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Educuliuiiul Couv.nU
Thursday, July 10, 181
The Convention met'pursuant to adjourn
ment. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Jewett..
Mr. Tidwell presented a paper sotting
forth a system of Common Sch >ols, which
on motion was referred to the Committee of
twenty-twa.
Mr, Hill, of Troup, rend to the Conven
tion, a paper embodying suggestions on the
subject of Common School*, which on mo
tion w-ns referred to the Committee of twen
ty-two.
On motion, the Convention took a recess
until the Commilteo of twenty-two should
be ready to submit their report.
The Convention assembled, w lien through
3. Suitable school-houses ahull be provid
ed and located by the selectmen, and furnish
ed with such aparatus and fixtures bs in the
pinion of the selectmen, the circumstances
. tirVch school (liquid may demand.
4. 'ra* funds which each county respect
ively shall ,aj S e by taxation, (hall be collect'
cd by the county collectors and paid into thv
county treasury subjeevtp tho draft of the
solcctmen who shall inakvnn annual report
to the Superintendent of th\ amount of funds
raised in the county, modeM disbursment,
Sic. Sic. \
5. The sum of $———shalKe set apart
by tho legislature ot tho State, winch in con
nection with the poor school fund Mpill con
stitute a common school fund, the interest
only of which shall be used for tho purposes
BUSlwBSS CARPS.
B, W. ROSS,
DENTIST-
flome, Georgia... ..Office over N. J. Qmberg’s
Clothing Store.
January 16,1851.
franois u. Alien.
WHOLESALE ANp BETA!!.
Dealer in Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS AND G ROOD HIES.
fig! Receives now goods nvery wook, >4)0.
Rome, Ga..January 2. 1851.
LIN & BRANTLY.
WARE HOUSE, COMMISSION ft PRODUCE
MERCHANTS,
Atlanta, Ga,
(jt^-Liboral advances made on nny nrticle
in Store.
Nov. at), 1850. ly
A. ». KING * CO,
LOTTO VGlN MANUFACTURERS
Rome, Georgia,
MayO.lSSO,
AI.EXANBBR Ac TBISinELL.
ATTORNEYS AT law,
ROHE. GA. .
Nov. 38. 1850.
DOHA. IMSDMAS. H CBAXLK1 ». nAUILTOIt.
ItASllLTON & IIAKDKMA.V.
Factors .& Comittissbii Mii’clmts,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
1 12m
Tl|084« hasdiii.n
Oct. 3, 1850,
CIUM.lt F UAX1LTON. M ...
ItABDBVIAN Ac IIAMII.TO.V,
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
MACON, OEOHOU.
Oct 3, 1850. 1
12m.
PATTON A PATTON,
attorneys at law,
- Rome, Geotgia.
WILL Practice In all the Counties of tho Clwro
kee Circuit 48 8opt. 5, 1850.
A. K. VA'fTO.Y. J.F. rATTON.
W.T. IVILKINS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rome, Georgia.
Ksria to
Hoi), b P. POUTER, CHARLESTON, 8. U., Or
b.« • , AT CAVK SPHISO, OO.
'• Hon w. it. urnixRwooD, home, as.
Hon. WILLIAM KZZARD, LACATOB, OA.
»\ r July 19,1850 41 ty
O. \V. HEAL I-,
DRAPER AND TAILOR,
Broad Street Rome, Ga.
October 10, 1850.
A. ». DICKEItSON,
DRUGGIST—ROME. GEORGIA.
WJIOLKVK.K AND BETAIL SKAI.KE IN
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE
STUFFS, PERFUMERY, Me.
Ootober 10, 1850 Broad Street.
COULTER ft COLLIE.
attorn eys at law,
Rome, Georgia.
Feb. n, 1851.
HOLLAND HOUSE,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA-
T HIS Lur„c and Now brick Hotel, item ihe Rail
Rood Depot, la now opened. It will be kept in
such Stylo that vl.itocs will not fbrgot to stop ag in.
