfection ever known toman. Does Greece boast of a Thucydides or Rome a Livy, we of this age point to a Macaulay and a Ban croft. Do they boast of a Demosthenes or Cicero, we of this countiy reply that we have a Clay, a Calhoun and a Webster.— The rights of all are file broad tile humblest citizen >Mnd may come into thehalls of Jus ‘lice and have his rights meted out to him upon a perfect equality with the richest ; in a word “wherever there is a right there is a remedy.” To the widow it is a hus band and to the orphan a father ; protect ing both wi ll a ready and loving hand. Though the medium of law, wai has been deprived of many of its cruelties ; and na tions have adopted laws among themselves which render it of less frequent occurrence. May we not hope that the day is not far distant when through the beneficent influ ence o flaw, there will be a universal and enduring peace among the nations of earth? May the day arrive when its banners shall he planted upon every hilltop to greet the beams of the rising sun and kiss the pass ing breezes that shall convey to man the glad news of “peace on earth and good will to men.” There is no good reason why brothers, children of the same Common Father and heirs to a common destiny, should without the least just cause of an ger or resentment meet upon the field ot battle and engage in deadly conflict. Here then is a field for the Christian and States man ; let them go forth and plead for hu manity in all the courts of the world ; let them inculcate in rulers a purer sentiment 1 of morality ; one which will acknowledge I law as the supreme arbiter in all national j disputes. Let its impoi tance and obedi ence to it he taught in the schoolroom, on the forum and from the sacred desk, and j then indeed the time may he not far away j when all men may drink from the pure j crystal streams flowing from the fountains ‘ of Peace which law and order secure. Mutch, fellow students, are some of the characteristics of the profession in which we have embarked ; —the noblest of all worldly pursuits. In it is wrapped up the j accumulated wisdom of centuries. Among the great names of earth none are more i entitled to gratitude than thatof Coke, the ! incorruptible judge. His great mind ris- , ing superior to, and looking far beyond the } ignorance of the age in which he lived, gave j to succeding generations inexhaustible , treasures in a series of writings and decis- i ions, fouuded the most of them upon jus- j tice and reason. Coming to the Bench when the science of the law was com para- ! tively in its infancy, he, by his untiring in- : dustry and perseverance contributed more j to the clothing it in the dignity which it now wears than any other man who ever lived. And, besides this, be did more to watds establishing English liberty upon a sure foundation than anv Englishman who has lived before or since his time ; for the mere acknowledgment of a right is worth less unless there is a remedy and some known meaus by which it may l>e enforced; these he gave by his wise judgments, which - he never allowed to be turned aside from the channel of justice by the hope of re- < ward or fear of those who were high iD power. To Lord Mansfield not only Eng land, bat the commercial world owesa debt Editor ar.d I 3 rop rie for Volume 3 Number 19. of gratitude. In his day little was known of commercial law ; there wero few, very few laws applicable to commerce. To Mansfield belongs *he honor of giving to nations the fundamental principles gov erning this great branch of business, which like a golden chain binds together in ami ty the nations of the world. The honor to which he is entitled can only be estimated by the important place that commerce I ol Is in the affairs of nations ; but as this 6 a sul ject foreign to my purpose I has ten on. America is not destitute of the names of great jurists ; and among them none occu py a higher place or shine with a brighter iustre than those of Marshal and Story.— The latter did as much, perhaps more than any American to make for the jurispru dence of his country, a respet-table name, and place it among the different systems of the world. The decisions of both are to day referred to in England and othercoun -1 tries, and are regarded as authority of tin* highest character. ‘When we take into consideration the comparative infancy of our country, and the prejudices entertain ed against it by other countries on account of the form ot its government, we will then be better prepared to award to these great men the meed of praise which they justly merit. As Americans we should, and I b<- lieve do cherish their memory with rever ence. Crowding upou memory come the ; names of Wirt, Kent. Tucker, Lumpkin : and others I might mention did time per mit. They are “names that were not born to die ;” and though revolution may conn* 1 j and shake the nations of the earth; though the thrones of monarebs may crumble and moulder in the dust ; though crowned j heads may be laid low and governments ( convulsed and torn asunder, yet so long jas the flight of centuries shall continue to linger around the lofty pedestal of Time, i these names will live aud the memory of , them be cherished to the latest ages of pos terity ! Fellow students, we are now abiut to start out in the profession ot which 1 have been speaking ; it is of our own choosing ; let us resolve never to disgrace it ; and though we may not expect to attain the fame of a Coke, a Mansfield, a Story or our own loved Chief, yet this should not deter or discourage us from doing our duty.— 13 ut in order to arrive at any degree of suc cess, we must be students persevering and industrious remembering the motto of our venerable and loved professor, “labor ipse yoluptas” We must know the value of time and improve every moment of it ;once gone it is forever lost.. W - siftticTsVill simply to gratify some whim of our own. And we should moreo ver remember that our life-boat is floating down the rapid stream of Time ; and that whether we sleep or wake, it moves on just the same each moment nearing its destina tion—the great (c an of Eternity. Nor must we allo\v ourselves to be led away by things of a vain and illusory nature. What though the fascinating charms of politics should beckon, or the gentle but deceitful wooings of her voice call us on ; heed them not. The political sea is one ot storms and uncertainties ; and whenever we em bark upon it, we must expect to be temp est-tossed and pei haps dashed to pieces upon the unseen breakers with which it a bimnds. Kind fortune forbid, that any member of the Lumpkin Law School should, wky occupy the position of a bro ken down politician. And if indolence with her artful smiles and ready excuses should invite us to banquet in her halls, never consent ; the entrance to them is but the portal to a dark and gloomy hall, filled with blasted hopes, beggars bones, misery, wretchedness and despair. lie who once enters therein, must hastily retrace his steps or he is forever lost. No fellow stu dents, whatever future may betide us; whether storm or sunshine shall settle over life’s pathway, let us at least shun this en chanted ground as we would the vallev of the deadly upas. On the other hand let a° but court the law with diligence and perseverance, and success in some degree I doubt not will crown our efforts. H. hold on yonder sum mit a splendid edifice ; its dome is gilded with the gold n wisdom of ages ; see how the sunlight of centuries glitter on it w ith dazzling brightness; look at the exact pro portion of all its parts, and at the unblem ished whiteness of the marble—smoothly hewn from the quarries of Justice—of which it is built. If >ason stands at the portals extending to us a cordial invitation to come in and partake < f the delicacies of a more than Epicurean feast. Coke and Hale, and Mansfield and lUackstone, and Marshal aud Story and a whole galaxy of such names are there, and we 1 ave only’ to go in to be crowned w ith the jewelled lus tre of their f< ieudship, and then to dwell with them on terms of intimacy and affec tion. Is not such a future worth at least one vigorous effort ? And though enemies may hurl their darts at us so thick that like those of the Persians at Thermopylae they may darken our path, yet 1 covered by the shield of integrity , and armed with firmness, with “onward and upward’’ for our watchwords, they r will fall harmless at our feet and triumph will be ours. Six months ago fellow students, twenty five you rig hearts filled with hope and bright anticipations, sat where now you sit listening to the eloquent and parting words of a loved classmate. Going forth as the first graduateaof the Lumpkin Law School, deeply impressed as I believe with the im portance of their mission, and armed with the great truths—legal and moral—which were lucidly enunciated to them by learned