Passcngi’re oil the cats will have mom than ample
time to paitake of ihu good nteols always in readi
ness at tho arrival of each train. Persons yisiting the
City, and stopping ut the Holland House, cup get in-
.fjrnvitio'i and atslstauco in business; nnd puss ofT
Htcir leisure hours in nmuseinents connected with the
House • T e Post Office, Bank Agency, Br keis mid
other important offices will be in he Holland House.
LV 1 'Reference—A ny one who has or may step one time.
■ - A. R. KEI.LAM, Proprietor.
\ «r.H. U. UNDERWOOD ft 1. W. II. UNDERWOOD.
U. . WILLPRAC'IICELAW
r JN nil tho Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, {ox
1- cept Dade). They will both personally attend nil
k the Courts. J. W.H. UNDERWOOD will attend
Courts ot Jackson and Habersham counties of the
esiem Circuit. Both will attend tho sessions of the
"PREMK COURT m Cauvillo and Gainesville.—
business ■ntrueted to them will he promptly mid
hfnlly attended to.
“"F1CE next door to Hooper Jt Mltcbell. , 'Beenn
House,’’ Rome, Or., at which place one or both
liwnys bo found, exrept absent on professional
3. 1851
COTTON GINS
AT ROME, GA.
DITHSTANDING bur Shop has lets d
_»d twice within tho Ian two yean, once by
_ bad unco by fire, wc are again manufacturing
Opener Cotton liins,nnd Imve pr. pared ourselve
any uiuount of orders with wAlch we may be
■*4. We arc nut making Premium Gins,or Wa-
i that
b listing, any ,hnt we ure willing to
l = ,do by sld.i with any made in the Uni-
W>uino price, and compare qual tynud
E day day with them.
LJa D.KINGAr CD.
Relieving it important to the best interest
of theSta’e, that every citizen should re
ceive a Common School education, this Cons
vention, composed of Delt gates from a large
majority of the counties in Georgia, after
mature deliberation, adopts the following
Preamide and Resolutions, to be submitted
to the Legislature {
Thg Convention is folly convinced that
the citizens of the State desire the establish
ment of a system of Common Schools, which
will nfTord the opportunity to all the children
of the State, to acquire such an education as
will fit them to heroine useful members of
society. The convention is also convinced
that a largo and increasing number of cltildi on
are growing up destitute of this education,
nod that such is the particular character of
our population, that unless provisions is made
by the Legislature, this desirable object will
never be secured.
The Convention considers it as much the
right of the ponr to he educated, as of the
rich to tie protected in the possession of hi*
property; and if Ihn poor man be under obli
gations at thg call of his country to risk his
life and to pour out his blood in defence of
those institutions, which secure to the rich
man his dearest rights and most valuable
possessions—the rich man is under obliga
tions to contribute of his wealth, to give the
children of his defender an education, which
will eneable them to read the character of
their liberties; an education which will enn
bio them, <o read the character of their sa|
vatioq=rqn education which will enable
them, by industiy to rise in society, and to
take that social position which our Republi
can Instituting? guarantee to all-
The Convention, moreover, is ftilly con
vinced that it is the highest interest of the
State to secure to every citizen a Common
School education, that the safety and stabil
ity of the common wealth depend upon the
general enlightehment of its inhabitants, end
that the amount paid by the State tor the
purposes of education in all its departments,
will he more than refunded in the saving of
expense in the administration of justice, ond
in the increase of wealth and revenue, which
will accrue from it,
- The Convention is aware of the great dif
ficulties in thu way of the full accomplish
ment of n plan of universal Common School
education in Georgia. It is conceded that some
of our fellow citizens ore so situated, that
the advantages of educstion cannot be ex
tended to them, without effort and without
some additional expenditure. But the Con
vention maintain, |m>t it is the important ob
ject of Goygrnment to securp to the citizens
the advantages, which he cannot obtain,
ivithopt the aid ot Government, ond that the
Slate is under as much obligation, to call up
on the citizens of Ihe more favotod portions
of her territory, to ser.d the light ot know l
edge, to the children in the mountain coves,
or scntteied over pine barrens, as she is to
call her hardy mountaineers, or her patriotic
sons of the seaboard, to leave children and
homes, in tho defence of Iter frontiers.—
Aid the Convention is convinced that the
difficulties, which have been supposed to ex
ist, in adapting a universal system ol Com
mon Schools, to the Stale are fearless for
midable than is supposed by many.
The Convention cannot doubt that the
Sta’e may be laid off into districts so at rang
ed, that a School can he maintained during a
portion of the year in each, it is fully per
suaded that a system can be adopted, which
will apply to the less favored, ns wpll ga In
the more formed portions of the Sffltp, and
that thp expense attending its adoption will
not lie so formidable as many no|y appre
hend.
The Ccmvenlinn believes that by the es-
tahlhhment of a department of education
nnd the apparlmom and suitable Supremity
to pre.-ide over litis department, a system of
Common .School instruction may be devised
and so carried into effect, that w ithin u rea
sonable time, e'veiy child in the Siqtp may
he taught to read and write
The Conversion therefore, earnestly re
commend to tho Leg : s!alure, the establish
ment of a Bureau of education and the ap
pointment of some distinguished individual,
who is acquainted with Ihe subject of educa
tion, and who will devote his whole time, to
carry into effect the system of Common
School education, to he adopted by the Leg
islature, upon the following plan :
One school at legs’, shall tie organized and
tnught in each county hi Georgia, at such
place or places as the selectmen ,n.ay de,em
best, in which srhool or schools the children
of all the citizens of Ihe county between the
ages of 6 mid 16 shall be taught free of
charge nt 1 list four months in a year.
2 Said school or schools, shall tie under
tlie direction of three selectmen chosen bien
nially by the qunllified voters of the county
and'the selectmen shall be authorized and
required to lay oil tho county into as many
school din nets and of sgch .dimensions as
they pauy think lt\e yvants of Unpeople de
mand, and the selectmen shall furnish in
struction botli to the districts where it is
not, upon the itinerating plan or any other
that they may think proper, and shall also
make a report annually to tjte superintendent
of schools who shall be Appointed for the
T« the Point-
Senator King, in his late letter to A. B, Chlh-
erall, Esq,, the editor of the West Alabami
an, says u good many things which are not
likely to be very palatable either to the
downright secessionists, or to those oracular
gentlemen who hardly know where they
stud upon this much debated question..
Upon the “right ot secession,’’ Col. King
says :
“I am not, however, prepared to admit
that the State possess either the constitu
tional or the reserved right 1 to secede from
tho Union. 1 consider it to be a paramount
right, inherent in every people, to free them
selves troin oppression, when the action of
the government violates their fssetitial rights,
and becomes too grievous to bg borne; snd
‘ our federative sys-
* ettecliv© mo«\o to 1
claimed ail sympathy with him,” is conclu
sive proof of his disaffection to. tho Union,
and his desire for a “Southern Confederacy.”
Let the people remember this. Hg is claim
ed by Rhett—hg has not denied thg claim—
and his failure to do so shows it is well
founded.—Sag. Rep,.
California and the Compromise.—A-
mong the resolutions passed by tho Whig
State Convention of California, recently held
at San Francisco, is the following :
"Resolved, That tho recent compromise
measures adopted by Congrets receive our
cordial approbation, nnd in defence of the
Constitution and the Union we will ever ho
found faithful and true.”
ratable, provided, however, no school shali
receive any portion of the funds unless the
requisitions of ihe law he complied with,
nnd should the amount distributed by the
State, be found insufficient fur the specified
purposes, then the selectmen shall levy and
collect n tax in each county respectively in
the manner before specified.
6. The duties of the Supeiintendant shall
be prescribed by the Legislature, and his salat
ry fixed by the same body.
Resolved, That a Committee of three he
ippoinled by the Convention, whose duty it
snail be, to prepare an argument illustrative
ol, qnd in support of the recommendation ol
this Convention, which argument tthall be n
port of the action of this body nnd shall ac
company the same.
Resolved, That we recommend to the Con-
ren ion to appoint a Committee of three to
present the action of the Convention before
the next session of the Legislature, and that
the Secretaries of this Convention forward to
his Excellency the Governor the proceedings
of the Convention with the request that he
present the same to the Legislature at its
next session. Mr. Vason, ottered the fol
lowing resolution :
Resolved, That this Convention recom
mend to the Legislature, to make a liberal ap
propriation for the purpose of educating
teachers for Common Schools, said fund to
bo placed under the direction of the Educa
tional board—which was adopted. Mr
Scott, offered thg following resolution, which
was adopted i
Resold d, That this Convention acknowl
edge with pleasure and gratitude, the
promptness aud zeal, with whioh the press
of the State has united in the cause in which
we are engaged, and that we earnestly and
respectfully solicit a continuance of this ve
ry important co-operation,
* On motion of Mr. Montgomery, the Con
vention adopted the following resolution .*
Resolved, That this Convention recom
mend the iormation of Educational Associa
tions in each county of the State, for the
purpose of discussing the subject of Common
School Education.
On motion of Mr. Bighnm, it was
Resolved, That the members of this Con
vention are hereby earnestly requested to
use diligence in commending the system
iidiiptcd by this Convention, to the fnvoru-
ble consideration of their fgllutv-pitizpns; nnd
that we a|sa request them to collect nil Lite
information they can in relation to tho stute
of education, and of the popular mind in re
lation to it in their respective counties, and
furnish the same to the Editors of Ihe Slate
lor publication.
1 he President appointed Messrs. Reese,
Church and Pierce a committee to prepare
nn argument in favor of the recommendation
of this Convention, thesnme to constitute a
part of the notion of this body.
On ination of Right Rev. S’ephen Elliott,
Jr., the Convention nppninled as a commit-
lee, ihe Hon. Eugenius A. Nisbet, Hon. Jo
sepl Henry Lumpkin nnd Hon. Hiram War
ner, to prepare a tiill in conformity with the
action of this Convention, to be presented to
the next Legislature
On motion of Mr. Reese, it was
Remitted, That the Secretaries of the Con
vention furnish a correct and plain copy of
the proceedings of the Convention for publi
cation in the public gazettes of the Slntc.
On motion of Mr Nightengale, (Bishop
Elliott ip thp Chair) it wits
Resolved, That the thanks of this Con
vention lip, nnd they are hereby tendered to
th.e President and Secretaries, for the man
ner in which they have discharged their du
ties.
On motion, the thanks of the Convention
« ere returned to Mr. Arnold for the use of
Cherokee Hall..
On motion of Mr. Hill, the Convention
after prayer by Mr. Scott, adjourned sine die.
EUGENIUS A. N IN BET, Pres.
Luther J. Glenn,
Wm. H. Chambers,
Secretaries.
What a pungent rebuke to thoke puiilic pendence was - celebrated 1 in Washington
...L. a I. A L Pit if ii-Slk ■iituinnln.l nnllillalaeiM TIia Inn
An Abolitionist in Georgia.
Wp learn from the Augusta papers of Sun
day, that one Natu*n PiRD Watjon, nn
abolitionist of New Haven ,Counocticut, has
been discovered in Warren county in this
Slate. He was detecied in promulgating
abolition sentiments, publicly nnd privately,
mid in visiting negroes at night—in conso-
quencti of which the people of the county
assembled at the Court House mid appointed
a commil.eo to escort him to the Georgia
Kail-ltoad, to b,e shipped Northward. The
treatment was altogether 199 mild. An
abolitionist, in our midst, is w,qn<p than a
pirate, and should bo treated as such.
The following is a description of Watson :
Description.—The said Nnthun Bird Wat-
on, is oman of dark complexion, hazle eyes,,
black hair, and w ears u heavy heard; mens-
sures five feet eleven and three quarter inches,
has a quick step and walks jrJth toes inclined
inward and a little stoop.shouldered, new
w-pars a check coat and White pants; says he
is twenty-three years of age, but will pass
for twenty-ffv.e or
men who either dp no.t knpw their own
minds, or cunningly endeavor to conceal
their'Opinions from their constituents, is ad-
misisteted In the following manly declara
tion '
“Concealment of opinions, deliberately
idrmed, never hn», and I trust never will
constitute any part of my character, public
or private. 1 shall never be deterred from
giving utterance, from the apprehension that
tbey may rot be in accordance with those
which others entertain, or that, by making
them known, 1 may affect injuriously my
standing as a public man. This is well un-
drrsiood by those who have known me
longest and known me best. If I fall into
error—to which every man is liable—when
convinced af it, 1 promptly admit nnd re
tract it; but much as 1 deairo to obtain the
approbation of the people I have the honor
to represent, I should feel that 1 was unwor
thy of the position in which it has pleased
them to place me, if, to gain it, 1 were to
trim ray sails to every popular breeze nnd
violate the obligations I owe to our common
country. I condemn no man for honestly
differing with me in opinion, but I have too
much self-respect, and, trust, independence,
to surrender my own to please any man, at
set of men-”—1 us. Mon.
Slump apeaklng.
Ex-Gov. McDonald attended n Southern
Rights mepting at Woodville on the 4th inst.,
ana being called out, made a uhprt speech,
itt which hp said that |tp had ndontpd t|;e rule,
not to makeetqmp speechps during the Can
vass. He takes the ground that his opinions
ate ready before the people, and ihut it is
improper for him to canvass by public speak
ing.
'j'ltjq may be,jn Lis estimation, a very de
cent way 01 getting himself oot of n sernpo ;
but he will be apt to find that it will not an
swer his purpose, His views and opinions
are left loo much to inference for hinr to
adopt the mum policy. It is true that his
views are expressed in favor of n Southern
Cmgress ! und that he aaya the object ol
that Congress is to provido for the IN DE
PENDENCE of the South ; and also, that
he believes in the right of secession and is
oppose to the Cotppromisp ; jnit it is also
Iraetliat he has gory studiously avoided telling
the penplo in plain terms whether he is in
favor of the formation of a Squlhprn Confed
eracy—and if not, for what purpose he wish
es Ihe meeting of a Southern Congress, and
in what way lie expects it to provide for the
independence of the South. He has not
told us what uso I10 hag for Ihe right of se-
cessiqn pppp which his parly has stuked
ihe canvass. It is whispered about nnd
generally believed, that he and his party are
afraid '.o avow their sentiments in full upon
these subjects, and have fixed upon the bare
right ot secession for the issue in order, if
successful, to claim his election os n decision
in favor of secession and thereupon carry it
not; and the people will expect to be fully
informed how this is before they cast their
votes. The pro-enl, is no time for buying n
pig in a puke, nor making governors without
n lull ana thorough acquaintance with his
views. Those who brought him out are,
many of them, open anduvoweddisunionisls,
and they were so well pleased with his sen
timents, as they understood them, that they
are giving him their cordial support. There
are newspapers too,in Genrgiu, which open
ly, nnd withdut disguise, advocates disso
lution of the Union ; and these, every one,
advocate his election without nny complaint,
of his opinions. If his “opinions and doc
trines ure before the public,” they are be
fore the public in n way to ensure thp sup
port ofdisunionists in Georgia, ant) pause the
secessionists of South Carolina to biigst that
they have a McDonald ip Georgia, and:: a
Quitman in Mississippi.' And whilp he
Knows that his opinions and doctrines are
understood in this light, if he is satisfied to
leave it without contradiction on thn slump,
ted by nil as emphatically the orator ot his
time, nnd of whom I, can truly eay, “He it is
who, coming after mq, is preferred before
mo, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy
to unloose,” you wilj. believe me guilty of
no affectation when I say I feel a diffidence
which is to me unusual.
Still as your Grand Master, I hate a duty
to perform, and 1 shrink foom no duly, un
der any circumstance*, Aa Iw been the
custom of our revered Order, 01* sqqh occa
sions, I shall proceed, briefly, to address-yon.
I am unahlo to conceive of a more- inter
esting occasion than this, upon which w* ara
hero assembled, on this anniversary of tho,
bir.hdny of American Freedom.
Hero we are—tho proud dome of our own
Cnpitol towering above us—assembled to
gether from tho North and the South, from
miilttus Weal, to perform * duty
Fourth at Jntv nt WnsliliiRlon
The late Anntvers.rv of American Inda-V indfoaifoe".'’*’of ^
City with unwonted enthusiasm. Tho lay-
ing ol the corner stone to ine extension of the
capitol, colled together a Vast throng from
every part of the Union. Wo give below, a
part of the proceedings on the opcqslon.--
We hope, hereafter to treat our readers to 0
portion of Mr. Wobster’s masleily oration.
Reaching tho square enst of tho fnnt of
the Capitol, tho military formed in n double
line, and the remainder of thoso composing
tho procession marched by ti.em toward* Ihe
Mile of the addition to theCapitol. film north-
oast corner of tho south wingof that ediflee,)
preceded hy tho Presidont of the United
States, the Mayur of the city, and ex-Mayor
Seaton, the Heads of tho Departments,
Chiefs of Bureaus, Major Qenerql Scott nnd
several*of ihe distuinguiahed officers now
sitting on the military court martini, ex-Me-
oretary Marcy, G W. P. Curtis, the Na
tional Monument Committee, Officers of Ihe
Nary, the members of the City Councils,
Clergymen, nnd the Masonic Fraternity, and
others,
Arriving nt the site, tho gentlemen first re
ferred to approached tho spot intended for,
the corner stone. Tho foundation was d’tg
to tho depth of about fourteen feet. The
stone, we were informed, weighed between
four ond five tons, and was procured several
miles from the city, in the State of Virginia.
Thp Architect of the building, Thomas U.
Wnltpr, Esq., enused thp first stone to he
lowered into its final resting place. The
President of the Unitpd States then examin
ed ii, and, alter settling it with ftfow strokes
of a stonemason’s mallet, pronounced it laid.
The Arichitect nnd the Grand Treasurer of
the Grnnd Ludge of Afpsons (Robert Clarke,
Esq ) depositgi) jp a cqvity rut in the heart
of thp stone a glass vasp containing the arti
cles enumerated below ; after which the Mn-
sonic Fraternity I kewise made a deposit, and
the Architect enused a heavy crowning stone
to be lowered and securely placed over the
cavity.
The President adjusted this stone likewise
and invited the Grnnd Maiitor of Masons oi
the District of Columbia to see that it was
well laid.
Tito gran.d oigstpr thpn called upon the
Grand Chaplain, Rev. C. A. Davis, to ask
the blessing of God upon the work then
about to bp performed by the fraternity, which
was done.
The Grand Muster examined the stone, ap
plied the square, level and plumb, and pro
nounced it properly formed, und of suituble
material for the purposo for which it wus in
tended, He then placed upon it the corn,
wine, and oil, saying, ns he did so :
M.ty tho all-bountiful Creator blrus tho people ol
this nation, arpn; to them' nil the uecvssarle*, cou\v-
n.enceis, and oomtort of llfu; oni<t In the creullon
and completion of this edifice, preserve thu workmen
from any accident and bellow upon ns all the corn ol
nourshment, the wine uf refreshment, and the oil ol
joy.
fie '.hen said:
With this gavel, which was used by the immortal
Washington, nt the laying of the corner-stone of that
Capitol, and clothed with the same apron that hit then
wore, I now pronounce this corner-,tone of this exten
sion of that Cnpitol well laid, true, anil trusty.
Accompanying the last words with, three
blows of the gavil.
He then preseutff} to T. U. fValtgr, Esq ,
Ihe architect, the working tool, being the
square, levpj, and p|umb, nccomnqpyipg Ihe
presentation pritfi the following remarks :
.Mr. Apcftiiect 1 J now with pleasure present to
you thes woikliig tools of your own profession—the
somite tho level, and the plumb. We, us spectilativi
'ill '■
masons, use them
... .ymbpllcully
pllahctl architect! well know their use practically;
von, as an aoco.in
und may tho noble edifice, here to be erected under'
your charge, arlre in its beautiful proportions to com
pletion, in conformity with all your wi-hes: and urn)
your life and heall|; fte Jorjg"continued ; and may you
.-ee the work go oh mid the cop-ytd >e laid under err-
outnainners as auspicious and na ’happy aa those un
der which this corner stone bus now been laid.
The corner stone wts lu’d at precisely 12
o’clock meridian ; and a signal being given,
he cannot expect nny one but a di*nnionisl a national salute was jirc.df at the cfpitol,
to be satisfied with him. Mum is the word; ™ r •
and gaud policy for him loo.—Atlanta Rep.
Bhett s Endorsemtnt-
The Richmond Enquiter makes'ihe fol
lowing remark in reference to the recent
speech of Mr. Rhett, endorsing his frieuds
McDonald and Quitman :
“Mr. Rhett’* ‘cheering’ reference ot Quit-
man nnd McDonald will excite a storm of
indignation in Mississippi and Georgia—and
unless those gentlemen shall promptly and
empbalie.ifiy disclaim all sympathy, on their
part, for the blind and reckless movements
of Mr. Rhett and his brother disunionists of
Soqth Carolina, 'th,eir defeat will be among
the most overwhelming on record.”
Has Gov. McDonald “promptly and em
phatically disclaimed all sympathy tor Ihe
blind aud reckless movements of Mr. Rhett
Navy Yard, and Arsenal
It may not be amiss to say that the build'
ings to be erected arp to be each one hun
dred and forty two foet eight inches iront, by
two hundred and thirty-eight eight inches
deep. 'They ar,e to be placed at the distance
of forty-four from tho present Cnpitol on the
north and south ends, nnd will bo united to
it by connecting corridors.
The Semite chamber will be seventy-eight
feet hy ono hundred feet in the clear, and the
hj»U of the House of Representatives one
tiundred feel by one hundred and thirty feet;
both these chambers will bo placed in the
western ends of the new buildings,
linians in this stale, and t<)0 man y 1
porters ot;e Tank “disunionists,” for him to
do anv such thing. That is opt all. Rhett
knew'his mant He itoew hi*1 aen^itiients,
and would not
The ceremonies on the platform were
commenced by an
Address from B. B. French, 'Esq., the
Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge
a District of Colombia, who preceded
,/fibster, at his own special request, and
ns folio.ver a :
My Masonic Brethren ; I rise to ad
dress you on'this occasion, deeply oppressed
with the circumstances which surround me.
Standing as I do, in the presence of
all 1
parity of this mighty nation.
On the 18th day of September, 1793, was
laid, hy George iVnshington, President of the
United Stales nnd Grand Mnsfor of Masons,
at least op that pectysion, tho cornfr sloho of
the magnificent edifice before ys.
It wns, doubtless, supposed that, whfiu
completed, according to the plan
completed, according to tho plan then odopt-
ed, it would he of ample diamensions to ac
commodate all thfi wants of tho people by
whom it was to be oracled tor ages than lo
come.
Fifty-eight years have elapsed, and in that
comparatively brief space in the ages of gov
ernments; we are called upon to assemble
here and lay t he corner stone of an addition
al edifice, which shall hereafter lower up,
resting firmly or. the strong foundation this
day planted, adding beauty and magnitude to
tlie People’s house, nnd illustrating to tbs
world the firm foundation in the People's
hearts ofthc principles of freedom and tho
rapid growth of those principle* on this Wes
tern Continent.
Yes, my brethren, standing here, where,
fifty eight yoars ago Washington stood, cloth-
ed in tne same Masonic regalia that he then
woro, using the identical gavel that he used,
we have assisted in laying the foundation of
anew Capitol of these United States this
day, os Solomon of old laid the foundation of
the temple of the living God I '.‘Now, there
fore,” says the hantoriun Josephus, “the king
laid the foundation of the temple very deep
in the ground, and the material were tlrosef
stones, and sucli as would resist the fore+e£
time;” and we, following this sublime exam
ple, have laid here, deep in the ground, end
of strong stones that we trust will resist the
force of time, the foundations of e house
wherein we hopp for lenthened years the re-
jircseutnlives of a mighty people shall legis
late for the glory, the happiness, end the
good of thqt people I
When the corner stpnp of the edifice be
fore us was laid ; in 1793, the Government
was justly considered nn experiment, and
the prediction was again nnd ngain made, by
those who,thank God, turned out to be fatso
prophets, that it would fail ; “the wish was,”
doudtless, “father to the thought;” but it
did not .foil! The first census of the United
States, in 1791, exhibited a population of
less than tour millions of souls ; at the timo
of laying that corner stone there were probu-
lily, something over font millions ; and now,
in less than sixty years,the number has in
creased to upwards of twenty millions ! The
predictions of failure, by the false prophets,
have themselves utterly foiled, while thq
prayer has been answered and the prophecy,
fulfilled which Washington made on assum
ing ihe duties of President, on’the 30th of
April, 1789. He then oflered up liis “fer
vent supplications to that ulmighty Being
who rules over the Universe, who 'presidts
in the councils of nations, and whoso provi
dential aids can supply every human defect,
that his benediction would consecrate to the
liberties nnd happiness of the people of tho
United States a Government instituted by
themselves for these essent’al purpose* ; ar.ti
would enable every instrument employ ed iit
its administration to execute with tucees*
tile functions Allotted lo his charge.
The year of the Almighty was opened to
that prayer, it was recorded in leaven;
and from Washington down to the present
President of the United Stntoj, who to
worthily, and with so much dignity and hon
or, fills the proud station that Washington
filled; it jujs lieon answered, and every instru
ment employed in l|tp Qtjministrotiop of this
Goveinulpnl has executed with sucres* the
functions allotted to this chapgp.
After this supplication to tlt.e Most High,
Washington expressed his conviction “that
the foundations of.our national policy will lo
laid in the pure and immutable pnnciplei
of private j moral.ty, .and the frte-ni-
nence uf a free .government lie exemplified
by all the attributes which can win the af
fections ol its citizens, and command the re
spect of tho world.’’
“I d.well,” said he, “on this prospect
with every s tisfoction which an ardent love
of mv country can inspire ; since there is po
truth more throughly established than "that
there exists in the economy anti course of na
ture an indissolublu union between virtue
and happiness, between duty aud advantage,
between tlie genuine maxims ot an honeet
nnd magnanimous policy ’and the solid re
wards of public prosperity and felicity ; since-
wo ougjlt to he no less persuaded that tho
propitious smiles of Heaven can'never bo ex
pected on it nation that disregards the eter
nal rules' of srder and right w'hiciiTieaven it
self had 'ortjuined ; and since the preserva
tion of the sacred fire of liberty, and the des
tiny of tlip republican model of government,
ate justjy'considered a* deeply, perhaps as
finally staked on the experiment entrusted
to the hands of the American people.’! '
This prophecy has been fulfill#,'. “The
foundations of our national policy were jj®™
in the sure and immutable prineiplt* uf ~
vate morality,” and the eternal rule* *
der and right having been regarded. '
pitious antjlps of Heaven have '
' the American people,” to wl
